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: Czech Dances II, JB 1:114
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Ouvertüre [Orchester]
Rudolf Kempe, Karl-Ernst Mercker, Marcel Cordes, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, Nada Puttar, Günther Arndt, Fritz Wunderlich, Gertrud Freedmann, Ivan Sardi, Sieglinde Wagner, RIAS Kammerchor, Walter Stoll, Ernst Krukowski, Pilar Lorengar, 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
Pilsen Philharmonic, Chuhei Iwasaki, Karolína Janů
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, Marie Vesela, Josef Veselka, Gabriela Beňačková, Czech Philharmonic, Richard Novak, Marie Mrázová, Jaroslav Horáček, Prague Philharmonic Choir, Jindřich Jindrák, Zdenek Kosler