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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The Ultimate Lullaby Collection
Classica - Pubblicato da Naxos il 1 gen 2000
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Mythos Wagner
Classica - Pubblicato da Naxos il 1 ago 2013
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Night Music, Vol. 8
Classica - Pubblicato da Naxos il 27 mar 1991
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Liadov: Baba Yaga / Enchanted Lake / Kikimora
Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Stephen Gunzenhauser
Classica - Pubblicato da Marco-Polo il 11 dic 2001
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Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique "Episode de la vie d'un astiste" Op. 14
Classica - Pubblicato da Digital Masterworks il 31 mar 2023
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PROKOFIEV: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 5
Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Andrew Mogrelia
Classica - Pubblicato da Naxos il 8 feb 1995
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La plus belle musique des plus grands ballets
Classica - Pubblicato da Naxos il 27 gen 2009
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Klassik ohne Krise: Zeit zum Chillen
Classica - Pubblicato da Naxos il 6 nov 1990
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Joy Ride: Classical Music for Cycling
Classica - Pubblicato da Naxos Special Projects il 27 ago 2013
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Strauss, R.: Aus Italien / Die Liebe Der Danae
Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Zdenek Kosler
Classica - Pubblicato da Naxos il 6 nov 1990
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GLIERE: Symphony No. 1 / The Sirens
Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Stephen Gunzenhauser
Classica - Pubblicato da Naxos il 31 dic 1984
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A Guided Tour of Nationalism in the Romantic Era, Vol. 7 ( Various Artists)
Classica - Pubblicato da Naxos Special Projects il 19 mar 2013
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SCHUBERT: Best of Schubert (The)
Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Jenő Jandó, Leonard Hokanson, Mandelring Quartett, Michael Halasz, Villa Musica Ensemble
Classica - Pubblicato da Naxos il 2 feb 1993
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STRAUSS II, J.: 100 Most Famous Works, Vol. 8
Classica - Pubblicato da Naxos il 11 mag 1999
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Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition - Borodin: Polovtsian Dances
Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra and Daniel Nazareth
Classica - Pubblicato da SMOOTH CLASSICAL il 19 dic 2016
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 - Strauss II: Die Fledermaus Overture
Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Noriaki Kitamura
Classica - Pubblicato da NKB Record il 4 mar 2016
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Georg Friedrich Händel: Feuerwerksmusik
Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Oliver Dohnanyi, Josef Bagin
Musica sinfonica - Pubblicato da Bella Musica Edition il 1 lug 1992
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BEETHOVEN: Overtures, Vol. 1
Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Stephen Gunzenhauser
Classica - Pubblicato da Naxos il 5 feb 1988
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SIBELIUS (THE BEST OF)
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Capella Istropolitana, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Dong-Suk Kang, Kenneth Schermerhorn, Adrian Leaper
Classica - Pubblicato da Naxos il 2 giu 1997
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Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64
Classica - Pubblicato da Digital Masterworks il 25 apr 2023
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