Although he conducted only one of the three performances on this album, the Biblical Songs, Op. 99, the spirit of the great Jirí Belohlávek lives throughout the music here. The last work Belohlávek conducted before his death in 2017, in London, was the Dvorák Requiem, Op. 89. What's heard here is a version with Czech performers conducted by Jakub Hru?a, a close Belohlávek associate. The live performance, in Prague's Rudolfinum, was recorded in September of 2017, in memory of the recently deceased Belohlávek, and the ...
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Although he conducted only one of the three performances on this album, the Biblical Songs, Op. 99, the spirit of the great Jirí Belohlávek lives throughout the music here. The last work Belohlávek conducted before his death in 2017, in London, was the Dvorák Requiem, Op. 89. What's heard here is a version with Czech performers conducted by Jakub Hru?a, a close Belohlávek associate. The live performance, in Prague's Rudolfinum, was recorded in September of 2017, in memory of the recently deceased Belohlávek, and the performers understood very well what he would have wanted: deliberate, straightforward construction of this massive Wagnerian work. Hru?a and the Czech Philharmonic get the operatic quality abundantly on display in the "Tuba mirum," for instance, and the Prague Philharmonic Choir has never sounded better. In the Biblical Songs, Belohlávek keeps the focus on bass Jan Martiník in this singer-friendly work. The Te Deum, Op. 103, was conducted by Hru?a a few months later, in December, and it's...
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