Offer,Janáček: The Makropulos Case
Cheryl Barker (Emilia Marty - 'E.M.'), Robert Brubaker (Albert Gregor), John Graham-Hall (Vítek), Elena Xanthoudakis (Kristina), John Wegner (Baron Jaroslav Prus), Thomas Walker (Janek Prus), Neal Davies (Dr Kolenaty), Graeme Danby (Stage Hand), Graham Clark (Count Hauk-Šendorf)
English National...
Mackerras's reading, recorded in live performance, is slightly more expansive than his benchmark Vienna version… but the passionately lyrical urgency and sense of mystery drive it along just... — More…
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Gramophone MagazineApril 2007Editor's Choice
2 CDs
$21.00Contents
Janáček: The Makropulos Case, JW 1 / 10, Act I
- Sir Charles Mackerras, English National Opera, Robert Brubaker, John Graham-Hall, Cheryl Barker, Neal Davies, Elena Xanthoudakis, John Wegner
Prelude
Oh dear, my goodness! (Vitek, Gregor)
Daddy, she really is wonderful (Vitek, Gregor)
Janáček: The Makropulos Case, JW 1 / 10, Act II
- Sir Charles Mackerras, English National Opera, John Wegner, Kathleen Wilkinson, Cheryl Barker, Graham Clark, Graeme Danby, Robert Brubaker, John Graham-Hall, Elena Xanthoudakis, Thomas Walker
Did you ever see such flowers? (Cleaner, Stage Hand, Prus)
Janek, come on. No one here will see us (Kristina, Janek, Prus, Marty, Gregor, Vitek)
Excuse me. Excuse me, may I… (Hauk, Marty, Prus)
And the next! Is that the lot? (Marty, Vitek, Kristina, Janek, Prus, Gregor)
Allow me to ask you this question (Prus, Marty)
Is that you, Bertie? (Marty, Gregor, Cleaner, Janek, Prus)
Janáček: The Makropulos Case, JW 1 / 10, Act III
- Sir Charles Mackerras, English National Opera, John Wegner, Cheryl Barker, Neal Davies, Susanna Tudor-Thomas, Robert Brubaker, Graham Clark, John Graham-Hall, Elena Xanthoudakis
Well? D'you hear me? (Marty, Prus, Chambermaid)
Buenos dias Maxi! Why so early? (Marty, Hauk, Chambermaid, Kolenaty, Gregor)
The seal and th'initials E.M. (Gregor, Vitek, Kolenaty, Prus, Marty, Kristina)
Fetch the doctor! (Kolenaty, Marty, Gregor, Vitek, Prus, Kristina, Chorus)
Janáček: Interview with Sir Charles Mackerras
- Sir Charles Mackerras