Má vlast (Fatherland) No. 2, Vltava (The Moldau) 1874 – Bedřich Smetana

Not long ago, we explored Jean Sibelius’s Finlandia. Now we turn to another work strongly tied to national identity – Má vlast (My Fatherland) by Czech composer Bedřich Smetana. He wrote the six symphonic poems that form this cycle between…