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Leoš Janáček: The Excursions of Mr. Brouček

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Kyzlink has all the right instincts, capturing the multiple settings brilliantly while keeping a tight grip on the often hectic crowd scenes. The orchestra plays with chamber-like ensemble and... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2024, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Release Date: 5th Jul 2024
Catalogue No: SU43392
Label: Supraphon
Length: 2 hours 10 minutes

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Janáček: The Excursions of Mr. Brouček, JWI / 7, Pt. 1

Work length1:09:34

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Jaroslav Březina (vocalist), Aleš Briscein (vocalist), Doubravka Součková (vocalist), František Zahradníček (vocalist), Alžběta Poláčková (vocalist), Jiří Sulženko (vocalist), Roman Janál (vocalist), Josef Moravec (vocalist), Martin Šrejma (vocalist)
Prague National Theatre Chorus, Prague National Theatre Orchestra
Jaroslav Kyzlink, Martin Buchta, Pavel Vaněk

Act I, Introduction

Track length3:34

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Act I, Can One Believe Men (Málinka, Mazal, Sacristan, Brouček, Würfl)

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Act I, Love, Yes, Love´s Charming Flower (Young waiter, Composer, Poet, Painter, Málinka, Sacristan, Würfl)

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Act I, Málinka! I´ve a Diamond (Mazal, Málinka, Composer, Poet, Painter, Young waiter, Brouček)

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Act I, Ha! Ha! What Monster Does Frigtten My Astonished Eye! (Azurean, Brouček)

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Act I, You Have Never yet Known Love (Azurean, Brouček, Lunigrove, Etherea)

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Act I, Fright Now Spreads from You Just like from Medusa! (Etherea, Lunigrove, Azurean, Brouček)

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Act II, This Meloda, Yes Indeed, but on the Bombardon! (Wonderglitter, Harper, Etherea, Brouček, Lunigrove, Azurean, Cloudy)

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Act II, Dance - You Clown, You! - You, Titan of Songs! (Brouček, Glorious Rainbow, Harper, Wonderglitter, Child prodigy)

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Act II, O Sweet Creature, You! (Etherea, Wonderglitter, Brouček, Cloudy, Lunigrove, Child prodigy, Azurean)

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Act II, Come Here! (Glorious Rainbow, Brouček, Child prodigy, Wonderglitter)

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Act II, You´re Dearer to Me (Etherea, Brouček, Azurean, Lunigrove, Harper, Child prodigy)

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Act II, Interlude

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Act II, With Lasting Laurels I Adorn Your Curls (Composer, Würfl, Mazal, Málinka, Young waiter)

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Janáček: The Excursions of Mr. Brouček, JWI / 7, Pt. 2

Work length1:01:10

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Jiří Brückler (vocalist), Aleš Briscein (vocalist), Jaroslav Březina (vocalist), Doubravka Součková (vocalist), František Zahradníček (vocalist), Alžběta Poláčková (vocalist), Jiří Sulženko (vocalist), Stanislava Jirků (vocalist), Martin Šrejma (vocalist), Roman Janál (vocalist), Josef Moravec (vocalist)
Prague National Theatre Chorus, Prague National Theatre Orchestra
Martin Buchta, Pavel Vaněk, Jaroslav Kyzlink

Act I, There Were Deep Undergreound Passages (Professor’s voice, Another voice, Brouček, Würfl)

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Act I, Help! Help! (Brouček)

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Act I, O, You Sun of That Great Day (Svatopluk Čech)

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Act I, We Must Remember Well This Newly Found Short-Cut! (Brouček, Councillor)

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Act I, The Day of the Lord Begins! (Domšík, Councillor, Brouček)

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Act II, Introduction - If I Weren´t Sitting Here (Brouček, Domšík, Kedruta)

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Act II, Here They Come from Church Service (Domšík, Kunka, Brouček, Vacek, Miroslav, Vojta)

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Act II, Alas, the Name of Czechs Has Been Dragged (Miroslav, Vojta, Student, Vacek, Domšík, Brouček, Kunka, Petřík)

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Act II, Hurrah, Tábor! (Kunka, Kedruta, Brouček)

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Act II, Change of Scene - Hejsasa! Hejsasa! (Petřík)

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Act II, Look, One Is Crouching Here! (First Taborite, Second Taborite, Brouček, Petřík, Councillor, Kunka)

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Act II, He Too Went with Us (Petřík, Vojta, Councillor, Brouček, Vacek, Kedruta)

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Act II, Change of Scene - Ah! Ah! Ah! (Brouček, Würfl)

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In April 1920, following 12 years of intricate work, Leoš Janáček’s The Excursions of Mr. Brouček premiered at the National Theatre in Prague, the one and only work of his to do so. A century later, the self-same theatre’s soloists, chorus and orchestra returned to the “Broučekiad” at the Rudolfinum in Prague. The present studio recording, after Neumann’s and Jílek’s only the third in the Supraphon catalogue, was thus in part made owing to the closure of theatres and concert halls during the recent Covid pandemic. Janáček dedicated The Excursions of Mr. Brouček to T. G. Masaryk, the first President of the newly founded Czechoslovak Republic. Declining to celebrate the two nations’ acquired freedom and statehood by foregrounding Saint Wenceslas, Charles IV or another great figure of Czech history, the composer chose as the protagonist of his “national” opera one Mr. Brouček, a narrow-minded oaf, coward, hypocrite, liar, boor and drunkard. A man overly fond of food and beer, possessing a simplistic worldview, suspicious of everything different and unaccustomed, loathing artists and intellectuals. In The Excursion of Mr. Brouček to the Moon, his crassness clashes with the Moonlings’ aesthetic, highbrow affectation, while in The Excursion of Mr. Brouček to the Fifteenth Century his unflinching self-centeredness, servility and mendacity contrast starkly with the ideals of the uncompromising Hussite warriors, fighting for “God’s truth”. As Janáček himself put it: “Brouček embodies our pettiness; made for stage.” One hundred years down the road, this picture of the “ordinary Czech” is still befitting, worthy of exposing. The new album features Jaroslav Březina, brilliantly portraying the lead character, and other distinguished Czech singers, under the seasoned conductor Jaroslav Kyzlink.

A significant role in enhancing the recording’s quality is played by spatial feeling of the recording process itself as well as by the Dvořák Hall’s splendid acoustics and colourful sound. By releasing the album, the National Theatre in Prague commemorates the 170th anniversary of the birth of Leoš Janáček, the most globally renowned of Czech opera composers.

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September 2024

Kyzlink has all the right instincts, capturing the multiple settings brilliantly while keeping a tight grip on the often hectic crowd scenes. The orchestra plays with chamber-like ensemble and the choir is fearless in attacking their stratospheric parts.

September 2024

Orchestrally, Supraphon conductor Jaroslav Kyzlink better projects the opera’s more spontaneous, chaotic moments than the BBC Symphony and finds more meaning in the details.

4th July 2024

the orchestra of the Prague National Theatre understands Janáček’s style inside out. Characterful in the title role, Jaroslav Březina heads up an excellent cast, with Alžběta Poláčková sparkling as the love interest and the three young-man roles outstandingly sung by Aleš Briscein, whose tenor rises seemingly effortlessly to the moon and beyond.

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