Leoš Janáček - Sinfonietta
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- Опубликовано: 23 июл 2024
- - Composer: Leoš Janáček (3 July 1854 -- 12 August 1928)
- Orchestra: Wiener Philharmoniker
- Conductor: Sir Charles Mackerras
- Year of recording: 1980
Sinfonietta (subtitled "Military Sinfonietta" or "Sokol Festival"), written in 1926.
00:00 - I. Allegretto - Allegro maestoso (Fanfare)
02:25 - II. Andante - Allegretto (The Castle, Brno)
08:35 - III. Moderato (The Queen's Monastery, Brno)
13:58 - IV. Allegretto (The Street Leading to the Castle)
17:02 - V. Andante con moto (The Town Hall, Brno)
The Sinfonietta is a very expressive and festive, late work for large orchestra (of which 25 are brass players). It is dedicated "To the Czechoslovak Armed Forces" and Janáček said it was intended to express "contemporary free man, his spiritual beauty and joy, his strength, courage and determination to fight for victory." It started by Janáček listening to a brass band, becoming inspired to write some fanfares of his own. When the organisers of the Sokol Gymnastic Festival approached him for a commission, he developed the material into the Sinfonietta. He later dropped the word military.
The work is typical of Janáček's tight construction, the material of each movement deriving from the opening motif. It features several variants based on Janáček's original fanfare.
- The first movement is scored only for brass and percussion.
- The second movement begins with a rapid ostinato from the wind, but later has a more lyrical episode.
- The third begins quietly in the strings, but is interrupted by a stern figure in the trombones, leading to another fast dance-like passage.
- In the fourth movement, Janáček celebrates the newly liberated Czechoslovakia with a joyous trumpet fanfare.
- The finale begins in the key of E-flat minor with a calm retrograde version of the opening melody. However, this quickly moves into a triumphant finale, the return of the opening fanfare decorated with swirling figures in the strings and wind.
The first performance was in Prague on 26 June 1926 under Václav Talich.
A famous usage of the opening of Sinfonietta was by the progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer for the song "Knife-Edge" on their debut album. 
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I am the taxi driver who had this on full blast. You're welcome, guys.
1Q84
Just read this. Rad rad you dudes.
Happy to see these comments
1q84
Just started reading this book today!!! They need to make it into a Netflix movie
If you are here for 1q84...
А что значит 1q84 ? and that means 1q84 ? qué quieres decir 1q84 ?
@@user-mu9wt3zd7c 1Q84 is the title of a novel by Haruki Murakami. One of the main characters hears this symphony playing in a taxi right at the beginning of the book.
Yep
i'm just now reading it!
I 'm reading it now, I hope It is a beautiful novel
Is everybody here because of the book. I am, I have just started reading it and I’m sorry to say I had never heard of Janacek before, always good to learn something new.
Just started reading this book 10 minutes ago and never having heard this music I just had to come to RUclips. Let me know how you get on with the book!!!
Two things:
(1) Janacek is a great example of a late bloomer. A lot of his best stuff was written late in his life. (I'm 65, and his music gives me hope.)
(2) What book are you referring to? If it's mentioned in the comments above, I missed it.
@@jimslancio Hi, the book is 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami. It’s referred to in the first chapter I think during a taxi ride,
@@jimslancio The book is called '1Q84' by the Japanese writer Murakami. (Good luck with composing, never let your age hold you back).
Considering ELP's popularity in Japan, it wouldn't surprise me if the book's author discovered this work via ELP.
1Q84 brought me here. It's fun to read Aomame's part while listening to this...it fits with the tone.
It's playing in the backround of audiobook, that's why I'm here
Me toooo😂😂😂
Same for me
Same here.
Fuck im here for that too lol
And now I can imagine her journey through the city streets of Tokyo.
Literally just looked this up because I'm reading 1Q84 right now.
And now imagine how many excellent pieces of music have never been mentioned by a popular author in a bestseller...
(Janáček deserves it, no doubt.)
Haruki Murakami did in !Q84. Awesome book.
