I first heard this Symphony in 1948 and was hooked, and have remained so since. At 92 I am short of superlatives to describe this best ever performance. There is still hope for humanity after all.
Wow! I'm 61, and it was 1977 when I heard The New World. My best friend Mark Owens had tickets for a performance by the Sacramento Symphony, and he invited me. That experience is now a landmark in my youth. I bought a record and often played it at home on my dad's Magnavox console stereo with built-in record player. Now, this morning, RUclips's algorithm suggests this particular recording for me, so I decided first I would see how many upvotes it's received, and then I scanned down to discover your comments. So, I will be saving this for later listening.
19 minutes, only violin and cello, at the very core of the 2nd movement. Second of silence beforehand to focus your attention. Bam, possibly the most beautiful few seconds of music ever written. For me anyway. So many highlights from Dvorak's crowning achievement. What a piece of music
@@hoodandco29 I agree!!! I'd sit there with my flute in my lap counting out those measures 1 2 3 4 2 2 3 4 what's going to be woken up by my head screaming at me 'hey ' reminding me that I had to come in soon.
This symphony has so much meaning for me, growing up on the wide. lonely plains of Midwest farm country. It encompasses the power of the land as Copland does- and in an even greater sense because it came from an outside perspective of America. This orchestra is also full of people so young! And that youthful passion shows through in this performance. This rendition brought a tear to my eye, and a fresh gust of high plains wind through my soul. My only regret is I wasn't there at the show! Thank you to everyone who played, and for posting this for us all to enjoy. ❤
As the orchestra is from a Slovenian Secondary School (that's high school to us) you can now find your faith restored in what schools can teach us, too. Rejoice!
Thank you for posting the names of the individual orchestral musicians. We often forget the composer and the conductor are not the only people involved. Lastly, youtube's penchant for cutting off the audience response to post an ad is as disrespectful a gesture as one can experience. Imagine, being in the concert hall and as soon as the last note is played, you're told to get out.
My father introduced me to this symphony back in the sixties, so i was listening to the beatles, Dvorak's nineth and classical in general, all at once I cannot thank him enough because this trend in musical appreciation continues on for me, up to this day
I am very proud to come from the same country as this brilliant composer. And I'm always moved when I hear his work in such a great performance as here..
I love this symphony as well. Played cello in this in High school in the early 1980s. One thing I love about orchestra music and the whole concept of the conductor is the way it reminds me of God. The great composer, orchestrator conductor and director of all life. Sometimes I need to rest, sometimes I need to play quietly, sometimes I'm the main part. But I always have to keep my eye on the conductor and follow his lead and read the music he's given me he makes everything beautiful in his time. Praise His name
I have conducted that symphony more than once. I think I know it well. , One of my favorite symphonies to conduct. I can tell you that this orchestra is not overrated contrary to what I read in some comments. It does not have the polish maybe of some of the top US or European orchestras, especially in some of the entrances and some tuning in the winds and brass.. BUT! What people need to listen to is the music, the absolutely beautiful phrasing, the wide range of dynamics, the passion. "It makes sense". It flows beautifullly This symphony comes alive.with this conductor and this orchestra. I have heard this symphony many many times, with some of the best conductors colleagues of mine with some of the best orchestras, I have never been as touched as with this particular performance, It is simply.... beautiful. Also. it is an orchestra where musicians listen to each other as if playing in a chamber music groups. Extraordinary.
Yes, that is correct. In fact the switch in the tuning was far more progressive. There were many studies done on why the human hear and the raising of the pitch for the past 400 years.
Great to hear... so much of everything is analysed to paralysed these days. What I think you are saying is the great arc of this performance communicates the power of the message in an unprecedented way - and if that is what you were saying, I could not agree with you more!🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤
I get a chill whenever I hear this music. I can only imagine how the first audience felt in 1893, when this symphony premiered at Carnegie Hall in New York. If I could I'd go back in time, just to see Dvorak conduct this masterpiece.
Like many viewers, I am 70 years old and have been listening to this symphony for over 50 years. This music always gives me goose-bumps at certain places; however, this performance gave them to me during the entire piece! May I congratulate all these musicians and this maestro. The French horns and the kettle drums are absolutely THE BEST BAR NONE. BRAVO, BRAVO, BRAVO!!
This is a superlative performance of a majestic work, a favorite of mine for decades. As an amateur percussionist and tympanist I was very impressed with the way in which the tympanist executed his parts of the music. Rather than attacking the drums, he coaxed the sound out of the heads by hitting the surfaces on an upstroke, leading to an otherwise much fuller sound. Bravo! Kudos as well to the other performers!
Outstanding! I'm 70 and have been listening to this symphony for at least 50 years. I never heard a more touching performance. I do have tears. To see young people doing this, for love, offsets so much of the foulness of recent history and gives me hope for the future.
I am 74. I fell in love with this over fifty years ago. Last night I was privileged to see it performed live for the very first time at St. George’s Hall, Bradford, England. It was the Brno Philharmonic. A Czech orchestra playing the most famous piece by their most famous composer.
