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You just know this is going to be good, one of those where you can just sit back and listen with unalloyed pleasure to music, artist and instrument...Certainly the best solo piano album to come... —
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Václav Gunther Jacob: Missa Dei Filii
Hana Blažíková, Barbora Sojková (soprano), Petra Noskaiová (mezzo-soprano), Sylva Cmugrová (contralto), Hasan El Dunia, Ondrej Šmíd (tenor) & Tomáš Král, Jaromír Nosek (bass)
Capella Regia Praha, Robert Hugo
Robert Hugo lavished as much attention on Rathgeber's slender compositions as he does on Jacob's weightier utterances. Voices are suitably robust… good sense prevails in the artistic use of... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2010, Editor's Choice
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Zelenka: Missa Nativitatis Domini
RecommendedBarbora Sojková (soprano), Markéta Cukrová (alto) & Tomáš Král (bass)
Musica Florea (on period instruments), Marek Štryncl
It is hugely persuasive music and is performed here by the period instrument group Musica Florea under Marek Štryncl with real tenderness and commitment. Soloists and choir are in good voice,... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 3rd December 2012
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Building A Library, November 2021, Also Recommended
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To listen to Moravec is to be reminded of another era, one in which there was no political correctness surrounding Bach and the modern piano. He gives a warm, richly rhetorical reading of the... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2015, Editor's Choice
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Franz Xavier Richter: Super Flumina Babylonis & Miserere Mei Deus
Czech Ensemble Baroque Orchestra & Choir, Roman Válek
These are powerful and beautiful pieces, made all the better by sterling performances by the Czech Ensemble and Chorus. From the standpoint of interpretation, this is a fine disc to have and... —
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Legendary Recordings: Josef Vlach & Czech Chamber Orchestra
RecommendedCzech Chamber Orchestra, Josef Vlach
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Building a Library, January 2018, Also Recommended
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Works by Josquin and Obrecht are among the gems in this excellent collection. Crisp, one-to-a-part performances benefit from majestic recorded sound. —
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The vocalists all have pleasant voices, and the ensemble plays well. —
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Zelenka: Melodrama de Sancto Wenceslao ZWV 175
Musica Florea, Musica Aeterna, Ensemble Philidor & Boni Pueri, Marek Stryncl
From instrumental obbligatos to antiphonal choruses it’s all so fresh and exuberant. —
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