COMPLETE NATIONAL ANTHEMS OF THE WORLD: 2013 EDITION

ORCHESTRATED BY PETER BREINER
SLOVAK RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA • SLOVAK STATE PHILHARMONIC, KOŠICE*
PETER BREINER, CONDUCTOR

When I started arranging and recording national anthems some 17 years ago, nobody expected the project would become so big and popular. In the meantime, it has been an important part of two Summer Olympics and numerous other sporting, cultural and social events. It’s hard to imagine the amount of time and work that has been invested into this endeavour, and it could not have been done without the incredible efforts and expertise of several anthem experts, all the musicians, but mainly without the extraordinary recording team that has been involved in this project from its beginning—sound engineer Otto Nopp and Ladislav Krajcovic.

This is an extraordinary project and any other existing anthem collection does not come close, in completeness