Smetana: "The Moldau" - National Symphony Orchestra

Smetana: "The Moldau" - National Symphony Orchestra | The Kennedy Center

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The NSO performs what many consider to be Czech composer Bedřich Smetana's most famous tune, "The Moldau."
Czech composer Bed˘rich Smetana (BED-rick SMET-ah-na) was inspired to write The Moldau by nature, memories of his personal adventures, and a deep love for his country. The work is named after an actual river that runs from a mountainside, through the Czech countryside, and into the city of Prague. In his music, Smetana tells the story of the river’s journey as it passes people and events happening along its banks. Smetana even composes music to describe white water rapids!
Smetana visited the Moldau River several times in his life. He wove those personal memories and impressions into a lush melody that serves as a river theme. You will notice that the river theme starts gently but then its melody swells as the river widens.
You will also notice that Smetana changes the music to depict different scenes on the riverbanks. Listen for Smetana’s use of French horns and trumpets sounding like hunters chasing a deer through the forest. Listen for the violins performing a polka, (a lively couple dance) at a wedding party. And listen for the flutes as Smetana imagines mermaids in the moonlight.
Part of Young People's Concert: Inspiration!
Hosted by Michael Butterman and Marisa Regni, May 24, 2016.
Conducted by Michael Butterman.
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@conch2121 Жыл бұрын

I cry every time I hear Smetana's river (Moldau).... can't help it. And I am a 75 y/o cellist. So MANY feelings!!!!!

@2lovecp Жыл бұрын

Me too! Especially so at 4:07!

@lopachilla 11 ай бұрын

I heard this in a music history class at a university, and I fell in love with it. Such a beautiful song!

@Gtumrths 10 ай бұрын

Absolutely emotional! 👍🏼

@nubinshred 9 ай бұрын

Why does that happen? I’m in the same boat. Is it Smetana’s love for his country that he poured into this piece?

@elizabethstrebulaev4848 9 ай бұрын

Same! Though I’m a 12 year old pianist

@elizabethlinsay9193 3 жыл бұрын

I remember hearing this piece as a child. I loved it then and I love it now.

@kristofkovacsRisy 3 жыл бұрын

I'm amazed how I remember this piece after hearing it once 15 years ago. Can't deny, I liked it too.

@xdev_henry 3 жыл бұрын

This conducter is in one of the best ive ever seen. No messing around, nothing too early or too late etc. I mean, this is how I learned it: Put emotions together with the rhythm and transfer it to the orchestra. And this is exactly what he did. Wonderful!

@thomaswest8860 3 жыл бұрын

The muldau reminds me of the first snowfall of the year and of course the beauty of Prague at Christmas the home of st Nicholas it's so beautiful

@conch2121 5 ай бұрын

Me too. MUSIC IS FEELINGS!!! Moldau ìs the MOST beautiful pile of feelings! Makes me cry too. I am a 77 year old cellist. Cannot help it!!

@ss_salomon_dd 2 жыл бұрын

Great piece of timeless art!

@Titanandenceladus 4 жыл бұрын

The flutes are Leah Arsenault on 1st, Alice Weinreb on 2nd, and Carole Bean on Piccolo.

@juliofilomeno4074 Жыл бұрын

This song reminds me of my first class I took in the first semestre at Macalester College. The professor explained the song well. A great song that I never forget. Class was "Music appreciation"

@elainesandman9874 Жыл бұрын

Thank You isn't enough, tears of joy and laughter for how this peace fills my heart!

@katherineasbury1420 Жыл бұрын

Absolutely brilliant, beautiful!

@lynndixon5278 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing... Just Amazing!

@hectorpascal 3 жыл бұрын

The "clapping" was Bedřich Smetana rapidly rotating in his grave...

@lingsw5739 3 жыл бұрын

hahhshshshha we need twosets react to this!!!!

@dulciemccracken9593 3 жыл бұрын

I was shocked when I heard that - tiwce! Those attending The Kennedy Center should know better.

