Karel Ancerl conducts Smetana (vaimusic.com)

http://vaimusic.com/VIDEO/DVD_4322_69408_69409_Ancerl_Scherchen.htm Karel Ancerl conducts Vitava (The Moldau)- excerpt Bedrich Smetana From: VAI DVD 4322 Great Conductors in Rehearsal and Performance: Ancerl/Scherchen Karl Ancerl leads the Toronto Symphony Orchestra in a in rehearsal and performance of Smetana's The Moldau. Hermann Scherchen rehearses his own orchestration of Bach's The Art of the Fugue with the CBC Toronto Chamber Orchestra. 115 min., Color & B&W. Toronto Symphony Orchestra TO PURCHASE THE COMPLETE DVD, PLEASE VISIT www.vaimusic.com OR CALL TOLL-FREE IN THE US 1(800)477-7146 (OUTSIDE OF THE US, CALL 914-769-369).

Bedřich Smetana was a Czech composer who pioneered the development of a musical style which became closely identified with his country's aspirations to independent statehood. He has been regarded in his homeland as the father of Czech music. Internationally he is best known for his opera The Bartered Bride and for the symphonic cycle Má vlast, which portrays the history, legends and landscape of the composer's native land.

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