Zápisník Zmizelého / The Diary Of One Who Disappeared

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Album Info

Release Date: 1986-01-01

Label: Supraphon

First release

Includes 12-page 12 x 12 booklet aka "Libretto" in credits, in Czech, English, German, and French.
Front jacket title in Czech and English.
Back jacket credits in Czech + English, as well as performer credits in Russian, and cover design credits in English only.
Blue Supraphon labels entirely in Czech with the exception of "Made In Czechoslovakia" at the top

Spine - Supraphon 1112 3859

Back jacket - Supraphon / Stereo / 1112 3859 ZA
... for tenor, contralto, three female voices and piano on lyrics by unknown author
Recorded at the Prague Radio from 10 to 12 August 1984 [Czech credits specify "Studiu I"]
Exporter ARTIA Prague / Made in Czechoslovakia
Photo and design credits are dated 1985

Labels:
Digitalni Nahravka
Ⓟ1986

Booklet:
- credits for photos, graphic design, commentary and translation dated 1985
- Libretto text and translation credits are dated 1979

OC Review:

This is a song cycle, not an opera, completed in 1920. Style is clearly tonal, Late-Romantic with Impressionist influences, on the conservative side of the Modern spectrum. Closer to Schumann lieder or Ravel chanson than the sardonic neo-classicism of Stravinsky and Les Six.

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