Be sure to check the description! It may help you when listening to this amazing piece, because the two main motifs keep appearing again and again, and it's interesting to be able to recognize them. Enjoy!
Liri Ronen Really far away from being the most complex piece of music ever written hahahaha. But yeah, the most complex piece of music from the Romanticism for sure.
I’m sure that you can find some serialist who’s made it their life mission to create the most “complex” music possible. But when I’m talking about complexity, I’m talking about the amount of coherent and intentional detail that is so masterfully assembled in this score. I highly doubt that anybody before or after 1898 had ever given this much thought to the setting of a text, and the way in which each musical idea comes together and corresponds to an event/character/emotion from the book.
If this is one of the most complex, the rest are probably Strauss' other works haha. Rosenkavalier, Ein Heldenleben, Alpensinfonie, etc... I've heard they can all be quite a challenge
Also in description: 0:22 - Introduction: "Don Quixote loses his sanity after reading novels about knights, and decides to become a knight-errant" 6:29 - Don Quixote's theme: "Don Quixote, knight of the sorrowful countenance" 7:33 - Sancho Panza's theme - Maggiore [8:43 - Variation I: "Adventure at the Windmills" ] [11:23 - Variation II: "The victorious struggle against the army of the great emperor Alifanfaron" ] [13:01 - Variation III: "Dialogue between Knight and Squire" ] [20:57 - Variation IV: "Unhappy adventure with a procession of pilgrims" ] [22:45 - Variation V: "The knight's vigil" ] [26:55 - Variation VI: "The Meeting with Dulcinea" ] [28:12 - Variation VII: "The Ride through the Air" ] [29:16 - Variations VIII: "The unhappy voyage in the enchanted boat" ] [31:04 - Variation IX: "Battle with the magicians" ] [32:05 - Variation X: "Duel with the knight of the bright moon" ] 36:22 - Finale: "Coming to his senses again"
0:21 - Introduction: "Don Quixote loses his sanity after reading novels about knights, and decides to become a knight-errant" (theme de la lecture, cuivres et cymbales annoncent les combats à venir, th. de la dulcinée péd. sol) il lit tellement qu'il perd ne dort plus, ne chasse plus, perd le sens de la réalité. 6:29 - Don Quixote's theme: "Don Quixote, knight of the sorrowful countenance" presentation thème de D Q 7:33 - Sancho Panza's theme - Maggiore 8:43 - Variation I "Adventure at the Windmills" chap 7, DQ SP partent de nuit incognito, combattent les moulins ! 11:23 - Variation II: "The victorious struggle against the army of the great emperor Alifanfaron" chap 18 L'armée est un troupeau de mouton, 13:01 - Variation III: "Dialogue between Knight and Squire" sommet d'intensité, DQ expose sa vision d'un monde idéale, d'amour, l'amour à Dulcinée. cf th. 1:21 20:57 - Variation IV: "Unhappy adventure with a procession of pilgrims" 22:45 - Variation V: "The knight's vigil" chap 21 Veillée d'armes de DQ (repos), 12 epanchemts à la pensée de la lointaine dulcinée cf Ravel chanson romanesque 26:55 - Variation VI: "The Meeting with Dulcinea" 28:12 - Variation VII: "The Ride through the Air" voyage imaginaire ds les airs, les yeux bandés, DQ PS montent un cheval de bois bourré de pétards ds le jardin de la contesse trifaldi, l'assistance leur fait de l'air avc des gros soufflets. Ils s'imaginent atteignant les cieux, vers une zone de feu ! 29:16 - Variation VIII: "The unhappy voyage in the enchanted boat" 31:04 - Variation IX: "Battle with the magicians" 32:05 - Variation X: "Duel with the knight of the bright moon" Tragique au possible, joute grandiose, fin du rêve de DQ chap 64 livre 2, ce chevalier à la lune provoque DQ, sa femme serait plus belle que Dulcinée ! DQ implore le ciel puis le combat commence. Rocinante ne fait pas le poids, DQ perd. DQ doit rester ds son village un an entier. sans guerroyer. En musique : duel, le VCL a du mal à s'imposer, il est battu. La retraite de DQ ensuite. Grande douleur, 32:491 36:22 - Finale: "Coming to his senses again" "revenu à la sagesse, DQ vit ses derniers jours ds la contempla°" DQ espère redevenir chevalier, mais ap. 1 an, il repasse dev. l'endroit ou il a perdu le combat, il comprend alors. cf chap 68 livre 2, morale : il ne faut pas se laisser mourir, mais vivre ! vcl poignant, descendant. Métaphore de l'artiste qui rêve d'un nv. monde. La var III témoigne de la générosité du chevalier.
