![]() There’s an impetuous Strauss Don Juan, and deeply humane, warm readings of Dvorak’s 7 th and 8 th Symphonies. The live recordings, mostly captured in detailed mono sound, are captivating the orchestra’s signature sound immediately recognisable and the performances full of colour.Īnčerl’s Beethoven 2 and Triple Concerto really sing, the latter featuring the great violinist Josef Suk. There’s loads here which Ančerl didn’t record commercially. Then go and buy this new 15 CD box, which contains a wealth of material sourced from the archives of Czech Radio. Go forth and explore: Ančerl’s Mahler 9, Martinu 5, Rite of Spring and Shostakovich 5 are equally marvellous, all available as mid-price reissues. His superbly engineered accounts of Janacek’s Sinfonietta and Glagolitic Mass are still among the best available, an ideal starting point for anyone unfamiliar with his work. Ančerl’s studio legacy with the orchestra contains some staggering things if he ever made a bad recording, I’ve not heard it. In 1950 he was unexpectedly appointed Music Director of the Czech Philharmonic, where he remained until 1968. There’s an inspiring quote in this set’s booklet, Ančerl recalling that, “despite having witnessed the abysmal depths of that which a human is capable of doing to a fellow human, I did not lose faith in people – I returned with full verve and took up the path I first pursued in 1930”. Ančerl’s wife and son were murdered he survived, returning home and gaining a conducting post with Radio Prague. Two years later, he and his family were sent to Auschwitz.
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