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Jitka Čechová is an energetic young pianist and member of the highly successful Smetana Trio. On her third CD of Smetana's piano works she proves how intimately familiar she is with thecomposer's style. The album includes Smetana's greatest piano cycle, the Czech Dances, written in the years 1877-79. The first part of the cycle consists of four polkas, while the second part contains Smetana's concert interpretations of specific Czech folk dances (including the Furiant, Skočná, Rejdovák a rejdovačka, Sousedská, Hulán and Medvěd). The album is rounded out with Smetana's late piano works. The Romance in G minor (1881) was the last piece he composed for piano, though at the very end of his life he revised his famous Bettina Polka (1883). Smetana's greatest piano cycle Czech Dances in an outstanding performance by Jitka Čechová


Bedřich Smetana Czech Dances 1st Series
1.	Set I - Polka in F sharp minor	02:53
2.	Set I - Polka in A minor	02:36
3.	Set I - Polka in F major	03:29
4.	Set I - Polka in B flat major	03:14

Bedřich Smetana Czech Dances - 2nd Series
5.	Set II - Furiant	05:37
6.	Set II - Little Hen	03:14
7.	Set II - Oats	05:31
8.	Set II - The Bear	03:39
9.	Set II - The Little Onion	05:02
10.	Set II - Stamp Dance	04:00
11.	Set II - The Lancer	04:56
12.	Set II - Obkročák	03:14
13.	Set II - Sousedská	04:49
14.	Set II - Skočná	03:37

Bedřich Smetana
15.	Bettina Polka	01:47

Bedřich Smetana
16.	The Peasant Woman - Polka	03:47

Bedřich Smetana
17.	Andante in F minor for Piano	00:55

Bedřich Smetana
18.	Romance in G minor	01:56

Czech Dances 1st Series

Set I - Polka in B flat major

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Jitka Čechová

Smetana: Piano Works 3 (Czech Dances, Bettina Polka, The Peasant Woman, Romance etc.)

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