Czech Philharmonic reviews
Dvořák: Requiem, Biblical Songs, Te Deum
Prague Philharmonic Choir; Czech Philharmonic/Jakub Hrusa, et al (Decca)
French Arias
Petr Nekoranec (tenor); Zuzana Markova (soprano); Czech Philharmonic/Christopher Franklin (Supraphon)
Martinů: What Men Live By; Symphony No. 1
Ivan Kusnjer, Petr Svoboda, Jan Martiník, Lucie Silkenová, Ester Pavlů, Lukáš Mareček; Czech Philharmonic/Jiři Bělohlávek (Supraphon)
Honeck directs The Epic of Gilgamesh
From 1940 until his death in 1959, having lost both his Czech homeland and his beloved composer-muse Vitezslava Kaprálová who died aged only 25, Bohuslav Martinů was preoccupied with thoughts of death and possible transfiguration.