Next on this playlist is choral music of the Czech composer Janacek, conducted by Anner and Vera’s dear friend, Reinbert De Leeuw. Janacek was a highly individual Czech composer, educated in choral singing and organ playing, and drawn to Moravian folk music and folklore, with its irregular rhythms and modal harmonies. These choral works start off in a fable, nursery tale vein—The Wild Duck, The Dove, Our Birch Tree; then (at 7:45) comes a haunting Elegy for his daughter Olga,