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, Ernst Krukowski, Pilar Lorengar, Sieglinde Wagner, Ivan Sardi, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, Walter Stoll, Fritz Wunderlich, Rudolf Kempe, Nada Puttar, Marcel Cordes, Karl-Ernst Mercker, Gertrud Freedmann, RIAS Kammerchor
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)
Richard Novak, Josef Veselka, Peter Dvorský, Jindřich Jindrák, Czech Philharmonic, Prague Philharmonic Choir, Marie Mrázová, Gabriela Beňačková, Marie Vesela, Jaroslav Horáček, Zdenek Kosler