News Archive
December 2017
VIVACE AUTUMN / WINTER 2017
CLASSICAL MUSIC REVIEW IN SUPRAPHON RECORDINGS
22nd December Enjoy the SUPRAPHON classical music bulletin containing new releases info, artists' interviews, videos etc.
GRAMOPHONE RECORDINGS OF THE YEAR 1977-2017
PAVEL HAAS QUARTET RECORDING OF THE YEAR 2011
21st December To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Gramophone Classical Music Awards this year, Gramophone has produced a very special free digital…
GRAMOPHONE RECORDINGS OF THE YEAR 2017
THE SPECIAL MAGAZINE CONTAINS TWO SUPRAPHON RECORDINGS
20th December Gramophone has published its Recordings of the Year 2017 free digital magazine. In it editors highlight what they consider to have been the…
ENSEMBLE BERLIN PRAG
PERFORMANCE IN BERLINER PHILHARMONIE
18th December The international Ensemble Berlin Prag will be releasing a new album in January which contains an integral recording of six sonatas by Jan…
HERVORRAGENDES GILGAMESH-EPOS AUS PRAG
A BEAUTIFUL REVIEW IN PIZZICATO MAGAZINE
15th December Manfred Honeck’s account of Martinů’s The Epic of Gilgamesh is colourful and dynamic. The richness of the score is displayed without a hint…
PRESTO CLASSICAL RECORDINGS OF THE YEAR 2017
PAVEL HAAS QUARTET AMONG TOP 10 ALBUMS
11th December The new Pavel Haas Quartet album with Dvořák Quintets Op. 81 & 97 is among Presto Classical Top 10 albums of 2017. Congratulations to…
MARTINŮ'S BOUQUET OF FLOWERS
THE GUARDIAN REVIEW
8th December „Bohuslav Martinů lived in Paris through the 1920s and got swept up in the city’s jazz and avant-garde scenes. Then in the early 1930s he…
THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH
SUNDAY TIMES ALBUMS OF THE YEAR
7th December After being designated as the Sunday Times Album of the Week, Martinů's The Epic of Gilgamesh has made it into the Sunday Times Albums of…
MARTINŮ'S BOUQUET OF FLOWERS
ON BBC RADIO 3 RECORD REVIEW
5th December Bohuslav Martinů's Bouquet of Flowers was played and reviewed on BBC Radio 3 Record Review on Saturday 2nd December.
November 2017
THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH
SUNDAY TIMES ALBUM OF THE WEEK
27th November “Taken from a live Prague concert in January this year, this recording is the first performed in its original English text, and the result…
PAVEL HAAS QUARTET
A FRIENDLY ENCOUNTER WITH BEAUTIFUL MUSIC
23rd November „They seem always immersed in all they play, both in terms of their rapport but their instinctive understanding of the score too." …
MANFRED HONECK ON THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH
PRESTO CLASSICAL INTERVIEW
16th November A nice interview with Manfred Honeck is now live on the Presto website.
MARTINŮ'S BOUQUET OF FLOWERS
REDISCOVERED AFTER 60 YEARS
14th November In collaboration with Czech Radio, Supraphon releases on 16 November 2017 an album made up of a new recording of Bohuslav Martinů’s Bouquet…
LAUNCHING OF THE NEW PAVEL HAAS QUARTET ALBUM
IN VIOLA THEATRE IN PRAGUE
10th November The Pavel Haas Quartet launched their new Dvořák album on 9th November 2017 in Viola Theatre in Prague. Both album guests Boris Giltburg…
GRAMOPHONE EDITOR'S CHOICE
FOR THE PAVEL HAAS QUARTET NEW ALBUM
6th November „Another Pavel Haas Quartet disc, another triumph. They seem always immersed in all they play, both in terms of their rapport but their…
BBC RADIO 3 RECORD REVIEW DISC OF THE WEEK
FOR THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH
6th November The premiere recording of the oratorio by Bohuslav Martinů The Epic of Gilgamesh was played on BBC Radio 3 Record Review on November 4th as…
October 2017
SPECIALIST CLASSICAL CHART
NO. 1 FOR PAVEL HAAS QUARTET AND NO. 19 FOR THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH
30th October Two SUPRAPHON new releases have appeared in the Specialist Classical Chart in the first week after the release date:
AN ABUNDANCE OF ACCOLADES
FOR THE PAVEL HAAS QUARTET NEW ALBUM
24th October Sunday Times 22.10.17 Album of the Week
PRESTO CLASSICAL RECORDING OF THE WEEK
ANOTHER STUNING DISC FROM THE PAVEL HAAS QUARTET AND FRIENDS
20th October It’s been quite some time since the Pavel Haas Quartet’s previous recording (a disc of string quartets by Bedřich Smetana which I reviewed…
A TRIUMPH FOR THE PAVEL HAAS QUARTET
TWO FANTASTIC REVIEWS FOR THE NEW DVOŘÁK ALBUM
18th October The new album of the Pavel Haas Quartet featuring Dvořák Quintets Op. 81 and Op. 97 has received two great reviews.
