• format LP/DL
• release date 26. 08. 2021
• cat. # MIN56

Recorded at Czechmate Studio and Czech TV Music Studio in 2020.
Edited by Michal Pekárek, Beata Hlavenková and Milan Cimfe
Mixed by Michal Pekárek
Mastered by Matouš Godík at ZKA4T Studio, Prague, Czech Republic

Music cooperation by Patrick Karpentski and Jan P. Muchow
Orchestral arrangement by Beata Hlavenková, Michaela Rosza Růžičková and Juraj Růžička

Art direction © Aleš Najbrt, Jakub Spurný (Studio Najbrt), 2021
Cover design © Aleš Najbrt, Jakub Spurný (Studio Najbrt), 2021
Cover photo © Julie Vrabelová, 2021

Lacquer cuts by Daniel Krieger at SST GmbH, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Album is pressed on 180 gram audiophile vinyl at Pallas Group GmbH, Diepholz, Germany

Each vinyl copy contain 16 page 29x29 cm booklet and features a coupon with a code to download FLAC version of the album

Beata Hlavenková ― pianos, vocals, synths, sound design
Oskar Török ― trumpet (6, 9, 12)
Rastislav Uhrík ― double bass (5, 12)
Václav Neužil ― voice (9)

sCore Orchestra:
Petra Malíšková ― music director
Michaela Rózsa Růžičková ― conductor
Roman Patočka ― violin (concert master)
Hiroko Takahashi ― violin
Viktor Mazáček ― violin
František Kosina ― violin
Radka Preislerová ― violin
Filip Šilar ― violin
Matěj Vlk ― violin
Lenka Sanchez ― violin
Radek Křižanovský ― violin
Marie Jírová ― violin
Vladislava Hořovská ― violin
Stanislav Rada ― violin
Eva Brummelová ― violin
Anna Kostková ― violin
Karel Untermüller ― viola
Anežka Ferencová ― viola
Adam Pechočiak ― viola
František Jelínek ― viola
Petr Šušlík ― viola
Petr Malíšek ― violoncello
Jan Klika ― violoncello
Marek Elznic ― violoncello
Roman Stehlík ― violoncello
Jan Vokoun ― double bass
Tomáš Otevřel ― double bass
Zuzana Blahová ― double bass
Martin Klimánek ― flute
Markéta Hucková ― flute
Jan Hoďánek ― oboe
Barbora Trnčíková ― oboe
Matouš Kopáček ― clarinet
Jan Czech ― clarinet
Štěpán Rimský ― bassoon
Petr Zirhut ― French horn
Tomáš Kirschner ― French horn
Svatopluk Zaal ― trumpet
Jan Pohořalý ― trumpet
Stanislav Penk ― trombone
Tomáš Bialko ― trombone
Jiří Svoboda ― percussion

“Beata Hlavenková is a calm force on the local music scene. Without any grand gestures and through concentrated continuous work, she has worked her way to the position of an extraordinary personality of Czech jazz, alternative pop and film music. This fact is attested to by the new soundtrack to the film ‘Zátopek’, which easily holds up even without the accompanying moving images.” ― FRONTMAN

“Zátopek is a courageous mission of Beata Hlavenková, who―following Emil’s example―hasn’t given up on anything and embarked on a musical experiment that ultimately showed that, as a composer, she can tear down the established limits of film music being seen only as a mere accompaniment to the film. The combination of restrained orchestrations supported by jazz variations (there’s no denying that this genre is simply firmly embedded in Hlavenková) and light reinterpretations of Czech folk songs― all this has eventually fallen into place beautifully.” ― MUSICSERVER