Robert Schumann is my neglected Romantic German composer (when compared to Beethoven, Brahms, Schubert Mendelssohn), but this current interpretation incites me to devote more time to his works, notably the four symphonies. Thank you for your generosity WDR Sinfonieorchester.
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@@shupingwang3392 ..the period insruments had still more overtones as them today. I especially mean the winds, wods and metall with partly different mensura than today. Also the strings olayed with a minimum of vibrato. - should not mean, schumann had been the first genius of instrumentation, but probably he knew better what he wants than we suggest to belive.
You are actually perpetuating a myth. Robert Schumann was actually a wonderful orchestrator who knew precisely the sound he was after. You just have to balance all of the different parts. As far as "muddy" you may be referring to some of Schumann's revolutionary harmonies. Tchaikovsky said "The 19 th. century belongs to Robert Schumann.
With all due respect you are very wrong about that. You are just parroting what some others have said. Schumann was actually a wonderful orchestrator who knew precisely the sound he was after. All the conductor has to do is balance the parts properly. Leonard Bernstein said that. He was right. Tchaikovsky said, "the ninetieth century belongs to Robert Schumann." Johannes Brahms came to him to be taught. Sir Edward Elgar said, "He is my ideal." His wife, the great nineteenth-century pianist, and composer, Clara Schumann, attended concerts of Robert Schumann's last great compositions for orchestra, choir, and soloists, and she wrote, "this is the greatest music ever written."
Karajan was very good with Richard Strauss. As for the rest of the German repertoire, he is generally regarded as pretty average. He tended to produce a very homogeneous sound that was dominated by a very well blended, but overemphasized string section. Admittedly, the Berlin Phil did have the best sounding strings during his reign. But this tended to work against the clear articulation of the different instrumental groups. This is pretty obvious in his Schumann - even worse in Beethoven and Haydn. There are any number of younger conductors that have surpassed Karajan's interpretations. However: De gustibus non est disputandum.
Robert Schumann is my neglected Romantic German composer (when compared to Beethoven, Brahms, Schubert Mendelssohn), but this current interpretation incites me to devote more time to his works, notably the four symphonies. Thank you for your generosity WDR Sinfonieorchester.
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Great performance Bro Dima..👍👍👍👍
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Based and very beautiful symphony.
5:47 | 6:07 | 7:37 | 10:54 2nd movement |
sehr gut. Endlich mit Wucht. Aber nicht genug Wucht
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Großartig!!! Bravissimi!👏👏👏
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Listening and watching this video reminded me that despite all the problems in the world, life is very much worth of living. Thanks for making it available.
Wonderful words, thank you! Happy to enrich your life with our music!
To think after shortly after writing this amazing piece he commits himself to an asylum😳
Not quite accurate. He composed the symphony in 1841. He revised it in 1851, but wasn't committed to an asylum until 1854.
Really shows the deficiency of Schumann's orchestration skills.. It's so muddy
I agree, but the challenge of pulling music out of this orchestration can add to the experience. The conductor does pretty well in that.
@@shupingwang3392 ..the period insruments had still more overtones as them today. I especially mean the winds, wods and metall with partly different mensura than today. Also the strings olayed with a minimum of vibrato. - should not mean, schumann had been the first genius of instrumentation, but probably he knew better what he wants than we suggest to belive.
You are actually perpetuating a myth. Robert Schumann was actually a wonderful orchestrator who knew precisely the sound he was after. You just have to balance all of the different parts. As far as "muddy" you may be referring to some of Schumann's revolutionary harmonies. Tchaikovsky said "The 19 th. century belongs to Robert Schumann.
With all due respect you are very wrong about that. You are just parroting what some others have said. Schumann was actually a wonderful orchestrator who knew precisely the sound he was after. All the conductor has to do is balance the parts properly. Leonard Bernstein said that. He was right. Tchaikovsky said, "the ninetieth century belongs to Robert Schumann." Johannes Brahms came to him to be taught. Sir Edward Elgar said, "He is my ideal." His wife, the great nineteenth-century pianist, and composer, Clara Schumann, attended concerts of Robert Schumann's last great compositions for orchestra, choir, and soloists, and she wrote, "this is the greatest music ever written."
I'm spoiled. After listening to Karajan conduct this symphony it reminds me how poor others conductors are.
Karajan was very good with Richard Strauss. As for the rest of the German repertoire, he is generally regarded as pretty average. He tended to produce a very homogeneous sound that was dominated by a very well blended, but overemphasized string section. Admittedly, the Berlin Phil did have the best sounding strings during his reign. But this tended to work against the clear articulation of the different instrumental groups. This is pretty obvious in his Schumann - even worse in Beethoven and Haydn. There are any number of younger conductors that have surpassed Karajan's interpretations. However: De gustibus non est disputandum.