{"id":2371,"date":"2025-07-02T16:51:39","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T15:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/?p=2371"},"modified":"2025-07-02T16:51:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T15:51:39","slug":"rattles-jenufa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/?p=2371","title":{"rendered":"Rattle&#8217;s JEN\u016eFA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/?attachment_id=2372\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2372\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2372\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Cover_LSO0897_sRGB_1500px-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Cover_LSO0897_sRGB_1500px-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Cover_LSO0897_sRGB_1500px-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Cover_LSO0897_sRGB_1500px-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Cover_LSO0897_sRGB_1500px-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Cover_LSO0897_sRGB_1500px.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>JAN\u00c1\u010cEK: JEN\u016eFA, soloists, London Symphony Orchestra, Simon RATTLE\/LSO Live SACD<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A powerful cast here includes Agneta Eichenholz\u2019s remarkable performance in the title role \u2013 this is a <em>Jen\u016ffa<\/em> to match any previous sopranos who have tackled the role. This third in a series of Jan\u00e1\u010dek operas presented by Conductor Emeritus Sir Simon Rattle and the LSO maintains the exceptionally high standard of its predecessors, <em>Katya Kabanova<\/em> and <em>The Cunning Little Vixen, <\/em>both of which enjoyed considerable acclaim<em>.<\/em> There may have been a time when people felt that the last word on the great Janacek operas consisted of the splendid Charles Mackerras recordings of the past, but the London Symphony Orchestra under Simon Rattle has demonstrated with \u00e9lan that other approaches to these operatic masterpieces are feasible. Accorded magnificent sound, this new Rattle recording of <em>Jenufa<\/em>, one of the composer\u2019s most distinctive pieces, becomes nigh definitive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JAN\u00c1\u010cEK: JEN\u016eFA, soloists, London Symphony Orchestra, Simon RATTLE\/LSO Live SACD A powerful cast here includes Agneta Eichenholz\u2019s remarkable performance in the title role \u2013 this is a Jen\u016ffa to match any previous sopranos who have tackled the role. This third &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/?p=2371\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2373,"href":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371\/revisions\/2373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cdchoice.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}