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Nigel Simeone chooses his favourite recording of Janacek's opera The Cunning Little Vixen
Composed in the early 1920s, The Cunning Little Vixen was based on a comic-strip novella serialised in Janacek's local newspaper. He poured all of his 70 years of life experience, and also the unreturned love for the much younger, married Kamila Stösslová into the piece. As well as the comedy it is also a melancholy reflection on the cycle of life and death.
Available recordings:-
Elena Tsallagova, Jukka Rasilainen, Michèle Lagrange, Hannah Esther Minutillo, David Kuebler, Roland Pracht & Paul Gay, Chorus of the Opéra national de Paris, Choir of Hauts-de-Seine & Orchestra of the Opéra national de Paris, Dennis Russell Davies (DVD)
Magnús Baldvinsson, Sebastian Geyer, Lilli Trosien, Beau Gibson, Michael McCown, Simon Neal, Jenny Carlstedt, Sophia Seeling, Kassiopi Küpper, Isabel Casás-Rama, Louise Alder, Joanna Krasuska-Motulewicz, Nina Tarandek, Jascha Mössle, Ioannis Germanidis, Britta Stallmeister, Nora Friedrichs, Oper Frankfurt, Frankfurt Opera Children's Chorus, Chor der Oper Frankfurt, Johannes Debus
Isabel Bayrakdarian, Marie Lenormand, Kelley O'Connor, Joshua Bloom, Wilbur Pauley, Melissa Parks, Alan Opie, Keith Jameson,New York Philharmonic, Alan Gilbert (download only)
Lucy Crowe, Emma Bell, Sergei Leiferkus, William Dazeley, Mischa Schelomianski, Jean Rigby, Adrian Thompson, Colin Judson, Sarah Pring, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Glyndebourne Chorus, Vladimir Jurowski (DVD/Blu-ray)
Dalibor Jedlicka, Vaclav Zitek, Lucia Popp, Zuzana Hudecova, Miriam Ondraskova, Libuse Marova, Vladimir Krejcik, Eva Randová, Peter Saray, Ivana Mixova, Richard Novak, Eva Zigmundova, Eva Hribkova, Gertrude Jahn, Beno Blachut, Wiener Philharmoniker, Wiener Staatsoper, Sir Charles Mackerras
Thomas Allen, Eva Jenis, Hannah Minutillo, Libuše Márová, Ivan Kusnjer, Orchestre de Paris & Choeur du Chatelet, Charles Mackerras (DVD)
Christine Buffle, Grant Doyle, Richard Coxon, Keel Watson, Peter Van Hulle, Andrew Foster-Williams, Katarina Giotas, Richard Roberts, Michelle Sheridan, Mark Wilde, Matt Baker, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester, Kent Nagano (DVD)
Hana Böhmová, Libuše Domanínská, Rudolf Asmus, Chorus and Orchestra National Theatre in Prague, Václav Neumann
Isabel Bayrakdarian, Lauren Curnow, Quinn Kelsey, Judith Christin, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Seiji Ozawa (DVD)
Lillian Watson, Thomas Allen, Nicholas Folwell, Diana Montague, Robert Tear, Gillian Knight, Gwynne Howell, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Sir Simon Rattle
Lucy Crowe, Gerald Finley, Sophia Burgos, Jan Martiník, Peter Hoare, Hanno Müller-Brachmann, London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus, Sir Simon Rattle
Building a Library
Nigel Simeone chooses his favourite recording of Janacek's opera The Cunning Little Vixen
Composed in the early 1920s, The Cunning Little Vixen was based on a comic-strip novella serialised in Janacek's local newspaper. He poured all of his 70 years of life experience, and also the unreturned love for the much younger, married Kamila Stösslová into the piece. As well as the comedy it is also a melancholy reflection on the cycle of life and death.
Available recordings:-
Elena Tsallagova, Jukka Rasilainen, Michèle Lagrange, Hannah Esther Minutillo, David Kuebler, Roland Pracht & Paul Gay, Chorus of the Opéra national de Paris, Choir of Hauts-de-Seine & Orchestra of the Opéra national de Paris, Dennis Russell Davies (DVD)
Magnús Baldvinsson, Sebastian Geyer, Lilli Trosien, Beau Gibson, Michael McCown, Simon Neal, Jenny Carlstedt, Sophia Seeling, Kassiopi Küpper, Isabel Casás-Rama, Louise Alder, Joanna Krasuska-Motulewicz, Nina Tarandek, Jascha Mössle, Ioannis Germanidis, Britta Stallmeister, Nora Friedrichs, Oper Frankfurt, Frankfurt Opera Children's Chorus, Chor der Oper Frankfurt, Johannes Debus
Isabel Bayrakdarian, Marie Lenormand, Kelley O'Connor, Joshua Bloom, Wilbur Pauley, Melissa Parks, Alan Opie, Keith Jameson,New York Philharmonic, Alan Gilbert (download only)
Lucy Crowe, Emma Bell, Sergei Leiferkus, William Dazeley, Mischa Schelomianski, Jean Rigby, Adrian Thompson, Colin Judson, Sarah Pring, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Glyndebourne Chorus, Vladimir Jurowski (DVD/Blu-ray)
Dalibor Jedlicka, Vaclav Zitek, Lucia Popp, Zuzana Hudecova, Miriam Ondraskova, Libuse Marova, Vladimir Krejcik, Eva Randová, Peter Saray, Ivana Mixova, Richard Novak, Eva Zigmundova, Eva Hribkova, Gertrude Jahn, Beno Blachut, Wiener Philharmoniker, Wiener Staatsoper, Sir Charles Mackerras
Thomas Allen, Eva Jenis, Hannah Minutillo, Libuše Márová, Ivan Kusnjer, Orchestre de Paris & Choeur du Chatelet, Charles Mackerras (DVD)
Christine Buffle, Grant Doyle, Richard Coxon, Keel Watson, Peter Van Hulle, Andrew Foster-Williams, Katarina Giotas, Richard Roberts, Michelle Sheridan, Mark Wilde, Matt Baker, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester, Kent Nagano (DVD)
Hana Böhmová, Libuše Domanínská, Rudolf Asmus, Chorus and Orchestra National Theatre in Prague, Václav Neumann
Isabel Bayrakdarian, Lauren Curnow, Quinn Kelsey, Judith Christin, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Seiji Ozawa (DVD)
Lillian Watson, Thomas Allen, Nicholas Folwell, Diana Montague, Robert Tear, Gillian Knight, Gwynne Howell, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Sir Simon Rattle
Lucy Crowe, Gerald Finley, Sophia Burgos, Jan Martiník, Peter Hoare, Hanno Müller-Brachmann, London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus, Sir Simon Rattle
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That's the one I was particularly thinking of, and was surprised not to find it on Amazon.
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