Jaroslav Horácek, Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Libor Pešek - Martinů: The Greek Passion (2010)
Artist: Jaroslav Horácek, Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Libor Pešek
Title: Martinů: The Greek Passion
Year Of Release: 2010
Label: Supraphon
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 01:49:44
Total Size: 446 Mb
WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist:Title: Martinů: The Greek Passion
Year Of Release: 2010
Label: Supraphon
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 01:49:44
Total Size: 446 Mb
WebSite: Album Preview
01. The Greek Passion, H. 372, Act I: Christ Is Risen. Joy! (Kněz Grigoris, Kostandis, majitel kovárny, Janakos, podomní obchodník, Panait / Jidáš, Manolios, ovčák) (00:04:58)
02. The Greek Passion, H. 372, Act I: Manolios! We Have Chosen You to Represent Christ (Kněz Grigoris, Manolios, ovčák) (00:02:35)
03. The Greek Passion, H. 372, Act I: What a Heavy Burden the Priest Has Put on Our Backs (Kostandis, majitel kovárny, Janakos, podomní obchodník, Manolios, ovčák, Michelis, Patriarcheaův syn, Lenio, Patriarcheova schovanka) (00:02:57)
04. The Greek Passion, H. 372, Act I: Lord! Lord! (Kněz Grigoris, Kostandis, majitel kovárny, Janakos, podomní obchodník, Panait / Jidáš, Manolios, ovčák, Fotis, kněz, starý muž, Kateřina, vdova, Despinio) (00:03:21)
05. The Greek Passion, H. 372, Act I: Kyrie eleison! (Panait / Jidáš, Fotis, kněz, starý muž, Kateřina, vdova, Despinio) (00:03:29)
06. The Greek Passion, H. 372, Act I: Who Are You? What Are You Doing Here? (Kněz Grigoris, Fotis, kněz, starý muž) (00:02:50)
07. The Greek Passion, H. 372, Act I: Oh! - My Son, at This Very Moment (Kněz Grigoris, Kostandis, majitel kovárny, Panait / Jidáš, Manolios, ovčák, Fotis, kněz, Kateřina, vdova) (00:03:31)
08. The Greek Passion, H. 372, Act I: Daughter of the Almighty (Fotis, kněz) (00:04:12)
09. The Greek Passion, H. 372, Act II: And as He Sowed, Some Seeds Fell by the Wayside (Janakos, podomní obchodník, Kateřina, vdova) (00:03:14)
10. The Greek Passion, H. 372, Act II: Sit Down, Yannakos! (Janakos, podomní obchodník, Ladas, zbohatlík) (00:03:15)
11. The Greek Passion, H. 372, Act II: Manolios! Why Do You Run After Me! (Manolios, ovčák, Kateřina, vdova) (00:04:39)
12. The Greek Passion, H. 372, Act II: My Children, Man Is Like a Tree (Janakos, podomní obchodník, Fotis, kněz, starý muž) (00:06:06)
13. The Greek Passion, H. 372, Act II: Here Is a Good Man from Lycovrissi (Janakos, podomní obchodník, Fotis, kněz) (00:01:56)
14. The Greek Passion, H. 372, Act II: Father, the Old Man Is Dead (Janakos, podomní obchodník, Fotis, kněz) (00:04:15)
15. The Greek Passion, H. 372, Act III: Play, Nikolio, Take Your Pipe and Play Something (Kněz Grigoris, Janakos, podomní obchodník, Manolios, ovčák, Lenio, Patriarcheova schovanka, Kateřina, vdova, Nikolio, mladší ovčák) (00:07:01)
16. The Greek Passion, H. 372, Act III: Manolios, What's the Matter with You? (Lenio, Patriarcheova schovanka, Kateřina, vdova, Nikolio, mladší ovčák) (00:03:49)
17. The Greek Passion, H. 372, Act III: Who's There? (Manolios, ovčák, Kateřina, vdova) (00:04:28)
18. The Greek Passion, H. 372, Act III: Intermezzo (00:01:57)
19. The Greek Passion, H. 372, Act III: I'm the Son of the Lightning and the Grandson of the Thunder (Janakos, podomní obchodník, Kateřina, vdova) (00:05:14)
20. The Greek Passion, H. 372, Act III: We Must Put a Stop to It (Kněz Grigoris, Panait / Jidáš, Manolios, ovčák, Ladas, zbohatlík, Patriarcheas, statkář) (00:00:53)
21. The Greek Passion, H. 372, Act III: Christ Was on the Mountain (Kněz Grigoris, Manolios, ovčák, stará žena, Andonis, vesnický holič) (00:04:20)
22. The Greek Passion, H. 372, Act III: I've Secret for You! (Janakos, podomní obchodník, Manolios, ovčák, Michelis, Patriarcheaův syn, Kateřina, vdova, Nikolio, mladší ovčák) (00:05:21)
23. The Greek Passion, H. 372, Act IV: As the Apple Three Among Trees (Lenio, Patriarcheova schovanka, Patriarcheas, statkář) (00:04:04)
24. The Greek Passion, H. 372, Act IV: Brother Christians! God Made Us All Blind (Kněz Grigoris, Kostandis, majitel kovárny, Janakos, podomní obchodník, Michelis, Patriarcheaův syn) (00:03:57)
25. The Greek Passion, H. 372, Act IV: I Waited Patiently for My Lord (Manolios, ovčák) (00:05:17)
