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CD Review: Czech It Out: Janacek’s Jenufa on Disc by Philip Anson Both commercially available Jenufa recordings have much to offer (too bad Eve Queler’s excellent version on BIS isn’t in local stores though it may be special ordered from Scadinavian Record Imports). Bohumil Gregor’s 1969 Jenufa, recorded in Zoffin Hall, Prague with the chorus and orchestra of the Prague National Theatre was the first stereo recording of Janacek’s masterpiece. Digitally remastered at Abbey Road studios in 1994-95, it was released in EMI’s mid-price opera series (EMI 5 65476 2 9), making it the cheapest Jenufa available. Any Czech opera recording originating in Prague must get high points for authenticity. Gregor’s cast is pure Czech and Moravian, so it would be presumptuous to criticise their diction or the “speech patterns” crucial to any Janacek opera. Singing Czech comes easiest to native speakers. All Gregor’s singers are veterans of countless Janacek operas at the Brno Opera and the Prague National
