Speech Melodies
Paul Mitchinson: Leoš Janáček, 4 December 2008
Janáček: Years of a Life, Volume I
by John Tyrrell.
Faber, 971 pp., £60, November 2006,0 571 17538 4 Show More
by John Tyrrell.
Faber, 971 pp., £60, November 2006,
Janáček: Years of a Life, Volume II
by John Tyrrell.
Faber, 1074 pp., £60, November 2007,978 0 571 23667 1 Show More
by John Tyrrell.
Faber, 1074 pp., £60, November 2007,
“... festival. Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of the production was the music chosen: Leoš Janáček’s opera From the House of the Dead, written in 1928, the final year of his life. Boulez seemed a little ambivalent about the choice. ‘Janáček never develops anything,’ he said in an interview ... ”