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If you love the Ravel Quartet more than the Debussy, and you want to enjoy an excellent performance of the former but still add a
If I had to choose any pair of performances that represent Václav Talich at his best, it probably would be these. He was a close
Unlike the remastering of the Slavonic Dances in Supraphon’s classily packaged new Talich Edition, this release features distinctly improved sound as well as repertoire of
This second release from young Czech conductor Jakub Hrusa is definitely better than his first one. The Prague Philharmonia is very much a chamber orchestra,
Suk’s A Summer’s Tale (as it’s translated here) is one of the most masterful and beautiful of all large late-Romantic orchestral works. Mahler had planned
Much of Josef Suk’s piano music has an elegiac quality and assumes the nature of a personal confession. These characteristics are particularly evident in some
This manic-depressive coupling features a scrambled, spastic (in the finale) account of the Suk, paired with a dismal, droopy account of the Dvorák. In the
Peter Bruns is an excellent cellist, and the backing of the Staatskapelle Dresden–for my money Germany’s finest orchestra, the one with timbral qualities so very
This disc makes a fine tribute to Josef Suk, one of the finest violinists of our time, who’s 75 years old this year and still
It’s refreshing to see these fine works taken up by non-Czech musicians, and in general the members of the Nash Ensemble do them proud. The
