Dvorak / Janacek: Slavic Soul
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ANTONIN DVORAK / LEOS JANACEK
Dvorak / Janacek: Slavic Soul
Jan Michiels
[ Fuga Libera / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 23 June 2017
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It was in Prague and Brno, the two largest cities in what is now the Czech Republic, that Antonín Dvořák and Leoš Janáček - the principal representatives of the nineteenth-century Czech national school, along with Bedřich Smetana - launched their respective compositional careers. While Janáček, thirteen years younger than Dvořák, saw the latter as a father figure, the two men shared the same poetic Slavic soul. Indeed, Janáček said of Dvořák: 'I could exchange his personality for his works; it is as if his melodies came straight from my heart. Nothing can ever break such a bond.' In his fourth solo recording for Fuga Libera, Jan Michiels places this shared Slavic consciousness and musicality in the perspective of the almost filial relationship between the two composers, for example by interspersing the pieces from two eminently lyrical cycles: Dvořák's Poetic Tone Pictures op.85 (1889) and Janáček's On an Overgrown Path, JW VIII/17 (1900-11).
Tracks:
1 DVOŘÁK: Poetické Nálady (Poetic Tone Pictures),
Op. 85: Na starém hradě (In the old castle)
2 JANÁČEK Po zarostlém chodníčku (On an
overgrown path): (Paralipomena 3) Vivo
3 DVOŘÁK: Poetické Nálady (Poetic Tone Pictures),
Op. 85: Furiant
4 JANÁČEK: Po zarostlém chodníčku (On an
overgrown path): Sýček neodletěl ! (The barn owl
has not flown away !)
5 DVOŘÁK: Poetické Nálady (Poetic Tone Pictures),
Op. 85: Vzpomínáni (Souvenir)
6 JANÁČEK: 1.X.1905: I. Předtucha (The Presentiment)
7 JANÁČEK: 1.X.1905: II. Smrt (The Death)
8 DVOŘÁK: Dumka-Furiant, op. 12: I. Allegretto
moderato (Dumka)
9 DVOŘÁK: Dumka-Furiant, op. 12: II. Vivace
(Furiant)
10 JANÁČEK: Po zarostlém chodníčku (On an
overgrown path): Allegro
11 JANÁČEK: Po zarostlém chodníčku (On an
overgrown path): Dobrou noc ! (Good Night!)
12 DVOŘÁK: Poetické Nálady (Poetic Tone Pictures),
Op. 85: Serenáda (Serenade)
13 JANÁČEK: Po zarostlém chodníčku (On an
overgrown path): Nelze domluvit ! (Words fail!)
14 DVOŘÁK: Humoresky (Humoresques), op. 101: No.
1 - Vivace
15 DVOŘÁK: Humoresky (Humoresques), op. 101:
No. 7 - Poco lento e grazioso
16 JANÁČEK: Po zarostlém chodníčku (On an
overgrown path): Allegretto
17 JANÁČEK: Po zarostlém chodníčku (On an overgrown
path): Frydecká Panna Maria (The Madonna of Frýdek)
18 DVOŘÁK: Poetické Nálady (Poetic Tone Pictures),
Op. 85: Na Svaté Hoře (On the Holy Mount)
19 JANÁČEK: V Mlhách (In The Mist) : I. Andante
20 JANÁČEK: V Mlhách (In The Mist) : II. Molto Adagio
21 JANÁČEK: V Mlhách (In The Mist) : III. Andante
22 JANÁČEK: V Mlhách (In The Mist) : IV. Presto
