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The Glagolitic Mass, written between 1926 and 1927, is not only one of Janá^D&cek's most important works: it is also a masterpiece of the twentieth-century choral repertoire. In this fascinating description of the Mass and its history, Paul Wingfield brings together information on all significant aspects of the work, including much that is new. In particular, he quotes important letters from and to the composer that have never previously been published. Chapters on the music itself offer a full synopsis of the work, the first in-depth study of the musical organization, and key interpretations of the work by Janá^D&cek and others.

John Tyrrell's biography of the Leos Jancek is the culmination of a life's work in the field. It stands upon his existing documentary studies of Jancek's operas and translations of other key sources and his examination of thousands of still unpublished letters and other documents in the Jancek archive in Brno. Altogether it provides the most detailed account of Jancek's life in any language and offers new views of Jancek as composer, writer, thinker and human being. Volume 1, which goes up to the outbreak of the First World War and Jancek's sixtieth birthday in the summer of 1914, consists of chronological chapters providing a straightforward account of Jancek's life year by year and another forty contextual chapters. Topics include on-going sequences ('Music as autobiography I', etc.; 'Jancek's knowledge of opera I', etc.) and individual chapters on Jancek as a teacher, as a theorist, as an music ethnographer, on his speech-melody theory, his relationship to particularly influential operas (Tchaikovsky's Queen of Spades, Charpentier's Louise), on his mentors (such as Antonn Dvork) and his btes noires (such as Karel Kovarovic). A particular feature are the specially commissioned chapters on Jancek's health by Dr Stephen Lock (one of the editors of the Oxford Illustrated Companion to Medicine, OUP 1994 and 2001, editor of the British Medical Journal, 1975-91, and a Jancek enthusiast since the early postwar broadasts on the Third Programme), and on Jancek's earnings and finances by Dr Jir Zahrdka (curator of the Jancek archive in Brno, and editor of authentic editions of Srka and The Excursions of Mr Broucek).

Responding to the ever-increasing popularity and international performances of operas by the Czech composer Leo? Janácek, this volume, the first in the Janácek Opera Libretti Series, is the full translation of The Cunning Little Vixen in English alongside the original Czech. This work meets the needs of English-speaking singers, conductors, coaches, and stage directors and conveniently provides idiomatic and word-for-word translations, including translations of stage and musical directions. In addition, the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is used to indicate Czech pronunciation, following the clearly-presented method given in the author's book Singing in Czech: A Guide to Czech Lyric Diction and Vocal Repertoire, with a foreword by Sir Charles Mackerras. Cheek also provides practical notes about Janácek's style, both in general terms and specific issues relating to this opera along with a plot summary with translations and vocal ranges of characters and the pronunciation of their names. This entire volume is organized in a clear, readable format, resulting in a book that will help to make productions of The Cunning Little Vixen in the original Czech much easier a task than ever before.

Life with Czech Music: Janacek Martinu Charles Mackerras - CD 099925404222

These are the letters of a great love story. In 1917, the Czech composer Leos Janáçek met Kamila Stösslová while on holiday at Luhaçovice, a spa resort in Moravia. He was sixty-three and locked in a loveless marriage; she was twenty-six, the wife of an antique dealer frequently away from home. After the holiday, Janáçek began writing to Stösslová. Undeterred by her lack of interest in his work and her spasmodic replies, he continued to send her letters until his death eleven years later. An extraordinarily self-revealing portrait emerges of an isolated artist at the height of his creative powers and the beginning of his international fame. It is also a portrait of a lonely man who, as the years went by, came to fantasize about Stösslová as his true "wife"--the inspiration for many of the works of his old age.Most of these letters were suppressed until changing conditions in Czechoslovakia allowed their full publication in 1990. John Tyrrell has edited and translated a comprehensive selection, concentrating on the almost daily letters of the final eighteen months. Supported by a diary of meetings between Janáçek and Stösslová, a decoding of the erotic references in the letters, and a selection of mostly unknown photographs, this remarkable book breathes life into the story one of the greatest of operatic composers and provides vital clues to the nature of his creative genius.Originally published in 1994.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Janacek: Hospodine!, Msa Glagolskaja, Zapisnik Zmizeleho Janacek / Czech Philharmonic Orchestra - CD 3149028116120

Janacek: Kreutzer Sonata & Intimate Letters Janacek / Tonnesen, Terje / Janson, Teodor - CD 7090020181363

With their 2nd album Arabesque, the Dutch Ebonit Saxophone Quartet explores the music of Debussy, Saint-Sans and Janac?ek. This ambitious and internationally successful saxophone quartet succeeds in achieving a true unity in tone together with a dynamic versatility that easily compares with a modern concert grand, on instruments that are still quite unappreciated in classical music! Their own arrangements of more known piano works of Debussy, like Deux Arabesques and Rverie along with less he

Extraordinary performaces by an all-star cast make Janacek's tale of the doomed Kat'a a powerful operatic experience. Running time: 100 minutes.

