I've left you a comment before. Keep listening my friend. There is so much beautiful music that the majority of the population doesn't know about. I thank you for trying to spread it.
I've listened to a lot of Dvorak's earlier symphonies and they are some of the most underrated works I've ever listened to. I seriously don't understand why it's only his 8th and 9th symphonies that are widely performed.
so i play classical music basically as long as i can think. Now i am studying it, which is awesome. but seeing people discover these beautiful pieces for themselves without that background is the most rewarding and motivating thing that can happen. Thank you for sharing your reactions, please keep going
Oh my god, what an amazing video, Gidi! I watched this with a big silly smile on my face and the stank Stravinsky face simaltaneously. Not only is this Dvorak symphony amazing (this was my first reaction too), your reactions were gold!!I headbanged with you, fake-conducted with you and just had a bloody good time. Definitely one of my favourite videos on the channel!! 💖
Love this work, feel-good banger ❤ People be sleeping on my man Dvorak (i know he’s still a “popular” composer, but I still find him under appreciated) , he has such a incredible repertoire filled to the brim with gems in all sort of musical forms. Great reaction as always
The thing about Dvorak is that a handful of his pieces seem to get played all the time and overshadow the rest of his work, which makes him famous but leaves much of his music underappreciated.
The Czech Suite is another wonderful orchestral piece by Dvorak. As another correspondee has mentioned, Dvorak was also very accomplished in chamber music. Something not known by many ... when Dvorak was little known and struggling, Brahms sent him money anonymously. (I presume you know that Dvorak emigrated to the United States in 1892.)
@@philipadams5386 If you really want a treat, and to appreciate just what we may have lost, listen to Rott's Symphony. You'll hear Mahler 1 in MANY places -- and the theft was Mahler's.
Recommend you listen from Dvorak 3rd symphony. This composer is one of the best who expresses lyrism, romanticism and specially the Czech nationalism in each masterpiece 😊
The 8th is such a marvellous piece. Real summer music. And Honeck really owns this music. That being said, I think it is time you try some more chamber music. One of Schubert's last 3 String Quartets: "Rosamunde", "Death and the Maiden" or the G-Major. Or the most perfect work anyone ever composed: Schubert's String Quintet. Music so precious that one has to take care not to listen to it too often,so it does not lose it's earthshattering impact. Or Smetana's Piano Trio or the String Quartet "From my life." Or the piece that put Beethoven's name on the map after he had moved to Vienna: His Septet.
Dvorak at his very (Czech!) best. Just to help explain the wonderful music that Dvorak could write, Gidi, he is universally acknowledged as the most constantly happy, unneurotic and emotionally fulfilled of all the great composers. All his symphonies from No. 4 on are excellent, as are many of his shorter works (try the fabulous Slavonic dances!).
To me, Dvorak's 8th symphony is probably the one piece that I think of as being most emblematic of his overall style. Sunny, extroverted, very much folk-inspired. I noticed your reaction at 3:00 -- it's a moment in the piece that immediately grabbed my attention the first time I heard it too. It's also a moment where the violas grab the spotlight, and that sudden change in timbre was one of the things that drew me to learn the viola myself. It was also Dvorak's own instrument; he made his living playing the viola in orchestras before he became famous as a composer.
Definitely look into more Dvorak. His 6th symphony is one of my favorite symphonies (along with this one!), and his "American" string quartet is considered an essential string quartet. He wrote some beautiful concert overtures (I highly recommend both his Carnival Overture and In Nature's Realm). Other Dvorak chamber music well worth looking into: his "Dumky" piano trio, his second piano quintet, his "American" string quintet (often overlooked because of the quartet with the same nickname), and his Terzetto for two violins and viola.
First movement.. ok. Second movement... what a masterpiece. With some arabic influence. Light influence. 2nd part of second movement... again very european. And very nice. It is a masterpiece. Maybe best I heard. As a czech I grew up on 9th (of New world) and on Vltava. I never listened to his 8th.. till now. I was listening in bed many times to 9th and Vltava. I am with you on this. 2nd movement is beautifull. Even it here was only this movement I would attend. I have heard 3rd movement before many years ago. I thought it is waltz. No need to embaris myself.. just listen. Distant memories. I wonder how it would sound in a concert hall. I hear inspiration of some Miyazakis work here. It also reminds me of something else. But I do not know of what. :) Probably of this piece itself that I vaguely remember. Gets optimistic like in a kids stories. And last movement of course. All czechs know this. The theme is used in presidental elections. But it continues. It is similar to Poustevnik kinda. So connection to Hrabal - Menzel movies. Wo, then it gets fast. And lush again. And so it goes. Nice. Then we have some R and B :). It is like a army march music . I wonder what it means. There is always a meaning behind these songs. Beautifull horns or trumpets. And again some complicated transitions. I must say Dvorak has fewer of these in 8th than in 9th. This piece is more consistent. It is a pleasant listen. Nothing to add. Beautiful. And soft to heart. When did I hear last time symphony that would has so calm last movement? But of course it ends in high drama :). But only for short time .).
