The Best New Classical Albums of 2025
#11: An all-Smetana album featuring reissued George Szell conducting
The Best New Classical Albums of 2025
Album #11
Bedřich Smetana
Overture to the Bartered Bride
Wallenstein’s Camp, Symphonic Poem
Má vlast (excerpts)
String Quartet No. 1 “From my life” (Arranged for orchestra by George Szell)
NBC Symphony Orchestra
Boston Symphony Orchestra
George Szell, conductor
Label: Somm
Released: October 18, 2024
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Here I go cheating a bit again. First, this album was released in 2024, but I hope you will forgive me since it was released relatively late in the year. But also, this is an historic reissue of live recordings from the 1940s, and so it is not a modern recording. I hope you will indulge me when the music making is as fine as it is here.