Goosebumps

Astonishing radio experience this morning, listening to Radio 3 in the car. Rob Cowan played a movement from Smetana's Ma Vlast (My Fatherland), from a recording made at a concert in Prague, a few weeks after Czechoslovakia was occupied by the Nazis in 1939.


At the end of the piece (which is based on a legend of knights emerging from a mountain to save the fatherland from peril), the applause quietens and the audience sing the Czech national anthem. Spine-tingling.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0159f84



Starts at 1hr 22m, ends at at 1hr 39m.