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]
Ivan Sardi, Sieglinde Wagner, Gertrud Freedmann, Pilar Lorengar, Marcel Cordes, RIAS Kammerchor, Günther Arndt, Karl-Ernst Mercker, Walter Stoll, Fritz Wunderlich, Nada Puttar, Rudolf Kempe, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, Gottlob Frick, Ernst Krukowski
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
Chuhei Iwasaki, Pilsen Philharmonic, Karolína Janů
Smetana
Smetana: 4 Songs
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)
Marie Mrázová, Richard Novak, Jindřich Jindrák, Peter Dvorský, Prague Philharmonic Choir, Jaroslav Horáček, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Gabriela Beňačková, Marie Vesela, Josef Veselka, Zdenek Kosler