6:29 Thema Don Quixote, 7:33 Sancho Pansa, 8:43 Kampf mit den Windmühlen, 11:23 Siegreicher Kampf gegen das Heer des großen Kaisers Alifanfaron 32:49 Kampf mit dem Ritter vom blanken Mond 36:23 Besinnung 39:42 Tod
magnificent stuff the orchestration is immaculate and the themes are instantly recognizable if youve listened before r strauss really does transport you to a different world with his music
The neatest thing about this piece to me is the ending. After all the trials, troubles, and tribulations encountered by the knight and his squire...so magnificently captured musically by Strauss's brilliant composing...Don Quixote is ready to call it a day...or a life...and he just slumps to his rest...beautifully evoked by the solo cello glissando from D3 to D2...genius composing for sure!
Genial la forma de personificar a través de la música. A medida que pasan las variaciones se pueden imaginar las aventuras y desventuras de los mismos con el ritmo, la orquestación, la melodía etc. Los lentos son expresivos y los rápidos con energía y carácter, me gustó un montón la versión. Gracias por el trabajo de edición, la descripción etc. ¡Maravilloso!
Agradeceremos a Richard Strauss haberse acordado de nuestro Quijote y así dar valor a las palabras ...'muestrate agradecido que la ingratitud es hija de la soberbia y uno de los mayores pecados que se sabe'
.. sooo brillant......so sublime.... fragile ... sooooo powerful intelligent composed music....Strauss is a genius...my all time favorite composer....followed by Gustav Mahler.......thx for posting:-))
Thank you very much for your feedback - I hadn't noticed it until now, I'm sorry. When editing, some .png are misplaced from time to time, and although I always double check before uploading, this one clearly was so small I couldn't see it.
Roc Vela No worries. I’m just glad i figured it out because I kept listening to that part a ton of times and being baffled looking at the score when it turns out the pages were just swapped. I’m glad I was able to catch it. lol
I know I'm incredibly late, but when several bassoons are playing close intervals together in the tenor register, that "white noise" effect forms for whatever reason
All talented people currently are so incredibly terrified of the past and are so caught up in being avant garde that they rarely write something of real significance. Someone who does is gavin bryars, check out his double bass concerto.
Torterra kart Thank you so much! By today's evening or tomorrow I'll have my next video finished, so don't miss it! I try to upload whenever I can, without a regular schedule.
@@classicalmusicanalysis This is the most important information and should be posted in the description! What is his full name? Thank you for sharing this video.
Does anyone know why the soloist is doing a huge accelerando starting around @10.06? I checked both the solo part and the score but no marking is there….
The book was written in Spanish, so I think we're beyond language at this point haha. I know that Stravinsky spelled the word DEAD with the notes of the last chord in Rite of Spring (and he was a Russian living in Paris), so I thought maybe Strauss was thinking something similar. Nevertheless, that glissando is a brilliant idea for portraying Don Quixote's "last breath" in music.
I don't agree in the slightest, but I guess it has to do with the types of music you are most acquainted with. Just out of my personal curiosity, have you ever tried to listen to very heavy and undoubtedly mammoth piano works such as Liszt's sonata in B minor or Godowsky's passacaglia, atonal orchestral pieces, especially the late Scriabin, or other tonal but still decidedly powerful works, such as Bach's Mass in B minor, an opera by the late Mozart (who tends to disguise enormous structures in sections that are enjoyable in a light spirit) or the metamorphosen by Strauss himself? Best
Be sure to check the description! It may help you when listening to this amazing piece, because the two main motifs keep appearing again and again, and it's interesting to be able to recognize them. Enjoy!
Amazing piece, description helps thankyou!
thank you for the description!
