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 ...

Smetana's Má Vlast composed between 1874-1879 proves he is a master of the symphonic poem: a descriptive, single-movement orchestral piece, telling a story, painting a musical picture, or conveying a ...

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 ...

More years ago than I care to remember, I first made the acquaintance of Bedrich Smetana and his masterpiece Má Vlast. Smetana wrote much more than this, but it's become something of a signature tune.

The Czech trio deliver two great works with freshness, energy and maximum intensity This is the Trio Bohémo’s first CD, and it’s an immensely promising debut. Schubert’s great E flat Piano Trio D929 ...

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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.