Jenůfa

Album by Leoš Janáček & Charles Mackerras & Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera & Elizabeth Vaughan & Josephine Barstow & Janice Watson & Peter Wedd & Nigel Robson & Neil Davies

Jenůfa is an opera by Czech composer Leoš Janáček, first performed in 1904. The score is characterised by Janáček's speech-inflected vocal writing and a late-Romantic orchestral palette infused with Moravian folk elements, and it represents a turning point that helped establish his mature operatic style in early 20th-century music.

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Jenůfa, Her Step‐Daughter, I/4, Act I Scene 1: Soon it will be evening (Jenůfa, Grandmother Buryja, Laca, Jano) - Brno version
    11:59
  2. 2.
    Jenůfa, Her Step‐Daughter, I/4, Act I Scene 2: What are you doing here, Laca? (Foreman, Laca, Jenůfa, Grandmother Buryja, Kostelnička) - Brno version
    5:06
  3. 3.
    Jenůfa, Her Step‐Daughter, I/4, Act I Scene 3: Come now, Jenůfa (Grandmother Buryja, Jenůfa) - Brno version
    0:36
  4. 4.
    Jenůfa, Her Step‐Daughter, I/4, Act I Scene 4: They’re all for marrying (Števa, Jenůfa, Foreman, Laca, Recruits) - Brno version
    1:46
  5. 5.
    Jenůfa, Her Step‐Daughter, I/4, Act I Scene 5: My dear heart, my Števa, Števuska! (Jenůfa, Števa, Kostelnička, Grandmother Buryja, Laca, Foreman, Chorus) - Brno version
    13:03
  6. 6.
    Jenůfa, Her Step‐Daughter, I/4, Act I Scene 6: Števa, Števa, I know you got drunk today (Jenůfa, Števa, Grandmother Buryja) - Brno version
    5:32
  7. 7.
    Jenůfa, Her Step‐Daughter, I/4, Act I Scene 7: How all this boasting of Števa (Laca, Jenůfa, Grandmother Buryja, Foreman, Barena) - Brno version
    4:39
  8. 8.
    Jenůfa, Her Step‐Daughter, I/4, Act II Scene 1: Introduction - Brno version
    1:16
  9. 9.
    Jenůfa, Her Step‐Daughter, I/4, Act II Scene 1: If I leave the door ajar a little (Kostelnička, Jenůfa) - Brno version
    7:10
  10. 10.
    Jenůfa, Her Step‐Daughter, I/4, Act II Scene 2: Yes, in all these 20 weeks (Kostelnička) - Brno version
    2:04
  11. 11.
    Jenůfa, Her Step‐Daughter, I/4, Act II Scene 3: Aunt Kostelnička, in the note you sent me (Števa, Kostelnička, Jenůfa, Laca) - Brno version
    8:49
  12. 12.
    Jenůfa, Her Step‐Daughter, I/4, Act II Scene 4: But I saw a man come in here just now (Laca, Kostelnička) - Brno version
    3:13

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Jenůfa, Her Step‐Daughter, I/4, Act II Scene 5: One moment … In that moment must I lose hope (Kostelnička) - Brno version
    3:50
  2. 3.
    Jenůfa, Her Step‐Daughter, I/4, Act II Scene 6: Mamičko, my head is aching (Jenůfa) - Brno version
    9:00
  3. 4.
    Jenůfa, Her Step‐Daughter, I/4, Act II Scene 7: Who is there? (Jenůfa, Kostelnička) - Brno version
    5:51
  4. 5.
    Jenůfa, Her Step‐Daughter, I/4, Act II Scene 8: He’s coming now! … (Kostelnička, Laca, Jenůfa) - Brno version
    6:27
  5. 6.
    Jenůfa, Her Step‐Daughter, I/4, Act III Scene 1: Don’t you feel nervous, Jenufka? (Maid, Jenůfa, Laca, Kostelnička) - Brno version
    2:35
  6. 7.
    Jenůfa, Her Step‐Daughter, I/4, Act III Scene 2: God be with you! (Mayor, Maid, Laca, Jenůfa, Kostelnička, Mayor’s Wife) - Brno version
    4:26
  7. 8.
    Jenůfa, Her Step‐Daughter, I/4, Act III Scene 3: There now, Laca, just as I foresaw (Jenůfa, Laca) - Brno version
    3:51
  8. 9.
    Jenůfa, Her Step‐Daughter, I/4, Act III Scene 4: Aha! Here they are (Laca, Karolka, Števa, Jenůfa) - Brno version
    2:37
  9. 10.
    Jenůfa, Her Step‐Daughter, I/4, Act III Scene 5: There’s no denying that all that was really a sight worth seeing (Mayor, Kostelnička, Laca, Mayor’s Wife) - Brno version
    0:15
  10. 11.
    Jenůfa, Her Step‐Daughter, I/4, Act III Scene 6: God be with you one and all! (Barena, Mayor, Jenůfa, Laca, Grandmother Buryja, Kostelnička, Peasant Girls, Chorus) - Brno version
    3:20
  11. 12.
    Jenůfa, Her Step‐Daughter, I/4, Act III Scene 7: What baby’s that they’re shouting about? (Kostelnička, Jano, Mayor, Števa, Chorus) - Brno version
    0:29
  12. 13.
    Jenůfa, Her Step‐Daughter, I/4, Act III Scene 8: Come quickly now! (Jano, Kostelnička, Grandmother Buryja) - Brno version
    0:44
  13. 14.
    Jenůfa, Her Step‐Daughter, I/4, Act III Scene 9: Števa, this is terrible … (Karolka, Jenůfa, Števa, Laca) - Brno version
    0:43
  14. 15.
    Jenůfa, Her Step‐Daughter, I/4, Act III Scene 10: Ha, there now, you see his baby clothes! (Jenůfa, Mayor’s Wife, Mayor, Laca, Kostelnička, Karolka, Maid, Village Woman, Chorus) - Brno version
    4:01
  15. 16.
    Jenůfa, Her Step‐Daughter, I/4, Act III Scene 11: Do not kneel, dear mother! (Jenůfa, Kostelnička, Laca) - Brno version
    3:55
  16. 17.
    Jenůfa, Her Step‐Daughter, I/4, Act III Scene 12: They have gone! Now you go! (Jenůfa, Laca) - Brno version
    3:37

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