I studied orchestration and conducting from Mr. Husa in the late 70's early 80's. I was also in the chorus of the premiere of this piece. Shatteringly emotional and artistic experience. And Mr. Husa was one of the most beautiful educators I have ever known. His poise and kindness as a gentleman and a humanist were only slightly exceeded by his genius as a composer. RIP Dear Teacher.
This is the first time a musical piece makes me feel sickness, but not because it’s bad. It was like a feeling inside of me and I can’t explain. I’m a bit shocked right now.
Every time I hear those initial chimes go off I imagine them to be the sudden, distant flashes of light from far off nuclear blasts. As if I’m in a high up vantage point not knowing what it is I’m seeing, then that rise in tension with the violins and the ever loudening chimes closing in from all angles starts to truly add to a horrifying image of inescapable impending doom.
Putting this on for the first time while lying in the dark at night was easily one of the most terrifying experiences with music I've ever had, and I'm speaking as someone who has a lot of experience with the most out-there shit death, black and doom metal has to offer
shot,metal aint scary .Loud ,simplistic pop shit textured thickly when the band's members have imagination but few have had the exposure or thought seriously about music, aert, aesthetics in general.with simple minor and major chords you'll never hear the diversity of 11ths ,augmented4ths etc in that kind of pop music.
When you realize what this piece is basically supposed to symbolize and represent and nearly 51 years later, we’re actually on the verge of actually causing the destruction we’re warned about
If it helps at all, we more than likely won't be getting into it with Russia. I've heard some fairly credible information to suggest that most of their nuclear stockpile is likely no longer functional. Part of why the US defense budget is so high is their nuclear weapons, they need constant maintenance and repairs to be functional. Fuel, engine parts, making sure the bomb is shielded properly so it doesn't fizzle out, that sort of stuff. Russia's defense budget is comparable to the UK's, and they're only able to maintain a token stockpile of nukes. Given the rampant corruption in the Russian government and military that saw many leaders long prior to the war with Ukraine selling off things like fuel and tank parts for side cash, more than likely many Russian commanders and the like have been at best neglecting most of their nuclear weapons and at worst selling parts of the bombs off to whoever will pay for them. It might be part of why North Korea has a functional ICBM now, at least a few parts probably have Cyrillic labels on them. Of course, that's not to say they all went to make cannibalized bombs, some nations may have used parts for rocketry and nuclear power instead. While it's a sad state of the Russian government, it's at least good for humanity that one way or another, these weapons of mass destruction are being decommissioned one way or another.
+Bingo Mechanical parts need maintenance, the shielding of the warhead itself needs maintenance. Launch systems too need maintenance. And that's also only speaking about American ICBMs, I'm referring to Russian ones. Russia as well is a corrupt and decaying state, there's been several scandals brought to light where members of the Russian military have been caught selling needed parts for equipment on the side, so now they're poorly supplied for this foray into Ukraine. Also considering I've seen your clown-tier trolling comments, replying to you is likely a mistake anyways because you're not actually interested in civil discourse.
+Bingo Yep, as I said you're trolling. Pretty badly now too. That's it for me then, I'll stick to the specifications that I know and have looked over myself.
The first part depicts the gradual evolution of our planet, with the development of primal cellular life, leading to the growth of homo sapiens. Then in part 2 comes man's brutal possession and misuse (rape) of the naturally evolved beauty of Nature, leading to final destruction. Part 3 describes the resulting desolation. Karel Husa wrote this as a warning to human kind, with the sincere hope that it will never come to pass. We are still grappling with the problems he foresaw over 40 years ago.
If the 1st part is evolution of Earth why is there not more traditional beauty in it.Even our beginnings Husa seems to imply were not easy or what humankind has traditionally called solace .There is strain ,horror not wonder and beneficient largesses;more akin to Penderesky and Ligeti's orchestral music of the period .Its all been happening and tRump and all his minions hastened its politician lieing ,fiery ,poison gassy,poisoned water and air and hate seething public's end+I really don't civilization has even another 12 or 15 years to go...