@lorimiller623 8 ай бұрын

5:46 "NSO Young People's Concerts..." The kids' enthusiasm for this music is a good thing, even if they're not sophisticated listeners like us. 😉

@SupportTheArts-yo8ox 2 ай бұрын

@dulciemccracken9593 these are children!!

@annlisheron7278 2 жыл бұрын

My favorite classical piece

@mohammadalinia9104 2 жыл бұрын

Just mesmerizing

@mathildeleberre6335 3 жыл бұрын

Splendide!!!!

@rosaestersuarez9007 10 ай бұрын

MARAVILLOSO GRAN POR COMPARTIR

@kathrynmills2767 Жыл бұрын

brilliant

@gabrielisaacsanchezbravo7312 2 ай бұрын

Honestly it is really gorgeous flute playing from the second and first flute. I don't know who is the second flute but God she sounds gorgeous! ❤️✨

@peteradaniel 3 жыл бұрын

The strings sound so ropey. The intonation! Also, what are the audience applauding?

@elkugelblitz 3 жыл бұрын

Oh well, they just applause because it's a nice performance. Applauding occurred on key moment of the piece, after tension or/and excitation. I find it refreshing/comforting to not only applaud in between acts as the snobs recommend for no valid reason whatsoever.

@SupportTheArts-yo8ox 2 ай бұрын

This is a young people's concert

@jaypond4837 3 жыл бұрын

Nice shot of the triangle player not doing anything.

@BlackCatLover 3 ай бұрын

What you describe as “all over the place” is the section depicting Icarus flying with joy and abandon before his fall. It is a bit wild and even frantic and I love this composition of progressive music. I believe Kansas was a very unique band because they used classical themes in their music. I suggest you try “Magnum Opus” next.

@martinededecker5052 3 жыл бұрын

Merci.

@josedonadito 3 жыл бұрын

Beaucoup.

@eramann6315 4 жыл бұрын

That is good music.

@eramann6315 4 жыл бұрын

TURTLES

@ZweimannImperium 2 ай бұрын

@@eramann6315 You're right! I never thought of that!

@ashi_no_ko 4 жыл бұрын

What a splen... clap, clap, clap... did piece of mu... clap, clap, clap... sic.

@kn1752 4 жыл бұрын

I don’t understand

@MrCuddlyable3 3 жыл бұрын

@@kn1752 Some applause seems intrusive at the wrong moments. It's like watching one ring at a 3-ring circus.

@CynBH 6 жыл бұрын

This has always been my absolute favorite classical piece! Thank you so much for posting this! 💖 (But why didn't you post the entire piece?)

@eramann6315 4 жыл бұрын

I agree but I just love the flutes in the beginning 😍

@prkrmc6457 3 жыл бұрын

The first time I heard this I had chills up and down my spine.

@CynBH 3 жыл бұрын

@@prkrmc6457 same here 💕

@bloxycola644 Жыл бұрын

i remember listening to this once in little einstein and became addicted to it

@tea_ism4453 3 жыл бұрын

I remember I was supposed to play this in 8th grade before coronavirus hit-

@curtcoller3632 3 жыл бұрын

play it? on what???

@jimmatheson948 2 жыл бұрын

First for me at college in 1966 After army tour near Kassel West Germany ...

@Roma-kp4qg 3 жыл бұрын

Why would they clap in the middle?? The conductor gave no indication that the piece was close to finished

@rvd2012 Жыл бұрын

It's based on an old Flemisch melody: ik zag Cilcila komen (I saw Cicialia coming from afar.)

@atendriyadasa6746 3 жыл бұрын

This version has CUT OUT the entire middle section of the song. WTF?!

@Dmichoacan 3 жыл бұрын

why did they clap in the middle of that? am i missing something or is this just S A C R E L I G I O U S ?

