Supraphon promotional album "Vivat Amati" - Amati-Kraslice wind orchestra on 1975 vinyl LP скачать в хорошем качестве

Supraphon promotional album "Vivat Amati" - Amati-Kraslice wind orchestra on 1975 vinyl LP

Supraphon vinyl LP 1 14 1898 G - this is a 1975 recording of the Amati-Kraslice factory wind band in Kraslice [Graslitz], Czechoslovakia! Amati-Kraslice [now Amati-Denak, recently purchased from bankruptcy and still producing] was the state conglomerate producing wind and percussion instruments, and their in-house band of employees, instrument testers, and guest artists would show off their best instruments [no small feat, since Amati exported a lot of poor-quality instruments]. Their professional instruments can be quite good, and this record illustrates that. The record also might seem anachronistic to us in the United States - the era of community bands playing marches, polkas, and other fun music died out by the 1910s, with the few exceptions [like Sousa's Band] being exceptional or [like Maurice Levi's band] specialty ensembles. Nikolayevsky's military bands were recording jazz into the 1940s, but even that was unusual! Firms like C. G. Conn that had their own demonstration orchestras had phased them out in favor of other artists by the early 1900s. By all accounts, this is an interesting product of the times made in Communist Czechoslovakia.