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František Škvor: Vilém Blodek – In the Well (FLAC)

František Škvor: Vilém Blodek - In the Well (FLAC)

Composer: Vilém Blodek
Performer: Zdeněk Kroupa, Ivo Žídek, Milada Šubrtová, Štěpánka Štěpánová
Orchestra: Prague National Theatre Orchestra
Conductor: František Škvor
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Supraphon
Catalogue: SU43412
Release: 2025
Size: 299 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover

In the Well
01. “Ouverture”
02. Scene 1: “Introduction Oh, Times Are Hard Now” (Veruna)
03. Scene 2: “So What Did You Come for, Lidunka?” (Lidunka, Veruna)
04. Scene 2: “What They Told You about Me” (Lidunka, Veruna)
05. Scene 2: “Young Love That´s a Paradise” (Lidunka, Veruna)
06. Scene 3: “It’s St. John’s Eve Today” (Janek, Vojtěch, Lidunka, Veruna)
07. Scene 3: “The Evening Light Rises in the Mountains” (Janek, Vojtěch, Lidunka, Veruna)
08. Scene 4: “She Want to See the Face” (Vojtěch)
09. Scene 5: “This Is Going to Be Fun” (Janek)
10. Scene 6: “Moonrise (Intermezzo)”
11. Scene 7: “We’ll Light the St. John’s Fires on the Mountains”
12. Scene 7: “We Shall Wait Here” (Lidunka)
13. Scene 7: “We Shall Light the Great Bonfires on the Montains”
14. Scene 8: “Oh, Just Go, Just Go, Just Go” (Janek)
15. Scene 9: “Golden, Golden Veruna” (Janek, Vojtěch)
16. Scene 10: “St. John’s Fires Glow”
17. Scene 10: “I Call in the Holts and Forests” (Lidunka, Vojtěch)
18. Scene 10: “I Have Been Waiting for a Long Time” (Vojtěch, Lidunka)
19. Scene 11: “Finale – St. John´s Fires Glow” (Lidunka)
20. Scene 11: “Woe! Woe! It´s the Devil!” (Janek, Vojtěch, Lidunka)
21. Scene 11: “We Understand One Another” (Vojtěch, Lidunka)
22. Scene 10: “We Shall Light the Great Bonfires on the Montains”

For the Year of Czech Music and for the 150th anniversary of the death of the Czech composer Vilém Blodek, Supraphon has prepared a real treat for opera lovers in the form of the 1959 stereo recording of the opera In the Well (V studni), never before released on any physical medium. The recording was released briefly in the first half of the 1960s on LP records, but only in a mono-phonic version. After that, it disappeared from the catalogue for several deca-des. Only now, nearly 66 years since the recording was made and after careful restoration of the sound from the original tapes, this rarity from the early days of stereophonic recording technology is being released in all of its original sonic glory. The soloists were Milada Šubrtová, Štěpánka Štěpánová, Ivo Žídek, and Zdeněk Kroupa. The chorus and orchestra of the Prague National Theatre were conducted by František Škvor in his only complete operatic recording in the Supraphon catalogue. At the same time, this release also commemorates the recent 100th anniversary of the birth of Milada Šubrtová, a singer at the Prague National Theatre.

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