and a spiritually-infused lyricism absorbed by a love of life and of nature - sample his discs of Martinu's Fifth and Sixth Symphonies, or Mahler's Ninth on Supraphon - that was a clear stand-out. He himself may have attributed some of this to the horrors he witnessed or experienced during the war - certainly a few others have. Ančerl remains highly regarded as a recording artist. His broad range of recordings for the Czech Supraphon label have been carefully remastered for the Karel Ančerl Gold Edition, which was awarded the Grand Prix du Disque by l'Académie Charles Cros. In addition to performances of Czech composers, including Antonín Dvořák, Bedřich Smetana, Leoš Janáček, Bohuslav Martinů and Miloslav Kabeláč, Ančerl is also admired for his interpretations of 20th-century composers such as Gustav Mahler, Igor Stravinsky, Béla Bartók, Sergei Prokofiev and Dmitri Shostakovich, as well as the Toronto-based organist/composer Healey Willan. He also championed less widely known Czech composers, such as Jan Hanuš, Iša Krejčí, Otmar Mácha and Ladislav Vycpálek. Performances with several orchestras have appeared on labels such as Tahra, CBC Records and EMI. Line Classics has issued some radio recordings made during the late 1940s, when Ančerl returned to Prague. References Bedřich Smetana: My Country. DVD sleevnote. Praha: Supraphon, 2008. SU 7015-9 Holzknecht, Václav: Jaroslav Ježek a Osvobozené divadlo. Praha: ARSCI, 2007. Notes External links Karel Ančerl biography and discography Karel Ančerl biography The Golden Edition by SUPRAPHON František Sláma (musician) Archive. More on the history of the Czech Philharmonic between the 1940s and the 1980s: Conductors Documents about Karel Ančerl in the collection of the Jewish Museum Prague 1908 births 1973 deaths 20th-century conductors (music) 20th-century composers 20th-century Czech male musicians Czech composers Czech male composers Czechoslovak classical musicians Czechoslovak conductors (music) Czechoslovak emigrants to Canada Czech Jews Czechoslovak Jews Jewish classical musicians Prague Conservatory alumni People from Tábor District People from the Kingdom of Bohemia Austro-Hungarian Jews Jewish concentration camp survivors Auschwitz concentration camp survivors Theresienstadt Ghetto survivors Burials at Vyšehrad Cemetery