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Janacek: Glagolitic Mass is an album by Marko Letonja / Czech Philharmonic / Choir of Brno / Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg, released in 2022. The album is a classical CD.

The imposing, exuberant Glagolitic Mass and the colourful, multi-faceted Sinfonietta: these two life-affirming works from Leoš Janáček’s prodigious final years are performed by the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg under Marko Letonja, its Music Director from 2012 to 2021. The vocal soloists – Malin Byström, Jennifer Johnston, Ladislav Elgr, and Adam Plachetka – are joined by organist Johann Vexo and the Czech Philharmonic Choir of Brno, the Moravian city Janáček evokes in the Sinfonietta.

This recording uses a 2011 critical edition of the Glagolitic Mass which captures the true adventure and passion of the score, completed by Janáček in 1927, the year he turned 73. Though religiously agnostic, he said that: “My Mass will be entirely different from all the rest. I will show people how to talk to God." Dating from the same period of phenomenal creativity is the atmospheric Sinfonietta. It opens unforgettably with a huge fanfare for brass and timpani which makes a triumphant return in the finale.

Label: Plg Uk Classics | Origin: Holland