New Arrivals/Restock

Title: Blodek: V studni / In the Well
Artist: Blodek / Stepanova / Subrtova
Label: Supraphon
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 099925434120
Genre: Classical Artists
Release Date: 2025-04-25
Number of Discs: 1

For the Year of Czech Music and for the 150th anniversary of the death of the Czech composer Vilem 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 it's original sonic glory. The soloists were Milada Šubrtova, Štepanka Štepanova, Ivo Židek, and Zdenek 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 Šubrtova, a singer at the Prague National Theatre. On CD for the first time in the original stereophonic version

Tracks:
1.1 V studni (In the Well)~Predehra (Overture)
1.2 V studni (In the Well)~1. Výstup / Scene 1: Introdukce. Aj, zlý to cas? (Introduction. Oh, times are hard now)
1.3 V studni (In the Well)~2. Výstup / Scene 2: Aj, co sem vede Lidunku? (So what did you come for, Lidunka?)
1.4 V studni (In the Well)~2. Výstup / Scene 2: A co ti o mne pravili (What they told you about me)
1.5 V studni (In the Well)~2. Výstup / Scene 2: Mladá láska, to je ráj (Young love that's a paradise)
1.6 V studni (In the Well)~3. Výstup / Scene 3: Dnes svatojanský vecer je (It's St John's Eve today)
1.7 V studni (In the Well)~3. Výstup / Scene 3: Již na hory vystoupí vecerní zár (The evening light rises in the mountains)
1.8 V studni (In the Well)~4. Výstup / Scene 4: Chce videt v studni tvár (She want to see the face)
1.9 V studni (In the Well)~5. Výstup / Scene 5: Aj, to bude švanda! (This is going to be fun)
1.10 V studni (In the Well)~6. Výstup / Scene 6: Východ slunce (Moonrise (Intermezzo))
1.11 V studni (In the Well)~7. Výstup / Scene 7: Svatojanské ohne rozžeme po horách (We'll light the St John's fires on the mountains)
1.12 V studni (In the Well)~7. Výstup / Scene 7: My tady pockáme (We shall wait here)
1.13 V studni (In the Well)~7. Výstup / Scene 7: Zapálíme si po horách hranice velikánské (We shall light the great bonfires on the montains)
1.14 V studni (In the Well)~8. Výstup / Scene 8: Aj, jdete jen, jdete jen, jdete jen (Oh, just go, just go, just go)
1.15 V studni (In the Well)~9. Výstup / Scene 9: Ty zlatá, zlatá Veruno (Golden, golden Veruna)
1.16 V studni (In the Well)~10. Výstup / Scene 10: Svatojanské ohne horí (St John's fires glow)
1.17 V studni (In the Well)~10. Výstup / Scene 10: Volám v háje, v lesy (I call in the holts and forests)
1.18 V studni (In the Well)~10. Výstup / Scene 10: Dlouho jsem již cekala (I have been waiting for a long time)
1.19 V studni (In the Well)~11. Výstup / Scene 11: Finale 'Svatojanské ohne zárí (St John's fires glow)
1.20 V studni (In the Well)~11. Výstup / Scene 11: Beda! Beda! Tot cert! (Woe! Woe! It's the devil!)
1.21 V studni (In the Well)~11. Výstup / Scene 11: My si spolu rozumíme (We understand one another)
1.22 V studni (In the Well)~11. Výstup / Scene 11: Zapálíme si po horách hranice velikánské (We shall light the great bonfires on the mountains)