Edward Gardner, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra - Janacek: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2 (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/88,2 kHz | Artwork: d.booklet, front cover | 1:16:52 | 1.32 Gb
Classical | Label: Chandos / CHSA5156 / SACD
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/88,2 kHz | Artwork: d.booklet, front cover | 1:16:52 | 1.32 Gb
Classical | Label: Chandos / CHSA5156 / SACD
This second volume of Leos Janácek's orchestral works by the fine and sympathetic Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra under Edward Gardner is necessarily something of a mixed bag, with a couple of unfinished works, several pieces that more or less qualify as obscurities, and just one repertory work, the symphonic poem Taras Bulba, JW VI/15. That work from the World War I years is vintage Janácek, a programmatic evocation of scenes from Nikolai Gogol's epic novel that has the composer's trademark mixture of vividness and compression.