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]
Gottlob Frick, Günther Arndt, Gertrud Freedmann, Walter Stoll, Marcel Cordes, RIAS Kammerchor, Rudolf Kempe, Nada Puttar, Ernst Krukowski, Pilar Lorengar, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, Karl-Ernst Mercker, Sieglinde Wagner, Ivan Sardi, Fritz Wunderlich
Smetana: The Bartered Bride, JB 100
Ach, jaký žal... Ten lásky sen
Karolína Janů, Chuhei Iwasaki, Pilsen Philharmonic
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)
Marie Mrázová, Jaroslav Horáček, Josef Veselka, Marie Vesela, Czech Philharmonic, Gabriela Beňačková, Prague Philharmonic Choir, Richard Novak, Peter Dvorský, Jindřich Jindrák, Zdenek Kosler