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Artist: Bedrich Smetana
Title Of Album: Collection
Year Of Release: 2023
Label: Brilliant Classics
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (*image + .cue,log,cover)
Time: 8 CDs, 09:37:00 min
Full Size: 2,4 Gb (+1%rec.)

The most complete collection available of music by the father of Czech nationalism in music. Má Vlast, The Bartered Bride and the String Quartet 'From My Life': all written within a decade of each other, all so fundamental in their different genres in forming a Czech national identity in music that it can seem incredible they were the work of a single composer. Yet this was the task that Bedrich Smetana (1824-1884) had set himself from early on - not only to become 'a Liszt in technique and a Mozart in composition' but the voice of a new nation. Given the obstacles he faced, his success in realising this ambition is all the more impressive. To begin with he had to overcome his father's antipathy to his chosen destiny as a composer; then the vicissitudes of poverty, and then, at the height of his powers and renown, a succession of personal tragedies which left him deaf and mentally unstable; he died in reduced circumstances, living with his daughter, and it took the following generation of Czech composers to rehabilitate the hero who had lived in their midst. To begin with, Smetana won a reputation as the life and soul of the party thanks not least to the kind of piano miniatures which were published as his earliest surviving works. He sent one set to Liszt, who replied with characteristic generosity, and the elder composer's example, encouragement and friendship all became crucial to Smetana as he spread his wings. Large-scale orchestral works soon followed in his late 20s, such as the powerful if rambling Festive Symphony - here performed complete, a rarity in itself - and the G minor Piano Trio, written as an outpouring of grief at the death of his daughter Bedriška, and a powerful foreshadowing of later masterpieces. Finding recognition in his homeland hard to come by, he moved to Sweden, and it was only on his permanent return home in the early 1860s that The Bartered Bride and then Má Vlast took shape, each through a complex genesis outlined by a new booklet essay and appreciation of the composer by Peter Quantrill. In their final forms they were acclaimed as the work of someone worthy to be hailed as a 'Czech Beethoven', for their heroic style, their mastery of old forms with a distinctively Czech twist, and their celebration of the nation's history and sense of itself.

CDs
CD1 - Ma Vlast - [73:13]
CD2 - Symphonic poems - [77:11]
CD3 - Festive works - [75:38]
CD4 - String Quartets, Piano Trio - [78:23]
CD5 - Piano Music - [76:39]
CD6 - Czech Dances - [58:20]
CD7 - The Bartered Bride, part 1 - [66:40]
CD8 - The Bartered Bride, part 2 - [70:53]

Tracklist
CD1 - Ma Vlast - [73:13]
Bedrich Smetana
Ma Vlast
1. I. Vysehrad
2. II. The Moldau
3. III. Sarka
4. IV. From Bohemias Meadows and Forests
5. V. Tabor
6. VI. Blanik

CD2 - Symphonic poems - [77:11]
Bedrich Smetana
1. Wallenstein's Camp, Op. 14
2. Hakon Jarl op.16
3. Richard III op.11
4. The Bartered Bride, Overture
Three Dances from The Bartered Bride
5. Polka
6. Furiant
7. Dance of the Comedians
8. Doctor Faust Overture
9. The Peasant Woman, Polka
10. To Our Girls, Polka

CD3 - Festive works - [75:38]
Bedrich Smetana
Festive Symphony in E op.6
1. I. Allegro vivace
2. II. Largo maestoso
3. III. Scherzo Allegro vivo Trio Allegro moderato
4. IV. Finale Allegro non troppo ma energico
5. Festive Overture in C major
6. Festive Overture in D major Op. 4
7. Prague Carnival
8. March of the National Guard
9. Shakespeare Festival March, Op. 20

CD4 - String Quartets, Piano Trio - [78:23]
Bedrich Smetana
String Quartet No.1 'From my Life'
1. I. Allegro Vivo Appassionato
2. II. Allegro Moderato A La Polka
3. III. Largo sostenuto
4. IV. Vivace
String Quartet No.2
5. I. Allegro
6. II. Allegro Moderato
7. III. Allegro Non Piu Moderato
8. IV. Presto Agitato
Piano Trio Op.15
9. I. Moderato assai
10. II. Allegro, ma non agitato
11. III. Finale: Presto