With all due respect I was here for a 30 second to a minute clip from one piece but stayed watching the whole thing and I wasn’t disappointed this was amazing
I've seen people claim this symphony is overrated. Sorry, but you will not convince me of that. This is hands down one of the best pieces of music I have ever heard. It's easily top 5 best symphonies imo. It's perfect the entire way through.
@@gilbertdaroy6080 As much as I enjoy Brahms' symphonies, especially the first two, this is so much more dynamic than Brahms on his best day, and the slow movement cannot be exceeded, in my opinion.
A European composer wrote this magnificent piece inspired by his impressions of the USA during the late 19th century....,just shut my eyes & I can "see" what Dvorak felt! Also such a youthful orchestra & conductor perform it beautifully...,Simpatico...,del cuore la sensazione !!
I love the internet sometimes! I came across this piece through Facebook reels. It's performances like this that absolutely make me miss honor choir. Thats when I first fell in love with music. Beautiful performance 👏
Although I am not an expert in the field of music, I have never heard a more beautiful, perfect expression of the musical form. This performance of the New World Symphony is a testimony to the fact that music is a universal language.
Maestro Nesj Bečan, in his absolute comprehension of Antonín Dvořák's score, makes all the instruments of the musical canvas resonate, speak and shine in all the splendor and magnificence of this majestic work of art. Incomparable conducting and playing. Immensely gratified.
I heard this classical piece when I was 12 years old in radio station belonging to completely other country’s time zone .. It was an ongoing obsession for me to always wait for this piece .. And then few months later I literally bought a cassette of the entire symphony from HMV records .. Till date I have those cassettes although I don’t listen from cassettes , this piece is such a spiritual experience for me …
For the perfectionists posting here, please remember that this is a youth orchestra, with a young maestro. There will be the occasional error - that’s part of gaining experience. That considered, this orchestra is unbeatable in the quality of their performance and the range of orchestral music they cover.
Wonderful conductor, magnificent orchestra and many thanks to the people operating the camera for the video. It is great to see them picking out the soloists throughout the performance. Alos kudos to the sound engineers. All round five star performance, thank much.
When i was 6 (1986), i heard this for the first time with my grandpa, which loved classical music. Today, still one of my favorites, and reminds me of him every time i hear it.
@ Kristýna .Lédlová I'm not Czech but Dvořák is also my composer. His works belong to the whole humanity, without borders. However I never understood the "pride" thing. The only person that can be proud of Dvořák is Dvořák himself. Same for being born Czech, Chinese or Bengali. You didn't choose to be born to a specific nation. You should be proud of things you do, not the things you are.
To Parsifal: You are what you feel and how that affects what you do. If you don't feel Czech and feel Russian (post 1956 for instance) then you do different things. What is understood readily by others changes. And that chain of actions makes a different you. People find meaning initially in their culture. Only when they exceed those bounds do we create something beyond it. And for most who do exceed those bounds, they much prefer to gather in what they have learned from other cultures to enhance their own than to claim it as theirs. And that is the miracle of Symphony #9: From the New World.
I was very excited to land in the USA 30 years ago, was inspired by this music and full of imagination for this New World. After 30 years up-down-up-down-...., now I am seeking a new world again. The world is not the same any more, and a true New World might not exist in this planet, but the inspiration from this music will last forever, it is universal.
I can barely get enough of this piece and the young musicians playing it here. I must have watched and savored this presentation fifty times already and enjoyed it as much as I did the very first time. A masterpiece by any measure.
My Dad and I first heard this symphony in the mid 70's. We were in a Warehouse Record Store and it was playing all through the store. Normally you hear rock. We both fell in love with it and each bought a copy. Still play the record and other performances. One of my favorites. Lost my Dad 3 years ago. I have a picture of him listening to records with me 3 years prier. I hung it in the Livingroom. I feel he is listening with me. Your performance is outstanding.
I have loved this music for at least 50 years, but never before have I heard it performed with such PASSION. Amazing! And all played by kids about the age I was when I first heard this. Wonderful! BRAVO to all! Robert Anderson
My mom learned me to listen to music. This symphony is about the new world. You can see the mountains, the plains , the river etc. This second part of the Largo is my absolut favorit. It is the burial of an native American. Love it and i play it oft
Just a time stamp in case you want to go to specific movements: 1. First Movement. Adagio - Allegro Molto : 0:02 2. Second Movement. Largo : 9:16 3. Third Movement. Scherzo - Molto vivace : 21:25 4. Fourth Movement. Allegro Con fuoco : 29:05
My mom played this in my home as young child. My dad was born in Czech too but from Poland mostly. He escaped a Nazi camp. My parents split when I was baby. Glad to hear this again from Czech composer.
I visited the church in middle of beautifull Czechia where Dvorak started as a young musician. It all came to context, he didn't create music for pundits, experts or nobility. He created music for everyday person and that's why is so melodic, moving and easy to understand.