Bit surealistic feeling, beeing from Janáčeks town, to seen how huge influence he had even that farr as in Japan. For me Janaček is like neigbor, my family is from streats surroundig his house and school, and there are people all around the world from diferend cultures knowing his work and admiring his work.
"My name is Aomame. It means green beans."
*peas :)
Aoname
@@leavemealone3198 Аомамэ.
Aomomé qui aime Tengo.
Ahhhhhh Murakami
Hearing this live in the 70s was an out of body experience
hhhh
I can see two moons now...one normal sized yellowish moon, one smaller and slightly mossy green....
uwu
1Q84❤
I've known this piece for a long time. Comments from people who've read 1Q84 made me read the book.
Same
I might..
I love the Emerson Lake & Palmer (ELP) wonderful reworking of this in their Knife Edge composition.
Murakami fan right HERE! This piece remembers me what an amazing world 1Q84 is!!!
Boring as hell.
If there is a person you love heartily, one person is enough, your life is saved...
-1Q84
I came here through Murakami Marketing
Vincent Carriuolo Aomame
"That people read Murakami's books is often as a taste guide, a list of works that a worldly, urban sophisticate should know." A paraphrase of a comment on Neomarxisme.
Probably not the ideal music to hear in a taxi caught in traffic...
Why not?
Read 1Q84
lol
1Q84?
@@yagiz885 in my opinion it kinda is anxiety inducing 😂
Tengo is truly giftet with the talent of music.
Despite the lack of experience, he played this piece as a timpanist in a national high school wind orchestra competition.
Just amazing.
The timpani part isn't the most complicated, though; but sure, it would be impressive.
Not familiarized with the artist, I came here due to 1Q84 but honestly I have to say I actually find the music compelling. I really enjoy modern day composers. Sort of reminds me of the music from Clockwork Orange, strangely. I also feel it would have an apt place in Cloud Atlas. It just has that 'post modern' feel.
Funny thought about Cloud Atlas, because I honestly think that the Wachowski sisters are capable of doing a great movie out of 1Q84 books ... same atmosphere, playing with time & space...
Modern day composers?
This is over 100 years old.
@@SpaghettiToaster Woah, so much for 'post modern'. I had no idea. Mind blown.
@@EBThisThat Janáček was far ahead of his time
I can't hear that opening fanfare without seeing in my mind mastodons striding across the steppes with mountains in the background. And return of that fanfare at the end is to me one of the most majestic and thrilling moments in all Western classical music.
Listening to this while reading 1Q84
Me to:)
As a trumpet player, I can definitely appreciate this piece
This was the music they played (with a live orchestra) at my college graduation. It was so perfect for that occasion, and makes for a lovely memory. Really gorgeous stuff.
Wow! Lucky you!
Wasn't that Pomp and Circumstance ?
@@olegmakarov7877 No
@@LisaMichele
Est brevitate opus, ut currat sententia 😃
I arrived here due to ELP. It is magnificient!!
I love this piece of music. It's on my "desert island" playlist. I think it's one of the most thrilling compositions of the 20thC, and, really, ever. And, this is a filigreed recording -- it's all about the "brass" and winds. And I think about the city of Brno, the capital of Moravia. Thanks for posting it, with the score too!
1Q84 brought me here. ELP kept me listening.
I first learned piece in college. It blew me away then and continues to do so 30 years later!!! Bravo!!
Thank you so much for uploading this! I´ve loved this masterpiece since my childhood and when I see the partitur, I just think "how can anybody compose such a music..." Brilliant.
Wonderful!! This is a masterpiece conducted by a true believer in Janacek! RIP Sir Charles Mackeras.
I've never heard of Murakami and still haven't a clue what it is. I guess I'll have to check it out sometime. I'm here because this has been one of my absolute favorite symphonic pieces since I heard it as a child. Bits of it were used to brilliant effect in the 1979 film, "The Haunting of M", a classic ghost story. But the film is virtually impossible to find now.
Haruki Murakami is a Japanese writer.He mentions a lot a musical peices in his works.This particular peice was mentioned in one of his most famous works called 1Q84.
