by Leoš Janáček, Simon Rattle · CD · EAN 0077775421224
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«The Cunning Little Vixen» is the opera album by Leoš Janáček, released by EMI Classics as a double CD.
This recording includes the opera «The Cunning Little Vixen», sung in English, and the symphonic poem «Taras Bulba». The opera, based on a comic strip, tells the life of a cunning vixen and her relationship with the human and animal world, with freedom and the cycle of life as central themes.
The recording is conducted by Simon Rattle, with Lilian Watson, Thomas Allen, Diana Montague, Gwynne Howell and Robert Tear, the Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and, in «Taras Bulba», the Philharmonia Orchestra.
Recommended for fans of 20th-century opera and the music of Leoš Janáček.
