Nikolaus Harnoncourt seems fascinated with all things Czech at the moment; he has already recorded a series of discs of Dvorak, from symphonies to Slavonic dances, and he now turns his attention to ...
Wallenstein's Camp Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra Petr Popelka, Conductor Hakon Jarl Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra Petr Popelka, Conductor String Quartet No. 1, 'From my life' Prague Radio Symphony ...
Few works have had quite so bizarre a performance history as Ma Vlast, Smetana's cycle of six thematically related symphonic poems, which forms the national epic of Czech music. Interweaving ...
When the Czech composer Bedrich Smetana set about his famous symphonic cycle Ma Vlast - My Country or My Land, in the early 1870s, he was tapping into a national tradition surviving under the rule of ...
Frances Fyfield is in Prague to see both the handwritten score and some early sketches of Smetana's glorious Ma Vlast, My Land, including the famous evocation of the river Moldau. Show more When the ...