Strauss dropped some HEAT! - Don Juan, Op. 20, TrV 156 - Richard Strauss | Classical Music Reaction
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
- Reaction to Don Juan, Op. 20, TrV 156 - Rudolf Kempe
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Any violinist will tell you that the opening measures that you reacted to immediately are some of the scariest for them to have to play.
Word! I pray never to be good enough to be chosen as Concertmaster.
TrV stands for "Trenner Verzeichnis" - a catalogue of Strauss's works compiled by Florian Trenner.
Another piece from Strauss you should react to, is Alpensinfonie 😁
My favorite Strauss piece. I like the Frankfurt Radio Symphony conducted by Andrés Orozco-Estrada for that one. Not only is a beautifully performed, it also has excellent sound engineering, as that partnership usually does.
This is a wonderful channel. The fact that you react to WHOLE, sometimes long classical works is phenomenal -- most reactors to classical music stick to Pavarotti singing "Nessun Dorma," which is both easy and worn out.
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Richard Strauss, Death and Tranfiguration ( in English) by Karajan is gorgeous.
Gidi, I would highly recommend listening to some Respighi such as The Pines of Rome!
Other great Richard Strauss pieces are Till Eulenspiegel, Don Quixote, Tot und Verklärung, Also Sprach Zarathustra and Ein Heldenleben.
*eine alpensinfonie*:am I a joke to you ?
You should see Bachiana number 4 of Villa Lobos, is short and is not well known but is a fantastic work of the greatest composer of Latin American classic music, many do not even know that there is Latin classic music
You should definitely listen to Strauss's other tone poems, but my other favorite is "Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks." It's kind of hard to paint pictures with music, but Strauss does it really well. My trombone teacher performed it once in Australia and he said it was one of the few pieces where the low brass just gets to go crazy because it's just that kind of piece.
Also, I think it's worth noting that the ending of Don Juan is supposed to represent the character's death, which is why it's so abrupt. He's in the middle of an intense battle, fighting for the hand of the woman he loves, and then he gets stabbed. No fanfare, no big swell in his honor, it's just his life slowly fading and his heart finally stopping. Till Eulenspiegel does this as well, except it's somehow even more gruesome. Definitely worth looking up on Wikipedia before you listen, it's pretty crazy lol.
Nice, what about Rachmaninoff symphonic dances?
If you want to continue with some more German composers I recommend Wagner's Tannhäuser ouverture.
Be better going with Beethoven and Brahms
For fun related to this piece, watch Twoset Violin's video 10 Levels of Orchestra music.
I'm curious if you have listened to any black composers, they even have an all black orchestra, I saw a clip of but can not remember where, If you are interested, I can look for some good ones to listen to. I do have one you can check out on your own at first, the name is William Levi Dawson - Negro American Symphony (1934) 🙂
If you liked that, you will surely like Strauss's Tod und Verklarung (Death and Transfiguration). It even seems it inspired the music to Superman, by John Williams.
Strauss be packing with this beat! The trv is probably a catalogue number/id number for the piece named after the guy who compiled Strauss' work. Many composers have Op. (opus) with the name of a piece (or for example Scriabin's Etude Op.8 No 12, so opus 8, the 12th piece from that set) but some didn't use opus numbers all the time. Liszt for example has S. (Mephisto Waltz No.1 S.514), and Bach had BMW (Toccata and fugue in d minor BMW 565).
I just noticed that this piece also has an opus number but maybe Strauss didn't use them all the time so the compiler used his own numbering system trv.
There's a typo: BWV, not BMW lol
BMW series 5 😎 no typo whatsoever
@@Sh.moon. lol i thought it sounded weird
TrV stands for "Trenner Verzeichnis" or Werkeverzeichnis just like for many other composers. For Bach, its BWV for "Bach Werkeverzeichnis". These are compilations made by people other than the composers themselves who try to bring a composers pieces into chronological order and give them very exact markings.
I also recommend Richard Strauss' Till Eulenspiegel. Or (very famous) Also sprach Zarathustra.
And Berlioz (Roméo et Juliette, Symphonie fantastique, L'enfance du Christ...)
You pronounce those German names better than I can and I have an Austrian grandpa. lol
He's german
Strauss’ texture is really unique. Intricate, dense, but GOURGEOUS. The more you listen, the more you appreciate his complex craft. Would recommend Strauss’ Also Sprach Zarathustra (Karajan recording) next….have a feeling you’ll recognize it 😉And yes Disney “sound world” owes a LOT to Richard Strauss. Also great choice for the recording, Kempe is great in Strauss, this work, being fairly difficult to perform well, can FAIL SPECTACULARLY with a bad orchestra/conductor. This was pretty good
Imo, Karajan's 1959 Decca Recording of Also Sprach Zarathustra is my favorite. The fact that it was the specific recording that was featured in 2001: A Space Odyssey really gives it a broader appeal
It's not that unique, Wagner is pretty close and some composer have been heavily impacted by Strauss, so you definitely hear these colors often.
@@Emilien-hy3sy you can hear Wagner all over Strauss I agree, still Strauss has a distinct orchestral texture/writing that distinguishes most of his works from Wagner’s, you dont even need to go further than the tone poems for that..,although you can find passages that are essentially indistinguishable, but same goes for Mahler
When it comes to Richard Strauss the Vienna philharmonic orchestra is the way to go. Nobody can quiet play Strauss like them
Nah, Kempe and Dresden is unbeatable when it comes to the orchestral music by Strauss.
Hope you can react to Beethoven’s Große Fugue.It’s one of a Beethoven’s late work,it must impress you.
Richard Strauss very much took Wagner as his musical role model.
I'm always astonished by your constant picking of really the best conductors for the particular piece you choose to listen to.
Not always, mind you (Barenboim for Beethoven? Yuck!), but this is another example. Kempe and Strauss? Perfect match (most of the time. Not a fan of his Alpine Symphony recording).
You asked for more Strauss? Basically all his Symphonic Poems are great (Sinfonia Domestica is an acquired taste, and Heldenleben totally depends on the conductor. Both pieces are about Strauss himself, that is why they are probably the most problematic).
Tod und Verklärung (Karajan 70's recording)
Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche (another short one that really captures the essence of irreverance of a Jester)
Also sprach Zarathustra (you will know the first 90 seconds of it)
Don Quijote (in my opinion the most inventive of them all )
My personal favourite though is the last one "Eine Alpensinfonie". The music is awesome and you get a work that seems to be at glance only a musical depiction of spending a day in the Alps hiking up a mountain. But below the surface it is a philosophical treatise about the end of an era and a work that really seems to foresee the end of the old Empires in the fires of World War 1.
For the Til Eulenspiegel and Alpensinfonie, I like Blomstedt/SFS. Also don't forget Metamorphosen (for which I'd go back to Karajan from the same period as the Tod und Verklärung) - quite a different work than the rest, but equally glorious.
@@ModusVivendiMedia The Blomstedt Alpensinfonie is great. But there are many good ones that I find it hard to pick a single one. I wouldn't pick Karajan though, because he refused the offstage horns and had them play onstage instead.
@@Quotenwagnerianer I agree and I didn't mean that Blomstedt was uniquely the best. (I haven't heard a lot of the others so I have no way to judge or compare.) I just know that it's one of the very good ones, and that for me it, and the Til Eulenspiegel, stand out more as "great performances" than their other Strauss recordings, which come across to me as merely "very good".