John Schaefer: I'm John Schaefer, and you're listening to the Artist Propulsion Lab podcast. Today, flute-player Emi Ferguson continues "This Composer is Sick," exploring the impact of syphilis on ...

He’s known as the founder of the Czech nationalist school of composition, but Bedřich Smetana’s first language was actually German. And, some of his formative musical experiences occurred in another ...

Smetana's Má Vlast composed between 1874-1879 proves he is a master of the symphonic poem: a descriptive, single-movement orchestral piece, telling a story, painting a musical picture, or conveying a ...

April 27, 2012 • Hear the group the Times of London has called "the world's most exciting string quartet" in music by Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich and Smetana, live from the intimate Weill Recital Hall.

This is one of the best CDs of the year so far. An outstanding and electrifying performance of orchestral music by Smetana, from the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.Under their Principal Conductor ...

It was 195 years ago today that Bedřich Smetana was born, in a part of the world that would become, for most of the 20th century, Czechoslovakia. Smetana blazed a trail, a partisan of the polka, a ...

More years ago than I care to remember, I first made the acquaintance of Bedrich Smetana and his masterpiece Má Vlast. Smetana wrote much more than this, but it's become something of a signature tune.

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Prokofiev was adept at recycling good ideas. His Symphony No. 3 is linked thematically to the opera The Fiery Angel, and the less abrasive No 4 shares some ideas with the ballet The Prodigal Son. The ...