Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra
The Slovak Philharmonic (in Slovak, Slovenská filharmónia) is one of the youngest among Europe's great symphonic ensembles, yet it has gained international renown in the 1990s and early 2000s. The orchestra has recorded extensively and has attracted top-notch international collaborators. The Slovak Philharmonic was founded in Bratislava, then part of Czechoslovakia, in 1949. Its first conductor, Vaclav Talich, and first music director, Ludovit Ratjer, were key figures in the orchestra's formation and emergence. In the 1950s, the orchestra began giving concerts in the handsome 1773 Reduta Bratislava concert hall, which has remained its home base. After Rajter stepped down as conductor in 1976, the orchestra had several other highly regarded conductors including Ladislav Slovak (until 1981), Libor Pesek, and, in 1990 and 1991, Aldo Ceccato, its first conductor from outside Czechoslovak lands. After Slovakia split peacefully from the Czech Republic in 1993, the Slovak Philharmonic went from being a strong orchestra in a country with many of them to something of a national flagship, and it increasingly attracted foreign conductors and instrumental collaborators as guests. Among the former group have been Claudio Abbado, Sergiu Celibidache, and Mariss Jansons. The permanent conductorship, however, remained mostly in Slovak and Czech hands; the renowned Jiří Bělohlávek served a term in the 2003-2004 season. That changed with the appointment of France's Emmanuel Villaume in 2009; he remained in the job until 2016, when he was succeeded by Britain's James Judd, a former conductor of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and the founder of the Miami Music Project. The orchestra has also been led in recent years by its permanent guest conductors, Leos Svarovsky (until 2018), Rastislav Stur, and Petr Altrichter. The orchestra has a large collection of recordings, most of them on the Naxos, Zebralution, and Denon labels; on Naxos the group released a recording of symphonic poems from Bedřich Smetana's Swedish period.
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Dvořák: The Complete Published Orchestral Works (Antonin Dvorak)
Klassiek - Released by Naxos on 1 mrt. 2004
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Liadov: Baba Yaga / Enchanted Lake / Kikimora
Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Stephen Gunzenhauser
Klassiek - Released by Naxos on 11 dec. 2001
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Strauss Ii, J.: 100 Most Famous Works, Vol. 4
Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra, Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Alfred Walter, Johannes Wildner
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STRAUSS II, J.: 100 Most Famous Works, Vol. 5
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STRAUSS II, J.: 100 Most Famous Works, Vol. 3
Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Polish State Philharmonic Orchestra, Katowice, Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra, Alfred Walter, Oliver von Dohnanyi
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STRAUSS II, J.: 100 Most Famous Works, Vol. 7
Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra, Polish State Philharmonic Orchestra, Katowice, Alfred Walter, Johannes Wildner
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Strauss Ii, J.: 100 Most Famous Works, Vol. 9
Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra, Polish State Philharmonic Orchestra, Katowice, Alfred Walter, Oliver von Dohnanyi
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Strauss Ii, J.: 100 Most Famous Works, Vol. 10
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CIURLIONIS: Sea (The) / In the Forest / Five Preludes
Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Juozas Domarkas
Klassiek - Released by Marco-Polo on 17 jul. 1990
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The Best of French Ballet: Delibes
Ondrej Lenárd, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
Klassiek - Released by Naxos on 6 nov. 1990
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Mendelssohn: Midsummer Night's Dream (A) / Overtures
Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Anthony Bramall, Oliver von Dohnanyi
Klassiek - Released by Naxos on 12 nov. 1998
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Great Romantic Symphonies
Klassiek - Released by Naxos on 26 mrt. 2012
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Strauss Ii, J.: 100 Most Famous Works, Vol. 1
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Clásicos del Milenio, Tomaso Albinoni
Carmen Piazzini, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Lothar Koch
Klassiek - Released by Piros - Send on 18 apr. 2014
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STRAUSS II, J.: 100 Most Famous Works, Vol. 2
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Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E Minor - Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D Major
Takako Nishizaki, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Kenneth Jean
Klassiek - Released by Naxos on 15 dec. 1988
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TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 5 / Marche slave (Slavonic March)
Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Stephen Gunzenhauser
Klassiek - Released by Naxos on 16 jan. 2017
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The Masterpieces - Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, Op. 35
Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Bystrík Režucha
Klassiek - Released by Menuetto Classics on 11 mei 2018
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Le cinéma de Bach à Wagner
Klassiek - Released by naïve classique on 24 mrt. 2014
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LA MOLDAU
Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Kurt Redel
Klassiek - Released by Pierre Verany on 15 sep. 1994
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My First Tchaikovsky Album
Klassiek - Released by Naxos on 27 feb. 2012
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