Jakub Hrůša and Bamberger Symphoniker

Leoš Janáček: Jealousy (Introduction to *Jenůfa*), JW VI/10

Antonín Dvořák: The Wild Dove, symphonic poem, Op. 110, B 198

Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 in E-flat major "Romantic", WAB 104 

Composing the opera *Jenůfa* took Leoš Janáček (1854–1928) more than eight years. At the very beginning of this process, in February 1895, the composer wrote a symphonic introduction to the opera titled *Jealousy*. Rather than conceiving this short piece as an operatic overture in the traditional sense, he envisioned it as a kind of introductory motto or a reflection on one of the work's fundamental narrative themes. Janáček drew inspiration from the text of the Moravian folk song "The Jealous Man" (*Žárlivec*), which he had set to music a few years earlier as a male chorus. *Jealousy* marks the first full crystallization of Janáček’s distinctive style, characterized by its terseness and dramatic tension. The work premiered on November 14, 1906, in Prague, performed by the Czech Philharmonic under the baton of conductor František Neumann.