News Archive
April 2024
SMETANA200
YEAR OF CZECH MUSIC 2024
17th April On the occasion of the Year of Czech Music and the Smetana200 project, the Supraphon label has prepared several new titles with recordings…
THE PRAGUE SYMPONY ORCHESTRA IS CELEBRATING ITS JUBILEE 90TH SEASON
A SPECIAL NEW ALBUM INSPIRED BY PRAGUE
10th April The story of the Prague Symphony Orchestra is closely linked to the history of the Czech capital, and that history has left an impression…
March 2024
EXCELLENT RESPONSES TO THE ALBUM OF DVOŘÁK’S COMPLETE PIANO TRIOS
MADE BY THE GILTBURG – JARŮŠKOVÁ – JARŮŠEK TRIO
28th March Three musicians in an incredible interplay. This is how one could briefly characterise the collaboration of leading artists of world renown…
MAREK KOZÁK
SHARING PASSION FOR MUSIC IS WONDERFUL!
21st March Czech 19th- and 20th-century music is not only about Dvořák and Martinů… That is proved by a new album containing three piano concertos…
VIKTOR KALABIS
COMPOSER & CONDUCTOR
18th March Supraphon’s 2013 album Symphonies & Concertos, mapping mature and late music by Viktor Kalabis (1923–2006), has met with an enthusiastic…
5 DIAPASONS FOR THE PRAGUE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
AND THEIR SLAVONIC DANCES
11th March Under their chief conductor Tomáš Brauner, the Prague Symphony Orchestra recorded an album featuring Antonín Dvořák’s Slavonic Dances,…
BEDŘICH SMETANA
200TH BIRTH ANNIVERSARY
4th March On 2nd March 200 years ago, a world-class Czech composer Bedřich Smetana, among others author of the operas Libuše, Hubička, The Bartered…
February 2024
FORGOTTEN CZECH PIANO CONCERTOS
PERFORMED BY MAREK KOZÁK AND PRSO
26th February Marek Kozák, one of the most talented young Czech pianists of today, releases a new album called Forgotten Czech Piano Concertos…
CHOC DE CLASSICA PLUS LA PRISE DE SON DU MOIS
FOR GILTBURG – JARŮŠKOVÁ – JARŮŠEK AND THEIR DVOŘÁK PIANO TRIOS
6th February Another great success for Boris Giltburg and two principal members of the Pavel Haas Quartet, Veronika and Peter Jarůšek, and their…
January 2024
MUSICWEB INTERNATIONAL RECORDINGS OF THE YEAR 2023
JISTEBNICKÝ KANCIONÁL BY TIBURTINA ENSEMBLE
25th January The album by the internationally renowned Tiburtina Ensemble of female voices, headed by Barbora Kabátková, featuring a recording of the…
ALBUM OF THE WEEK ON NPO KLASSIEK
FOR SLAVONIC DANCES BY PRAGUE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
15th January The brand-new recording of Dvořák's famous Slavonic Dances, performed by Prague Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Tomáš Brauner, has been…
DIAPASON D'OR
FOR GILTBURG – JARŮŠKOVÁ – JARŮŠEK AND THEIR DVOŘÁK PIANO TRIOS
11th January The album of The Dvořák Complete Piano Trios, made by three globally celebrated artists Boris Giltburg and two principal members of the…
YEAR OF CZECH MUSIC 2024
HAS STARTED
4th January Years ending with four have a great significance in Czech music. Strangely enough, they often coincide with the anniversaries of the birth,…