Karel Husa is our greatest living composer. He is a great master and example for all of what is lacking in fervor and commitment to purpose in so much music of today.
Indeed, one of the characteristic traits of Husa's compositional attitude is his constant striving to take on the newest ideas, techniques and playing modes, especially as pertains to the exploration of new sonorities, while never relinquishing his Czech roots and the search for expressivity and drama. If perhaps less cutting edge than composers like Lutoslawski (with whom he shares the use of aleatoric processes and sensuous orchestrations) or Ligeti (exploration of new sonorities and untraditional playing modes), he is less "abstract" than them (Husa doesn't shun programmatic music, and Five Poems in particular are musical characterization of birds, although they do not imitate bird songs directly) but by the same token more expressive in a quasi cinematographic way. The works contained on this disc are all written for the instruments that make up the traditional Wind Quintet (the two Preludes are limited to flute, clarinet and bassoon, the others add oboe and horn), with the addition of the piano in the "Recollections", and String orchestra, harp and xylophone in the Serenade. They were composed between 1963 (Serenade) and 1994 (Five Poems). Beyond their common instrumentation, the works are diverse in overall mood and sonic outlook. Though in that period Husa was engaged into post-webernian, Darmstadt-inspired serialist music (witness his 1961 Mosaïques that could be found on a CRI CD which included another, composer conducted version of the same Serenade - see my review, Symphony 1 / Serenade / Landscapes), the Serenade is the most traditionally oriented, harking back to Janacek, and to my ears the less personal. The two Preludes from 1966 are stark and almost forbidding. In the two next compositions more echoes can be heard of Janacek's compositions for the same kind of instrumental ensemble, like the "Youth" Sextet or Capriccio for piano and winds (the conjugation of high-pitched, nasal oboe and low-toned, gruff-sounding horn, the snappy rhythms, the whip-cracking piano chords) and sometimes of Bartok's Contrasts (the association of clarinet, piano and angular rhythms). The Five Poems are the most evocative and sensuous, and the six movements from Recollections the most advanced and fascinating in their exploration of new sonorities, extremes of dynamics, quarter-tone slides, aleatoric devices and unusual playing modes, with the piano using techniques that one associates with George Crumb, like placing a sheet of paper under the pedal dampers, producing an eerie metallic rattle. Indeed, one of the characteristic traits of Husa's compositional attitude is his constant striving to take on the newest ideas, techniques and playing modes, especially as pertains to the exploration of new sonorities, while never relinquishing his Czech roots and the search for expressivity and drama.
Este es una interesante pieza de música que hace sentir a la persona algo inquietante, como el principio de una película de "Fin del Mundo" o cercano a eso. Es como la calma antes de la tormenta que avanza lentamente revelando el verdadero "Este es le Fin y el Comienzo" ya que sin duda da una sensación de intriga hacia lo que "pasará después".
So wonderful to discover Husa. I use to have to fork over money just to hear what I read about. Ignorance will be wiped off the earth thanks to internet... haha.
I was so afraid of listening to this piece, have heard it was really horrible and etc. My god, I was so wrong! One of the best pieces I've ever heard ^^
THe vocalbassescome in at measure 80.It sounds wondrous in the very beginning a very different "beginning " than many composers would have essayed but it makes sense not to have welltempered pitches the microtones befit a Natural world. You can tell people haven't been exposed to much.Almost everyone who took themselves seriously after Boulez,(Varese much earlier didn't inspire as manyeven fewer heard Scelsi)Ligeti,Stockhausen,Berio,Nono,Birtwistle and all the thousands of others made this kind of experience a commonplace of music from 1970 till maybe 2000.Now everyone is trying to please with neoromantic sheetwithPenderecky and GeorgeRochberg turning their backs on this kind of exploration. People act like this music is important because its intense and teeming with scabrous roughness its not. It's famous because he was better at it formallywith his ideas,had an important teacher won a Pulitzer and was good at his network etc.
