Bohuslav Martinu: Das Manifest der Brünnlein (The Opening of the Wells H.354) on CD

Bohuslav Martinu (1890-1959)

Das Manifest der Brünnlein (The Opening of the Wells H.354)

Milada Cejkova, Vladimir Dolezal, Petr Hanicinec, Jan Talich Jr., Stanislav Bogunia, Kühn Mixed Choir, Pavel Kühn

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+Legende aus dem Rauche des Kartoffelkrautes H. 360; Mikesch vom Berge H. 375

Artists:: Milada Cejkova, Vladimir Dolezal, Petr Hanicinec, Jan Talich, Stanislav Bogunia, Kühn Mixed Choir, Pavel Kühn
Label:: Supraphon
Year of recording ca.:: 1998
Item number:: 6529966
UPC/EAN:: 0099925399221
Release date:: 28.8.2009

Product Information:

The cantata Opening of the Wells, one of Martinu's most intimate professions of love for his native land, simply cannot be absent from the Supraphon catalogue. The composition is inspired by the ancient custom of saying good-bye to the winter and welcoming the spring, when children come to "open" springlets and purify them of deposits of sludge. A "rite of spring", yet one entirely different to that we know from Stravinsky. In the character of the wanderer, the composer himself too returns to his native land - at least in his memories, since from 1938 until the end of his life he had no chance to come back home. Martinu also completed the other two cantatas - Legend of the Smoke from Potato Fires and Mikes of the Mountains - in the final years of his life, homesick, with the memory of his native region and folk songs in his heart. In the year when the entire musical world is commemorating the 50th anniversary of Martinu's death, Supraphon, in a new graphic layout, returns to its catalogue its finest recording, featuring outstanding soloists and the choir conducted by Pavel Kühn.

Reviews

E. Bezold in HiFiVision 2/94: "Für diese folk- loristisch nachempfundenen, sinnlich schönen Klänge, erweisen sich der gemischte Chor Pavel Kühn und ein Solistenteam als sensibel gestaltende Interpreten."

Disk 1 von 1 (CD)

1 Otviráni studánek (1955) (Maifest d. Brünnlein) Kammerkantate (Bures)
2 Legenda z dymu bramborove nati (1956) (Die Legende aus dem Kraut des Kartoffelkrautes) Kammerkantate (Bures)
3 Mikes z hor (1959) (Mikesch aus den Bergen) Kammerkantate (Bures)