Czech Song. Cantata for Mixed Voices and Orchestra

- Talich conducts classic Czech works.
- Talich's 1954 interpretation of Smetana's cantata Czech Song on CD for the first time.
- Talich's composer friends - Josef Suk a Vítězslav Novák.Their pieces constituted a major portion of Talich's repertoire with the Czech Philharmonic.
- "Authentic interpretations of Suk's suite A Fairy Tale (1901) and Novák's Moravian-Slovak Suite (1903)."
- Music critic Karel Šrom, 1943: "Novák and Suk invested a tremendous amount of emotion into these pieces. Talich, who feels their works with them, invests the same into every performance. Each of Talich's performances is an attempt at uniqueness, literally inimitable."

Václav Talich - an incomparable interpreter of Suk and Novák


Bedřich Smetana Czech Song. Cantata for Mixed Voices and Orchestra
1.	Moderato	02:40
2.	Andante	02:15
3.	L'istesso tempo. Allegretto	01:50
4.	Moderato	02:24
5.	Moderato maestoso	03:16

Josef Suk A Fairy - tale. Suite from the Music to Julius Zeyer's Dramatic Tale Radúz and Mahulena, Op. 16
6.	About the Faithful Love of Radúz and Mahulena and their Sorrows (Adagio, ma non troppo)	11:23
7.	The Game of the Swans and the Peacocks (A la polka)	04:03
8.	Funeral Music (Andante sostenuto)	08:24
9.	Runa's Curse and How It was Broken by Love (Allegro appassionato)	07:32

Vítězslav Novák Slovácko Suite for Small Orchestra, Op. 32
10.	In the Church. Andante	08:24
11.	Among Children. Vivace, giocoso	03:35
12.	The Amorous Couple /The Lovers/. Andante quasi allegretto	04:07
13.	The Country Musicians. Allegro strepitoso	04:44
14.	At Night. Andante	08:19