I'm 85 years old and I also have loved this work from the first time I heard it I played the trombone in bands and orchestras when I was young Has to be one of my favorite 😍
It will never cease to amaze me how composers can understand the complexity of the human brain hear every instrument and create such magnificent sound amazing
Thank you, to RUclips, thanks Antonio Dvorak's, thanks director Becan, and thanks ; zevnikov . For make me feel happy, unsparing leasing to this beautiful symphony#9. 🙏❤️💛🧡
The child may also resonate well with some Holz Planets Suite or Smetana The Moldau...can you imagine a river flowing? Child will take it from there. Beautiful music takes flight where the imagination takes it,or maybe imagination takes flight following beautiful music...either way good plan.🙏
The last time I heard this piece it was played by the Auckland Philharmonic. I had tears running down my cheeks from the sheer beauty. This version is beautiful.
My favorite of all symphonies. Performed with perfection and zest... a real joy. I listen to it every other month.... it is so calming and at the time invigoration!!
The most poignant moment during this entire performance happens at 10:00 in the video. The conductor looks at his English horn player and gives her an acknowledging smile as if to say, "It's all you, my dear. Make us proud." You feel as if you are a small part of a very intimate professional relationship. And that is beautiful.
While that may be true, as a listener, I'm not thinking about the past. I am responding with my own emotions. It's the music and art that transcends a particular place and time that still resonates. This piece is an example
I think somewhere in there, certainly by the end of the first movement, everyone, including the orchestra, realized it was going to be a very special night.
an excellent example of the duality of man. don't be discouraged. this isn't the only wonderful thing man has done. (i know, i know. i'm using man as a genderless pronoun. the duality of persons doesn't exactly roll off the tongue.)
There have always been and will be cruel people. Our task is not to let them prevail over the beauty of life. In Argentina we currently have that situation, in this case with whoever governs us... Hopefully we can overcome it and manage to return to the peace we had. I salute those who, through music, lift the spirit and move us like Dvorak!! 🤗🙋🏻♂️
Cette symphonie était mon "rock" à moi dans mon adolescence. C'est toujours un bonheur quelques décennies plus tard.. Fantastique orchestre et fabuleux chef.❣️Frissons garantis 👏👏 🎶💓🎶🙏✨✨
Almost 54 years young here - got intro'd to a whole bunch of classical from my toddler years onward; still one of my all-time favorites! I love how parts of this music sound like running water and/or a brisk breeze...so relaxing!
I cried watching this. Lost my partner two years ago and and lost my connection with music. The intimacy of the filming of the players... Something came back. Thank you x
I have played music for more than 50 years. I don't know this group or the conductor. I wish to make several observations. 1. I can't tell their ages but there's no grey hair on the stage. 2. There's a few things that they didn't do as well as some more experienced, famous orchestras, but they are small things that are rather insignificant; music fans that nitpick are rather unhappy people. 3. Their tuning is great, the tempos are aggressive. There's some great blending in the woodwind duets. Everyone is shaping the lines... They held my attention through the entire performance. 4. This felt like a very raw performance not in terms of ensemble or technique, but in terms of *emotion*. There's no cynicism here, no apathy. Every person on that stage was there, dedicated to putting their hearts and souls into the making of the music. I fell in love with all of them because they are caring about communicating with me. This is a great symphony and this performance of it is a worthy addition to the soundtrack of life on Planet Earth. I cried for the sake of beauty, smiled at the little victories that occurred at each cadence and modulation, and exulted in the raw power they drew from thin air and sent to my ears and heart at the speed of sound. Thank you, thank you ALL. Very much. May God bless you, each one.
Privileged to accompany my high school son on a European tour and Youth Music festival in Vienna, Austria, in 1992. There were 11 wind ensembles competing.. the top 5 easily had this caliber of performance. Our group (Greater Milwaukee Youth Wind Ensemble....high schoolers who had to be invited to audition to join...) took First prize, with only a Japanese group above them taking Grand prize. An amazing experience. The point is... high schoolers can be absolutely stunning musicians.
@@kareemahmullen8940 I agree. According to the website, they are a youth orchestra normally but this recording might have a few youths in it, but it definitely not composed of mainly high school students.
I first heard this wonderful piece of music when I was 14, in 1954, when I was baby sitting for a family. They had a hi-fi system and many classical records. One of which was the “New World”, a tribute to our nation, America..
I did not think that any orchestra could match the power, the fullness and arrangements of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, but these youths and their most human of conductors is at the least the match of Berlin.
I do feel that the young musicians that emerge from this academy are some of the best in the world.I listen with great enjoyment to everything they produce.
So many comments from people who say they were hooked on this from first hearing. Well I’m amongst them. First heard it over fifty years ago, cannot hear it enough? At 74, saw it performed live for the very first time in Bradford, England
There are not enough good words to compliment this wonderfully talented group; they are amazing!!! The world of music....what would we do without it? Yes, there is a God; and HE is LOVE!
bratři Slovinci, už jsem o tom psal, kdo by měl bližší srdce a duši nám... než právě oni... a na muzice je to krásně patrné, navíc je to dokonale provedené ... každý detail... jen si poplakat, že krása stále žije a Slované byli Ti kteří ji od nepaměti tvořili a rozdávali.... děkujeme ....