13 piano pieces by Martinu (1890-1959), a Czech composer often regarded as the successor to Janacek.Features:Pages: 80Instrumentation: Piano

Best of Classics Janacek / Czech Philharmonic Orchestra - CD 099925401320

Contents: Unsere Abende (Janacek) * Violes (Debussy) * Severe reprimande (Satie) * Wall Street Rag (Joplin) * 2 Preludes, Op. 67 (Scriabin) * Album...

Audiophile 180g Virgin Vinyl LP! Mastered from the Original Masters of Universal Music! Pressed at Pallas! The Janacek Quartet performs String Quartets by Dvorak for this audiophile recording. 'The Jancek's bring us the finest and best recorded performance so far of the F major (American). The D minor gains greatly from the better balanced recording, especially in the slow movement... this is a distinguished and idiomatic performance. I warmly recommend this disc. The Jancek's performance seem

Translated from Czech as The Adventures of Vixen Sharp-Ears is an opera by Leos Janacek, with a libretto adapted by the composer from a serialized novella by Rudolf Tesnohlídek and Stanislav Lolek, which was first published in the newspaper Lidové noviny. Universal Edition makes available the piano reduction of this well-loved opera for study and performance.

This third collection by Brian Friel contains two original works: Performances, which considers the relationship between the private life and public work of the composer Leoš Janácek; and The Home Place, set in Ballybeg, Donegal, at the dawn of Home Rule. There are three masterful plays based on stories by Chekhov; and Friel's exquisite versions of Three Sisters and Uncle Vanya, of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler and of Turgenev's A Month in the Country. Performances 'A minor work the way Thomas Mann's Death in Venice or Beckett's Endgame is a minor work. Deceptively brisk and light in tone but taut and gravely pregnant with meaning... for Friel, life creates its own symbolism and poetry, and so it does in this play.' Sunday Times The Home Place 'A rich, allusive, densely layered play, which has echoes of Friel's masterly Translations while reminding one that he has spent much of his recent life adapting and translating Chekhov... Friel hauntingly conveys the pathos of exile and the delusion of ownership.' Guardian Hedda Gabler 'Across the gulf of the 20th century one great playwright is talking to another... neither a simple translation nor, as the official title has it, or a 'new version', but something altogether larger.' The Irish Times

This book showcases a lesser-known aspect of Maurice Sendak's oeuvre--his set designs for operas and ballets.Maurice Sendak is well-known for his acclaimed children's books, but he was also an avid music lover and designed a number of opera and ballet productions, among them Mozart's Magic Flute, Janácek's Cunning Little Vixen, Prokofiev's Love for Three Oranges, Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker, and an opera composed by Oliver Knussen based on Where the Wild Things Are. This book brings together nearly one hundred and fifty drawings from among the more than nine hundred in the Morgan Library & Museum's collection, including preliminary sketches, storyboards, finished watercolors, and painted dioramas. The essays discuss the importance of music and movement to Sendak, the artworks that inspired his stage designs, and the historical and biographical contexts that formed them. The book reveals the breadth of Sendak's visual work for opera and ballet and highlights his keen sense of humor, his love of art history, and his ability to tell striking stories through his art.Copublished by the Morgan Library & Museum and DelMonico Books

Olaf Baer, Eric Stoklossa, and Stefan Margita star in Janacek's rarely performed final opera with Pierre Boulez conducting the Arnold Schoenberg Chor and Mahler Chamber Orchestra.

Translated from Czech as The Adventures of Vixen Sharp-Ears is an opera by Leos Janacek, with a libretto adapted by the composer from a serialized novella by Rudolf Tesnohlídek and Stanislav Lolek, which was first published in the newspaper Lidové noviny. Universal Edition makes available the piano reduction of this well-loved opera for study and performance.

The dancer performs scenes from works by Sibelius, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Adam, Gounod, Gluck, Stravinksy, Janacek, Britten, Rossini, Khachaturian, Suk, Shchedrin/Bizet, Zahradnik, Rybnikov, Bach, Kocab/Horacek, Hapka/Horacek, and Andersson/Rice.

What did it mean to believe in alchemy in early modern England? In this book, Bruce Janacek considers alchemical beliefs in the context of the writings of Thomas Tymme, Robert Fludd, Francis Bacon, Sir Kenelm Digby, and Elias Ashmole. Rather than examine alchemy from a scientific or medical perspective, Janacek presents it as integrated into the broader political, philosophical, and religious upheavals of the first half of the seventeenth century, arguing that the interest of these elite figures in alchemy was part of an understanding that supported their national—and in some cases royalist—loyalty and theological orthodoxy. Janacek investigates how and why individuals who supported or were actually placed at the traditional center of power in England’s church and state believed in the relevance of alchemy at a time when their society, their government, their careers, and, in some cases, their very lives were at stake.