Prague National Theater Orchestra, Zdenek Chalabala - Smetana: The Kiss (2006)
Artist: Prague National Theater Orchestra, Zdenek Chalabala
Title: Smetana: The Kiss
Year Of Release: 2006
Label: Supraphon
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 01:43:10
Total Size: 425 Mb
WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist:Title: Smetana: The Kiss
Year Of Release: 2006
Label: Supraphon
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 01:43:10
Total Size: 425 Mb
WebSite: Album Preview
01. The Kiss, JB 1:104: Overture (00:05:19)
02. The Kiss, JB 1:104, Act I, Scene 1: Vendulka! Vendulka! (otec Paloucký, Vendulka, dcera Palouckého, Martinka, Vendulčina stará teta) (00:03:59)
03. The Kiss, JB 1:104, Act I, Scene 2: They´re Coming (otec Paloucký, Vendulka, dcera Palouckého, Barče, děvečka u Palouckých, Martinka, Vendulčina stará teta) (00:00:55)
04. The Kiss, JB 1:104, Act I, Scene 3: Good Evening! - Here, My Brother-in Law, Lukáš (otec Paloucký, Lukáš, mladý vdovec, Tomeš, švagr Lukášův) (00:09:11)
05. The Kiss, JB 1:104, Act I, Scene 4: My Dearest One! Oh, We Belong to Each Other? (otec Paloucký, Vendulka, dcera Palouckého, Lukáš, mladý vdovec, Tomeš, švagr Lukášův) (00:03:23)
06. The Kiss, JB 1:104, Act I, Scene 4: Oh, Look! Anger, Is Already Stirring up Their Blood! - Let´s Drink Now to Their Health (otec Paloucký, Lukáš, mladý vdovec, Tomeš, švagr Lukášův) (00:03:00)
07. The Kiss, JB 1:104, Act I, Scene 5: Never, Never in My Sorrow (Vendulka, dcera Palouckého, Lukáš, mladý vdovec) (00:03:49)
08. The Kiss, JB 1:104, Act I, Scene 5: The Red Sunset is Beaming (Vendulka, dcera Palouckého, Lukáš, mladý vdovec) (00:02:42)
09. The Kiss, JB 1:104, Act I, Scene 5: No, I Say, Leave Me Be! (Vendulka, dcera Palouckého, Lukáš, mladý vdovec) (00:07:45)
10. The Kiss, JB 1:104, Act I, Scene 6: Just as I Said (otec Paloucký, Vendulka, dcera Palouckého, Lukáš, mladý vdovec) (00:03:51)
11. The Kiss, JB 1:104, Act I, Scene 7: Where´s He Going? - As if He Forgot About That Lovely Time (Vendulka, dcera Palouckého, Martinka, Vendulčina stará teta) (00:03:27)
12. The Kiss, JB 1:104, Act I, Scene 7: I´m, My Dear Girl, Old by Now (Vendulka, dcera Palouckého, Martinka, Vendulčina stará teta) (00:02:10)
13. The Kiss, JB 1:104, Act I, Scene 7: And You, My Baby - Sleep Now, My Angel - A Little Snow White Dove Was Flying (Vendulka, dcera Palouckého) (00:04:16)
14. The Kiss, JB 1:104, Act I, Scene 8: What a Disgrace! - Play Me the Most Sprightly Dance (Vendulka, dcera Palouckého, Lukáš, mladý vdovec, Barče, děvečka u Palouckých) (00:02:11)
15. The Kiss, JB 1:104, Act I, Scene 9: You Should Be Ashamed! Even a Boy Would Be Ashamed (Vendulka, dcera Palouckého, Lukáš, mladý vdovec, Barče, děvečka u Palouckých, Tomeš, švagr Lukášův) (00:02:28)
16. The Kiss, JB 1:104, Act II: Overture (00:02:25)
17. The Kiss, JB 1:104, Act II, Scene 1: Go on! (Matouš, starý pašíř) (00:03:44)
18. The Kiss, JB 1:104, Act II, Scene 2: Woe Is Me! - If I Knew How to Erase My Guilt (Lukáš, mladý vdovec) (00:03:39)
19. The Kiss, JB 1:104, Act II, Scene 3: What a Chase He Led Me! (Lukáš, mladý vdovec, Tomeš, švagr Lukášův) (00:01:58)
20. The Kiss, JB 1:104, Act II, Scene 3: Just Ask for It, You Fool (Lukáš, mladý vdovec, Tomeš, švagr Lukášův) (00:04:36)
