Janáček - Taras Bulba: Rhapsody for Orchestra (1918)
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- Опубликовано: 1 июн 2012
- Taras Bulba: Rhapsody for Orchestra (1918)
I. The Death of Andrei [0:06]
II. The Death of Ostap [9:21]
III. The Prophecy and Death of Taras Bulba [14:49]
NOTE: To follow the score, I suggest watching the video in full screen mode at high resolution.
An orchestral rhapsody by Czech composer Leoš Janáček (1854-1928), based on the novel "Taras Bulba" by Nikolai Gogol. The first version of this work was written in 1915, but major revisions followed in 1918, with the finishing touches being added in 1927. The following description of the three movements is taken from Wikipedia:
"The first movement, 'The Death of Andrei', focuses on the Cossack Taras Bulba's younger son, who falls in love with the daughter of a Polish general. The opening is a passionate episode between the lovers with solos by English horn, violin, and oboe. Throughout there are occasional hints of darkness, and eventually the music grows more turbulent, showing a battle between the two armies: angry trombone barks, tolling bells, and triumphant trumpet calls. Andrei fights on the side of the Poles, but when his father nears him in the battle, he realizes his treachery, and lowers his head to be killed by Taras Bulba himself. In the end, there is a brief reminiscence of the love music.
"The second movement, 'The Death of Ostap', focuses on Taras Bulba's older son, who is overcome with grief by Andrei's death and is captured by the Poles during the battle, and hauled off to Warsaw for torture and execution. Taras Bulba sneaks into Warsaw in disguise, and at the moment of Ostap's death, he forgets where he is and calls out to his son. Much of the music is taken up with a kind of inexorable, limping march. In the end there is a wild Mazurka as the Poles dance in triumph. Taras Bulba is personified by dark trombone statements, and Ostap's last anguished cry is played by high clarinet. (There are clear parallels to two earlier orchestral execution scenes: in Berlioz's 'Symphonie fantastique' and Richard Strauss's 'Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks'.)
"In the final movement, 'The Prophecy and Death of Taras Bulba', the Cossacks fight madly throughout Poland to avenge Ostap. Taras Bulba is eventually captured in a battle on the Dnieper River, but before he is burned to death by the Polish army, he issues a defiant prophecy: 'Do you think that there is anything in the world that a Cossack fears? Wait; the time will come when you shall learn what the orthodox Russian faith is! Already the people sense it far and near. A Tsar shall arise from Russian soil, and there shall not be a power in the world which shall not submit to him!' The opening music is filled with battle music and war-cries by Taras Bulba--the trombones again--until a quiet passage depicting his capture. The prophecy itself is a stirring passage for brass and organ, culminating in the ringing of bells and a triumphant epilogue."
Conductor: Ondrej Lenárd
Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bratislava 
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Janáček is such an underrated composer. He deserves so many more performances. Bravo!
From the first notes an absolute masterpiece.
Janacek's Taras Bulba is one of those funny, guilty-pleasure pieces, where I have to own a copy of every recording I can find.
I've studied music for most of my life and I'm also a multi instrumentalist. (Flute/Oboe/Clarinet/ Trumpet and Cornett) I consider myself a 'clever' little duck when it comes to music in general. But confronted with this score and knowing that this composer had all of it in his head, and then put pen to paper and created this astonishing work of musical art just clearly demonstrates to me how insignificant I am compared to such intelligence. And also the expertise of the musicians who can play it. I'm constantly amazed at what my fellow man is capable of.
The ending gives me goosebumps every time.
8:15 is the prettiest, most delicate, contrasting, heart-warming phrase I have ever heard. Magnificently beautiful musicianship here. Gives me chills every single time.
Yes...it's a strange unanticipated respite....Brilliant!
An oddly jolly and upbeat piece for something that appeared in 1918.
nice to see and hear that the oboe plays the correct notes in measure 10. Many (nearly all) conductors these days perform from a new edition which has changed that bar and distorted the melody to something which Janacek never wrote. Ondrej Lenard is someone we can all respect.
