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Bedřich Smetana
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1824–1884
Origin
Czechia
Biography
Bedřich Smetana (Born 2 March 1824 – 12 May 1884) was a Czech composer who pioneered the development of a musical style which became closely identified with his country's aspirations to independent statehood. He is thus widely regarded in his homeland as the father of Czech music. Internationally he is best known for his opera The Bartered Bride, for the symphonic cycle Má vlast ("My Fatherland"), which portrays the history, legends and landscape of the composer's native land, and for his First String Quartet From My Life.
Discography
The Bartered Bride
Bohemian Rhapsody
Mein Vaterland / Má Vlast
My Country
Piano Works II
Smetana: El Moldova / Dvorak: Sinfonía “Del Nuevo Mundo”
The Best of Czech Classics: My Country / Slavonic Dances / Symphony No. 9 'From the New World'
Complete Orchestral Works
Dreams
Orchestral Works
Orchestral Works, Vol. 1
Piano Works III
Smetana / Blodek / Kovařovic / Janáček / Dvořák / Suk
Smetana: String Quartet No. 2 - Dvořák: String Quartet No. 13, Two Waltzes
Solo Piano Music
Symphonic Poems "Má vlast"
Má Vlast (Complete Orchestral Works)
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition / Schubert: Three Pieces, D. 946 / Martinů: Fantaisie et Toccata / Chopin / Smetana
Piano Trios
Smetana: Piano Trio, op. 15 / Tschaikowsky: Piano Trio, op. 50
David Oistrakh Plays Piano Trios
Grandes compositores da música clássica, Volume 26: Smetana
Libuse: Festive Opera in 3 Acts
Orchestral Works, Vol. 2
Piano Trios
Piano Works IV
Smetana: String Quartet No. 1 'From My Life' / Sibelius: String Quartet Op. 56 'Voces Intimae' / Andante Festivo
Tchaikovsky / Smetana / Grieg
The Best of Czech Classics: String Quartets
Life With Czech Music - Dvořák / Smetana
Má Vlast
Má Vlast
Má Vlast
Má Vlast / My Country
Má Vlast / My Country
Piano Trios
String Quartets 1, 2 / Meditation on St. Wenceslas / Quartet no. 1 / Kreutzer Sonata
Two String Quartets
Má Vlast
Piano Trios
Piano Works V
Smetana, Janáček: String Quartets
Smetana: String Quartets nos 1 & 2 / Sibelius: Voces intimae, op. 56
Dvořák: Quartet no. 12, op. 96, "American" / Smetana: Quartet no. 1, "From My Life"
Má Vlast; Overtures; Dances
Piano Trios
The Bartered Bride
Czech String Quartets
Paavo Berglund: The Bournemouth Years
Piano Trios
Piano Trios
Piano Works VI
Prokofiev / Smetana / Janáček
String Quartets
Wagner and Smetana
Dvořák / Smetana / Suk
Janáček: String Quartets nos. 1 & 2 / Smetana: String Quartet no. 1 "From My Life"
Piano Works VII
Piano Trios
String Quartet no. 1 in E minor “From My Life” / String Quartet no. 2 in D minor
Credits
My Country
Smetana: Music from Bohemia (The Classic Composers – Late Romantic 17)
The Bartered Bride
J'aurais voulu
Dvořák: Quartet in F major, 'American' / Smetana: Quartet in E minor 'From My Life'
Má Vlast
Má vlast
Holocaust Requiem: Kaddish for Terezin
Má Vlast
The Great Composers: 38 - Dvorak: Cello Concerto / Smetana: Moldau
Bedřich Smetana: »Die Moldau« / Vyšehrad / Aus Böhmens Hain und Flur / Antonín Dvořák: Slawische Tänze op. 46
Má vlast
Aus Böhmens Hain und Flur / Die Moldau / Slawische Tänze
Dvorak: Symphonie No. 9 »Aus der neuen Welt« / Smetana: Die Moldau / Liszt: Les Préludes
Má vlast
Má Vlast
Má vlast: “My Country” / Haakon Jarl
Mein Vaterland
Marburg
Reader's Digest: A Gay Festival of Light Classical Music
The Moldau
120 Music Masterpieces
120 Music Masterpieces Highlights
1980s
1-й Квартет Ми Минор
4 Symphonische Dichtungen
A Midsummer Night's Dream / The Bartered Bride
An Evening With The Boston Symphony Orchestra
Arias & Songs By J.S. Bach · Handel · Mahler · Mozart · Schubert
Aufforderung Zum Tanz = Invitation To The Dance
Aus Böhmens Hain Und Flur Aus "Mein Vaterland"
Bach - Smetana - Chausson
Bedřich Smetana
Bedrich Smetana: The Moldau / Vysehrad - Franz Liszt: Les Preludes / Hungarian Rhapsodies 2 & 5 - Antonin Dvorak: 5 Slavonic Dances
Bernstein's Greatest Hits
Bernstein's Greatest Hits Vol. 2
Best Karajan 100 - One Hundred Best Classics
Bohemian Carnival
Bohemian Rhapsody (The Music Of Smetana & Dvorak)
Braniboři V Čechách
Bruno Walter The Edition
Carnaval Des Animaux
CD 1: Die Verkaufte Braut / CD 2: Mein Vaterland
Čertova Stěna
Česká Píseň
České Tance - Poetické Polky - Salonní Polky - Vzpomínky Na Čechy
Chamber Works Vol. 2
Chorlieder Der Romantik
Choruses From Operas
Cibulička / Hulán
Concerto In A Minor For Violin And Orchestra, Op. 53 / Vltava (Moldau)
Czech Music For Violin
Czeck Polkas and Dances
Dalibor
Dalibor
Dalibor
Dalibor
Danses Hongroises / Rhapsodie Hongroise No 2 / La Moldau
Danses Romantiques
Danses Slaves - Sérénade, Op. 22 - La Moldau