Supraphon
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Smetana & Schubert: Piano Trios
RecommendedTrio Bohémo: Jan Vojtek - Piano, Matouš Peruška – Violin, Kristina Vocetková – Cello
Written during a very turbulent period in the composer’s life, Smetana’s 1855 Piano Trio is a work of considerable mood swings and unexpected twists and turns. At times, it is also heartbreakingly... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 23rd August 2024
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winners 2024, Debut Album
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Schubert: Death And The Maiden & String Quintet In C Major
Recommendedwith Danjulo Ishizaka (cello)
Pavel Haas Quartet
The Pavel Haas Quartet, with the superb extra cellist Danjulo Ishizaka, even succeed where most other ensembles fail, making the last movement of the String Quintet into something that seems... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2013, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Winner - Chamber
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The Trio Bohémo offer dazzling performances, with Jan Vojtek negotiating Reicha's tricky piano writing with ease. —
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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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Perhaps the best place to sample, initially, would be the Archduke’s endlessly songful slow movement. For an example of the Trio’s elegance, try the same work’s finale. —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2021, Reissue/Archive Issue of the Month
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Beethoven, Reicha Piano Concertos
Jan Bartoš (piano), Wiener Symphoniker, Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Petr Popelka
The unfamiliar Reicha concerto of 1804, recently restored to a playable version and recorded here for the first time, opens the album. Except the piece needs no special pleading: this Classical... —
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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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Plaudits to Risonanza Praga, advocates for 18th and 19th-century instrumental music, in eschewing the use of a conductor and helping us to appreciate something of the richness and diversity... —
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Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1-9
Ingeborg Wenglor (soprano), Annelies Burmeister (alto), Martin Ritzmann (tenor) & Rolf Kühne (bass)
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra & Prague Philharmonic Choir, Paul Kletzki
The Czech Phil’s sound here is charismatic and idiomatic, with a rich, muscular string timbre cushioning highly distinctive wind and brass playing...The interpretations hold up very well – Kletzki’s... —
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A fascinating voyage of discovery into Viennese church music traditions in the years before Haydn and Mozart. —
