Orchestra of the National Opera House Zagreb, London Philharmonic Orchestra - Springtime in Yugoslavia (2019)
BAND/ARTIST: Orchestra of the National Opera House Zagreb, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra, Fran Lhotka, Krešimir Baranović, François Huybrechts, Živojin Zdravković
- Title: Springtime in Yugoslavia
- Year Of Release: 2019
- Label: Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd.
- Genre: Classical
- Quality: flac lossless
- Total Time: 02:19:01
- Total Size: 495 mb
- WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist
01. The Devil in the Village - Ballet Suite: 1. The Devil Plots Against the Two Lovers, Mirko & Yela
02. The Devil in the Village - Ballet Suite: 2. Dance
03. The Devil in the Village - Ballet Suite: 3. In Hell
04. The Devil in the Village - Ballet Suite: 4. Witches' Sabbath
05. The Devil in the Village - Ballet Suite: 5. Witches' Orgy
06. The Devil in the Village - Ballet Suite: 6. The Return Of Light
07. The Devil in the Village - Ballet Suite: 7. Mirko's Escape From Hell, General Rejoicing
08. The Gingerbread Heart - Ballet Suite: 1. At The Fair
09. The Gingerbread Heart - Ballet Suite: 2. Boys & Girls Enter
10. The Gingerbread Heart - Ballet Suite: 3. The Gingerbread Figures Come To Life
11. The Gingerbread Heart - Ballet Suite: 4. Pas de Deux Of The Two Gingerbread Hearts
12. The Gingerbread Heart - Ballet Suite: 5. Outside The Church
13. The Gingerbread Heart - Ballet Suite: 6. Celebration
14. Lachian Dances: 1. Starodávny I
15. Lachian Dances: 2. Pozehnany
16. Lachian Dances: 3. Dymák
17. Lachian Dances: 4. Starodávny II
18. Lachian Dances: 5. Celadensky
19. Lachian Dances: 6. Pilky
20. Simfonija Orijenta ‘Religiofonija’: 1. Pagans
21. Simfonija Orijenta ‘Religiofonija’: 2. Hebrews
22. Simfonija Orijenta ‘Religiofonija’: 3. Buddhists
23. Simfonija Orijenta ‘Religiofonija’: 4. Christians
24. Simfonija Orijenta ‘Religiofonija’: 5. Moslems
25. Simfonija Orijenta ‘Religiofonija’: 6. Free thought
26. Simfonija Orijenta ‘Religiofonija’: 7. Hymn of Toil
27. Taras Bulba: 1. The death of Andri
28. Taras Bulba: 2. The death of Ostap
29. Taras Bulba: 3. The prophecy and the death of Taras Bulba
Three Decca albums issued complete, including a first release on CD for the Simfonija Orijenta, a monument of Yugoslavian musical modernism, and François Huybrechts’s poetic Taras Bulba from his Janacek disc.
This release forms an important appendix to the Eloquence reissues of the seven Russian opera recordings made by Decca with the company of the Belgrade Opera in 1955. Two further orchestral albums were recorded at the time, featuring three of the most significant Yugoslav composers of the day. The first of them features brightly coloured, picture-postcard suites from two folk-inspired ballets, The Gingerbread Heart by Kresaimir Baranovic and The Devil in the Village by Fran Lhotka. They were conducted with idiomatic elan by Baranovic himself, who was then the chief conductor of the Zagreb Opera, and director of several of the Belgrade opera recordings (he also conducted The Gingerbread Heart at the 1951 Edinburgh Festival to great success).
Several vocal soloists from those recordings feature on the Simfonija Orijenta, an extraordinarily ambitious work that attempts a portrait history in music of the world’s great religions over the course of seven movements and 40 minutes, concluding with a grand Soviet ‘Hymn of Toil’. It was composed by Zagreb-born Josip Stolcer-Slavenski, the first Yugoslav modernist, who went further than either Lhotka or Baranovic in studying and then deploying folk idiom, to which he added avant-garde techniques that earnt his music a place at some of Europe’s premier new-music festivals in Donaueschingen, Paris and London.
