WEB FLAC (tracks) – 192 Mb | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time – 47:27 minutes
Classical | Label: Naxos Records, Official Digital Download
The Czech composer Leoš Janáček is primarily known for his operas and orchestral works, but at the piano he discovered a highly idiosyncratic and expressive language, strongly influenced by his studies of contemporaneous Slavonic folk music. The cycle On an Overgrown Path is a microcosm of this style. Composed between 1900 and 1911, these small pieces evoke the composer’s rustic boyhood in the village of Hukvaldy, conveying intimate nostalgia and poignancy in an autobiographical diary of impressions and dreams tinged with joy, introspection and loss. This recording includes the two surviving pieces from the work’s second series as well as the Paralipomena sequence of three miniatures from the 1942 publication.
Tracklist
01. On an Overgrown Path, JW VIII/17, Book I: No. 1, Naše večery
02. On an Overgrown Path, JW VIII/17, Book I: No. 2, Lístek odvanutý
03. On an Overgrown Path, JW VIII/17, Book I: No. 3, Pojďte s námi!
04. On an Overgrown Path, JW VIII/17, Book I: No. 4, Frýdecká panna Maria
05. On an Overgrown Path, JW VIII/17, Book I: No. 5, Štěbetaly jak laštovičky
06. On an Overgrown Path, JW VIII/17, Book I: No. 6, Nelze domluvit!
07. On an Overgrown Path, JW VIII/17, Book I: No. 7, Dobrou noc!
08. On an Overgrown Path, JW VIII/17, Book I: No. 8, Tak neskonale úzko
09. On an Overgrown Path, JW VIII/17, Book I: No. 9, V pláči
10. On an Overgrown Path, JW VIII/17, Book I: No. 10, Sýček neodletěl!
11. On an Overgrown Path, JW VIII/17, Book II: No. 11, Andante
12. On an Overgrown Path, JW VIII/17, Book II: No. 12, Allegretto – Presto
13. On an Overgrown Path, JW VIII/17, Book II: No. 13, Più mosso
14. On an Overgrown Path, JW VIII/17, Book II: No. 15, Allegro
15. On an Overgrown Path, JW VIII/17, Book II: No. 14, Vivo