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'It hardly needs saying that there is nothing banal about Bychkov’s meticulously mapped performances and that his attention to detail never stifles the music’s spontaneity...In sum, an enriching... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2024, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2024, Orchestral Choice
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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 game…It... — 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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This is a superb disc. There have been distinguished collections of Smetana's symphonic poems but none quite to compare with this in excitement, richness of detail and, in the case of Wallenstein's... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2007, Editor's Choice
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Smetana: The Bartered Bride RecommendedSusan Gritton (Ma¡renka), Yvette Bonner (Esmeralda), Yvonne Howard (Ludmila), Diana Montague (Háta), Paul Charles Clarke (Jeník), Robin Leggate (Ringmaster), Timothy Robinson (Va¡sek), Neal Davies (Kru¡sina), Geoffrey Moses (Mícha), Peter Rose (Kecal) & Kit Hesketh-Harvey (Indian)
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By almost any reckoning, this is the most popular of Czech operas, in the repertory of almost every opera house, so it is astonishing how few recordings have appeared in recent years; Košler's... — More…
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Building a Library, May 2023, English Choice
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Notwithstanding the essential simplicity of their form, Smetana imbues [the Czech Dances] with considerable sophistication. The first has a musing, reflective quality captured beautifully by... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Smetana’s orchestral cycle, itself now something of a symbol of national pride, is performed with a delicate zeal by Luks and his Czech players. The big moments never boil over; instead, they... — More…
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Conductor of the Year
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For a moment or two in the Smetana one might think that the Takács Quartet's almost Olympian objectivity wouldn't suit music that often seems to well up so directly from the heart. In fact it's... — More…
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Building a Library, April 2023, Also Recommended
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George Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra: The Forgotten Recordings
Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell
Szell later re-recorded almost all the repertoire, but it’s fascinating to hear the partnership when their much-vaunted precision was well in progress, if not immaculate...Best of all are Schumann’s... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2021, Historical Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2021, Reissue/Archive Issue of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Historical
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…the lyrical tragedy Dalibor, a great hymn to friendship, is rarely performed outside his homeland, and even there, relatively few will ever see Libuše, the story of Bohemia's legendary prophetess-queen,... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2009, Editor's Choice
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