Supraphon reviews
Novák: Piano Concerto; At Dusk, etc
Jan Bartoš (piano); Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra/Jakub Hrůša (Supraphon)
Beethoven: Piano Trios Nos 3, 5, 6 & 7
Smetana Trio (Supraphon)
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 3, 9, 23 & 32; 6 Bagatelles; 32 Variations on an Original Theme in C minor
Jan Bartoš (Supraphon)
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Martinů: Madrigals, H380; Czech Madrigals, H278; Five Czech Madrigals, H321; Primrose; Three Sacred Songs; Four Marian Songs
Jakub Fišer, Karel Kosarek; Martinů Voices/Lukáš Vasilek (
Supraphon)
French Arias
Petr Nekoranec (tenor); Zuzana Markova (soprano); Czech Philharmonic/Christopher Franklin (Supraphon)
Dvořák: Piano Quartets Nos 1 & 2
Dvořák Piano Quartet (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)
A masterful performance of two Czech concertos
‘Kahánek’s scrupulous attention to the dynamic markings results in a clear-textured performance of rare delicacy’
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.
The Josef Suk Piano Quartet produces 'moments of remarkable profundity' in Piano Quartets by Suk and Dvořák
For Josef Suk (1874-1935), his Piano Quartet was truly a landmark work. When Dvořák told the 16-year-old budding composer he had done a ‘good job’ with the second movement, Suk was inspired to try to measure up to the great man for the rest of his life.