I'm not sure 'vlast' means 'mother'. Does it not mean 'domain', 'my domain'? Or 'my ownership?' What is mine to own?
Now in Russian it's 'mother Russia'. People whose country is 'mother' have a softer place in them, but ruthless history has its way over them anyway.
There is something terrible about the 'father country'. I love the notion that before they died the Japanese kamikazes shouted, 'mother'. There is more potential in 'mother', which is why the Japanese gave up the warrior culture
This was recorded March 11, 1950 and remastered in 1999. The flutists were Arthur Lora (principal) and Carmine Coppola.
The performance is typical Toscanini: strict attention to every detail. Maestro Toscanini let a performer or group know when it was time to enter by giving them a brief, but penetrating glance. A longer and dirtier glare followed a missed or tardy response, and it was a long time before the recipient of that glance failed again.
The piece contains Smetana's most famous tune. It is an adaptation of the melody La Mantovana, attributed to the Italian renaissance tenor Giuseppe Cenci (also known as Giuseppino),[3] which, in a borrowed Moldovan form, was also the basis for the Israeli national anthem, Hatikvah. The tune also appears in major in an old folk Czech song Kočka leze dírou ("The Cat Crawls Through the Hole") and Hans Eisler used it for his "Song of the Moldau".
The piece contains Smetana's most famous tune. It is an adaptation of the melody La Mantovana, attributed to the Italian renaissance tenor Giuseppe Cenci (also known as Giuseppino),[3] which, in a borrowed Moldovan form, was also the basis for the Israeli national anthem, Hatikvah. The tune also appears in major in an old folk Czech song Kočka leze dírou ("The Cat Crawls Through the Hole") and Hans Eisler used it for his "Song of the Moldau".
I found the vinyl LP I believe this recording came from -- called Five Tone Poems -- was at a salvation army months ago and for a dollar bought it and have to say it was a very well spent buck. This was required listening for a music class I am taking this semester.
D'une telle beauté que j'en ai pleuré devant mon ordinateur comme une pauvre madelaine. Je suis tombé amoureux de cette composition qui est d'une telle qualité que je suis tombé de ma chaise comme un pauvre cochon qui a été mis sur une table. Jamais l'être humaina su créer quelque chose de si beau comme cette composition.
@ziplesswonder including ME on YOUR comment right now, simply because that's all I fucking hear, same line, word for word when someone talks about people thumbing something down. Call me a hater, I dont care. Someone's gonna read this and have a laff.
@phorsic I have just played my 1950s RCA album. That change in musical pitch and structure is just part of the song. Very good mono recording. I love the Danse Macabre on the flip side.
@acfinney I don't know...I hear a skip. The sound from the woodwinds and strings don't seem to decay fully and there's a very brief moment of silence. It sounds almost like they spliced it...Obviously that is a jarring moment in the music anyway, but I feel like this is something further...
@phorsic Interesting. My record is the same as this recording. I thought it was odd. The whole piece is an odd mix of haunting/ military/ glorious ect. The percussion gets in the way of the decay of winds and strings. Also, I think that this is a 1951-52 recording in the not so lively RCA studios of New York. It had the echo of a broom closet. Have you listened to a more recent performance of this? It may hold the key.
playing this song in orchestra class right now, it is really such a beautiful piece! probably one of my favorites i've ever played (and ive been playing for about 8 years)
Two streams, one cold, one warm, come together and the Moldeau is formed. It flows past the hunt then on to the wedding party. It now flows into night and all is quiet. Then the dawn and it flows past a large city with all it's hustle and bustle. Now, in all it's glory, it flows on to be consumed and lost in the sea.
I am amazed at Toscanini's musical imagination. He has so much control over the orchestra. I wonder how stressful it was being a musician under him? 10:30 onward seems beyond the capability of an orchestra, or at least beyond the control of a conductor. Thank you Maestro for providing us with the greatest that art can offer.
@astromancer trubko, to je 6 tonu ze stupnice, no a? :D a to, ze motiv pouzil kazdy prece vi..a co asi tech dalsich desettisic not kolem..to je taky vykradacka??
