The late, great Czech conductor Jirí Belohlávek was active until shortly before his death in May of 2017, and record companies have realized the high quality of his recordings of Czech music during his last years and rushed to issue it. This double-CD set from Decca of Leos Janácek's music combines recordings from various sessions, although all were made at the Rudolfinium in Prague, a hall that Belohlávek knew inside and out. There's nothing here to quite match Belohlávek's shattering Ma Vlast with the Czech Philharmonic, ...
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The late, great Czech conductor Jirí Belohlávek was active until shortly before his death in May of 2017, and record companies have realized the high quality of his recordings of Czech music during his last years and rushed to issue it. This double-CD set from Decca of Leos Janácek's music combines recordings from various sessions, although all were made at the Rudolfinium in Prague, a hall that Belohlávek knew inside and out. There's nothing here to quite match Belohlávek's shattering Ma Vlast with the Czech Philharmonic, also issued by Decca in 2018, and at some points in the symphonic poem Taras Bulba, based on Gogol's novel, the Czech Philharmonic strings lack their usual sheen. But all the virtues of Belohlávek's conducting are on display here: his awesome attention to detail, his deliberate approach and way of making space for the long line, his profound Czech melodies. And you do get a joyous reading of the Sinfonietta, recorded just a few months before the conductor's death. The main...
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