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Smetana: La Moldau - Quatuor à cordes No. 1

Various Artists

Symphonic Music - Released January 26, 2017 | Les Indispensables de Diapason

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Smetana: The Moldau - Weber: Aufforderung zum Tanz - Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust, Op. 24

Eugene Ormandy

Classical - Released April 28, 1958 | Sony Classical

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Famous Classics

Bedrich Smetana

Classical - Released January 1, 2005 | Claves Records

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Karel Ančerl dirige Smetana: La Moldau (Répétition et Exécution)

Karel Ancerl

Classical - Released April 1, 2020 | Alexandre Bak - Tahra

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Dvořák: Symphony 9, Smetana: The Moldau, Liszt: Préludes

Ferenc Fricsay

Classical - Released March 1, 1988 | Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

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Only a chosen few can captivate listeners with a work that has been brought out over and over again hundreds of times. But that is what is achieved here with a Symphony "From the New World" byAntonin Dvořák which doesn't seem to have aged a bit. Recorded in 1959 in Berlin in excellent stereo, this feverish performance also shows the miracle that an invited leader can create. In a few short recording sessions, Ferenc Fricsay was able to bring forth from the Berlin Philharmonic a sound that was the polar opposite to Karajan's softness. Everything here, with the exception of an irresistibly dreamy Largo is sharp as a knife and whip-smart, in the the style of the Czech Philharmonic. It is the magic of an orchestra that can instantly adapt itself to the personality of a leader who knows how to convince. Recorded in 1960, but with Fricsay's Berlin RIAS (Radio in the American Sector) Orchestra, the symphonic poem by Franz Liszt, Les Préludes, is cut across by an epic gale, reinforced by a slow and majestic tempo. As for The Moldau (Vlatva) by Bedřich Smetana, so close to Czech hearts, Fricsay recorded it several times, most notably in 1960, with the Südfunk Orchester, the film of a rehearsal of which is one of the few visual records of the great Hungarian conductor. It was over the course of that same year that he made this recording, at the head of the Berlin Philharmonic. In 1948, Ferenc Fricsay had signed an exclusive contract with Deutsche Grammophon, becoming one of the few artists never to record for another label. On the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of the conductor's birth in 2014, the yellow label published an impressive box set (available on Qobuz) which brings together all of his recordings. It is a treasure trove for music lovers, because among the records which remain famous to this day, we find a whole series of forgotten works. The recordings were mainly de in the Titania-Palast in Steglitz in Berlin, which was the only concert hall which was spared the Allies’ bombs. © François Hudry/Qobuz
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Grieg - Smetana

Quatuor Modigliani

Quartets - Released January 12, 2024 | Mirare

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The string quartets of Grieg and Smetana, as annotator Melissa Khong notes, make a natural pairing. Both composers, paragons of the nationalist movements within their respective countries, mostly avoided classical forms, but both turned to the string quartet when they faced personal crises, and the tension between strong emotion and formal restrictions had compelling results. Smetana perhaps made a bit more of the situation than Grieg did, but Grieg's quartet is a bit neglected, and this pairing is not as common as it should be. On this 2024 release, the Modigliani Quartet gives these works a suitably intense, inward quality, with a strikingly rich treatment of the Smetana slow movement. The group excels in the Grieg quartet as well; their performance is highly dramatic, but the work can stand up to this. The quartet is a bit hampered by the Mirare label team's overwrought sound; the ambiance of the Schubertiade hall in Austria is fine, but the group is miked too close. Nevertheless, these are performances that penetrate to the heart of two unique works.© James Manheim /TiVo
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Dvorák: Symphony No. 9 - Smetana: Die Moldau (Édition Studio Masters)

Herbert von Karajan

Classical - Released March 24, 2014 | Warner Classics International

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Dvořák: Symphony 9, Smetana: The Moldau, Liszt: Préludes

Ferenc Fricsay

Classical - Released March 1, 1988 | Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

