I had the privilege of playing this piece in college chamber orchestra. The conductor I worked with always said “if you must say that you hate this piece, please end the sentence with ‘today’ and give it a chance”. I’ll admit it never made my top Spotify playlist picks, but it did grow on me a little. I still have fond memories of our trumpet section fantastically messing up the timing of movement II in rehearsal, almost every time.
The emotional depth of this work is related to Webern's life; it was written in response to his mother's death when he was only 22. Like Berg's violin concerto it explores grief and pain and , ultimately, comes to some kind of acceptance. A masterpiece.
The funeral march is just shattering. I performed this piece 40 years ago and it was unforgettable. Also, some of the high, pianissimo wind writing is fiendish.
I first heard this at age 13 listening to the radio, the old Heritage Concert Series, featuring the Robert Craft recording on Columbia. I loved classical music by the older masters as well as Stravinsky and Bartok, but this was like nothing I had ever heard before, and opened up a new world and a new way of thinking about music. One need not sound like Webern to appreciate the imagination and wonder of these magical tones and gestures.
It's about time that this piece got a proper score video! Even better, that it's the original version which has an E-flat clarinet in it! Thank you with all my heart to you, precipotato!
Some 30 years ago I heard this in concert and found it quite stunning. Subsequent hearings have not lived up to that first impression. I keep waiting for the interesting part to arrive and it never does. I had not seen the score before this. Six trombones! But for just eight measures. :D This is what became a cliché in 20th Century music: very complex-looking scores with very precise instructions to the players as if every nuance was an essential part of the genius plan that must be executed just so and yet... for all that exactitude... it ends up sounding like random noodling. You think I don't understand new music. But I do. Took the class...attended the lectures... played the world premiere... and the composer always blames the listener when the music is not well-received.
The comparison to Berg here is apt. The romantic underpinnings are audible while the expansion toward full atonality is on display as well. Surprising not performed more often.
Why Trumpets are playing two extra notes in the 14th bar of the 2nd movement on the firs bit (and also they're playing very different rhythm pattern in the 2nd part of the 13th bar:)')???;// Is it just a mistake or they are playing another version of the score? ( 1:43 )
Here's an idea, instead of bothering to write a negative "comment", just hit the pause button until you feel it's O.K. to move on to the next movement. Good Luck!
This man was a genius. He consistently delivered solid compositions.
I had the privilege of playing this piece in college chamber orchestra. The conductor I worked with always said “if you must say that you hate this piece, please end the sentence with ‘today’ and give it a chance”.
I’ll admit it never made my top Spotify playlist picks, but it did grow on me a little.
I still have fond memories of our trumpet section fantastically messing up the timing of movement II in rehearsal, almost every time.
The emotional depth of this work is related to Webern's life; it was written in response to his mother's death when he was only 22. Like Berg's violin concerto it explores grief and pain and , ultimately, comes to some kind of acceptance. A masterpiece.
instaBlaster.
The funeral march is just shattering. I performed this piece 40 years ago and it was unforgettable. Also, some of the high, pianissimo wind writing is fiendish.
This just blows your mind apart. Talk about an orchestral imagination!
I first heard this at age 13 listening to the radio, the old Heritage Concert Series, featuring the Robert Craft recording on Columbia. I loved classical music by the older masters as well as Stravinsky and Bartok, but this was like nothing I had ever heard before, and opened up a new world and a new way of thinking about music. One need not sound like Webern to appreciate the imagination and wonder of these magical tones and gestures.
So right Northside.
It's about time that this piece got a proper score video! Even better, that it's the original version which has an E-flat clarinet in it! Thank you with all my heart to you, precipotato!
Anton Webern:Hat darab zenekarra Op.6
1.Un poco piú mosso 00:00
2.Mosso 01:05
3.Tenero mosso 02:35
4.Adagio. Marcia funebre 03:30
5.Molto adagio 07:45
6.Tenero mosso 10:11
Berlini Filharmonikus Zenekar
Vezényel:Pierre Boulez
Köszönöm az értékelést
Mysterious and interesting music. Glad I found it
Some 30 years ago I heard this in concert and found it quite stunning.
Subsequent hearings have not lived up to that first impression. I keep waiting for the interesting part to arrive and it never does.
I had not seen the score before this. Six trombones! But for just eight measures. :D
This is what became a cliché in 20th Century music: very complex-looking scores with very precise instructions to the players as if every nuance was an essential part of the genius plan that must be executed just so and yet... for all that exactitude... it ends up sounding like random noodling.
You think I don't understand new music.
But I do. Took the class...attended the lectures... played the world premiere... and the composer always blames the listener when the music is not well-received.
The comparison to Berg here is apt. The romantic underpinnings are audible while the expansion toward full atonality is on display as well. Surprising not performed more often.
I knew he was atonal but this was made in 1909? Wtf
And people supposedly rioted during Rite of Spring four years later? Stravinsky's music seems like Tchaikovsky compared with Webern.
The rioting was mostly in reaction to the choreography, not the music@@jayducharme
Bloody hell Webern knows how to make a right racket
That crescendo from 7:30
que impredecible y mágico, como una persona igual a mi pudo crear magnífica obra?
La mejor obra de Webern!!
Una especie de experimento de escucha ,no estoy seguro de que me toque, con un final feliz
What are the instruments named "Pos." at 4:50?
I assume "Posaune", i.e. Trombone.
Merci à Frank Zappa de m'avoir fait découvrir l'un de ses musiciens favoris si talentueux.
Why Trumpets are playing two extra notes in the 14th bar of the 2nd movement on the firs bit (and also they're playing very different rhythm pattern in the 2nd part of the 13th bar:)')???;// Is it just a mistake or they are playing another version of the score? ( 1:43 )
violin harmonics 9:30
I think I heard this last week standing in the Wal-Mart Auto Service Center.
Great!
think I heard Shakira do it on "The Voice" the other night ... always luv a good tune
The pauses between movements are too short, this destroys the piece
Here's an idea, instead of bothering to write a negative "comment", just hit the pause button until you feel it's O.K. to move on to the next movement. Good Luck!