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VA - Bedrich Smetana - The Moldau & Other Masterpieces (2024)

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VA - Bedrich Smetana - The Moldau & Other Masterpieces (2024)

VA - Bedrich Smetana - The Moldau & Other Masterpieces (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 1.06 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 636 MB
4:18:23 | Classical | Label: Warner Classics

Bedřich Smetana (born March 2, 1824, Leitomischl, Bohemia, Austrian Empire [now Litomyšl, Czech Republic]—died May 12, 1884, Prague) Bohemian composer of operas and symphonic poems, founder of the Czech national school of music. He was the first truly important Bohemian nationalist composer. Smetana studied music under his father, an amateur violinist. He early took up piano under a professional teacher and performed in public at the age of six. He continued his studies and later became music teacher to the family of Leopold, Count von Thun. Encouraged by Franz Liszt he opened a piano school in Prague in 1848 and the next year married the pianist Kateřina Kolářová. In 1856 he wrote his first symphonic poems and in the same year was appointed conductor of the philharmonic society of Gothenburg (Sweden), where he remained until 1861. He then returned to Prague, where he played the leading part in the establishment of the national opera house.

Christoph Eschenbach, Wiener Philharmoniker, Renée Fleming - Sommernachtskonzert 2017 [Blu-Ray]

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Christoph Eschenbach, Wiener Philharmoniker, Renée Fleming - Sommernachtskonzert 2017 [Blu-Ray]

Christoph Eschenbach, Wiener Philharmoniker, Renée Fleming - Sommernachtskonzert 2017 [Blu-Ray]
BluRay | BDMV | MPEG-4 AVC Video / 24983 kbps / 1080p / 29.970 fps | 93 min | 21,8 Gb
Audio1: LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz / 24-bit | Audio2: DTS-HD Master Audio / 5.0 / 48 kHz / 3548 kbps / 24-bit
Classical | Sony Classical

Jedes Jahr begeistert die traumhafte Kulisse des Sommernachtskonzertes im Park von Schloss Schönbrunn nicht nur die über 100.000 Besucher im Park, sondern auch die Fernsehzuschauer in aller Welt. Die Wiener Philharmoniker und der Dirigent Christoph Eschenbach präsentierten ein farbenprächtiges, stimmungsvolles Programm zum Thema "Märchen und Mythen": von Dvorák erklingt die Konzertouvertüre "Karneval", Stargast Renée Fleming singt eine Arie aus der Oper "Armida" und das berühmte Lied an den Mond aus "Rusalka"; dann folgen von Tschaikowsky Stücke aus der "Dornröschen-Suite" und von Rachmaninow die orchestrierten Lieder Sumerki (Twilight), Ne poy, krasavitsa, pri mne ((Sing not to me, beautiful maiden) und Vesenniye vodi (Spring waters), von Humperdinck das Vorspiel aus der Oper "Hänsel und Gretel".

Andris Nelsons, Wiener Philharmoniker, Gautier Capuçon - Sommernachtskonzert 2022 [Blu-Ray]

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Andris Nelsons, Wiener Philharmoniker, Gautier Capuçon - Sommernachtskonzert 2022 [Blu-Ray]

Andris Nelsons, Wiener Philharmoniker, Gautier Capuçon - Sommernachtskonzert 2022 [Blu-Ray]
BluRay | BDMV | MPEG-4 AVC Video / 18991 kbps / 1080p / 29.970 fps | 112 min | 20,9 Gb
Audio1: LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz / 24-bit | Audio2: DTS-HD Master Audio / 5.1 / 48 kHz / 3605 kbps / 24-bit
Classical | Sony Classical

The Summer Night Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic is the world's biggest annual classical open-air concert that takes place in the magical setting of the Schönbrunn Palace Baroque park in Vienna (Concert date: June 16, 2022).

