Smetana, Bedrich - Má Vlast - Talich, Václav
79 kr
- Ej i lager
• A superb conductor of Smetana’s music, including the operas, Talich made three recordings of Má Vlast. This 1954 performance, taped in the fine acoustic of the Dvorák Hall of the Rudolfinum, just yards from the River Vltava, is a magnificent realisation of Smetana’s musical intentions.
• Talich’s buoyant rhythm in the opening bars of Vltava, and the passionate phrasing he draws from the vibrant strings and the rustic woodwinds of the Czech Philharmonic, are just some of the outstanding features of this great recording.
• With its extraordinary technical control, uncanny rhythmic sense and subtle flexibility, Talich’s reading builds inexorably, so that the final section made up of the thematically linked Tábor and Blaník comes as a fiery culmination.
“The CPO brass lunge towards the main melody with unconstrained eagerness, their impact much aided by smiling glissandos. And as Talich and his players climb aboard Smetana's home-spun melody, everything assumes a sunny glow: it's almost as if the entire work thus far had prepared for that one magical moment. But there are of course countless additional splendours … expect a Ma vlast that's way above average, an inspired affirmation of national pride by a wonderful people who had only recently escaped one form of tyranny, and would subsequently fall prey to another.”
(Gramophone)
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra/Václav Talich