Aram Khachaturian - Symphony No.3 "Symphony--Poem" (1947)
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- Опубликовано: 8 июл 2013
- Aram Khachaturian
Work: Symphony No.3 "Symphony-Poem" / "Simfoniya-Poema" (1947)
Allegro moderato, maestoso - Allegro - Andante sostenuto - Maestoso - Tempo I
Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic
Conductor: Fedor Glushchenko
The Symphony No. 3 by Aram Khachaturian, subtitled Symphony-Poem, was composed in 1947 for the 30th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, and premiered on Leningrad on December 13 by the Leningrad Philharmonic conducted by Yevgeny Mravinsky. It was his last contribution to the genre. Originally conceived as a symphonic poem, it is a single movement symphony featuring an organ solo and fifteen trumpets conceived as a hymn of praise of the Soviet Union, with Khachaturian saying that he "wanted this work to express the Soviet people’s joy and pride in their great and mighty country". However, the work's raw and strident style, which has been related to the 1920s Soviet constructivist avantgarde, and unorthodox structure and instrumentation dissatisfied the Stalinist cultural authorities, and it was condemned as formalistic in the 1948 Zhdanov decree. 
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O M G....I couldn't remember what Sym #3 was then realized it was the Organ Symphony. I had it on vinyl when I was young, in my 20's. It makes me think of Khachaturian on some really baaad drugs! I love Khachaturian and always have. The music is wild and mind-blowing. I love the tame melodies at 7:15, then 7:54 again and then the build up starting at 15:48! This would make for some awesome movie music.! Love the sinister organ in this too! I haven't heard this work in years...I think I need a valium! I love it!!!! I will always cherish the memory of being able to see him live at Carnegie Hall when I was a teenager. He was conducting his own work. I still have the little piece of scrap paper he signed for me!
WOWWWWWWW
You're a Lucky Comrade!
Pienso igual !!! Que suerte atesorar ese momento con esta obra maestra y haber conocido personalmente al genio armenio. Saludos desde Argentina
The organ in this is AWESOME!
Exactly! One of my favourites ever.
This is the most bizarre and haunting symphony I've never heard live in concert, and I'm surely not likely to hear a symphony orchestrated for trumpets galore as well as an organ down here in Florida! But I need to get this on CD so I can get my fix of wild and crazy symphonic music!
2020 soundtrack
Fits pretty good man
My very favorite Khachaturian work and woefully underappreciated. Brilliant performance too.
Such subtlety and restraint
I just listened to this entire thing. And I'm now finding myself feeling apprehensive. I'm worried my brain is going to seek revenge on me for subjecting it to this. And I'll then be gasping in agony like this: 22:48.
Quem está ouvindo em 2021?
Greatest Symphony ever written.
What a Great Composer - Aram Khachaturian (1903-1978).
I can see the majestic bloodshed unfold between two sides of a war trading blows, as terror and pride pierce through the blaring war cries and fiery munitions leaving trails of smoke in its midst. I can smell the metal, fire, sweat, blood, and tears of dying men who fought bravely for their beliefs, homeland, and families they left behind never to see again.
This music paints a romantic hell.
The Baku and Sumgait pogroms where Azeri Turks murdered Armenians and forced them to leave their homes
Last 7 minutes are absolutely insane, pure musical carnage.
@Horse Radish Are you serious ?
Yeah, more bombastic than any movie action score, and man, that last blast of cymbal, percussion and brass...
Արամ Խաչատրյան, խոսքերն ավելորդ են։
Aram's great idea (given the thumbs down at the time) was a huge fanfare with a revolutionary tune as its main melodic component. Too often, conductors like this one rush the climax, when this tune is heard in its full glory. Stokowski and Khachaturian himself conduct it as I assume he wanted it. Still, no performance of this "monsterpiece", as someone has wittily called it, can fail to impress. 15 trumpets and an out-of-control organ are sure-fire winners.
Great work and orchestration ! Amazing!
BD 2019?