So many of his readers have come here curious about the peice mentioned several times in the book,including myself.
The book is eh... I would check out his other work before 1Q84. It really drags.
@@theradhoodx I agree. Especially the second book.
What would you say is his best work?
@@Kerm88 Kafka on the shore
This is one of those pieces that blew me away first time I heard it, and has improved with subsequent hearings. What I love, apart from the fabulous music, is how Janacek pushes instruments to the extremes of their registers. This is a really great performance; the ending is thrilling!
Yeah, Janáček is famous by pushing instruments over the edge.
Btw on end there is "Sokolská fanfára" which was something like "anthem" of Czechoslovakian group Sokol (falkon in english) which started in Czech part of Austria-Hungary to support Czech national proudness in young people
Just like the book.
Murakami always teaching classic music 🎵
1Q84
+Cosmic Sans Murakami's editor really shit the bed with that book. It was a good story but no fucking way should it have been 1000+ pages long. I was sick of Tengo going to that fucking slide after the 2nd time.
Wind up bird chronicle makes IQ84 look like shit.
+Eryn Carleton just started reading it . now I'm anxious to finish it.
1000+ pages made the book good imho.
No way my man Tengo rocked that timp part :)
I just finished the book, there were some REALLY compelling parts but, on the other hand, there were some seriously drawn out over written parts.
Wonderful performance ! Thank you for uploading :)
haruki murakami really has special music tastes.
I can now understand, upon following the score, why this work is played less often than it merits. It is fiendishly difficult, with instruments being pushed to their limits.The rhythms are difficult, and with all the high-pitched notes, the intonation becomes a monstrosity.
Hello, E-flat clarinet and piccolo duet right before the climax...
This is one of the great pieces of music from the modern era! An unforgettable and haunting experience!
This is still easy compared to other works of Janáček.
Also, the problem is that it calls for extra orchestral forces. If I'm not mistaken, there are nine trumpet parts written.
One of my favourites… exciting, full of vitality … a live performance is staggering … I first saw it in 1980 and it’s stayed with me
My mother made me listen to this when I was child. Some an amazing remembrance :)
Janáček!!! Studuji Janáčkovu konzervatoř a Janáčkova hudba, ikdyz patří do hudební moderny tak je nádherná.
Je mi blízká, úplně nesrovnatelna např se Stravinského svěcením jara, které už je na poslech horší, narozdíl od Janockovych děl.
IQ84 second day of reading, regards from Bosnia & Herzegovina
see you on the other side
came here because of an obscure interview with Milan Kundera in a French magazine review of the 90s? anyone?
Me imagino q todos llegamos aca por Murakami. Un abrazo virtual (pq estamos en cuarentena) muy grande por su buen gusto tanto literario como musical.
Efectivamente, aquí andamos unos cuantos por culpa de Murakami. Con esta cuarentena espero terminar los libros en nada de tiempo, jeje. Abrazo virtual también para todos!
Exacto 🤭
Elp
Nooo
No conozco mi conoceré jamás a murakami.
Thanks for uploading!
This is by far the best recorded performance of this music !!!
If you are here for Leoš Janáček and his art.
This sets the mood for MURAKAMMIIIII-SENSEI
That very reason I am here. For our Tengo and Aomame
Very interesting. Thank you Murakami, I can't say I would've known this existed otherwise.
"What's the time signature right now?"
"You mean 'now' like when you asked me or 'now' like right now?"
"Right now!"
"Oh, it's 13/8"
04:50 is INSANELY high in the first violins in a forte
I think this is some of the most exciting, visceral orchestra writing I know of.
“Please remember: things are not what they seem.”
But don't let it fool you, there is only one reality
I heard this on my local public radio station, and had to seek it out soon after.
Aomame .. a cool killer .. you know where i am in the book! but I loved the cadenza of the second movement - it is liberating~!
Namjoon what to read recommendations brought me to murakami's 1Q84 and then brought me here listening to janáček piece
you're me I'm you
AH SAME
Love walking through *Brno* with my favourite piece playing in my headphones!
Played this in my university orchestra. Loved it.
