00:00  The melting snow is pictured by flutes with smooth fast  melodic passages, accompanied by the dropping sounds  of the harp.
01:03  The strings join the melodic movement as the river theme  is first in the minor.
02:08  Theme is restated with more emphasis.
02:59  The tone poem now describes a forest hunt. The hunting  calls by the French horns are accompanied by  crescendos in the strings. Brasses become more  dominant.
03:52  The river passes a simple wedding ceremony and a polka  theme is introduced into the texture. 
05:16  Introduced next into the symphonic poem is a dance of the  water nymphs in the moonlight. The orchestra is very  soft and the sounds are dark.
05:34  In the orchestra there are many subtle but colorful  sounds, muted strings, flutes, harp, The music is  calm and the melody is a distant variation of the  river theme.
06:00  Fade
06:04  End