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Šárka – Full Opera by Zdeněk Fibich (1950)
Zdeněk Fibich’s complete opera, Sarka, conducted by Alois Klima in 1950, featuring Václav Bednář, Beno Blachut, and Marie Podvalová….
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Zdeněk Fibich – Šárka Overture
Zdeněk Fibich, a prominent Czech composer of the 19th century alongside Bedřich Smetana and Antonín Dvořák, created a vast repertoire of chamber works, symphonic poems, operas, and liturgical music. His…
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Bedřich Smetana – Šárka from Má Vlast
Prague Spring Festival was established in 1946 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Czech Philharmonic. It opens on May 12, the day Bedřich Smetana died, and features top soloists…
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Zdeněk Fibich
…extramarital affair, Fibich continued to compose prolifically. His symphonic work “At Twilight” and his opera Sarka, a story about a Czech female military leader, were met with immense success. Fibich’s…
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My Fatherland by Bedřich Smetana – 3rd Movement
QYO2, the Second Queensland Youth Orchestra, conducted by Sergei V Korschmin, performs Bedřich Smetana’s Ma Vlast, Movement 3, Šárka, My Fatherland in a lunchtime concert at Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium…
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Purcell – Elegy Upon the Death of Queen Mary
…and Júlia Sárkány, keyboard player Katalin Hegedűs, and viola da gamba player Júlia Regős. The Elegy is a lamentation for the death of Queen Mary, composed by Henry Purcell with…
