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Building a Library, May 2007, Mid-Price Choice
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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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Kodály's Solo Cello Sonata is among the strongest, most searching of all his works, arguably the finest of all works for unaccompanied cello since Bach's suites, and here it receives a performance... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2004, Editor's Choice
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Still in his mid-twenties, Jakub Hrusa is a conductor to look out for. A pupil of Jiri Belohlavek, he has built up a
formidable career in Europe and America. Here he draws superb playing from... —Awards:
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Building a Library, January 2018, First Choice
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Sadly, none of these superb quartets is familiar concert fare, even in Prague these days, but the Stamic Quartet provide consistently idiomatic, involved performances...overall these are exemplary... —
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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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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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