Your favorite Supraphon recordings

Irons · June 06, 2025, 07:58:29 AM

Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on June 05, 2025, 02:34:09 PMThe video just came to my Youtube account. Sounds very good!

Myroslav Skoryk: Concerto for Orchestra 'Karpatskyi' (Carpathian).
Czechoslovak Radio Symphony Orchestra.
Conductor: Jaromir Nohejl.

Excellent! Thanks for posting. For everything under the sun I have a memory like a sieve but for LP records oddly photogenic. That I have never seen that issue I can say with certainty.
Myroslav Skoryk is also unknown to me. Impressive piece, with an opening with echoes of Ravel/Respighi, after which very much his own voice - clear, concise and at times humorous.

Dry Brett Kavanaugh · June 06, 2025, 09:16:00 AM

Quote from: Irons on June 06, 2025, 07:58:29 AMExcellent! Thanks for posting. For everything under the sun I have a memory like a sieve but for LP records oddly photogenic. That I have never seen that issue I can say with certainty.
Myroslav Skoryk is also unknown to me. Impressive piece, with an opening with echoes of Ravel/Respighi, after which very much his own voice - clear, concise and at times humorous.

Yes, fine work. Funny, the video showed up on Youtube when I was talking about Supraphon and Panton.
There is a Naxos recording of the same work as well.

Dry Brett Kavanaugh · June 06, 2025, 09:23:36 AM

Quote from: Irons on June 06, 2025, 07:20:30 AM

To have the Czech Phil in their pomp performing idiomatic French music is a gift.

Both albums above under the musical direction of Eduard Herzog. Miloslav Kulhan sound engineer for the first and Frantisek Burda for the second. Both names turn up many times on Supraphon.

Due to Kalevala's post, this morning I was listening to the album below, which seems to be a compilation of the two albums in question.
Very nice performance indeed. Debussy is a little slower and the color of music expands beautifully.

Irons · June 07, 2025, 02:06:21 AM

Quote from: Dry Brett Kavanaugh on June 06, 2025, 09:16:00 AMYes, fine work. Funny, the video showed up on Youtube when I was talking about Supraphon and Panton.
There is a Naxos recording of the same work as well.

This morning shown up on mine too!

Irons · June 10, 2025, 01:09:13 PM

Much smaller operation then Supraphon. Even so, Opus based in Bratislava made some fine recordings in clean modern sound.

As title suggests Symphony 1945 composed by Jan Cikker is a war symphony. Not a celebration of the ending of WWII, more looking back at the suffering and heroism of years of combat.

Out of a legion of Dvorak's "American" recordings my long time favourite is the Opus recording by Slovak Quartet. A 'singing' Lento to die for.

Kalevala · June 10, 2025, 01:16:30 PM

Quote from: Irons on June 10, 2025, 01:09:13 PMMuch smaller operation then Supraphon. Even so, Opus based in Bratislava made some fine recordings in clean modern sound.

As title suggests Symphony 1945 composed by Jan Cikker is a war symphony. Not a celebration of the ending of WWII, more looking back at the suffering and heroism of years of combat.

Out of a legion of Dvorak's "American" recordings my long time favourite is the Opus recording by Slovak Quartet. A 'singing' Lento to die for.

I'll try and listen to it.

K