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Leoš Janáček – Glagolitic Mass, JW 3/9: Introduction
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(1854 – 1928)
Janáček, the son of a schoolmaster, sang as a boy in the choir of the monastery in Brno. He later went to Prague to study music and made a living as a music teacher. He also conducted various amateur choirs. In 1881 he moved back to Brno, and founded the Organ School there, which was later to become the Brno Conservatory.
As a young man Janáček became friends with Antonín Dvořák, and began composing in a relatively traditional romantic style, but after his opera Šárka (1881), his style began to change. He made a study of Moravian and Slovak folk music and used elements of it in his own music. He especially focused on studying and reproducing the rhythm and the pitch contour and inflections of normal Czech speech, which helped in creating the very distinctive vocal melodies in his opera Jenůfa (1904). Going much farther than Modest Mussorgsky and anticipating the later work of Béla Bartók in such styles, this became a distinguishing feature of his vocal writing (Samson 1977).
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willianbusch
The world seems a little bit different somehow.... ²
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sisypchai
Leoš. Leoš!
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Irenreinmerdok
Marvelous!
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Pawlof
Glagolitic Mass is a genial oeuvre, incredibly authentic inner memory of cultural roots, it seems we walk in 9th century, absolutely unrepeatable and original experience in music. From that point of view, the performance by Karel Ančerl is impeccable
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Synesthesis
String quartet no 1 - Kreutzer sonata - allegro and moderato are my fav. Excellent composition ! so underrated composer !
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MusicHallofFame
The Music Hall of Fame are delighted to induct Leoš Janáček into the Class of 1982. Congratulations. Please vist our page too see the latest inductees into the Music Hall of Fame.
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Erkan-Yilmaz
info: added Leoš Janáček (instead of Zdeněk Nejedlý) into group connections of Musicology (more info why here)
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Rarrrrrrrrr
The world seems a little bit different somehow....
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Ehrmann
The sinfonietta is marvelous
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Biscuit1978
Come along and join the group Orchestral Composer of the Week. Nominate your 5 favourite composers each week and see who gets into the Hall of Fame.
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OmmKalthoumFan
I think he's underrated.. My favourite from Leoš Janáček's compositions is "Idyll for strings V.Adagio "
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mikey0929
so indie
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_KevMusic_
This is a wonderful shoutbox.
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markdeacon2
Mentioned in Murakami's 1Q84!!
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Erkan-Yilmaz
He appears currently as frequent + unique artist in group Musicology, more info here
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progtrance7
pretty good dude
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Seavas
Which reminds me, I need to order the Gregor recording of "The Macropulos Case".
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devilsheep
I have noticed Gregor's "idiomatic" affinity for following those rhythmic arcs so well, with precision but in an organic vacillation. I have heard the words "organic logic" applied to Sibelius and now that I think about it the phrase aptly applies to Janáček as well. I will search for that recording with haste.
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Seavas
My mind would've broken years ago if I didn't have friends and family in all of the major Viennese orchestras, I get free/cheap tickets and and access to rehearsals ever so often. /// You need to pick up Gregor's recording of "The Cunning Little Vixen", the vocal performance isn't as uniformly stunning as on the earlier "From the House of the Dead" recording, but the mixed (!) children's choir and the stupendously idiomatic playing and conducting are reason enough to get it, heck, the orchestral introduction alone is worth the price of admission: Under him each "sčasovka" has a life of its own, the rhythmic arcs Janáček traces with them emerge with such dazzling naturalness that one cannot help but marvel at the sheer organic logic of his idiom all over again. One of my desert island recordings.
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devilsheep
I enjoy Mackerras' Sinfonietta (mostly for his tempo on the last movement) and am partial to his operas (especially Káťa). I've only heard Gregor on From the House of the Dead. I think he adds to the primal sound that we need for "authentic" Janáček, where as relatively more non-Czech conductors tend to over-romanticize him in the pre-war operatic fashion, and in a sense lose that Czech feature that I find vital to the vocal works of Janáček (I mean, From the House of the Dead is ambiguously pre-war and post-war, and his greatest operas came on the tail's end of WWI, the Mass a Pan-Slavic work in an independent Czechoslovakia, another topic). Gregor and Neumann both bring qualities to that opera which elude Mackerras and Boulez, and I think it is most likely due to their cultural roots. Speaking of which, you are basically in a cultural epicenter and being on a student's budget myself I can only imagine the frustration, haha. Listen to that Bělohlávek "Brouček" if you have the time.
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