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Steve Schwartz wrote:
>Let me add my voice to the chorus of approval for the Supraphon Janacek.
>I have recently bought two wonderful operas: The Cunning Little Vixen
>and The Excursions of Mr. Broucek. Vixen is moderately well-known (for
>Janacek). Excursions is almost unknown. It's a wonderful comic fantasy
>about a Czech petit bourgeois, as wise as it is funny.
There are two Supraphons of Broucek. I far prefer Jilek's Broucek to
Neumann's, mainly for Jilek's more fluid conducting. Neumann has always
seemed kind of lumpy to me. I haven't listened to Vixen in a while,
particularly the three Supraphons, so I don't want to comment much.
Suffice it to say there are three, two with Neumann (one in mono) and one
with Gregor. I don't know the mono, but it has a great reputation. Gregor
is pretty good, and I don't think I've ever played the later Neumann! (Add
it to a large list of unplayed records.) I like the Mackerras quite a bit
as well as the English language Rattle. A very fortunatte opera, Vixen.
Roger Hecht
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