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This was recorded in front of a live audience in Prague, and judging from the audience’s enthusiastic reactions to Eva Urbanova’s singing of a group
Czech composer František Vincenc Kramár-Krommer (1759-1831), along with contemporaries Mozart, Stamitz, Spohr, and Weber, wrote important works for clarinet and orchestra. Kramár-Krommer’s Clarinet Concerto neatly
This first installment of Supraphon’s new Martinu symphony cycle lives up to the highest expectations. Jiri Belohlavek recorded the Fourth Symphony with this same orchestra
Pavel Šporcl boldly plunges into the dauntingly crowded sea of recorded Tchaikovsky Violin Concertos and rather than sleep with the fishes, ends up swimming with
Despite strong competition from Mackerras/Fleming/Heppner, this Supraphon production remains the Rusalka of choice. Gabriela Benacková, whose purer, lighter voice is ideally suited to the unearthly
Václav Neumann concludes his remarkable Dvorák symphony cycle on a high note, turning in what is arguably the finest and most consistent set of the
Václav Neumann’s Dvorák cycle certainly stands with the classic sets by Kubelik, Kertesz, and Rowicki, and it’s better recorded (by far) than any of them.
This central panel in Václav Neumann’s excellent Dvorák symphony cycle starts out with the inestimable advantage of the Czech Philharmonic in top form, but it
Although he died at age 34, Bohemian composer Jan Vaclav Vorísek (1791-1825) left behind some of the most engaging and imaginative piano compositions of his
Vaclav Neumann was a sympathetic and dedicated Mahler conductor, recording several of the symphonies as many as three times with both the Czech Philharmonic and
