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K Smetana CAN 10/1/03 9:14 Am Page 8 550931bk Smetana CAN 10/1/03 9:14 am Page 8 SMETANA DDD Naxos Best Sellers 8.550931 Essential recordings for any music collection Má Vlast ORFF: Carmina Burana 8.550196 ˇ MOZART: Requiem 8.550235 Vysˇehrad • Vltava (Moldau) • Sárka FAURÉ: Requiem (and other choral works) 8.550765 From Bohemia’s Woods and Fields • Tábor • Blaník RODRIGO: Concierto de Aranjuez (and other guitar concertos) 8.550729 Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra VIVALDI: The Four Seasons 8.550056 Antoni Wit WEDDING MUSIC: Music by Wagner, Mendelssohn, J. S. Bach & others 8.550790 MOZART: Clarinet Concerto, Oboe Concerto and Bassoon Concerto 8.550345 GERSHWIN: Rhapsody in Blue, Concerto in F and An American in Paris 8.550295 COPLAND: Appalachian Spring, Fanfare for the Common Man, etc 8.550282 SATIE: Three Gymnopédies and other piano pieces 8.550305 GÓRECKI: Symphony No. 3, “Symphony of Sorrowful Songs” 8.550822 JOHANN STRAUSS II: The Blue Danube – Most Famous Waltzes 8.550152 MUSSORGSKY & BORODIN: Pictures at an Exhibition, etc 8.550051 MOZART: Eine kleine Nachtmusik (and other ‘night’ music) 8.550026 BEETHOVEN: Moonlight, Appassionata and Pathétique Sonatas 8.550045 FÜR ELISE: Romantic piano music by Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin & others 8.550647 PAGANINI: Violin Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 8.550649 RAVEL: Boléro, Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 1, Ma mère l’oye, etc 8.550173 HANDEL: Fireworks Music and Water Music 8.550109 HILDEGARD VON BINGEN: Hymns , Sequence, Antiphon and Responds 8.550998 RACHMANINOV: Piano Concerto No. 2 and Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini 8.550117 MOZART: Symphonies Nos. 40 and 41 “Jupiter” 8.550299 8.550931 8 550931bk Smetana CAN 10/1/03 9:14 am Page 2 Bedrˇich Smetana (1824-1884) un sentiment de haine dès les premières mesures. 5. Tábor Ce poème symphonique fut composé eu 1875 et Tábor et Blaník furent composés en 1878 et Má Vlast (My Country) créé le 17 mai 1877 à Zofin. Sˇárka est une guerrière 1879, trois ans après Par les prés et les bois de tchèque qui, à la suite d’une peine de cœur, voue Bohême. Ces deux derniers poèmes symphoniques 1 Vysˇehrad 15:09 une haine sans borne aux hommes. Elle attire alors du cycle furent créés à Zofin, le quatre janvier Lento – Largo maestoso – Grandioso poco largamente – Allegro vivo ma non agitato – le chef Ctirad dans ses filets, le séduit puis le 1880, à l’occasion du jubi1é de Smetana. massacre, lui et ses hommes, avec, I’aide de sa Lento ma non troppo La partition est construite autour d’un thème de troupe “d’amazones”. choral: Vous êtes les combuttants de Dieu Ce 2 Vltava (Moldau) 13:12 dernier sera repris plus tard par le compositeur Allegro comodo non agitato (The first source of the Moldau – The second source – 4. Par les prés et les bois de Bohême Anton Dvorák dans Husltska. Woods; Hunt) – L’istesso tempo ma moderato (Peasant Wedding) – Cette pièce fut également créée à Zofin, le 10 décembre 1876. Elle fut composée un an plus tôt. 6. Blaník L’istesso tempo (Moonlight; Nymphs’ Roundelay) – Tempo 1 (Rapids of St John) – Cette partition reprend les thèmes déjà développés Cette pièce utilise le même thème du choral Più moto (The Moldau flows broadly onward; Vysˇehrad) dans La Vltava, description de la nature, de la hussite (le début de I’œuvre rappelle d’affieurs fortement Tábor, et brode autour d’une 1égende 3 Sˇárka 10:03 faune, ainsi que de l’atmosphère rencontrée dans les villages: danses paysannes tchèque racontant l’histoire de guerriers qui Allegro con fuoco ma non agitato – Più moderato assai – Moderato ma con calore – dorment sous terre, dans la montagne Blaník, avant Moderato – Molto vivo – Più vivo de s’éveiller pour combattre les envahisseurs. 4 Z cˇesk´ych luhu° a háju° (From Bohemia’s Woods and Fields) 12:46 1994 Solveig Pollet Molto moderato – Allegro poco vivo, ma non troppo – Allegro (Quasi Polka) – Tempo 1 – Allegro – Presto 5 Tábor 13:23 Lento – Grandioso – Molto vivace – Lento – Molto vivace – Lento maestoso – Più animato 6 Blaník 1:47 Allegro moderato – Andante non troppo – Più allegro ma non molto – Tempo di marcia – Grandioso – Tempo 1 – Largamente maestoso – Grandioso meno – Allegro – Vivace 8.550931 2 7 8.550931 550931bk Smetana CAN 10/1/03 9:14 am Page 6 Bedrˇich Smetana is a figure of the greatest remained German. After his marriage he was Bedrˇich Smetana (1824 - 1884) importance in the development of Czech music, employed as a teacher and pianist to the former Má Vlast (Ma Patrie), Six poèmes symphoniques creating and inspiring a synthesis of native tradition Emperor Ferdinand V, the retarded heir to the and the classical forms of music in which he had Habsburg throne. These years, however, brought Bedrˇich Smetana est né à Litomysl (en Bohème), le Deux des titres de Má Vlast sont des been trained. Born in 1824, the eleventh child and various difficulties and disappointments, with the 2 mars 1824. 