The year the music died
Album Of The WeekFrom the Lebrecht Album of the Week:
1919 Coda: Janacek, Boulanger, Debussy, Elgar (Delphian)
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The title of this violin-piano recital requires some explanation. By 1919, two of the named composers were dead, and a third was worn out. Only Leos Janacek was firing on all cylinders — indeed, on more cylinders than he ever had before. If 1919 was a benchmark, it is not evident from their lifecycles. However, the year does mark an end-point for the war era and these sonatas exist in that immediate past, with no thought of present or future….
In Czech here.
In The Critic here.
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