Tag: Václav Smetáček
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Baroque Bohemia & Beyond, Vol. 10
Alto Records’ survey of great music straddling the late Baroque and early Classical era reaches its tenth volume with two concertos and a significant programmatic “Grand Characteristic Symphony” depicting the French Revolution bearing portents of great works by Beethoven and Berlioz.
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Dvořák: Piano Concerto, Piano Quintet
Antonín Dvořák, though best known for his Symphony No. 9 “From the New World” and Cello Concerto, wrote a large body of masterful and tuneful music combining traditional forms with Czech color and melody. The unrevised version of his Piano Concerto is one of the most challenging such works in the repertoire, yet Sviatoslav Richter,…