How wonderful this performance !
this is so metal
I like Khatchaturian great composer & great music
That's right, he was very talented :)
Woah! I've known this symphony since the 1970s, but I've never heard a performance like this. Very unusual; very striking. It seems iffy and unconvincing at first -- too slow, too thin -- but very soon we are immersed in a sound-world unlike anything I've heard before. The performance speeds up as it goes along, attaining a breakneck pavce by the end.
This symphony was always the Soviet version of Heavy Metal -- moreso than ever before in this rendition.
This music floods my mind's eye with constant imagery, which changes every time I listen to it; makes Tchaikovsky's 1812 sound like a pop song.
Magistralmente Bello!!!
17:28 gives me vibes of those old 50s hollywood films of Rome
Khachaturian's 'Organ Symphony' is a fantastic alternative to the more famous Saint-Saens work (also a symphony no 3). Khachaturian balances the organ and the orchestra masterfully, and as always he finds space for his wonderful melodies. Well worth repeated listening!
Fabulous nonsense!!!! It begins with the ending and ends with the beginning, so does it even exist? Love it!!!
I love your imaginative comment. You'd make a great music critic.
I love this symphony and especially this recording.
Musica maravilhosa!
dat organ tho...dayum!!!!
My first recording of this was Tjeknavorian and it's remained my go-to version--till now. The organ is what sold this one--finally, one that isn't buried by the orchestra and sounds like a proper piper! Sound is also fabulous.
Muito bom! Recomendação do Alysson Mascaro 👍
Estou nessa também amigo. Vamos difundir esse previlégio.
Acabei de ver também a indicação dele estou escutando
@@Kratos-jz9oj Que bom. Está frutificando muito bem as informações do prof. Alisson Mascaro. É sempre bom beber nesse tipo de fonte. O aprendizado nunca termina, principalmente nesse atual contexto.
cheguei aqui também pela indicação do professor mascaro! ✊
Também estou por isso, acabei de assistir à entrevista dele. Que maravilha!
A very stately rendition of this piece, very nuanced and different from the more usual brisk pace of this work by others. Well Done!
Welch eine grandiose Entdeckung eines Tschaikowskianers, der auch zu Sergej Rachmaninow und Dmitri Schostakowitsch gefunden hat !!
Unbeschreiblich, wundervoll, unerhört im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes ...
Magnificent !!! Why don't concert halls have this played more often !!!
Too big, too difficult?
Most Symphony Halls don't have an integrated Organ. Also, hiring on that much additional brass is incredibly expensive. It's a BLAST to play, though! I just recommend Earplugs on stage. This is one of the loudest pieces in all of human history.
Brilhante compositor soviético. ✊
just ordered the cd...that church organ is insane...
Aram Khachaturian great Armenian composer
das ist leidenschaft und musik! ehrlichkeit und liebe
es un placer escuchar esta obra tan creativa y tan fuerte,interpretada magistralmente,gracias.
Blue devils 2019 anyone?
Stevan Bustos will be fantastic
Yay ghostlight
Extremamente insana!!! Composição fantástica! Preciso ouvir mais vezes para captar bem o que se passa... A imagem combina bem.
But the 2rd Symphony, The Bell IS ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC!!!
Heavy metal classical music
Magnífica!!! ❤❤❤
Splendid Combative Devastation Exemplified and Personified!. Combined with substantial Black Coffee this Artistic Expression compels
Mindblowing Morale!
Fabulous. Bravo!
Really amazing, show. Thanks to post it.
thank you is wonderful and so drama
MIstrzostwo swiata!!! organy!!!!! Olsztyn pozdro!
Wow this is awesome in both ways
When you listen to one of his works, it will suffice because all are alike.
But, when you listen to one of his works, you'll probably want to listen to his others...
Hahah, indeed... But you'll also find out they are actually not sooo alike.
astonishing. grand !
Amazingg!!
Holy cow!!!
Fascinante.....
Very skilfully done!
Magnífico!!!
waw ! fantastic piece !
