New Album Releases: SMETANA - MA VLAST (Czech Philharmonic Orchestra & Semyon Bychkov)

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Artist:
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Semyon Bychkov

Genre:
Classical

Total Time:
81:44

Record Label:
Pentatone

Purchasing Links:
CD, MP3, Apple Music

Release Date
March 1, 2024




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Product Description: The Czech Philharmonic and it's Chief Conductor and Music Director Semyon Bychkov present a new recording of Bedrich Smetana's masterpiece Ma vlast (My Homeland). The album celebrates both the bicentenary of Smetana's birth and, the start of 2024's Year of Czech Music which has been celebrated every ten years since Smetana's 100th anniversary in 1924. Ma vlast (1874-1878) is a potent symbol of the Czech Republic's turbulent political history and has played an important role in the Czech national movement. Contemplating the landscape, history, and legends of Bohemia, Ma vlast is best known for it's world-famous Moldau melody. For Bychkov, who was born in Russia before emigrating to the United States, and now lives in France, the question of 'the homeland' is particularly poignant - how to take pride in the best of it's heritage, while also coming to terms with it's darker pages. For the Orchestra to revisit this seminal piece with Bychkov, with whom it has developed such a close working relationship over the past few years, makes the recording all the more personal and topical. The Czech Philharmonic is one of the world's orchestral gems, recognised for it's rich tradition with the Czech masters as well as European repertoire. Semyon Bychkov who is internationally renowned for his interpretations of the core repertoire, began his tenure with the Orchestra at the start of the 2018/19 season. Together, they have so far recorded for Pentatone Mahler's First, Second, Fourth and Fifth Symphonies (2022-2023), part of the complete Mahler cycle to be released by the label. The Orchestra is also featured on the album Folk Songs (2023) recorded by Magdalena Kožena and Sir Simon Rattle.

TRACK LIST:

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1 . Má Vlast, JB1:112: I. Vyšehrad (16:00)

2 . Má Vlast, JB1:112: II. Vltava (13:10)

3 . Má Vlast, JB1:112: III. Šárka (10:37)

4 . Má Vlast, JB1:112: IV. Z českých luhů a hájů (12:48)

5 . Má Vlast, JB1:112: V. Tábor (13:48)

6 .Má Vlast, JB1:112: VI. Blaník (15:25)

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