This is my favorite symphony, and so far my favorite performance. I can’t rave about this group enough. Their performance of Beethoven’s 9th, and Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade are stunning as well. Bravo!
@@zevnikov, about 4 months ago I asked where and how to get digital copies of this and other recordings of this orchestra. Do you remember? You promised to send me an e- mail...
So many times, I've listened to this. My friend is from Iowa and not too far from that small town where Dvorak once visited. Love this music and this orchestra and this conductor.
I first heard this Symphony in 1948 and was hooked, and have remained so since. At 92 I am short of superlatives to describe this best ever performance. There is still hope for humanity after all.
So well said!!
This symphony moves me so much more than any other music, I'm sure if I am blessed enough to reach your age, it will still be my favourite
Wow! I'm 61, and it was 1977 when I heard The New World. My best friend Mark Owens had tickets for a performance by the Sacramento Symphony, and he invited me. That experience is now a landmark in my youth. I bought a record and often played it at home on my dad's Magnavox console stereo with built-in record player.
Now, this morning, RUclips's algorithm suggests this particular recording for me, so I decided first I would see how many upvotes it's received, and then I scanned down to discover your comments. So, I will be saving this for later listening.
Music is ageless 78
The single best symphony ever. :)
19 minutes, only violin and cello, at the very core of the 2nd movement. Second of silence beforehand to focus your attention. Bam, possibly the most beautiful few seconds of music ever written. For me anyway. So many highlights from Dvorak's crowning achievement. What a piece of music
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@@hoodandco29 I agree!!! I'd sit there with my flute in my lap counting out those measures 1 2 3 4 2 2 3 4 what's going to be woken up by my head screaming at me 'hey ' reminding me that I had to come in soon.
This symphony has so much meaning for me, growing up on the wide. lonely plains of Midwest farm country. It encompasses the power of the land as Copland does- and in an even greater sense because it came from an outside perspective of America. This orchestra is also full of people so young! And that youthful passion shows through in this performance.
This rendition brought a tear to my eye, and a fresh gust of high plains wind through my soul. My only regret is I wasn't there at the show! Thank you to everyone who played, and for posting this for us all to enjoy. ❤
I have to listen to this for a school assignment, but man does this restore my faith in what schools want us to learn
I'm so happy for you.
I had to do this for an assignment last fall and Ive been unable to find a better performance i liked more than this one...
you're at a good school
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As the orchestra is from a Slovenian Secondary School (that's high school to us) you can now find your faith restored in what schools can teach us, too. Rejoice!
C’est une de mes symphonies préférées et particulièrement avec cet orquestre et ce chef d’orquestre❤
Hard to believe that a city with population of 39000 can have an orchestra of such caliber. Bravo, Kranj. Bravo, Slovenia!
It is hard to believe that school of 900 students had such an incredible orchestra. ;)
Thank you for posting the names of the individual orchestral musicians. We often forget the composer and the conductor are not the only people involved. Lastly, youtube's penchant for cutting off the audience response to post an ad is as disrespectful a gesture as one can experience. Imagine, being in the concert hall and as soon as the last note is played, you're told to get out.
Absolutely!!
My father introduced me to this symphony back in the sixties, so i was listening to the beatles, Dvorak's nineth and classical in general, all at once
I cannot thank him enough because this trend in musical appreciation continues on for me, up to this day
*I* thank your father, also.
Exactly so for me too!
This symphony is a timeless testament to the Slavic people. May they find peace - such beauty must be preserved
I am very proud to come from the same country as this brilliant composer. And I'm always moved when I hear his work in such a great performance as here..
I love this symphony as well. Played cello in this in High school in the early 1980s. One thing I love about orchestra music and the whole concept of the conductor is the way it reminds me of God. The great composer, orchestrator conductor and director of all life. Sometimes I need to rest, sometimes I need to play quietly, sometimes I'm the main part. But I always have to keep my eye on the conductor and follow his lead and read the music he's given me he makes everything beautiful in his time. Praise His name
I have conducted that symphony more than once. I think I know it well. , One of my favorite symphonies to conduct. I can tell you that this orchestra is not overrated contrary to what I read in some comments. It does not have the polish maybe of some of the top US or European orchestras, especially in some of the entrances and some tuning in the winds and brass.. BUT! What people need to listen to is the music, the absolutely beautiful phrasing, the wide range of dynamics, the passion. "It makes sense". It flows beautifullly This symphony comes alive.with this conductor and this orchestra. I have heard this symphony many many times, with some of the best conductors colleagues of mine with some of the best orchestras, I have never been as touched as with this particular performance, It is simply.... beautiful. Also. it is an orchestra where musicians listen to each other as if playing in a chamber music groups. Extraordinary.
