Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Prague Philharmonic Choir, Zdenek Kosler – Smetana: The Bartered Bride (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:16:56 minutes | 1,93 GB | Genre: Classical, Opera
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For Czech audiences, arias from The Bartered Bride, this jewel of Czech classical opera production from the pen of Bedřich Smetana, represent truly popular, indeed timeless tunes. Supraphon is now launching this famous comic opera back onto the market, in a version featuring star performances of international stars Gabriela Beňačková as Mařenka, Peter Dvorský as Jeník, and Richard Novák as Kecal. Playing on an equally brilliant form here was the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Zdeněk Košler, backed by the vocal forces of the Prague Philharmonic Choir.
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FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 55:13 minutes | 508 MB | Genre: Classical
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Czech conductor Zdeněk Košler leads the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra on this 1989 album featuring Richard Strauss’s iconic Also sprach Zarathustra, one of the most recognizable pieces in all of classical music. Strauss makes use of an unusually large orchestra, deployed in the most varied way, while there is a tonal ambiguity that remains to the final bars.
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