I can imagine the Czech wedding as I come to that theme - the joy in it. The wonderful Moldau theme woven into the piece. And the Moon fairies on the water. The St. Charles rapids too. LOVE this piece and have for so many years.
For everyone who didn´t know the background of this cyklus and the author. Bedrich Smetana has finished this cykle when he was totally deaf. This part of the cykle called Vltava (Moldau) projects the story of the Czech national river, from the beginn, from the first springs in the mountains which can make sleepy and calm down, which are playful, to the killing torrent storm.
Btw, the 9th symphonie, e-moll, opus 9, also knows as "From the New World" , from another Czech composer Antonin Dvorak supossed to be the American national anthem, but Dvorek has refused it (see on U-Tube).
Don't know what I would do without NPR radio. They had a performer doing Tchaikovsky on piano tonight. I know, I know... very ordinary in the classical music world. But I LOVE it! However, Smetana - Moldau River is still my favorite. I know... I have loved this classical piece since 7th grade. It was one of my most played albums. It's still beautiful. Take a listen -
Thank you VERY much for sharing this musical gem, so well played and conducted here!!!!! (PS: What is the broadcast date for this performance? I KNOW it isn't the commercial recording released by RCA, because that was done in Carnegie Hall in 1952, and this is clearly Studio 8-H.)
falso. fricsay era próximo a ele como uma sorte do músico. e o toscanini ele mesmo estava sempre pronto para admitir ao seus próprios, um pouco grande, falhas.
Woa!! Very interesting interpretation, I am used to the typical Czech raised, this is definitely beneficial view of Czech music from "outside", mainly I was intrigued by a faster tempo and dynamic contrasts, in any event, Smetana & Toscanini - an interesting combination!!
I'm not the least interested in what you want, what you believe nor what you have to say. I'm probably not the first YouTube victim who wishes a restraining order could be filed against you.
I cannt imagine that just one of your favorite would composers would be abble to make a song deaf... Which Smetana was... So put your opinninon in your ass
If you hate this song, where do you stand on such astounding masterpieces such as Gustav Holst's Jupiter: Bringer of Jollity, or Modest Mussorsky's Great Gate of Kiev? How about Camille Saint-Saëns' Dance Macabre? All of these pieces of music have similar epic-poem style music flow, and all have been renowned as some of the greatest classics.
So why not Bedřich Smetana's Moldau? It's got musical poetic feel, and many characteristics of great music... It is an epic soundtrack of the mind.
Its people like you that give me the drive to teach music, so hopefully not every kid in America winds up with a mindset such as yours. Unless you can compose something as nationalistic, and beautiful. I suggest you don't comment on this anymore. I bet both Toscanini and Smetana are rolling over in their grave.
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Do you care to spar, fiend? I see that you have sullied this comment section with your tedious verbal graffiti. I shall despoil you with concertos and a cantata.
Yes, it is all very beautiful, and wonderful music. I am partial to the fourth movement, Z českých luhů a hájů (From Bohemia's meadows and forests), but they're all good.
..there is a building up of rythym in this piece that almost all conductors destroy....they lose balance effect and continuity....you want no other version after this Toscanini recording.....it is just matchless perfection.....
I heard this orchestra on a local arts channel, and was mesmerized by the richness and fullness of the sound of the entire orchestra, and how it flowed together as a whole. I had to hunt it down, and I found it, thanks to you. Thank you sincerely for making my day a whole lot better.
The constant strenuous fingerwork is amazing here amongst the strings. If I were conductor I might be tempted to increase the tempo in the initial theme, but damn, fingers can only move so fast, ya know! Toscanini insisted upon clarity, and he got that. I think the musicians' knuckles would have caught fire if they had gone any faster!
This may well be the greatest string section ever assembled--and it really shows here.
Too bad that this, plus his string quartet, are the only pieces still in the modern repertory. How much great music there is to re-introduce to modern audiences!
