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On the occasion of its 30th anniversary, Praga Digitals presents a box-set of 30 key discs that retrace the history of the label. These include rereleases of some of the house’s great names, such as the Pražák, the Kocian, the Zemlinsky and the Párkányí, but also the magnificent restorations of the historic recordings of Mravinsky, Furtwängler, Oistrakh and Richter.
The selection draws from the label’s preferred repertory, from Czech music to the Second Viennese School, via Brahms, Schubert, Janáček, but also Debussy, Ravel, Mahler, Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Stravinsky, Bartók... This box-set is thus an opportunity to reinstate some of the finest discs in the catalogue, from among those that contributed to making Praga Digitals one of the greatest catalogues of chamber music and one of the references as regards aural beauty, in a limited and remastered edition.
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released November 22, 2021
CD1 | Pražák Quartet Janáček: String Quartet no.1 ‘Kreutzer Sonata’· String Quartet no.2 ‘Intimate Letters’
PRD 250 108
CD2 | Pražák Quartet Dvořák: String Quartet no.12 ‘American’ · String Quartet no.14
PRD 250 136
CD3 | Kocian Quartet · Pražák Quartet · Jiri Hudec · Vaclav Kunt Schulhoff: Chamber Music · Czech Degenerate Music
PRD 250 203
CD4 | Kocian Quartet Smetana: String Quartet no.1 ‘For my Life | Sibelius: String Quartet ‘Voces Intimae’
PRD 250 257
CD5 | Guarneri Trio Prague Smetana: Piano Trio op.15 | Suk: Trio op.2 · Elegy op.23 | Fišer: Piano Trio
PRD 250 218
CD6 | Kocian Quartet · Ivan Klanski Martinů: Piano Quintets H 229 · H 298 · Piano Quartet H 287
PRD 250 250
CD7 | Párkányí Quartet · Debussy: String Quartet in G minor | Ravel: String Quartet in F major | Bartók: String Quartet no.4, Sz 91
PRD 250 312
CD8 | Pražák Quartet Shostakovich: String Quartets op.108, op.110 · Piano Quintet op.57
PRD 250 270
CD9 | Pražák Quartet · Vladimir Bukač · Petr Prause Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht · String Quartet no.4 op.37
PRD 250 234
CD10| Pražák Quartet Schubert: String Quartet no.13 ‘Rosamunde’ · String Quartet no.14 ‘Der Tod und das Mädchen’
PRD 250 091
CD11| Pražák Quartet Beethoven: String Quartet op.130 · ’Große Fuge’ op.133
PRD 250 206
CD12| Pražák Quartet · Pascal Moragues Mozart: Clarinet Quintet K 581 · Kegelstatt-Trio K 498 | Weber: Clarinet Quintet op.34
PRD 250 307
CD13| Pražák Quartet Haydn: String Quartets op.76 no.4 · op. 76 no.5 ‘Sunrise’ · op.76 no.6
PRD 250 070
CD14| Pražák Quartet · Pascal Moragues Brahms: String Quartet no.2, op.51 · Clarinet Quintet, op.115
PRD 250 227
CD15| Zemlinsky Quartet Mendelssohn: String Quartet op.44, no.2 · String Quartet op.80 · Capriccio no.81 no.3
PRD 250 267
CD16| Leningrad Philharmonic · Yevgeny Mravinsky Bartók: Music for strings, percussion and celesta | Honegger: Symphony no.3 | Stravinsky: Agon
PRD 350 087
CD17| Leningrad Philharmonic · Yevgeny Mravinsky Prokofiev: Symphony no.5 op.100 · Symphony no.6 op.111
PRD 350 121
CD18 | Svjatoslav Richter · Leningrad Philharmonic · Yevgeny Mravinsky Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto no.1 · Symphony no.6 ‘Pathétique’
PRD 350 069
CD19| Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra · Kirill Kondrashin Shostakovich: Symphony no.13 ‘Babi Yar’ op.113 | Prokofiev: October, op.74
PRD 350 089
CD20| Czech Philharmonic Orchestra Shostakovich: In the Wake of World War II
PRD 250 319
CD21| RIAS Sinfonie Orchester · Ferenc Fricsay Bartók: Two Portraits · Dance Suite · Piano Concerto no.2 · Divertimento for string orchestra PRD 350 108
CD22 The Végh Quartet Bartók: The Complete String Quartets
PRD 250 358
CD23| Václav Neumann · Czech Philharmonic Orchestra Janáček: Amarus, The Cunning Little Vixen, From the house of the dead
PRD 250 308
CD24| Berliner Philharmoniker · Igor Markevitch · Galina Vishnevskaya Mussorgsky: Russian Songs · Pictures at an Exhibition | Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms
PRD 350 096
CD25| Orchestre du Théâtre national de l’Opéra de Paris · Manuel Rosenthal · Orchestre de la Suisse Romande · Ernest Ansermet Debussy: Images · Prélude à l’Après-midi d’un faune · La Boîte à joujoux
PRD 250 093
CD26| Maureen Forrester · Heinz Rehfuss · Felix Prohaska · Ferenc Fricsay In Memoriam Maureen Forrester (Mahler)
PRD 250 313
CD27| Wilhelm Furtwängler · Elisabeth Schwarzkopf Strauss: Don Juan · Tod und Verklärung · Till Eulenspiegel · Vier Letzte Lieder
PRD 350 100
CD28| David Oistrakh · The Philharmonia · Sir Malcolm Sargent · Orchestre national de la Radiodiffusion française · André Cluytens In Honorem David Oistrakh (Beethoven)
PRD 350 082
CD29| Svjatoslav Richter Beethoven: Piano Sonatas no.23 ‘Appassionata’ · no.17 ‘The Tempest’ · no.18
PRD 350 066
CD30| Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli Chopin: Piano Sonata no.2 · Ballade no.1 · Valse no.17 · Fantaisie in F major
PRD 350 110
