My father, Don Lorusso, was a musician and introduced me to Stravinsky and The Firebird Suite when I was a young girl. At that point we could only listen to it on the 'stereo'. What a pleasure to watch the master himself conduct. I hope my Dad in heaven is able to watch through my eyes. Thank you, You Tube.
I was astonished to discover this is not the complete ballet, but the 1945 suite, which I have never heard! Still a lot missing from the complete, but some fascinating orchestration changes and transitions. Thanks!
I believe that the section from 21:30 to the end has to be one of the most brilliant, somber, emotional passages I have ever heard in my life. Long live may Stravinsky's legacy flourish. This is true music, it heats the deepest parts of your soul. Amazing. Speechless. 5/5
In his final decade or so, Stravinsky travelled the world conducting his music. Another conductor, Robert Craft, who knew exactly what Stravinsky wanted, went ahead to prepare the orchestras and Stravinsky conducted the performances. I saw one such performance in Ann Arbor of Persephone and experiencing the presence of its composer was powerful and unforgettable. The ovation given by the audience on this video is clear evidence that they were moved by the occasion. There are three Firebird Suites that I know of: 1912 (aka 1911), 1919 and 1945. The one most often played is the 1919 version. I believe that this recording is the 1945 version but am not sure. The complete ballet is also often played.
I saw it in Caracas, Aula Magna of the Central University of Venezuala. By the way, in "Petrushka" interrupted the orchestra: "bar 33!" And made them repeat from that compass. Lo vi en Caracas, Aula Magna de la Universidad Central de Venezuala. Por cierto, en "Petrushka" interrumpió a la orquesta: "bar 33!" y los hizo repetir desde ese compás.
This is music. This peice will not ever dwindel into the night. This will be somthing that continues to inspire. This will be around long after all the hip- hop and pop crap disapates. This is true music at its best. Bravo, bravo.
Just watch the final moments of the video. Stravinsky's humility is so apparent and real. Unlike other conductors I have watched others conduct this extraordinary piece of musical history his leadership is measured, direct, and simple. I can only imagine that he was a musician's conductor-he smiles at the orchestra form beginning to end. I always loved his music; now I really like him.
two guys were ringing at his door. Charlie Parker and Frank Zappa. two styles at the opposite of their own conception of music. they were would just meet the Maestro. Stravinsky is the leader of anykind of music. thank you Mr. Taam.
To all of you who criticized this performance, I agree with you whole heartedly. Without a doubt, we clearly could have conducted the Firebird far better than Stravinsky ... NOT!!
Igor Stravinsky conducted his "Firebird" in 1959 in Tokyo. The orchestra is NHK Sympony Orchestra, Tokyo, one of the leading orchestra in Japan since 1920s.(recently conducted by Dutoit and Previn). Stravinsky was, indeed, not an excellent conductor himself (learned conducting from Ernest Amsermet but never got a good mark), nevertheless this is an important historical document!" I recently talked with the first oboist here (now 92 years old) and I also knew some of the players of the orchestra.
+Krtek254 You are one lucky guy to have the opportunity to meet with history. Although Stravinsky does not look like Claudio Abbado or Valery Gergiev, he is very efficient with conveying his thoughts and directions to the orchestra.. I think he's quite good..
Interesting. I have always wondered why I prefer other people's interpretations of this - notably, the Pierre Boulez/New York Philharmonic version from 1975.
My teacher said he met him (my teacher is deceased) and had him tour OSU back in the 1940s. SAid Stravinsky always insisted on carrying his luggage around the campus himself.
Incredible. 2nd Flute/Piccolo botches a note (plays C-sharp instead of C-natural) at 16:36. Gets nervous, picks up his flute, realizes he doesn't need to switch to it, picks back up the piccolo. So beautiful that the camera stays on him. Nothing like missing a note in an exposed solo when the composer is conducting- especially when it's STRAVINSKY! This video is a wonderful piece of history, thanks for posting. And, if I may, I do believe all his tempos are- well, his tempos.
