Supraphon Release InformationPetr Novák in an XXL edition!This box set is as complete as could be: all the albums plus a host of other recordings, including rarities.The box set contains all ten LPs, carefully remastered, from Kolotoč svět (The Merry-Go-Round World) right through to Dávné sliby (Old Promises), some previously unavailable for a long time, and includes extensive monothematic wholes, such as the art-rock and chanson operas Kráska a zvíře (The Beauty and the Beast) and Memento.The three bonus discs are given over to music dating from specific decades. The additional singles, EPs and other related recordings make this the definitive Petr Novák audio archive. The story of perhaps not the greatest of voices yet of a great heart unfolds from the introductory hit Já budu chodit po špičkách (I Will Tiptoe). A singer with a sad look and dramatic fate, one perhaps not always perfectly intonating but communicating emotions in an unfeigned manner.Moreover, the set includes recordings of songs presented in English in Finland, almost forgotten singles and their B sides and occasional songs. Licensed borrowings from AVIK and Best I. A., as well as the private archive of the compiler Karel Novák, newly discovered live recordings and a booklet containing photographs and a profile by J. Tůma make this box set as complete as even the most die-hard Novák fan could possibly wish.Petr Novák’s albums, singles and rarities: 30 years of music and life on 13 CDs!Kalemegdan Disk AdditionsThis box set contains both the recordings of George & Beathovens from the late Sixties to the early Seventies which are recommended and Petr Novák’s solo projects which are less interesting, so for the international market a division of this box into two parts would have probably been a better idea.George & Beathovens recorded three LPs between 1969 and 1971. Kolotoč svet and Ve imenu lasky (In the Name of Love) are excellent progressive Rock albums, the first one still Beat influenced. Their second album Modlitba za lásku is weaker, but still a good one. All three albums are carefully remastered so that they sound better than the original LPs.60. léta is a compilation of George and Beathovens’ Beat singles recorded 1968 and 1969 (which also contains three songs by Flamengo, recorded 1967). On 70 leta are eight more songs by George and Beathovens released on singles in 1970 and 1971 while the following solo recordings of Petr Novák differ in quality, but are on average weaker and the material on 80. + 90. Léta is even worse.The first solo album by Petr Novák, Kráska a zvíre from 1975, is a good prog rock album, also maybe Co je to láska from 1980, but the following Sladké trápení; Ahoj, tvúj Petr; Zpoved & Memento (all recorded during the Eighties) are somewhere in between Rock and Softrock and offer only average material.And last there is Dávné sliby, the good sounding rock album by Petr Novák and George and Beathovens from 1996.All CDs come in cardboard sleeves with the original cover front pages. The box set also contains an extensive booklet with a lot of pictures including the cover pictures of 16 singles.