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| Composer | Smetana, Bedřich (1824-1884) |
| Period | Romantic |
| Year | 1879 |
| Work type | Orchestral |
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MálagaSmetana, Mi patria
Smetana: Má vlast (My Fatherland)
Orquesta Filarmónica de Málaga; Christoph König
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Barenboim opts for power in his Berlin Philharmonic Má vlast
Smetana's full cycle is still a rarity in the UK, so this Berlin Philharmonic stream was a wonderful opportunity to delve deeper in this Czech classic.
Prom 2: Bohemian Rhapsody with the Bamberger Symphoniker
The Bamberg Symphony Orchestra bring a wonderfully bucolic programme of Czech music to The Proms.
From the Vltava to the Elbe: triumphant Bamberg in Hamburg
An outstanding account of Smetana's Ma vlást in Hamburg's Elbphilharmonie was prefaced by Straussian oboe nostalgia courtesy of Albrecht Mayer.
Raising Czech music to celestial Bohemian heights
The effervescent conductor took six little-known Czech works into another ether: one in which the footprints are invisible.
Steinberg brings Bohemia’s woods and fields to Tokyo
Tokyo’s NHK Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Pinchas Steinberg, gives a performance of perhaps the most famous of Bedrich Smetana’s works, a romantic tribute to his motherland, Má vlast.