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what hertz? in the US in 20th c natural hertz 432 was changed to 440 hertz-
Thank you for your expert opinion
Yes, that is correct. In fact the switch in the tuning was far more progressive. There were many studies done on why the human hear and the raising of the pitch for the past 400 years.
Great to hear... so much of everything is analysed to paralysed these days. What I think you are saying is the great arc of this performance communicates the power of the message in an unprecedented way - and if that is what you were saying, I could not agree with you more!🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤
I get a chill whenever I hear this music. I can only imagine how the first audience felt in 1893, when this symphony premiered at Carnegie Hall in New York. If I could I'd go back in time, just to see Dvorak conduct this masterpiece.
A chill, eh?
I keep coming back to listen to this beautiful recording. What a marvellous conductor...❤ 👏 👏
Like many viewers, I am 70 years old and have been listening to this symphony for over 50 years. This music always gives me goose-bumps at certain places; however, this performance gave them to me during the entire piece! May I congratulate all these musicians and this maestro. The French horns and the kettle drums are absolutely THE BEST BAR NONE. BRAVO, BRAVO, BRAVO!!
This is a superlative performance of a majestic work, a favorite of mine for decades. As an amateur percussionist and tympanist I was very impressed with the way in which the tympanist executed his parts of the music. Rather than attacking the drums, he coaxed the sound out of the heads by hitting the surfaces on an upstroke, leading to an otherwise much fuller sound. Bravo! Kudos as well to the other performers!
The photography the balance the youth all give me hope too for humanity.
I am thankful that I can listen to this while I cook and eat my breakfast. Dvořák would be jealous.
Depends on what you'r eating.
Dvorak.
I'm sure he would be happy that you are listening to his music.
Outstanding! I'm 70 and have been listening to this symphony for at least 50 years. I never heard a more touching performance. I do have tears. To see young people doing this, for love, offsets so much of the foulness of recent history and gives me hope for the future.
I am 74. I fell in love with this over fifty years ago. Last night I was privileged to see it performed live for the very first time at St. George’s Hall, Bradford, England. It was the Brno Philharmonic. A Czech orchestra playing the most famous piece by their most famous composer.
@@englishrose47 wonderful!
I'm 96 and I heard this song when pop played it
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I fully agree. This performance is indeed unusually heart touching.
As a Czech must say that this is one of the best performance i've ever heard 😮 incredible kids 🙊👍👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Made my day. The beauty of civilization and creativity
With all due respect I was here for a 30 second to a minute clip from one piece but stayed watching the whole thing and I wasn’t disappointed this was amazing
I've seen people claim this symphony is overrated. Sorry, but you will not convince me of that. This is hands down one of the best pieces of music I have ever heard. It's easily top 5 best symphonies imo. It's perfect the entire way through.
I agree. Not overrated at all. Dvorak's skill in the development of themes in this symphony rivals that of Brahm's, who I think is overrated.
@@gilbertdaroy6080 As much as I enjoy Brahms' symphonies, especially the first two, this is so much more dynamic than Brahms on his best day, and the slow movement cannot be exceeded, in my opinion.
I do so agree. All four movements are truly beautiful.my favourite is definitely the 2nd
@@bloke372 You are absolutely right. The 2nd is _unique_ in all symphonical works, save perhaps the Khachaturian _Gayne_ Adagio. (Y)
i agree
A European composer wrote this magnificent piece inspired by his impressions of the USA during the late 19th century....,just shut my eyes & I can "see" what Dvorak felt!
Also such a youthful orchestra & conductor perform it beautifully...,Simpatico...,del cuore la sensazione !!
This was the first piece of Classical music my mother played in our household and is why I still enjoy Classical Music still.
I love the internet sometimes! I came across this piece through Facebook reels.
It's performances like this that absolutely make me miss honor choir. Thats when I first fell in love with music. Beautiful performance 👏
The best, the orchestra are so in tune with the conductor. I'm in tears listening to this.
Nothing maestro Becân does with this. or any other orchestra, has ever disappointed me.
Absolutely Fabulous a wonderful conductor with a wonderful young Orchestra!!! Ted Hilron
Although I am not an expert in the field of music, I have never heard a more beautiful, perfect expression of the musical form.
This performance of the New World Symphony is a testimony to the fact that music is a universal language.
the melody is played in my heart, running through my veins. So beautiful😍
Love seeing these accomplished young people.
Maestro Nesj Bečan, in his absolute comprehension of Antonín Dvořák's score, makes all the instruments of the musical canvas resonate, speak and shine in all the splendor and magnificence of this majestic work of art. Incomparable conducting and playing. Immensely gratified.
I heard it at the radio for first time when I was 12. It moved me profoundly. Now at 79 it still does.
This orchestra provides the most exquisite emotion whenever I listen.
Among numerous performances, this orchestra is my favorite.
From Japan🇯🇵
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I heard this classical piece when I was 12 years old in radio station belonging to completely other country’s time zone .. It was an ongoing obsession for me to always wait for this piece ..
And then few months later I literally bought a cassette of the entire symphony from HMV records .. Till date I have those cassettes although I don’t listen from cassettes , this piece is such a spiritual experience for me …
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What a beautiful performance. I love this symphony. Had Dvorak not visited the United States, we would all be the poorer for it.
