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Composer of the Week: Smetana

BBC Radio 3
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The sudden onset of deafness in 1874 struck Smetana a severe blow, but as Fiona Talkington discovers, the composer responded with some deeply moving chamber music.
String Quartet No 1 in E minor (From My Life) Talich Quartet
In Bohemia - Country Tate; In the Salon (Dreams)
Radoslav Kvapil (piano)
From Bohemia's Woods and Fields
(Ma Vlast) Czech Philharmonic, conductor Rafael Kubelik

Contributors

Unknown:
Fiona Talkington
Piano:
Radoslav Kvapil
Conductor:
Rafael Kubelik
Source: Radio Times

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