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New. Dvořák: Rusalka
Ludmila Červinková (Rusalka), Beno Blachut (Prince), Eduard Haken (Water Goblin), Marta Krásová (Witch), Marie Podvalová (Foreign Princess), Prague National Theatre Orchestra, Jaroslav Krombholc
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It’s a great set that all lovers of quality Romantic piano music should investigate without delay. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Solo Instrument
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…the Smetana Trio, excellently recorded, deliver landmark performances of both trios. The developmental intensity of the F minor Trio's first movement has rarely seemed more incandescent or... —
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2006, Disc of the month
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2007, Chamber Award Winner
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Special offer. Martinů: What Men Live By & Symphony No.1
RecommendedCzech Philharmonic, Jiří Bělohlávek
This sounds throughout, even in the numinous calling of the Lord which conjures up the composer’s familiar spooky vein, like Martinů lite…There’s a performance of the First Symphony, Bělohlávek’s... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 19th October 2018
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Diapason d’Or, January 2019, Découverte
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Martinu: Cantatas
Pavla Vykopalova (soprano), Ludmila Hudeckova (contralto), Martin Slavik (tenor), Jiri Bruckler (baritone), Petr Svoboda (baritone), Jaromir Meduna (recitation) & Ivo Kahanek (piano)
Members of the Bennewitz Quartet & Prague Philharmonic Choir, Lukas Vasilek
Baritone Jirí Brückler is superb here, and the top-quality professional Prague Philharmonic Choir master the most harmonically rich cantata of the four, a tale of a girl who doesn’t recognise... —
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2017, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2017, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2018, Finalist - Choral
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The pitch-perfect singing of Lukáš Vasilek’s Martinu Voices is always companionable, and I imagine there must be a special pleasure for native Czech speakers. But this is a treasury for everyone. —
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Presto Editor's Choice, January 2018
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2018, Editor's Choice
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Diapason d’Or, May 2018, Nouveauté
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Martinů: The Epic of Gilgamesh
Lucy Crowe (soprano), Andrew Staples (tenor), Derek Welton (bass-baritone), Jan Martiník (bass), Simon Callow (narrator)
Czech Philharmonic Prague, Philharmonic Choir Vasilek, Manfred Honeck
All life is here in compressed mastery. Idiomatically conducted by Manfred Honeck and vividly recorded live in Prague’s Rudolfinum, this is the definitive performance of a 20th-century choral... —
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The Times Records of the Year, 2017
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Record Review, 4th November 2017, Recording of the Week
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Life with Czech Music - Janacek & Martinu
RecommendedElisabeth Söderström (soprano), Drahomira Drobkova (contralto), Frantisek Livora (tenor), Richard Novak (bass), Jan Hora (organ), Kvetoslava Nemeckova (soprano), Leo Marian Vodicka (tenor), Vaclav Zitek (baritone), Josef Ruzicka (piano), Jan Bouse (timpani), Eva Urbanova (soprano), Bernarda Fink...
Even the recording acoustic is warm, enough sometimes to curl the music’s edges and smudge away little details. But Mackerras’s handling of this repertoire is so fresh, so responsive to the... —
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Gramophone Awards, 1986, Winner - Choral
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Even in 2020’s crowded field of Beethoven recordings, this one by the Smetana Trio stands out...all four works come across with vibrant, persuasive energy in the warm but clean acoustic of the... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2020, Chamber Choice
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Antonín Dvořák: The Complete Works For Violin and Piano
Jiří Vodička (violin), David Mareček (piano)
Their album’s greatest worth isn’t its comprehensiveness but the playing itself...I can’t see anyone bettering this any time soon. —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2024, Editor's Choice
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