Your favorite Supraphon recordings

[Irons]

The 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]

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.

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]

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]

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.

This morning shown up on mine too!

[Irons]

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]

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.

I'll try and listen to  it.

K

[JBS]

I found both the works in the compilation below. They sound very good!  There are other interesting works in the recording as well.

I'm listening to the first CD of this set now. The Dvorak works (Serenade in D, Czech Suite) are great, but can't overcome the problem of being outdone by a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
performance of the Suk Serenade in E Flat.

[Irons]

I'm listening to the first CD of this set now. The Dvorak works (Serenade in D, Czech Suite) are great, but can't overcome the problem of being outdone by a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
performance of the Suk Serenade in E Flat.

No bad thing to have an entrenched view stood on it's head. I have always thought of Josef Suk in awe and standing in the shadow of his father-in-law until showing his true voice with 'Asrael' Symphony. I will listen to Suk's Serenade with fresh ears and thanks for that.

[JBS]

Crosspost from the main listening thread

CD 3 of this



Britten: Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge
Debussy: Two Dances for Harp and Strings
Ilja Hurnik: Concerto for Oboe, Piano, and String Orchestra
Jiri Pauer: Symphony for Strings

The Britten was commented on in this thread, but the Hurnik and Pauer impressed me far more. Possibly just the effect of being new to me, but since this box represents the only CD release of these recordings, and these seem to be the only recording of either work, I think their presence alone justifies getting the box.

Hurnik was a pianist who recorded at least two albums of Debussy for Supraphon. He is the pianist in his own composition, which is more modernist in style than the Pauer, despite being composed earlier (in the late 1950s, recorded in 1961, compared to Pauer being composed in the late 1970s and recorded in 1981).

[Irons]

More guaranteed excellence of Supraphon chamber music recordings.

 

I have a bit of a blind spot with Martinu. However, Violin Sonata No.3 clicked immediately and coming to terms with 6th SQ.

[Kalevala]

More guaranteed excellence of Supraphon chamber music recordings.

 

I have a bit of a blind spot with Martinu. However, Violin Sonata No.3 clicked immediately and coming to terms with 6th SQ.

Cool! 

I must admit that that cover for the violin sonata kind of grosses me out!

K