One of the greatest works in musical history!!! The Perm orchestra does it best; in my opinion they are better in form of music, ballet, and/or chorus than St. Petersburg or Moscow!!!
Powerful!!!
Strong as hell
"Goose pimples" ....."Pelle d'oca" per la maestosità e grandezza. I know his "Spartacus" ballet....unforgettable........
Quem está ouvindo pela recomendação do professor Alysson Mascaro?
Acabei de assitir a entrevista com ele hehe
@@marcelomarquescosta sim com o Breno Altman né kkkk
@@igorantunes7136 isso mesmo!
Eu tbm estou
Eu. Hahaha
The finale is apocalyptic !!!
24:01 Wow!
i love this
Blue devils did a great job with this song
Having the organ offered an interesting twist. A revisit to this work is coming.
I can't wait to see and hear BD '19.
It seems that i have missed something here, what is "BD 2019"?
KuhlauDilfeng2 it’s the Blue Devils, a drum corps which will be playing portions of this piece in their 2019 production “Ghostlight”
I found this work just as spectacular as the first time I heard it a couple of years ago. I consider that important in my listening. Do I find a work as compelling the second time around? I did this one.
It took a great deal of guts for Maestro Khachaturian to write this back in 1947! The messages hidden behind each note, my GOD!!! Stalin only saw the Great Patriotic War in this. The Armenian artist burned the Osetian dictator at the stake of his fiery orchestral palate. The pipe organs are a dead give away. What were the Katyusha Rocket batteries called??? And I'm only striking the surface here.
well put and I read that this piece was called "formulaic" by Stalin so of course it wasnt performed much.
Mark Holland At least Stalin did not call it "...muddle for music..." That would've gotten Khachaturian sent to the GULAGs.
In Soviet Russia every fart was a hidden (and sometimes even silent) attack on Stalin. And it takes a musical genius to understand it. "Take that, you person who defeated the nazis, you!" Now try saying that in farts. See? Pure genius.
Philippe Renaud
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dragmio LOL! Point well taken. Actually, the Russians defeated the nazis in spite of stalin and the nkvd... but that's another matter...
Is it even legal to make music THIS dramatic?
It wasn't he fell out of favour with this one lol
Of course it is the Russians and the Georgians as well as the Armenians!
It was not, actually - Complaining that the composers drove audiences away, Khrennikov declared some works scapegoat including Muradeli’s opera Great Friendship, Prokofiev’s Festive Poem, the Mighty Land and the Sixth Symphony; Miaskovsky’s Pathetic Overture and the cantata Kremlin at Night; Shostakovich’s Poem of Fatherland and Khachaturian’s Symphonie-Poeme. (Zehra Ezgi KARA, Jülide GÜNDÜZ - Musical Censorship in the Union of Soviet Composers, 2018)
Full send or nothing.
Legal and talking of art... interesting. But not a discussion to be had on social media.
There were two sorts of composers in USSR. Those who were too far from the official aesthetics of "socialist realism" were prosecuted, their works forbidden or even destroyed. Such is the cas for instance for Rooslavats and Mossolov. Prokofiev, Shostakovich and Khatchaturian are probably the three greatest Soviet composers who had all three "problems" with the official aesthetics , but were tolerated. Here, Khatchaturian shows us a new face of his genius: the large and wide lyrism, which can explode in generous tutti or be expressed by a solo voice.
@slothropgr:
Not only is Glushchenko far better performed and recorded, it is done uncut, unlike Tjeknavorian for whatever reason(s). My first introduction of this very interesting work came about courtesy of Leopold Anthony Stokowski with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. A very well done recording I thought, until I heard this Chandos one, and ultimately find it to be the best ever.
An amazing performance of a brilliant work. Odd, but do I hear sounds of Spain around 10 minutes into the symphony? Brilliant organ work.
Starting 15:00 it is pure prog rock, King Crimson :)
I think it's the other way round
1st is Aram Khachaturian - then 2nd is K Crimson & your prog rock Plutonium :)
Just f*cking powerful !
