Love this piece. Just noticed the panning effect at 06:36 as the music moves around the string orchestra from Cellos, through Violas to the Violins. Nice.
@@shadmium3471 it’s not the chord but the orchestration. It’s such a tightly scored chord for the bassoons and trombone and tuba. Normally for those instruments, you’d want a wider spacing to avoid any muddiness or thickness in scoring. But Dvorak opts for a close voicing with the bassoons playing *inside* the octave played by the trombone and tuba, with the timpani doubling. Which is all very very risky to bring off in performance, but it creates wonderful snarl which is perfect for the ending of the story. What’s amazing is how Dvorak uses such basic instruments in such a unique and new way, this whole tone poem is an absolute clinic in orchestration
@@Svatopluk I think she meant that this piece and The Noon Witch have gruesome backstories. As a result she hopes there are some pieces out there with happy backstories.
The Noonday Witch and the Water Goblin are two of Dvorak´s finest works so maybe it was the dark side of the stories that inspired him. Whatever the reason he left us two masterpieces.
Curious. The performed noticed the mistake in the score (or at least this score). At 7:21 the cello pizz. plays the three 8th notes when the score has them play the four 16th notes followed by 8th notes. (the same as at 7:17 and at 7:26). The performers decided to continue the established pattern of measures. Perhaps the parts are different that this score and reflect the established pattern.
I take it this is a cautionary tale for children not to be playing in or around a lake when creatures are lurking about. Growing up in the South, we were always told don't go in the water because of the stingrays and alligators.
The theme (primarily the rhythmic structure) starting at 0.12 and heard throughout the piece must have been a favorite of Dvorak for it can also be heard in his 8th symphony, 4th movement: ruclips.net/video/h0JunYUA3PA/видео.html
I would say that it is probably just a coincidence, because this Vodník's theme is based on the rhythmic structure of words that Vodník says in the beginning of Erben's poem: "Sviť, sviť, sviť, ať mi šije nit."
This wonderful music embodies the diversity of Dvorak
The diversity of Dvorak is immeasurable
This splendor is undisputed
Love this piece. Just noticed the panning effect at 06:36 as the music moves around the string orchestra from Cellos, through Violas to the Violins. Nice.
Once you know the story behind this, you start to understand what each part means, and just how sad and unforgiving this piece is.
What happened?
The snarling final chord is one of the 19 century's most daring bits of orchestration.
what's so special about a pp b minor chord
@@shadmium3471 it’s not the chord but the orchestration. It’s such a tightly scored chord for the bassoons and trombone and tuba. Normally for those instruments, you’d want a wider spacing to avoid any muddiness or thickness in scoring. But Dvorak opts for a close voicing with the bassoons playing *inside* the octave played by the trombone and tuba, with the timpani doubling. Which is all very very risky to bring off in performance, but it creates wonderful snarl which is perfect for the ending of the story. What’s amazing is how Dvorak uses such basic instruments in such a unique and new way, this whole tone poem is an absolute clinic in orchestration
@@ChristianP06 well said
@@shadmium3471 Its orchestration.
It's grotty, isn't it.
The cello/low brass chorale at 14:41 is gorgeous!
Wow, The Water Goblin and The Noon Witch. I hope there are happy poem stories too!
Um, you might want to read the poems. The endings are pretty brutal.
@@Svatopluk I think she meant that this piece and The Noon Witch have gruesome backstories. As a result she hopes there are some pieces out there with happy backstories.
The Noonday Witch and the Water Goblin are two of Dvorak´s finest works so maybe it was the dark side of the stories that inspired him. Whatever the reason he left us two masterpieces.
All of Dvorak works so beautiful and this piece of particular very haunting
Curious. The performed noticed the mistake in the score (or at least this score). At 7:21 the cello pizz. plays the three 8th notes when the score has them play the four 16th notes followed by 8th notes. (the same as at 7:17 and at 7:26). The performers decided to continue the established pattern of measures. Perhaps the parts are different that this score and reflect the established pattern.
I take it this is a cautionary tale for children not to be playing in or around a lake when creatures are lurking about. Growing up in the South, we were always told don't go in the water because of the stingrays and alligators.
Wow. It's nice how literature and music unites the experiences of us, Czechs, with people as distant as the south of the US.
@@dzinypinydoroviny it is isn’t it. I’m from the south US I am part Czech my last name is Czech. Yak se mas
Marvelous piece of music.
8:05, 9:05 and 20:40: "Did the playlist jump into Batman Animated Series?"
2:48
6:55
7:42
8:33
A better translation for "Vodník" is "water sprite", which also fits the mood of the music better.
3:51
(notes for myself)
6:06
omg you scared me, with headphones : /
Anyway XD
Eveyone is gangsta untill Vodyanovs drown you for turn you into slave of His Majesty Tsar Vodnik.
The theme (primarily the rhythmic structure) starting at 0.12 and heard throughout the piece must have been a favorite of Dvorak for it can also be heard in his 8th symphony, 4th movement: ruclips.net/video/h0JunYUA3PA/видео.html
I would say that it is probably just a coincidence, because this Vodník's theme is based on the rhythmic structure of words that Vodník says in the beginning of Erben's poem: "Sviť, sviť, sviť, ať mi šije nit."
19:23
0:04
If you touch the Vodnik’s face with lapis lazuli, his neck and chest will disintegrate.
Perhaps we need to try that on Tsar Vlad.
Just out of curiosity, I would like to use this music in an upcoming RUclips video. How did you obtain the rights?
He didn't
Dvorak’s been dead for over 60 years. His music is now in the public domain!
When does a wife's homecoming begin in the scoresheet?
i fell asleep
good for you