Janacek; The Cunning Little Vixen/Sinfonietta Opera LSO Live

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LEOŠ JANÁCEK

The Cunning Little Vixen

Act I

Prelude

3:16

Scene I "Dostaneme bórku"

1:34

"Kmotrenko, zakoncertovala si také"

1:52

"Mami!"

1:41

Pantomime

3:24

Interlude (Promena)

2:04

Scene II "To cuciš, Lapáku!?"

2:52

"Že nevíš, co máme?"

1:03

Pantomime

2:10

10.

Interlude (Svitáni)

2:18

11.

"Melas delat podliváme!"

3:06

12.

"Zbabelce, podivé se, jeli už mrtvá?"

1:48

Act II

13.

Prelude

1:01

14.

Scene III "Ach!"

1:48

15.

Interlude (Promena)

1:18

16.

Scene IV "Ano, ve Stráni bude daleko lepe!"

0:46

17.

"Bývalo, bývalo, dávno už neni"

3:27

18.

"Domú? Pro šnupec tvýho spaní?"

1:31

19.

Interlude (Promena)

0:56

20.

Scene V "Bud' to mám težište pohyblivé"

3:20

21.

"Pomni, abys byl dobrým mužem!"

2:18

22.

"Memnesthó anér agathos einai"

1:17

23.

Interlude (Promena)

1:04

24.

Scene VI "Bóžinku, ten je hezké!"

1:45

25.

"Kradla jsem!"

3:10

26.

"Zlatohrbítek, lišák s kroužkovými pesíky, z Hluboké zmoly"

1:19

27.

"Jsem-li opravdu tak krásná?"

3:50

28.

"Pust'te me!"

3:59

29.

"Kdybyste vedeli, co já videla"

0:51

30.

"Když je to tak"

2:21

Act III

31.

Prelude

2:06

32.

Scene VII "Dež sem vandroval"

1:37

33.

"Tož co, Harašto, máš se dobre?"

3:52

34.

"Beži liška k Táboru"

1:44

35.

"Kolik jsme to meli deti!?"

2:37

36.

"Nušo dule!"

3:19

37.

Interlude (Promena)

2:31

38.

Scene VIII "A kde otec Pásek?"

2:15

39.

"Do hroma!"

3:57

40.

Interlude (Promena)

1:06

41.

Scene IX "Neríkal jsem to?"

3:04

42.

"A prece su rád"

2:47

43.

"Hoj! Ale není tu Bystroušky!"

0:55

44.

"Totok nésu já"

1:15

Sinfonietta, Op.60

45.

Fanfare. Allegretto - Allegro - Maestoso

2:15

46.

The Castle, Brno. Andante - Allegretto - Maestoso - Tempo I - Allegretto

5:51

47.

111

The Queen's Monastery, Brno. Moderato - Con moto - Tempo I - Prestissimo - Moderato

5:27

48.

The Street Leading to the Castle. Allegretto - Adagio - Presto - Andante - Presto - Prestissimo

2:55

49.

The Town Hall, Brno. Andante con moto - Maestoso - Tempo I - Allegretto -

6:55

Total time: 119:37

Solo: Gerald Finley

Solo: Sophia Burgos

Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra

Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle

Sinfonietta recorded live on 18-19 September 2018

The Cunning Little Vixen recorded live on 27 & 29 June 2019

“Sir Simon Rattle has the gift of inhabiting a piece of music, rather than standing apart from it. This is particularly true of Janacek’s Cunning Little Vixen … Lucy Crowe’s beautiful and soaring soprano is a perfect fit for the frisky title character, and she finds richer, more mature tone to represent the Vixen’s transition to motherhood in Act 3… Canadian baritone Gerald Finley uses his warm, clear tone to portray a sympathetic Forester. The set is rounded out with an absorbing performance of Janacek’s 1926 Sinfonietta…”

Allan Altman – American Record Guide – March/April 2021

Gramophone Team Choice 2020

“… Rattle has long been a magnificent Janáck interpreter and this live performance, quite superbly cast, finds him and his great orchestra on top form. Totally magical.”

James Jolly - Gramophone magazine - December 2020

Chosen by Times critics as one of the best Classical albums of 2020

The Times & Sunday Times – 10 December 2020

Performance **** Recording *****

“… If this Vixen is good, the Sinfonietta is outstanding – arguably the best on disc, though you need to experience the work in a concert hall with the nine trumpets blazing. They’re supremely sophisticated as well as clarion here; Rattle, being a sound man first and foremost, makes every odd instrumental combination tell and there’s a drive sometimes lacking in the Vixen…”

David Nice - BBC Music Magazine - December 2020

“… this is certainly a Vixen to cherish… Rattle’s new set is a considered alternative view and it’s the most sumptuously played Vixen on disc. Add to that the warmly persuasive singing of Crowe, Burgos, Finley and the rest, and it’s clear that anyone who loves Vixen should explore this new recording.”

Nigel Simeone – Opera – November 2020

"A very fine account."

John Quinn – MusicWeb-International.com – 29 October 2020

Editor’s Choice

“Bolstered by vivid leads and the LSO, Rattle’s second Vixen is his best… Pointedly idiomatic in the original Czech, the Vixen of Lucy Crowe, no stranger to the role, is a vivacious creation. Sassy, playful and bitingly sharp though she is, there’s touching tenderness and vulnerability in her duet with Sophia Burgos’s Fox. Gerald Finley’s vividly characterised Forester is just as beautifully sung, rounded, warm and touchingly human as he makes his journey towards an eventual, ardently delivered epiphany. There’s solid support deep into the doubling-up cast, notably from Paulina Malefane’s wife, Hanno Müller-Brachmann’s Harašta, Peter Hoare’s Schoolmaster and Jan Martiník’s Parson. The sprightly Fox Cubs of seven young treble soloists, the LSO Symphony Chorus and LSO Discovery Voices add valuable contributions of their own. Recorded live in 2018, the filler, Janácek’s Sinfonietta, is treated by the LSO’s brass and woodwinds to a faultless performance.” ****

Michael Quinn – Limelightmagaine.com.au – 21 October 2020

Pizzicato Supersonic

“… it is precisely through Rattle’s objective reading style that the opera gains impact and presence, making it doubly clear that it is one of the best music-theater works of the 20th century. Lucy Crowe, Gerald Finley and Sophia Burgos are the ideal cast for the leading roles. The Sinfonietta also perfectly reflects Rattle’s mature style …”

Alain Steffen – Pizzicato.lu – 17 October 2020

"... here we have Lucy Crowe in the title role confirming her place as one of the most exciting talents of today. Crowe ... can be infinitely touching; and you can hear how astonishingly free her voice is, particularly in the second act. Crowe's voice also works supremely well with that of the Puerto Rican-American soprano Sophia Burgos, who takes the role of The Fox. The Forester is Gerald Finley, who fully realises the importance of Janácek's speech rhythms in the vocal writing... All this would be meaningless without Rattle and his forces on razor-sharp form, as this opera is absolutely unforgiving. A fabulous performance of huge character and conviction - far more than a momento of a clearly unforgettable occasion"

Colin Clarke - Opera Now - September-October 2020

"... It’s a warm, wonderfully detailed performance, superbly sung by all involved, in which Rattle’s admiration for Janácek’s score shines through; Cunning Little Vixen was the piece, he’s said, that made him want to conduct opera, and that affection certainly comes across."

Andrew Clements – Guardian – 25 September 2020

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