+Hikepark Stevens this is supposed to be the soundtrack of the destruction of the earth, in essence. the first movement is seeing Earth from space; you can tell something's off, and as you get closer, you realize why the earth was left. You get to see the horror of destruction closer and closer until it's painfully clear how humans have killed the earth. The second movement is witnessing all of the animals crying out in pain as they die (if you listen closely, you can hear bird sounds in the clarinet and flute sections, and crying whales in the trombones and tubas), buildings collapsing, etc. The last movement is more up to interpretation, I think. I personally think it just draws you more into that uncomfortable, mechanical feeling when you hear "this-s-s-s-s-s beau-u-u-u-u earth-th-th-th-th" repeated all over the ensemble. Husa was inspired to write this piece when he saw dying fish on a beach and he realized how quickly our earth would vanish if we didn't care for it. It's not a pretty piece by any stretch of the imagination. Some parts make me really scared as I play with my ensemble (especially parts like in movement II where it sounds like a train is just barreling towards you and you have no escape), but it is a very important and highly regarded piece by many musicians. It's totally fine if existential crises aren't your thing! It's not a particularly easy piece to try and listen to without context.
+Bailey Behr Thanks for the explanation, but certainly, as important a piece this might be, it is not something I would listen to for relaxation and enjoyment...I don't think it fits in that category...but I will listen again to see if can more fully understand it....thanks....HS
I saw the liner notes for the original program at Ithaca College once, and the first movement is actually a representation of the biological "Apotheosis" of Earth, representing the growth from bacterial life to mammal, human, etc. That might be helpful in explaining the more ethereal portions of the first movement. Certainly not easy listening, but the Mvmt. III Postscript's vocal warning at the end is very moving I find. Sometimes I throw this on when I'm studying.
@@Hikepark57 The composer has said (regarding another piece of his - “Music for Prague, 1968”) “It is not as beautiful a music as one always would like to hear. But we cannot always paint flowers, we cannot always speak in poetry about beautiful clouds, there are some times we would [like] to express the fight for freedom.”
to me this does not represent a world destroyed by “nukes” , rather a world where evil, degeneracy, and greed triumphs over naturalness and nature (God) and a world where Christ does not return . often i have lack of faith that Christ will return because of the blanket of evil that I see over the West . i want to avoid this destruction of nature that occurs and often believe that humanity is doomed forever. we must have faith that Christ will return and save this beautiful Earth , there is no other way to counter ignorance and hypocrisy of the west. God bless all
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Don't you just love 70's music?
Even the classical music was nuts
I studied orchestration and conducting from Mr. Husa in the late 70's early 80's. I was also in the chorus of the premiere of this piece. Shatteringly emotional and artistic experience. And Mr. Husa was one of the most beautiful educators I have ever known. His poise and kindness as a gentleman and a humanist were only slightly exceeded by his genius as a composer. RIP Dear Teacher.
This is one of the most terrifying pieces I've listened to. Karel Husa's use of dissonance is to great effect; he was truly a legend.
16:24 Remember "Darkness Descends" and "One" shotgun drums!
This is the first time a musical piece makes me feel sickness, but not because it’s bad. It was like a feeling inside of me and I can’t explain. I’m a bit shocked right now.
This piece deals psychic damage
Heaviness on the chest you could call it
Every time I hear those initial chimes go off I imagine them to be the sudden, distant flashes of light from far off nuclear blasts. As if I’m in a high up vantage point not knowing what it is I’m seeing, then that rise in tension with the violins and the ever loudening chimes closing in from all angles starts to truly add to a horrifying image of inescapable impending doom.
@Bingo alright pal
@Bingo That's enough internet champ, how about you go eat your animal crackers and have a juice box
@Bingo Jesus christ get a grip you psychopath
@Bingo bigs words coming from your mom's basement
@Bingo award winner of the most embarrassing comment posted on RUclips in April of 2022 right here
12:46 -- II. Tragedy of Destruction
20:48 -- III. Postscript
16:24 "Darkness Descends" and "One";)
00:00 -- l. Apotheosis
This composition scared the crap out of me!
