{"product_id":"bedrich-smetana-ma-vlast-prague-radio-symphony-orchestra","title":"Bedrich Smetana: Ma vlast - Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra,","description":"An exceptional, highly acclaimed performance of Ma vlast, now on vinyl  In the span of only a few years, Petr Popelka has ascended swiftly to  the forefront of the international conducting elite. Popelka serves as  the chief conductor of the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra and of  the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, and he appears as a guest with top  European and American orchestras and at opera theatres around the world.  He definitely sees Smetana not merely as a \"compulsory Czech classic\",  but instead as a great love and an opportunity for artistic discovery. \"His  masterpiece Ma vlast should be done a bit like an opera, like a grand  narrative... It is absolutely unique in the history of music, as a cycle of tone  poems with the composer's native land as it's theme, and above all, there  is no work that has ever been written with greater love.\" The album was  released in 2024 on CD (and in the format Dolby Atmos as well, incidentally)  to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Bedrich Smetana's birth. Through  a combination of musicality and uncompromising attention to details,  the conductor and orchestra were able to give an extraordinarily finely  crafted performance. This is not just one more of the countless recordings  of Ma vlast, as is shown by enthusiastic reviews from around the world:  in February 2025, the magazine Gramophone honoured the album as  the Editor's Choice, and the December issue of the French magazine  Diapason announced it as the winner of the Diapason d'Or de l'Annee in  the symphonic music category. The April 2026 release of this vinyl edition  of Ma vlast commemorates the 100th anniversary of the Prague Radio  Symphony Orchestra's founding.","brand":"Supraphon","offers":[{"title":"Vinyl","offer_id":52040081113368,"sku":"099925437916","price":79.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0687\/4346\/3192\/files\/4503332-3553290.jpg?v=1778247638","url":"https:\/\/hbdirect.com\/products\/bedrich-smetana-ma-vlast-prague-radio-symphony-orchestra","provider":"HBDirect","version":"1.0","type":"link"}