A new release of Martinů's Bouquet of Flowers!
In collaboration with Czech Radio, Supraphon released on 16 November 2017 an album made up of a new recording of Bohuslav Martinů’s Bouquet of Flowers and the premiere studio recording of Jan Novák’s Philharmonic Dances (SU 4220–2). Available on both CD and for download, it features the two works’ splendid performance by the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Tomáš Netopil, the solo singers Kateřina Kněžíková, Michaela Kapustová, Jaroslav Březina and Adam Plachetka, the Prague Philharmonic Choir and the Prague Philharmonic Children’s Choir.
Bouquet of Flowers is the new album’s centrepiece, a landmark recording of which was made back in 1955 by Karel Ančerl, conducting the Czech Philharmonic.
The album is now available online: https://www.supraphonline.cz/album/341258-martinu-kytice-novak-filharmonicke-tance
