Janacek wrote regular articles for the Brno daily paper and in these he expressed his attitude and feelings towards the everyday things in nature and human situations which had commanded his attention. The sounds he heard, especially the human voice, he annotated with musical sketches and these appear in this book in his own words and serve to illuminate the works which this great composer produced. The thirty-odd articles are grouped under Memories of Youth, The Sounds of Music, Travel, Birds, while included under Operatic Studies is a fascinating account of the origins of The Cunning Little Vixen. The book also contains some rare photographs and music examples, many in Janacek's own hand.

This double volume contains two masterpieces of the Czech composer Leos Janacek. Jenufa was the opera which finally brought him international recognition - and, with it, fame at home. Based on Ostrovsky's The Storm, Katya Kabanova contains wonderful music inspired by the composer's love for a much younger woman. The scores are discussed by Arnold Whittall, and the background sources are variously introduced by social and literary historians. John Tyrell comments on an important letter about the genesis of Katya; Sir Charles Mackerras describes his work as an interpreter and advocate of this brilliantly original and dramatic music. Contents: A National Composer Jaroslav Krejci; Drama into Libretto, Karel Brusak; The Challenge from Within: Janacek's Musico-dramatic Mastery, Arnold Whittall; Janacek and Czech Realism, Jan Smaczny; Jenufa: Libretto by Leos Janacek; Jenufa: English translation by Otakar Kraus and Edward Downes; A Russian Heart of Darkness, Alex de Jonge; Janacek's forgotten commentary on 'Katya Kabanova', John Tyrrell; Katya Kabanova: Libretto by Leos Janacek; Katya Kabanova: English translation by Norman Tucker; Janacek's Operas - Preparation and Performance, Charles Mackerras

Václav Neumann conducts the Czech Philharmonic in this live performance recorded at Prague's Smetana Hall in 1986. The concert features Antonín Dvorák's 'The Wild Dove' and Leos Janácek's 'Taras Bulba'.

Seiji Ozawa leads the orchestra and chorus in Laurent Pelly's production of Janácek's fantasy opera, recorded live at Florence's Teatro Comunale in 2009. Armenian/Canadian soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian takes the lead role as the vixen, with American Quinn Kelsey as the gamekeeper.

Seiji Ozawa leads the orchestra and chorus in Laurent Pelly's production of Janácek's fantasy opera, recorded live at Florence's Teatro Comunale in 2009. Armenian/Canadian soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian takes the lead role as the vixen, with American Quinn Kelsey as the gamekeeper.

Mariss Jansons leads the Chor and Symphonieorches des Bayerischen Rundfunks in performances of Brahms' 'Symphony No.2 in D Major, Opus 73' and Janácek's 'Glagolitic Mass', recorded live at the KKL Concert Hall, Lucerne in 2012. The soloists are Tatiana Monogarova, Marina Prudenskja, Ludovit Ludha and Peter Mikulás.

These are the letters of a great love story. In 1917, the Czech composer Leos JanA A A ek met Kamila StA

sslovA while on holiday at LuhaA A ovice, 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, JanA A A ek began writing to StA

sslovA . 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 StA

sslovA 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 JanA A A ek and StA

sslovA, 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.

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Václav Neumann conducts the Czech Philharmonic in this live performance recorded at Prague's Smetana Hall in 1986. The concert features Antonín Dvorák's 'The Wild Dove' and Leos Janácek's 'Taras Bulba'.

Collection of scenes from 12 productions performed at the Glyndeboure Festival Opera over the last 13 years. The operas featured are: 'Le nozze di Figaro', 'The Cunning Little Vixen', 'Gianni Schicchi', 'Cosi fan tutte', 'Billy Budd', 'Falstaff', 'Carmen', 'Giulio Cesare', 'Tristan und Isolde', 'The Rake's Progress', 'La Cenerentola' and 'Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg'.

Mariss Jansons leads the Chor and Symphonieorches des Bayerischen Rundfunks in performances of Brahms' 'Symphony No.2 in D Major, Opus 73' and Janácek's 'Glagolitic Mass', recorded live at the KKL Concert Hall, Lucerne in 2012. The soloists are Tatiana Monogarova, Marina Prudenskja, Ludovit Ludha and Peter Mikulás.

A musical tour of the city of Prague, accompanied by the music of Smetana, Dvorak, Janacek and Fibich.

Donald Runnicles conducts the Deutsche Oper Berlin Orchestra and Chorus in this production of Leos Janácek's opera, recorded in 2014. Michaela Kaune stars in the title role with Jennifer Larmore as Kostelnicka Buryjovka, Will Hartmann as Laca Klemen, Ladislav Elgr as Steva Buryja and Hanna Schwarz as Grandmother Buryjovka.

English soprano Amanda Roocroft takes the lead role in this production of Janacek's opera, recorded live at the Teatro Real in October, 2009. Ivor Bolton conducts, and other leading performances come from Miroslav Dvorsky, Deborah Polaski, Mette Ejsing and Nikolai Schukoff.