Vinyl records

The Prague Symphony Orchestra vinyl records

3 albums with 49 vinyl pressings between them. Open an album to see all its pressings and how to spot the first one.

Symfonický orchestr hl. m. Prahy FOK. Czech symphony orchestra. Established in autumn 1934 by conductor and musical organizer Rudolf Pekárek. He defined the ensemble’s fields of activity with the words “Film-Opera-Koncert”, which became part of the orchestra’s title as the abbreviation FOK. By recording music for the majority of Czech films in the 1930s and performing regularly in live broadcasts of Czechoslovak Radio, the FOK Orchestra made a name for itself and its economic existence was assured. This allowed gradual development of concert activities, whose main promoter from the very beginning was Václav Smetáček. In 1942 he became the orchestra’s chief conductor, and he stood at its head for thirty years.