28:12 I swear I could hear a choir, this is by far the best musical interpretation of pure imagination and the feeling of actually flying.
or maybe the horns? but yeah, there's a lot going on here so that makes sense haha
Yeah, definitely the Wind Machine. I thought the same. It sounded like a choir.
yeah. nothing spectacular here. go consult a doctor :-)
@@AndreyRubtsovRU shouldn't you be digging a trench right now?
Possibly one of the most complex pieces of music ever written. This score is an absolute marvel
Agreed!
Thank you so much for uploading!
Liri Ronen Really far away from being the most complex piece of music ever written hahahaha. But yeah, the most complex piece of music from the Romanticism for sure.
I’m sure that you can find some serialist who’s made it their life mission to create the most “complex” music possible. But when I’m talking about complexity, I’m talking about the amount of coherent and intentional detail that is so masterfully assembled in this score. I highly doubt that anybody before or after 1898 had ever given this much thought to the setting of a text, and the way in which each musical idea comes together and corresponds to an event/character/emotion from the book.
If this is one of the most complex, the rest are probably Strauss' other works haha. Rosenkavalier, Ein Heldenleben, Alpensinfonie, etc... I've heard they can all be quite a challenge
5:23 probably the most epic euphonium and bassoon part in orchestra ever
Many years ago I played the solo viola part, and I fell MADLY in love with this piece. Nice to see the sheet music again.
Also in description:
0:22 - Introduction: "Don Quixote loses his sanity after reading novels about knights, and decides to become a knight-errant"
6:29 - Don Quixote's theme: "Don Quixote, knight of the sorrowful countenance"
7:33 - Sancho Panza's theme - Maggiore
[8:43 - Variation I: "Adventure at the Windmills"
]
[11:23 - Variation II: "The victorious struggle against the army of the great emperor Alifanfaron"
]
[13:01 - Variation III: "Dialogue between Knight and Squire"
]
[20:57 - Variation IV: "Unhappy adventure with a procession of pilgrims"
]
[22:45 - Variation V: "The knight's vigil"
]
[26:55 - Variation VI: "The Meeting with Dulcinea"
]
[28:12 - Variation VII: "The Ride through the Air"
]
[29:16 - Variations VIII: "The unhappy voyage in the enchanted boat"
]
[31:04 - Variation IX: "Battle with the magicians"
]
[32:05 - Variation X: "Duel with the knight of the bright moon"
]
36:22 - Finale: "Coming to his senses again"
Pentameron 31:04 thats very intense!
0:21 - Introduction: "Don Quixote loses his sanity after reading novels about knights, and decides to become a knight-errant"
(theme de la lecture, cuivres et cymbales annoncent les combats à venir, th. de la dulcinée péd. sol)
il lit tellement qu'il perd ne dort plus, ne chasse plus, perd le sens de la réalité.
6:29 - Don Quixote's theme: "Don Quixote, knight of the sorrowful countenance"
presentation thème de D Q
7:33 - Sancho Panza's theme - Maggiore
8:43 - Variation I "Adventure at the Windmills" chap 7, DQ SP partent de nuit incognito, combattent les moulins !
11:23 - Variation II: "The victorious struggle against the army of the great emperor Alifanfaron"
chap 18 L'armée est un troupeau de mouton,
13:01 - Variation III: "Dialogue between Knight and Squire"
sommet d'intensité, DQ expose sa vision d'un monde idéale, d'amour, l'amour à Dulcinée.
cf th. 1:21
20:57 - Variation IV: "Unhappy adventure with a procession of pilgrims"
22:45 - Variation V: "The knight's vigil"
chap 21 Veillée d'armes de DQ (repos), 12 epanchemts à la pensée de la lointaine dulcinée cf Ravel chanson romanesque
26:55 - Variation VI: "The Meeting with Dulcinea"
28:12 - Variation VII: "The Ride through the Air"
voyage imaginaire ds les airs, les yeux bandés, DQ PS montent un cheval de bois bourré de pétards ds le jardin de la contesse trifaldi,
l'assistance leur fait de l'air avc des gros soufflets. Ils s'imaginent atteignant les cieux, vers une zone de feu !
