Otakar Ostreil - Smetana: The Bartered Bride (2001)

• Title: Smetana: The Bartered Bride
  
• Year Of Release: 1933 [2001]
  
• Label: Naxos Historical [8.110098-99]
  
• Genre: Classical
  
• Quality: FLAC (*image + .cue, log, scans)
  
• Total Time: 02:07:56
  
• Total Size: 262 (+3%rec.)
  
• WebSite: Album Preview
  

Bohemia had for centuries provided musicians for the Habsburg Empire, but it was with Bedrich Smetana that Czech music assumed a true national identity of its own. Born the son of a master-brewer in the service of Count Waldstein, Smetana had an early education that allowed only intermittent attention to music but he was later able to support himself as a piano teacher in the house of a nobleman in Prague, while taking private lessons. His aim, as he put it, was to be a Liszt in piano technique and a Mozart in composition. He was involved in the abortive nationalist rising of 1848 and took refuge for a time in Sweden, before settling again in Bohemia after the Austrian defeat by Napoleon III in 1859. His interest now settled on the new Provisional Theatre in Prague, where he became conductor in 1866, after earlier disappointment. His Czech opera The Brandenburgers in Bohemia was staged there on 5th January 1866, followed on 30th May by a new opera, The Bartered Bride, in a version that lacked the later dances. The opera was revised in 1869, when the Act II Polka was added, among other changes, and there was further revision, with the final version appearing in 1870. Smetana’s other operas were Dalibor, Libuse, The Two Widows, The Kiss, The Secret and The Devil’s Wall. the last of these was given an indifferent first performance in 1882, when Smetana was already suffering from the illness that would bring about madness and death two years later.

The conductor of the Prague National Opera Company recording of 1933, a model for later interpretations of the work, was Otakar Ostrcil, who had become music director of the National Theatre in 1920, a position he retained until his death in 1935. During his tenure he established a sound international repertoire for the company, while paying special attention to operas by Smetana and Dvorák, with first performances of works by Janácek. The company included the leading soprano Ada Nordenová, here in the rôle of Marenka, with the bass Emil Pollert as Kecal, and, in the present recording, a cast able to give a definitive historical performance of the most popular of Smetana’s operas.

Tracks:

CD 1

Overture

ACT 1
Scene 1
Tak tedy prece se to státi má (Marenka, Jeník)
Proc bychom se netesili (Chorus, Marenka, Jeník)

Scene 2
Kdybych se co takového o tobe dozvedela (Marenka, Jeník )
Jako matka pozehnáním (Jeník, Marenka)
Verné milování (Jeník, Marenka)

Scene 3
Jak vám pravím, pane kmotre (Kecal, Krusina, Ludmila)
Ovsem Tobiáse Míchu znám (Krusina, Kecal, Ludmila)
Mladík slusny a mravu víc tichych (Kecal, Ludmila, Krusina)

Scene 4
Tu ji máme (Kecal, Krusina, Ludmila, Marenka)
Jeník neupustí (Marenka, Ludmila, Krusina, Kecal)

Scene 5
Finale: Polka… Pojd’ sem, holka (Chorus)

ACT 2
Scene 1
To pivecko veru je nebesky dar (Chorus, Jeník, Kecal)
Furiant (Orchestra)

Scene 2
Ma-ma-ma-maticka povídala (Vasek)

Scene 3
Vy jste zajisté zenich (Marenka, Vasek)
Známt’ já jednu dívcinu (Marenka, Vasek)

Scene 4
Jak pravím, hezká je (Kecal, Jeník)
Nuze, mily chasníku (Kecal, Jeník)
Kazdy jen tu svou má za jedinou (Kecal, Jeník)
Znám jednu dívku, ta má dukáty (Kecal, Jeník)
Odreknes-li se Marenky (Kecal, Jeník)

Scene 5
Jak mozná verit, ze bych já prodal svoji Marenku (Jeník)

Scene 6
Finale: Pojd’te, lidicky (Kecal, Jeník, Krusina, Chorus)


CD 2

ACT 3
Scene 1
To- to mi v hlave lezí (Vasek)

Scene 2
Pochod komediantu… Ohlasujeme slavnému publikum (Principal)
Skocná (Orchestra)
Je- je-je-je! To bude hezké! (Vasek, Esmeralda, Indian, Principal)
Milostné zvírátko udeláme z vás (Esmeralda, Principal)

Scene 3
Oh, já ne-ne-nest’astny... (Vasek, Háta, Kecal, Mícha)

Scene 4
Ne, ne, tomu neverím (Marenka, Krusina, Kecal, Ludmila, Háta, Mícha, Vasek)
Rozmysli si, Marenko (Ludmila, Háta, Krusina, Kecal, Mícha, Marenka)

Scene 5
Oh, jaky zal! (Marenka)
Ten lásky sen (Marenka)

Scene 6
Marenko má (Jeník, Marenka)
Tak tvrdosíjná, dívko, jsi (Jeník, Marenka)

Scene 7
Hle, hle, chasniku, cekás uz na peníze? (Kecal, Marenka, Jeník)
Utiz se, dívko, utis se (Jeník, Marenka, Kecal)

Scene 8
Finale: Jak jsi se, Marenko, rozmyslila? (Chorus, Marenka, Ludmila, Háta, Jeník, Krusina, Mícha, Kecal)

Scene 9
Dobrá vec se podarila! (Krusina, Ludmila, Mícha, Marenka, Jeník, Chorus)

Personnel:

Prague National Theatre Chorus and Orchestra
Conducted by Otakar Ostrcil

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