Without access to streaming.

One of my favs that I discovered through its pairing with From the New World.

Enjoy. I’ll catch up on cd when I get home. .

Here it is for you!

"I'm a Little Teapot, Short and Stout." But I'm weird. Thanks for posting it!

Bedrich Smetana didn't learn to speck Czech until he was about 40 years old.

'Bedřich Smetana was born as Friedrich Smetana on 2 March 1824, in Litomyšl, east of Prague near the traditional border between Bohemia and Moravia, then provinces of the Habsburg Empire. He was the third child, and first son, of František Smetana and his third wife Barbora Lynková. František had fathered eight children in two earlier marriages, five daughters surviving infancy; he and Barbora had ten more children, of whom seven reached adulthood.[1][2] At this time, under Habsburg rule, German was the official language of Bohemia. František knew Czech but, for business and social reasons, rarely used it; and his children were ignorant of the correct literary Czech until much later in their lives.'>>>

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bed%C5%99ich_Smetana

I first became acquainted with Smetana in Prague when I was on a Rick Steves tour there. We had a quintet play a segment from Ma Vlast in a restaurant for us and it was so moving i was in tears. I bought a CD and am so in love with his music. I wish I could have gone to a live concert but we didn't have time. Thank you for sharing this with us.

Visiting Prague some years ago with family, I was lucky to learn it was being played in the concert hall, and attended.

Our little quintet in the restaurant was lovely though and if I ever go back I will definitely make a point to attend a Smetana and a Dvorak concert. I also studied in Vienna during college and went to the Philharmonic many times to hear the Austrian composers. That was wonderful as well! It was very inexpensive at the time, but very glamorous. Vienna is such a great city for music!

I only got to Vienna a few years ago on a family trip, but did get to a 'chamber' concert of some sort.

'Cheap' concerts in London and Nottingham (many years ago,) and shows, and also shows in Stratford! (standing room tickets, and then moved into vacant seats.)