Leos Janacek: Opera - Janufa (Chandos Audio CD)

Opera - Janufa

Leoš Janacek (1854-1928)


Jenufa, her step-daughter (Brno version) 121:12
Opera in three acts
Libretto by the composer after Gabriela Preissová's play Jefí pastorkyna
English version by Edward Downes and Otakar Kraus

COMPACT DISC ONE

Act I
Scene 1
1 'Soon it will be evening' 11:59
Jenufa, Grandmother Buryja, Laca, Jano

Scene 2
2 'What are you doing here, Laca?' 5:07
Foreman, Laca, Jenufa, Grandmother Buryja, Kostelnicka

Scene 3
3 'Come now, Jenufa' 0:37
Grandmother Buryja, Jenufa

Scene 4
4 'They're all for marrying' 1:46
Recruits, Števa, Jenufa, Foreman, Laca

Scene 5
5 'My dear heart, my Števa, Števuška!' 13:03
Jenufa, Števa, Chorus, Kostelnicka, Grandmother Buryja, Laca, Foreman

Scene 6
6 'Števa, Števa, I know you got drunk today' 5:32
Jenufa, Števa, Grandmother Buryja

Scene 7
7 'How all this boasting of Števa' 4:31
Laca, Jenufa, Grandmother Buryja, Foreman, Barena

Act II
Scene 1
8 Introduction 1:16
9 'If I leave the door ajar a little' 7:11
Kostelnicka, Jenufa

Scene 2
10 'Yes, in all these twenty weeks' 2:05
Kostelnicka

Scene 3
11 'Aunt Kostelnicka, in the note you sent me' 8:49
Števa, Kostelnicka, Jenufa, Laca

Scene 4
12 'But I saw a man come in here just now' 3:11
Laca, Kostelnicka
65:21

COMPACT DISC TWO
Scene 5
1 'One moment. . . In that moment must I lose hope' 3:50
Kostelnicka

Scene 6
2 'Mamicka, my head is aching' 9:01
Jenufa

Scene 7
3 'Who is there?' 5:51
Jenufa, Kostelnicka

Scene 8
4 'He's coming now!. . .' 6:17
Kostelnicka, Laca, Jenufa

Act III
Scene 1
5 'Don't you feel nervous, Jenufka?' 2:35
Maid, Jenufa, Laca, Kostelnicka

Scene 2
6 'God be with you!' 4:26
Mayor, Maid, Laca, Jenufa, Kostelnicka, Mayor's Wife

Scene 3
7 'There now, Laca, just as I foresaw' 3:51
Jenufa, Laca

Scene 4
8 'Aha! Here they are' 2:38
Laca, Karolka, Števa, Jenufa

Scene 5
9 'There's no denying that all that was really a sight worth seeing' 0:16
Mayor, Kostelnicka, Laca, Mayor's Wife

Scene 6
10 'God be with you one and all!' 3:20
Barena, Peasant Girls, Mayor, Jenufa, Laca, Grandmother Buryja, Chorus, Kostelnicka

Scene 7
11 'What baby's that they're shouting about?' 0:30
Kostelnicka, Jano, Mayor, Števa, Chorus

Scene 8
12 'Come quickly now!' 0:44
Jano, Kostelnicka, Grandmother Buryja

Scene 9
13 'Števa, this is terrible. . .' 0:43
Karolka, Jenufa, Števa, Laca

Scene 10
14 'Ha, there now, you see his baby clothes!' 4:02
Jenufa, Mayor's Wife, Village Woman, Mayor, Chorus, Laca, Kostelnicka, Karolka, Maid

Scene 11
15 'Do not kneel, dear mother!' 3:55
Jenufa, Kostelnicka, Laca

Scene 12
16 'They have gone! Now you go!' 3:35
Jenufa, Laca
55:51
Elizabeth Vaughan mezzo-soprano - Grandmother Buryjovka
Dame Josephine Barstow soprano - The Kostelnicka
Janice Watson soprano - Jenufa
Peter Wedd tenor - Števa Buryja
Nigel Robson tenor - Laca Klemen
Neal Davies baritone - Foreman
Alan Fairs bass - Mayor
Marian McCullogh mezzo-soprano - Mayor's Wife
Charlotte Ellet soprano - Karolka
Claire Hampton soprano - Jano
Rosie Hay soprano - Barena
Imelda Drumm mezzo-soprano - Maid
Sarah Pope mezzo-soprano - Village woman
Chorus of Welsh National Opera
Orchestra of Welsh National Opera
Sir Charles Mackerras
Recorded in:
Brangwyn Hall, Swansea
20-26 July 2003
Producer(s)
Brian Couzens
Sound Engineer(s)
Ralph Couzens
Michael Common (Assistant)
Format: DDD
Bit Rate: 24 Bit / 96K