JANACEK The Excursions of Mr Broucek

Peter Straka, Jan Vacík, Zdenek Plech, Maria Haan, Roman Janál, Martina Bauerová, Ales Briscein, Jaroslav Brezina, Václav Sibera

BBC Singers & BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jirí Belohlávek

 

Janáèek’s only mature comic opera combines an adventurous story – including a trip to the moon and travelling back in time to the fifteenth century – with some of the composer’s most imaginative music. The opera was completed in 1918 after almost 10 years work on the score and 8 different writers working on the libretto

Live recording of an acclaimed semi-staged performance in London, February 2007, performed by a strong Slavic cast and the BBC Symphony Orchestra under the baton of its Chief Conductor, acclaimed Czech maestro Jirí Belohlávek

"Jirí Belohlávek conducted the BBC Symphony Orchestra with formidable passion throughout . . . stirring choruses and ricocheting brass figurations finally mark the emergence of Janáèek's mature compositional voice and usher in music as daring as anything he wrote . . . It was all thrillingly done." (The Guardian)

2 CD Multipack – booklet including complete libretto in Czech, English, German and French

 

Deutsche Grammophon 2cds 4777387