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LEOS JANÁCEK Choral Works: Moravian Choruses, Nursery Rhymes, etc. Thomas Walter,Philip Mayers, Cappella Amsterdam, Daniel Reuss
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Digital
HMM932097
Excerpt:Klänge aus Mähren. The pledge of Love
Janáček’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, and on the recently published Moravian Duets of his compatriot Antonín Dvořák, to convey a mixture of emotions, forever shifting between cheerfulness and melancholy, like his subdued harmonies. 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.
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Artists
- Dirk LuijmesHarmonium
- Chamber ensemble
- Conductor
- Thomas WalkerTenor
- Philip MayersPiano