Reminiscence
Donald introduces music from around the time of Janacek's 70th birthday: a wind sextet, choral settings of nonsense rhymes and a rhapsodic piece for cello and piano.
Janácek's 70th birthday was celebrated with concerts in Prague and Brno, the publication of his biography and an Honorary PhD from Brno University, which pleased him most of all.
Donald Macleod introduces two remarkably youthful works Janácek composed around that time - an exuberant wind sextet and a group of choral settings of nonsense rhymes he came across in the children's supplement of his local paper, as well as a rhapsodic piece for cello and piano inspired by a Russian epic poem.
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Leos Janáček
March of the bluebirds (blue throats) [Pochod modracku] for piccolo and piano
Performer: Hendrik Heilman. Performer: Michael Hasel.- BIS: CD-1802.
- BIS.
- 13.
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Philharmonisches Bläserquintett Berlin, Marion Reinhard, Manfred Preis, Leos Janáček & Hendrik Heilmann
Mladi [Youth] - suite for wind sextet
- PHILIPS : 442-534-2.
- PHILIPS.
- 2.
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Leos Janáček
Potulny silenec [The wandering madman] for soprano and male chorus
Performer: Netherlands Chamber Choir. Singer: Barbara Borden. Conductor: Reinbert de Leeuw.- PHILIPS : 442 543-2-.
- PHILIPS.
- 10.
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Leos Janáček
Pohadka [Fairy tales] for cello and piano
Performer: Olli Mustonen. Performer: Steven Isserlis.- RCA : 09026-68437-2.
- RCA.
- 1.
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Leos Janáček
Rikadla [Children's rhymes] for SSAATTTBB and ensemble
Performer: Critical Band. Performer: New London Chamber Choir. Performer: James Wood.- Hyperion: CDA66893.
- Hyperion.
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