As Georgian composer, I suggest you to listen the 6 symphonies of Gyia Kancheli, Simi (for cello) and others. It's wonderfull
Thank you for your suggestion. Thank you very much!
Espetacularmente insano e magistral!!!!!!!
PHANTOM 2017
blaeser immer gut eingesetzt
This must be one of the noisiest symphonies ever written. Great fun though.
Wait until you hear Schnittke's Symphony No. 1. That is a Soviet trip of wild noise.
Really enjoyable, great, massif, sarcastic ... but the part with the organ is maybe a bit too massive for a simple audio file !
Strong Spartacus motifs
この交響曲は絶品ですね！(≧▽≦)
epic.
I really enjoyed this piece, thanks for uploading. I also like the sea battle picture. Can you tell me anything about it? Would like to download a copy of it. Thanks again!
+toxicwastedump supposedly it is aivazovsky, you can check it in his paintings
Can we agree that this symphony is koo-koo? I was totally along for the ride as he conveyed tension and urgency through those almost proto-Minimalist brass statements ... but then the long harum-scarum organ solo? What the hell Lon Chaney Jr. crap was that? And it just kept going on before everyone else remembered to come in. Then we get some of the things I love best about Khachaturian: the haunting, Armenian-inflected melodies, the contrapuntal drama, etc. But by that point, I'm on guard, and so the piece's overstatements affect me differently than they would in a less lurid setting. Nonetheless, this is bold and individual -- and I would much rather listen to this than some colorless symphony that was merely well-constructed.
The Armenian genocide is painted by his music
@@jacobtabanian7356 I am not Armenian, but I love Armenia 🇦🇲
Mistrzostwo Świata!!!!!
I was down with this piece till around 17:00. The brass writing is almost verbatim Shostakovich a la Lady Macbeth. Shady.
Ochen Harasho Ausgezeichnet!!!!
ehrliches sienfonisches poem
Khachaturian was enthusiastic about communism and wrote this for the 30th anniversary of the Russian Revolution. But Stalin didn't like it. I guess it was too revolutionary for him. Is it ever used as movie music?
Fantastic recording!
But what movie wouldn't get drowned out by this? Bernard Herrmann had the right idea for PSYCHO--score it for strings only. Best movie for this symphony would feature a live concert performance!
He wasn't enthusiastic about communism. He had no choice.
Hermosa obra y muy emotiva. gracias por compartirla. El alma rusa siempre es la misma.
+Jose Ramon Ramirez Not Russian, ARMENIAN.
@@mmm_8318 -- Casi Rusia Septentional....pero realmente de ninguna forma....Saludos desde Puerto Aventuras!
Umm no, ARMENIAN. 🇦🇲
@@mmm_8318 -- Actually, you could be right....Remember what Saroyan wrote: "“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia. See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.”
'could' lol... he was and will remain Armenian, full stop. Have a nice day.
Hmmm... is this the German invasion? Im not sure what else to be writing about as a soviet in 1947. Either way this left tears in my eyes, and at times had me feeling like i was coming up on mushrooms. Was Holst before this, or after? Mars theme seems pretty prevelant here.
This piece got Aram Katchaturian denounced as not Russian enough, not accessible to the people. Stalin walked out on it's first performance, presumably before the 7 minute mark!
Later, he was reinstated... (presumably after Stalin heard the rest of the piece?)
la cosmovvision humana debe trascender los colores de las banderas y las fronteras geopoliticas.
What is the name of the painting?
Aram Khacahturian puur Armenier
Metsn hay mard Aram Khachaturyan
Гениальный Хачатурян так делекатно пользуется духовыми инструментами, вроде их и нет, но эффект бесподобный, мастерство высочайшее.
conductor Glushchenko; what orchestra? who is the organist? recorded where and released when?
Ah, BBC Phil, found it. But the organist etc.?
@@christinebeckett5511 Organist was Simon Lindley, at a live performance in Leeds Town Hall (UK).