Putting this on for the first time while lying in the dark at night was easily one of the most terrifying experiences with music I've ever had, and I'm speaking as someone who has a lot of experience with the most out-there shit death, black and doom metal has to offer
shot,metal aint scary .Loud ,simplistic pop shit textured thickly when the band's members have imagination but few have had the exposure or thought seriously about music, aert, aesthetics in general.with simple minor and major chords you'll never hear the diversity of 11ths ,augmented4ths etc in that kind of pop music.
When you realize what this piece is basically supposed to symbolize and represent and nearly 51 years later, we’re actually on the verge of actually causing the destruction we’re warned about
If it helps at all, we more than likely won't be getting into it with Russia. I've heard some fairly credible information to suggest that most of their nuclear stockpile is likely no longer functional.
Part of why the US defense budget is so high is their nuclear weapons, they need constant maintenance and repairs to be functional. Fuel, engine parts, making sure the bomb is shielded properly so it doesn't fizzle out, that sort of stuff.
Russia's defense budget is comparable to the UK's, and they're only able to maintain a token stockpile of nukes. Given the rampant corruption in the Russian government and military that saw many leaders long prior to the war with Ukraine selling off things like fuel and tank parts for side cash, more than likely many Russian commanders and the like have been at best neglecting most of their nuclear weapons and at worst selling parts of the bombs off to whoever will pay for them. It might be part of why North Korea has a functional ICBM now, at least a few parts probably have Cyrillic labels on them. Of course, that's not to say they all went to make cannibalized bombs, some nations may have used parts for rocketry and nuclear power instead.
While it's a sad state of the Russian government, it's at least good for humanity that one way or another, these weapons of mass destruction are being decommissioned one way or another.
+Bingo
Mechanical parts need maintenance, the shielding of the warhead itself needs maintenance. Launch systems too need maintenance. And that's also only speaking about American ICBMs, I'm referring to Russian ones. Russia as well is a corrupt and decaying state, there's been several scandals brought to light where members of the Russian military have been caught selling needed parts for equipment on the side, so now they're poorly supplied for this foray into Ukraine.
Also considering I've seen your clown-tier trolling comments, replying to you is likely a mistake anyways because you're not actually interested in civil discourse.
+Bingo
Yep, as I said you're trolling. Pretty badly now too. That's it for me then, I'll stick to the specifications that I know and have looked over myself.
+Bingo
No
@Bingo PC not good example, corrosion of power supply and failure of cooling can definitely cause problems.
We're fucked: and overture
The first part depicts the gradual evolution of our planet, with the development of primal cellular life, leading to the growth of homo sapiens. Then in part 2 comes man's brutal possession and misuse (rape) of the naturally evolved beauty of Nature, leading to final destruction. Part 3 describes the resulting desolation. Karel Husa wrote this as a warning to human kind, with the sincere hope that it will never come to pass. We are still grappling with the problems he foresaw over 40 years ago.
If the 1st part is evolution of Earth why is there not more traditional beauty in it.Even our beginnings Husa seems to imply were not easy or what humankind has traditionally called solace .There is strain ,horror not wonder and beneficient largesses;more akin to Penderesky and Ligeti's orchestral music of the period .Its all been happening and tRump and all his minions hastened its politician lieing ,fiery ,poison gassy,poisoned water and air and hate seething public's end+I really don't civilization has even another 12 or 15 years to go...
Karel Husa is our greatest living composer. He is a great master and example for all of what is lacking in fervor and commitment to purpose in so much music of today.
RIP Karel Husa
Beautiful music that shows how much he liked the magnificent nature on earth.
