Leos Janacek: Taras Bulba auf CD

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Many seasoned conductors keep returning to Janacek's symphonic works - owing to their sparkling expressiveness, colourful emotions and lucid purity drawn deep from the wellspring of folk music. Jakub Hrusa proves that fascination with Janacek's music applies to the youngest generation of conductors too. The recording opens with six ebullient Lachian Dances and when it comes to The Cunning Little Vixen, Jakub Hrusa has chosen the rarely performed version of the Suite arranged by Frantisek Jilek, a connoisseur of Janacek's ouvre. His Suite retains Janacek's original instrumentation and spans the trajectory of the opera's action. The recording is crowned by the rhapsody for orchestra Taras Bulba. Janacek's initial title for the work - Slavonic Rhapsody - reflects not only national but also Slavonic pride, which is celebrated here in the character of the fearless Cossack leader Taras Bulba. Janacek masterfully succeeded in transposing his fascination with the culture of Tsarist Russia into a composition which on this CD is undertaken by a young conductor fascinated in turn by Janacek's work.