This music is a heart-on-sleeve expression of pure joy. My wife and I had the incredible good fortune to hear a live performance of this, in Prague at the National Theatre, during a brief holiday weekend trip. It was the final piece in a program of all-Czech music and it remains one of the highlight musical experiences of our lives. From its deliberate, almost pensive beginning through progressive rising waves of sound, it ended in an enormous, victorious coda that practically blew out the back wall of the theatre. To put yourself in the right mood, it's worth keeping in mind that Martinu composed this just after the end of World War One and the founding of the new nation of Czechoslovakia.
So true! It's so pathetic that we get rubbish such as Boulez and similar . Their scores look like a bird has walked over pages with wet ink sprayed on.
I really love this piece! It really takes you through an adventure, and I found it inspiring! Prague Symphony Orchestra really made a beautiful performance of this piece!
Fabulous work, performance and recording...have had this for years in my library...thanks for uploading and sharing with others to experience this amazing work...moves me to tears every time I listen to it...
I don't understand what you have against this picture. It's our czech saint, duke Václav with his knights and this piece of music is inspired by old choral of this saint (Svatý Václave).
Such wonderful music from this prolific composer...so underrated and so under performed. What do we get in our concert halls? Rubbish churned out by such pathetic creatures like Boulez and others of similar vein.
No ... Horsmen fighting against the Wehrmacht were Poles. This is picture of Czech legend (Svatý Václav a Blaničtí rytíř) Czechs hadn't fought germany ...
Czech soldiers and thousands of volunteers wanted to fight and were ready, and asked for permission several times, but the president under pressure ordered them not to fight to try and keep peace. He didn’t want to send his people to a fight he knew they couldn’t possibly win and have the whole country pay for it afterwards. Perhaps if others joined in on the fights and all attacked at once, they might have wiped Hitler’s forces altogether, but at that time nobody wanted to trigger him.
@@makytondr8607 Die Westmächte Großbritannien & Frankreich hatten mit ihrer Appeasementpolitik die Tschechoslowakei gegen Hitlerdeutschland im Stich gelassen. Und allein auf sich gestellt, hatte die ČSR leider kaum eine Chance.
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This music is a heart-on-sleeve expression of pure joy. My wife and I had the incredible good fortune to hear a live performance of this, in Prague at the National Theatre, during a brief holiday weekend trip. It was the final piece in a program of all-Czech music and it remains one of the highlight musical experiences of our lives. From its deliberate, almost pensive beginning through progressive rising waves of sound, it ended in an enormous, victorious coda that practically blew out the back wall of the theatre. To put yourself in the right mood, it's worth keeping in mind that Martinu composed this just after the end of World War One and the founding of the new nation of Czechoslovakia.
Soul music of the Czech Republic!
Each orchestra should have in its seasonal programs at least 60% of well-known pieces and 40% of underrated gems like this one. If only...
I totally agree!
So true! It's so pathetic that we get rubbish such as Boulez and similar . Their scores look like a bird has walked over pages with wet ink sprayed on.
Utterly beautiful, terrific, powerful and above all, EPIC!!!!
Beautiful interpretation and arrangement of Genevan Psalm 23!
I'm really not a big choral/soloist fan, but I thought this was excellent. Great music.
And I like the painting.
This is absolutely incredible! Music that takes you on a journey! cant believe i found this, its great! thanks for the upload.
Love Martinu never heard this. Masterpieces where you least expect them. What a beautiful treasure to find.
Martinu quotes from the Genevan tune for Psalm 23.
I really love this piece! It really takes you through an adventure, and I found it inspiring! Prague Symphony Orchestra really made a beautiful performance of this piece!
Another Martinu I was unaware of. Amazing. Thanks 4 sharing this.
A very early work - it is glorious.
Fabulous work, performance and recording...have had this for years in my library...thanks for uploading and sharing with others to experience this amazing work...moves me to tears every time I listen to it...
Thank you
A great work performed perfectly.
great
Greetings from Pozlovice and Zlin !!!
Good thing he didn't call it the "Bohemian Rhapsody" though.
Bom Cabedal hahahaa nice joke
Good thing is you have poor taste and are unable to appreciate a masterpiece.
I don't understand what you have against this picture. It's our czech saint, duke Václav with his knights and this piece of music is inspired by old choral of this saint (Svatý Václave).
I don't see any kind of hatred toward the video's pictures in any of the following comments, sorry.
A great work....
Can someone upload Martinu's Memorial to Lidice, with score? I would if I could.... Thanks very much.... George Kirazian
Such wonderful music from this prolific composer...so underrated and so under performed. What do we get in our concert halls? Rubbish churned out by such pathetic creatures like Boulez and others of similar vein.
thanks for the upload, but picture not good...:(
Was stört Sie an diesem historischen Bild?
Ahem, *bohemian** rhapsody
Picture is good. Horsemen against the Wehrmacht not good.
No ... Horsmen fighting against the Wehrmacht were Poles. This is picture of Czech legend (Svatý Václav a Blaničtí rytíř) Czechs hadn't fought germany ...
sic sicoisse
Thanks. I stand corrected. Too bad the Czechs could not fight off the Wermacht in World War II.
@@gardnersmith3580 They were overrun before the war even started, thanks in no small part to the other powers.
Czech soldiers and thousands of volunteers wanted to fight and were ready, and asked for permission several times, but the president under pressure ordered them not to fight to try and keep peace. He didn’t want to send his people to a fight he knew they couldn’t possibly win and have the whole country pay for it afterwards. Perhaps if others joined in on the fights and all attacked at once, they might have wiped Hitler’s forces altogether, but at that time nobody wanted to trigger him.
@@makytondr8607 Die Westmächte Großbritannien & Frankreich hatten mit ihrer Appeasementpolitik die Tschechoslowakei gegen Hitlerdeutschland im Stich gelassen. Und allein auf sich gestellt, hatte die ČSR leider kaum eine Chance.