Smetana: Má vlast
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BEDRICH SMETANA
Smetana: Má vlast
St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Walter Susskind (Conductor)
[ Vox Classics / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 19 April 2024
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While Antonín Dvořák is generally recognised as
the greatest of all Czech composers, it is Smetana
the Czechs themselves revere as the musical
personification of their national spirit, and whom the world acknowledges as the founder of modern Czech music. And it was in Má vlast, the unprecedented cycle of six related symphonic poems, that Smetana most strikingly fulfilled his pre-ordained role as the bardic patriarch who awakened a nation to glory with its own reflection in sound.
This VOX Audiophile Edition recording was first released in 1975 as a stereo/quadraphonic 2LP set catalogue QTV-S 34619/20 coupled with the overture and dances from The Bartered Bride, subsequently appearing on disc as part of VOX Box CDX-5105 alongside Holst's The Planets. This acclaimed recording has now been given a new lease of life in our Naxos edition by going back to the original Elite Recordings master tapes, which have been newly transferred to disc in 192 kHz/24-bit high definition sound.
"This performance by Walter Susskind of Bedřich Smetana's set of descriptive tone poems has remained a favourite recording of many listeners… Maestro Susskind's way with the work is elegant and refined, much as we might find a Marriner or a Mackerras approaching the score.' - Classical Candor
'Conducted by Walter Susskind, rarely has a composition portrayed such beauty, adventure, peril, and glory as the St. Louis Symphony's interpretation of Bedřich Smetana's Má vlast.' - rockian.com.au.
Tracks:
Má vlast ('My Fatherland') (1872-79)
1 Vyšehrad (The High Castle)
2 Vltava (Moldau)
3 Šárka
4 Z českých luhů a hájů
(From Bohemia's Woods and Fields)
5 Tábor
6 Blaník
