Janáček: The Diary of One Who Disappeared / Breslik, Pechanec

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Orfeo
Release Date
February 21, 2020
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      JANACEK, LEOS
    • PERFORMER
      Breslik, Pechanec, Hanko, Marczelova, Kovacs, Pavlu
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      February 21, 2020
    • UPC
      4011790989129
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      ORF-C989201
    • LABEL
      Orfeo
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Potkal jsem mladou cigánku (I met a young gypsy girl)

      Composer: Leoš Janáček

      Performer: Pavol Breslik, Robert Pechanec

    2. Ta černá cigánka (That black gypsy girl)

      Composer: Leoš Janáček

      Performer: Pavol Breslik, Robert Pechanec

    3. Svatojanské musky (Fireflies)

      Composer: Leoš Janáček

      Performer: Pavol Breslik, Robert Pechanec

    4. Už mladé vlaštúvky (Already young swallows)

      Composer: Leoš Janáček

      Performer: Pavol Breslik, Robert Pechanec

    5. Těžko sa mi oře (Heavy are my steeds)

      Composer: Leoš Janáček

      Performer: Pavol Breslik, Robert Pechanec

    6. Hajsi, vy siví volci (Hay, you light-colored oxen)

      Composer: Leoš Janáček

      Performer: Pavol Breslik, Robert Pechanec

    7. Ztratil isem kolíček (I lost a peg)

      Composer: Leoš Janáček

      Performer: Pavol Breslik, Robert Pechanec

    8. Nehled'te, volečci, tesklivo k úvratím (Don’t look so sadly after me)

      Composer: Leoš Janáček

      Performer: Pavol Breslik, Robert Pechanec

    9. Vítaj, Janíčku (Welcome, Janicek)

      Composer: Leoš Janáček

      Performer: Ester Pavlů, Pavol Breslik, Dominika Hanko, Zuzana Marczelová, Mária Kovács, Robert Pechanec

    10. Bože dálný, nesmrtelný (God in heaven, eternal one)

      Composer: Leoš Janáček

      Performer: Ester Pavlů, Dominika Hanko, Zuzana Marczelová, Mária Kovács, Robert Pechanec