Just a step cried the sad man. Take a look down at the madman
What are you talking about
@Luna sea - this is a reference to the song Knife Edge by Emerson, Lake & Palmer, a rock band influenced by classical music. They built the riff in Knife Edge around the opening bars of Sinfonietta.
Ah, yes, I see you're a man of culture as well
Theatre kings on silver wings fly beyond reason
@@harleck9119 Alas no. I am scum.
Murakami brought me here. 1Q84 💚🌕
Your edition of the score shows us clearly the reluctance of Mackerras in front of the audacity of Janáček in the work. Brravo
I wanna go back in time and sit through the rehearsals, corrections and premier with Janacek himself.
i'm halfway through the book, long but beautiful
What?
Listening to this in 2Q20
Listening to this, living in Japan as a child (in Tokyo so often), and envisioning the taxi drive was top tier. Wife recommended 1Q84 and I'm smitten.
I'm obsessed with this music
It's great to see this beautiful piece inspired by my beautiful hometown (Brno) here
It's such a beautiful, and unique orchestral work that I think should be played a lot more.
knife edge!!!
ELP brought me here too :)
Same
ELP!!!!!! Yesssssssss
“There are 2 ways to view the stars. As they really are, or as we might wish them to be.”
-Carl Sagan, 1980
Few composers can summon up wistfulness and melancholy like Janacek.
Gosto dessa obra por sua expressiva sonoridade.
I am here because of Murakami, but...ALSO there is this - I have been to Prague many times, it is one of my favorite cities in the world, and only recently I found out what the youth organization "Sokol" was (that this piece was written for), as I accidentally passed by a modern-day bar that is themed after the times and ideals of the "Sokol", and well, what it and it's followers have transformed into today, would fit into Murakami's world in a way...
I came here before because of 1q84 and I returned now because of hxh kakin prince tserriednich. Nice to see you again
iQ84! thank you to the author who brought me to this amazing music
What a way to start a new book.
He sent me here too.
Top composition .
The melodic style of this masterpiece is more diatonic than usual in Janacek's works.
Melism?
Hey, who else is here just because they like classical music?
Wow Janacek full blast,cool Man,Bye for now love Alan
1Q84 signing in with the rest of the class. Here!
I didn't imagine this to sound like it does 🤧
i get why homegirl was so stressed in the taxi
Not because she was about to ... oops I just caught myself from *spoliers*
Just a step a step cried the sad man...
Genial !!
Amazing
That's why Janáček was held as the first minimalist.
Gosh awesome flutes lines
stupendo! Mi ricordo che acquistai il CD in cui c'era il concerto per orchestra di Bartok, ma ho sempre preferito la Sinfonietta.
maravillosa obra
Summary of comment section:
99% of comments: Regarding Murakami, or anything about IQ84
1% of comments: Anything else
1Q84 brought me here too 😊
Love the 1st movement! Oh and btw it was uploaded on my birthday ^^
Tamilla B Belated Happy Birthday! This music should be played at every birthday instead of Happy Birthday To You!
2/3 people are here because of 1Q84 and tbh me too
what is it though
@@evanhansen1608 Who cares? Its a way, thankfully of connecting people to a part of culture they should have known without it.Unfortunately, the best most can do on You Tube is repeat the names of the others ( Murakami, ELP) that have realized the greatness of this long standing classic and parasitically attached themselves to it. Its the same inspiring impulse that leads people to applaud when they hear the name of their home town mentioned in the monologue of a late night comedian.
im here because of emerson lake & palmer's ''knife's edge'', go check it out and rspond
@@jimparadisis1260 i checked it out, it’s a good song
@@enaisblondeaut2062 apart from that , they share the same melody
This sounds perfect for Halloween, I have to admit
Stupendous
Heard Peter Schickele's variation of this before Janacek's original. Just like his 1812 overture parody it's difficult to not anticipate the former's while listening to the latter's.
Exciting!
This is fire
About to open my window 4am in the morning, to see if there are two moons. In the pandemic nothing seems impossible #1q84
I came here for Aomame at first and then for Knife Edgee
Nice.