Janacek: From the House of the Dead / Mladi: Rikadla
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Composer: JanacekComposer: Mladi
Conductor: Sir Charles Mackerras
Conductor: David Atherton
Performer: Ivo Zideck
Performer: Jiri Zahradnicek
Edition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks, Import
CD Release Date: 1991-09-12
Music Label: London / Decca
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Prelude - Sir Charles Mackerras/Vienna PO
- Act One: Privedou dnes pana! - Vladimir Kredjick/Richard Novak/Beno Blachut
- Act One: Jak te nazyvaji? - Antonin Svorc
- Act One: Neuvidi oko jiz tech kraju - Vladimir Kredjick/Richard Novak/Beno Blachut
- Act One: Aljejo, podavej nitku! - Jiri Zahradnicek
- Act Two: A...a... - Zdenek Svehla
- Act Two: Alexandr Petrovic, bude prazdnik - Vladimir Kredjick/Richard Novak/Beno Blachut
- Act Two: Presel den, druhy, treti - Ivo Zidek
- Act Two: Dnes bude muj posledni den! - Jaroslav Sousek
- Act Two: Pantomime o Pekne mlynarce - Sir Charles Mackerras/Wiener Phil
- Act Two: Pekne hrali, co? - Jaroslava Janska
- Act Three: Scene 1: Isaj, prorok bozi - Jaroslava Janska
- Act Three: Scene 1: Ma detatka mila - Beno Blachut
- Act Three: Scene 1: A ja byl, bratricku, az do svatby zpit! - Vaclav Zitek
- Act Three: Scene 1: S Filkou jste se opet spratelili? - Zdenek Svehla
- Act Three: Scene 2: Petrovici! Ja jsem te urazil - Antonin Svorc
- Mladi: I. Andante - Sebastian Bell/Janet Craxton/Antony Pay/Michael Harris/Martin Gatt/Phillip Eastop
- Mladi: II. Moderato - Sebastian Bell/Janet Craxton/Antony Pay/Michael Harris/Martin Gatt/Phillip Eastop
- Mladi: III. Allegro - Sebastian Bell/Janet Craxton/Antony Pay/Michael Harris/Martin Gatt/Phillip Eastop
- Mladi: IV. Con moto - Sebastian Bell/Janet Craxton/Antony Pay/Michael Harris/Martin Gatt/Phillip Eastop
- Rikadla - London Sinfionetta Chor/Clive Wearing
Music reviews of Janacek: From the House of the Dead / Mladi: Rikadla
Music Review: Definitive performance of original score
Rating: 5 Stars
How do you make an uplifting opera out of a group of exhausted, demoralised, malnourished prisoners stuck in the Nineteenth Century equivalent of a Stalinist Gulag? Let Janacek show you how.
This is a piece where practically nothing happens. A new prisoner arrives, there's a bit of aimless brutality, the prisoners put on a ramshackle show, a caged eagle is given its (symbolic) freedom and...er...that's about it. The most interesting action happens in a series of long narratives, life-stories told by prisoners to while away the endless time spent in this hellhole.
Yet this is throughout edge-of-the-seat stuff. Janacek, in the last opera of his Indian Summer, uniquely captures that 'spark of humanity' to be found in even the most degenerate of men - both musically and emotionally. Just listen to the Prelude for a taste of what is to come - the chain-clanking drudge of prison life; the manic, soaring, screaming violin cadenza taken from an unfinished Violin Concerto; the brief brassy moments of uplifting hope and thoughts of freedom. And these harsh juxtapositions are clothed in a brutal, spare, blackboard-scraping instrumenation that seems to push Janacek's unique orchestration methods to its limits.
This is especially true in Mackerras's riveting performance, for he will accept none of the later attempts to smooth out Janacek's searing textures, made under the pretext that he left the work unfinished at his death. Mackerras, greatest of all Janacek conductors, presents us with the cruel unwavering truth of the composer's vision. He is abetted by a cast of top singers, Czech nationals all (including the wonderful veteran Beno Blachut), who bring the range of low-life characters vivdly to life.
This is an opera unlike any other in the repertoire and a masterpiece to boot. And Mackerras, wearing his copious research as lightly as ever, delivers a definitive performance of it.
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