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 ...

Familiar though the Glagolitic Mass is, this is a premiere recording of the version probably heard at the first performance in December 1927. Janacek revised the Mass in the following year to arrive ...

JANACEK'S mighty Glagolitic Mass was written in part as an offering to the woman with whom the 72-year-old composer was unrequitedly in love. In letters to his muse Kamila Stosslova, 38 years his ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Wit conducts his Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir in the two outstanding concert works from Janácek’s last ...

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 ...

After the first performance of Leos Janacek’s Glagolitic Mass, in December 1927 in the stadium concert hall in Brno a reviewer wrote that this was “a marvellous religious work of an old composer”.

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 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 ...

Janacek's Glagolitic Mass, a cantata for soloists, choir, orchestra and organ, was written in 1926 to a text in the Old Church Slavonic language; from an early age Janacek had been passionate about ...