    11. Tahne vůňa k lesu (A fragrance extends to the forest)

      Composer: Leoš Janáček

      Performer: Ester Pavlů, Pavol Breslik, Robert Pechanec

    12. Tmavá olšinka, chladná studénka (The shady elder-grove)

      Composer: Leoš Janáček

      Performer: Pavol Breslik, Robert Pechanec

    13. Intermezzo: Piano solo

      Composer: Leoš Janáček

      Performer: Robert Pechanec

    14. Slnéčko sa zdvihá (The dear sun rises)

      Composer: Leoš Janáček

      Performer: Pavol Breslik, Robert Pechanec

    15. Moji siví volci (My gray oxen)

      Composer: Leoš Janáček

      Performer: Pavol Breslik, Robert Pechanec

    16. Co sem to udělal? (What have I done?)

      Composer: Leoš Janáček

      Performer: Pavol Breslik, Robert Pechanec

    17. Co komu súzeno (What has been ordained)

      Composer: Leoš Janáček

      Performer: Pavol Breslik, Robert Pechanec

    18. Nedbám já včil o nic (Nothing matters to me)

      Composer: Leoš Janáček

      Performer: Pavol Breslik, Robert Pechanec

    19. Letí straka, letí (The magpie flies away)

      Composer: Leoš Janáček

      Performer: Pavol Breslik, Robert Pechanec

    20. Mám já panenku (I have a true love)

      Composer: Leoš Janáček

      Performer: Pavol Breslik, Robert Pechanec

    21. Můj drahý tatíčku (My dear father)

      Composer: Leoš Janáček

      Performer: Pavol Breslik, Robert Pechanec

    22. Sbohem, rodný kraju (Farewell, my own country)

      Composer: Leoš Janáček

      Performer: Pavol Breslik, Robert Pechanec

    23. No. 1. Něumrem ja na zemi (I won't die on the ground)

      Composer: Leoš Janáček

      Performer: Pavol Breslik, Robert Pechanec

    24. No. 2. Šiel som cez mesto (I walked through the town)

      Composer: Leoš Janáček

      Performer: Pavol Breslik, Robert Pechanec

    25. No. 3. Štyri kosy (Four scythes)

      Composer: Leoš Janáček

      Performer: Pavol Breslik, Robert Pechanec

    26. No. 4. Na Slatinských lúkach (In the meadows of Slatina)

      Composer: Leoš Janáček

      Performer: Pavol Breslik, Robert Pechanec

    27. No. 5. Široko ďaleko (Far and wide the bird flew)

      Composer: Leoš Janáček

      Performer: Pavol Breslik, Robert Pechanec

    28. No. 6. Už tebe, Anička (For you, Anička)

      Composer: Leoš Janáček

      Performer: Pavol Breslik, Robert Pechanec

    29. No. 1. Ej nebudu já dobrý (I won't be good)

      Composer: Leoš Janáček

      Performer: Pavol Breslik, Robert Pechanec

    30. No. 2. Ej, sedeu sem ja sedeu (I sat, I sat)

      Composer: Leoš Janáček

      Performer: Pavol Breslik, Robert Pechanec

    31. No. 3. Ej šetko luďia vravia (Everybody says all sorts of things)

      Composer: Leoš Janáček

      Performer: Pavol Breslik, Robert Pechanec

    32. No. 4. Pod javorkom, pod zeleným (Under the green maple tree)

      Composer: Leoš Janáček

      Performer: Pavol Breslik, Robert Pechanec

    33. No. 5. Ide Kračuň, ide (Christmas is coming)

      Composer: Leoš Janáček

      Performer: Pavol Breslik, Robert Pechanec

    34. No. 6. Byľa jedna sirá vdova (There was a forlorn widow)

      Composer: Leoš Janáček

      Performer: Pavol Breslik, Robert Pechanec

    35. No. 7. Na horách, na doľách (In the mountains, in the valleys)

      Composer: Leoš Janáček

      Performer: Pavol Breslik, Robert Pechanec

    36. No. 8. Šla milá na zdávání (My darling was going to her wedding)

      Composer: Leoš Janáček

      Performer: Pavol Breslik, Robert Pechanec


Leoš Janácek composed the song cycle The Diary Of One Who Disappeared at a time when many people already considered him on a par with the other two masters of Czech national music, Smetana and Dvorák. The inspiration for the autobiographical ‘Diary’ came from a few enigmatic lines of poetry in two editions of the “Lidove noviny” (People’s Newspaper) of May 1916. Although this work is Janácek’s most important original song cycle, his keen interest in the folk songs and dances of his Moravian homeland resulted in a plethora of arrangements, making this music also accessible to the classical concert hall. These include the Six Folk Songs Eva Gabel Sang (Šest národních písní jež zpívala Gabel Eva) and the Songs from Detva (Písne detvanské). Quite unlike the songs of the ‘Diary’, which chiefly make reference to the Moravian dialect, the arrangements evince the typically ethnic-sounding music Janácek refined, so to speak, by adding to adaptations of the existing song lines a sophisticated piano part in the tradition of the great song compositions of the 19th century.

REVIEW:

The Diary of One Who Disappeared, written in 1921, is one of Janáček’s finest yet strangest song cycles. It is not, as the title would suggest, about secret police or undercover spies, but about a young man who falls in love with a dark gypsy woman who lives in the woods, has an affair with her that produces a child, and eventually runs away from home to go and live with her. Because of this, it is not sung just the tenor but also by a mezzo or contralto who does the part of the gypsy woman Zelka. Moreover, there is also a small chorus of three female voices who also sing in two of the songs. This, I think, must be the only reason why it is seldom performed, because the music is simply wonderful.

Young tenor Pavol Breslik has a very fine voice marred only by a prominent vibrato, albeit a steady and well-controlled one. He sings with energy and tosses out a few excellent high notes near the end of the cycle. Mezzo-soprano Ester Pavlu is also an excellent singer; she, too has a vibrato, but a more regular and contained one, and her vocal timbre puts you in mind of a gypsy singer. The three ladies who perform in the chorus all have pure, lovely voices, and pianist Robert Pechanec is also very fine.

This is an excellent representation of wonderful music.

-- The Art Music Lounge (Lynn René Bayley)