THIS AUTUMN’S MUSICAL HIGHLIGHT
THE ORIGINAL ENGLISH VERSION OF BOHUSLAV MARTINŮ’S THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH
16th October On 20 October 2017, Supraphon will release the premiere recording of the oratorio for soloists, narrator, mixed choir and orchestra in its…
PAVEL HAAS QUARTET
TO RELEASE AN ALBUM OF ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK’S QUINTETS
8th October Seven years after they triumphed with Dvořák’s quartets (Gramophone Award Recording of the Year), the Pavel Haas Quartet have returned to…
MANFRED HONECK AND BOHUSLAV MARTINŮ
A MUSICAL ODYSSEY
2nd October In January, Austrian conductor Manfred Honeck took over the Czech Philharmonic’s subscription concerts because of the poor health of the…
September 2017
ZUZANA RŮŽIČKOVÁ
THE WORLD-ACCLAIMED HARPSICHORDIST HAS PASSED AWAY
27th September Zuzana Růžičková, an esteemed harpsichordist and music educator, died today after a short illness. She was 90 years of age.
ANDRÉ NAVARRA'S SUPRAPHON RECORDINGS
FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THEIR ENTIRETY, NEWLY REMASTERED
22nd September When at the age of 15 André Navarra (1911–1988) completed his studies at the Paris Conservatoire, he ceased taking lessons and set out on…
August 2017
MARTINŮ QUARTET
NEW ALBUM OF PETR EBEN’S MUSIC
31st August Petr Eben was one of the most distinguished Czech composers of the second half of the 20th century. His music gained recognition far beyond…
JAN BARTOŠ
SUPRAPHON DEBUT ALBUM
29th August One of the most distinguished young Czech pianists, Jan Bartoš has a doctorate from the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague and a…
BELFIATO QUINTET
EVERYTHING BEGAN WITH OUR FRIENDSHIP
24th August The Belfiato Quintet are yet another exciting Czech chamber ensemble active in the international arena. The members of the young wind…
July 2017
BELFIATO QUINTET
THE DEBUT ALBUM CHARGED WITH POSITIVE ENERGY
28th July On 18 August 2017, the Belfiato Quintet, one of the most internationally acclaimed contemporary Czech chamber ensembles, will release their…
VIVACE SUMMER 2017
CLASSICAL MUSIC REVIEW IN SUPRAPHON RECORDINGS
13th July Enjoy our classical music bulletin containing new releases info, artists' interviews, videos etc.
