We have had 4 days of wild thrashing wind and horizontal rain -- a perpetual Night on Bald Mountain -- and I just had to play this. I also forgot how I loved the music for the sunrise, the sun ALMOST seems to rise, then sinks back and tries again, and sinks back and at last it bursts forth in harp-blessed arpeggios. Wonderful! The day outside is still wild and tumultuous, but I wait for the serenity of the sunrise. Thank you for starting my day.
I remember watching a live performance of it at Powell Symphony Orchestra way back in the 60’s in St Louis MO lol! I was in second grade learning how to play the cello and music students got to go listen to them 3 times during the school year. It was fantastic!
That is The World Renowned rendition by Leonard Slatkin Conductor! Indeed, St Louis had an extremely robust and potent encapsulation of that zeitgeist in the 20th century that for an uncanny reason was seemingly (at least to me) an embodiment of Mussorgsky's nativity (I am a C.G. Jung fanatic) and Western Europe's post-war ambience. So many Teutonic (German, Belgian, and Dutch) residents gave St Louis an atmospheric quality that you had to live here to observe. I was there on a field trip at the same time no doubt same date! Our metropolis was electrified and imbued with a delicious lugubrious ether that gifted us with the eerie, phantasmagorical charm of this piece that everyone in the world was SHOCKED by. Leonard Slatkin's rendition was a musical gourmet most certainly!!!
13:03 - 13:12 = a susserus: the performers pose, as if listening to their instruments whispering, until their motion breaks the spell holding back the applause. Music is magic.
I love the clarinet solo at the end of this piece.
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I am playing this piece right now in my youth orchestra, I play second bassoon and still enjoy it! That doesn't really happen that often because I play boring stuff. Before I only really liked playing Hungarian rhapsody no.2, it is nice to have another piece that is fun!
Herbert Stothart has used an orchestral arrangement of Mussorgsky's piano composition of Night On Bald Mountain in the incidental score for MGM's The Wizard of Oz. This plays during Dorothy's escape from the Wicked Witch's tower.
The "soundtrack" or whatever you're calling it is irrelevant. This piece of music was composed 154 years ago and has nothing to do with any modern movie, let alone some random "soundtrack." There is NO definitive "soundtrack" to this music. And thus, no definitive way of portraying it. Orchestras and Conductors are free to play this piece any way they wish. Fast or slow. It's all good.
You all can chop my head off if you like, but I like this rendition! I personally think that the slow tempo reveals lines and phrases that are not heard when it is played fast. The orchestration is quite dense and it needs to be played slowly to hear all of the nuances in the piece. Your mileage will vary, of course, but I prefer "Bald Mountain" played at a slow tempo like this conductor did. One other point: The Ludvig Symphony Orchestra is not a world-class orchestra, so I cut them some slack that I would not give to the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Chicago Symnphony, or the New York Philharmonic. I don't demand perfect musicianship. If a piece is played well enough that I can enjoy it, I am content. And i enjoyed this rendition!
RUclips has taught me that the kind of people that listen to this, and are knowledgeable about it, often over-lap with the same kind of people who think they know everything and that their opinions are 'definitive'.
Ever since I've discovered Fleshgod Apocalypse my opinion on classical music has drastically changed. Why do I always need something amazing to appreciate other amazing art?
Ok, good...I was looking for other comments where someone mentioned the speed. I think it's too slow, personally...but that's only because the first time I heard it was faster (and it's obviously the recording by which I judge all other performances, heh.)
Well while I agree on the 1.25, in the version of Fantasia I saw they played it was played like that, maybe you watched the 80's version? In that one they go as fast as in 1.5
I enjoyed the music even though the tempo, at times, tended to be slower than what is common. The camera work was not as sharp as it could have been. Did they have a marked score in the control room?
I agree with the camera part, especially when they were trying to get everyone in the woodwinds section and missed a single person and the shakeynes of the camera there was weird
Dedicated to the people of Quora: Ride your branches, fly up high, evil in the midnight sky. Call your demons up from hell, rise in the cloudy, windy swell. Seek you all who dwell above, who treat with treachery, not with love. Harry them from place to place, across the moon's bright white face. Never resting, give no peace, miserable life without cease. Let them suffer from madness long, scant, cold comfort, death's final song.
Brilliant, evocative especially when lined up with The Devil calling everyone from their graves to Dance on All Hallows Eve -- 31/10. Banished for a year by All Saints Day 1/11....