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Only a chosen few can captivate listeners with a work that has been brought out over and over again hundreds of times. But that is what is achieved here with a Symphony "From the New World" byAntonin Dvořák which doesn't seem to have aged a bit. Recorded in 1959 in Berlin in excellent stereo, this feverish performance also shows the miracle that an invited leader can create. In a few short recording sessions, Ferenc Fricsay was able to bring forth from the Berlin Philharmonic a sound that was the polar opposite to Karajan's softness. Everything here, with the exception of an irresistibly dreamy Largo is sharp as a knife and whip-smart, in the the style of the Czech Philharmonic. It is the magic of an orchestra that can instantly adapt itself to the personality of a leader who knows how to convince. Recorded in 1960, but with Fricsay's Berlin RIAS (Radio in the American Sector) Orchestra, the symphonic poem by Franz Liszt, Les Préludes, is cut across by an epic gale, reinforced by a slow and majestic tempo. As for The Moldau (Vlatva) by Bedřich Smetana, so close to Czech hearts, Fricsay recorded it several times, most notably in 1960, with the Südfunk Orchester, the film of a rehearsal of which is one of the few visual records of the great Hungarian conductor. It was over the course of that same year that he made this recording, at the head of the Berlin Philharmonic. In 1948, Ferenc Fricsay had signed an exclusive contract with Deutsche Grammophon, becoming one of the few artists never to record for another label. On the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of the conductor's birth in 2014, the yellow label published an impressive box set (available on Qobuz) which brings together all of his recordings. It is a treasure trove for music lovers, because among the records which remain famous to this day, we find a whole series of forgotten works. The recordings were mainly de in the Titania-Palast in Steglitz in Berlin, which was the only concert hall which was spared the Allies’ bombs. © François Hudry/Qobuz
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Smetana: String Quartets No. 1 & No. 2

Pavel Haas Quartet

Chamber Music - Released April 17, 2015 | Supraphon a.s.

The performance here of the familiar String Quartet No. 1 in E minor ("From My Life") of Smetana has everything one could ask for: adept playing and ensemble work, broad expression, sensitivity to the piece's deep autobiographical symbolism. It has everything you'd expect to hear if you went to a concert hall in Prague on a weekend afternoon for one of the city's leading chamber ensembles. It doesn't really break new ground, but that's left to the remainder of the album. The noteworthy entry here is the much-less-often-performed String Quartet No. 2 in D minor, written in 1882 and 1883 as Smetana suffered from deafness and what was probably the syphilis that killed him the following year. The work mystified Smetana's contemporaries, was not published until after his death, and was not properly edited until the middle of the 20th century. (Among its champions was Arnold Schoenberg.) It's concise and rather abrupt: compared with Beethoven's string quartet output, it might be the String Quartet No. 11 in F minor, Op. 95, to the String Quartet No. 10 in E flat major, Op. 74 ("Harp") of the From My Life quartet. The piece's rather fragmentary nature has been held to be a reflection of the fits and starts in which Smetana, under doctor's orders not to compose, worked on it, but the Pavel Haas Quartet puts it together and makes of it the inward music it ought to be, its flashes of light coming through as bits of hope in a deteriorating life. The quartet is not quite like any other work of the 19th century, and the Pavel Haas Quartet succeeds in taking it on its own terms. Highly recommended.© TiVo
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Smetana & Janácek: String Quartets

Jerusalem Quartet

Classical - Released January 13, 2014 | harmonia mundi

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Vienna Stories

Anneleen Lenaerts

Classical - Released November 19, 2021 | Warner Classics

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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. Listen to the 1914 harp version of Smetana's The Moldau by Hans Trneček, where Lenaerts' clean, liquid runs help establish her as a major player of her instrument. There's an X-factor here in the frequent presence of the harp's lyrical charm, of which any viewer of The Marx Brothers' films is aware but which is sometimes lost in the sheer technical difficulties of the instrument. The sound environment of the Casino Baumgarten in Vienna is appropriate, but Lenaerts is miked too closely, picking up extraneous noise that would have been inaudible to hearers of such a program in 1914. Save for that, a lovely harp recital.© TiVo
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Smetana The Moldau

Bedrich Smetana

Classical - Released April 3, 2023 | Artemisia

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Smetana - Liszt : Piano Trios

Trio Wanderer

Chamber Music - Released January 25, 2011 | harmonia mundi

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Smetana: Moldau – Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 (Transcription for Piano Duet)

Duo Solot

Classical - Released October 23, 2015 | Pavane Records

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The Moldau

Theodore Kuchar

Classical - Released July 27, 2022 | Brilliant Classics

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Smetana & Fibich : String Quartets

Talich Quartet

Quartets - Released September 1, 2003 | La Dolce Volta

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Via Havana

Joachim Horsley

World - Released February 15, 2019 | Café de la Danse - LA Café

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