29:16 - Variation VIII: "The unhappy voyage in the enchanted boat"
31:04 - Variation IX: "Battle with the magicians"
32:05 - Variation X: "Duel with the knight of the bright moon"
Tragique au possible, joute grandiose, fin du rêve de DQ chap 64 livre 2, ce chevalier à la lune provoque DQ, sa femme serait plus belle
que Dulcinée ! DQ implore le ciel puis le combat commence. Rocinante ne fait pas le poids, DQ perd. DQ doit rester ds son village un an entier.
sans guerroyer. En musique : duel, le VCL a du mal à s'imposer, il est battu.
La retraite de DQ ensuite. Grande douleur, 32:491
36:22 - Finale: "Coming to his senses again"
"revenu à la sagesse, DQ vit ses derniers jours ds la contempla°"
DQ espère redevenir chevalier, mais ap. 1 an, il repasse dev. l'endroit ou il a perdu le combat, il comprend alors.
cf chap 68 livre 2, morale : il ne faut pas se laisser mourir, mais vivre ! vcl poignant, descendant.
Métaphore de l'artiste qui rêve d'un nv. monde. La var III témoigne de la générosité du chevalier.
The "Oh, sh..." moment at 25:01 is hilarious.
bad standup
6:29 Thema Don Quixote, 7:33 Sancho Pansa, 8:43 Kampf mit den Windmühlen, 11:23 Siegreicher Kampf gegen das Heer des großen Kaisers Alifanfaron 32:49 Kampf mit dem Ritter vom blanken Mond 36:23 Besinnung 39:42 Tod
21:58 I could’ve sworn i heard glass breaking
It was a suspended cymbal struck, then immediately choked.
@@nadiazayman1820 Not just that, but the FFF tambourine hit.
That’s the moment he gets knocked off his horse by the pilgrims 😂
Man, those final two chords are SO challenging to play in tune and pianissimo. I bet the old fox did that on purpose
magnificent stuff
the orchestration is immaculate and the themes are instantly recognizable if youve listened before
r strauss really does transport you to a different world with his music
The neatest thing about this piece to me is the ending. After all the trials, troubles, and tribulations encountered by the knight and his squire...so magnificently captured musically by Strauss's brilliant composing...Don Quixote is ready to call it a day...or a life...and he just slumps to his rest...beautifully evoked by the solo cello glissando from D3 to D2...genius composing for sure!
Genial la forma de personificar a través de la música. A medida que pasan las variaciones se pueden imaginar las aventuras y desventuras de los mismos con el ritmo, la orquestación, la melodía etc. Los lentos son expresivos y los rápidos con energía y carácter, me gustó un montón la versión.
Gracias por el trabajo de edición, la descripción etc. ¡Maravilloso!
Agradeceremos a Richard Strauss haberse acordado de nuestro Quijote y así dar valor a las palabras ...'muestrate agradecido que la ingratitud es hija de la soberbia y uno de los mayores pecados que se sabe'
.. sooo brillant......so sublime.... fragile ... sooooo powerful intelligent composed music....Strauss is a genius...my all time favorite composer....followed by Gustav Mahler.......thx for posting:-))
At 2:54, the harmonization is reminiscent of that used by Berlioz in the first (?) movement in his Symphonie ..... the dream sequence....
24:55 that page is looking NUTS!
@@ashleythorpe7933
Are you blind?
@@FreakieFan And some tremolandi and violin scales
and it sounds so normal and beautiful
music with story embedded into it is always fire, and the bigger the story, the more emotions it invokes,
thanks for the score, very helpful, intelligent !
Thank you for the score played along with the music, but at 5:30 the two pages are swapped.
Thank you very much for your feedback - I hadn't noticed it until now, I'm sorry. When editing, some .png are misplaced from time to time, and although I always double check before uploading, this one clearly was so small I couldn't see it.
Roc Vela No worries. I’m just glad i figured it out because I kept listening to that part a ton of times and being baffled looking at the score when it turns out the pages were just swapped. I’m glad I was able to catch it. lol
Amazing piece, thank you by score!
1:29 viole solo
2:26 mute fanfare
11:25 mena fendenti sulle pecore
11:45 pain
9:48 The lobster
Viola solo 7:42 sancho panza theme
12:19 flutter
Is this part where we hear the bleating of the sheep?
