Supraphon

Netopil directs an excellent performance which, appropriately enough, reflects the operatic world of The Cunning Little Vixen and the Excursions of Mr Broucek...[the Credo] is beautifully shaped... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…

To listen to Moravec is to be reminded of another era, one in which there was no political correctness surrounding Bach and the modern piano. He gives a warm, richly rhetorical reading of the... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2015 More…

And there's freedom aplenty in these vigorous, highly charged performances...These are strong-jawed readings with a great sense of purpose...Another asset to this set is the violinist himself,... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2011 More…

Robert Hugo lavished as much attention on Rathgeber's slender compositions as he does on Jacob's weightier utterances. Voices are suitably robust… good sense prevails in the artistic use of... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2010 More…

Whatever happened to Czech music after Janácek? Martinu is one answer; Ladislav Vycpálek is another, barely known outside his own country. Yet Karel Ancerl conducts this sombre dramatisation... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2007 More…

Recorded at the 1990 Prague Spring Festival, Smetana's musical evocation of his Czech homeland has never been so profoundly felt. — BBC Music Magazine, January 2012 More…

…Jirí Bárta… plays with a warm, unselfconscious expressiveness that connects with all three works, and the Prague Philharmonia is with him every step of the way. — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2009 More…