Slavenski’s work has a thrilling angularity and unpredictability, as individual in its way as the language of Leo Janacek, whose Taras Bulba and Lachian Dances featured on the debut album for Decca by the Belgian-born conductor Francois Huybrechts. A rising maestro during the 1970s, he was a prizewinner of the 1968 Dimitri Mitropoulos International Music competition for Conductors and the 1970 Karajan International Conductors’ Competition.
01. The Devil in the Village - Ballet Suite: 1. The Devil Plots Against the Two Lovers, Mirko & Yela
02. The Devil in the Village - Ballet Suite: 2. Dance
03. The Devil in the Village - Ballet Suite: 3. In Hell
04. The Devil in the Village - Ballet Suite: 4. Witches' Sabbath
05. The Devil in the Village - Ballet Suite: 5. Witches' Orgy
06. The Devil in the Village - Ballet Suite: 6. The Return Of Light
07. The Devil in the Village - Ballet Suite: 7. Mirko's Escape From Hell, General Rejoicing
08. The Gingerbread Heart - Ballet Suite: 1. At The Fair
09. The Gingerbread Heart - Ballet Suite: 2. Boys & Girls Enter
10. The Gingerbread Heart - Ballet Suite: 3. The Gingerbread Figures Come To Life
11. The Gingerbread Heart - Ballet Suite: 4. Pas de Deux Of The Two Gingerbread Hearts
12. The Gingerbread Heart - Ballet Suite: 5. Outside The Church
13. The Gingerbread Heart - Ballet Suite: 6. Celebration
14. Lachian Dances: 1. Starodávny I
15. Lachian Dances: 2. Pozehnany
16. Lachian Dances: 3. Dymák
17. Lachian Dances: 4. Starodávny II
18. Lachian Dances: 5. Celadensky
19. Lachian Dances: 6. Pilky
20. Simfonija Orijenta ‘Religiofonija’: 1. Pagans
21. Simfonija Orijenta ‘Religiofonija’: 2. Hebrews
22. Simfonija Orijenta ‘Religiofonija’: 3. Buddhists
23. Simfonija Orijenta ‘Religiofonija’: 4. Christians
24. Simfonija Orijenta ‘Religiofonija’: 5. Moslems
25. Simfonija Orijenta ‘Religiofonija’: 6. Free thought
26. Simfonija Orijenta ‘Religiofonija’: 7. Hymn of Toil
27. Taras Bulba: 1. The death of Andri
28. Taras Bulba: 2. The death of Ostap
29. Taras Bulba: 3. The prophecy and the death of Taras Bulba
Three Decca albums issued complete, including a first release on CD for the Simfonija Orijenta, a monument of Yugoslavian musical modernism, and François Huybrechts’s poetic Taras Bulba from his Janacek disc.
This release forms an important appendix to the Eloquence reissues of the seven Russian opera recordings made by Decca with the company of the Belgrade Opera in 1955. Two further orchestral albums were recorded at the time, featuring three of the most significant Yugoslav composers of the day. The first of them features brightly coloured, picture-postcard suites from two folk-inspired ballets, The Gingerbread Heart by Kresaimir Baranovic and The Devil in the Village by Fran Lhotka. They were conducted with idiomatic elan by Baranovic himself, who was then the chief conductor of the Zagreb Opera, and director of several of the Belgrade opera recordings (he also conducted The Gingerbread Heart at the 1951 Edinburgh Festival to great success).
Several vocal soloists from those recordings feature on the Simfonija Orijenta, an extraordinarily ambitious work that attempts a portrait history in music of the world’s great religions over the course of seven movements and 40 minutes, concluding with a grand Soviet ‘Hymn of Toil’. It was composed by Zagreb-born Josip Stolcer-Slavenski, the first Yugoslav modernist, who went further than either Lhotka or Baranovic in studying and then deploying folk idiom, to which he added avant-garde techniques that earnt his music a place at some of Europe’s premier new-music festivals in Donaueschingen, Paris and London.
Slavenski’s work has a thrilling angularity and unpredictability, as individual in its way as the language of Leo Janacek, whose Taras Bulba and Lachian Dances featured on the debut album for Decca by the Belgian-born conductor Francois Huybrechts. A rising maestro during the 1970s, he was a prizewinner of the 1968 Dimitri Mitropoulos International Music competition for Conductors and the 1970 Karajan International Conductors’ Competition.
Year 2019 | Classical | FLAC / APE
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