The three sets of Janácek songs on this Hyperion release might seem an odd group, with the deadly serious and even obsessive The Diary of One Who Disappeared joined to the subtle, frequently humorous Ríkadla (Nursery Rhymes), and often joyous Moravian Folk Poetry in Songs. However, the three works are linked by the presence of folk music, which is always there in Janácek's music even at its most modern and expressionistic. The Diary of One Who Disappeared, inspired by Janácek's paramour Kamila Stösslová, is a song cycle ...
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The three sets of Janácek songs on this Hyperion release might seem an odd group, with the deadly serious and even obsessive The Diary of One Who Disappeared joined to the subtle, frequently humorous Ríkadla (Nursery Rhymes), and often joyous Moravian Folk Poetry in Songs. However, the three works are linked by the presence of folk music, which is always there in Janácek's music even at its most modern and expressionistic. The Diary of One Who Disappeared, inspired by Janácek's paramour Kamila Stösslová, is a song cycle that at times verges on opera, for tenor, alto, three female voices, and piano. It has a full-blown narrative about a young villager who falls in love with a gypsy girl, and despite its small scale, it's a great example of the heated psychological intensity of Janácek's masterpieces of the 1920s (the work was completed in 1921). Tenor Nicky Spence excels here; the young Scot has Wagnerian power but reduces it to the inward dimensions of the song cycle, and accompanist Julius Drake adds...
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