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Janáček: Solo Piano / Adès
Signum Classics

Janáček: Solo Piano / Adès

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Composer
JANACEK, LEOS
Artist
Thomas Ades
Format
CD
Label
Signum Classics
Released
May 08, 2020
Catalog #
SIGCD600
UPC
635212060025

About

Recorded following an acclaimed solo concert tour, renowned performer, composer and conductor Thomas Adès performs a collection of Leos Janácek’s works for piano. Nearly all of the music for solo piano written by Leoš Janácek (1854-1928) dates from before the First World War and thus belongs to the period before the composer’s remarkable late creative surge, which was triggered by the hugely successful 1916 production in Prague of his third opera, Jenufa (1894-1903; rev. 1907-8), and facilitated by his retirement from his teaching position at the Brno Organ School. Nevertheless, all three of Janácek’s major solo piano works – On an Overgrown Path (1900-1911), From the Street 1 October 1905 (1905-6) and In the Mists (1912-13) – contain music that is both profoundly individual and also integral to the now widespread view of the composer as one the most original musical voices of early twentieth-century music.

REVIEWS:

Adès’s account of On an Overgrown Path eschews sentimentality and refuses to duck the suppressed violence that occasionally erupts. His care shown over Janácek’s inner part writing is often revelatory, and he seems very much at one with the near improvisatory nature of these pieces. There is perhaps less delicacy in his approach to the more elusive soundworld of In The Mists, but his performance is impressive for its clarity and cohesion.

– BBC Music Magazine

It’s apparent from the get-go that Adès is determined to check all expressive clichés at the recording studio door, accept Janácek’s plain-spoken syntax and lack of artifice for what they are, and simply play the music straight. Adès seems less interested in colour or moody subtext than rendering text with intensive clarity in the two-movement Sonata. An illuminating release.

– Gramophone

Tracklist 20 tracks

  1. 1 No. 1. Naše večery (Our Evenings) 03:08
    Track
    1
    Title
    No. 1. Naše večery (Our Evenings)
    Duration
    03:08
    Composer
    Leoš Janáček
    Performer
    Thomas Adès
  2. 2 No. 2. Lístek odvanutý (A Blown Away Leaf) 02:20
    Track
    2
    Title
    No. 2. Lístek odvanutý (A Blown Away Leaf)
    Duration
    02:20
    Composer
    Leoš Janáček
    Performer
    Thomas Adès
  3. 3 No. 3. Pojd'te s námi! (Come with us!) 01:05
    Track
    3
    Title
    No. 3. Pojd'te s námi! (Come with us!)
    Duration
    01:05
    Composer
    Leoš Janáček
    Performer
    Thomas Adès
  4. 4 No. 4. Frýdecká Panna Maria (The Madonna of Frydek) 03:35
    Track
    4
    Title
    No. 4. Frýdecká Panna Maria (The Madonna of Frydek)
    Duration
    03:35
    Composer
    Leoš Janáček
    Performer
    Thomas Adès
  5. 5 No. 5. Štěbetaly jak laštovičky (They Chattered like Swallows) 01:44
    Track
    5
    Title
    No. 5. Štěbetaly jak laštovičky (They Chattered like Swallows)
    Duration
    01:44
    Composer
    Leoš Janáček
    Performer
    Thomas Adès
  6. 6 No. 6. Nelze domluvit! (Words fail!) 01:55
    Track
    6
    Title
    No. 6. Nelze domluvit! (Words fail!)
    Duration
    01:55
    Composer
    Leoš Janáček
    Performer
    Thomas Adès
  7. 7 No. 7. Dobrou noc! (Good Night!) 02:56
    Track
    7
    Title
    No. 7. Dobrou noc! (Good Night!)
    Duration
    02:56
    Composer
    Leoš Janáček
    Performer
    Thomas Adès
  8. 8 No. 8. Tak neskonale úzko (Unutterable Anguish) 02:29
    Track
    8
    Title
    No. 8. Tak neskonale úzko (Unutterable Anguish)
    Duration
    02:29
    Composer
    Leoš Janáček
    Performer
    Thomas Adès
  9. 9 No. 9. V pláči (In Tears) 02:14
    Track
    9
    Title
    No. 9. V pláči (In Tears)
    Duration
    02:14
    Composer
    Leoš Janáček
    Performer
    Thomas Adès
  10. 10 No. 10. Sýček neodletěl! (The Barn Owl has not Flown Away!) 03:20
    Track
    10
    Title
    No. 10. Sýček neodletěl! (The Barn Owl has not Flown Away!)
    Duration
    03:20
    Composer
    Leoš Janáček
    Performer
    Thomas Adès
  11. 11 No. 11. Andante 03:23
    Track
    11
    Title
    No. 11. Andante
    Duration
    03:23
    Composer
    Leoš Janáček
    Performer
    Thomas Adès
  12. 12 No. 12. Allegretto 02:31
    Track
    12
    Title
    No. 12. Allegretto
    Duration
    02:31
    Composer
    Leoš Janáček
    Performer
    Thomas Adès
  13. 13 No. 13. Più mosso 02:15
    Track
    13
    Title
    No. 13. Più mosso
    Duration
    02:15
    Composer
    Leoš Janáček
    Performer
    Thomas Adès
  14. 14 No. 14. Allegro 06:21
    Track
    14
    Title
    No. 14. Allegro
    Duration
    06:21
    Composer
    Leoš Janáček
    Performer
    Thomas Adès
  15. 15 I. Předtucha (Foreboding): Con moto 05:52
    Track
    15
    Title
    I. Předtucha (Foreboding): Con moto
    Duration
    05:52
    Composer
    Leoš Janáček
    Performer
    Thomas Adès
  16. 16 II. Smrt (Death) 07:18
    Track
    16
    Title
    II. Smrt (Death)
    Duration
    07:18
    Composer
    Leoš Janáček
    Performer
    Thomas Adès
  17. 17 I. Andante 03:37
    Track
    17
    Title
    I. Andante
    Duration
    03:37
    Composer
    Leoš Janáček
    Performer
    Thomas Adès
  18. 18 II. Molto adagio 04:18
    Track
    18
    Title
    II. Molto adagio
    Duration
    04:18
    Composer
    Leoš Janáček
    Performer
    Thomas Adès
  19. 19 III. Andantino 02:02
    Track
    19
    Title
    III. Andantino
    Duration
    02:02
    Composer
    Leoš Janáček
    Performer
    Thomas Adès
  20. 20 IV. Presto 04:17
    Track
    20
    Title
    IV. Presto
    Duration
    04:17
    Composer
    Leoš Janáček
    Performer
    Thomas Adès