It was totally unnecessary and pointlessly unkind -- if indeed accurate -- to point this out. Thankfully, there are not many people like you. There's always a critic who think he knows everything.
I can`t explain the happines, and extremely intensity this music makes me feel... I´m just diving into it... Stravinsky IS the XXI Century COMPOSRER... There is no doubt about it!... I'm from Argentinian percussionist and I´m studying hte Timpani parts from The Rite of Spring... As well i have already finished a composition in his honour (it was an excercise for the Electroacustic Music Career of Quilmes Univfersity)... I LOVE STRAVINSKY!!!!! (and Bela Bartok too!)
This is absolutely my most favorite song of any orchestra piece I have ever heard
13 лет назад
When you listen to modern interpretation of this fantastic music, it lacks the spirit and the drama of this original interpretation. Stravinsky was right to conduct his own works. What a testimony to his music! Thank for the video.
The Firebird Prince Ivan and his sister Katooshka lived with their father, the Tsar, in a castle in Russia. Of the two children, the Tsar preferred the daughter as she seemed to be more hard working than the son, but really it was the other way around, only Katooshka was very sneaky. The children had to care for the Tsar’s greatest treasure, a tree with apples made out of gold. But one day it was discovered that a golden apple was missing from the tree. The next night another one was stolen. The next night the Tsar told Ivan and Katooshka to stay awake in the garden and find out who was stealing the golden apples. Katooshka didn’t even try and stay awake, she just left it up to Ivan to do everything again. After a while Ivan saw the most beautiful thing he had ever seen. It was the Firebird. He ran after the Firebird, but got there just too late, although he did catch the Firebird’s tail, and one of the beautiful feathers came out in his hand. In the morning, Katooshka shouted at Ivan for letting the robber get away. When the Tsar came to speak to them, she also said that Ivan has been very lazy and hadn’t done anything, so it was his fault that the Firebird had got away! The Tsar was very angry but he was amazed at the beauty of the feather. He sent his son away to catch the Firebird. He was not to return until he had caught the splendid bird. A long journey began. First Ivan reached a creepy forest where he had to decide whether to go forward and be eaten by a wolf or go back and be a failure. Ivan was determined to find the Firebird and prove to his father that he wasn’t useless. So he entered the forest and there he encountered a toothless wolf. But how could a wolf be dangerous if he did not have any teeth? A pedlar had given Ivan a wolf’s tooth in his father’s city. The tooth was useful for polishing the golden apples to make them extra clean and shiny. Ivan took pity in the wolf and gave him the tooth. The wolf was very grateful and decided to accompany Ivan to the castle of Koschei the Deathless. (This was where they knew the Firebird was imprisoned) But the evil wizard, Koschei the Deathless had another prisoner: Princess Vasilisa, princess of incomparable beauty. The wolf knew some facts about the princess and he issued Ivan with this warning. “Do not look at her! She has been bewitched by Koschei the Deathless. He has turned her heart into wood, and hidden it so she could have no feelings. You will fall hopelessly in love with her, and she will never be able to return the feelings.” The wolf was not the bravest of animals; he left Ivan to go into the castle on his own. Without the wolf there to remind him, Ivan forgot all the warnings and fell deeply in love with Vasilisa. Now the prince had to master two difficult tasks: he had to rescue the Firebird and his princess. Before he had the chance to take the princess away, Koschei the Deathless appeared. He said that Baba Yaga, a terrible witch, had stolen the Firebird. Koschei the Deathless told Ivan that if he got the Firebird back from Baba Yaga, he would give Ivan the opportunity to choose between the princess and the Firebird. The wizard told Ivan how to find Baba Yaga, and how the Firebird was tied with a golden cord to Baba Yaga’s crow, Vanka. Ivan set off to find the Firebird, riding on the wolf’s back. When they found the witch’s house, they saw that both Baba Yaga and the