Browse: DVD Video, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra (orchestra)
Smetana: The Bartered Bride
Gabriela Benacková, Peter Dvorský, Richard Novák, Miroslav Kopp, Marie Veselá, Jindrich Jindrák, Marie Mrázová, Jaroslav Horá?ek, Jana Jonášová & Alfréd Hampl
Prague Philharmonic Chorus & Czech Philharmonic, Zdenek Košler
Enjoy this for the superb performances of two great Slovak voices, Benackova and Dvorsky, superbly accompanied by Zdenek Kosler. — More…
Václav Neumann conducts Dvorak & Janacek
Live recording from the Smetana Hall, Prague, 1986
Czech Philharmonic, Václav Neumann
It makes riveting viewing: tiny but important details are discussed, tempi are adjusted, phrasing is polished while Lloyd Webber appears reduced to wordless nodding as the avuncular Neumann coaxes,... — More…
What is in fact performed here is the rarely heard original version… at its most striking in the Credo: its dramatic portrayal of the earthquake and storm unleashed at Jesus's death is realised... — More…
Offer, Dvorak: Cello Concerto & Piano Concerto
Rudolf Firkušný, Gustav Rivinius
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Jirí Belohlávek, Václav Neumann
Offer, Karel Ancerl - My Country
Rare concert footage & Documentary
Henryk Szeryng (violin)
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Karel Ancerl
Who is Karel Ancerl? Only his music-making can give us the answer. Urbane, modern, uncomplicated and entirely self-possessed, Karel Ancerl makes an unsatisfactorily self-effacing interviewee... — More…
The Czech Philharmonic under its chief conductor Jiří Bělohlávek is in fine form…it is a big-boned though never ponderous reading: the strings have a unanimity and rhythmic bite which keeps the... — More…