@carlynnberners 3 жыл бұрын

it's just a really exciting and difficult part to play when the river reaches the rapids... as a string player i think i've practiced that part more than any other orchestral piece haha that excerpt is my cover on facebook

@josedonadito 3 жыл бұрын

I think most of the people that commented and discussed about the applauds during the middle haven't been in a live orquesta. The context of this composition comprises various nationalist feelings that, for its epoch, were regarded as liberal and radical; so, under this premise, is it not good to simply express your lyricism by clapping? That is what romanticism is about. But of course, this comment obviously would come from a person that watches Two Set Violin.

@om.mallick02 3 жыл бұрын

Ah, another ling ling wannabe here.

@alexz3942 3 жыл бұрын

LING LING 40 HOURS

@Qwertyisodd 3 жыл бұрын

In this youtube comment, I will whip you with my master's degree in ethnomusicology for things that are not always common in performances. It's not the romantic era anymore and most concertgoers do not open their copy of "A History of Western Music" before and whilst attending. Also, yeah it may conjure nationalist feelings but like... for Czechs and people who used it as a revolution against Nazis, not Americans. They're just happy to be involved.

@csatorna1945 3 жыл бұрын

I dont understand why clap in the midle? Dunay

@thehpw 3 жыл бұрын

Philistines! ; ) lol

@aa-jc5fx 6 ай бұрын

素晴らしい。70点合格。おめでとうございます。

@Eternity0815 2 жыл бұрын

How inappropriate to clap during the performance not even once but twice! Entire piece of a music must be listened without any destrations.

@Hcook2 5 ай бұрын

This type of snobbery is what keeps people from attending concerts. I’m saying this as a professional musician, teacher, and conductor: if an audience is moved enough by my performance to applaud before I’m even done, by all means let them applaud. The whole “don’t applaud between movements or during a piece” thing is a holdover from the 1700s when only rich people could attend and decorum was a must. Let people enjoy the music and stop gatekeeping.

@SupportTheArts-yo8ox 2 ай бұрын

@@Hcook2 well said

@SupportTheArts-yo8ox 2 ай бұрын

Keep in mind this was a Young People's concert

@keithobrien5592 3 жыл бұрын

Why did they cut out the whole middle of the composition?

@curtcoller3632 3 жыл бұрын

Because they don't know better.

@user-xb4pu5kc5n Жыл бұрын

연주회의 도중에 박수치는건 뭐지 ??

@mirceaar 3 жыл бұрын

Oh, this must be the shortened Americanised version, where it's OK to clap. Or the conductor decided to cut it short because of that.

@azx2931 2 жыл бұрын

3:29 5:32 stop clapping!!!

@deniselebloch1320 10 ай бұрын

Unfortunately this is a highly edited version. Beautiful. But only a quarter of the original composition.

@josedonadito 3 жыл бұрын

@lapoguzzon9035 3 жыл бұрын

school sent me here

@zeyrox271 3 жыл бұрын

desi

@apeiros7999 3 жыл бұрын

me too

@yoamal1187 3 жыл бұрын

3:30 bruh

@jamesmaybury7992 Жыл бұрын

Good performance, but the applause within the movement is crass. Why do it?

@chateaubuffalo 3 жыл бұрын

What is this? The dance was left out, my favorite part of the piece! Not a good performance at all - half of it is missing. And the applause...wow, the young people should be taught how unappropriate that is.

@florencelorgnier3702 3 жыл бұрын

@rvd2012 Жыл бұрын

Wrong name Cicilia it should be

@HolgerRuneFan 4 жыл бұрын

I actually think this is a weak performance. In fact, shockingly weak with almost none of the passion that is inherit within the music. Listen to Czechs play this, it's a different world entirely.

@ALOISC1 4 жыл бұрын

Maybe they didn't place the microphones in the right place? In the 2015 Czech orchestra YT video, you can see microphones all over the place - set up close to the instruments. I'm guessing they also added compression & reverb in post-production.

@Sobreira4 9 ай бұрын

@@ALOISC1 This? : kzfaq.info/get/bejne/opybpNhj0tGRe6s.html