Great reaction to what has been one of my favourite symphonies for quite a long time now. Many think the 7th is one of the greatest, but i enjoy nos 6 and 8 the most (3 and 5 are also wonderful) - Dvorak is a great composer for chamber music too.
Hey GIDI, here are some of my all time favourites you need to listen to: - Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 8, Symphony No. 6 - Jean Sibelius: Lemminkäinen-Suite, Symphony No. 6, Tulen Synty, Luonnotar, Finlandia - Gustav Holst: Japanese Suite, Beni Mora, The Planets, The Cloud Messenger - Ralph Vaughan-Williams: A Sea Symphony, A London Symphony, A Pastoral Symphony, Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1 - Charles Villiers Stanford: Symphony No. 3, Songs of the Fleet, Songs of the Sea - Joseph Marx: Eine Frühlingsmusik, Eine Herbstsinfonie - Rudi Stephan: Musik für Orchester, Liebeszauber - Lili Boulanger: Hymne de Soleil, Faust et Helene, Psalm 130 - Rued Langgaard: Sfaernesmusik, Antikrist - Alfredo Casella: Italia - George Butterworth: Six songs from "A Shropshire Lad" - Vasily Kalinnikov: Symphony No. 2, Intermezzo No. 1 - Pietro Yon: Concerto Gregoriano - Anatoly Liadov: Baba Yaga, Kikimora - Peter Benoit: Piano Concerto - Joseph Jongen: Symphonie concertante - Reinhold Glière: Symphony No.2, Symphony No.3 "Ilya Murometz" - Marcel Tyberg: Symphony No. 3 - Ottorino Respighi: Pini di Roma, Feste romane, Concerto Gregoriano - Hans Rott: Symphony - Josef Suk: Scherzo fantastique - Arnold Schönberg: Gurrelieder - Alexander Glazunov: Violin Concerto - Albert Roussel: Le festin de l'araignée - Hector Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique - Maurice Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé - Frank Bridge: A Fairy Tale - Paul Juon: Piano Trio No. 4 "Litaniae" - Viteszlav Novák: Lady Godiva - Wilhelm Stenhammar: Symphony No. 2 - Richard Wetz: Kleist Overture, Symphony No. 2 Maybe you find something intersting :)
Dvořák is my favourite composer! If you love him, try his other symphonies (i love them all) his concertos, Slavonic dances, Piano trios no. 3 & 4, String quartet no. 12 "American", Symphonic variations, Ouvertures "In nature's realm", "Carnival" and "Othello", 3 Slavonic rhapsodies and of course his symphonic poems: The Water Goblin, The Noon Witch, The Golden Spinning Wheel, The Wild Dove. If you want hear some great and unknown music, try Hristić´s "Legend of Ohrid": ruclips.net/video/w5MFnMuXtRU/видео.html
I had a feeling you'd really dig this one!! Honeck recorded this piece with the Pittsburgh Symphony, and I can't recommend it enough. It's a lot like this performance which is very good, but with better sound quality and the Pittsburgh symphony orchestra at the top of their game.
Told you so. Slavonic Dances are great too. Also recommend Saint-Saëns Nr. 3 and Shostakovich 11, 13, 10. And Brahms Academic Festival Overture and Mussorgsky Bald Mountain.
@@macmadnes5262 Don't presume. Mahler 3 did not bore him and he did not give up. He just listened to Mahler, there is no need to continue so fast. The 4th is up next anyway, not the 5th.
One of those pieces that repeatedly gives me shivers!
If you love Dvorak, you really need to hear his Cello Concerto. Pretty much universally recognized as the pinnacle of cello writing, ever.
I've left you a comment before. Keep listening my friend. There is so much beautiful music that the majority of the population doesn't know about. I thank you for trying to spread it.
You have a great channel--I really enjoy re-experiencing these pieces with your reactions! All the best!
Its not the Symphonies getting better, its your Ear.
I've listened to a lot of Dvorak's earlier symphonies and they are some of the most underrated works I've ever listened to. I seriously don't understand why it's only his 8th and 9th symphonies that are widely performed.
so i play classical music basically as long as i can think. Now i am studying it, which is awesome. but seeing people discover these beautiful pieces for themselves without that background is the most rewarding and motivating thing that can happen. Thank you for sharing your reactions, please keep going
Never heard this one before and I enjoyed it right along with you. Thanks.
A riveting performance of an all-time favorite. I share the love.