Certainly not a bad performance, but it ain't really Smetana either. Toscanini re-orchestrated the entire St. John's Rapids section and even cut a few measures. His changes aren't an improvement.
What an interpretation. Truly wonderful lycricism. really brings out the fantasitical qualities of Smetana's mucic, yet still portraying both the beauty and granduer of his homeland. It's almost hard to imagine music like this was the result of a dictatorship amongst an orchestra. nevertheless just close your eyes and let your imagination run wild!
EXCELENTE
leoncioviolin 5 days ago
This almost makes me cry, I love this work so much! This is also probably my favorite version I've heard of it.
Antigone1Evenstar 2 months ago
introduced to me by Mr Arne Pedersen (world-class gentleman, math teacher & violinist). To date, the only classical piece I can name. Thank you, sir.
rcminkbv2d 2 months ago
The best! Music like water!!!
piesseesse 3 months ago
@piesseesse proberly because its about water...
tptman001 2 weeks ago
I'm not sure 'vlast' means 'mother'. Does it not mean 'domain', 'my domain'? Or 'my ownership?' What is mine to own?
Now in Russian it's 'mother Russia'. People whose country is 'mother' have a softer place in them, but ruthless history has its way over them anyway.
There is something terrible about the 'father country'. I love the notion that before they died the Japanese kamikazes shouted, 'mother'. There is more potential in 'mother', which is why the Japanese gave up the warrior culture
mrlevina2 3 months ago
@mrlevina2 How about "Homeland"?
mikosoft 1 month ago
perfect music - but just notice - I am born Czech
and "Ma Vlast" means "My Country", or more exactly "My Motherland",
basolutly not "Fatherland"
- Germans name their Country Fatherland, that is the Great difference !!! :o)
chiachiachia100 8 months ago 5
Gosh, I love Smetana's music. I actually saw the Vlatava when I crossed the border from a relative's house, into the czech republic. Wow!
crazyclarinetplayer 9 months ago
Its amazing! sounds like water, rivers, getting faster, faster and stronger
sonia64400 10 months ago
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@sonia64400 that's what it is about - a small stream, growing, passing a wedding, getting wider and stronger till it reaches the sea
triptriptriplestripe 9 months ago
I love it
batchava 10 months ago
@batchava that's what it is about - a small stream, growing, passing a wedding, getting wider and stronger till it reaches the sea.
triptriptriplestripe 9 months ago
@triptriptriplestripe
Thank you for your picturesque explanation.
batchava 9 months ago
breathtaking.
ginger010393 10 months ago
you can clearly hear the rivers, the fairies singing, the waterfall in the end of the song...
thesmellofyou 11 months ago
...Splendid...
zara2255 11 months ago
I just heard this in my Music History II class.... amazing.
vintervredets 1 year ago
Magnificent !
Amrruk 1 year ago
Je kráááásnééé být Čech...
jesupballwin 1 year ago 3
Brilliant beyond words. Even through the tiny speakers on my computer.
Nefesh36 1 year ago 2
This was recorded March 11, 1950 and remastered in 1999. The flutists were Arthur Lora (principal) and Carmine Coppola.
The performance is typical Toscanini: strict attention to every detail. Maestro Toscanini let a performer or group know when it was time to enter by giving them a brief, but penetrating glance. A longer and dirtier glare followed a missed or tardy response, and it was a long time before the recipient of that glance failed again.
TomBarrister 1 year ago 5
The piece contains Smetana's most famous tune. It is an adaptation of the melody La Mantovana, attributed to the Italian renaissance tenor Giuseppe Cenci (also known as Giuseppino),[3] which, in a borrowed Moldovan form, was also the basis for the Israeli national anthem, Hatikvah. The tune also appears in major in an old folk Czech song Kočka leze dírou ("The Cat Crawls Through the Hole") and Hans Eisler used it for his "Song of the Moldau".
from wikipedia
MrTobik87 1 year ago
The piece contains Smetana's most famous tune. It is an adaptation of the melody La Mantovana, attributed to the Italian renaissance tenor Giuseppe Cenci (also known as Giuseppino),[3] which, in a borrowed Moldovan form, was also the basis for the Israeli national anthem, Hatikvah. The tune also appears in major in an old folk Czech song Kočka leze dírou ("The Cat Crawls Through the Hole") and Hans Eisler used it for his "Song of the Moldau".
from wikipedia
MrTobik87 1 year ago
"Without love, life flashes by"
BobbyPeru 1 year ago 5
Hell, yes, heard this in the "Tree of Life" trailer.
