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Their way with the core repertoire here, the sonatas and variations, is mostly excellent. Outer movements are all well paced with genuine eloquence in the more reflective passages. —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2025, Recording of the Week
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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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Smetana: The Bartered Bride
RecommendedGabriela Benackova-Capova (Marenka), Peter Dvorsky (Jenik), Richard Novak (Kecal), Jaroslav Horacek (Micha), Marie Mrazova (Hata), Miroslav Kopp (Vasek)
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra & Prague Philharmonic Choir, Zdenek Kosler
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Building a Library, May 2023, Also Recommended
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Kalabis: Sonatas for Cello / Clarinet / Violin and Piano
Ivo Kahanek (piano), Tomas Jamnik (cello), Anna Paulova (clarinet), Jan Fiser (violin)
The three interpreters are some of the Czech Republic's most brilliant young instrumentalists. Anchoring things is pianist Ivo Kahánek who has already recorded Kalabis' solo piano music for... —
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Janáček: Sinfonietta & Taras Bulba
Recorded at the Rudolfinum, Prague, June 22-24 and 29, and September 30, 2012.
Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Tomáš Netopil
A superb programme...The substantially gifted Tomáš Netopil has the full measure of all four works...You hear everything and yet not a single note obtrudes. An absolute winner. —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2013, Editor's Choice
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Poulenc, Martinů: Harpsichord Concertos
Zuzana Růžičková (soloist), Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Prague Chamber Soloists, Kurt Sanderling
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Dvorák - Symphonic Poems
RecommendedRecorded at the Rudolfinum, Prague
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras
Sir Charles...marks the Mendelssohnian drift of the big string theme in The Golden Spinning Wheel, a performance full of warmth and vitality, very realistically recorded and surely the highlight... —
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Sunday Times, 2010, Albums of the Year
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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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A fascinating voyage of discovery into Viennese church music traditions in the years before Haydn and Mozart. —
