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