I lived in Prague fro 10 years and this brought tears to my eyes. Mu Vlast, mu vlast! Yesterday I saw the Cleveland Orchestra perform this and oh how superb a sound it was.

I studied this in music class in France when I was about 14, more than 20 years later it is still one of my favorite piece of classical music!

Probably my favourite piece of music of all. Thank you.

this piece is so moving, it brings out every emotion & the video is perfect for the same reason. it's just beyond words.

jedna z nejlepších ...

I was in the audience in Columbus Ohio to hear the Prague Symphony Orchestra on tour in the US the very night when Russia invaded Czechoslovakia, known today as "Prague Spring". The orchestral musicians were in shock (as was the world)! They spontaneously changed their opening piece to "The Moldau" (the famous river in Czechoslovakia) . . . a very moving performance! The section beginning at 4:20 is marked in the score "Wedding Dance." Gorgeous music!

You comment reminded me I hadn't listened to this in ages, thanks :D

My favorite of all time. Any composer.

Incanto di melodia e di paesaggi!

Nicely done video to accompany one of my favorite pieces

Love the part after 4:20. Reminds me of a small busy little town bustling with activity.

I love this!!! Probably the first classical piece I listened to as a toddler. In middle school we drew also pictures according to what we thought we heard. We were told that it was a about a flowing river, though.

the most wonderful piece that I hear. Fantastica peça, nunca ouvi nada igual!!

Man. I feel so unbelievably sorry for those whose ears have never heard this piece touch their soul.

i had to listen to this for my university module and tho i wasnt familiar with it, i must say it struck a chord in me, making me like this piece of music!

aspita! It is wonderful and full!

Best version on KZread! FINALLY a great tempo!! In the flutes, you can hear the leisurely mixture of both warm and cold water mingling at the river's source--the beautiful music is allowed to BLOOM--as it should. The orchestra has somewhere to GO with faster tempo later. Most conductors don't get what this music means--& just rush through (most Czech conductors too-- sad to say) in this marvlous depiction of a river. Conductors take hede with this great tempo. WHO is the orchestra?

Very beautiful. Nicely done.

Played this in HS 7 years ago and ever since then I can't stop humming, every morning, that beautiful melody that starts at 1:15. Beautiful piece!!

It moves me in unrealistic and lovely world

Magnifique. This piece deserves better familiarity outside classical music circles.

@CrownedWithLaurels This song sounds truly like the flowing river it represents...we had to memorize this piece for History of Western Music 2...this one is my favorite by far. What an EPIC, gorgeous song! Sounds like the 1:15-on part could be in Pirates of the Caribbean :D

Prague's beautiful anthem, perfect encapsulation of such a wondrous city. I long to return again soon. 💞🏕️💌

že je krásná hudba.

lovely slideshow, thank you.

Krása

I love this such a beautiful piece of music so moving and restful

1:15 on gives me shivers!

@MaggieK1974 i had the same exact experience in Kuwait. I was treated so well for being North American as an expat working abroad. The lady beside me, a third world worker from South India was left to die in the bed beside me, unattended for days. I had five doctors. She had one who never came. When I screamed and cried for someone to help her and begged the nurses to get her doctor they just said, 'she's going to die. don't worry, you're not.' as if that was some kind of reassurance...

@eamesandrew I also discovered this in a music appreciation class. One of the best "fluff" classes I ever took. I discovered several pieces of music I liked a lot including this one. I second your "thanks" to college for helping me discover this.

this is a good, unrushed rendition, just the way i like it :)

When I was in 5th grade our music-teacher asked the class: "When you try to picture what you hear, what do you see?" I saw a garden in september, when the first leafes fall on the ground, dancing on the grass and through the air, while the wind is getting stronger. I didn`t know that this is a river, starting from its source as a little creek wiggling through little paths, becoming bigger and then flowing into the "Elbe"-river. I got a grade 4(german) or "D" in America - I still hate her :-)

0:01 gives ME shivers..

@alternatehistories It is where the film was taken: Český Krumlov :)

1:20 sounds like Harry Potter The Impact of late romantics are huge in today's film scores

@CrownedWithLaurels me too! :)

great music coming from the Czech Nationalist himself my fucking country MAN

This is a nice recording. Do you have the second part to it?

correction, Harry potter sounds like 1:20, I hate being a grammar Nazi, but that's the correct way to say it hehe

Yea because at 1:15 you can hear anything at all lol

Is this the version conducted by Leopold Stokowski? It sounds like it.

Sakra nemělo by to video začínat na Šumavě a postupně přes krásný jih až do Prahy? Ja při poslechu této skladby si představuji kde ten proud asi zrovna je, jak mě to vykládala malému moje babička. njn video je jake je Hold pragocentrismus :oDD

Well my grammar is not perfect, but I do concur with your statement Harry Potter does sound like 1:20 It's preposterous to compare a film score with a piece of music of over 100 years ago!

ano !!!! ČEŠI a náš BOHEMIA kraj -_-

Well, you're quite the critic, I see.

terrible