Slower than I’m used to hearing it, but I rather like this version. Some orchestras take it almost too fast, like they’re trying to show off, and it loses the musicality. If you start off blazingly fast, you have nowhere to go when you’re supposed to go faster. In this version, you hear the intent behind each note and each phrase really stands out.
This truly is a nice piece, especially with the recommended faster playback speed of 1.25x, but would you mind re-recording this song with better audio, Cherokee Rose Productions?
My flute teacher if OBSESSED with this piece
Listening to this on full volume, was certainly quite the experience, but also very, very frightening.
Gordon Campbell a very powerful piece of music and very frightening too, but at the same time beautiful
I did that too and out of appreciation my neighbours threw a brick through my window so they could here the music better.
You ain’t kidding.
Try it on acid!
This is one of the most powerful pieces of music in my opinion.
@Walter Blanco nothing!
@Walter Blanco wagner was a person, not a piece
I hate everyone who says this is too slow; it is already wonderful
It sounds better at 1.25 speed
The people saying it’s too slow are correct. In the movie Fantasia it’s supposed to be faster
@@watermelonisgood2500 its not “supposed” to be faster
There are different interpretations
This is too slow...
Even than at composers' scriabin orchesfra play
Too slow.
The slower, more deliberate version of this with the more aggressive tempo switches is phenomenal!!
We have had 4 days of wild thrashing wind and horizontal rain -- a perpetual Night on Bald Mountain -- and I just had to play this. I also forgot how I loved the music for the sunrise, the sun ALMOST seems to rise, then sinks back and tries again, and sinks back and at last it bursts forth in harp-blessed arpeggios. Wonderful! The day outside is still wild and tumultuous, but I wait for the serenity of the sunrise. Thank you for starting my day.
Brilliant encapsulation of this music 🎶
I remember watching a live performance of it at Powell Symphony Orchestra way back in the 60’s in St Louis MO lol! I was in second grade learning how to play the cello and music students got to go listen to them 3 times during the school year. It was fantastic!
That is The World Renowned rendition by Leonard Slatkin Conductor! Indeed, St Louis had an extremely robust and potent encapsulation of that zeitgeist in the 20th century that for an uncanny reason was seemingly (at least to me) an embodiment of Mussorgsky's nativity (I am a C.G. Jung fanatic) and Western Europe's post-war ambience. So many Teutonic (German, Belgian, and Dutch) residents gave St Louis an atmospheric quality that you had to live here to observe. I was there on a field trip at the same time no doubt same date! Our metropolis was electrified and imbued with a delicious lugubrious ether that gifted us with the eerie, phantasmagorical charm of this piece that everyone in the world was SHOCKED by. Leonard Slatkin's rendition was a musical gourmet most certainly!!!
What a joy to hear this piece played slowly and poignantly. If speed is your need there's always the Flight of the Bumblebee.
Nice idea.just you are so humorist and realy appreciate your joke.
You know what maybe it isn't that bad after all ☠️☠️☠️
Or perhaps the Sabre dance.
put the speed to 1.25 guys :)
+jbap7777 That's better :)
I'm in cellphone ... so sad ):
+BardY63 you need to go out D:
ahaha, this is a sabbath in slo-mo!!! :D
A simple and effective solution, thanks !
I'm playing this at the moment, its so much fun!!
Beautiful music, yes
Great title for such a deeply stirring piece of music. Thank you all.
I will play in an orchestra like this one when I get older. FLUTE ROCKS!!!!!!!!! 🎼🎧🏆
Preach
#flutesquad
i like flute, but viola is just a better instrument
+NCKL BRUCE every instrument is amazing
+NCKL BRUCE violas are much better than violins---they burn longer
13:03 - 13:12 = a susserus: the performers pose, as if listening to their instruments whispering, until their motion breaks the spell holding back the applause. Music is magic.
I love the clarinet solo at the end of this piece.
I am playing this piece right now in my youth orchestra, I play second bassoon and still enjoy it! That doesn't really happen that often because I play boring stuff. Before I only really liked playing Hungarian rhapsody no.2, it is nice to have another piece that is fun!
Herbert Stothart has used an orchestral arrangement of Mussorgsky's piano composition of Night On Bald Mountain in the incidental score for MGM's The Wizard of Oz. This plays during Dorothy's escape from the Wicked Witch's tower.
They play a little slow, listen at 1.25 speed and it’s at a more accurate pace as the soundtrack.