Indeed, one of the characteristic traits of Husa's compositional attitude is his constant striving to take on the newest ideas, techniques and playing modes, especially as pertains to the exploration of new sonorities, while never relinquishing his Czech roots and the search for expressivity and drama. If perhaps less cutting edge than composers like Lutoslawski (with whom he shares the use of aleatoric processes and sensuous orchestrations) or Ligeti (exploration of new sonorities and untraditional playing modes), he is less "abstract" than them (Husa doesn't shun programmatic music, and Five Poems in particular are musical characterization of birds, although they do not imitate bird songs directly) but by the same token more expressive in a quasi cinematographic way.
The works contained on this disc are all written for the instruments that make up the traditional Wind Quintet (the two Preludes are limited to flute, clarinet and bassoon, the others add oboe and horn), with the addition of the piano in the "Recollections", and String orchestra, harp and xylophone in the Serenade. They were composed between 1963 (Serenade) and 1994 (Five Poems). Beyond their common instrumentation, the works are diverse in overall mood and sonic outlook. Though in that period Husa was engaged into post-webernian, Darmstadt-inspired serialist music (witness his 1961 Mosaïques that could be found on a CRI CD which included another, composer conducted version of the same Serenade - see my review, Symphony 1 / Serenade / Landscapes), the Serenade is the most traditionally oriented, harking back to Janacek, and to my ears the less personal. The two Preludes from 1966 are stark and almost forbidding. In the two next compositions more echoes can be heard of Janacek's compositions for the same kind of instrumental ensemble, like the "Youth" Sextet or Capriccio for piano and winds (the conjugation of high-pitched, nasal oboe and low-toned, gruff-sounding horn, the snappy rhythms, the whip-cracking piano chords) and sometimes of Bartok's Contrasts (the association of clarinet, piano and angular rhythms). The Five Poems are the most evocative and sensuous, and the six movements from Recollections the most advanced and fascinating in their exploration of new sonorities, extremes of dynamics, quarter-tone slides, aleatoric devices and unusual playing modes, with the piano using techniques that one associates with George Crumb, like placing a sheet of paper under the pedal dampers, producing an eerie metallic rattle.
Indeed, one of the characteristic traits of Husa's compositional attitude is his constant striving to take on the newest ideas, techniques and playing modes, especially as pertains to the exploration of new sonorities, while never relinquishing his Czech roots and the search for expressivity and drama.
Did this get you a good grade in 20th century art music please tell me it did
Reading the description while listening to the music feels threatening.
Este es una interesante pieza de música que hace sentir a la persona algo inquietante, como el principio de una película de "Fin del Mundo" o cercano a eso. Es como la calma antes de la tormenta que avanza lentamente revelando el verdadero "Este es le Fin y el Comienzo" ya que sin duda da una sensación de intriga hacia lo que "pasará después".
retrata o mundo como ele é, caotico e sombrio
@@CracraYu ciertamente
Rest in peace
This is the first time music has given me anxiety.
I'm sorry babe, but Karel Husa: Apotheosis of this Earth (1971) stays on during sex
Including the screaming part?
Ok movement II sounds like I'm watching the best slasher film ever
So wonderful to discover Husa. I use to have to fork over money just to hear what I read about. Ignorance will be wiped off the earth thanks to internet... haha.
this aged like milk and stump remover in one jar
This is... EPIC
It gives me The chills
8:35 I can only think in Diamanda Galas beginning to sing along with choir in this moment\o/
This is even better than ICP!
This is some crazy sh*t that's going on
Came here from your comment on another video
How to go insane in just 30 minutes!
Listen to Ornette Coleman free jazz album
I was so afraid of listening to this piece, have heard it was really horrible and etc. My god, I was so wrong! One of the best pieces I've ever heard ^^
Dead Space
stunning
beautiful!
Human death at 19:50
Great!
This kinda reminds me of 80's horror film.
16:24 Would Dark Angel and Metallica used this as an inspiration to Darkness Descends and One...?
I think they did use this as an inspiration but I can’t give a for sure answer
Maybe this will feature in the OST. To Christopher Nolan's biopic,"Oppenheimer" ??
