The Janacek operas are worth getting to know; perhaps
The Cunning Little Vixen more than any other. There
are 2 DVDs of the opera, also. The animated version
was particularly well done, I thought, although it is
a truncated version of the score.
--- andybak <no_reply@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> --- In belabartokclub@yahoogroups.com, rugby52732
> <no_reply@y...> wrote:
> > --- In belabartokclub@yahoogroups.com, andybak
> <no_reply@y...> wrote:
> > > I am a bit late to this discussion but I have
> always heard a small
> > > touch of Bartok in Martinu. Mainly the rhythmic
> drive and 'bite'.
> > Try
> > > the later symphonies...
> > >
> > > Oddly enough John Adam's Violin Concerto somehow
> reminds me of
> > > Bartok's although I doubt anyone else would
> agree with me there...
>
> > I quite agree on the Adams.One is in the prescence
> of totally
> > original writing in both cases.The Bartok 2nd and
> the Adams are musts
> > in any collection,certainly a lover of violin
> concerti,as is of
> > course the Bartok Viola Concerto.
> >
> > Martinu is to my ear much more limited than
> Bartok.Rudolf Firkusny
> > has a single cd of Martinu piano music if one is
> looking for an
> > introduction.I do prefer Janacek.
> >
> >
>
> The only Janacek I know is the Glagolthic Mass which
> sounds unlike
> anything else I have heard. I know the Sinfonietta a
> little. Is there
> anything else I should hear?
>
> I would start with Martinu's orchestral stuff. You
> can't knock the 6th
> Symphony surely...?
> I agree Martinu isn't in the same league as Bartok
> but I am starved of
> good stuff in that style so I take what I can get!
> (My taste in
> classical music is pretty narrow. I can't cope
> anything that much more
> modernist or less modernist than Bartok... I
> probably stretch from
> Sibelius on the romantic/classical side to
> later-Stravinsky on the
> Modernist end of the spectrum leaving me not much
> middle ground to
> play with...)
>
> I am trying to think who else would I listen to when
> I wanted a
> Bartokian kind of kick... Sometimes Hindemith is
> worth a go (Concert
> Music for Strings and Brass)... Try Vaughan Williams
> Piano Concerto
> (3rd Movement)... Barber's Symphony No. 1 will be
> surprising if you
> only know the Adagio. (Listening to Michael Tippett
> Symphony No. 1 at
> the moment... Sigh. I'm going off the point now
> aren't I? ;-)
>
>
>
>


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