Smetana: Má Vlast
Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, Claus Peter Flor
the playing is both warmly expressive and beautifully detailed. The scene- setting opening work, Vysehrad...is spellbindingly performed...this non-Czech performance, by a classy cosmopolitan...
Smetana: Má Vlast
Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, Claus Peter Flor
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the playing is both warmly expressive and beautifully detailed. The scene- setting opening work, Vysehrad...is spellbindingly performed...this non-Czech performance, by a classy cosmopolitan...
About
Ranging from idyllic to grandiose, the music is here performed by Claus Peter Flor and the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, a team whose recording of the Asrael Symphony (BISSACD1776) by Smetana‘s compatriot Josef Suk made great impact on its release in 2009. Commending the sound quality (‘world-class’), the reviewer on the Classics Today website called it ‘one smoking hot performance’ by an orchestra playing ‘like a pack of demons’. The review in Classic FM Magazine included a ‘go buy recommendation’.
Contents and tracklist
- Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra
- Claus Peter Flor
- Recorded: August 2009
- Recording Venue: Dewan Filharmonic PETRONAS, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
No. 1, Vysehrad (the High Castle)
Track length14:41
No. 2, Vltava (Moldau)
Track length12:15
No. 3, Sarka
Track length9:43
No. 4, Z ceskych luhu a haju (from Bohemia's Woods and Fields)
Track length12:31
No. 5, Tabor
Track length13:09
No. 6, Blanik
Track length13:39
Awards and reviews
June 2011
the playing is both warmly expressive and beautifully detailed. The scene- setting opening work, Vysehrad...is spellbindingly performed...this non-Czech performance, by a classy cosmopolitan orchestra, holds its own with the best.
