Janacek, Leos: The Cunning Little Vixen

The Cunning Little Vixen by Leos Janacek
Cast: Dalibor Jedlicka, Eva Zigmundova, Vladimir Krejcik, Richard Novak, Vaclav Zitek, Beno Blachut, Ivan Mixova, Lucia Popp, Libuse Marova, Gertrude Jahn, Eva Hribikova, Zuzana Hudecova, Peter Saray, Miriam Ondraskova & Eva Randova with the Bratislava Childrens' Choir, Vienna Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras.
Libretto by Janacek after Bystrouska byTesnophlidek.
Label: Decca
Catalogue number: 6.35597
Country of Issue: UK
Date: 1982
Stereo
Digital
Format: LP Boxed Set (2 discs plus booklet)
Label design: newest Decca EU style, silver with red/blue logo
Discs: Near Mint, unmarked
Outer box: Near Mint, unmarked
Inner sleeves: original, polylined, as new
Booklet: full size 36pp, perfect

This item appears as new throughout except as mentioned above. Acquired by us in 2007 as part of a large collection but never played since.

Janacek began composition in the autumn of 1922,  and after a few pauses, completed the opera in March 1923. The premiere  took place in Brno on 6 November 1924. It became very popular in Czechoslovakia (as it was then)  and found a wide audience in Europe from the early 1950s. It is now accalimed as among Jancek's finest operas.

This recording was made in the Sofiensaal, VIenna in March 1981.