crow were fast asleep. Once again the wolf issued a warning to prince Ivan. “Before you go, a word of warning. The Firebird will be fastened by a golden cord. Bring the Firebird, but leave the cord.” Of course Ivan forgot this warning, he went to get the Firebird, he was about to leave with the Firebird with the golden cord still tied to the it, when Vanka the crow wakes up and squawks and squawks. Baba Yaga also wakes up and now Ivan was captured. The wolf heard all this and went and fetched princess Vasilisa. Vasilisa pretended to be a pedlar woman and tricked Baba Yaga in to letting her into the house. When Baba Yaga and the crow were once again asleep, Ivan, the Firebird and princess Vasilisa ran away. They all went back to Koschei’s castle. Ivan was then stuck. He had to choose between the Firebird and the princess. He would not be allowed back in his father’s house if he didn’t bring back the bird, but how could he leave his beloved princess behind. Koschei (as he was truly evil) then tried to turn Ivan’s heart into wood. Vasilisa saw this and suddenly burst into tears. “Stop!….. Stop that I tell you! Stop your crying!” shouted Koschei the Deathless. In an instance, Vasilisa realised where he had hidden her heart …… in her tears. Koschei the Deathless died and Vasilisa’s heart was no longer wooden. Ivan then told the Firebird that he was free, but the Firebird chose to come to the Tsar’s castle with him. When they arrived, Ivan’s horrible sister - princess Katooshka tried to prevent them showing the Firebird to the Tsar. She gave Ivan and Vasilisa two apples from the golden tree (she had poisoned them to try and catch the thief). Ivan and Vasilisa both died! Now only the Firebird, who had promised to return a favour to Ivan, knew a solution. She flew to the fountain of life and therefore could return and revive the children with the magic water. The Tsar now noticed how he had mistreated Ivan and that Katooshka should be punished forever. He banished her to lead a pedlar’s life. However, Ivan and Vasilisa also took pleasure in the thought of being free and jolly pedlars. Finally they all decided to become pedlars and lived happily ever after!
People who understand music better than I speak reverently of this composition. I can only tell you of the ballet that I see when I hear it, of the gentle clarinet that caresses me at 13:24 after all the twitterings, and its lordly coda that is the signature of a genius. Thank you Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky, may you R.I.P.
o my god. even though the quality is not really good, the beginning is the best i've EVER heard. it really gives me creeps. the WHOLE of my body have goosebumps
The sliding string harmonics in the opening still send shivers down my spine. I might be very wrong (and often am) but I'm sure that Mr Stravinsky said that in one part of the ballet, the scoring for the brass section recalled the taste of "Marmalade."
Quite a good performance in fact I am really amazed how good the quality is. I was wondering how large the orchestra was as it appears kind of small . 21 Century technology is amazing in that we have such wonderful and historical performances at our finger tips.
@mendozairis It happens alot in orchestra, because this is what true music is, and most classical musicians like Igor Stravinsky have such vision that they can inspire a crowd of people.
@sirlollo American TV doesn't show this kind of stuff much anymore either. They fill PBS with "viewer requests" during fundraising, and of course, viewers never request classical music (unless it's sung by Andrea Bocelli).
Talent & hard work are for 2nd rate drudges. It's truly been said that "Work is for Mules and Fools!" For genius, all things are easy. For example, Jackie Du Pre playing the Elgar cello concerto: ruclips.net/video/OPhkZW_jwc0/видео.html
@meneltar There are actually RUclips Partnerships now where if you have popular enough videos, youtube will pay you and you can post videos as long as you want. You can also put special pictures as the thumbnail for the video
My father, Don Lorusso, was a musician and introduced me to Stravinsky and The Firebird Suite when I was a young girl. At that point we could only listen to it on the 'stereo'. What a pleasure to watch the master himself conduct. I hope my Dad in heaven is able to watch through my eyes. Thank you, You Tube.
