LEOS JANACEK (1854-1928)

 

Orchestral Suites from the Operas 3

 

The Cunning Little Vixen Suite (arr. Peter Breiner)

The Blue Dragonfly

At the Gamekeeper’s Yard

Am I Really that Beautiful?

The Wedding

Wanderer’s Song

Vixen is Running

 

From the House of the Dead Suite (arr. Peter Breiner)

Overture

One Hundred

Holiday is coming

Dear, dear Alyeya

The Play and the Pantomime

Jesus, God’s Prophet

 

Vesa-Matti Leppanen – violin

Bridget Douglas - flute

 

New Zealand Symphony Orchestra / Peter Breiner

 

The third and final volume of Peter Breiner’s powerful and evocative orchestral suites from Janacek’s operas. In very different ways, The Cunning Little Vixen and From the House of the Dead both reflect on love and loneliness, life and death, good, evil and the human condition, with some of the composer’s most effective music.

 

Naxos 8570706