Emerson String Quartet - Dvorák, Smetana: String Quartets (2007)

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Emerson String Quartet - Dvorák, Smetana: String Quartets (2007)

Emerson String Quartet - Dvorák, Smetana: String Quartets (2007)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 250 MB | 51:21
Genre: Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon

After the excitement of hearing their bracing Bartok cycle (the Gramophone Record of the Year in 1989), I've found the Emerson's subsequent releases more than a little disappointing. ''Cold and abrasive'' was my verdict on their Beethoven/Schubert when I reviewed it for BBC Radio 3's ''Saturday Review'', and it stands. But the Smetana on this new disc is more encouraging.

Hans-Ola Ericsson - Symphonic Organ Music, Vol.2: Respighi, Gounod, Bellini, Smetana, Elgar (2001)

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Hans-Ola Ericsson - Symphonic Organ Music, Vol.2: Respighi, Gounod, Bellini, Smetana, Elgar (2001)

Hans-Ola Ericsson - Symphonic Organ Music, Vol.2: Respighi, Gounod, Bellini, Smetana, Elgar (2001)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 240 Mb | Total time: 69:15 | Scans included
Classical | Label: BIS | # BIS-CD-1102 | Recorded: 1998

Hans-Ola Ericsson was born in Stockholm in 1958. He is a renowned organist with hundreds of recitals and concerts behind him, as well as an esteemed pedagogue at several institutions and a bold composer of contemporary music.
Known for his renditions of music as diverse as Olivier Messiaen and John Cage, his interpretory range stretches between György Ligety and the ubiquitous Johann Sebastian Bach as well as many more. Among the crown jewels of the repertoire is the collected works of Messiaen and a recently finished series of Bach in chamber and organ settings.

Sitkovetsky Trio - Dvořák, Smetana, Suk: Piano Trios (2014)

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Sitkovetsky Trio - Dvořák, Smetana, Suk: Piano Trios (2014)

Sitkovetsky Trio - Dvořák, Smetana, Suk: Piano Trios (2014)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 73:11 | 327 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: BIS | Catalog: BIS-SACD-2059

If you’ve not previously heard of the Sitkovetsky Trio, it’s because this is the ensemble’s recording debut. Formed in 2007 by three young musicians who met at Menuhin School in England, the group won first prize at the International Commerzbank Chamber Music Award just one year later, and then the NORDMETALL Chamber Music Award at the Mecklenburg Vorpommern Festival one year after that in 2009.

BBC Philharmonic, Gianandrea Noseda - Bedřich Smetana: Orchestral Works, Vol.2 (2009)

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BBC Philharmonic, Gianandrea Noseda - Bedřich Smetana: Orchestral Works, Vol.2 (2009)

BBC Philharmonic, Gianandrea Noseda - Bedřich Smetana: Orchestral Works, Vol.2 (2009)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 72:33 | 320 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Chandos Records | Catalog: CHAN 10518

In William Blake’s aphorism, “exuberance is beauty, prudence an ugly old maid courted by incapacity”. And there in a nutshell you have a literary pointer to Smetana’s engaging character. Brilliant, picturesque and nationalistic, all the music on this superb disc pays colourful tribute to “the father of Bohemian music”. Even the most familiar pages from The Bartered Bride (once mistakenly appearing in an American newspaper as The Buttered Broad) come up fresh as paint, the BBC Philharmonic’s immaculate virtuosity as musicianly and refined as it is sparkling.

BBC Philharmonic, Gianandrea Noseda - Bedřich Smetana: Orchestral Works, Vol.1 (2007)

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BBC Philharmonic, Gianandrea Noseda - Bedřich Smetana: Orchestral Works, Vol.1 (2007)

BBC Philharmonic, Gianandrea Noseda - Bedřich Smetana: Orchestral Works, Vol.1 (2007)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 75:30 | 329 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Chandos Records | Catalog: CHAN 10413

Based on the recorded evidence, if you want spirited and insightful performances of eastern European romantic orchestral repertoire, Gianandrea Noseda is the conductor of choice. In his previous discs of Liszt's tone poems and Dvorák's concertos for violin and for piano, the young Italian conductor had turned in effective and affecting performances of works that get little attention from most international conductors.

