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