For the perfectionists posting here, please remember that this is a youth orchestra, with a young maestro. There will be the occasional error - that’s part of gaining experience. That considered, this orchestra is unbeatable in the quality of their performance and the range of orchestral music they cover.
absolutely... some of these younger maestro's are exactly what the greats were at their heights... and many starchy old pieces of stone forget that
Younger or not, I want emotion in what I hear even if it isn't technically perfect.
Wonderful conductor, magnificent orchestra and many thanks to the people operating the camera for the video. It is great to see them picking out the soloists throughout the performance. Alos kudos to the sound engineers. All round five star performance, thank much.
When i was 6 (1986), i heard this for the first time with my grandpa, which loved classical music. Today, still one of my favorites, and reminds me of him every time i hear it.
My band in high school performed this and I have forever loved it. I'm 75 now and listen to it often.❤
So proud to be Czech. So proud of our composer Dvořák. So proud of our culture. Great performance too. Thank you for it.
Stay Proud! A great culture that always finds its heart in everything it does.
Thank you for the contribution to the mankind!
@ Kristýna .Lédlová
I'm not Czech but Dvořák is also my composer. His works belong to the whole humanity, without borders.
However I never understood the "pride" thing. The only person that can be proud of Dvořák is Dvořák himself.
Same for being born Czech, Chinese or Bengali. You didn't choose to be born to a specific nation. You should be proud of things you do, not the things you are.
@@parsifal6094 fair here
To Parsifal: You are what you feel and how that affects what you do. If you don't feel Czech and feel Russian (post 1956 for instance) then you do different things. What is understood readily by others changes. And that chain of actions makes a different you. People find meaning initially in their culture. Only when they exceed those bounds do we create something beyond it. And for most who do exceed those bounds, they much prefer to gather in what they have learned from other cultures to enhance their own than to claim it as theirs. And that is the miracle of Symphony #9: From the New World.
How wonderful to see the younger generation make such wonderful music. Bravo to all.
I was very excited to land in the USA 30 years ago, was inspired by this music and full of imagination for this New World. After 30 years up-down-up-down-...., now I am seeking a new world again. The world is not the same any more, and a true New World might not exist in this planet, but the inspiration from this music will last forever, it is universal.
The New World is what you are inspired to do and be. If you hold this music in your heart you will never grow old.
오뎌뎌듀오여여오여댜도
Yes...Every Empire had its day in the Sun... and then failed... usually from Within.. (and similar human weaknesses.... Sorry and then Cheers... ...
Superb! Inspirational! Thank you so much!
I can barely get enough of this piece and the young musicians playing it here. I must have watched and savored this presentation fifty times already and enjoyed it as much as I did the very first time.
A masterpiece by any measure.
My Dad and I first heard this symphony in the mid 70's. We were in a Warehouse Record Store and it was playing all through the store. Normally you hear rock. We both fell in love with it and each bought a copy. Still play the record and other performances. One of my favorites. Lost my Dad 3 years ago. I have a picture of him listening to records with me 3 years prier. I hung it in the Livingroom. I feel he is listening with me. Your performance is outstanding.
ㅗ오너녀쥬녀져녀져온
I have loved this music for at least 50 years, but never before have I heard it performed with such PASSION. Amazing! And all played by kids about the age I was when I first heard this. Wonderful! BRAVO to all!
Robert Anderson
OMG - Goose bumps - standing ovation is so well deserved 🙏🇳🇴
My mom learned me to listen to music. This symphony is about the new world. You can see the mountains, the plains , the river etc. This second part of the Largo is my absolut favorit. It is the burial of an native American. Love it and i play it oft
I have listened to other orchestras do this piece, but this is still my favorite.
Just a time stamp in case you want to go to specific movements:
1. First Movement. Adagio - Allegro Molto : 0:02
2. Second Movement. Largo : 9:16
3. Third Movement. Scherzo - Molto vivace : 21:25
4. Fourth Movement. Allegro Con fuoco : 29:05
오오오유여오어여어어양
My mom played this in my home as young child. My dad was born in Czech too but from Poland mostly. He escaped a Nazi camp. My parents split when I was baby. Glad to hear this again from Czech composer.
Wow your dad escaped a Nazi concentration camp
My dad was a Nazi soldier at a camp
Bless Your Heart . . .
@@quindiliusbarnaclejonesTheIII Aww . . . C'mon Now . . .
@@lucybrindlebrownie8994 I meant my great grandoa
@@lucybrindlebrownie8994 So SILLY!
I'm glad the conductor recognized the young lady with the solo. She deserved it.
Hmm...maybe he “recognized” her for ; shall he ponder another reason.
I mean have you checked her out ? Yeowwww ! ❣️
@@jnstonbely5215 Cheap and tacky....Does not befit this symphony.
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I visited the church in middle of beautifull Czechia where Dvorak started as a young musician. It all came to context, he didn't create music for pundits, experts or nobility. He created music for everyday person and that's why is so melodic, moving and easy to understand.