GrahamCrackerStudios 1 year ago 12
i feal magic
riribo12 1 year ago
I found the vinyl LP I believe this recording came from -- called Five Tone Poems -- was at a salvation army months ago and for a dollar bought it and have to say it was a very well spent buck. This was required listening for a music class I am taking this semester.
rjciccone 1 year ago
@rjciccone
same here.
xXreikomuXx 1 year ago
One day, we'll fall down and weep. You will understand it all, all things.
TonyManeroNY 1 year ago 2
@TonyManeroNY do you know the second song in that trailer???
TheKevturner 1 year ago
D'une telle beauté que j'en ai pleuré devant mon ordinateur comme une pauvre madelaine. Je suis tombé amoureux de cette composition qui est d'une telle qualité que je suis tombé de ma chaise comme un pauvre cochon qui a été mis sur une table. Jamais l'être humaina su créer quelque chose de si beau comme cette composition.
Titiisthebest 1 year ago
just listened to this awhile ago, compelling piece of art.
thundertower 1 year ago
what an energy!!!! beautiful!!!!
seoerk 1 year ago
The Tree of Life!
MoyaMovieMusica 1 year ago 2
@MoyaMovieMusica LOL that is where i heard this song to
fleurgi 1 year ago
8 Unfortunate souls must have accidentally pressed on the thumbs down button.
ziplesswonder 1 year ago
@ziplesswonder including ME on YOUR comment right now, simply because that's all I fucking hear, same line, word for word when someone talks about people thumbing something down. Call me a hater, I dont care. Someone's gonna read this and have a laff.
sixamsedna 1 year ago
@sixamsedna lol
psmtheman 1 year ago 2
@psmtheman xd
riribo12 1 year ago
the pizzicato is amazing in the beginning very crisp and fresh
dogpaw814 1 year ago
I can't believe he was deaf and did this
Riveascor 1 year ago 4
@Riveascor wait the conductor? or smetana?
dogpaw814 1 year ago
Really an amazing composition.
Yoshikkko 1 year ago
did the clash do a version of this
xneilp 1 year ago
ma vlast has a special place in my heart for ever and eternity while i sit here and cry
999gandalfthekid 1 year ago
@chrislebanon . yess it does, in fact they were both derived from the same melody ...
notoriousjed 1 year ago
so nice
margonaut 1 year ago
Aaah it always reminds me of a slow train ride I was on from Moscow to St. Petersburg...
:)
Geeeeoheffeff 1 year ago
this is not he original version. this has been adapted.
its way to fast to the real Moldau.
Smetanas was not in that hurry.
vandrew12 1 year ago
it sounds similar to the anthem of israel
chrislebanon 1 year ago
oh my land its Algeria and i feel the same "fatherland "
TheElfarda 1 year ago
the best ever damn it the beauty gona kill me some day
TheElfarda 1 year ago
I loveeeee this!!!!!!!!!! :)
Niamphje 1 year ago
Does anyone hear an odd break at 8:11/8:12 ish? Could that be because this is remastered? It doesn't quite sound natural.
