Bedřich Smetana: Vltava (2/2)

[soperkola16]

Kto jest polakiem?

[MrToradragon]

@EspressoFan4Life i think it's because Samuel Cohen was inspired by this song when he wrote Israel anthem

[Winduct]

Beautiful music but the images are terrible.

[bc0620572]

Pure Perfection!

[brchans]

Polka. The best part of this fabulous masterpiece.

[kacabaca1000]

KRÁSNĚ UDĚLAANÝ VIDEO!!:)))MOC PĚKNÝ..

[MartaEzis]

jen malá připomínka: v angličtině se autoři označují předložkou "by", ne "from"

[lumajs]

@MartaEzis Chtěl jsem původně napsat, že mě 10 let v USA nestačilo k 100% odnaučení tohoto bohemismu, ale musím nesouhlasit. Nikde jsem tuhle chybu neudělal. V popisu je "from ... the cycle", míním z cyklu symfonických básní, což určitě nemůže být "by the cycle", ;-) ačkoliv bych nedal krk za to, že se to přesně takhle dá říct.

[MartaEzis]

@lumajs: tak to se moc omlouvám, to jsem se překoukla.

[Rogvaivful]

@lumajs I don't understand your language, but I appreciated your posting, which, by its photos, sustains my idea, suggested by Smetana's compositin, of a parallelism betweet the river course and the Dreation and also the human life. "In the beginning the Word already existed" (John 1: 1). Yes, the Word already existed in the previous silentness; You put the silent lake. The spring become a river. Appears the human. But where is the ocean? The Reconnection into the all?

[MrToradragon]

@Rogvaivful How I understand, you think it's song about world. No it's song about river. In song ocean doesn't exist because, end of Vltava is in Labe (Elbe). But if you try find parts on song on river, almost everything is buried in dams.

Vltava are from two springs, after it become stronger and stronger run down in valleys, to Prague become at 7:00

[gruerak]

Ohhhh nice girl at 0:10 I'd like suck her ass!

[Slovejnc]

Nice girl 0:10 :)

[lumajs]

@Slovejnc All people in the video are regular folks except for the nice girl at 0:10 :-) which is Ewa Farna, a top young Polish-Czech singer.

[lumajs]

@EspressoFan4Life Thanks for the fix! ;-)

[lumajs]

@EspressoFan4Life There is no inconsistency in my video.

[lumajs]

@EspressoFan4Life Nope, it's been explained about 5 times below already.

[felixberg27]

stunning

[janhr1]

I remember coming from a class trip to Praha, when our music played us this...I love it ever since, and I love Praha...

[moivivant]

4:35 i really adore that theme. it's so beautiful. everyone should know this piece of music. i looooove it!!

[polgardi]

Velmi pěkně povedené video.

[V2DK]

ewa farna...?

[lumajs]

She's a Czech Pole (Česká Polka), much like the music that plays beneath her face. :-)

[765297]

:-D

[Slovejnc]

great ending!

[mutlanti]

da hat er recht!!!

[Filiseek]

germany is bullshit

[Buemmo]

why?

[Azotski]

at the firs part there are two streams. They get together and make a little big river,then they go trough an village where marriage celebrations are. Then come night and river is calming down.

[fabiusw]

hello im cool and this song also hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhheeeeeeeeeee­eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee­eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee­eeeeeloooooooo !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!! im from germany!!!!! england is lol  germany tooooo hannover 96 forever

[polgardi]

Warum bist du so sauer?

[Adamovaci]

Ahoj,

hodně povedené, hezké, nápadité, opravdové, vtipné, vlastenecké,... zkrátka Naše (tedy spíš Vaše) České video :)

[MissFisher11]

Great!!! So beautiful music and nice pictures!

[molorolo]

so beatiful!! and great job with the photos during the music!

[MikeDial]

Dekuju slicne za tohle video; mam hudbu Smetany i Dvoraka moc rad. Doufam nekdy navstivit Cechy.

[DrMuta]

tak jo jsem hrdý na svůj národ (co se týče kultury občas se zase stydim:D)

[PlavOciZena]

beautiful!

[VOLdvsCOM]

je to krásné

[sciatica9]

hi thanks for putting this up, helped me loads for my essay, liked the picture u added

[glizando00]

I agree...I had a music exam and I've been listening to this marvelous composition very often.

