Our Summer BAL: 4 Smetana's Ma Vlast

[mathias broucek]

Has anyone heard the Orfeo Kubelik (Bav RSO)? I fancy it but it's not cheap and I habe 3 Kubelik versions already

[old khayyam]

I think of this as a quintessentially summer work. Not sure why.

Summer it undoubtedly is. Tumultuous clouds unfolding overhead; trees bending on the hillsides to flash the underside of their leaves to the sun; waves of wind ripple through the corn, scattering across grasses; a hare is seen taking the air; the flowers on the meadows take their strength from the sun between shadows that pass overhead; while down in the valley, the mighty river splashes over rocks where fishermen seek their salmon, roaring over the falls, dragging the reed-beds, until finally dissolving its eddies and currents in the all-embracing oblivion of the sea..