Rob Barnett’s review of the new Naxos Novák recording brought back happy memories of my own early Supraphon collection, but I hope that the second-hand Šejna vinyl was picked up for a good deal less than a pound in that little shop as I’m sure those early Supraphons were priced new at 17/6! I had most of the ones Rob mentions and there was some superb Janáček from Karel Ančerl (Sinfonietta, ‘Taras Bulba’, Glagolitic Mass) as well as an excellent ‘Alexander Nevsky’, and I made my first acquaintance with the now ubiquitous ‘Carmina Burana’ with a fine recording (with full texts in an LP-sized booklet) under Smetáček. Then there was the cycle of Dvořák symphonies, probably the first chance most of us had to hear Nos.1-4, and much more. And all with the little perforated strip on the sleeve whose purpose I never discovered!
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