Leos Svarovsky
Conductor Leo Svarovsky is among the most active conductors in his native Czech Republic and in Slovakia, and he has also appeared widely around Central Europe and in the Far East. He has a large catalog of recordings with various ensembles and is a noted educator. Svarovsky, apparently unrelated to conductor Hans Swarowsky, was born in Jablonec nad Nisou, in the northern part of what was then Czechoslovakia on May 17, 1961. His first instrument was the flute, and he attended the Prague Conservatory for studies on that instrument. He graduated and launched a career as a soloist but then returned to school, enrolling at the Prague Academy of Music (now the Academy of Performing Arts) and studying with famed conductor and teacher Václav Neumann; he was Neumann's last student. He also continued to study the flute during this period but landed operatic posts in Prague, at the Prague National Theater Opera and the Chamber Orchestra of Prague, and soon his career veered toward conducting. Svarovsky has conducted most of the major orchestras in the Czech Republic and Slovakia at one time or another. His orchestral career began with conducting posts at the State Philharmonic Orchestra in Brno, the Slovak Symphony Orchestra Zilina, and the Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra of Pardubice. He later led a pair of Prague orchestras, the Prague Philharmonic and the State Philharmonic Orchestra Prague, and he resumed his opera conducting career at the Prague State Opera. Svarovsky has continued to appear often as guest conductor with these organizations after moving on to new permanent posts. He has been a visible figure at music festivals in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, and across Central Europe, including the Prague Spring and Moravian Autumn events, as well as the Colorado Music Festival in the U.S. Svarovsky has also toured that country as guest conductor of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra. He has also led several performances of major choral works at the Rheingau Festival. A notable feature of Svarovsky's career has been his engagement with music-making in the Far East. He led the Slovak Philharmonic to Japan and has conducted the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra and the Shanghai Radio Symphony. By the late 2010s, Svarovsky was serving as chief conductor of the Aichi Central Symphony Orchestra Nagoya in Japan and had been named principal guest conductor of the Slovak Philharmonic. He has made several recordings for the Supraphon and New Millennium labels with the Brno State Philharmonic Orchestra; the latter group includes several devoted to the symphonic music of American composer Hayden Wayne. In 2019 he released a recording of music from Smetana's neglected Swedish period on the Naxos label.
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Massenet: Marie Magdeleine
Valentina Tschavdarova, Pavlina Kambourova, Jaromír Achatzi, Richard Haan, Leos Svarovsky, Brno Philharmonic Orchestra
Classical - Released by Supraphon a.s. on 1 Jan 1994
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Sibelius: Violin Concerto - Janda: Cornucopia - Third Confession
Pavel Eret, Brno Philharmonic Orchestra, Leos Svarovsky
Classical - Released by ArcoDiva on 1 Sep 2012
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Smetana: Swedish Symphonic Poems
Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Leos Svarovsky
Classical - Released by Naxos on 11 Jan 2019
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Jan Ladislav Dussek: Concerto for Two Pianos, Sonata for Two Fortepianos - Leopold Koželuh: Concerto for Piano Four Hands
Prague Piano Duo, Czech Chamber Philharmonic Pardubice, Leos Svarovsky
Chamber Music - Released by Praga Digitals on 1 Sep 2004
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Rachmaninoff - Bach / Busoni: Piano Concertos
Adam Skoumal, Prague Chamber Orchestra, Prague Symphony Orchestra, Leos Svarovsky
Classical - Released by ArcoDiva on 1 Sep 2012
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Tchaikovsky - Prokofiev
Jiri Barta, Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice, Leos Svarovsky
Classical - Released by ArcoDiva on 1 Jul 2013
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Beethoven: Emperor Concerto
Michal Mašek, Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice, Leos Svarovsky
Classical - Released by ArcoDiva on 1 Sep 2012
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Orchestra puellarum Pragensis
Leos Svarovsky, Orchestra puellarum Pragensis
Classical - Released by Supraphon a.s. on 28 May 2021
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Filas: "Záhořovo lože" aneb "Vykoupení"
Leos Svarovsky, Prague Philharmonic Choir, Filharmonie Hradec Králové
Classical - Released by Filharmonie Hradec Králové o. p. s. on 10 Feb 2022
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Filas: "Zahor´s Bed" or "Redemption"
Leos Svarovsky, Prague Philharmonic Choir, Filharmonie Hradec Králové
Classical - Released by Filharmonie Hradec Králové o. p. s. on 10 Feb 2022
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo