Presto Recording of the Week
31st August 2018

Presto Recordings of the Year
Finalist 2018

Czech Philharmonic, Jiri Belohlavek

"[Belohlavek] could get under the skin of Janacek’s music, drawing out its folk roots and speech rhythms, its soul-searching and truthfulness, its sheer humanity. The main work here is the Glagolitic Mass, given an expansive performance of great depth…The Sinfonietta is a joy from first to last, an unbuttoned delight. The low brass is great, rasping and grunting and belching merrily at the garrulous woodwinds." — Gramophone Magazine, October 2018