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- Date Released: October 4, 2005
- Genre: Classical
- Style: Classical
- Label: LSO Live / IODA
Six eloquent tone poems celebrating places and events in Czech history.
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We Say...
Bedrich Smetana, a fervent Czech patriot, drew on the folk myths and musical idioms of his native Bohemia in his operas, chamber music and orchestral works — most impressively in this cycle of six tone-poems (1872-79) celebrating places and events in Czech history. Sir Colin Davis' way with this music is particularly eloquent in the two movements depicting landscape, Vltava ("The Moldau") and Z ceských luhu a háju ("From Bohemia's Woods and Fields"). Nature here is not entirely benign; listen to the storm sequence in Vltava or the final minute of Z ceských luhu a háju, rather more intense than the bucolic titles would suggest. These heroic, fresh-air performances have some of the austere sweep of Davis' recordings of the music of Sibelius.
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| 01. |  |
Má vlast:: Vysehrad |
15:00 |
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| 02. | |
Má vlast:: Vltava |
12:37 |
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| 03. | |
Má vlast:: Sárka |
10:11 |
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| 04. | |
Má vlast:: Z ceských luhu a háju |
12:09 |
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| 05. | |
Má vlast:: Tábor |
11:26 |
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| 06. | |
Má vlast:: Blaník |
13:48 |
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06 Total Tracks, 75:11 Total Length
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