Gabriela Benackova & Zdenek Kosler - Smetana: Libuse (1994)

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Artist: Gabriela Benackova & Zdenek Kosler
Title Of Album: Smetana: Libuse
Year Of Release: 1994
Label: Supraphon
Country: Czechoslovakia
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (*image + .cue, log, scans)
Bitrate: Lossless
Time: 02:46:13
Full Size: 826 MB

Tracklist:

CD 1
1. Predehra 8:55
Act 1
2. Scene 1. Sloyutna dcero Kroka / Nemohu dale 14:57
3. Scene 2. Beda, kdyz mezi vlastnimi bratry 5:34
4. Scene 3. Ten had tu schazi 21:17

CD 2
Act 2
1. Scene 1. Napojte kone ted' a cekejte! 21:37
2. Scene 2. Muj ujec zval me k hrobu otcovu 11:18
3. Scene 3. Heja! Heja! Bez klidu dale 12:07
4. Scene 4. Do konce dilo je hotovo / Ja ale zustanu - O, vy lipy 7:33
5. Scene 5. Od Libuse ti pozdrav nesem 12:52

CD 3
Act 3
1. Scene 1. Mir zjednan mezi obema zas bratry 8:21
2. Scene 2. On jde! Jeste nedohledny je 2:44
3. Scene 3. Nuz vitej nam 2:48
4. Scene 4. Nrekla vam, ze dala vsechnu moc 4:52
5. Scene 5. Slavnostni pruvod. - Hoj, tvrdy Vysehrad / Bohove mocni / Obra 1. Bretislav a Jitka 31:18

Libuse is THE Czech national opera. It has absolutely no plot. Libuse becomes queen of the Czech lands, and then has a series of visions in which she prophesies the future glories of her people. Smetana knew when he wrote it that the opera would be reserved only for special occasions, perhaps for that reason he also lavished a tremendous amount of hard work and inspiration on it. The result is no less than spectacular, musically speaking. The title character is also one of the great roles for the female voice, and in this live recording Czech soprano Gabriela Benackova gives an absolutely thrilling performance. If the opera is an event, then so is this recording, which is as it should be. -- David Hurwitz

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