Hope it is it's about to finally be here
:)
This should be used for the opening of the new Alien film.
the rumbling arc in aot be like:
I stg this should have been in Evangelion
We'll, I guess we aren't far from this reality. For context, this is supposed to represent the violent end of humanity through nuclear war.
some good election day music…
It's kinda unbearable how most people in the comments think they're intellectually above for listening to such a niche sub genre of classical music
Behold, youtube at it's finess
Chan gang.
Not as dark as I expected
THe vocalbassescome in at measure 80.It sounds wondrous in the very beginning a very different "beginning " than many composers would have essayed but it makes sense not to have welltempered pitches the microtones befit a Natural world. You can tell people haven't been exposed to much.Almost everyone who took themselves seriously after Boulez,(Varese much earlier didn't inspire as manyeven fewer heard Scelsi)Ligeti,Stockhausen,Berio,Nono,Birtwistle and all the thousands of others made this kind of experience a commonplace of music from 1970 till maybe 2000.Now everyone is trying to please with neoromantic sheetwithPenderecky and GeorgeRochberg turning their backs on this kind of exploration. People act like this music is important because its intense and teeming with scabrous roughness its not. It's famous because he was better at it formallywith his ideas,had an important teacher won a Pulitzer and was good at his network etc.
Sorry, but I just don't understand it...Way over my head...
+Hikepark Stevens this is supposed to be the soundtrack of the destruction of the earth, in essence. the first movement is seeing Earth from space; you can tell something's off, and as you get closer, you realize why the earth was left. You get to see the horror of destruction closer and closer until it's painfully clear how humans have killed the earth. The second movement is witnessing all of the animals crying out in pain as they die (if you listen closely, you can hear bird sounds in the clarinet and flute sections, and crying whales in the trombones and tubas), buildings collapsing, etc. The last movement is more up to interpretation, I think. I personally think it just draws you more into that uncomfortable, mechanical feeling when you hear "this-s-s-s-s-s beau-u-u-u-u earth-th-th-th-th" repeated all over the ensemble. Husa was inspired to write this piece when he saw dying fish on a beach and he realized how quickly our earth would vanish if we didn't care for it. It's not a pretty piece by any stretch of the imagination. Some parts make me really scared as I play with my ensemble (especially parts like in movement II where it sounds like a train is just barreling towards you and you have no escape), but it is a very important and highly regarded piece by many musicians. It's totally fine if existential crises aren't your thing! It's not a particularly easy piece to try and listen to without context.
+Bailey Behr Thanks for the explanation, but certainly, as important a piece this might be, it is not something I would listen to for relaxation and enjoyment...I don't think it fits in that category...but I will listen again to see if can more fully understand it....thanks....HS
I saw the liner notes for the original program at Ithaca College once, and the first movement is actually a representation of the biological "Apotheosis" of Earth, representing the growth from bacterial life to mammal, human, etc. That might be helpful in explaining the more ethereal portions of the first movement. Certainly not easy listening, but the Mvmt. III Postscript's vocal warning at the end is very moving I find. Sometimes I throw this on when I'm studying.
@@Hikepark57 The composer has said (regarding another piece of his - “Music for Prague, 1968”) “It is not as beautiful a music as one always would like to hear. But we cannot always paint flowers, we cannot always speak in poetry about beautiful clouds, there are some times we would [like] to express the fight for freedom.”
@@Hikepark57 I totally understand- it’s very hardcore 😂
to me this does not represent a world destroyed by “nukes” , rather a world where evil, degeneracy, and greed triumphs over naturalness and nature (God) and a world where Christ does not return . often i have lack of faith that Christ will return because of the blanket of evil that I see over the West . i want to avoid this destruction of nature that occurs and often believe that humanity is doomed forever. we must have faith that Christ will return and save this beautiful Earth , there is no other way to counter ignorance and hypocrisy of the west. God bless all
@@aerologicalphenomenon serb