The Gothenburg Symphony have produced a fascinating film, shot in 360°, which offers you a privileged position in the front row of the orchestra directly in front of their conductor Santtu-Matias ...

Smetana’s “The Moldau” conveys the spirit of his homeland by following the course of a picturesque river in this weekend’s South Dakota Symphony concert. SDSO’s principal cellist Robert Erhardt ...

Bohemian composer Bedřich Smetana, one of the primary influences that shaped Czech music, kept composing even after becoming deaf due to illness – and delivered one of his most famous works during ...

I went to Czechoslovakia in a fourth-grade music appreciation class. Of course, it was only in my head; I was listening to “The Moldau,” by 19th century Czech composer Bedrich Smetana. It depicts the ...

Czech Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Rafael Kubelik. side 1: The Moldau (Vltava) (part 1); side 2: The Moldau (Vltava) (part 2) (Victor 12520), from the album, Smetana: Moldau - Bohemia's Meadows ...

The birthplace of the Vltava lies in the Bohemian Forest. Dark yellow, like heavy gold, it fills its bed. The golden river, which has repeatedly overflowed its banks, has inspired poets, architects ...

Czech Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Rafael Kubelik. side 1: THE MOLDAU (VLTAVA) (conclusion); side 2: From Bohemia's Meadows and Forests (part 1) (Victor 12521), from the album, Smetana: Moldau ...

Dreadful to think that while I was comfortably listening to Smetana’s stormy evocation ‘St John’s Rapids’ in ‘Vltava’ the actual river had burst its banks and Prague was in state of dire emergency.