JOSEF SUK PIANO QUARTET
DVOŘÁK’S MUSIC CANNOT BE PLAYED WITHOUT “ADDED VALUE”
3rd July The top-notch young performers associated in the JOSEF SUK PIANO QUARTET approach the world of music with humility. They speak about their…
June 2017
MARTINA JANKOVÁ
A SINGLE SONG CAN ENCOMPASS THE ENTIRETY OF HUMAN FATE
29th June “How could it have happened that the ample and valuable song tradition, once so popular in our country, has faded away?” asks the Czech…
JIŘÍ BĚLOHLÁVEK
GLOBALLY RENOWNED CONDUCTOR HAS PASSED AWAY
1st June On 31 May, Jiří Bělohlávek (24. 2. 1946 – 31. 5. 2017), the most acclaimed contemporary Czech conductor, died at the age of 71, following a…
May 2017
AT THE STUDIO
THE PAVEL HAAS QUARTET COMPLETE THE FIRST PART OF THEIR NEW ALBUM
29th May In the middle of May, the Pavel Haas Quartet arrived at the Dvořák Hall of the Rudolfinum in Prague, not to give a concert but to record a…
PAVOL BRESLIK
AT ALL TIMES I HAVE TREASURED SONGS IN MY HEART
9th May Pavol Breslik is an outstanding tenor invited by most prominent opera houses and concert halls (MET, Covent Garden, Salzburg, Zurich,…
PETRA MATĚJOVÁ DISCOVERS VÁCLAV TOMÁŠEK
“MUSIC DALAI LAMA” OF PRAGUE AT THE TURN OF THE 18TH AND 19TH CENTURIES
3rd May “An instrument should be approached with an open heart, then it itself will teach you,” the pianist Petra Matějová says. Supraphon has just…
April 2017
KATEŘINA ENGLICHOVÁ AND VILÉM VEVERKA
DEBUT JOINT ALBUM
26th April Two internationally acclaimed classical music performers – harpist Kateřina Englichová and oboist Vilém Veverka – have recorded their very…
DAGMAR PECKOVÁ - WANTED
I CHOOSE THE SONGS ACCORDING TO WHAT MY SOUL TOLD ME
25th April Your previous Supraphon album, titled Sinful Women, focused on the Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss repertoire, music that is not only…
BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE AWARDS 2017
THE SMETANA TRIO RECEIVE A SECOND COVETED BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE AWARD!
20th April On Wednesday 19 April 2017, the pianist Jitka Čechová, a member of the Smetana Trio, took over at Kings Place in London the BBC Music…
ZUZANA RŮŽIČKOVÁ
THE LEGENDARY HARSICHORDIST CELEBRATES HER 90TH BIRTHDAY
20th April On 21 April 2017, Supraphon will re-release a recording of Bach’s harpsichord concertos to mark the 90th birthday of Zuzana Růžičková (SU…
March 2017
ANDRÁS ADORJÁN RECALLS JEAN-PIERRE RAMPAL
ON THE OCCASION OF THE RELEASE OF HIS SUPRAPHON RECORDINGS
30th March The Hungary-born flautist András Adorján grew up in Denmark, where he studied dental surgery and music in Copenhagen. He subsequently took…
GREAT REVIEWS FOR MARTINŮ CANTATAS
PRAGUE PHILHARMONIC CHOIR
16th March The Prague Philharmonic Choir's recording of Martinů Cantatas received two fantastic reviews from prestigious classical music magazines…
February 2017
THE PHILHARMONIA OCTET
A NEW CD TO MARK THE PHILHARMONIA OCTET’S 10TH ANNIVERSARY
27th February The PhilHarmonia Octet was founded by two brilliant, internationally acclaimed Czech musicians – the oboist Vilém Veverka and the…
KRISTINA FIALOVÁ
SUCH WISHES ARE HONOURED!
23rd February The violist Kristina Fialová, whose career has of late been soaring, has already won prestigious accolades at international competitions,…
CZECH ENSEMBLE BAROQUE
WORLD PREMIERE RECORDING OF F. X. RICHTER’S ONE AND ONLY ITALIAN ORATORIO
4th February In the wake of the success gained by the 2014 CD featuring F. X. Richter’s Requiem in E flat major (SU 4177–2), Supraphon is now releasing…
THE CZECH PHILHARMONIC WITH MANFRED HONECK
RECORDING THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH FOR SUPRAPHON
2nd February On 25th January 2017 (and in subsequent performances of 26th and 27th January), the Czech Philharmonic introduced the Epic of Gilgamesh by…
January 2017
SMETANA TRIO
NOMINATION FOR THE BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE CHAMBER AWARD
23rd January The Smetana Trio’s recording of the complete Bohuslav Martinů piano trios has met with great acclaim ever since its release (Diapason d´Or,…
THE PAVEL HAAS QUARTET TO MAKE A NEW CD
CONCERT SCHEDULE AND NEW CD INFO
17th January The Pavel Haas Quartet’s action-packed concert season is in full swing. What is awaiting the world-renowned Czech ensemble over the next…