My God, this interpretation is so good...
phorsic 1 year ago
@phorsic I have just played my 1950s RCA album. That change in musical pitch and structure is just part of the song. Very good mono recording. I love the Danse Macabre on the flip side.
acfinney 1 year ago
@acfinney I don't know...I hear a skip. The sound from the woodwinds and strings don't seem to decay fully and there's a very brief moment of silence. It sounds almost like they spliced it...Obviously that is a jarring moment in the music anyway, but I feel like this is something further...
phorsic 1 year ago
@phorsic Interesting. My record is the same as this recording. I thought it was odd. The whole piece is an odd mix of haunting/ military/ glorious ect. The percussion gets in the way of the decay of winds and strings. Also, I think that this is a 1951-52 recording in the not so lively RCA studios of New York. It had the echo of a broom closet. Have you listened to a more recent performance of this? It may hold the key.
acfinney 1 year ago
@phorsic There isn't any odd breaks, the composition is that way. You should get the entire album, it's fantastic!
martgoss1976 1 year ago
water of life
transfoby 1 year ago
Just playing this and abd the Karellia put one in Jerry and Ivans eye....
They both say: Don't tread on me... writ large, with pride...
die Gedanken sind Frie!!
J.C.
375GTB 1 year ago
playing this song in orchestra class right now, it is really such a beautiful piece! probably one of my favorites i've ever played (and ive been playing for about 8 years)
littlmishappygolucky 1 year ago
@cuboneluvstorchic1 : danke
MusicPredominates 1 year ago
I highly recommend listening to this piece by putting on a pair of really good headphones.
hoozyerdaddi 1 year ago
@hoozyerdaddi not on here the quality is very low
DerekMcCauley 1 year ago
@hoozyerdaddi I enjoy it sitting between a pair of Sansui 1000 series speakers and a Pickering U38 on mono of course.
acfinney 1 year ago
@cuboneluvstorchic1 lol i was the same way when i played it in school. 3:45-4:20 was always my favorite to play and listen to
imthebest016 1 year ago
Why cant todays music be played on real instruments with the standard of classical music ?.. This is what you call real music !!!...
GizMogwai1960 1 year ago
Why cant todays music be played on real instruments with the standard of classical music ?.. This is what you call real music !!!....
GizMogwai1960 1 year ago 22
@GizMogwai1960 reason is simple. Average people rather celebrate dumbness, because than they can match celebrities and train ego...
sasawhare 1 year ago
@GizMogwai1960 the North Jersey Regional HS Orchestra's playing this piece this year! :D
musicdevotee4life 1 year ago
@GizMogwai1960
because time is changed. got any more questions?
lyrilljackson 3 months ago
I agree with you.. ti do ragione
TheZiggomatic 1 year ago
Goosebumps :3
noirmakesvideos 1 year ago
i absolutely love the ending of this song
MrAwesome2956 1 year ago 3
@MrAwesome2956 I thonk there is a part of a current Czech national anthem "Where is my home" right after the "Vyšehrad theme.
martinfrehley 1 year ago
@martinfrehley yeah smetana was a czech nationalist
addiswd 1 year ago
beyond words!!!!!!!!
ireneismad 1 year ago
Magnifique!!!!!
Splendide!!!!!!
Super!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Je ne connais aucune musique aussi belle que la Moldau!
cocolette1996 1 year ago
Please, a song is sung and an instrumental piece is played.
Marthinusjacobus 1 year ago
Man the ending to this just sets it all right. Beautiful!
boofieman 1 year ago
love the dueling flutes in the beginning!
pwatt45 1 year ago
I'm a little scared of the flute part but dang I love this song!
cornycogwheels 1 year ago
..un abbracio a tutti gli Italaini veri,
lavoratori, operai, uomini d'ingegno, arhitetti, medici specialisti, medici i base, infermieri..........
non mandiamo la nostra forza lavoro all'estero.....
siamo Italiani,
gente ..speciale..
grazie a Toscanini, Italiano!
passitelexk43 1 year ago 2
Two streams, one cold, one warm, come together and the Moldeau is formed. It flows past the hunt then on to the wedding party. It now flows into night and all is quiet. Then the dawn and it flows past a large city with all it's hustle and bustle. Now, in all it's glory, it flows on to be consumed and lost in the sea.
