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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DELIUS: American Rhapsody / Paa Vidderne / Spring Morning
Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, John Hopkins
Classica - Pubblicato da Marco-Polo il 31 dic 1987
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Don Juan - Till l'Espiègle - Ainsi parlait Zarathoustra
Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Zdenek Kosler
Classica - Pubblicato da Naxos il 1 gen 1995
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101 Great Orchestral Classics, Vol. 9
Classica - Pubblicato da Naxos il 1 gen 2005
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Wagner: Ride of the Valkyries
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Seattle Symphony, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Uwe Mund, Gerard Schwarz, Michael Halasz
Classica - Pubblicato da Naxos Special Projects il 26 ago 2016
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Glière: Symphonies Nos. 1-3
Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Keith Clark, Donald Johanos
Classica - Pubblicato da Naxos Special Projects il 1 gen 2015
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Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake (Highlights)
Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Michael Halasz, Antoni Wit
Classica - Pubblicato da Naxos Special Projects il 26 ago 2016
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STRAUSS, R.: Don Juan / Till Eulenspiegel / Death and Transfiguration
Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Zdenek Kosler
Classica - Pubblicato da Naxos il 24 ott 1990
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 "Eroica" - J. Strauss II: Frühlingsstimmen
Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Noriaki Kitamura
Classica - Pubblicato da NKB Record il 5 gen 2018
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MOZART: Violin Concerto No. 3 / BEETHOVEN: Violin Concerto in D Major
Takako Nishizaki, Capella Istropolitana, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Kenneth Jean
Classica - Pubblicato da Naxos il 10 lug 1995
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Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue / Piano Concerto
Kathryn Selby, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Richard Hayman
Musica concertante - Pubblicato da Naxos il 18 nov 2016
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Tchaikovsky: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D major, Op. 35
Classica - Pubblicato da Digital Masterworks il 26 apr 2023
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Beethoven: Violin Concerto - Romances Nos. 1 & 2
Takako Nishizaki, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Kenneth Jean
Musica concertante - Pubblicato da Naxos il 15 giu 1989
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101 Great Orchestral Classics, Vol. 1
Classica - Pubblicato da Naxos il 1 gen 2005
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WAGNER, R. (THE BEST OF)
Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Johannes Wildner, Michael Halasz, Uwe Mund
Classica - Pubblicato da Naxos il 15 feb 1994
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Tchaikovsky - Piano Concerto No. 1 in B minor - Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35.
Classica - Pubblicato da Digital Masterworks il 25 apr 2023
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92 - Strauss: Kaiser-Walzer, Op. 437
Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Noriaki Kitamura
Classica - Pubblicato da NKB Record il 1 lug 2011
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68 "Pastoral" & Egmont, Op. 84: Overture
Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Noriaki Kitamura
Classica - Pubblicato da NKB Record il 4 mar 2016
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Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra + Concertos Nos. 1 and 2
Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Radio Bratislava Symphony Orchestra
Classica - Pubblicato da Digital Masterworks il 31 mar 2023
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STRAUSS II, J.: 100 Most Famous Works, Vol. 6
Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra, Polish State Philharmonic Orchestra, Katowice, Alfred Walter, Oliver von Dohnanyi, Johannes Wildner
Classica - Pubblicato da Naxos il 11 mag 1999
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Haydn: Symphony Nos. 104 & 94 'Surprise'
Oliver von Dohnanyi, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra
Classica - Pubblicato da Denon il 1 gen 2009
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The Fantastic Symphony: Berlioz: Fantasitc Symphony (Episode from an Artist's Life)
Classica - Pubblicato da Inspired Studios il 11 set 2020
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