Leos Janacek Simon Rattle Royal Opera House Covent Garden Orchestra - Jancek The Cunning Little Vixen (47 tracks) +Album Reviews

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Leos Janacek, Simon Rattle, Royal Opera House Covent Garden Orchestra
Janácek: The Cunning Little Vixen
Genre: Classical

Track Listings (33) - Disc #1
1. Prelude
2. 'Going To Be A Storm Soon'
3. 'Come On, Old Lady, And Let's Get The Show Started'
4. 'Mummy! Mummy! What Is That?'
5. Pantomime
6. Interlude
7. 'Look At How Big She's Grown!'
8. 'I'm Just the Same Too'
9. 'Look What We've Got Down 'Ere'
10. Interlude (Beginning) ('Ou, Ou!')
11. Interlude (Conclusion)
12. 'You Should Take A Lesson From Me!'
13. 'Sisters! Comrades!'
14. 'Come On Then, Don't Be Frightened!'
15. Prelude
16. 'Ah!' - 'Who's That Out There Screaming?'
17. Interlude
18. 'In My New Parish Things Have Got To Be Better!'
19. 'Once Long Since, Long Ago'
20. 'Home Now?'
21. Interlude
22. 'Something Is Wrong With My Equilibrium'
23. 'Staccato! Flageoletti!'
24. 'So Remember To Be A Good Man!'
25. 'Memnestho Aner Agathos Einai'
26. Interlude
27. 'O My God! He's So Handsome!'
28. 'One Dark Night'
29. 'Fox Goldenstripe'
30. 'Can It Be That I Am Lovely?'
31. 'Let Me Go! I Am Afraid of You!'
32. 'If You Had Only Seen What I Saw Just Now'
33. 'That's How It Is!'
Track Listings (14) - Disc #2
1. Prelude
2. 'In The Month Of May'
3. 'Hey There, Harasta, How's It Going?'
4. 'Little Foxes Running Fast'
5. 'How Many Children Do We Have?'
6. 'Put It Down Fast! Harasta, Harasta!'
7. Interlude
8. 'Where Is Old Man Pasek?'
9. 'Well I'm Damned!'
10. Interlude
11. 'Spring Is Here At Last'
12. 'When Evening Arrives, I Welcome The Rays'
13. 'Hey! But I Can't See The Vixen There!'
14. 'Tha-that Wasn't Me'

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CD Details

All Artists: Leos Janacek, Simon Rattle, Royal Opera House Covent Garden Orchestra, Adrian Lloyd, Alexander Rattle, Anna Lorimar, Christopher Barnett, Devin Gregory, Diana Montague, Elizabeth Bainbridge, Emily Baum, Emma Connolly, Fiona Dobie, Gillian Knight, Gillian Ramsden, Giselle Unsworth, Glenys Groves, Gwynne Howell, John Dobson, Karen Shelby
Title: Janácek: The Cunning Little Vixen
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Chandos
Release Date: 10/21/2003
Genre: Classical
Styles: Opera & Classical Vocal, Historical Periods, Modern, 20th, & 21st Century
Number of Discs: 2
SwapaCD Credits: 2
UPC: 095115310120

CD Reviews

A Splendid Remastering of the 1991 EMI Session

Birdman | Minnetonka, MN USA | 03/24/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This underrated modern opera, this time in English and conducted by Simon Rattle, is one most opera-lovers should own. I found this English performance warmly dramatic and listenable. Rattle's reading is more romantic and well-rounded than the Decca classic. Should the translation dissuade the buyer? Not at all. Some of the translated expressions are Brit expressions, but they work beautifully. When in doubt, just but the Mackerras version too.The remastering here has opened up the acoustic of the original recording so the performance sounds as though it might have happened yesterday. The orchestra is alert and playful. The singers cannot be bettered. Lilian Watson is a superb, characterful Vixen Sharp-Ears, Diana Montague is a Fox to die for and Thomas Allen is -- well -- Thomas Allen. Did the man ever cut a bad record?At roughly 100 minutes, and in a superbly packaged set with an all-new booklet with helpful notes and libretto, what are you waiting for?I place this recording among my top 25 opera recordings in any language. And that's scary. Five stars, without remorse."

May be english, but it is excellent

Ted Zoldan | Los Angeles, CA, USA | 03/01/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"There is nothing like the Cunning Little Vixen. It's a masterpiece, and it's not even Janacek's best Opera! This recording, sung in english, serves the work well.

The orchestra and chorus are very well lead by Rattle. The vixen's dream in the first act is beautifully played. The translation is easy on the ears, fits the music well, and all the singers have excellent diction. Lillian Watson's Vixen is well sung, a nice lyric voice that suits the part very nicely. "Can it be that I am beautiful?" is heart-stoppingly beautiful. Sir Thomas Allen is his usual peerless self. As far as I'm conserned, he is the Forester. His wonderful song in the Tavern is so incredably well sung it should be entered into the hall of fame. Diana Montague is an excellent fox, and Gwynne Howell and Robert Tear are touching and wonderfull as the priest and the Schoolmaster. Howell also is a properly Pompus badger, and Tear is a humoros Mosquito. Nicholas Fowell is a creepy Harasta and Karen Shelby makes a nice Dog. 5/5"