Jiří Bělohlávek
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Bělohlávek clearly knew that Smetana, far from being a cheap purveyor of catchy melodies and moment-to-moment thrills, was a sure-footed musical architect, and this recording pays the long... —
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2018, Orchestral Choice
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Record Review, 6th January 2018, Recording of the Week
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Building A Library, May 2021, Also Recommended
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Belohlavek and the orchestra are superb in the first three symphonies. He captures Martinu's shimmering, luminous orchestral textures and invests the pervasive 'sprung' rhythms of the faster... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2011, Disc of the Month
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Building a Library, May 2016, First Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2012, Winner - Orchestral
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Building a Library, September 2019, Recommended
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Belohlavek's pacing enhances Suk's abundant inspiration, often with intoxicating results. Throughout, the BBC Symphony Orchestra responds magnificently as an ensemble, bringing an almost operatic... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2013, Orchestral Finalist
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2012, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Awards, 2013, Winner - Orchestral
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The symphony is attractively neat and satisfying, but Ripening is on a completely new emotional plane, with a Mahlerian juxtaposition of emotions, a scintillating emotional thrust and a virtuoso... —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2010, Disc of the month
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Dvorak: Cello Concerto
RecommendedAlisa Weilerstein (cello)
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Jiří Bělohlávek
Above all, she reveals the profound relationship between the solo part and Dvořák’s radiantly detailed orchestration in one of the f inest ensemble performances of the last 30 years. With Bělohlávek... —
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2014, Concerto Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Gramophone Awards, 2015, Finalist - Concerto
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Dvořák: Stabat Mater, Op. 58
RecommendedEri Nakamura (soprano), Elisabeth Kulman (contralto), Michael Spyres (tenor), Jongmin Park (bass)
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Prague Philharmonic Choir, Jiří Bělohlávek
They bring a depth and richness of warm colours to a score still insufficiently appreciated…Bělohlávek is the authoritative interpreter leading his forces through the piece with confidence and,... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 12th May 2017
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2017, Winner - Musique Sacrée
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If anything, Bělohlávek sounds even more fired-up [than on his previous recordings of these works]…His natural warmth and charm characteristically enchants the central scherzo’s prismatic textural... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2019, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2019, Orchestral Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Finalist - Orchestral
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Brahms: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
RecommendedIvan Moravec (piano)
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Jiri Belohlavek
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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[Bělohlávek] could get under the skin of Janacek’s music, drawing out its folk roots and speech rhythms, its soul-searching and truthfulness, its sheer humanity. The main work here is the Glagolitic... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 31st August 2018
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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The Times Records of the Year, 2018
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Building a Library, June 2019, Also Recommended
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Maxim Rysanov plays Martinu
Maxim Rysanov (viola), Alexander Sitkovetsky (violin), Alexander Sitkovetsky (violin, Katya Apekisheva (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Jiří Bělohlávek
Rysanov, the tone of his 1780 Guadagnini viola a miraculous combination of dark vigour with the translucency of a viola d'amore, has the most idiomatic partner in Jiri Belohlavek conducting... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2015, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Shortlisted - Concerto
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