He conducts how he feels it at that moment. It's all real to him.
I was astonished to discover this is not the complete ballet, but the 1945 suite, which I have never heard! Still a lot missing from the complete, but some fascinating orchestration changes and transitions. Thanks!
_one of the most mystical, magical, transcendent pieces I've ever heard. Captured me in my youth. It does still._
I believe that the section from 21:30 to the end has to be one of the most brilliant, somber, emotional passages I have ever heard in my life. Long live may Stravinsky's legacy flourish. This is true music, it heats the deepest parts of your soul. Amazing. Speechless. 5/5
In his final decade or so, Stravinsky travelled the world conducting his music. Another conductor, Robert Craft, who knew exactly what Stravinsky wanted, went ahead to prepare the orchestras and Stravinsky conducted the performances.
I saw one such performance in Ann Arbor of Persephone and experiencing the presence of its composer was powerful and unforgettable. The ovation given by the audience on this video is clear evidence that they were moved by the occasion.
There are three Firebird Suites that I know of: 1912 (aka 1911), 1919 and 1945. The one most often played is the 1919 version. I believe that this recording is the 1945 version but am not sure. The complete ballet is also often played.
+Robert Howard lucky you :)
I saw it in Caracas, Aula Magna of the Central University of Venezuala. By the way, in "Petrushka" interrupted the orchestra: "bar 33!" And made them repeat from that compass. Lo vi en Caracas, Aula Magna de la Universidad Central de Venezuala. Por cierto, en "Petrushka" interrumpió a la orquesta: "bar 33!" y los hizo repetir desde ese compás.
This is music. This peice will not ever dwindel into the night. This will be somthing that continues to inspire. This will be around long after all the hip- hop and pop crap disapates. This is true music at its best. Bravo, bravo.
It's a shame that the audio quality is so poor, this is the best version of this that I have heard!! The end gives me shivers.
It's amazing how many of these virtual reality masters think they can do it better. What an age we live in...
haroun elnil, yes truly . What a People!!
I love Stravinsky. His work is so brilliant, and the risks he takes are that of a composer so skilled that they end up not really being risks at all.
How sublime...I'm currently visiting Yokosuka, Japan and I find this. A perfect day with a perfect soundtrack.
Maravilhoso, que felicidade ter a oportunidade de ver o próprio stravinsky conduzindo seu lindo pássaro de fogo!
Just watch the final moments of the video. Stravinsky's humility is so apparent and real. Unlike other conductors I have watched others conduct this extraordinary piece of musical history his leadership is measured, direct, and simple. I can only imagine that he was a musician's conductor-he smiles at the orchestra form beginning to end. I always loved his music; now I really like him.
realmente es un gran compositor. que bueno que el mismo Stravinsky vivio y disfruto su música.
two guys were ringing at his door. Charlie Parker and Frank Zappa. two styles at the opposite of their own conception of music. they were would just meet the Maestro. Stravinsky is the leader of anykind of music. thank you Mr. Taam.
Marvelous -- just marvelous. My first time hearing this. It's pieces like this that make you fall in love with music all over again
The GREATEST Artist of all time. In my opinion.
For the first time I listen to this piece conducted by the composer himself. Wonderful! Thanks for posting.
To all of you who criticized this performance, I agree with you whole heartedly. Without a doubt, we clearly could have conducted the Firebird far better than Stravinsky ... NOT!!
+Ceil Bush You bring out a great point: never underestimate the power of composers conducting their own pieces..
Igor Stravinsky conducted his "Firebird" in 1959 in Tokyo.
The orchestra is NHK Sympony Orchestra, Tokyo, one of the leading orchestra in Japan since 1920s.(recently conducted by Dutoit and Previn).
Stravinsky was, indeed, not an excellent conductor himself (learned conducting from Ernest Amsermet but never got a good mark), nevertheless this is an important historical document!"
I recently talked with the first oboist here (now 92 years old) and I also knew some of the players of the orchestra.