I'm 85 years old and I also have loved this work from the first time I heard it
I played the trombone in bands and orchestras when I was young
Has to be one of my favorite 😍
Great conductor. Great orchestra. Great composer. We also liked their fantastic rendition of Scheherazade. Wunderbar!
ㅗ노노노코노토뇨노텨노
Again, nothing they do disappoints.
Wunderbare Musik !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Bravo !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Danke ,Herr Zevnikov !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This work is outstanding. One of the greatest musical treats ever
These are youngsters, and they're fantastic!
It will never cease to amaze me how composers can understand the complexity of the human brain hear every instrument and create such magnificent sound amazing
The enthusiasm these young artist show when they play Antonin Dvorak shows how they appreciate their own heritage.
Thank you, to RUclips, thanks Antonio Dvorak's, thanks director Becan, and thanks ; zevnikov . For make me feel happy, unsparing leasing to this beautiful symphony#9. 🙏❤️💛🧡
I’m going to introduce my 5-year old grandson to classical music with this performance of a magnificent symphony
The child may also resonate well with some Holz Planets Suite or Smetana The Moldau...can you imagine a river flowing? Child will take it from there. Beautiful music takes flight where the imagination takes it,or maybe imagination takes flight following beautiful music...either way good plan.🙏
At 5? Don't delay! Start now! Or run the risk of him being exposed to the tripe on pop music sources first
Have him also listen to Beethoven's 9th and Mozart's Requiem. Have him also watch Hilary Hahn on violin. OMG!!! Great stuff.
The last time I heard this piece it was played by the Auckland Philharmonic. I had tears running down my cheeks from the sheer beauty. This version is beautiful.
Zevnikov is my favorite director. He sees things in the music most directors miss. A pleasure to listen to!
My favorite of all symphonies. Performed with perfection and zest... a real joy. I listen to it every other month.... it is so calming and at the time invigoration!!
I have heard and seen lots of fine music, but I get to say, this is one of the BEST I have heard and enjoyed...!!!!
0:00 - I. Adagio - Allegro molto
9:16 - II. Largo
21:24 - III. Scherzo: Molto vivace
29:06 - IV. Allegro con fuoco
Thanks for the timestamps.
Finally! A timestamp comment that doesn't have 20 replies saying, "You are a hero!"
nice
You are a hero!
You are a hero!
An incredible, sensitive, moving performance from an amazing troupe of young performers!! Bravo! Bravissino!!
The most poignant moment during this entire performance happens at 10:00 in the video. The conductor looks at his English horn player and gives her an acknowledging smile as if to say, "It's all you, my dear. Make us proud." You feel as if you are a small part of a very intimate professional relationship. And that is beautiful.
LoL maybe is that, it can be just the conductor got the feelings of the piece idk
It looks more like a clarinet she's playing.
@@rosiep3209 I checked and it seems actually an english horn ;)
@@JonathanLivingston87 ok
made me rewind thank you
Listening to classical music is like embarking on a journey through the epochs, where the melodies become portals to the emotions of bygone eras. 🚀🎶
ㅗ오녀뇨유여도오여도여
While that may be true, as a listener, I'm not thinking about the past. I am responding with my own emotions. It's the music and art that transcends a particular place and time that still resonates. This piece is an example
I think somewhere in there, certainly by the end of the first movement, everyone, including the orchestra, realized it was going to be a very special night.
How can some people be cruel and unkind to each other when we can produce such beautiful music ?
It's what makes humans humans - capability of both great good and beauty, and utter evil and savagery.
an excellent example of the duality of man. don't be discouraged. this isn't the only wonderful thing man has done. (i know, i know. i'm using man as a genderless pronoun. the duality of persons doesn't exactly roll off the tongue.)
We live in a world of duality. We come here to learn by it.
There have always been and will be cruel people. Our task is not to let them prevail over the beauty of life. In Argentina we currently have that situation, in this case with whoever governs us... Hopefully we can overcome it and manage to return to the peace we had. I salute those who, through music, lift the spirit and move us like Dvorak!! 🤗🙋🏻♂️
Perhaps, if having grown up listening to such music, fewer people would be cruel.
Cette symphonie était mon "rock" à moi dans mon adolescence.
C'est toujours un bonheur quelques décennies plus tard..
Fantastique orchestre et fabuleux chef.❣️Frissons garantis 👏👏 🎶💓🎶🙏✨✨
Almost 54 years young here - got intro'd to a whole bunch of classical from my toddler years onward; still one of my all-time favorites!
I love how parts of this music sound like running water and/or a brisk breeze...so relaxing!
I cried watching this. Lost my partner two years ago and and lost my connection with music. The intimacy of the filming of the players... Something came back. Thank you x
I have played music for more than 50 years. I don't know this group or the conductor. I wish to make several observations.
1. I can't tell their ages but there's no grey hair on the stage.
2. There's a few things that they didn't do as well as some more experienced, famous orchestras, but they are small things that are rather insignificant; music fans that nitpick are rather unhappy people.