CD5 - Piano Music - [76:39]
Bedrich Smetana
1. Andante in E flat Major
2. Pensee Fugitive
Album Leaves Op.2
3. Prelude: Allegro
4. Chanson: Moderato
5. Vivace
6. Allegro comodo, sempre marcato
7. Moderato con anima
8. Andante ma non troppo
Characteristic Pieces Op.3
9. To Robert Schumann
10. The Wayfarer's Song
11. 'It boils and it roars'
Sketches Op.4
12. Prelude
13. Idyll
14. Memory
15. Persistent endeavour
Sketches Op.5
16. Scherzo, Polka
17. Melancholy
18. Friendly Landscape
19. Rhapsody
Album Leaves
20. Allegretto ma non troppo
21. Allegro
22. Toccatina
23. Trio (Album Leaf in G minor)
24. Lento
25. Con moto
26. For Katerina Kolarova: Moderato
27. For Elisabeth F. Thun: Allegro
28. For Josephine Finke: Agitato
29. For Jean Kunz: Allegro
30. For Vaclav Ulwer: Grave
31. For Marie Proksch: Moderato
32. Andante in F Minor
33. Romance in G minor

CD6 - Czech Dances - [58:20]
Bedrich Smetana
The Complete Czech Dances, Book I
1. Polka in F-sharp minor
2. Polka in A minor
3. Polka in F
4. Polka in B-flat
Book II
5. Furiant
6. Slepicka (Little Hen)
7. Oves (Grain Dance)
8. Medved (Bear Dance)
9. Cibulicka (Little Onion)
10. Dupak (Stamping Dance)
11. Hulan (Lancer)
12. Obkrocak (Stepping Dance)
13. Sousedska (Neighbour's Dance)
14. Skocna (Hop Dance)

CD7 - The Bartered Bride, part 1 - [66:40]
Bedrich Smetana
The Bartered Bride
1. Ouvertüre
Act I
2. Seht am Strauch die Knospen springen
3. Sag, mein liebes Herz
4. Zum Tanze rufen sie mich heut
5. Gern ja will ich dir vertrauen
6. Sage, was dich von Hause fort
7. Mit der Mutter sank zu Grabe
8. Nun in Lust und Leide
9. Alles ist so gut wie richtig
10. Freilich! Den Tobias Micha
11. Er wär' gerne mit mir gekommen
12. Seht, da kommt sie wie gerufen
13. Mit Hans bin ich vereint!
14. Durch die reihen hin zu fliegen
Act II
15. Wie schäumst du in den Krügen
16. Furiant
17. Teurer Sohn, sprach Mütterlein
18. Seid ihr nicht der Bräutigam
19. Eine gibt es hier im Dorf

CD8 - The Bartered Bride, part 2 - [70:53]
Bedrich Smetana
the Bartered Bride Act II
1. Komm, mein Söhnchen
2. Wer in Lieb entbrannt
3. Gib die törichte Liebschaft auf
4. Armer Narr
5. Es muß gelingen
6. Nicht zu hitzig
Act III
7. O was ich mich betrübe!
8. Marsch der Komödianten
9. Tanz und Produktion der Komödianten
10. Ei, ei, wie reizend!
11. He, mein Teurer
12. Alles geht am Schnürchen
13. Ach, wie wird es mir ergehn
14. Ha, das trifft wie ein Donnerschlag
15. Nein! Nein!
16. Hab ich verdient so tiefe Schmach
17. He, Wenzel!
18. Noch ein Weilchen, Marie
19. Endlich allein!
20. Der Liebestraum war wunderschön
21. So find ich dich
22. Ha, ha, ha, ha!
23. Mein lieber Schatz, nun aufgepaßt!
24. He, Hans! Möchtest du dein Geld
25. Gesegnet, wer liebt und auch vertraut
26. Kommen wir gerne, so kommen wir gleich
27. Was seh ich
28. Wer hätte das von ihm gedacht
29. Der Bär ist los!
30. So ist's recht, es freut uns alle

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