Janacek: The Diary of One Who Disappeared

Janacek: The Diary of One Who Disappeared

Janacek: The Diary of One Who Disappeared
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Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2002-01-08
Music Label: EMI Classics
Soundtracks:
  1. I. One Day I Met A Young Gypsy Girl - Ian Bostridge
  2. II. That Dark-Skinned Gypsy Girl - Ian Bostridge
  3. III. The Glow-worms Are Dancing - Ian Bostridge
  4. IV. The Young Swallows - Ian Bostridge
  5. V. Ploughing Is Heavy Work - Ian Bostridge
  6. VI. Hey, You Grey Oxen - Ian Bostridge
  7. VII. Now That I've Lost My Little Pin - Ian Bostridge
  8. VIII. Don't Look So Sadly After Me - Ian Bostridge
  9. IX. Welcome, Janicek - Ian Bostridge
  10. X. God In Heaven, Eternal One - Ian Bostridge
  11. XI. The Sweet Smell Of Ripening Wheat - Ian Bostridge
  12. XII. The Shady Elder-grove - Ian Bostridge
  13. XIII. Piano Solo - Ian Bostridge
  14. XIV. The Sun Climbs High - Ian Bostridge
  15. XVI. My Gren Oxen - Ian Bostridge
  16. XVI. What Have I Done? - Ian Bostridge
  17. XVII. That Which Fate Has Ordained - Ian Bostridge
  18. XVIII. Now Nothing Matters To Me - Ian Bostridge
  19. XIX. The Magpie Flies Away - Ian Bostridge
  20. XX. I Have A True Love - Ian Bostridge
  21. XXI. My Dear Father - Ian Bostridge
  22. XXII. Farewell, My Native Land - Ian Bostridge
  23. I. That Clock In Vivany - Thomas Ades
  24. II. When I Sing A Song - Thomas Ades
  25. III. Oh Georgie, Georgie Dear - Thomas Ades
  26. IV. Mary, My Mary - Thomas Ades
  27. V. My Darling's Already Leaving - Thomas Ades
  28. VI. A Girl Was Weaving Flax - Thomas Ades
  29. VII. You Promised To Marry Me - Thomas Ades
  30. VIII. Whose Lad - Thomas Ades
  31. IX. Whose Lass - Thomas Ades
  32. X. When I Lie Down - Thomas Ades
  33. XI. A Stream Is Running - Thomas Ades
  34. XII. The Hradcany Clock - Thomas Ades
  35. XIII. On A Black Mountain - Thomas Ades
  36. XIV. On That Javorine Plain - Thomas Ades
  37. XV. On That Clear Field Of Hurasky - Thomas Ades
  38. A Reminiscence, JW VIII/32 - Thomas Ades
  39. In Memoriam, JW VIII/9 - Thomas Ades
  40. Andante, JW VIII/31 - Thomas Ades
  41. Moderato, JW VIII/21 - Thomas Ades
  42. The Golden Ring, JW VIII/33 No.12 - Thomas Ades
  43. I Wait For You, JW VIII/33 No.13 - Thomas Ades
  44. Christ The Lord Is Born, JW VIII/20 - Thomas Ades
  45. X. God In Heaven - Ian Bostridge
  46. XIV. The Sun Climbs High - Ian Bostridge

Music reviews of Janacek: The Diary of One Who Disappeared

Music Review: A song-drama and short solo piano pieces based on Moravian folk songs - fine listening
Rating: 5 Stars

Leos Janáček (1854-1928) was (and remains) an important Czech composer. As a young man he became friends with Dvorak and was one of the early so-called nationalist composers. This movement urged its composers to write music of their homeland and Janáček was among the early group who turner to the folk songs of his native land for source stylistic materials. Many others followed his lead in their own lands (think of Kodaly, Bartok, and even Stravinsky as examples of a much larger group).

This disk contains his only surviving song cycle - which is really a kind of song drama. It is based on some poems that appeared in a newspaper and caught the composer's eye. He clipped them out and took them with him on a trip to a spa and began working on the songs. The poems were published anonymously and were ostensibly by a rustic farm boy who is lured away by a gypsy and is never heard from again. It turns out they were by Ozef Kalda (the pseudonym of Josef Kalda (1871-1921). The songs are mostly for the tenor, but the gypsy makes her appearance, as do three female voices urging the boy to follow the gypsy. Ian Bostridge is superb as the rustic who disappeared and Ruby Philogene is fine as the gypsy.

The pianist, Thomas Adès, not only accompanies the song cycle, he also plays some wonderful solo pieces. One set is of piano pieces based on Moravian folk songs and then there is a set of miscellaneous pieces. All are quite short, but very expressive. Adès is a fine and expressive artist.

The disk concludes with earlier versions of two of the songs from the song cycle.

I think it is always good to stretch your musical experience. This music is quite different than the German, Italian, French art music and song writing that you are probably more used to hearing. This music, while certainly tonal, is quite different in harmonic language, melodic angularity and spacing. Enjoy!
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Janácek's Diary of One Who Disappeared is a cycle, almost a quasi-opera, of 22 songs for tenor, mezzo, an offstage chorus of three female voices, and a piano. It's based on poems the composer found in a Czech newspaper purporting to be the confessions of a young man who leaves family and village for the gypsy girl he loves. The songs speak of longing, sexual attraction, guilt, regret, anxiety, and a host of other emotions wonderfully captured by Ian Bostridge, whose high tenor voice has more body and thrust than in his other recordings. Singing in the original Czech, Bostridge sounds as comfortable as a native speaker. Thomas Adès, best known as a composer, is also a superb pianist. He has to be, because the keyboard part is of vital importance, not only commenting on the vocal line and in extended postludes, but in a brief solo as well. Ruby Philogene is appropriately sultry as the gypsy, and this deeply felt performance is a triumph for all concerned. Adès scores again in the Moravian Folksongs for solo piano and in the miniature solo pieces, some of which say more in their brief span than many longer works. --Dan Davis

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