I'll second that. What a fabulous lineup of musicians and repertoire. Joesph Suk, the Vlach, Janacek, and Smetana String Quartets, some great pianists, and don't forget Ancerl's Prokofiev, Romeo and Juliet, Brahms, and Mahler. There was Matacic's Bruckner, the glorious sound of the Czech Philharmonic, Neumann's Roussel etc. The list of great recordings is endless. I happened to work at Discurio in Melbourne in 1970 - the Australian Agents for Supraphon. Ah, there was also the Second Viennese school recordings, the Shostakovich, even some B. Britten...
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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