Symphonic Poems "Má vlast"

Album by Bedřich Smetana & Kenichiro Kobayashi & 東京都交響楽団

Má vlast is a cycle of six symphonic poems by Czech composer Bedřich Smetana, composed between 1874 and 1879. The music employs late-Romantic orchestration, Bohemian folk-inspired melodic elements and programme-driven tone-poem techniques to evoke landscapes and national identity, marking Smetana's mature compositional phase and an important work in Czech national music of the late 19th century.