What an amazing introduction! What glorious music! I wish I'd discovered this piece about 10 years ago (around the time I first fell in love with Missa Solemnis, etc) that way I'd've been picking up more and more upon each subsequent hearing all this time!
I guess i'm not as concerned with Janacek's faith, as with the glorious music he wrote. He must had some sort of divine inspiration to create this! I feel fortunate to have been given the opportunity to sing it several years ago. I will always carry it with me. It's great from both sides (performing/listening).
If you haven't viewed each of these seven segments of this concert, you're in for a treat. To find such a performance, albeit a modern one, on YouTube for the "purposes of preservation" is a most gracious gift to us by these wonderful musicians. This is where and when technology triumphs over its own fallacies by offering us higher order thinking, the granduer of artistic display, and an all-encompassing passion for sharing with us what IS beautiful about the human element of music-making.
You know that Janacek went to his grave an unrepentant atheist. I am a big fan of his, nevertheless, and am especially fond of his operas. For music this rich I will forgive a multitude of sins, and you won't find a more sanctimonious Roman Catholic than myself.
@Enantiodromialist I love Jancek, despite our views on religion, and this is "repugnant?" Janecek himself was very much at ease in the company of men of Faith, if you are familiar with his biography.
Come how they didn't perform the Intrada in the beginning as well? That's how Janacek wanted it to be performed.
MsModernComposer 9 months ago
First Night of the Proms 2000 and now 2011. Such a good piece.
JackSafferyRowe 9 months ago
Thanks for posting this. A bit too uptight, reserved almost, actually, but a good performance. I like my Janacek more barbaric. ;)
isefire 1 year ago
What an amazing introduction! What glorious music! I wish I'd discovered this piece about 10 years ago (around the time I first fell in love with Missa Solemnis, etc) that way I'd've been picking up more and more upon each subsequent hearing all this time!
daeviydt 1 year ago
I'd just like to thank you for this. I just heard through all of it, dumstruck from start to end. Thank you, so much.
mmordie 1 year ago
impressive introduction
beethomozart 1 year ago
Quite simply, Janacek was the greatest composer of the 20th century.
BritinIsrael 1 year ago
I guess i'm not as concerned with Janacek's faith, as with the glorious music he wrote. He must had some sort of divine inspiration to create this! I feel fortunate to have been given the opportunity to sing it several years ago. I will always carry it with me. It's great from both sides (performing/listening).
thndrsound47 1 year ago
If you haven't viewed each of these seven segments of this concert, you're in for a treat. To find such a performance, albeit a modern one, on YouTube for the "purposes of preservation" is a most gracious gift to us by these wonderful musicians. This is where and when technology triumphs over its own fallacies by offering us higher order thinking, the granduer of artistic display, and an all-encompassing passion for sharing with us what IS beautiful about the human element of music-making.
novisibersk 1 year ago
You know that Janacek went to his grave an unrepentant atheist. I am a big fan of his, nevertheless, and am especially fond of his operas. For music this rich I will forgive a multitude of sins, and you won't find a more sanctimonious Roman Catholic than myself.
CBordages 1 year ago
@CBordages Your views are repugnant and you have no right to listen to his work. You should be ashamed of yourself.
Enantiodromialist 11 months ago
@Enantiodromialist I love Jancek, despite our views on religion, and this is "repugnant?" Janecek himself was very much at ease in the company of men of Faith, if you are familiar with his biography.
CBordages 11 months ago
janacek is so earthy and organic. how can one NOT love him!
curlyman217 2 years ago 5
It's the soundtrack of Kenneth Anger's Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome...
Janecek is great,...thanks...greetings from Colombia...
SalingerX87 2 years ago 5
@SalingerX87
Anger's the best.
Sleepwalker1977 1 year ago