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