Juilliard String Quartet - Smetana, Franck: String Quartets (1997)

Posted By: ArlegZ
Juilliard String Quartet - Smetana, Franck: String Quartets (1997)

Juilliard String Quartet - Smetana, Franck: String Quartets (1997)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 318 Mb | Total time: 73:57 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Sony Classical | # SK 63302 | Recorded: 1988, 1989

In the last years of his life, Franck created three chamber music masterpieces: the Violin Sonata, the Piano Quintet, and this String Quartet. Only the Violin Sonata has achieved a full measure of popularity, and this string quartet is virtually unknown, largely because of its ambitious length and difficulty in performance. It's a terrific piece of music employing the composer's trademark cyclical form: the movements share tunes, and the finale acts as a sort of summing up of the entire work. While challenging to the performers, there's nothing difficult about it for the listener, and this performance is just about the only show in town. Fortunately, it's a very good one. –David Hurwitz

Adam Fischer, Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper - Smetana: Die verkaufte braut [Prodana nevesta] (2007/1982)

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Adam Fischer, Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper - Smetana: Die verkaufte braut [Prodana nevesta] (2007/1982)

Adam Fischer, Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper, Lucia Popp, Siegfried Jerusalem - Smetana: Die verkaufte braut [Prodaná nevěsta] (2007/1982)
NTSC 4:3 (720x480) | Deutsch (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (Dolby AC3, 6 ch) | 7.55 Gb (DVD9) | 155 min
Classical | Deutsche Grammophon | Sub: Deutsch, English, Francais, Espanol, Chinese

This Bartered Bride ’s acting and singing is generally of a high level. Lucia Popp was caught at a perfect time for this role. She’d gradually been developing her voice into a larger, more dramatic instrument, and here displays a lyric’s warmth with the power of a spinto. She clearly enjoys the challenge of the only serious aria in the entire work (in act III; performed in German as “Wie fremd und tot”), providing many fine interpretative points and a great deal of tonal variety. The audience goes wild, as well they might.

Roberto Plano - Bedrich Smetana: Piano Music, Album Leaves and Sketches (2014)

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Roberto Plano - Bedrich Smetana: Piano Music, Album Leaves and Sketches (2014)

Roberto Plano - Bedřich Smetana: Piano Music, Album Leaves and Sketches (2014)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 269 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 180 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Brilliant Classics | # 94788 | Time: 01:16:39

This will be quite a discovery for those who know the music of Bedrich Smetana only through his grand and nationalistic cycle of tone-poems, Ma Vlast, even if they are yet familiar with his more painfully intimate string quartets or his folkloristic operas. For Smetana, like most composers, needed to eat; and to do so he was happy to make his own contribution towards satisfying the seemingly insatiable appetite of the bourgeois 19th-century public for piano music that they could perform at home. Music of no great difficulty but boundless charm, these miniatures are now seldom heard and even less often recorded, and this is a shame, for works such as the Op.3 Characteristic Pieces show how the pianistic extroversion of Brahms and Liszt (who was a great admirer and supporter of the young Smetana, giving him valuable introductions to publishers) could be adapted to a domestic context, and with the particular inflection of Czech and Bohemian character, derived not only from simple and song-like melodies but also irregularly stressed dance-rhythms that the young Italian pianist Roberto Plano relishes to the full on this welcome new survey.

