Bedřich Smetana Essentials
Apple Music Classical
Smetana's Vltava, a portrait in music of the river that runs through the Czech Republic, is one of classical music's best-loved works, but it's only one movement of a set of six tone-poems gathered together as Má vlast ("my country") from the late 1870s. Spilling over with melody and painted with a fantastic array of orchestral colours, this is Smetana's masterpiece. His opera The Bartered Bride, with its popular overture, is a wonderful work, and his two string quartets are music of depth, the Second a harrowing evocation of a man losing his hearing.
Smetana: 6 Preludes for Organ
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Ouvertüre [Orchester]
Ernst Krukowski, Pilar Lorengar, RIAS Kammerchor, Karl-Ernst Mercker, Marcel Cordes, Gottlob Frick, Gertrud Freedmann, Günther Arndt, Walter Stoll, Sieglinde Wagner, Ivan Sardi, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, Rudolf Kempe, Nada Puttar, Fritz Wunderlich
Smetana: The Bartered Bride, JB 100
Ach, jaký žal... Ten lásky sen
Pilsen Philharmonic, Karolína Janů, Chuhei Iwasaki
Smetana
Two Preludes, II (Prelude in G Minor)
Alexey Kurbanov
From the Homeland, Two Pieces for Violin and Piano - Moderato (Smetana)
Finale. What Have You Decided, Mařenka? (Krušina, Sedlák, Ludmila, Manželka Krušiny, Mařenka, Krušinova dcera, Mícha, Gruntovník, Háta, Manželka Míchy, Jeník)
Czech Philharmonic, Marie Mrázová, Josef Veselka, Richard Novak, Gabriela Beňačková, Marie Vesela, Jaroslav Horáček, Jindřich Jindrák, Prague Philharmonic Choir, Peter Dvorský, Zdenek Kosler