SACD, Smetana (composer)

The rich, elegiac vein that runs through the Smetana and Tchaikovsky trios are splendidly externalised in these readings. Both are superbly recorded. — BBC Music Magazine, September 2009, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The excellent Sitkovetsky Trio play [the Dvorak] beautifully. Their account of the Smetana trio is also superb: the two strings, which sound slightly backward in the Dvorak recording, sing out... — Sunday Times, 28th September 2014 More…

the playing is both warmly expressive and beautifully detailed. The scene- setting opening work, Vysehrad...is spellbindingly performed...this non-Czech performance, by a classy cosmopolitan... — Classic FM Magazine, June 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Jakub Hrůša has an enviable reputation in Czech repertoire and his reading of My Country has great merit…there is a great deal to admire especially in capturing orchestral detail, aided by a... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…