Bass Clarinet
4:42
7:33
8:29
Precioso.
2:24 AMEB Grade 8 excerpt
(Notes for myself... audition)
4:02
11:23
Did it go OK?
1:50
hero job
pages at 5:35 are inverted
7:42 Any idea what that scratchy sound is ?
I know I'm incredibly late, but when several bassoons are playing close intervals together in the tenor register, that "white noise" effect forms for whatever reason
Are there any composers like this one alive in our times?
try David del Tredici Finale Alice
Strauss's predecessors were the ones who wrote film music in the 20th century. :)
@GIAN ANDRE NUESCA segerstam...
Thank you for the answers!
All talented people currently are so incredibly terrified of the past and are so caught up in being avant garde that they rarely write something of real significance. Someone who does is gavin bryars, check out his double bass concerto.
even with 1080 hd accidentals are hard to read on some pages. Huge score :)
" MORIR CUERDO Y VIVIR LOCO " ( A S T I , ITALIA )
Themes 6:26
This is awesome! I didn't know the existence of this channel
Will you upload regularly?
Torterra kart Thank you so much! By today's evening or tomorrow I'll have my next video finished, so don't miss it! I try to upload whenever I can, without a regular schedule.
where do we hear the bleating of the sheep? is it here: 11:44 ?
Yes!
one of the most socking moments in classical music
Esa complejidad me recuerda a Stravinsky.
7:33
Who is the cellist (play solo cello)? Tell me please. Thanks.
The cellist is G. Geminiani.
Thank you very much for your answer.
@@classicalmusicanalysis This is the most important information and should be posted in the description! What is his full name?
Thank you for sharing this video.
@@tomatojuice12 bruh
Gabriele Geminiani vcello, violin Roberto Gonzales Monjas , Viola Raffaele Mallozzi .
First little cello solo mr Carlo Onori ....
Das ist Gut
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3:14 6:41
Does anyone know why the soloist is doing a huge accelerando starting around @10.06? I checked both the solo part and the score but no marking is there….
Is his own interpretation of the piece.
14:50
돈키호테 스트라우스 교향시 첼로 협주곡 같은 특징이 있음
The last notes of don Quixote are d-- --d. Hmm, I wonder if there's a word related to "an end" that starts and ends with d.
Like 'DeaD'?
The book was written in Spanish, so I think we're beyond language at this point haha. I know that Stravinsky spelled the word DEAD with the notes of the last chord in Rite of Spring (and he was a Russian living in Paris), so I thought maybe Strauss was thinking something similar. Nevertheless, that glissando is a brilliant idea for portraying Don Quixote's "last breath" in music.
I love variation VII!
whereas i love II VII IX X most
does the score weigh 35 kg
Donquixote Doflamingo 👍🏽
il signor Gabriele Geminiani , primo violoncello dell'orchestra di Santa Cecilia all'epoca.
10:04 (340p)
did you guys know hens lay 250 eggs a year
im going to eat them all
D:
I love Strauss but this one is... boring.
Go on. Port your mean replies :-).
This is a rather poor performance. Everybody is audibly struggling through the score. Very often out of tune and not together.
It is unquestionably one of the most difficult pieces ever written for orchestra though.
@@FreakieFan Agreed, but many orchestras manage this piece. We are so spoilt in that respect.
@@markokassenaar4387
Very true. I quite like hearing less glamorous renditions of pieces though. It's an interesting experience.
It's too fucking complex to the point of NOT enjoyable
I don't agree in the slightest, but I guess it has to do with the types of music you are most acquainted with. Just out of my personal curiosity, have you ever tried to listen to very heavy and undoubtedly mammoth piano works such as Liszt's sonata in B minor or Godowsky's passacaglia, atonal orchestral pieces, especially the late Scriabin, or other tonal but still decidedly powerful works, such as Bach's Mass in B minor, an opera by the late Mozart (who tends to disguise enormous structures in sections that are enjoyable in a light spirit) or the metamorphosen by Strauss himself?
Best
the complexity is part of the emotions, honestly I think most would agree it helps express don Quixote's insanity
Awful perfomance.
The first progressive rock composition, before prog was a thing.
17:39
15:04
28:06
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2:24
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28:00
34:05
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8:43
28:10
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