Janácek: Complete Piano Works (Full Album)

[@chicolofi]

Janáček deserves much more recognition.

[@Matthew.E.Kelly.]

I discovered Janácek some 19 or 20 years ago looking through piano music books at a yard sale, believe it or not, & looking at the first page of "Our Evenings" I recognized something special. Best $2 I spent that year. I later found out he modeled a lot of the rhythmic devices in his piano works after the patterns of speech he found intriguing in his native Moravian Czech dialect. Makes perfect sense.

[@isovideo7497]

I was first introduced to Janacek's music with the 1988 film "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Never looked back.

[@tenebrae1970]

I bought this recording this morning. Thank you for sharing!

[@paulamrod537]

A very innovative composer for his time and maybe the first 20th century composer.

[@johnervin8033]

So awesome. I had not heard Janacek piano works till just now. I will have to learn these, as I have played Bartok and Kodaly for years, and they have a lot of stylistic overlap. I have loved the Sinfonietta since a half century ago, and fell (or rose) deeply in love with it. First time I heard the Sinfonietta, 1969, I was riveted for days by it, head to foot. Wrote a brass fanfare that was later performed at Easter High Mass, with Janacek as my inspiration, as I do believe it may well have been Copland's inspired model for "Fanfare for the Common Man". There are echoes of it, in his prophetic scoring for brass ensemble. Brass echoes are never too far away in anything Janacek does, such as throughout "Glagolitic Mass" and much else of his opus. ( He is "listed" widely as an atheist, and went to the next world(s) that way, "unrepentant" or so they say. But I think they doth protest too much, you can always hear the sacred barely suppressed throughout his work. For great musical minds like Janacek, words come up short, way short, for any theological expressions, and even with great librettos. A rose by another name! Like Beethoven's 9th, the words are a pale companion to the music, which go beyond, way beyond, whatever the words can express. They take the words, themselves, to another dimension, and that an added and transcendent one. And so with spiritual verbal formulations. There is the divine in so much that he writes. Words and verbalized ideas about such things are lost in a shortfall, here. I had the privilege of being seated at Severance Hall in 1998 listening to Christoph von Dohnanyi conduct the Cleveland Orchestra in the Janacek 1926 brass-glorious Sinfonietta and applauded it with a long Standing "O" for all that. Then I recorded it off the radio broadcast too, at WCLV. ( I had been in CvD's chorus when we performed with him several works, all unforgettable, especially the last one, my final one that we sang, of Mahler's Resurrection Symphony. He released it several years later in a 10CD box set, which you can find sold used online, as one of his favorite live performances, with Ruth Ziesak (who later sang it at the Vatican for Pope John Paul and 6000 clerics) and Nancy Maultsby as soloists. It was reviewed in Gramophone in 2002 as "nicely sung". Nicely offered by the critic, but he didn't rave about the overall performance, when comparing it to certain others, but I for one can never listen to the recording with a dry eye, that moment, that tribute, and that performance so "beyond" any of the words once again: it was offered by CvD as a memorial performance 3.26.98 to Sir Georg Solti, with whom he had collaborated since the beginning of his own career, and whose ashes were being enterred next to Bela Bartok's that week, in Budapest; Donanyi had also just conducted the Philharmonia of London, a few days before our own Cleveland performance, at Westminster Abbey, in the official obsequies for Solti there, who was honored as a Knight of the Realm. Memorable moments, for great Hungarian classical performers, both sublime as interpreters of Janacek, with their excellent affinity for the greatest music of that region, steeped in music as it is!)

[@steveegallo3384]

Unrepentant and, I dare say, Unshriven......

[@johnervin8033]

Unshriven? The Creator of prodigally creative types like Janáček, I would venture, has one very original dispensation for such originals. The Church Herself even gives them, along those lines, on special occasions. In my book, for at least 1, Janáček is that special, like Graham Greene, and many other spiritual artists of rather like ilk (Pope Paul VI in a private audience, told Graham Greene, who called himself at one latter point "a Catholic agnostic, maybe even a Catholic atheist," that he should not worry about Catholics who were offended by his (Greene's) works, "there will always be some Catholics who are offended by your books", and Greene wrote in his autobiography, "advice which I found it easy to accept.") After all, God made Janáček and there is substantial evidence that He loves what He made. God has His own way to save and shrive, no doubt, and no doubt one that only He knows. Simple truth. You can "make book" on that. It has always seemed, at least in my travels, that the ones that don't get that are the ones that need the most shriving? Or perhaps you were only extending the thread, by a special tongue thru a special cheek?!

