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A. Dvořák: Slavonic Dances - Czech Philharmonic Orchestra conducted Václav Talich

A. Dvořák: Slavonic Dances - Czech Philharmonic Orchestra conducted Václav Talich
ID: RCD70002
Disk: 1
Type: CD
Kolekce: České historické nahrávkyPodkolekce: Orchestr

Czech historical recordings - 1935

The Slavonic Dances are a series of 16 orchestral pieces composed by Antonín Dvořák in 1878 and 1886 and published in two sets as Opus 46 and Opus 72 respectively. Originally written for piano four hands, the Slavonic Dances were inspired by Johannes Brahms's own Hungarian Dances and were orchestrated at the request of Dvořák's publisher soon after composition. The pieces, lively and overtly nationalistic, were well received at the time and today are among the composer's most memorable works, occasionally making appearances in popular culture.
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B. Smetana - From My Life, A. Dvořák - American, Waltzes: String Quartets: Ševčík-Lhotský Quartet

B. Smetana - From My Life,  A. Dvořák - American, Waltzes: String Quartets:  Ševčík-Lhotský Quartet
ID: RCD70023
Disk: 1
Type: CD
Kolekce: České historické nahrávkyPodkolekce: Quartet


Czech historical recordings - 1929
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B. Smetana: My Country - Czech Philharmonic Orchestra conducted Václav Talich

B. Smetana: My Country - Czech Philharmonic Orchestra conducted  Václav Talich
ID: RCD70001
Disk: 1
Type: CD
Kolekce: České historické nahrávkyPodkolekce: Orchestr

Czech Historical recordings - 1929
A Cycle of Symphonic Poems (Vyšehrad; Vltava; / From Bohemia's Woods and Fields; Tábor; Blaník)

My Country, the monumental cycle of symphonic poems by Bedřich Smetana, is a unique apotheosis of the composer’s love for his motherland. Smetana himself wrote a brief outline of the contents of the cycle’s individual parts. The work, which he dedicated to the city of Prague, was first performed on November 5, 1882. It’s import, most notably in the darkest times for the Czech nation, was perhaps most eloquently expressed in 1939 by the author, Jan Drda: “It is not a poem, it’s a prophecy. A spiritual vision of the beautiful land which has accompanied generation after generation, a message of hope and love harking back to the past and pointing to the future… A land from whose people have arisen such truly prophetic figures as was recently Bedřich Smetana, is indeed invincible.”
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Czech Film Melodies I - J. Jezek - J. Werich - J. Voskovec and etc...

Czech Film Melodies I - J. Jezek - J. Werich - J.  Voskovec and etc...
ID: RCD26861
Disk: 1
Type: CD
Kolekce: České historické nahrávkyPodkolekce: Film Music

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B. Smetana: The Bartered Bride - Comic Opera in 3 Acts - Prague National Theatre Chorus and Orchestra - O. Ostrčil, conductor

B. Smetana: The Bartered Bride - Comic Opera in 3 Acts - Prague National Theatre Chorus and Orchestra - O. Ostrčil, conductor
ID: RCD70041
Disk: 2
Type: CD
Kolekce: České historické nahrávkyPodkolekce: Opera

Comic Opera in 3 Acts to the Libretto by Karel Sabina
Czech historical recordings - 1933
Notes in English, French, German and Czech.

The story of the opera

Overture
A cheerful mood ata Czech country fair, with the folk dancing and singing, young couples meeting, weddings being arranged.

Act 1
Mařenka and Jeník want to marry. However, Mařenka’s father, Krušina, has other ideas. He wants Mařenka to marry a boy she has never met, Vašek, the son of Micha, who is a wealthy landowner. The marriage-broker Kecal is hired to broker the marriage between Mařenka and Vašek. Kecal is made aware of the relationship between Mařenka and Jeník, and becomes determined to break them up in order to facilitate the marriage of Mařenka with Vašek.

Act 2
Mařenka and Vašek meet each other by accident and, while Mařenka works out who Vašek is, on the other hand, Vašek is too much of a simpleton to realize who she is. Mařenka starts painting a picture of Vašek’s intended bride as a woman who would make his life a total misery if he should marry her. This turns Vašek off the idea of marrying his intended wife, and also makes him interested in this girl who obviously has his best interests at heart. Meanwhile, Kecal starts his campaign to pay off Jeník, so that Jeník will renounce his right to marry Mařenka. Kecal eventually reaches a price which Jeník finds agreeable, and Jeník agrees to sell the rights to his fiancée for 300 guilders. Jeník also specifies that this is on condition that Mařenka marries Mícha’s son. Since Kecal intends Mařenka to marry Vašek, so that he can get his money, he readily agrees. As soon as the contract is signed, the entire town repudiates Jeník.

Act 3
A travelling circus comes to town, and Vašek becomes entranced with the gypsy, Esmeralda. There is some trouble with one of the acts, and Vašek is persuaded to assist the circus. Mařenka is angry with Jeník for what he has done, and she angrily turns her back on him and agrees to marry Vašek. When both sets of parents meet Mařenka, the appearance of Jeník at the meeting results in the revelation that Jeník is the long-lost son of Mícha from his first marriage, and that Jeník had been hounded out of house and home by his stepmother, Háta (who is also Vašek’s mother). As a result of this revelation, the terms of the contract between Kecal and Jeník, whereby Jeník gave her up (on condition that Mařenka should marry the son of Mícha), allows Mařenka to marry either Jeník or Vašek. Mařenka chooses Jeník, and Kecal is left with the embarrassment of having paid Jeník 300 guilders in order for Jeník to give up the right to marry Mařenka, to Jeník, himself. At this time, a frightened child rushes in and exclaims that a bear has escaped from the circus. As everybody cowers, the bear wanders in and pulls off its head, revealing that it was just the immature Vašek disguised in a bear costume for the circus. Embarrassed, Háta drags Vašek off and the parents and the villagers congratulate the happy couple.
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