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