Oh my god, what an amazing video, Gidi! I watched this with a big silly smile on my face and the stank Stravinsky face simaltaneously. Not only is this Dvorak symphony amazing (this was my first reaction too), your reactions were gold!!I headbanged with you, fake-conducted with you and just had a bloody good time. Definitely one of my favourite videos on the channel!! 💖
Love this work, feel-good banger ❤ People be sleeping on my man Dvorak (i know he’s still a “popular” composer, but I still find him under appreciated) , he has such a incredible repertoire filled to the brim with gems in all sort of musical forms. Great reaction as always
The thing about Dvorak is that a handful of his pieces seem to get played all the time and overshadow the rest of his work, which makes him famous but leaves much of his music underappreciated.
"Stop it. Get some help." HAHAHA love it!
I played this literally a few days before this upload. Such a great piece both to listen to and to play
The Czech Suite is another wonderful orchestral piece by Dvorak. As another correspondee has mentioned, Dvorak was also very accomplished in chamber music. Something not known by many ... when Dvorak was little known and struggling, Brahms sent him money anonymously. (I presume you know that Dvorak emigrated to the United States in 1892.)
Brahms was a very good friend and a very bad enemy to have. Ask Hans Rott, except you can't because Brahms drove him to suic*de.
@@KenBreadbox Interesting comment. I just spent some time researching about their relationship.
@@philipadams5386 If you really want a treat, and to appreciate just what we may have lost, listen to Rott's Symphony. You'll hear Mahler 1 in MANY places -- and the theft was Mahler's.
Recommend you listen from Dvorak 3rd symphony. This composer is one of the best who expresses lyrism, romanticism and specially the Czech nationalism in each masterpiece 😊
The 8th is such a marvellous piece. Real summer music.
And Honeck really owns this music.
That being said, I think it is time you try some more chamber music. One of Schubert's last 3 String Quartets: "Rosamunde", "Death and the Maiden" or the G-Major.
Or the most perfect work anyone ever composed: Schubert's String Quintet. Music so precious that one has to take care not to listen to it too often,so it does not lose it's earthshattering impact.
Or Smetana's Piano Trio or the String Quartet "From my life."
Or the piece that put Beethoven's name on the map after he had moved to Vienna: His Septet.
Im so glad your reacting to a great orchestra that doesnt play everythin ridiculously slow
Dvorak at his very (Czech!) best. Just to help explain the wonderful music that Dvorak could write, Gidi, he is universally acknowledged as the most constantly happy, unneurotic and emotionally fulfilled of all the great composers. All his symphonies from No. 4 on are excellent, as are many of his shorter works (try the fabulous Slavonic dances!).
To me, Dvorak's 8th symphony is probably the one piece that I think of as being most emblematic of his overall style. Sunny, extroverted, very much folk-inspired.
I noticed your reaction at 3:00 -- it's a moment in the piece that immediately grabbed my attention the first time I heard it too. It's also a moment where the violas grab the spotlight, and that sudden change in timbre was one of the things that drew me to learn the viola myself. It was also Dvorak's own instrument; he made his living playing the viola in orchestras before he became famous as a composer.
Definitely look into more Dvorak. His 6th symphony is one of my favorite symphonies (along with this one!), and his "American" string quartet is considered an essential string quartet. He wrote some beautiful concert overtures (I highly recommend both his Carnival Overture and In Nature's Realm). Other Dvorak chamber music well worth looking into: his "Dumky" piano trio, his second piano quintet, his "American" string quintet (often overlooked because of the quartet with the same nickname), and his Terzetto for two violins and viola.
First movement.. ok. Second movement... what a masterpiece. With some arabic influence. Light influence. 2nd part of second movement... again very european. And very nice. It is a masterpiece. Maybe best I heard. As a czech I grew up on 9th (of New world) and on Vltava. I never listened to his 8th.. till now. I was listening in bed many times to 9th and Vltava. I am with you on this. 2nd movement is beautifull. Even it here was only this movement I would attend. I have heard 3rd movement before many years ago. I thought it is waltz. No need to embaris myself.. just listen. Distant memories. I wonder how it would sound in a concert hall. I hear inspiration of some Miyazakis work here. It also reminds me of something else. But I do not know of what. :) Probably of this piece itself that I vaguely remember. Gets optimistic like in a kids stories. And last movement of course. All czechs know this. The theme is used in presidental elections. But it continues. It is similar to Poustevnik kinda. So connection to Hrabal - Menzel movies. Wo, then it gets fast. And lush again. And so it goes. Nice. Then we have some R and B :). It is like a army march music . I wonder what it means. There is always a meaning behind these songs. Beautifull horns or trumpets. And again some complicated transitions. I must say Dvorak has fewer of these in 8th than in 9th. This piece is more consistent. It is a pleasant listen. Nothing to add. Beautiful. And soft to heart. When did I hear last time symphony that would has so calm last movement? But of course it ends in high drama :). But only for short time .).