3. Their tuning is great, the tempos are aggressive. There's some great blending in the woodwind duets. Everyone is shaping the lines... They held my attention through the entire performance.
4. This felt like a very raw performance not in terms of ensemble or technique, but in terms of *emotion*. There's no cynicism here, no apathy. Every person on that stage was there, dedicated to putting their hearts and souls into the making of the music. I fell in love with all of them because they are caring about communicating with me.
This is a great symphony and this performance of it is a worthy addition to the soundtrack of life on Planet Earth. I cried for the sake of beauty, smiled at the little victories that occurred at each cadence and modulation, and exulted in the raw power they drew from thin air and sent to my ears and heart at the speed of sound.
Thank you, thank you ALL. Very much. May God bless you, each one.
Mille grazie per questa bellissima interpretazione
Relax
조노노뇯ㅎ녀뎌오녀동
An amazing conductor who coaxes world class performances from essentially a school band. I'm in awe.
Though still young, most of these faces look beyond high school - essentially a symphony orchestra, no band.
What is conductor’s name?!
@@philodonoghue3062 his name is in the description
Privileged to accompany my high school son on a European tour and Youth Music festival in Vienna, Austria, in 1992. There were 11 wind ensembles competing.. the top 5 easily had this caliber of performance. Our group (Greater Milwaukee Youth Wind Ensemble....high schoolers who had to be invited to audition to join...) took First prize, with only a Japanese group above them taking Grand prize. An amazing experience. The point is... high schoolers can be absolutely stunning musicians.
@@kareemahmullen8940 I agree. According to the website, they are a youth orchestra normally but this recording might have a few youths in it, but it definitely not composed of mainly high school students.
I first heard this wonderful piece of music when I was 14, in 1954, when I was baby sitting for a family. They had a hi-fi system and many classical records. One of which was the “New World”, a tribute to our nation, America..
Magnificent! Anyone else have a tear?
Yes, definitely!
Yes
far more than one :D
I’ve heard this work so many times over the years, but there’s something special about this performance that puts a lump in my throat. ❤
I did not think that any orchestra could match the power, the fullness and arrangements of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, but these youths and their most human of conductors is at the least the match of Berlin.
Watching him continue to play to this day reminds me of the past 50 years ago. Anyway, I hope it continues and contributes to cultural development.
The greatest symphony that came out of America was written by a tourist. Truly, the land of opportunity.
Amazing isn't it
I do feel that the young musicians that emerge from this academy are some of the best in the world.I listen with great enjoyment to everything they produce.
So many comments from people who say they were hooked on this from first hearing. Well I’m amongst them. First heard it over fifty years ago, cannot hear it enough? At 74, saw it performed live for the very first time in Bradford, England
Why isn't Bečan more widely recognized and celebrated? His work always reveals something new to me about a piece. Bravo!
Best ever production. I love this conductor. He brings out the best from each player in everything they do.
Just a very wonderful performance by the conductor and all members of orchestra, splendid
There are not enough good words to compliment this wonderfully talented group; they are amazing!!! The world of music....what would we do without it? Yes, there is a God; and HE is LOVE!
Wow. I can see plainly that this conductor loves his orchestra and they love him back. The result is true symphony.
What is true is true. Bravo.
I am so very glad I stumbled into this orchestra's recordings! absolutely wonderful!
I so agree!
Me too
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This touches the soul, makes ones hair raise, bring tears....such a great performance with such clarity. 👌👏🇿🇦
One of the best pieces of music ever written… outstanding
bratři Slovinci, už jsem o tom psal, kdo by měl bližší srdce a duši nám... než právě oni... a na muzice je to krásně patrné, navíc je to dokonale provedené ... každý detail... jen si poplakat, že krása stále žije a Slované byli Ti kteří ji od nepaměti tvořili a rozdávali.... děkujeme ....
여뎌고여댜우여더어여겨여뎌투야어오야도야ㅕ도여
An orchestra is as good as its conductor.... here both are astonishingly beautiful and gifted!
Its amazing how younger musicians bring life to acompostion
This is my favorite symphony, and so far my favorite performance. I can’t rave about this group enough. Their performance of Beethoven’s 9th, and Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade are stunning as well. Bravo!
And do not forget Pines of Rome, American in Paris, Elgar's Cello concert...
@@zevnikov Those are all excellent performances as well!
@@zevnikov, about 4 months ago I asked where and how to get digital copies of this and other recordings of this orchestra. Do you remember? You promised to send me an e- mail...
Mesmerizing. These young musicians played with incredible heart and soul. The director is inspirational.
Not only very good performance of the young orchestra, but also a technical , proffesional video recording, editing..
100% agree, those aerial shots are awesome ❤
Sublime ,uplifting , , thanks MUM for getting me interested in classics , timeless , soaring❤❤❤
So many times, I've listened to this. My friend is from Iowa and not too far from that small town where Dvorak once visited. Love this music and this orchestra and this conductor.
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