[@steveegallo3384]

@@johnervin8033 -- In 'The Power & the Glory' Greene describes life as "A brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.” Not so long afterward and as a postulant-troubador at the Jesuit St. Ignatius Seminary in La Jolla, I once received a lesson on Traveling Minstrels from Brother O’Neill during the Laborandum. He said, “Y’know, Steve, it occurred to me that we leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place; we stay there, even though we go away and there are things in us we can find again only by going back there. We travel to ourselves when we go to a place. We have covered a stretch of our life no matter how brief it may have been but by traveling to ourselves we must confront our own loneliness." And isn’t it so, brother John, that everything we do is done out of fear of our Loneliness? Isn’t that why we renounce all the things we will regret at the end of our life? As for God's "love for what He made," I'll 'make book' and 'double-down' with Obdiah (plus, the vig is less): "Though you soar like the eagle and make your nest among the stars, EVEN FROM THERE SHALL I BRING YOU DOWN! sayeth the Lord!" [Obadiah 1:4]

[@maha-em7jz]

i've been listening to this on repeat during my mess of a writing process and i'm still super in love with it

[@sahhaf1234]

god bless you brilliant classics.

[@MegaCirse]

En tant que compositeur, ce musicien m’épate , il établit une telle synthèse de la vision frelatée et de la spiritualité musicale de son époque. Ces architectures sont des pièces cultes ! Je me projette comme si je jetais un coup d'œil sur les indulgents royaumes à venir. Les luttes de cette vie et du monde derrière l’arc-en-ciel sont ici mises à nu, et je remercie dieu de m’inspirer ce commentaire creux et redondant... ;)

[@catherinerichard1090]

Ce n'est ni creux ni redondant, votre pensée s'élève dans les nuages et la poèsie que vous inspire cette musique me touche...🙏🏿💚🐈🐭🗽🌈🕊

[@MegaCirse]

@@catherinerichard1090 Merci belle Catherine🌷💐

[@catherinerichard1090]

@@MegaCirse 💚

[@tlt1958]

Гениальный сплав рафинированных мыслей, звуков и эмоций !!! Genius ,celosvetový mistr - pán Janáček!!

[@IrinaNenartovich]

Полностью согласна. Обнаружила настоящее сокровище.

[@pierreboland8910]

Excellente interprétation. Une des meilleures jamais entendue pour moi. En plus la qualité d'enregistrement est excellente.

[@ποίηση_για_πιάνο]

Hi Pierre, you could listen also to my piano improvisations in my channel ''piano narratives'', enjoy!

[@GUSTAVOMARZANO]

Muchas gracias

[@catherinerichard1090]

Magnifique découverte pour moi, merci encore et toujours à Brillant Classic 🙏🏿

[@ποίηση_για_πιάνο]

Hi Catherine, you could listen also to my piano improvisations in my channel ''piano narratives'', enjoy!

[@eytonshalomsandiego]

was introduced to this music by excerpts very well used in the film version of the Kundera novel, Unbearable Lightness of Being....this is fine too....Hakon is a very sensitive pianist, like his Satie also

[@matildedaviu9060]

Some sonatas have been inspirations in my writings and used as excerpts during my Azul-Serena readings

[@matildedaviu9060]

I love Janacek sonatas

[@marcoantoniogonzalezporres2996]

¡Excelente!. 😀😊😚😘

[@류순열-h6i]

아름다운 피이노 연주곡 잘 들었습니다~감사합니다~🎵🎹🌿🍀☘🌹🌹☘🍀🌿❤❤

[@ποίηση_για_πιάνο]

Hi, you could listen also to my piano improvisations in my channel ''piano narratives'', enjoy!