I think you would really enjoy his seventh as well.
Make sure you listen to the Sixth and Seventh symphonies as well. Add the Fourth and Fifth for good measure, they’re terribly underrated!
Great reaction to what has been one of my favourite symphonies for quite a long time now. Many think the 7th is one of the greatest, but i enjoy nos 6 and 8 the most (3 and 5 are also wonderful) - Dvorak is a great composer for chamber music too.
Hey GIDI,
here are some of my all time favourites you need to listen to:
- Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 8, Symphony No. 6
- Jean Sibelius: Lemminkäinen-Suite, Symphony No. 6, Tulen Synty, Luonnotar, Finlandia
- Gustav Holst: Japanese Suite, Beni Mora, The Planets, The Cloud Messenger
- Ralph Vaughan-Williams: A Sea Symphony, A London Symphony, A Pastoral Symphony, Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1
- Charles Villiers Stanford: Symphony No. 3, Songs of the Fleet, Songs of the Sea
- Joseph Marx: Eine Frühlingsmusik, Eine Herbstsinfonie
- Rudi Stephan: Musik für Orchester, Liebeszauber
- Lili Boulanger: Hymne de Soleil, Faust et Helene, Psalm 130
- Rued Langgaard: Sfaernesmusik, Antikrist
- Alfredo Casella: Italia
- George Butterworth: Six songs from "A Shropshire Lad"
- Vasily Kalinnikov: Symphony No. 2, Intermezzo No. 1
- Pietro Yon: Concerto Gregoriano
- Anatoly Liadov: Baba Yaga, Kikimora
- Peter Benoit: Piano Concerto
- Joseph Jongen: Symphonie concertante
- Reinhold Glière: Symphony No.2, Symphony No.3 "Ilya Murometz"
- Marcel Tyberg: Symphony No. 3
- Ottorino Respighi: Pini di Roma, Feste romane, Concerto Gregoriano
- Hans Rott: Symphony
- Josef Suk: Scherzo fantastique
- Arnold Schönberg: Gurrelieder
- Alexander Glazunov: Violin Concerto
- Albert Roussel: Le festin de l'araignée
- Hector Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique
- Maurice Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé
- Frank Bridge: A Fairy Tale
- Paul Juon: Piano Trio No. 4 "Litaniae"
- Viteszlav Novák: Lady Godiva
- Wilhelm Stenhammar: Symphony No. 2
- Richard Wetz: Kleist Overture, Symphony No. 2
Maybe you find something intersting :)
But don't play anything by Johann Fux until you can pronounce his name
Hi Gidi, About Antonín Dvořák; I am glad you decided to ¨Czech¨ him out!😉
😂
Dvořák is my favourite composer! If you love him, try his other symphonies (i love them all) his concertos, Slavonic dances, Piano trios no. 3 & 4, String quartet no. 12 "American", Symphonic variations, Ouvertures "In nature's realm", "Carnival" and "Othello", 3 Slavonic rhapsodies and of course his symphonic poems: The Water Goblin, The Noon Witch, The Golden Spinning Wheel, The Wild Dove.
If you want hear some great and unknown music, try Hristić´s "Legend of Ohrid": ruclips.net/video/w5MFnMuXtRU/видео.html
Don't forget his Serenade for Strings in E major Op. 22.
@@FirstGentleman1 The Serenade for winds is much better.
@@Quotenwagnerianer You mean op. 44? I am going to give it a listen.
I had a feeling you'd really dig this one!! Honeck recorded this piece with the Pittsburgh Symphony, and I can't recommend it enough. It's a lot like this performance which is very good, but with better sound quality and the Pittsburgh symphony orchestra at the top of their game.
Told you so. Slavonic Dances are great too. Also recommend Saint-Saëns Nr. 3 and Shostakovich 11, 13, 10. And Brahms Academic Festival Overture and Mussorgsky Bald Mountain.
you should listen to shostakovich 12
Like Beethoven, Dvořák could take the simplest idea (a simple triad!) and make something of it!
please Nielsen 5th Symphony with NY Phil and Bernstein conducting!!!!!
Gidi, have you considered learning an orchestral instrument and join a community group?
The "Dumky" trio is the most beautiful thing on earth.
Mahler 5 😊
Not happening. I think he gave up on Mahler after 3 bored him
@@macmadnes5262 Don't presume. Mahler 3 did not bore him and he did not give up. He just listened to Mahler, there is no need to continue so fast. The 4th is up next anyway, not the 5th.
Listen to Mahler 5 please please please
Have some patience. He is doing Mahler by the Numbers. The 4th is up next.
alkan op 39 no 8..... i mean do the whole thing if you want... but #8....
Alkan not for beginners.
@@telephilia he's already checked out some alkan. just not this one.
PLEASE do the Planets by Gustav Holst!