Leos Janácek: The Diary of One Who Vanished
2008; Routledge; Volume: 64; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
2769-4046
Autores Tópico(s)Education, Psychology, and Social Research
ResumoLeos Janacek: The Diary of One Who Vanished. Stephan Ng, tenor; Jane Christeson, mezzo soprano; Andrea Marie Baiocchi, piano. (Clear Note 74328; 51:55) Zapisnik zmizeleho (The Diary of One Who Vanished): Potkal jsem mladou ciganku (I met a young gypsy girl); Ta cerna ciganka (That black gypsy girl); Svatojanske musky tancija po hrazi (Fireflies); Uz mlade vlastuvky ve hnizdevrnozi (Already young swallows); Tecko sa mi ore (Heavy are my steeds); Hajsi, vy sivi volci (Hey, you light-colored oxen); Ztratil sem kolicek (I lost a peg); Nehled'te, volecci (Don't look, oxen, pining); 'Vitaj, Janicku' (Welcome, Janicek); Boze dalný, nesmrtelný (God far away, immortal); Tahne vuna k lesu (A fragrance extends to the forest); Tmava olsinka (Dark clumps of alders, cool pool of water); Intermezzo: Piano solo; Slnecko sa zdviha (The dear sun rises); Moji sivi volci (My gray oxen); Co sem to udelal? (What have I done?); Co komu suzeno (What is fated to a person); Nedbam ja vcil o nic (I don't care about anything); Leti straka leti (It flies, the magpie flies); Mam Ja panenku (I have a lover); Muj drahý taticku (My dear father); S Bohem, rodný kraju (Farewell, native land). Piano Sonata (Z ulice, 1.X.05., the Street, 1 October 1905). I. Predtucha (The Presentiment); II. Smrt (The Death). Leos Janacek maybe far from a household name, even in most musically astute households, but he is coming to be recognized as one of the twentieth century's most striking and important geniuses. Anyone who has heard his brilliant Sinfonietta, his masterpiece for orchestra, or such powerful operas such as Jenufa or Kat'a Kabanova surely knows this to be true. His operas, in particular, have gained an increasingly prominent place in our cultural landscape, thanks especially to the superlative work of such singers as Karita Mattila, Anja Silja, Eva Marton, and the late and much missed Leonie Rysanek. It is largely due to the blow-torch intensity of their performances that a wider public has come to appreciate the searing psychological effect of these works. Janacek may be unmatched among opera composers in his ability to convey the twisted and complicated intricacy of human emotion through music, and when it comes to creating a towering tragic climax, Janacek stands alone. This release shows Janacek devoting those same impressive and uncompromising gifts in the more intimate arena of art song, but the potency of the opera stage is never far away. Indeed, The Diary of One Who Vanished has been called both a song cycle and a dramatic cantata, but whatever one calls it there is no question of its greatness. The texts consist of twenty-three short poems once thought to have been found by the police in the notebook of a young man of faultless reputation who had mysteriously disappeared not long before. The liner notes of this disk clarify that within the last decade the poetry has been firmly attributed to a largely unknown Moravian poet named Ozef Kalda. At any rate, the poems were published in the local newspaper in Brno under the title From the Pen of a Self-Taught Peasant, and this is how they came to the attention of Janacek. The poems tell the tale of a teenage farm boy named Janik and his chance encounter with Zefka, a local gypsy girl. His initial attraction to her, which he mightily resists, gradually gives way to passion and even obsession, and Janik finds himself repeatedly drawn to the forest for clandestine meetings with this woman, all the while painfully aware of the shame such an interclass relationship would bring to his family, were it ever to be known. When Janik learns that Zefka is bearing his child, he willingly leaves his family and the world he has known for a new life with Zefka and her fellow gypsies. Janacek seems to have been drawn to these poems and this story not only for their compelling promise as artistic fodder, but also because the tale of young Janik was eerily reminiscent of Janacek's own passionate obsession with Kamila Stosslova, a woman he met not long before be began setting these poems to music. …
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