Genres:
Orchestral » Symphonic Poems
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'It hardly needs saying that there is nothing banal about Bychkov’s meticulously mapped performances and that his attention to detail never stifles the music’s spontaneity...In sum, an enriching... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2024, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2024, Orchestral Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Finalist - Orchestral
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2024
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2025, Winner - Orchestral
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Special offer. Smetana: Má Vlast
RecommendedIn memoriam Jiří Bělohlávek
Czech Philharmonic, Jiří Bělohlávek
Bělohlávek clearly knew that Smetana, far from being a cheap purveyor of catchy melodies and moment-to-moment thrills, was a sure-footed musical architect, and this recording pays the long... —
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2018, Orchestral Choice
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Record Review, 6th January 2018, Recording of the Week
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Building A Library, May 2021, Also Recommended
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Notwithstanding some rough edges, especially in their otherwise passionate rendition of Szell’s orchestration of the string quartet,t here is a good deal to enjoy in these vividly recorded performances. —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2025, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Shortlist, Orchestral
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2025, Musique Symphonique
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It is not hard to imagine what music portraying such a story meant to the oppressed people at that concert in 1939 and after having already burst into wild applause at the end of each poem the... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 19th December 2011
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Gramophone Awards, 2012, Special Award
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Building A Library, May 2021, Also Recommended
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2 CDs
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there is a good deal to enjoy in these vividly recorded performances. —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2025, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Shortlist
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2025, Musique Symphonique
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2 Vinyl Records
Original price ($51.25) Reduced price $47.15 -
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Life with Czech Music - Smetana & Dvorak
RecommendedCzech Philharmonic Orchestra, Prague Symphony Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras
Mackerras extols the Czech Philharmonic’s “national” sound. And that’s what we get, with rustic woodwinds, the brass a little tart, and passionate, light-fingered strings. Nothing is bland...they... —
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Building a Library, November 2023, Recommended Recording - Dvorak 9
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The CPO brass lunge towards the main melody with unconstrained eagerness, their impact much aided by smiling glissandos. And as Talich and his players climb aboard Smetana's home-spun melody,... —
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This new Naxos offering enshrines an interpretation of no mean stature and individuality: an undoubted bargain, I would say. —
