Bedřich Smetana – Má Vlast by St. Petersburg Radio and TV Symphony OrchestraSt. Petersburg Radio and TV Symphony Orchestra / Stanislav Gorkovenko:
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In the course of the French Revolution European territories
began to harbor a special interest in their own individual
identity. The conception of the national state forged
ahead, which had significant consequences on their
cultural achievements. The world of fairy tales knocked on
the doors of the continent and the societies discovered
their historical and social roots in recalling their household
legends and myths. It was the start of the Romantic period
which was susceptible to this kind of fantastical narrations
and the musical community with its composers and artists
happily joined the scene.
Consequently it turned into the heyday of program music,
when symphonic poems came into being. Composers
developed a sophisticated most colourful orchestral sound
which perfectly served the purpose of that musical poetry.
The orchestra itself took over a kind of protagonists’ role
by giving birth to pictures and illusions. It is symphonic
onomatopoeia – music itself is telling tales by its own
means and it is not for no reason that symphonic poems
belong to the most popular programs which todays concert
halls still are promoting.
Smetana’s Má Vlast (My Country) is a resounding proof of
this type of music. And it occupies an exceptional position:
designed as a cycle and consisting of six individual
movements, it turns into one of the largest symphonic
poems cycles ever written. The binding outside element
are the nation’s most famous sites with castles, forests,
meads and even a prominent river, all of them associated
with heroic legends which span from the past into an
idealized vision of the future. Internally the cyclical context
becomes obvious by certain themes and motifs which are
cited in the course of the individual pieces. So on the
whole it is a kind of national cosmos coloured by music.
Smetana dedicated Má Vlast to the city of Prague, and it is
meanwhile tradition that it will be performed every year on
May 12th, the composer’s day of death, to open the
musical Prague Spring.
The present release with an extended playing time of
78:06 minutes comes from the 24 bit /96 khz state-of-theart
recordings out of the St. Petersburg Classics archive.
They are carefully remastered by the prestigious Grammy
award-winning b-sharp studio Berlin using the original
source material.
began to harbor a special interest in their own individual
identity. The conception of the national state forged
ahead, which had significant consequences on their
cultural achievements. The world of fairy tales knocked on
the doors of the continent and the societies discovered
their historical and social roots in recalling their household
legends and myths. It was the start of the Romantic period
which was susceptible to this kind of fantastical narrations
and the musical community with its composers and artists
happily joined the scene.
Consequently it turned into the heyday of program music,
when symphonic poems came into being. Composers
developed a sophisticated most colourful orchestral sound
which perfectly served the purpose of that musical poetry.
The orchestra itself took over a kind of protagonists’ role
by giving birth to pictures and illusions. It is symphonic
onomatopoeia – music itself is telling tales by its own
means and it is not for no reason that symphonic poems
belong to the most popular programs which todays concert
halls still are promoting.
Smetana’s Má Vlast (My Country) is a resounding proof of
this type of music. And it occupies an exceptional position:
designed as a cycle and consisting of six individual
movements, it turns into one of the largest symphonic
poems cycles ever written. The binding outside element
are the nation’s most famous sites with castles, forests,
meads and even a prominent river, all of them associated
with heroic legends which span from the past into an
idealized vision of the future. Internally the cyclical context
becomes obvious by certain themes and motifs which are
cited in the course of the individual pieces. So on the
whole it is a kind of national cosmos coloured by music.
Smetana dedicated Má Vlast to the city of Prague, and it is
meanwhile tradition that it will be performed every year on
May 12th, the composer’s day of death, to open the
musical Prague Spring.
The present release with an extended playing time of
78:06 minutes comes from the 24 bit /96 khz state-of-theart
recordings out of the St. Petersburg Classics archive.
They are carefully remastered by the prestigious Grammy
award-winning b-sharp studio Berlin using the original
source material.
released January 12, 2019
In the course of the French Revolution European territories
began to harbor a special interest in their own individual
identity. The conception of the national state forged
ahead, which had significant consequences on their
cultural achievements. The world of fairy tales knocked on
the doors of the continent and the societies discovered
their historical and social roots in recalling their household
legends and myths. It was the start of the Romantic period
which was susceptible to this kind of fantastical narrations
and the musical community with its composers and artists
happily joined the scene.
Consequently it turned into the heyday of program music,
when symphonic poems came into being. Composers
developed a sophisticated most colourful orchestral sound
which perfectly served the purpose of that musical poetry.
The orchestra itself took over a kind of protagonists’ role
by giving birth to pictures and illusions. It is symphonic
onomatopoeia – music itself is telling tales by its own
means and it is not for no reason that symphonic poems
belong to the most popular programs which todays concert
halls still are promoting.
Smetana’s Má Vlast (My Country) is a resounding proof of
this type of music. And it occupies an exceptional position:
designed as a cycle and consisting of six individual
movements, it turns into one of the largest symphonic
poems cycles ever written. The binding outside element
are the nation’s most famous sites with castles, forests,
meads and even a prominent river, all of them associated
with heroic legends which span from the past into an
idealized vision of the future. Internally the cyclical context
becomes obvious by certain themes and motifs which are
cited in the course of the individual pieces. So on the
whole it is a kind of national cosmos coloured by music.
Smetana dedicated Má Vlast to the city of Prague, and it is
meanwhile tradition that it will be performed every year on
May 12th, the composer’s day of death, to open the
musical Prague Spring.
The present release with an extended playing time of
78:06 minutes comes from the 24 bit /96 khz state-of-theart
recordings out of the St. Petersburg Classics archive.
They are carefully remastered by the prestigious Grammy
award-winning b-sharp studio Berlin using the original
source material.
began to harbor a special interest in their own individual
identity. The conception of the national state forged
ahead, which had significant consequences on their
cultural achievements. The world of fairy tales knocked on
the doors of the continent and the societies discovered
their historical and social roots in recalling their household
legends and myths. It was the start of the Romantic period
which was susceptible to this kind of fantastical narrations
and the musical community with its composers and artists
happily joined the scene.
Consequently it turned into the heyday of program music,
when symphonic poems came into being. Composers
developed a sophisticated most colourful orchestral sound
which perfectly served the purpose of that musical poetry.
The orchestra itself took over a kind of protagonists’ role
by giving birth to pictures and illusions. It is symphonic
onomatopoeia – music itself is telling tales by its own
means and it is not for no reason that symphonic poems
belong to the most popular programs which todays concert
halls still are promoting.
Smetana’s Má Vlast (My Country) is a resounding proof of
this type of music. And it occupies an exceptional position:
designed as a cycle and consisting of six individual
movements, it turns into one of the largest symphonic
poems cycles ever written. The binding outside element
are the nation’s most famous sites with castles, forests,
meads and even a prominent river, all of them associated
with heroic legends which span from the past into an
idealized vision of the future. Internally the cyclical context
becomes obvious by certain themes and motifs which are
cited in the course of the individual pieces. So on the
whole it is a kind of national cosmos coloured by music.
Smetana dedicated Má Vlast to the city of Prague, and it is
meanwhile tradition that it will be performed every year on
May 12th, the composer’s day of death, to open the
musical Prague Spring.
The present release with an extended playing time of
78:06 minutes comes from the 24 bit /96 khz state-of-theart
recordings out of the St. Petersburg Classics archive.
They are carefully remastered by the prestigious Grammy
award-winning b-sharp studio Berlin using the original
source material.
released January 12, 2019
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