Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra Olomouc
The Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra (in Czech, the Moravská Filharmonie Olomouc) has been an important presence on the Czech music scene since its formation in 1945, attracting a range of international collaborators. With specialties in Czech and Viennese repertory, the orchestra has also premiered some 250 new works.
The Moravian Philharmonic was founded in 1945 in the city of Olomouc, shortly after it was liberated from German control. Director Dalibor Doubek assembled the group from musicians who had been active in the city previously, as conditions permitted. The orchestra played its first concert on May 26, 1945, performing the symphonic poem Ma Vlast (My Country) of Bedřich Smetana. By the end of the 1946 season, the orchestra had 52 members and was well established. Otto Klemperer and Václav Neumann each conducted the group in its early years, and in 1950, it performed for the first time at the newly established Prague Spring Festival. Collaborators included violinists David Oistrakh and Yehudi Menuhin and pianist Sviatoslav Richter. The orchestra toured Poland in 1958 and made its first visit to western Europe the following year, playing a series of Beethoven programs in Italy. The orchestra expanded further under its second conductor, Zdeněk Mácal, who established a new associated chamber orchestra in the mid-1960s. Later conductors included Petr Vronsky and, since 2018, Jakub Klecker. The Moravian Philharmonic organizes the city's International Organ Festival (which began in 1969) and an Olomouc Dvořák Festival. At home, the group performs at Olomouc's Moravian Theater.
The Moravian Philharmonic made its first album, including works by Bohuslav Martinů and Iša Krejčí, in 1979, and it has gone on to amass a substantial catalog. Around the turn of the century, the orchestra recorded for a variety of small labels, including MMC, Zimbel, and Thorofon. Since 2009, the Philharmonic has been primarily associated with Navona Records, where it has recorded a variety of Western contemporary repertory. The orchestra moved to the Naxos label in 2020 for the first in a series of recordings of Vítězslav Novák's orchestral works. An album of overtures by opera composer Daniel-François-Esprit Auber followed in 2021.
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Auber: Overtures, Vol. 3
Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra Olomouc, Dario Salvi
Classical - Released by Naxos on 29 Jan 2021
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Haydn: Cello Concerto Nos. 1 & 2
Robert deMaine, Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra Olomouc, Joel Eric Suben
Classical - Released by Leaf Music on 26 Oct 2018
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Novák: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1
Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra Olomouc, Marek Stilec
Classical - Released by Naxos on 4 Dec 2020
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Auber: Overtures, Vol. 4
Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra Olomouc, Dario Salvi
Classical - Released by Naxos on 28 May 2021
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Prisma: Contemporary Works for Orchestra
Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra Olomouc
Classical - Released by Navona on 2 Feb 2018
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Jonathan Sheffer: The Conference of the Birds
Joyce DiDonato, Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra Olomouc, Jonathan Sheffer
Classical - Released by Navona on 8 Apr 2016
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Beethoven & Voríšek: Triple Concertos
Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra Olomouc, Smetana Trio, Stanislav Vavrinek
Classical - Released by Cube-Metier on 1 Mar 2008
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East of the Sun & West of the Moon
Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra Olomouc, Gerard Schwarz, Stanislav Vavrinek
Classical - Released by Navona on 12 Jan 2018
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Rain Worthington: Dream Vapors
Česká filharmonie, Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra Olomouc, Russian Philharmonic Orchestra, Robert Ian Winstin, Petr Vronský, Ovidiu Marinescu
Classical - Released by Navona on 12 Feb 2016
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Polarities, Vol. 2
Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra Olomouc
Classical - Released by Navona on 25 Jun 2021
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Peace, Nature & Renewal
Classical - Released by Navona on 15 Mar 2019
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Sensations: Wind, Waves, Birds & Fire
Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra Olomouc, Lucie Kaucka, Vit Muzik, Margaret Brandman, Petr Vronský, Marcello Maio
Classical - Released by Navona on 13 May 2016
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Taylor: 3 Century Suite
Classical - Released by Navona on 11 Nov 2016
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Legends & Light: New Works for Large Ensemble
Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra Olomouc, Croatian Chamber Orchestra, Petr Vronský, Stanislav Vavrinek, Miran Vaupotic
Classical - Released by Navona on 12 Oct 2018
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Jeffrey Jacob: Sequoias
Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra Olomouc, Philadelphia Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra, New England String Quartet, Stanislav Vavrinek, Daniel Spalding, Jeffrey Jacob
Classical - Released by Navona on 25 Mar 2022
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Mills: Elan Valley
Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra Olomouc, Daniel Ahlert, Sam Brown, Petr Vronský, Birgit Schwab
Classical - Released by Claudio Records on 4 May 2018
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Noyes: Journeys After… (Moravská filharmonie Olomouc)
Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra Olomouc, St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra, Petr Vronský, Vladimir Lande
Classical - Released by Navona on 4 Feb 2014
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Œuvres pour orchestre et piano seul
Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra Olomouc, Winston Choi, Miroslav Safar, Andreas Herm Baumgartner, Toshiyuki Shimada
Classical - Released by Naxos on 27 Jan 2008
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Reason & Reverence
Lucie Kaucka, Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra Olomouc, Petr Vronský
Classical - Released by Navona on 8 Jun 2018
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Passage: Contemporary Works for Orchestra
Ondřej Jurčeka, Slovak National Symphony Orchestra, Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra Olomouc, Kirk Trevor, Stanislav Vavrinek, Petr Vronský
Classical - Released by Navona on 12 May 2017
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Pictures and Stories
Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra Olomouc
Classical - Released by Albany Records on 1 Sep 2008
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