Supraphon
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Netopil directs an excellent performance which, appropriately enough, reflects the operatic world of The Cunning Little Vixen and the Excursions of Mr Broucek...[the Credo] is beautifully shaped... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2014, Editor's Choice
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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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Building a Library, January 2000, First Choice
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Tomás Brauner and the Prague Symphony Orchestra on this well-recorded disc capture Husa’s attenuated orchestral textures with passion and insight; only the finale of Music for Prague 1968 seems... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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the complex textures of the first movement [of the Fifth] are superbly delineated and the finale has thrilling immediacy... Belohlávek responds to [the Sixth's] disparate moods magnificently... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Finalist - Orchestral
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Special offer. Smetana: Libuše (incomplete)
conducted by Václav Talich Live in 1939
Marie Podvalová (Libuše), Stanislav Muž (Přemysl), Vilém Zítek (Chrudoš), Josef Vojta (Šťáhlav), Jaroslav Veverka (Lutobor), Ota Horáková (Krasava), Marta Krásová (Radmila), Josef Křikava (Radovan), Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Václav Talich
The opera fragments are what make this CD unique, especially the intense portrayal of Libuše herself by the then-young soprano Marie Podvalová, bold, fearless singing, almost always dead in... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2020, Reissue/Archive of the Month
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The Bennewitz Quartet are a wonderfully balanced ensemble with superb intonation and internal harmony. Their accounts of all o these works are exemplary and they need fear no comparison with... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2019
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The Smetana Trio’s performances, as captured in Supraphon’s warm recording, are totally compelling. It’s no mean feat that the players not only negotiate the ebb and flow of the musical argument... —
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2019, Chamber Choice
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