What about measure 110? 210?
What about those measure? I don't know what you are asking? My point about m.10 is simply that now there are more recordings being made with wrong notes in the melody which Janacek never wrote, and that is important for people to begin to notice.
thankyou - and just great to have the score to follow
Thank you for the score !!!
Meistar;iga,bet reti spēlēta mūzika!Paldies!Aija
Although Janacek was born in 1854, which makes him contemporary with Elgar and Mahler, there is no question that he belongs in the 20th century. Much of his most significant music was composed in his last decade. This is the first time I have seen the score of Taras Bulba, and the appearance of it - double #'s and double b's everywhere - is more formidable than its sound.
+musicophage rex ...Thanks for taking the trouble to reveal the score. The listener learns so much about a composer when the notes and dynamics are laid bare, and it fascinated me to see how economically Janáček achieved his characteristic effects.
I'm in love with the jazzy #9's and Moravian cadences (13ths) during the finale!!
As usual, Janacek=Masterpiece...thank you!
19:48 to 24:25. Exhilarating, beautiful, heart-racing, like film music.
Yes, totally heroïc....and then too that interlude at 21:10...the Mastery!
Second movement from 11:11-13:11. Melts me. I do not know what struck Janáček's brain at the moment he wrote this down, but it sticks in my soul. Makes me think of the wide, bright blue, Ukrainian skies my ancestors died smiling looking up at.
The segment starting at 17:48 is absolutely breathtaking.
A bit reminiscent of his Glagolitic Mass (especially the Intrada), don't you think?
George Saliba Not particularly. I think Janacek is one of the most instantly recognisable composers I can think of, and most of his output has clear fingerprints and echoes of his other works. All those insistent ostinati, that you can hear in all of the works that I am aware of. In fact, if anything, the end sounds more like the Sinfonietta to me.
jshaers96 Couldn't agree more. He worked relentlessly on new musical paradigms that reflected his personality, away from the trends of his contemporaries. And you're right, the brass part does sound more like the Sinfonietta, I think it's the strings part that reminded me of the Glagolitic Mass.
Taras (Yul Brynner), Andres (Tony Curtis), Ostap (Perry Lopez)..in the 1962 film epic, that is. Try as I might, I can't get them out of my head. Great score by Franz Waxman. But I digress; Janacek's "Taras" is a world unto itself. LR
love this music
Such an underrated piece
Not really.
Après une longue matinée sur les quotidiens politiques, une tasse de thé à la main, ma baie vitrée donnant sur la mer avec les beaux sons de ce mélange en arrière-plan, cette rhapsodie est juste une parfaite conjonction !
Thank you!
Good Night Vienna
The Cunning Little Vixen and Synphonietta, also Great.
Neozhidannoie issledovanie prelest
Esta obra musical es encantadora
Огромное спасибо.Это же надо,так понять Гоголя.
И в чём же это понимание заключается, позвольте вас спросить?
Это весело, я собирался спросить его тоже !
Quando si caricano i video su youtube non bisogna usare il livellamento audio altrimenti le dinamiche si azzerano e i piani e i forti non esistono più!
DAMN. THAT SOME GOOD SHIT.
Ha ha, nicely said.
un des rares poèmes symphoniques que j'ai adoré dès la première écoute. Tellement simple et original à la fois. Chacun des tableau relate parfaitement chacune des ambiances de mort dans des contextes totalement différents. La mort d'Ostap représente vraiment les vainqueurs qui jouent avec les vaincus comme un chat avec une souris pour bien leur en faire baver avant le massacre final. Et enfin Taras Bulba qui meurt au bûcher emporté sur par la conviction mystique que l'Ukraine zaporète est orthodoxe, donc russe. Vladimir serait-il également fan de ce chef d'oeuvre ?
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Trombone audition excerpts 17:41 and 6:51
mi piace
22:39
21:09
TARAS TARENTUM TARANTO
penny
Was he on mashrooms or something?!