Leos Janácek: Choral Works: Six Moravian Choruses (After Dvorák)

Description

Janacek’s choral works draw on an extremely rich repertory of folksongs and folk tales. The composer seized on idioms from Bohemian and Moravian traditions, with their characteristic folk dances and rustic nursery rhymes. Here we witness the birth of a musical language which, though deliberately rooted in central Europe, has projected for nearly a century the aura of a universal sentiment.

Tracklisting

Disc 1
1. The Slighted Heart (Leos Janacek) – Cappella Amsterdam
2. The Pledge of Love (Leos Janacek) – Cappella Amsterdam
3. Forsaken (Leos Janacek) – Cappella Amsterdam
4. Parting Without Sorrow (Leos Janacek) – Cappella Amsterdam
5. The Wild Rose (Leos Janacek) – Cappella Amsterdam
6. Trust (Leos Janacek) – Cappella Amsterdam
7. The Wild Duck (Leos Janacek) – Cappella Amsterdam
8. The Wolf’s Trail (Leos Janacek) – Various Performers
9. Elegy On the Death of My Daughter Olga (Leos Janacek) – Various Performers
10. Introduction (Leos Janacek) – Cappella Amsterdam
11. The Beetroot Got Married (Leos Janacek) – Cappella Amsterdam
12. There’s Nothing Better Than Springtime (Leos Janacek) – Cappella Amsterdam
13. The Mole Creeps (Leos Janacek) – Cappella Amsterdam
14. Karel Rode Off to Hell (Leos Janacek) – Cappella Amsterdam
15. Ragged Trousers (Leos Janacek) – Cappella Amsterdam
16. Franta the Knacker’s Son (Leos Janacek) – Cappella Amsterdam
17. Our Dog, Our Dog (Leos Janacek) – Cappella Amsterdam
18. I Preach, I Preach a Sermon (Leos Janacek) – Cappella Amsterdam
19. The Old Woman Was Casting Spells (Leos Janacek) – Cappella Amsterdam
20. Ho, Ho, Off Go the Cows (Leos Janacek) – Cappella Amsterdam
21. My Tiny Little Wife (Leos Janacek) – Cappella Amsterdam
22. Granny’s Crawled Into the Elder Bush (Leos Janacek) – Cappella Amsterdam
23. The White Goat’s Picking Up the Pears (Leos Janacek) – Cappella Amsterdam
24. Grumpy German Broke the Pots (Leos Janacek) – Cappella Amsterdam
25. Nanny Goat’s Lying in the Hay (Leos Janacek) – Cappella Amsterdam
26. Vasek, the Rascal, the Drummer Boy (Leos Janacek) – Cappella Amsterdam
27. Frant¡k, Frant¡k (Leos Janacek) – Cappella Amsterdam
28. The Bear Sat On a Log (Leos Janacek) – Cappella Amsterdam
29. Our Evenings (Leos Janacek) – Cappella Amsterdam
30. Ave Maria (Leos Janacek) – Cappella Amsterdam
31. Our Father (Leos Janacek) – Various Performers