The Gothenburg Symphony have produced a fascinating film, shot in 360°, which offers you a privileged position in the front row of the orchestra directly in front of their conductor Santtu-Matias ...

Bohemian composer Bedřich Smetana, one of the primary influences that shaped Czech music, kept composing even after becoming deaf due to illness – and delivered one of his most famous works during ...

Czech Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Rafael Kubelik. side 1: The Moldau (Vltava) (part 1); side 2: The Moldau (Vltava) (part 2) (Victor 12520), from the album, Smetana: Moldau - Bohemia's Meadows ...

Smetana’s “The Moldau” conveys the spirit of his homeland by following the course of a picturesque river in this weekend’s South Dakota Symphony concert. SDSO’s principal cellist Robert Erhardt ...

The great Czech composer Bedřich Smetana would have been 195 today, and the birthday has been marked by a beautiful Google Doodle, set to the music of his Vltava. The piece is one of the six symphonic ...

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 ...

Czech Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Rafael Kubelik. side 1: THE MOLDAU (VLTAVA) (conclusion); side 2: From Bohemia's Meadows and Forests (part 1) (Victor 12521), from the album, Smetana: Moldau ...

Dreadful to think that while I was comfortably listening to Smetana’s stormy evocation ‘St John’s Rapids’ in ‘Vltava’ the actual river had burst its banks and Prague was in state of dire emergency.

John Schaefer: I'm John Schaefer, and you're listening to the Artist Propulsion Lab podcast. Today, flute-player Emi Ferguson continues "This Composer is Sick," exploring the impact of syphilis on ...

"Ma Vlast," (mah vlahst) or "My Country," by Czech composer Bedrich Smetena, is one of the most patriotic pieces of music ever written. Czech conductor Jiri Belohlavek (YEER-zhee beh-loh-H'LAH-vek) ...