[beruuush]

jedinýý co váážne asi nedokážu pochopit, proč tam soou ty divnyy fotka.. obzvlaast ta DIVNA EWICKA xD jinak oukéé xD

[lumajs]

To Ti rád vysvětlím. To není jen Ewička, ale také Polka. A Polka je tam proto, že v daném kusu skladby se právě hraje polka. ;-)

[beruuush]

Noom Tk to maa smysl xD jinaQ pekny ;)

[MrTscheche01]

Takový krásná píseň a kolega, zřejmě idiot, autor videa tam nahraje Ewu Farnou. Styděl bych se.

[lumajs]

Ewa Farná rules. ;-)

[mussorgskyj]

For me Smetana in this piece...i dont know the rest of his work much...but here in MA vlast...I think he is in group of absolutely greatest composers..in top 5 maybe

[lumajs]

Agreed. Your nickname made me to listen the Pictures from the Exhibition now. Nice. Mussorgsky is probably in the top 10-15, too.

[mussorgskyj]

jo jo...that work is great i have it in two versions...guitar duo and piano...have to bye third one...orchestral by Maurice Ravel;)

[deanSidlow]

i have to some work on this song i have to do 1500 world on it lol

[lumajs]

Hi Dean, after some thinking, I decided that what you meant was that you are expected to write a 1500-word (not world) essay (work?) on this composition (not song). Did I get it right? ;-)

You know, it is a Czech national composition describing the Moldau/Vltava river from the spring (see the part 1/2), castles, water nymphs, the countryside wedding, based on the children's song, "Cat crawls through a hole, a dog through the window". Follow the pictures!

Good luck, Luboš

[lumajs]

Incidentally, if you want my essay about the composition, Google search for

Motls Smetana Alaska

[mussorgskyj]

very understandable ;)

[LosKeshusos]

je to nadhera

[spellthemagicword]

magical

[LuddyEchelon]

OMG I love this video! what a perfect job you did well done and thank you!

Really wish I paid more attention when they told us @ school !

[lumajs]

Thanks a lot! A few words about the themes. This 2nd part starts with a rural wedding: the melody is Polka. Ewa Farna, a Polish Czech young singer, is there because she is also "Czech Polka" (Polka also means a Polish girl haha).

Then the weddings switch to water nymphs (Rusalka, also a hero of Dvořák's opera) dancing around the forests in Southern Bohemia.

[lumajs]

Majestic castles above Moldau (most notably, Hluboká, a version of The Tower) switch into the C-major version of the main theme - which is identical to the children's song "Kočka leze dírou, pes oknem" (Cat crawls through a hole, a dog through the window).

Israel is there because they copied the theme in their national anthem, too. ;-) There are some sign of hussism etc. around 5:20.

[lumajs]

Eventually the Moldau gets into Prague, and the main theme from another My Country "poem", Vyšehrad, can be heard. It is about the old castle on the opposite side than the Prague Castle, well-known for a cemetery with old Czech VIP and a legend about a horse called Šemík jumping down the hill.

At the end, Vltava joins Elbe near Mělník, and I included Dresden (on Elbe) to terminate it. ;-)

[LuddyEchelon]

wow ! it all makes sense now! thanx for the explanation too. I did get most of it and thought kocka leze dirou was fantastic to put in there. Just can't believe every child knows this song but I've never thought it so alike Ma Vlast till I saw it in your video! The only thing I didn't understand until now was Israel. Thanx again what a great job! Dekuji :-)

[SlavaSlovanumCZ]

hehe neither do i understand about israel haha and i am czech... probably something the uploader put in the wrong video :D haha

[LuddyEchelon]

lol I know! so am I!! czech I mean :-)

[SlavaSlovanumCZ]

hehe tak pis cesky :D

[LuddyEchelon]

I can't write well!!!! wish I cud tho :-(

[SlavaSlovanumCZ]

hehe big problem :D

[SlavaSlovanumCZ]

here is the most important word: KURVA :D

and NA ZDRAVÝ :D

[LuddyEchelon]

yeah mega problem! czech grama is soo difficult!

oh and yes I know those 2 words lol

nazdravi :-)

[mortpillot]

Easy: Israel national anthem was inspired by Vltava from Smetana. That is why :-)

[ramskates]

Very nice! It's cool how you match the pictures to the music so well.

[lumajs]

Thanks, Rae, it is far from perfect because I think it would be a waste of time. But the matching of music with the theme is something I learned at school as a kid - an important enough composition for pupils to be taught what did the composer mean by every minute of the composition. ;-)