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Smetana: Ma Vlast (Complete Symphonic Cycle).(Concert review)
Smetana: Ma Vlast (Complete Symphonic Cycle). Walter Susskind, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. Mobile Fidelity UDSACD 4006.
Originally issued by Vox/Turnabout in 1975, this recording by Walter Susskind of Bedrich Smetana's descriptive tone poems has remained a favorite for over thirty years. It's nice to hear it so lovingly remastered by Mo-Fi.
Smetana completed Ma Vlast, "My Country," in 1874 and dedicated it to the city of Prague. The work is, as most of you know, made up of six interrelated symphonic pictures, the first four, "Vysehrad," "Vltava" ("The Moldau"), "Sarka," and "From Bohemia's Woods and Fields," describing the sights and sounds of Smetana's native Czechoslovakia, while the last two, "Tabor" and "Blanik," celebrate famous military victories in Czech history. Incidentally, the composer requested that "Tabor" and "Blanik" never be played separately; that is, never without the other. Anyway, the complete cycle displays a varied number of moods and actions that have delighted audiences for as long as it's been around.
Susskind's way with the work is elegant and refined, much as we might find a Marriner or a Mackerras approaching the score. Not that the interpretations lacks energy or excitement--it would be hard to deny the music their due, no matter who was conducting-but they seem to lack an essential intensity ...
- Ma vlast--My Country.(Sound recording review)
- Magazine article from: Czech Music Veber, Petr July 1, 2006 700+ words
...Bedrich Smetana [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Ma vlast--My Country Czech Philharmonic, Vaclav...CD Supraphon SU 3826-2. Talich's Ma vlast, a recording of 1954 that has now been...from the then standard of the orchestra. Ma vlast was crucial for Vaclav Talich; he returned...
- CZECH PHILHARMONIC'S 'MA VLAST'
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Richard Dyer, Globe Staff January 22, 1987 700+ words
...orchestras of the world, and Smetana's "Ma Vlast" is one of the cornerstones of its repertory...the foreign listener can understand "Ma Vlast" fully "only if he is acquainted with...Belohlavek the orchestra no longer plays "Ma Vlast" in the exact style documented in Talich...
- Smetana: Ma Vlast. Paavo Berglund, Dresden State Orchestra. EMI Seraphim 7243 5...
- Magazine article from: Sensible Sound Puccio, John April 1, 2001 700+ words
Smetana: Ma Vlast. Paavo Berglund, Dresden State Orchestra...his native Bohemia (Czechoslovakia), Ma Vlast (My Homeland), written in 1874, has...70s, my favorite vinyl recording of Ma Vlast was one by Vaclav Neumann on Teldec...
- Smetana: Ma Vlast. Sir Roger Norrington, London Classical Players. Virgin...
- Magazine article from: Sensible Sound Puccio, John April 1, 1999 700+ words
Smetana: Ma Vlast. Sir Roger Norrington, London Classical Players. Virgin Veritas 7243...and, for me, largely captivating. Of course, the real test of any Ma Vlast performance is whether the listener has drifted off into Mitty Land...
- Bedrich Smetana: Ma vlast / My Country.(Sound recording review)
- Magazine article from: Czech Music Vitek, Bohuslav April 1, 2009 700+ words
Bedrich Smetana Ma vlast / My Country Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Libor Pesek. Production: John H. West. Text: Eng., Ger., Fr. Recorded...
- Music Smetana: Ma Vlast City of London Festival
- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London Anthony Payne June 27, 1996 700+ words
Smetana's majestic cycle of tone-poems, Ma Vlast, has become the latest romantic masterwork to receive authentic treatment: it opened the City of London Festival on Tuesday evening...
- JOINING THE ROYAL LINE OF CZECH CONDUCTORS
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Richard Dyer, Globe Staff August 19, 1988 700+ words
...Boston Symphony Orchestra has played "Ma Vlast," Bedrich Smetana's great cycle of...Czechoslovakia. But now, on Saturday night, "Ma Vlast" returns to the repertory of the Boston...New World Symphony" and Smetana's "Ma Vlast." He says he never tires of these works...
- Antonin Dvorak.
- Magazine article from: Czech Music Vitek, Bohuslav October 1, 2005 700+ words
...of lyrical, or better, balladic counterpart to Smetana's Ma vlast [My Country]. In foreign catalogues, on the other hand...listeners, and not only Czechs, were cool towards Harnoncourt's Ma vlast). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Sir Simon Rattle handles the Dvorak...
Source: HighBeam Research, Smetana: Ma Vlast (Complete Symphonic Cycle).(Concert review)