This title may make you wonder if I am typing in a different language, but I am not. I just found my most favorite instrumental (Theme) music on youtube and wanted to share it here. It is called Vltava (Moldau) and it is the story of the river Moldau from it’s start up in the mountains, traveling through peasant farm fields, a peasant wedding, night fairies, the St. Johns Rapids, and then out to the sea. If you listen you can hear the different parts very distinctly. What a wonderful piece of music! Even more impressive to watch. Check out both the videos below.
(It is too long for just one video – so it is broken up into two)
If you really enjoy this, then you can hear the whole piece (which is two parts) called MaVlast (My Fatherland).
MaVlast (courtesy of http://www.epinions.com/content_4572094596)
It is Má vlast (My Fatherland), the six symphonic poem cycle about Smetana’s homeland, that is the sole focus of the 71:51 CD that rounds out the 2-disc set. Performed here once again by the Czech National Philharmonic Orchestra of Prague under the direction of conductor Libor Pesek, Má vlast consists of the following tone poems:
The Moldau (track 1), which may be the best-known of the six; it describes the river Moldau from its headstream to its passage to Prague.
Vysherad or The High Castle (track 2), about the famous castle in Prague where Czech kings had their royal courts.
Sarka (track 3), which is the tale of a young Slavic knight and a warrior-princess.
From Czech Fields and Forests (track 4), which describes scenes in the Czech countryside, including bits about a hunting party and peasants working in the fields.
Tabor (track 5) is a tale from the long-ago Hussite Wars (1420-1434).
Blanik (track 6) relates, in musical terms, a Czech legend about six knights that (in a motif that runs through European mythology a la Barbarossa) are asleep under a mountain, waiting for a dark time to come to the homeland, during which they will awake and come to the nation’s aid.
You can download this from iTunes here or do a search for MaVlast for other download options.