11 est mort à Prague le 12 mai 1884. descriptions de la campagne tchèque: la Vltava, the first son to survive infancy of a brewer who had death of three of his four children and the illness of Par les Prés et les Bois de Bohême Il étudie tout d’abord la composition auprès de , les quatre profited from the thirst of Napoleon’s troops and his wife. Finally, in 1856, he sought a solution for autres pièces: Vysˇehrad, Sˇárka, Tábor, Blaník, Josef Prokseh. had later become brewer to Count Waldstein, he money troubles by moving to Göteborg, where he évoquent des lieux, des personnages ou des Il rencontre Schumann et Berlioz et subit leur showed early promise as a pianist and violinist and opened a successful music school and became influence, ainsi que celle de Liszt et Wagner. événements historiques. wrote his first compositions at the age of nine. closely involved with the musical life of the city. Smetana est considéré comme le père de I’École Smetana’s father was a keen amateur musician, Five years later he returned to Prague, while Tchèque. Dvorˇák reprendra ensuite le flambeau. 1. Vysˇehrad (la Forteresse Haute) a violinist, and was able to teach his son. There retaining some association with Sweden. En 1866, Smetana est nommé à la direction de Vysˇehrad était une forteresse, qui dominait la was, however, a period of some eight years during It was after his return to Bohemia that Smetana I’Orchestre du Théâtre de I’Opéra de Prague. Vltava, à la sortie de Prague. which Smetana had little professional musical set about the composition of music for the theatre. Il est I’auteur de pièces symphoniques, La pièce fut écrite en 1874 et créée quatre ans training, while attending schools in various In 1863 he completed The Brandenburgers in dramatiques, d’œuvres pour chœur, d’un trio, de plus tard, à Prague, sous la direction de L. Slansky, provincial towns. In 1838, however, he persuaded Bohemia, which he finally conducted at the Czech trois quatuors, de pièces pour piano, des Poèmes le 14 janvier 1879. his father to allow him to study in Prague and there Provisional Theatre three years later, in 1866, the Symphoniques: Hakon Jarl (écrit en 1861 et crée à Le premier thème, s’inspirant des mythes took the opportunity to devote himself to music year of The Bartered Bride. He was now at last Prague en 1864); Le Camp de Wallenstein chevaleresques, est d’abord exposé à la harpe. La rather than to anything else. This happy state of appointed principal conductor of the Theatre. Two (composé en 1859, d’après le drame de Schiller), tension s’intensifie et des rythmes guerriers se font affairs continued only for a year, after which he was years later Dalibor was staged, to accusations of dont certaines couleurs harmoniques et certains entendre. Nous assistons alors à la destruction du despatched to undergo more rigorous schooling Wagnerism, followed in 1872 by the completion of aspects de l’orchestration préfigurent le cycle Má Vysˇehrad. under an uncle’s supervision at Pizen (Pilsen). Here Libusˇe and two years later the opera The Two V1ast, Richard III, qui est en fait le premier poème 2. Vltava (la Moldau) he found scope for his abilities in playing for Widows. Smetana had his enemies and rivals, and symphonique, composé lors du séjour en Suède de Cette pièce est certainement la plus céIèbre de dances at social gatherings and pleasure in meeting there was a growing movement for his dismissal Smetana, en 1958. Smetana. Elle fut composée très rapidement, en again Katerina Kolárˇová, who in 1849 was to from the Provisional Theatre. In 1874 he was Il est également auteur des 0pèras: La Fiancée trois semaines, en novembre 1874 et créée à Zofin, become his first wife. In 1843 he left school and forced to take leave of absence as a result of his vendue, créée à l”Opéra de Prague sous sa le quatre avril 1875. L’œuvre est construite selon moved to Prague, determined to make a living as a increasing deafness, and accompanying tinnitus. In direction: Dalibor et Les Brandebourgeois en un mode descriptif, la musique tout entiière se musician, and supporting himself by employment spite of the limitations this imposed on his ability to Bohème, deux opéras patriotiques. vouant à nous faire imaginer et ressentir les as piano teacher to the family of Count Thun. 1848 compose, he completed the opera The Kiss in 1876 Entre 1874 et 1879, Smetana compose le cycle paysages de Bohême qui bordent le fleuve. was a year of nationalist disturbance in Europe. and The Secret two years later. In 1881, at the symphonique Má Vlast, alors qu’il ressent déjà les Smetana started a music school, but the political opening of the new National Theatre, his opera premiers symptômes d’une surdité qui pourtant ne 3.
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