Listen Night on Disco Mountain of the Bee Gees😎
Thanks. Hes right
@@daysund.3805 p.
The "soundtrack" or whatever you're calling it is irrelevant. This piece of music was composed 154 years ago and has nothing to do with any modern movie, let alone some random "soundtrack." There is NO definitive "soundtrack" to this music. And thus, no definitive way of portraying it. Orchestras and Conductors are free to play this piece any way they wish. Fast or slow. It's all good.
It really works. At 1.25 speed it sounds so accurate to Fantasia's version.
I got to play bassoon part for this at our band concert!! This is amazing and fun!
A greatly soul-uplifting work !
You all can chop my head off if you like, but I like this rendition! I personally think that the slow tempo reveals lines and phrases that are not heard when it is played fast. The orchestration is quite dense and it needs to be played slowly to hear all of the nuances in the piece. Your mileage will vary, of course, but I prefer "Bald Mountain" played at a slow tempo like this conductor did.
One other point: The Ludvig Symphony Orchestra is not a world-class orchestra, so I cut them some slack that I would not give to the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Chicago Symnphony, or the New York Philharmonic. I don't demand perfect musicianship. If a piece is played well enough that I can enjoy it, I am content. And i enjoyed this rendition!
+Bill Chambers Totally agree. Never heard it played this slow and it's wonderful - darker and more creepy, as it should be!
I totaly agree with you!
I think maybe you have slow ears. I'm leaving Europe until all this head-chopping business is over.
i like it at 1.25 speed lol
RUclips has taught me that the kind of people that listen to this, and are knowledgeable about it, often over-lap with the same kind of people who think they know everything and that their opinions are 'definitive'.
Ever since I've discovered Fleshgod Apocalypse my opinion on classical music has drastically changed. Why do I always need something amazing to appreciate other amazing art?
Metal inherits a lot of classical qualities and themes. You've probably always liked it, you just didn't know
check out Mekong Delta´s version of this track ;)
marduk uses this intro and music fr the track glorification of the black god
BRAVO!! BRAVO!!! Loved this performance. Fantastic!!
"I don't always listen to Classical Music; but when I do, it sounds like this."
It's From the romantic era, not classical, but yes it is a great piece to listen to
This is intense.
I love this piece it's quite epic
absolutely beautiful. thank you for posting this.
fantastic recording
I will say this, the concert D's after 8:50 were absolutely beautiful sounding
Yes, but it's a shame there wasn't an *actual* bell in there.
I met this melody in Mazinger Z Chapter 32. They used it as the theme for the first mechanical beast that managed to defeat Mazinger.
I’m in love with the trombone part
This is fucking macabre. Master piece!!!!!!!!!!! Insana, arrepia!!!!
The decending baseline at 4:40 always sends chills down my spine.
I thought that poor harp player was never going to get a chance to play.
Hey! I play the harp, and it is indeed a very small bit... But that has the benefit that you can enjoy the performance while being in the orchestra.
i just learnd music ike just now
Lol same
As a traps and hand percussionist, I feel her pain.
"...aaaaaand. Now!"
the very best version in my point of view. So beautiful and scarry at the same time :-)
The plastic surgeons must have hid the scars pretty well.
Why in the heck would anybody put an advert in the middle!? It was glorious till that chimed in
I cannot wait to see night on bald mountain next year at the Detroit symphony
This is going into my favorites.
Even though this has been slowed down a little, it is still a wonderful masterpiece.
If you speed it up by 1.25 its the speed at which most bands play it; if you put it at 1.5 it's the speed they played in the actual Fantasia
How do you mess with the speed? I can't find that button...
Ok, good...I was looking for other comments where someone mentioned the speed. I think it's too slow, personally...but that's only because the first time I heard it was faster (and it's obviously the recording by which I judge all other performances, heh.)
Well while I agree on the 1.25, in the version of Fantasia I saw they played it was played like that, maybe you watched the 80's version? In that one they go as fast as in 1.5
Also like What the heck!? From Earthworm Jim
Mussorgsky was a genius...
Beautiful. I like this music.
No hay nada mejor que la música clásica. Muy bonito.
Sounds like the metronome was set to 70-74. Either way, still love the music. Wonderfully performed.
Excelente interpretación, felicitaciones a todos.
I enjoyed the music even though the tempo, at times, tended to be slower than what is common. The camera work was not as sharp as it could have been. Did they have a marked score in the control room?