[@metomp67]

از گوش دادن به اجرای زیبای پیانو لذت بردم ~ ممنون ~

[@steph2890]

thanks for the post :)

[@zaker721]

The Haunting of M, from when I was about 16 or 17. In Tears played in that gorgeous movie.

[@mankiperukangas7785]

This is not complete Janacek piano works. Hanakian Dances, The Spring and Silesian Folksong are missing. Anyway. Austbö is a wonderful artist, whose Debussy is also great.

[@alejandroherreradelaparra3977]

And his Satie..

[@DivineENCOMPASSER]

We require a remake of this

[@pablokalincausky8359]

Great master...

[@薛奶奶]

wow！Great！

[@ποίηση_για_πιάνο]

Hi, you could listen also to my piano improvisations in my channel ''piano narratives'', enjoy!

[@ValzainLumivix]

Nice

[@biancavonmuhlendorf2608]

great

[@SeadogDriftwood]

I greatly enjoy Austbø's version of the "Vivo" from Part II of "On an Overgrown Path".

[@macapo]

good for you !

[@guadalajara4848]

The third piece of "On an overgrown path" : a fast glimpse into Heaven...

[@cetinyitmener8423]

Very beautiful album and İmpressive.Thanks agaın Brilliand.

[@andresmorales5111]

No problem

[@AishwaryaPratimRabha]

1:34:07 makes my being melt

[@emanuel_soundtrack]

for the lovers of melancholy

[@EdiDrums]

for the love of HOUSE

[@derpauleglot9772]

lit af

[@classicalchemist]

The Barn Owl has not flown away is beautiful

[@TiticatFollies]

it's one of my favorites.

[@zeynepersen6309]

lovely

[@johnhurst1833]

zeynep ersen can nmgceswoaasazzzoissosoxaodffdx

[@carlcruysberghs2298]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@CarmenReyes-em9np]

Biografía no lo conocemos. en México.

[@mirofigueiredo]

Comecei a ler 1Q84 de Haruki Murakami e a personagem Aomame o escuta no táxi. Despertou minha curiosidade.

[@kyhykw]

00:12:15

[@PaulSmith-qs1es]

You show where to buy the album, but where does one buy the sheet music?

[@BrilliantClassics]

At the moment we don't sell sheet music. You could contact the artist playing the pieces, maybe they can provide it

[@michaeledwards1172]

A lot of it can be found on imslp.org.

[@Vladi-z7s]

0:00 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

[@1cultural]

What's the track listing?

[@BrilliantClassics]

Hello Jordan, the tracklist can be found in the description box below the video!

[@조성진팬]

악보도 같이 있었으면 좋았을텐데..

[@wrdna58]

the last piece cuts off - it can't be complete.

[@musicmine5680]

It is a fragment and not finished.

[@takezoshinmen4831]

Because 1Q84

[@Ferda1964]

If you like Janacek then you will like Nick Drake's kzbin.info/www/bejne/jIG5Z4uwgrZmqqc , they both came up with melodies that are beautiful yet unpredictable

[@runlinchen]

1:18:21

[@mikekarren5010]

The timings are off! Beautiful piano music!

[@arkadigologorski8574]

B

[@steveegallo3384]

Arkadi Gologorski -- Haha...Nice try! Close, but No....it's F....always was!

[@tilllindemannichhassemgtow7826]

84

[@armandogonella2770]

A S T I ( ITALIA )

[@bruninhinho]

Hunter x Hunter

[@swordoff7]

IMO the composer needs to mature.

[@jopro-op3nr]

Or the listener needs to mature.

[@EdiDrums]

...yes, needs to mature, ideally within the next t-minus-120 years...

[@steveegallo3384]

@@jopro-op3nr -- Despite all the blowback, I agree with you just because Rimkeit's comment was preternaturally dumb.....

[@tonylogan4092]

@☺️ sir..rimkite. Why? I mean he is not a cheese or a bottle of wine you know or perhaps do not???

[@steveegallo3384]

@@tonylogan4092 -- I believe that brother Rimkeit is into some kind of Fermentation by Fractional Distillation religion...or cult.....