Kolekcja „Karel Ancerl Gold Edition” to wyjątkowa dokumentacja, wyjątkowego dyrygenta, pracującego z wyjątkową orkiestrą. Ancerl w niesamowity sposób ukazuje fenomen orkiestry jako całości, ze szczególnym uwypukleniem solistów. W tej kolekcji znajdą Państwo odpowiedź na pytanie, dlaczego koncert na orkiestrę Bartoka jest jednym z najważniejszych punktów w repertuarze większości orkiestr symfonicznych? Ancerl potrafi jak nikt inny uwypuklić poetykę twórczości symfonicznej Nowaka czy kompozycji Klementa Slavickiego. Kolekcja ta nie ogranicza się jednak do wyboru programu stawiającego najwyższe wyzwania dla wirtuozerii, ale także dla artyzmu - oto referencyjna interpretacja „Sprzedanej Narzeczonej” Smetany czy uwertury do „Rusłana i Ludmiły” Glinki.
Kolekcja jest także jakże sentymentalnym powrotem do jakże niegdyś poszukiwanych płyt winylowych Supraphonu, które w swoim czasie były namiastką wielkiej muzyki na małym krążku.
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Karel Ančerl (1[zasłonięte]908-19) was, along-side Václav Talich, par t of the tandem of two foremost Czech conductors of the 20th century. As he made an overwhelming majority of his recordings for Supraphon, and since we are approaching the thir tieth anniversary of his death, this company has decided to pay a special tribute to Ančerl´s memory by a grandly conceived series of reissues of his creations, under the common heading of Ančerl Gold Edition. The series is to comprise a total of 42 titles, each of which will undergo complex studio overhaul and streamlining. On their release they will be accompanied by professional musical documentation as well as by erudite historical and aesthetic studies, plus of course, copious photographic material. Ančerl´s career was intimately linked with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, with which he worked for eighteen seasons, from the year 1950. Without in the least underestimating the immense merit of Václav Talich and Rafael Kubelík in defining the interpretive style of the Czech Philharmonic, it can be said that Karel Ančerl was the first Czech conductor of a truly worldwide standing, and that he carried his orchestra to sovereign virtuosity and international fame. His artistic achievements were the perfect blend of well thought-out conception and minutious work with details; and they were invariably substantiated by both detailed knowledge of the score and capacity to capture every aspect of its architecture, as well as by refined feeling for style, formidable sonic imagination, and last but by no means the least, a marvellously communicative gestural language. Ančerl was indeed able to convince his orchestra about the validity of his approach, which has been perhaps the most essential precondition of success in the ar t of conducting. Incidentally, during Ančerl´s era the record industry witnessed revolutionary steps forward in the development of recording technologies, including the invention of long-playing record and the ensuing huge expansion of the orchestra´s recording projects. Ančerl´s brilliantly inspired recordings soon received due recognition in the form of prestigious international awards. Their updated reissues on CD format have since then continued to dazzle audiences by their technical perfection and sheer sonic beauty.
The fourth half-dozen volumes of the Ančerl Gold series are characterized, apart from the representativeness that accompanies the series as a whole, a fine balance of style and programming. Namely, this batch includes three titles featuring Czech music, alongside another three albums of works from the international repertoire; plus, this instalment brings a tasteful blend of purely symphonic music, concert works, and sacred vocal production. Romantic souls will rejoice at the presentation here of a Dvořák title compiled, in one of Ančerl´s artistically most eloquent creations, from a dazzling parade of compositions, including the popular Carnival overture with a palette of moods that pivots alternatively around Bacchus and Pan; and the Sixth Symphony, featuring one of Dvořák´s most suggestive furiant dance numbers. A legendary comeback is being marked here by the reissue of Tchaikovsky´s Piano Concerto in B flat minor with Svyatoslav Richter, seconded in no less grand style by the concert violin display of Bartók specialist André Gertler. A veritable musical feast is celebrated in Ančerl´s reading of Shostakovich´s "Leningrad" Symphony. The high emotionality and tragic drama of Shostakovich can hardly be more credible anywhere else than it is here, delivered by a conductor whose bitter wartime experience stayed with him throughout the rest of his life. While the originality of the compositional idioms of Janáček and Martinů is clearly discernible after the first few bars of their music, the artistic legacy of Ladislav Vycpálek ranks alongside the most profound manifestations of philosophical spirit in Czech music, and is certain to come as a pleasant surprise for the discriminating music-lover in particular.
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