Prague Symphony Orchestra
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Building a Library, November 2023, Recommended Recording - Symphony No. 9
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Building A Library, March 2025, Recommended Recording - Symphony No. 8
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Life with Czech Music - Smetana & Dvorak
RecommendedCzech Philharmonic Orchestra, Prague Symphony Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras
Mackerras extols the Czech Philharmonic’s “national” sound. And that’s what we get, with rustic woodwinds, the brass a little tart, and passionate, light-fingered strings. Nothing is bland...they... —
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Building a Library, November 2023, Recommended Recording - Dvorak 9
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Richter plays Prokofiev
Piano Sonatas Nos. 2 & 9, Piano Concerto Nos. 1 & 5
Sviatoslav Richter (piano)
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Dvořák: Mass in D Major, Biblical Songs, Te Deum
Jindřich Jindrák (baritone), Prague Philharmonic Choir, Prague Symphony Orchestra, Václav Smetácek
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Viktor Kalabis: Symphonies and Concertos
Petr Škvor (violin), Miroslav Kejmar (trumpet), Zuzana Růžičková (harpsichord), Josef Suk (violin), Milan Langer (piano), Jiří Formáček (bassoon)
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Prague Symphony Orchestra, Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Prague Chamber Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic Wind Ensemble,...
this excellent collection, despite the variable age and quality of some recordings, will do very nicely in bringing [Kalabis's] name before a wider audience —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2013, Re-issue of the Month
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Tomás Brauner and the Prague Symphony Orchestra on this well-recorded disc capture Husa’s attenuated orchestral textures with passion and insight; only the finale of Music for Prague 1968 seems... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Martinu: Nipponari, Magic Nights & Czech Rhapsody
Recorded 1985-88
Dagmar Pecková (soprano), Lubica Rybarská (soprano) & Ivan Kusnjer (baritone)
Kühn Mixed Choir & Prague Symphony Orchestra, Jirí Belohlávek
Notwithstanding the unfamiliar repertoire, the sopranos Dagmar Pecková and Lubica Rybárska deliver superbly idiomatic renditions of the songs with Belohlávek shapes the cantata with persuasive... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2009, Editor's Choice
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Dvořák Symphonies Nos 8 & 9, Legends, Slavonic Dances - Vinyl Edition
Czech Philharmonic, Prague Symphony Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras
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The Many Loves of Antonín Dvořák
Kühn Mixed Choir, Pavel Kühn, Stanislav Bogunia, Panocha Quartet (string quartet), Radoslav Kvapil (piano), Leo Marian Vodička, Lívia Ághová, Smetana Trio, Alois Klíma, Dvořák Quartet, František Pošta, Drahomíra Drobková, Josef Kšica, Josef Suk (violin), Alfréd Holeček, Mstislav Rostropovich (cello),...
Most orchestral tracks are with the Czech Philharmonic, and Lambert has written very informed and readable booklet notes. I’d recommend settling down to listen ‘blind’, so that each rarity can... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2022, Reissue/Archive Issue of the Month
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