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... — More…
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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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[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... — More…
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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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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... — More…
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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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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... — More…
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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,... — More…
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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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This sounds throughout, even in the numinous calling of the Lord which conjures up the composer’s familiar spooky vein, like Martinů lite…There’s a performance of the First Symphony, Bělohlávek’s... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 19th October 2018
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Diapason d’Or, January 2019, Découverte
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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... — More…
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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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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... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2010, Disc of the month
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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 is especially effective in the Brahmsian contours of the second and eighth of the Op 72 dances...As to Op 46, Bělohlávek offers weighty, purposeful accounts of the faster dances and... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2016, Editor's Choice
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