225320 bk Anthems 2 26/04/2005 10:29am Page 4 2005 DDD COMPLETE NATIONAL ANTHEMS OF THE WORLD Volume 2: Brazil – Czech Republic EDITION 8.225320 Orchestrated by Peter Breiner 1 Brazil 3:50 ¢ Central African Republic 1:21 2 Brazil (short) 2:02 ∞ Chad 1:15 3 Brazil (Olympic version) 1:23 § Chechnya-Ichkeria 3:04 4 British Indian Ocean Territory 0:46 ¶ Chile 2:06 5 British Virgin Islands 0:46 • Chile (Olympic version) 1:19 6 Brunei Darussalam 1:26 ª China 0:48 7 Bulgaria 1:16 º Christmas Island 1:01 8 Burkina Faso 2:33 ⁄ Cocos Islands 1:01 9 Burkina Faso (Olympic version) 1:22 ¤ Colombia 2:39 0 Burundi 2:20 ‹ Colombia (Olympic version) 1:02 ! Burundi (Olympic version) 1:25 › Comoros 1:38 @ Cambodia 2:03 fi Comoros (Olympic version) 1:04 # Cambodia (short) 0:45 fl Congo-Brazzaville 3:13 $ Cameroon 1:02 ‡ % Canada (long) (slow) 1:43 Congo-Brazzaville (short) 1:07 ^ Canada (short) (fast) 1:12 ° Congo-Kinshasa 1:25 & Canada (2005 version) 1:21 · Cook Islands 1:31 * Canary Islands 1:27 ‚ Costa Rica 1:26 ( Cape Verde 1:35 a Croatia 1:05 ) Cape Verde (Olympic version) 1:19 b Cuba 1:10 ¡ Catalonia 2:18 c Cyprus 0:52 ™ Cayman Islands 2:38 d Czech Republic 2:31 £ Cayman Islands (Olympic version) 0:46 e Czech Republic (short) 1:19 Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra • Peter Breiner Recorded in the Slovak Radio Concert Hall, Bratislava, Slovakia from 1996 to 2004. VOLUME 2: BRAZIL – CZECH REPUBLIC Producer: Miloš Betko • Engineer: Otto Nopp Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Technical assistant and editor: Ladislav Krajcovic Peter Breiner 225320 bk Anthems 2 26/04/2005 10:29am Page 2 Peter Breiner Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Peter Breiner is a Canadian-Slovak composer, conductor, pianist and arranger. He is known The Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, formerly the internationally for a multiplicity of recordings, broadcasts, telecasts and concert appearances. Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony, was founded in He began to play the piano at the age of four. When he was nine he started his formal training 1929 as the first professional music ensemble to meet at the Ko‰ice Conservatory, where he studied piano, percussion, composition and conducting. broadcasting needs in Slovakia. The orchestra was He received traditional European musical training and studied composition at the Academy of first conducted by the Prague conductor Frantisek Performing Arts in Bratislava (former Czechoslovakia) with Prof. Alexander Moyzes, one of Dyk and in the course of the past seventy years of its the most significant figures in modern Slovak music. existence has worked under the direction of several Peter Breiner’s original compositions include two symphonies, orchestral, chamber and prominent Czech and Slovak conductors. Ondrej choral music. His complete works for piano trio, “... there must be something …”, were released Lenárd was appointed its principal conductor in 1977 on his profile CD in summer 2004. Robert Tomas of the WholeNote DISCoveries states about and a number of the orchestra’s most successful the CD: “I’m happy to report that there is indeed “something” to Peter Breiner’s music.” performances have taken place under his baton. When Róbert Stankovsky took over the orchestra in 1993, regular He is perhaps best known, however, for his clever arrangements, including award- concert performances followed, at home and abroad, with important recordings for the radio and for foreign winning Baroque versions of the Beatles and a similar adaptation of Elvis Presley and of companies. The orchestra has undertaken a number of successful tours in Europe as well as in Japan, Korea and popular Christmas music. Breiner’s distinctive arrangements of all national anthems were Hong Kong. The major recording partner of the orchestra remains Naxos and Marco Polo, for which the orchestra used during the Olympic Games in Athens 2004. has so far recorded over 140 CDs. For Naxos the orchestra is quite indefatigable, committing so far an amazingly In addition to the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Peter Breiner has conducted, often doubling as a pianist, diverse catalogue of composers to disc: Holst, Orff, Glazunov, Tchaikovsky, Borodin, Spohr, Dvofiák, Chopin, the Vienna Mozart Orchestra, the Hungarian State Radio Orchestra, the Nicolaus Esterházy Orchestra Budapest, the Kodály, Brahms and JanáÇek to mention only a few. Also not to be missed are the orchestra’s performances on Polish Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, the Ukrainian State Symphony Orchestra, the Moscow Naxos Opera Classics: Die Fledermaus, La Bohème, Tosca, Rigoletto, La Traviata, and Carmen. The Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Capella Symphony is also to be found on Naxos performing modern Chinese compositions (including the immortal and Istropolitana, the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre National de Lille, France, and the Hong Kong best-selling Butterfly Lovers Concerto with Takako Nishizaki), music for clarinet and orchestra and a whole series Philharmonic Orchestra, among many others. of British Light Music. 