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Zelenka: Missa Nativitatis Domini RecommendedBarbora Sojková (soprano), Markéta Cukrová (alto) & Tomáš Král (bass)
Musica Florea (on period instruments), Marek Štryncl
It is hugely persuasive music and is performed here by the period instrument group Musica Florea under Marek Štryncl with real tenderness and commitment. Soloists and choir are in good voice,... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 3rd December 2012
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Building A Library, November 2021, Also Recommended
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Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1-9
Ingeborg Wenglor (soprano), Annelies Burmeister (alto), Martin Ritzmann (tenor) & Rolf Kühne (bass)
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra & Prague Philharmonic Choir, Paul Kletzki
The Czech Phil’s sound here is charismatic and idiomatic, with a rich, muscular string timbre cushioning highly distinctive wind and brass playing...The interpretations hold up very well – Kletzki’s... — More…
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The pitch-perfect singing of Lukáš Vasilek’s Martinu Voices is always companionable, and I imagine there must be a special pleasure for native Czech speakers. But this is a treasury for everyone. — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, January 2018
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2018, Editor's Choice
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Diapason d’Or, May 2018, Nouveauté
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Life with Czech Music - Janacek & Martinu
RecommendedElisabeth Söderström (soprano), Drahomira Drobkova (contralto), Frantisek Livora (tenor), Richard Novak (bass), Jan Hora (organ), Kvetoslava Nemeckova (soprano), Leo Marian Vodicka (tenor), Vaclav Zitek (baritone), Josef Ruzicka (piano), Jan Bouse (timpani), Eva Urbanova (soprano), Bernarda Fink...
Even the recording acoustic is warm, enough sometimes to curl the music’s edges and smudge away little details. But Mackerras’s handling of this repertoire is so fresh, so responsive to the... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 1986, Winner - Choral
4 CDs + DVD Video
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Netopil directs an excellent performance which, appropriately enough, reflects the operatic world of The Cunning Little Vixen and the Excursions of Mr Broucek...[the Credo] is beautifully shaped... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2014, Editor's Choice
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Janacek: Glagolitic Mass & Taras Bulba
RecommendedEduard Haken (bass), Vera Soukupova (contralto), Beno Blachut (tenor), Libuse Domaninska (soprano), Jaroslav Vodrazka (organ)
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Prague Philharmonic Choir (=Czech Philharmonic Chorus), Karel Ancerl, Josef Veselka
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Building a Library, April 2005, First Choice
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Building a Library, February 2003, First Choice
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Building a Library, June 2019, Recommended Recording
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Václav Gunther Jacob: Missa Dei Filii Hana Blažíková, Barbora Sojková (soprano), Petra Noskaiová (mezzo-soprano), Sylva Cmugrová (contralto), Hasan El Dunia, Ondrej Šmíd (tenor) & Tomáš Král, Jaromír Nosek (bass)
Capella Regia Praha, Robert Hugo
Robert Hugo lavished as much attention on Rathgeber's slender compositions as he does on Jacob's weightier utterances. Voices are suitably robust… good sense prevails in the artistic use of... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2010, Editor's Choice
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Vycpálek: Cantata on the Last Things of Man & Ostrčil: Suite for Large Orchestra
Drahomíra Tikalová (soprano), Lidislav Mráz (baritone)
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and Czech Choir (Prague Philharmonic Choir), Karel Ancerl
Whatever happened to Czech music after Janácek? Martinu is one answer; Ladislav Vycpálek is another, barely known outside his own country. Yet Karel Ancerl conducts this sombre dramatisation... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Best-kept Secrets
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Martinu: Nipponari, Magic Nights & Czech Rhapsody
Recorded 1985-88
Dagmar Pecková (soprano), Lubica Rybarská (soprano) & Ivan Kusnjer (baritone)
Kühn Mixed Choir & Prague Symphony Orchestra, Jirí Belohlávek
Notwithstanding the unfamiliar repertoire, the sopranos Dagmar Pecková and Lubica Rybárska deliver superbly idiomatic renditions of the songs with Belohlávek shapes the cantata with persuasive... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2009, Editor's Choice
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Dvorak: Sacred Works & Cantatas
Eva Urbanova (soprano), Vera Soukupova (alto), Beno Blachut (tenor), Jindrich Jindrak, Ivan Kusnjer (baritone), Peter Mikulas, Richard Novak (bass), Ivan Moravec (piano)
Prague Philharmonic Choir, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra & Prague Symphony Orchestra, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Vaclav Neumann,...
8 CDs
$50.00
