The Prague Symphony Orchestra FOK traditionally marks Czechoslovak Independence Day with a concert featuring Smetana’s cycle ...

Smetana: Ma Vlast (My Country) Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Vaclav Talich conducting (Supraphon Historical). The great Czech conductor Vaclav Talich recorded his countryman Bedrich Smetana’s cycle of ...

Every year on May 12, Smetana’s symphonic cycle My Country opens the Prague Spring Festival. All the major personalities of Czech cultural life gather in the Rudolfinum, the city’s main concert hall, ...

The Bamberg Symphony was once the hard core of the German Philharmonic Orchestra of Prague along with that latter’s orchestra’s last music director, Joseph Keilberth. They were exiled after World War ...

Conductor James Judd set a suitably heroic tone for Smetana's opening Vysehrad. Photo / Supplied On Thursday night Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra undertook what is perhaps its most courageous ...

IN TERMS of vivid programmatic writing and 19th century nationalist zeal, Smetana’s cycle of six tone poems, Ma Vlast, is a potent example. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, ...

Sept. 30 at 8: Harnoncourt and the orchestra return for a program rarely heard in New York: “Má Vlast” (“My Country”), the complete cycle of tone poems by the first great Bohemian composer, Bedřich ...

A series of six symphonic poems by Bedrich Smetana, Ma Vlast is at the core of Czech cultural identity. From September 2010. Show more At the core of Czech cultural identity Bedrich Smetana’s Ma Vlast ...

Praha - Má vlast Bedřicha Smetany v podání České filharmonie pod vedením šéfdirigenta Semjona Byčkova dnes v Obecním domě za účasti prezidenta Petra Pavla s manželkou Evou otevřela 80. ročník ...

Writer Anna Picard chooses from her favourite recordings of Bedřich Smetana's set of six symphonic Czech tone poems, Má Vlast. Performances range from 1939 to 2016, and include no less than six ...