26. The Greek Passion, H. 372, Act IV: Manolios! (Kněz Grigoris, Manolios, ovčák, Lenio, Patriarcheova schovanka) (00:02:54)
27. The Greek Passion, H. 372, Act IV: Oh Lord Let Our Cry, Our Cry Come unto Thee (Lenio, Patriarcheova schovanka, Fotis, kněz, Kateřina, vdova) (00:04:54)
28. The Greek Passion, H. 372, Act IV: The Name of the Young Man Was Written in the Snow (Kateřina, vdova) (00:04:17)
Total length: 01:49:44
Label: SUPRAPHON a.s.
Performers:
Jaroslav Horácek (Grigoris), René Tucek (Kostandis), Zdenek Jankovský (Yannakos) Oldrich Spisar (Panait), Vilém Pribyl (Manolios), Lubomír Havlák (Michelis), Nada Šormová (Lenio), Richard Novák (Fotis), Karel Petr (Starý muž), Eva Depoltová (Katerina), Božena Effenberková (Despinio), Martin Ružek (Ladas), Miloš Ježil (Nikolio), Bohuslav Maršík (Patriarcheas), Ivana Mixová (Old woman) & Vojtech Kocián (Andonis)
Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Prague Radio Chorus & Prague Radio Children’s Chorus, Libor Pešek
The Greek Passion became for Bohuslav Martinu (8.12. 1890 – 18. 8. 1959) an opera epilogue whose humanistic message surpasses that of all the others owing to the sheer power of the faith and emotion. Martinu liked experimenting with opera – from setting folk texts, legends and commedie dell’arte through new formations for radio and television to opera-film, opera ballet and opera-dream.
Nikos Kazantzakis’s novel Christ Recrucified captivated the composer with the fate of refugees amid an unconcerned, indifferent world. Martinu himself was a refugee. In the libretto, which he prepared on the basis of the novel’s English translation, he captured in an effective stage contraction the transformations of the characters and the reversions of the action.
Applying remarkable technique and groundbreaking compositional invention, he depicted a world of church, genuine faith and life in the Greek countryside. He interconnected the ideational and musical content with musical motifs of the Cross and compassionate love. The elaborate operatic drama The Greek Passion was scheduled to be premiered in London yet the intention ultimately did not materialise. Subsequently, London would have to wait forty-two years for the staging of the opera (London version). After the opera was rejected, Martinu did not discard the work but revised it conceptually into a new, more compendious, more operatic and musically more sublime form. Yet he did not live to see the second version performed either.
The Greek Passion was first staged almost two years after the composer’s death, in Zurich on 9 June 1961. In the autumn of 1981, the independent preparations for this gramophone recording courageously strove to bring the Czech text closer to the original deep spiritual sense of this extraordinary work for the first time.
Nikos Kazantzakis’s novel Christ Recrucified captivated the composer with the fate of refugees amid an unconcerned, indifferent world. Martinu himself was a refugee. In the libretto, which he prepared on the basis of the novel’s English translation, he captured in an effective stage contraction the transformations of the characters and the reversions of the action.
Applying remarkable technique and groundbreaking compositional invention, he depicted a world of church, genuine faith and life in the Greek countryside. He interconnected the ideational and musical content with musical motifs of the Cross and compassionate love. The elaborate operatic drama The Greek Passion was scheduled to be premiered in London yet the intention ultimately did not materialise. Subsequently, London would have to wait forty-two years for the staging of the opera (London version). After the opera was rejected, Martinu did not discard the work but revised it conceptually into a new, more compendious, more operatic and musically more sublime form. Yet he did not live to see the second version performed either.
The Greek Passion was first staged almost two years after the composer’s death, in Zurich on 9 June 1961. In the autumn of 1981, the independent preparations for this gramophone recording courageously strove to bring the Czech text closer to the original deep spiritual sense of this extraordinary work for the first time.
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