Listen for it.
kd6hkx 1 year ago 5
I am amazed at Toscanini's musical imagination. He has so much control over the orchestra. I wonder how stressful it was being a musician under him? 10:30 onward seems beyond the capability of an orchestra, or at least beyond the control of a conductor. Thank you Maestro for providing us with the greatest that art can offer.
davids2000 1 year ago 5
@davids2000 "A continuous phsychology of crisis" was how the concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic described it!
OldMrGrace 1 year ago
Prachsprostá vykrádačka Kočka leze dírou.
astromancer 1 year ago
@astromancer trubko, to je 6 tonu ze stupnice, no a? :D a to, ze motiv pouzil kazdy prece vi..a co asi tech dalsich desettisic not kolem..to je taky vykradacka??
MrVitacit 1 year ago
I can imagine the Czech wedding as I come to that theme - the joy in it. The wonderful Moldau theme woven into the piece. And the Moon fairies on the water. The St. Charles rapids too. LOVE this piece and have for so many years.
newlifer6 1 year ago
excellence. I wish young kids like me appreciate this music. hahah. they have the burden of ignorance... I have the benefit of doubt.
krazyako 1 year ago
For everyone who didn´t know the background of this cyklus and the author. Bedrich Smetana has finished this cykle when he was totally deaf. This part of the cykle called Vltava (Moldau) projects the story of the Czech national river, from the beginn, from the first springs in the mountains which can make sleepy and calm down, which are playful, to the killing torrent storm.
Wersher79 1 year ago 3
Someone says, Smetana has inspirited the author of Israels national anthem - HaTikva (see on U-Tube) .
Wersher79 1 year ago
Btw, the 9th symphonie, e-moll, opus 9, also knows as "From the New World" , from another Czech composer Antonin Dvorak supossed to be the American national anthem, but Dvorek has refused it (see on U-Tube).
Wersher79 1 year ago
I love this tune its amazing and my brother likes the guys hair. ;)
girlinthetrilby 1 year ago
A lovely recording!
CanadaPisces 1 year ago
Awesome
paulostroff99 1 year ago
Невероятно красиво!
Grinch4now 1 year ago
love this version to death...=P
MargaretDuan 1 year ago
I compared this one to our Las Cruces performance, live..this May 2010 ..Ours was VG...This one is 'immortal' .
jackchrista 1 year ago
My favourite piece of classical music!!!
Godzilla1664 1 year ago
Don't know what I would do without NPR radio. They had a performer doing Tchaikovsky on piano tonight. I know, I know... very ordinary in the classical music world. But I LOVE it! However, Smetana - Moldau River is still my favorite. I know... I have loved this classical piece since 7th grade. It was one of my most played albums. It's still beautiful. Take a listen -
susanmc38 1 year ago
Thank you VERY much for sharing this musical gem, so well played and conducted here!!!!! (PS: What is the broadcast date for this performance? I KNOW it isn't the commercial recording released by RCA, because that was done in Carnegie Hall in 1952, and this is clearly Studio 8-H.)
jmccracken1963 1 year ago
@jmccracken1963 yes, it's the commercial recording done in NBCs Studio 8-H in 1950.
OldMrGrace 1 year ago
ferenc fricsay is better.
Leibo07 1 year ago
@Leibo07 ferenc fricsay não é nada perto de toscanini.
MrPharaohtut 1 year ago
@MrPharaohtut
falso. fricsay era próximo a ele como uma sorte do músico. e o toscanini ele mesmo estava sempre pronto para admitir ao seus próprios, um pouco grande, falhas.
Leibo07 1 year ago
MAGNIFICO !
Grazie per il post
jeanmolin55 1 year ago 2
Wonderful
francescosio 1 year ago 2
Incredibly moving and tranquil...an adventure for the mind. :)
PurpleRogue38 1 year ago
Una maravilla, un precioso viaje por el Moldava.
mixambar 2 years ago
Bellissimo! Come un´artista vero ha capito l´altro artista vero!
SuperMarkova 2 years ago
.Smetana takes us on a breathtaking trip down his homeland's famous river, and with Toscanini conducting! Brava Bredrich!