21. The Kiss, JB 1:104, Act II, Scene 4: Ha, ha, Lukáš, You Have Such Troubles With Your Love! (Matouš, starý pašíř) (00:02:28)
22. The Kiss, JB 1:104, Act II, Scene 5: What a Dark Forest! (Vendulka, dcera Palouckého, Martinka, Vendulčina stará teta, Matouš, starý pašíř) (00:03:04)
23. The Kiss, JB 1:104, Act II, Scene 5: Oh, How Could I Believe so Foolishly (Vendulka, dcera Palouckého, Martinka, Vendulčina stará teta, Matouš, starý pašíř) (00:02:51)
24. The Kiss, JB 1:104, Act II, Scene 6: Vendulka, Dearie, How Do You Like (Vendulka, dcera Palouckého, Martinka, Vendulčina stará teta, strážník) (00:04:57)
25. The Kiss, JB 1:104, Act II, Scene 6: He Showed You Well What Is Hidden in a Man (Vendulka, dcera Palouckého, Martinka, Vendulčina stará teta) (00:02:14)
26. The Kiss, JB 1:104, Act II, Scene 7: Ah, I Cannot Breath for Running! (Barče, děvečka u Palouckých) (00:02:33)
27. The Kiss, JB 1:104, Act II, Scene 7: Announce, Little Bird, Announce (Barče, děvečka u Palouckých) (00:01:59)
28. The Kiss, JB 1:104, Act II, Scene 8: Here is Martinka´s Abode - Yes, Yes, I Forgive You, My Boy (otec Paloucký, Lukáš, mladý vdovec, Barče, děvečka u Palouckých, Matouš, starý pašíř, Tomeš, švagr Lukášův) (00:04:13)
29. The Kiss, JB 1:104, Act II, Scene 9: It´s Her! - The Arguments Are Settled (Vendulka, dcera Palouckého, Lukáš, mladý vdovec) (00:04:03)
Total length: 01:43:10
Label: SUPRAPHON a.s.
Performers:
Ludmila Cervinková (Vendulka)
Beno Blachut (Lukas)
Marta Krásová (Martinka)
Premysl Kocí (Thomas)
Karel Kalas (Paloucky)
Stefa Petrová (Barce)
Vladimír Jedenáctík (Matous)
Karel Hruska (Guard)
Orchestra and Chorus of the National Theater Opera in Prague
Zdenek Chalabala
Smetana's frothy, almost operetta-like opera Hubicka (The Kiss) is a standard, popular work in Czech-speaking lands and has been since its premiere in 1876. This makes one wonder why it has not been recorded more often. The recording under consideration here, made by the then Czech state label Supraphon in 1952, was the only complete one for many, many years. A more contemporary recording, made by the Brno Janácek Opera in 1980 under conductor Josef Pancik, just simply is not as successful as this monophonic recording led by the great Zdenek Chalabala, so this version remains the gold standard for Hubicka. This 2006 Supraphon package is especially nice and well made as not a single member of this excellent cast is left alive at its issue, thumbnail biographies are provided for each member. The full text of Eliska Krásnohorska's famous, and controversial, libretto is given in four languages, and this brings the book up to 172 pages, but listeners will be very grateful nonetheless. Smetana's music is at its typically lively best, and Chalabala keeps the orchestra at a riotous intensity throughout. The Supraphon recording engineers, working with primitive, Soviet bloc technology, are kept very busy as they back the orchestra off the singers at every entrance and pipe it back up at every exit. Nevertheless, one's ears become accustomed to this arcane practice and overall the recording is superior to average mono opera recordings being made in the Soviet Union at that time.
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