8.225320 2 3 8.225320 225320 bk Anthems 2 26/04/2005 10:29am Page 2 Peter Breiner Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Peter Breiner is a Canadian-Slovak composer, conductor, pianist and arranger. He is known The Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, formerly the internationally for a multiplicity of recordings, broadcasts, telecasts and concert appearances. Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony, was founded in He began to play the piano at the age of four. When he was nine he started his formal training 1929 as the first professional music ensemble to meet at the Ko‰ice Conservatory, where he studied piano, percussion, composition and conducting. broadcasting needs in Slovakia. The orchestra was He received traditional European musical training and studied composition at the Academy of first conducted by the Prague conductor Frantisek Performing Arts in Bratislava (former Czechoslovakia) with Prof. Alexander Moyzes, one of Dyk and in the course of the past seventy years of its the most significant figures in modern Slovak music. existence has worked under the direction of several Peter Breiner’s original compositions include two symphonies, orchestral, chamber and prominent Czech and Slovak conductors. Ondrej choral music. His complete works for piano trio, “... there must be something …”, were released Lenárd was appointed its principal conductor in 1977 on his profile CD in summer 2004. Robert Tomas of the WholeNote DISCoveries states about and a number of the orchestra’s most successful the CD: “I’m happy to report that there is indeed “something” to Peter Breiner’s music.” performances have taken place under his baton. When Róbert Stankovsky took over the orchestra in 1993, regular He is perhaps best known, however, for his clever arrangements, including award- concert performances followed, at home and abroad, with important recordings for the radio and for foreign winning Baroque versions of the Beatles and a similar adaptation of Elvis Presley and of companies. The orchestra has undertaken a number of successful tours in Europe as well as in Japan, Korea and popular Christmas music. Breiner’s distinctive arrangements of all national anthems were Hong Kong. The major recording partner of the orchestra remains Naxos and Marco Polo, for which the orchestra used during the Olympic Games in Athens 2004. has so far recorded over 140 CDs. For Naxos the orchestra is quite indefatigable, committing so far an amazingly In addition to the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Peter Breiner has conducted, often doubling as a pianist, diverse catalogue of composers to disc: Holst, Orff, Glazunov, Tchaikovsky, Borodin, Spohr, Dvofiák, Chopin, the Vienna Mozart Orchestra, the Hungarian State Radio Orchestra, the Nicolaus Esterházy Orchestra Budapest, the Kodály, Brahms and JanáÇek to mention only a few. Also not to be missed are the orchestra’s performances on Polish Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, the Ukrainian State Symphony Orchestra, the Moscow Naxos Opera Classics: Die Fledermaus, La Bohème, Tosca, Rigoletto, La Traviata, and Carmen. The Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Capella Symphony is also to be found on Naxos performing modern Chinese compositions (including the immortal and Istropolitana, the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre National de Lille, France, and the Hong Kong best-selling Butterfly Lovers Concerto with Takako Nishizaki), music for clarinet and orchestra and a whole series Philharmonic Orchestra, among many others. of British Light Music. 8.225320 2 3 8.225320 225320 bk Anthems 2 26/04/2005 10:29am Page 4 2005 DDD COMPLETE NATIONAL ANTHEMS OF THE WORLD Volume 2: Brazil – Czech Republic EDITION 8.225320 Orchestrated by Peter Breiner 1 Brazil 3:50 ¢ Central African Republic 1:21 2 Brazil (short) 2:02 ∞ Chad 1:15 3 Brazil (Olympic version) 1:23 § Chechnya-Ichkeria 3:04 4 British Indian Ocean Territory 0:46 ¶ Chile 2:06 5 British Virgin Islands 0:46 • Chile (Olympic version) 1:19 6 Brunei Darussalam 1:26 ª China 0:48 7 Bulgaria 1:16 º Christmas Island 1:01 8 Burkina Faso 2:33 ⁄ Cocos Islands 1:01 9 Burkina Faso (Olympic version) 1:22 ¤ Colombia 2:39 0 Burundi 2:20 ‹ Colombia (Olympic version) 1:02 ! Burundi (Olympic version) 1:25 › Comoros 1:38 @ Cambodia 2:03 fi Comoros (Olympic version) 1:04 # Cambodia (short) 0:45 fl Congo-Brazzaville 3:13 $ Cameroon 1:02 ‡ % Canada (long) (slow) 1:43 Congo-Brazzaville (short) 1:07 ^ Canada (short) (fast) 1:12 ° Congo-Kinshasa 1:25 & Canada (2005 version) 1:21 · Cook Islands 1:31 * Canary Islands 1:27 ‚ Costa Rica 1:26 ( Cape Verde 1:35 a Croatia 1:05 ) Cape Verde (Olympic version) 1:19 b Cuba 1:10 ¡ Catalonia 2:18 c Cyprus 0:52 ™ Cayman Islands 2:38 d Czech Republic 2:31 £ Cayman Islands (Olympic version) 0:46 e Czech Republic (short) 1:19 Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra • Peter Breiner Recorded in the Slovak Radio Concert Hall, Bratislava, Slovakia from 1996 to 2004.