11777766 2 years ago 4
well done maestro Toscanini!!!
bokotej 2 years ago 2
I am now addicted to this composition.
3NUNS 2 years ago 87
i´m from czech republic so i can vizualize the river Vltava. just listen once two flute and than......... i m proud of the Smetana..
xdrochyt 2 years ago 5
An excellent recording! TY Amy for downloading and Paul for sharing!
CanadaPisces 2 years ago
Glorious music making! Bravo maestro!
paulostroff99 2 years ago
Thanks for sending this to me. Wonderful!
vstasov 2 years ago
I could listen to those two flutes at the beginning over and over again.
mainiacjoe 2 years ago
one of the most beautiful creations from the human mind, but some people are to stupid to understand this!!!
xxxWOLKxxx 2 years ago 57
its a matter of opinion, though i do love this piece as much as you do if not more :P
artymowycz 2 years ago 2
@xxxWOLKxxx No, I read your comment just fine.
SaltShakerIsME 1 year ago
@xxxWOLKxxx but some people are *too stupid to understand this!
curtis3713 1 year ago
splendide orchestration de cette Moldau de Smetana!
oeuvre musicale musicale descriptive sous la baguette d'A.Toscanini c'est doublement émouvant. Merci Imusiciki pour ce concert unique...
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Rudziewicz 2 years ago 5
Woa!! Very interesting interpretation, I am used to the typical Czech raised, this is definitely beneficial view of Czech music from "outside", mainly I was intrigued by a faster tempo and dynamic contrasts, in any event, Smetana & Toscanini - an interesting combination!!
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AnonymousWhitePerson 2 years ago
To appreciate the beauty of this piece you must first take a massive shit. Do not wipe. Then sit naked and play this beautiful piece.
AnonymousWhitePerson 2 years ago 2
Ridiculous. I'm outa here...
7845lptape 2 years ago
I want to fugue you.
AnonymousWhitePerson 2 years ago 2
I'm not the least interested in what you want, what you believe nor what you have to say. I'm probably not the first YouTube victim who wishes a restraining order could be filed against you.
7845lptape 2 years ago 3
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AnonymousWhitePerson 2 years ago
I cannt imagine that just one of your favorite would composers would be abble to make a song deaf... Which Smetana was... So put your opinninon in your ass
m3divh 2 years ago
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Beethoven. FAIL!!! lol
Stimmtness 2 years ago
Beethowen made Divertimanent type of music, you are talking shit there...
m3divh 2 years ago
I am a person of no color and find some of these comments disturbing
jacarandahouse2 2 years ago 2
God tells me how the music should sound, but you stand in the way.
-Arturo Toscanini
deb6sbcglobal 2 years ago 3
Actually, you're not worth Toscanini and Smetana even noticing.
Wrulf818 2 years ago 3
Grandious!!
EinfachWolf 2 years ago 4
If you hate this song, where do you stand on such astounding masterpieces such as Gustav Holst's Jupiter: Bringer of Jollity, or Modest Mussorsky's Great Gate of Kiev? How about Camille Saint-Saëns' Dance Macabre? All of these pieces of music have similar epic-poem style music flow, and all have been renowned as some of the greatest classics.
So why not Bedřich Smetana's Moldau? It's got musical poetic feel, and many characteristics of great music... It is an epic soundtrack of the mind.
multimediaman256 2 years ago 2
This composition would sound so much better like this:
Amin, Bb, Cmin, F, Csus7, G, D, Amin
Good, huh?
AnonymousWhitePerson 2 years ago
Symphonic doggerel.
AnonymousWhitePerson 2 years ago
When you can present one of your compositions for symphony orchestra which sounds like this piece, we will continue the conversation.
gleambot 2 years ago 5
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AnonymousWhitePerson 2 years ago 3
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AnonymousWhitePerson 2 years ago
How so? While I disagree I am curious as to why you see it as such?
masael255 2 years ago 3
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AnonymousWhitePerson 2 years ago
Other listeners with great taste have called the music magnificent.
