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Smetana: Má Vlast - Kubelik

Altus  ALTSA-472 (2 discs)

Stereo Single Layer

Classical - Orchestral

Wagner: Prelude to Meistersinger*, Act 3 Prelude to Lohengrin*, Prelude & Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde*
Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra*
Dvořák: Symphony No. 9*, Slavonic Dances* 2 & 7, Op. 46
Mozart: Symphony No. 35*
Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber*
Franck: Symphony*
Schubert: Symphony No. 7* (8)
Smetana: Má Vlast^

Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks*
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra^
Rafeal Kubelik (conductor)

All

Works (12)

• Béla Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra, Sz. 116 BB 123
• Antonin Dvořák: Slavonic Dances for Orchestra, B. 83 Op. 46: No. 2 in E minor
• Antonin Dvořák: Slavonic Dances for Orchestra, B. 83 Op. 46: No. 7 in C minor
• Antonin Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 in E minor, B. 178 Op. 95 'From the New World'
• César Franck: Symphony in D minor, CFF 130
• Paul Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber (1943)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 35 in D major, K. 385 'Haffner'
• Franz Schubert: Symphony No. 7 (8) in B minor, D 759 'Unfinished'
• Bedrich Smetana: My Fatherland (Má Vlast), JB 1:112
• Richard Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, WWV 96
• Richard Wagner: Lohengrin, WWV 75
• Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, WWV 90