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This is a great disc. Prokofiev was as unlikely a composer as we might possibly imagine to write successful chamber music for strings. Even his
It’s good to see that Supraphon will be completing Jirí Belohlávek’s Martinu cycle with the Czech Philharmonic. The conductor is extremely convincing in the Sixth
Juliette is Martinu’s operatic masterpiece and one of the most distinctive of all 20th-century operatic works. The plot is hallucinatory and wonderfully weird. Michel, a
You’ve heard of The Red Violin? Well, Pavel Sporcl plays a blue one, part of his pop-star image. I suppose we should be grateful it’s
First the music: there are two wonderful pieces here and one dud. Martinu’s Concerto No. 1 easily is the finest of the two he wrote,
Needless to say, this release is a mixed bag. The Dvorák is quite good. After a slightly soggy opening, Václav Smetácek turns in a terrific
It may be that having Janácek’s “home town” orchestra provides the single most significant positive factor in this very appealing new recording. Up to this
Supraphon has hit on an excellent programming concept: combine well-known Czech works with equally rewarding unfamiliar pieces. And when the performances are as fine as
The Chopin Etudes and Polonaise-Fantasie stem from Sviatoslav Richter’s February 21, 1960 Prague recital. I believe all of these are new to CD, excepting Op.
Ernest Bloch composed five magnificent major works for soloist and orchestra (and several minor ones). These include the two on this disc plus Voice in
