IDAGIO | Janacek, L.: Operatic Orchestral Suites, Vol. 3 - the Cunning Little Vixen / From the House of the Dead 747313070671

Featuring

Peter Breiner
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
Leoš Janáček

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Performer Biography

Peter Breiner, the arranger and conductor on this album, is known for his orchestral arrangements, including award-winning Baroque versions of the Beatles.

Recording & Production

This disc completes Naxos's acclaimed recordings of Peter Breiner's orchestral suites from Janáček's operas.

Composition History

The Cunning Little Vixen, one of Janáček's mature masterpieces, is derived from a series of cartoons, not a conventional dramatic text.

Composer Biography

Leoš Janáček, the composer, often based his works on pre-existing material but grew confident enough to create his own librettos later in his career.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Janáček's opera From the House of the Dead, despite its bleak origin, shares a preoccupation with freedom and mortality with The Cunning Little Vixen.

Composition History

From the House of the Dead, another of Janáček's mature masterpieces, is based on Fyodr Dostoevsky's reportage memoirs of his time in a Siberian prison camp.

Compositional Technique

The overture to From the House of the Dead, Janáček's final opera, was originally conceived as a violin concerto and initially titled 'The pilgrimage of a little soul'.