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Leos Janacek
Description: Artist: Composer / Genre: Classical Newest Review: ... This is musical cubism. He builds melodies and passages from small repeated ideas (but he's not in any way a minimalist ... more  ... in the modern sense), ideas which are tossed around in a generally ecstatic manner. He is not one for understatement, if that's what you like. The operas are humanistic. Generally, there are no kings or queens, just ordianry (and then not so ordinary) people. The place to start with Janacek operas is Kata Kabanova. Jenufa is perhaps the most easily accessible, however, but without the same intensity of drama. But the later operas, especially the Makropoulos Case and From the House of the Dead are just magnificent...more |
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Leos Janacek: Magnificent operas (200 words)
by spires - written on 14.05.01 (Useful, 41 readings)
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Leos Janacek has been a favourite of mine for many years and I encourage anyone who is unfamiliar with his work to give it several tries. His style is strange. The music is often very sweet, sometimes dissonant, often folksy, sometimes patchy. This is musical cubism. He builds melodies and passages from small repeated ideas (but he's not in any way a minimalist in the modern sense), ideas which are tossed around in a generally ecstatic manner. He is not one for understatement, if that's what you like. The operas are humanistic. Generally, there are no kings or queens, just ordianry (and then not so ordinary) people. The place to start with Janacek operas is Kata ...
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