Tchaikovsky 'Manfred'" Symphony - Vladimir Jurowski conducts the LPO
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- Опубликовано: 7 дек 2017
- Vladimir Jurowski's splendid performance of Tchaikovsky's "Manfred" Symphony has already been uploaded here in its four separate movements. However, for this new reissue, it is played in its complete form. He conducts the London Philharmonic, of which he became Principal Conductor in 2007, and they are heard here during the 2012 Proms Season in London's Royal Albert Hall.
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I love how the Brits announce their concerts with commentary that sounds like a sporting match!
..at the beginning, a very good place to start..
Thank You for a night of Memorable Performances.🎼✨🎼🎶🎺🎻💥🥰✨🎼🎼
it's good to hear Tchaikovsky's Manfred symphony at all..
faar tooo rarely performed.. one of my favourite pieces by him.. (along with twenty or thirty other works lol)
thankyou for sharing this 🙂 x
I adore this symphony since I was a teenager and it never ceases to amaze me. Too bad that Tchaikovsky did not give it a number, because of that, he stayed for history, even according to most musicologists and critics, as a composer of 6 symphonies.
One of my most favorite symphonies... based on the Lord Byron's Manfred it expresses Manfred' suffering, he is internally tortured by some mysterious guilt, which has to do with the death of his most beloved, Astarte, he uses his mastery of language and spell-casting to summon seven spirits, from whom he seeks forgiveness. The spirits, who rule the various components of the corporeal world, are unable to control past events and thus cannot grant Manfred's plea. For some time, fate prevents him from escaping his guilt through suicide. At the end, Manfred dies, defying religious temptations of redemption from sin. Throughout the poem he succeeds in challenging all of the authoritative powers he faces, and chooses death over submitting to the powerful spirits. Manfred directs his final words to the Abbot, remarking, "Old man! it is not so difficult to die". "The unconquerable individual to the end, Manfred gives his soul to neither heaven nor hell, only to death. There is a ballet choreographed to this symphony in Jerusalem by Nadia Tomofeyeva, daughter of Bolshoi prima ballerina Nina Timofeyeva who was Rozhdestvensky's first wife. His version of this symphony is also great.
0:22 - I. Lento lugubre
17:48 - II. Vivace con spirito
26:52 - III. Pastorale. Andante con moto
38:46 - IV. Allegro con fuoco
[59:07 - Applause]
Totally amazing performance of ORCHESTRA and CONDUCTOR of it famous work by Tchaikovsky!!👏👏👏👏👏💙💙💙!!!
Great symphony and great performance, spacious and shaped.
A highly enjoyable and moving performance of Tchaikovsky's "Manfred". If you are interested in other LPO performances with Jurowski (and cannot attend a live concert), I highly recommend a 2-DVD set (Medici Arts) of Wagner's Parsifal (Prelude to Act I, Finale of Act III), Berg's "Three Pieces for Orchestra" (op. 6), and Mahler's "Das klagende Lied".
Phenomenal performance!
Ein wunderschoenes Konzert und ein grossartiger junger den Dirigent von Weltklasse-Format, man kann nur jedes Orchester beneiden, den ihn als Orchesterchef hat oder bekommt. !
peteris alsbergs-grundmanis, jaipur /indien.
Manfred has always divided opinions, usually about whether or not it is a symphony or something else. Berlioz and Liszt were never thus interrogated. Sometimes the Manfred Symphony was cut about, re-orchestrated, organ omitted and other great sins but Jurowski is saying "the whole thing or don't bother", on record and here in a packed RAH in summer heat with the LPO. The consistency between both is remarkable.
Maazel was good in this and Markevitch but where Jurowski excels is in not just following the score but following Tchaikovsky's 'take' on the Byron epic written the height of self-destructive heroes all over the place but notably in English literature. What? Those cold fish Brits?
Here the huge Proms audience waits before applauding and that is natural and derived from the actual music they have just witnessed under a masterly conductor who does not go in for fancy gestures and sweating buckets in the name of art. No, this conductor surveys and directs the whole orchestra and arena (rather like Boult, who built the LPO from the doldrums up) with all hand, stick and facial signals being clear. He is pursuing the sounds the composer wanted and this is still too rare in contemporary conductors but look at the players and their pleasure with him.
Jurowski also applauds the orchestra in the direct and measured way gentleman conductors used to do -- denoting teamwork.
Just like the original record album :') I am in awe.
Yes one of the great Manfreds. THe LPO is such a romantic orchestra.
Fact is: Maestro Jurowski is one of the greatest conductors alive. He is extremely charismatic and absolutely disciplined in his precise movements. He creates intense emotions, sometimes as a demon, sometimes just as a loving and friendly human being and sometimes as a highly intelligent magician...
0:20 is a good place to start.
Another piece of neglected
Music
The opening movement sounds
Like at steam locomotive hauling at freight train up the
Long Drag
(That is the Settle to Carlisle
Line)
Will someone ever compose "The Womanfred Symphony?"
HOPEFULLY NEVER ! !
Pyotr Elleyich Tchaikovsky of course
This is, by far, Tschaikovky's greatest composition, much better than all of his Nutcracker ballet crap! Ya he composed this between May and September of 1885 at the urging of Mili Valakirev who presented Tschaikovky the program for it.
The 6th symphony is unquestionably his masterpiece, a view that is generally recognized by most musicians and Tchaikovsky admirers. Manfred has great moments but weak ones as well unlike the 6th which is one of the greatest symphonies of all time.
Personally I find the 6th to be much too personal to be a masterpiece. I adore it, yes, but from a compositional point of view it is really not his best. Much too self indulgent, lacking cohesive form. The only thing really genius about it is how he molds development and recapitulation into one in the first movement so that he can enter with the second theme after the breakdown of the development.
Though I can agree with you in all aspects concerning the greatness of Tchaikovsky's Manfred, I'm disappointed that you would disparage his Nutcracker Ballet as "Crap". It's arrogant and dismissive of you to make light of the superb elements of Ballet dance, story line and evocative music (yes, Tchaikovsky's music) that make up Nutcracker Ballet's delightful cocktail of fantasy meant to appeal to a broad spectrum of varied artistic tastes....
@@davidjeromejohnson5410 Yeah I just can't imagine anyone can call any Tchaikovsky's music "crap", even if you are Bach himself, I would still say that is pompously arrogant.
Your opinion is... something. His ballet music is the best. Dramatic, delightful, brilliantly orchestrated, beautiful, timeless masterpieces.
It does seem to be a bit lacking in dynamism and pathos. But that's just my opinion. Any performance of this piece seems especially hard to satisfy everyone.
It's one of the greatest Manfreds. I don't find it lacking in pathos. The orchestra may be British but the conductor is not.