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Trio Bohémo on their debut recording of Smetana and Schubert
The trio's members discuss the two composers featured on their critically acclaimed debut recording.
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Kateřina Kněžíková on Strauss and Janáček
The Czech soprano discusses her new recording of the 'Vier letzte Lieder' with her friend Jakub Hrůša, and reflects on her recent transition into more dramatic repertoire - beginning with Káťa Kabanová at Glyndebourne in 2021.
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Smetana's Complete Operas on Supraphon
Our guest-contributor Rob Cowan explores Supraphon's complete edition of the Czech composer's eight finished operas plus the fragment Viola - made in Prague and Brno between 1960 and 1983, the recordings were reissued in July to mark the bicentenary of Smetana's birth.
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Smetana and Schubert from Trio Bohémo
The award-winning young Czech piano trio makes an assured, eloquent debut on Supraphon with Smetana's sole work in the genre and Schubert's late Piano Trio No. 2 in E flat.
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Bedřich Smetana
A selection of some of the best recordings of music by the great Czech Romantic composer - best known for his stirring pictorial tone poem Má vlast and opera The Bartered Bride.
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Smetana from the Pavel Haas Quartet
James listens to the Pavel Haas Quartet's new disc of Smetana's String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2.
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Smetana: String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2
Pavel Haas Quartet
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Two legendary performances
Rostropovich’s legendary account of the Dvorak Cello Concerto from the 1968 Proms, and Václav Talich’s emotionally-charged 1939 performance of Smetana’s Má Vlast, given at the National Theatre in Prague shortly after the Nazis entered the city.