Yannick Nezet-Seguin, Berlin Philharmonic, Lisa Batiashvili - Waldbuhne 2016: Czech Night [Blu-Ray]

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Yannick Nezet-Seguin, Berlin Philharmonic, Lisa Batiashvili - Waldbuhne 2016: Czech Night [Blu-Ray]

Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Berlin Philharmonic, Lisa Batiashvili - Waldbühne 2016: Czech Night [Blu-Ray]
BluRay | BDMV | MPEG-4 AVC Video / 16481 kbps / 1080i / 29,970 fps | 107 min | 21,2 Gb
Audio1: LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 24-bit | Audio2: DTS-HD Master Audio / 5.0 / 48 kHz / 3651 kbps / 24-bit
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BluRay-rip | AVC | MKV 1920x1080 / 5469 kbps / 29,97 fps | 107 min | 6,98 Gb
Audio: PCM / 2ch / 48.0 KHz / 24-bits | DTS / 5ch / 48.0 KHz / 24-bits
Classical | EuroArts

What kind of music could be better suited for the Berliner Philharmoniker’s legendary annual Waldbühne concert than Czech music? It’s always passionate and full of verve and sure to lift everyone’s spirits. Only very rarely does a young talent ascend to ‘world stardom’, but one of the few who can be considered an international superstar while still belonging to the new generation of conductors is Yannick Nézet-Séguin. He presents the much-loved Vlatava (Moldau) as well as Dvořák’s Sixth Symphony and Violin Concerto with the wonderful Lisa Batiashvili on the violin.

Anneleen Lenaerts - Vienna Stories (2021)

Posted By: ArlegZ
Anneleen Lenaerts - Vienna Stories (2021)

Anneleen Lenaerts - Vienna Stories: Dvořák, Smetana, Wagner, Zabel, Liszt, Strauss (2021)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 290 Mb | Total time: 80:51 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Warner Classics | # 0190296607974 | Recorded: 2021

The Vienna Stories title of this release by harpist Anneleen Lenaerts is more personal than thematic. Only some of the pieces are from or about Vienna (although the inclusion of An der schönen blauen Donau, Op. 314 ("The Blue Danube Waltz") qualifies the collection as Viennese in the end. Lenaerts is the principal harpist of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, where she has become an emerging star of her instrument. At the end of the program, she brings in some of her Philharmonic colleagues as a small string group. This is entirely in keeping with the spirit of the program, which evokes unusually nicely the atmosphere of a salon harp concert of a century or more ago. Most of the pieces are transcriptions of various ages, and Lenaerts contributes a Fantasy on La Bohème by Puccini of her own; it is indeed good to hear a new entry in the operatic paraphrase genre, which any 19th century listener would have taken as natural, but which is mighty rare these days.

George Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra - The Forgotten Recordings (2021)

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George Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra - The Forgotten Recordings (2021)

George Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra - The Forgotten Recordings (2021)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 575 Mb | Total time: 142:57 | Scans included
Classical | Label: SOMM Recordings | # ARIADNE 5011-2 | Recorded: 1954, 1955

SOMM RECORDINGS announces the first release of never before available performances by one of the defining partnerships of modern American music in the specially priced two-CD set George Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra: The Forgotten Recordings. Long considered one of Americas Big Five orchestras, the Cleveland Orchestra entered its second century in 2018 and earlier this year was hailed by The New York Times as Americas finest [orchestra] still. The Forgotten Recordings features eight historic performances made for the Book-of-the-Month Club in 1954 and 1955 seven of which are first releases that have been restored and remastered by the multi-awardwinning audio restoration engineer Lani Spahr, who also provides extensive and informative booklet notes.

Vienna Piano Trio - Smetana & Tchaikovsky: Piano Trios (2008)

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Vienna Piano Trio - Smetana & Tchaikovsky: Piano Trios (2008)

Vienna Piano Trio - Smetana & Tchaikovsky: Piano Trios (2008)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 315 MB | 01:13:33
Genre: Classical | Label: MDG Gold

This version of the Tchaikovsky measures up extremely well against its competition; moreover it is (like all chamber recordings from this source) very well balanced. Pianist Stefan Mendl is able to dominate yet become a full member of the partnership throughout. The second movement's variations open gently but soon develop the widest range of style, moving through Tchaikovsky's kaleidoscopic mood-changes like quicksilver and often with elegiac lyrical feeling.