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Life with Czech Music - Janacek & Martinu
RecommendedElisabeth Söderström (soprano), Drahomira Drobkova (contralto), Frantisek Livora (tenor), Richard Novak (bass), Jan Hora (organ), Kvetoslava Nemeckova (soprano), Leo Marian Vodicka (tenor), Vaclav Zitek (baritone), Josef Ruzicka (piano), Jan Bouse (timpani), Eva Urbanova (soprano), Bernarda Fink...
Even the recording acoustic is warm, enough sometimes to curl the music’s edges and smudge away little details. But Mackerras’s handling of this repertoire is so fresh, so responsive to the... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 1986, Winner - Choral
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Martinů’s orchestral soundworld is distinctly his own, without ever being samey. The vividly painted Les Fresques de Piero della Francesca is the best known work here, though The Parables, mysterious... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Janacek: Glagolitic Mass & Taras Bulba
RecommendedEduard Haken (bass), Vera Soukupova (contralto), Beno Blachut (tenor), Libuse Domaninska (soprano), Jaroslav Vodrazka (organ)
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Prague Philharmonic Choir (=Czech Philharmonic Chorus), Karel Ancerl, Josef Veselka
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Building a Library, April 2005, First Choice
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Building a Library, February 2003, First Choice
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Building a Library, June 2019, Recommended Recording
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The Art of English Horn
Dominik Wollenweber (cor anglais), Berliner Philharmoniker, Sir Simon Rattle
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Opus Klassik, 2022, Instrumentalist of the Year
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Recorded at the 1990 Prague Spring Festival, Smetana's musical evocation of his Czech homeland has never been so profoundly felt. — More…
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Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95 'From the New World', etc.
RecommendedCzech Philharmonic Orchestra, Karel Ancerl
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Building a Library, May 2009, First Choice
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The trump card of this [performance], given at last year's Prague Spring Festival, is its superlative but modest orchestral line-up, showing you don't need big symphonic forces for the music's... — More…
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Building A Library, May 2021, Recommended Recording
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Dvorák - Symphonic Poems
RecommendedRecorded at the Rudolfinum, Prague
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras
Sir Charles...marks the Mendelssohnian drift of the big string theme in The Golden Spinning Wheel, a performance full of warmth and vitality, very realistically recorded and surely the highlight... — More…
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Sunday Times, 2010, Albums of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Winner - Orchestral
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Legendary Recordings: Josef Vlach & Czech Chamber Orchestra
RecommendedCzech Chamber Orchestra, Josef Vlach
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Building a Library, January 2018, Also Recommended
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