ZT: A film that draws extensively from Janacek's (mostly non-vocal) music is The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988, after a novel by Milan Kundera), amongst others:
-eglispa(一呵呵);
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*The Madonna of Frydek, from the piano cycle On an Overgrown Path (1st series) is more or less Tereza's (Juliette Binoche) theme music: heard the first time she appears on the screen, and after recurring several times also accompanying the final scene of the film.
*2nd string quartet ("Intimate Letters"), especially the final movement, which generally accompanies scenes of insecurity or imminent danger.
I don't have the chance to listen to the DG version. I do have another version (obviously defers from the BMG version ) in a miscellaneous collectiion, however I don't know its origin.
-liuyuehe(六月荷);
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I like the one that I posted here. It is a live recording on the occasion of Kubelic's return to Czech after the cold war. Very passionate, but not sentimental (不煽情).
-klassische(老音乐迷);
2006-3-20(#2851604@0)
ZT: In 1883 Smetana, suffering further progressive neurological effects of his illness, finally became insane, and was taken to a mental hospital in Prague, where he died the following year.
-eglispa(一呵呵);
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