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Composer of the Week: Smetana

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Fiona Talkington explores music from the final years of Smetana's life, including the startling String Quartet No 2 and highlights from the late operas completed before the composer's eventual decline in a Prague lunatic asylum.
The Secret (Overture; Listen, You Distant World; Look, the Bagpipes Have Arrived)
Prague National Theatre Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Zdenek Kosler
The Bear (Czech Dances) Rudolf Firkusny (piano)
String Quartet No 2 in D minor Skampa Quartet
The Devil's Wall (Only One Lovely Woman's Beauty Touched Me) Vaclav Bednar (bass),
Prague National Theatre Orchestra, conductor Zdenek Chalabala
From the Homeland
Josef Suk (violin), Jan Panenka (piano)

Contributors

Unknown:
Fiona Talkington
Conductor:
Zdenek Kosler
Piano:
Rudolf Firkusny
Bass:
Vaclav Bednar
Conductor:
Zdenek Chalabala
Violin:
Josef Suk
Violin:
Jan Panenka
Malina:
Jaroslav Horacek(bass)
Kalina:
Vaclav Zitek(baritone)
Skrivanek:
Oldrich Spisar(tenor)
Roza:
Vera Soukoupova (mezzo)
Bonifac:
Karel Prusa (bass)
Source: Radio Times

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