Smetana: Má vlast
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Composer: Bedrich SmetanaConductor: Colin Davis
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra
Edition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2005-10-11
Music Label: Lso Live UK
Soundtracks:
- Vysehrad
- Vtava
- Sarka
- Z Ceskych Luhu A Haju
- Tabor
- Blanik
Music reviews of Smetana: Má vlast
Music Review: A Solid "Ma Vlast" But Not As Powerful As It Could Be
Rating: 4 Stars
Sir Colin Davis is captured on this recording with the London Symphony Orchestra in a rare performance of Smetana's "Ma Vlast." This is a very good reading, but it lacks the punch of Rafael Kubelik's accounts on Deutsche Grammophon with the Boston Symphony Orch. and on Supraphon with the Czech Philharmonic Orch. James Levine, Libor Pesek, Neeme Jarvi, and Charles Mackerras have turned in good performances of "Ma Vlast" as well that are worth checking out.
The audio quality, however, is excellent. This recording has also been released as a hybrid SACD. I imagine that sound is unbelievable in surround sound.
This is a good overall interpretation and performance, but it wouldn't be my first choice for this piece. Sir Colin Davis usually does a fine job, but his true specialty, for me, are his interpretations of Berlioz and Sibelius.
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Description of Smetana: Má vlast
Inspired by the mythology and pastoral beauty of his Czech homeland, Smetana's six tone poems that form Má vlast (My Fatherland) is one of the best examples of Nationalism in music. The stirring second movement depicts the river Vltava as it flows through the countryside and into Prague. Struck with deafness in 1874, Smetana would never hear a performance of what would become his most popular work.Classical CDs
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