• PriceZombie Logo
  • Stores & Coupons
  • Live Feed
  • United States
  • Login / Register
Product /
Smetana: Album Leaves and Sketches

 

By Brilliant Classics
Smetana: Album Leaves and Sketches
Price
New from $7.59
3rd Party New from $3.92
3rd Party Used from $2.45
Range
 
Low $1.90
High $11.17
Rating
Review this product
 
  • Watch this Item
  • Price Protection

Not the price you want? Enter the price you want to pay and you'll be notified when the price drops.

 

Watch this product

If you've purchased this item from a store (or used a credit card) that offers price protection, PriceZombie can track its price and notify you if it falls within the protection time period so you can get a refund of the price difference.

 

Please register in order to use this feature
Amazon
$7.59
0 Reviews / Discussion
Buy from Amazon
           
Last Seen $7.59   Last Seen $3.92   Last Seen $2.45  
Highest $11.17 Mar 6, '16   Highest $5.50 Jan 19, '16   Highest $7.79 Oct 18, '15  
Lowest $7.59 Mar 30, '16   Lowest $2.93 Oct 18, '15   Lowest $1.90 Mar 18, '16  
Average $10.53   Average $4.32   Average $3.01  
Added Oct 18, 2015   Added Oct 18, 2015   Added Oct 18, 2015  
                 
Historical Price
Amazon Best Sellers Rank
30 day average: 378,375 | 90 day average: 335,989

 

Product Description
This will be quite a discovery for those who know the music of Bedrich Smetana only through his grand and nationalistic cycle of tone-poems, Ma Vlast, even if they are yet familiar with his more painfully intimate string quartets or his folkloristic operas. For Smetana, like most composers, needed to eat; and to do so he was happy to make his own contribution towards satisfying the seemingly insatiable appetite of the bourgeois 19th-century public for piano music that they could perform at home. Music of no great difficulty but boundless charm, these miniatures are now seldom heard and even less often recorded, and this is a shame, for works such as the Op.3 Characteristic Pieces show how the pianistic extroversion of Brahms and Liszt (who was a great admirer and supporter of the young Smetana, giving him valuable introductions to publishers) could be adapted to a domestic context, and with the particular inflection of Czech and Bohemian character, derived not only from simple and song-like melodies but also irregularly stressed dance-rhythms that the young Italian pianist Roberto Plano relishes to the full on this welcome new survey. As Plano himself remarks in the booklet notes for the release, the late works embody all the sincerity and essential poetry of the composers style, all the more treasurable for their emergence against the odds as Smetana battled with deafness and the mental illness that would cut short his life.

 

* PriceZombie is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com.

 

You are not logged in.

 

Please Login or Register to continue.
 
  Discussion / Discussion starter Last post Replies Views
  No discussions available

 

  Disclaimer: The prices and availability displayed on PriceZombie are taken directly from the vendor's website or data feed. Some, but not all, vendors pay a small affiliate fee if you purchase their items through a PriceZombie link. Learn more. PriceZombie strives for accuracy, however the same price may not be available in your location. Heavily discounted items may sell out quickly. Always refer directly to the vendor's website to confirm prices.
  • About
  • Blog
  • Media
  • Contact Us
  • Help and Support
  • Privacy Policy
  • Mobile Site
Copyright © 2016 PriceZombie, LLC. PriceZombie® is a registered trademark of PriceZombie, LLC.