Ma Vlast- VI Blaník

Ma Vlast, Movement 6a, My Fatherland by Bedřich Smetana named "Blaník". Second Queensland Youth Orchestra QYO2 conducted by Sergei V Korschmin is performing this beautiful symphonic poem while on tour in Sydney. Live footage in HD with Dolby Stereo Sound. These talented musicians, 13 to 23 years of age, are performing at a lunchtime concert in Verbrugghen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium of Music on 27 June 2010. All the players are members of the Second Queensland Youth Orchestra, a full symphony orchestra based in Brisbane, Australia. http://qyo.org.au Má Vlast is a set of six symphonic poems composed between 1874 and 1879 by the Czech composer Bedřich Smetana. While it is often presented as a single work in six movements, the individual pieces were conceived as a set of individual works. Blaník ( Movement 6) was finished on 9 March 1879 and premiered on 4 January 1880. It is named for the mountain Blaník inside which a legend says that a huge army of knights led by St. Wenceslassleep. The knights will awake and help the country in its gravest hour (sometimes described as four hostile armies attacking from all cardinal directions). Musically, Blaník begins exactly as Tábor ends, "hammering" out the motto which was left unresolved, but now continuing on, as if in the aftermath of the battle. Thus these last two tone poems of the cycle form a cohesive pair, as do the first two; the High Castle's theme returns as the Vltava's river journey triumphantly reaches that same destination, and again returns triumphantly at the end of Blaník. Once again, the Hussite hymn used in Tábor is quoted, though this time it is the third line which rings out in the march at the end of the piece. The original lyrics to this line in the hymn are "so that finally with Him you will always be victorious," a reference to the eventual victorious rise of the Czech state. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Má_vlast Here are the links for the entire concert: Mvt 1a http://www.youtube.com/A1okEZ#p/u/40/Gw73WrAqVrk Mvt 1b http://www.youtube.com/A1okEZ#p/u/41/AmI3EErXdVs Mvt 2a http://www.youtube.com/A1okEZ#p/u/42/llOWInx2taE Mvt 2b http://www.youtube.com/A1okEZ#p/u/43/ILfVniwordQ Mvt3 http://www.youtube.com/A1okEZ#p/u/44/aKX7qH1SLNI Mvt 4a http://www.youtube.com/A1okEZ#p/u/45/eGVzgIarN3s Mvt 4b http://www.youtube.com/A1okEZ#p/u/46/jDVyBBG1aWw Mvt 5a http://www.youtube.com/A1okEZ#p/u/47/_JY2Q5wCP7M Mvt 5b http://www.youtube.com/A1okEZ#p/u/48/BY4WOjcex1E Mvt 6a http://www.youtube.com/A1okEZ#p/u/49/UJNXzto8gKI Mvt 6b http://www.youtube.com/A1okEZ#p/u/50/Asv4_8rF328 To enhance your viewing, please select 720p quality, then click the "Full Screen" button (bottom right of movie). . . .