Julian9ehp 2 years ago 4
Its people like you that give me the drive to teach music, so hopefully not every kid in America winds up with a mindset such as yours. Unless you can compose something as nationalistic, and beautiful. I suggest you don't comment on this anymore. I bet both Toscanini and Smetana are rolling over in their grave.
interpolantic169 2 years ago
I disagree with your comment.
7845lptape 2 years ago
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What? I could compose better masterpieces in my sleep.
AnonymousWhitePerson 2 years ago
Ridiculous assertion, but I don't really care.
7845lptape 2 years ago 2
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Do you care to spar, fiend? I see that you have sullied this comment section with your tedious verbal graffiti. I shall despoil you with concertos and a cantata.
AnonymousWhitePerson 2 years ago
beautiful
simplyred1000 2 years ago 6
Very nice, it's a shame that only Vltava is so well known from "My country" (Ma vlast). It's all so beutifull!
Kropikovo 2 years ago 2
Yes, it is all very beautiful, and wonderful music. I am partial to the fourth movement, Z českých luhů a hájů (From Bohemia's meadows and forests), but they're all good.
volk410 2 years ago
It is well known among the Czechs that, in fact, they are the chosen race of God.
BlahBlahYouWho 2 years ago 3
..there is a building up of rythym in this piece that almost all conductors destroy....they lose balance effect and continuity....you want no other version after this Toscanini recording.....it is just matchless perfection.....
j72050 2 years ago 4
I agree...
charliebestmadrid 2 years ago 3
I heard this orchestra on a local arts channel, and was mesmerized by the richness and fullness of the sound of the entire orchestra, and how it flowed together as a whole. I had to hunt it down, and I found it, thanks to you. Thank you sincerely for making my day a whole lot better.
rikudude95 2 years ago 2
The constant strenuous fingerwork is amazing here amongst the strings. If I were conductor I might be tempted to increase the tempo in the initial theme, but damn, fingers can only move so fast, ya know! Toscanini insisted upon clarity, and he got that. I think the musicians' knuckles would have caught fire if they had gone any faster!
Janus1981BR 2 years ago 4
This may well be the greatest string section ever assembled--and it really shows here.
Too bad that this, plus his string quartet, are the only pieces still in the modern repertory. How much great music there is to re-introduce to modern audiences!
ipmoic 2 years ago 4
Certainly not a bad performance, but it ain't really Smetana either. Toscanini re-orchestrated the entire St. John's Rapids section and even cut a few measures. His changes aren't an improvement.
etucker82 2 years ago 3
They got such a deep, full, rich sound....... wonderful!!!!!
One of my favorite compositions of all time!!!
MillerMusicStudiosTV 2 years ago 4
Love this song=]
Asanda0330 2 years ago 5
Un chef-d'oeuvre!! Magnifique!! Pourquoi n'y a-t-il plus des génies comme Smetana et Dvořák?
Steinbrecher88 2 years ago 5
In Czech, please.
BlahBlahYouWho 2 years ago
Mistrovské dílo!! Nádherný!! Proč ne dnes trvat muzikálnost jako Smetana a Dvořák?
happy now?
Steinbrecher88 2 years ago
Docela Být zavázán tebe!
BlahBlahYouWho 2 years ago 3
rádo se stalo
Steinbrecher88 2 years ago 3
I am playing this in my youth orchestra. Its awesome!
heckya105403 2 years ago
magnifica
casaliderosa 2 years ago
this is soo beautiful
i love this.....
pizzatrottel11 2 years ago
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kfactor5 3 years ago
semplicemente emozionante. entra nelle vene e scorre sostenuto come il moldova. brividi!!!!!! stupenda
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nfajkblg 3 years ago
What an interpretation. Truly wonderful lycricism. really brings out the fantasitical qualities of Smetana's mucic, yet still portraying both the beauty and granduer of his homeland. It's almost hard to imagine music like this was the result of a dictatorship amongst an orchestra. nevertheless just close your eyes and let your imagination run wild!
toscaninizt 3 years ago