Summer Opera Sale - Up to 40% off
We're delighted to offer a more affordable way to begin or continue your opera journey, with up to 40% off selected titles on CD, SACD, Vinyl, DVD and Blu-ray, until 14th August 2024.
Summer Opera Sale - Up to 40% off, Smetana (composer)
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Smetana: The Bartered Bride RecommendedSusan Gritton (Ma¡renka), Yvette Bonner (Esmeralda), Yvonne Howard (Ludmila), Diana Montague (Háta), Paul Charles Clarke (Jeník), Robin Leggate (Ringmaster), Timothy Robinson (Va¡sek), Neal Davies (Kru¡sina), Geoffrey Moses (Mícha), Peter Rose (Kecal) & Kit Hesketh-Harvey (Indian)
Philharmonia...
By almost any reckoning, this is the most popular of Czech operas, in the repertory of almost every opera house, so it is astonishing how few recordings have appeared in recent years; Košler's... — More…
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Building a Library, May 2023, English Choice
2 CDs
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Smetana: Libuše (incomplete) conducted by Václav Talich Live in 1939
Marie Podvalová (Libuše), Stanislav Muž (Přemysl), Vilém Zítek (Chrudoš), Josef Vojta (Šťáhlav), Jaroslav Veverka (Lutobor), Ota Horáková (Krasava), Marta Krásová (Radmila), Josef Křikava (Radovan), Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Václav Talich
The opera fragments are what make this CD unique, especially the intense portrayal of Libuše herself by the then-young soprano Marie Podvalová, bold, fearless singing, almost always dead in... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2020, Reissue/Archive of the Month
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Smetana: The Secret Karel Kalaš (Malina), Přemysl Kočí (Kalina), Štěpánka Štěpánová (Panna Róza), Štefa Petrová (Blaženka), Ivo Žídek (Vít), Vladimír Jedenáctík (Bonifác) & Oldřich Kovář (Skřivánek)
Prague National Theatre Chorus & Orchestra, Jaroslav Krombholc
2 CDs
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Smetana: Dalibor Václav Zítek (King of Bohemia), Vilém Přibyl (Dalibor), Bohuslav Maršík (Budivoj), Jaroslav Horáček (Beneš), Miloš Ježil (Vítek), Eva Děpoltová (Milada), Naďa Šormová (Jitka) & Karel Hanuš (One of the judges)
Brno State Opera Chorus & Brno State Philharmonic Orchestra, Václav Smetáček
2 CDs
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Smetana: The Bartered Bride Hans Braun (Krušina), Hilde Konetzni (Ludmila), Irmgard Seefried (Marie), Ludwig Welter (Micha), Rosette Anday (Háta), Murray Dickie (Wenzel), Waldemar Kmentt (Hans), Oskar Czerwenka (Kecal), László Szemere (Zirkusdirektor), Liselotte Maikl (Esmeralda) & Hans Schweiger (Muff)
Chor und Orchester...
[Klobucar] knows how to weight Smetana's sometimes Germanic scoring more towards Liszt than Brahms...Irmgard Seefried would be the greatest interpretative Marenka on disc if she was singing... — More…
2 CDs
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Smetana: The Kiss Ludmila Cervinková (Vendulka), Beno Blachut (Lukas), Marta Krásová (Martinka), Premysl Kocí (Thomas), Karel Kalas (Paloucky), Stefa Petrová (Barce), Vladimír Jedenáctík (Matous), Karel Hruska (Guard)
Orchestra and Chorus of the National Theater Opera in Prague, Zdenek Chalabala
2 CDs
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Smetana: The Bartered Bride RecommendedMilada Musilová (Marenka), Ivo Žídek (Jeník), Karel Kalaš (Kecal) & Oldrich Kovár (Vašek)
Chorus and Orchestra National Theatre in Prague, Jaroslav Vogel
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Building a Library, May 2023, Historical Choice
2 CDs
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Smetana: Libuse Nadežda Kniplová (Libuše), Václav Bednár (Premysl), Milada Šubrtová (Krasava), Vera Soukupová (Radmila), Zdenek Kroupa (Chrudoš) & Ivo Žídek (Štáhlav)
Chorus and Orchestra of the Prague National Theatre, Jaroslav Krombholc
This 1965 recording is not literally 'live' but has that lived-in feeling of having just walked over from theatre to microphone. With Kniplová (a Brünnhilde both on record and for Karajan) a... — More…
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Smetana: The Bartered Bride Gabriela Benacková, Peter Dvorský, Richard Novák, Miroslav Kopp, Marie Veselá, Jindrich Jindrák, Marie Mrázová, Jaroslav Horá?ek, Jana Jonášová & Alfréd Hampl
Prague Philharmonic Chorus & Czech Philharmonic, Zdenek Košler
Enjoy this for the superb performances of two great Slovak voices, Benackova and Dvorsky, superbly accompanied by Zdenek Kosler. — More…
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Czech Opera Arias and Songs Zdeněk Otava (baritone), Maria Tauberova (soprano), Karel Berman (bass), Ludmilla Dvorakova (soprano), Antonin Votava (tenor)
Prague Smetana Theatre Orchestra, Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Prague National Theatre Orchestra, Prague Symphony Orchestra, Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra, Robert...
2 CDs
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