Composed in 1926-27, for orchestra, chorus, soloists, and organ, Janacek’s “Glagolská mse,” or “Glagolitic Mass,” is a 40-minute setting of the Latin Mass in Old Church Slavonic. It takes its name ...

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra could not have asked for a nicer confluence. The same week that the orchestra, Chicago Symphony Chorus and Pierre Boulez were nominated for Grammy awards in various ...

Janacek: Glagolitic Mass Sinfonietta soloists, Montreal Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Charles Dutoit, conductor (London). Dutoit leads his virtuoso Montreal forces in masterful performances of two of ...

Leos Janacek’s 1927 “Glagolitic Mass” — set in the Slavonic tongue rather than than the customary Latin — doesn’t quite invite comparison with any other major sacred piece of our century. Musical ly, ...

Janacek's Glagolitic Mass mvt. VII Organ Solo (Postlude/Nachspiel)Janacek's Glagolitic Mass mvt. VII Organ Solo (Postlude/Nachspiel) ...

That great big wonderful noise coming out of Davies Symphony Hall on Thursday night was the sound of Michael Tilson Thomas leading the San Francisco Symphony and Chorus in Janácek's "Glagolitic Mass." ...

The London Philharmonic Orchestra under Czech conductor Tomas Netopil, who was born in Janacek’s native Moravia, have returned to the initial score, before the composer’s several re-drafts for its ...

Glagolitic Mass Czech composer Leoš Janácek was one of music’s great eccentrics—witness this mass, sung not in Latin but in Old Church Slavonic, and sounding more bumptious and erotic than reverential ...

Leos Janacek wasn't an obvious candidate for a setting of the Mass, but the suggestion from Archbishop Precan and his own profound sense of Czech Nationalism was enough to inspire him. In 1926, during ...

The towering late operas of Leos Janacek (1854-1928) have a capacity to thunder from the stage in ways that are hard to describe with language. But when performed with skill and conviction, works such ...