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John Barbirolli nearly always has something to say in late-Romantic music, and he’s got a singular asset in the Czech Philharmonic at its Ancerl-led, early-’60s
Sometimes it’s difficult to take Zelenka as seriously as he intends simply because his music is so quirky, characterful, and just plain entertaining. Hard as
This 1976 Haffner Serenade recording highlights the Prague Chamber Orchestra’s attractive and uniquely Czech sonic qualities, including gorgeous woodwind tone and ideal ensemble balance that
Lovro von Matacic’s luminous and moving Bruckner Seventh employs relaxed tempos in the first two movements (smiliar to Chailly’s), but also naturally breathing phrasing alongside
Mirandolina is Bohuslav Martinu’s take on 18th century commedia dell’arte. His Italian was good enough for him to adapt Carlo Goldoni’s play, La locanderia, himself,
At last! Supraphon has released these classic performances, for years the reference editions of this music, in superbly remastered sound that seems not to have
Hard as it may be to believe, until this reissue the Dvorák Wind Serenade has been absent from the Supraphon catalog. The (conductorless) Czech Philharmonic
Ancerl’s Bartók Concerto for Orchestra was one of the outstanding versions of the LP era, and I frankly prefer its humane warmth to Reiner’s somewhat
Antonín Dvorák’s 1874 one-act comedy, The Stubborn Lovers (“Tvrde Palice” in Czech), is a slim-lined, delightful work that despite its predictable plot still surprises and
Previously available in the West on Deutsche Grammophon, this 1961 recording of Dvorák’s Stabat Mater surfaces again in greatly improved sound. Supraphon’s engineers have removed
