Orchestral Works Vol 2 (Incls 'The Bartered Bride' Overture & excerpts & 'The Kiss' Overture)
$35.00
Out of Stock2-4 weeks add to cart
SMETANA
Orchestral Works Vol 2 (Incls 'The Bartered Bride' Overture & excerpts & 'The Kiss' Overture)
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra / Gianandrea Noseda
[ Chandos / CD ]
Release Date: Tuesday 30 June 2009
This item is currently out of stock. We expect to be able to supply it to you within 2 - 4 weeks from when you place your order.
Volume one of this series was an Editor's Choice in Gramophone and here Gianandrea Noseda conducts his second instalment in his Smetana Orchestral Works series.
This latest programme is made up of the familiar Bartered Bride Overture and Dances with the overtures and ballets of his lesser-known operas, including his first opera The Brandenburgers - performed with the Ballet from Act I, The Kiss - which was his first collaboration with the brilliant young librettist and poet, Eliska Krasnohorska, and The Devil's Wall all of which offer Smetana's masterful orchestration, panache and virtuosity. They are performed with assurance by the BBC Philharmonic.
"Even the most familiar pages from The Bartered Bride… come up fresh as paint, the BBC Philharmonic's immaculate virtuosity as musicianly and refined as it is sparkling. Everything is permeated with a sense of Czech pride and ideals, a mood memorably captured by Noseda."
Gramophone Magazine Editor's Choice - August 2009
"…the lyrical tragedy Dalibor, a great hymn to friendship, is rarely performed outside his homeland, and even there, relatively few will ever see Libuše, the story of Bohemia's legendary prophetess-queen, who married a humble ploughman. All the more valuable, therefore, is this sampler from the versatile Gianandrea Noseda, whose glossy, vibrant performances more than hint at what we're missing."
(BBC Music Five Stars)
Tracks:
The Bartered Bride Overture
The Bartered Bride: Three Dances (Polka, Furiant, Skocná - Dance of the Comedians)
The Secret Overture
Libuse Overture
The Devil's Wall Prelude, Infernal Dance
The Brandenburgers: Prelude, Act 1 Ballet
The Two Widows: Overture, Act II Prelude and Polka
The Kiss Overture
Dalibor entr'acte