I agree with the camera part, especially when they were trying to get everyone in the woodwinds section and missed a single person and the shakeynes of the camera there was weird
Dedicated to the
people of Quora:
Ride your branches,
fly up high,
evil in the midnight sky.
Call your demons
up from hell,
rise in the cloudy,
windy swell.
Seek you all
who dwell above,
who treat with treachery,
not with love.
Harry them
from place to place,
across the moon's
bright white face.
Never resting,
give no peace,
miserable life
without cease.
Let them suffer
from madness long,
scant, cold comfort,
death's final song.
this reflects my personality thanks
I have to play this for band
Please set speed to 1.5 for best playing quality.
Bravo!
I've played this on my balcony.
After that i've summoned Chernabog on a mountain.
There not playing it too slow at all, this is a OK performance.
3:42 the conductor cuts a beat I believe
Bazelgoose introduced this to the world
Not listening to a symphony with a commercial in the middle. I'll check the other choices.
Night on Bald Mountain: starts playing
Sora: floating in the darkness
Chernobog: appears
Sora: our fight will be legendary.
only 406k vues...people really loose the taste of musique day after days...
I would not be ab to get a good night‘s sleep out of fear
I will continue to have nightmares .
My fear is unfathomable
Wise people, do u know the tonality of this piece?
What ! creativity. ...!
i am missing the triangle.. or do I have this song mixed up with another.
0:28 Mickey: “Oh boy, my favorite seat. Oh. Uh, excuse me. Do you mind?”
4 years ago!
OMG peeps!
Brilliant, evocative especially when lined up with The Devil calling everyone from their graves to Dance on All Hallows Eve -- 31/10.
Banished for a year by All Saints Day 1/11....
Nice
magnifique
im actually kinda jealous they get to play it this slow bc my orchestra is trying to kill our arms playing this at 120 or something
The perfect soundtrack for a call cthullu movie, to play at most scary scenes
My school did this!
I thought it was a little loud at certain parts
Who remembers this ren and stimpy space madness
Lol poor lady on the Harp, she had to sit there the whole 13:57 mins doing nothing.
Poor lady? She had the best seat in he house!
Lol your right
kerrywsmyth Nah...best seat would've been between the trombones and tuba! Haha :) Or...right in the center of it all... :D
Hah! poor triangle and Picollo players sometimes wait even more!
Nope, she has a part in the slower part
The brass are very bright in this performance.
Listen Night on Disco Mountain of the Bee Gees!!! 😎
I remember this song from a Commodore 64 game similar to King Kong/Godzilla
I remember Sleeping Beauty when I hear this.
That harp lady was spaced out for all those 14 minutes.
Ahhhh, gimme Saturday night fever
Slower than I’m used to hearing it, but I rather like this version. Some orchestras take it almost too fast, like they’re trying to show off, and it loses the musicality. If you start off blazingly fast, you have nowhere to go when you’re supposed to go faster. In this version, you hear the intent behind each note and each phrase really stands out.
I agree. I think the faster renditions sound frantic, where this one sounds sinister.
lol i like how when the harp does something it zooms in on her
So powerful, so evil, so... genius.
I spy Trombone foot tapping, tut tut
+Calum Scott Damn... that's something they teach in middle school to not do.
That’s my private lessons teacher lmao
que doideira
I came here for beastie boys intergalactic
This slower tempo certainly allows one to hear more of the Russian-ness of the piece. I for one rather like it!
Welcome to planet Heck!
Ok But Listen Night on Disco Mountain !!! Magic Version
The tempo was painfully slow. Set the speed on 2 to watch their little hands go to town.
intergalactic !
Playing on 1.25x speed sounds..... More correct than regular for some reason
for this song you need at least 5 tubas playing 2 octaves down ..during the impact after the build up
This truly is a nice piece, especially with the recommended faster playback speed of 1.25x, but would you mind re-recording this song with better audio, Cherokee Rose Productions?
try speed at:1.50
It's good , it's not exciting, and must be so hard to play, respect!.
@Ceinwen Hemmer proof?
I can't do the slow tempo.
THE. MOST. EPIC. EVIL. PIECE.
QUE EVIL VILLAIN ENTRANCE!
THANKS FOR VIDEO....JITEN PATEL GUJARAT INDIA....jzpatelut..
Is that a Jamaican orchestra?
The original version is faster! ruclips.net/video/zR2P-5J-2MA/видео.html
I don't remember this part of Despacito
İ see Chernabog Calling Ghosts From their Cemetery