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Martinu - Three Fragments from the Opera Juliette | Supraphon SU39942

Martinu - Three Fragments from the Opera Juliette

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Label: Supraphon

Cat No: SU39942

Barcode: 0099925399429

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 24th May 2009

Gramophone Award Winner

Contents

Artists

Magdalena Kozena (Juliette)
Steve Davislim (Michel)
Frederic Goncalves
Michele Lagrange
Nicolas Teste
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

Sir Charles Mackerras

Works

Martinu, Bohuslav

Fragments (3) from the Opera Juliette (The Key to Dreams)
Julietta: orchestral suite

Artists

Magdalena Kozena (Juliette)
Steve Davislim (Michel)
Frederic Goncalves
Michele Lagrange
Nicolas Teste
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

Sir Charles Mackerras

About

Bohuslav Martinů

Three Fragments from the Opera Juliette (The Key to Dreams) World premiere recording

Orchestral Suite from Juliette (arr. Z. Vostřák)

Live recording from the work’s world premieres on 11 and 12 December 2008

On 11 December 2008 the sold-out Rudolfinum in Prague heard for the first time Three Fragments from the Opera Juliette, a work which ranks among Martinů’s most significant and which the composer himself highly esteemed. Martinů originally composed the opera Juliette in Czech. However, so as to ensure appropriate publicity for the work, he wanted – already armed with a French libretto – to place extracts from the most relevant scenes on French radio. Yet Three Fragments from the Opera Juliette (The Key to Dreams) was not broadcast on the radio and had to wait some 70 years for its first performance. This was entrusted to the safe hands of that most competent of conductors Sir Charles Mackerras, who has devoted a great part of his life to discovering Czech music and promoting it on world stages.

After experiencing Magdalena Kožená in the role of Juliette, it is hard to imagine another star singer in her place.

On this CD, Three Fragments is supplemented by the orchestral suite from the same opera, which sensitively treats the music of all three Acts and corresponds with the “dreamy logic” of the original.  

Thanks to Martinů’s dreamily beautiful music and the remarkable engagement of all the interpreters, Sir Charles' December leave-taking of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra was transformed into a joint triumph.

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