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: Czech Dances II, JB 1:114
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Ouvertüre [Orchester]
Ernst Krukowski, Pilar Lorengar, Marcel Cordes, Walter Stoll, Günther Arndt, Ivan Sardi, Nada Puttar, Sieglinde Wagner, RIAS Kammerchor, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, Rudolf Kempe, Karl-Ernst Mercker, Fritz Wunderlich, Gottlob Frick, Gertrud Freedmann
Smetana: String Quartet No. 1 in E Minor, JB 1:105
Smetana: Czech Dances, Book 2, JB 1:114
Smetana
Smetana: The Bartered Bride, JB 100
Ach, jaký žal... Ten lásky sen
Pilsen Philharmonic, Karolína Janů, Chuhei Iwasaki
Smetana
Smetana
Two Preludes, II (Prelude in G Minor)
Alexey Kurbanov
Smetana: Má vlast (My Country), JB 1:112
From the Homeland, Two Pieces for Violin and Piano - Moderato (Smetana)
Smetana: String Quartet No. 2 in D Minor, JB 1:124
Smetana: The Bartered Bride, JB 1:100, Act III, Scene 9
Finale. What Have You Decided, Mařenka? (Krušina, Sedlák, Ludmila, Manželka Krušiny, Mařenka, Krušinova dcera, Mícha, Gruntovník, Háta, Manželka Míchy, Jeník)
Richard Novak, Czech Philharmonic, Jaroslav Horáček, Marie Vesela, Prague Philharmonic Choir, Gabriela Beňačková, Peter Dvorský, Marie Mrázová, Jindřich Jindrák, Josef Veselka, Zdenek Kosler