+Krtek254 You are one lucky guy to have the opportunity to meet with history.
Although Stravinsky does not look like Claudio Abbado or Valery Gergiev, he is very efficient with conveying his thoughts and directions to the orchestra.. I think he's quite good..
Interesting. I have always wondered why I prefer other people's interpretations of this - notably, the Pierre Boulez/New York Philharmonic version from 1975.
My teacher said he met him (my teacher is deceased) and had him tour OSU back in the 1940s. SAid Stravinsky always insisted on carrying his luggage around the campus himself.
Jesse11P #BuckeyePride
My new favorite is by Valery Gergiev. Sublime.
Es bueno ver y oir esta hermosa obra conducida por el propio Stavinsky
Incredible. 2nd Flute/Piccolo botches a note (plays C-sharp instead of C-natural) at 16:36. Gets nervous, picks up his flute, realizes he doesn't need to switch to it, picks back up the piccolo. So beautiful that the camera stays on him. Nothing like missing a note in an exposed solo when the composer is conducting- especially when it's STRAVINSKY! This video is a wonderful piece of history, thanks for posting. And, if I may, I do believe all his tempos are- well, his tempos.
It was totally unnecessary and pointlessly unkind -- if indeed accurate -- to point this out. Thankfully, there are not many people like you. There's always a critic who think he knows everything.
КРАСОТА, ОБОЖАЮ СТРАВИНСКОГО❤️
ВЕСНА СВЯЩЕННАЯ.👍
ЖАР ПТИЦА. 👍
I can`t explain the happines, and extremely intensity this music makes me feel... I´m just diving into it... Stravinsky IS the XXI Century COMPOSRER... There is no doubt about it!... I'm from Argentinian percussionist and I´m studying hte Timpani parts from The Rite of Spring... As well i have already finished a composition in his honour (it was an excercise for the Electroacustic Music Career of Quilmes Univfersity)... I LOVE STRAVINSKY!!!!! (and Bela Bartok too!)
I loved playing this!!! I keep sitting in orchestra, thinking I wish it was last year and we we could be playing the Firebird!!!
Extraordinaire et précieux document !!!
Merci pour le post .
Document essentiel et fabuleux. Merci
OMG ITS THE MAN HIMSELF!!! Thank you for creating this piece good sir 🫡!
The sound of the orchestra is incredible!!! this is FIREBIRD!!!!
This is absolutely my most favorite song of any orchestra piece I have ever heard
When you listen to modern interpretation of this fantastic music, it lacks the spirit and the drama of this original interpretation. Stravinsky was right to conduct his own works. What a testimony to his music! Thank for the video.
Amazing Stravinsky!
The Firebird
Prince Ivan and his sister Katooshka lived with their father, the Tsar, in a castle in Russia. Of the two children, the Tsar preferred the daughter as she seemed to be more hard working than the son, but really it was the other way around, only Katooshka was very sneaky.
The children had to care for the Tsar’s greatest treasure, a tree with apples made out of gold. But one day it was discovered that a golden apple was missing from the tree. The next night another one was stolen. The next night the Tsar told Ivan and Katooshka to stay awake in the garden and find out who was stealing the golden apples.
Katooshka didn’t even try and stay awake, she just left it up to Ivan to do everything again. After a while Ivan saw the most beautiful thing he had ever seen. It was the Firebird. He ran after the Firebird, but got there just too late, although he did catch the Firebird’s tail, and one of the beautiful feathers came out in his hand.
In the morning, Katooshka shouted at Ivan for letting the robber get away. When the Tsar came to speak to them, she also said that Ivan has been very lazy and hadn’t done anything, so it was his fault that the Firebird had got away! The Tsar was very angry but he was amazed at the beauty of the feather. He sent his son away to catch the Firebird. He was not to return until he had caught the splendid bird. A long journey began.
First Ivan reached a creepy forest where he had to decide whether to go forward and be eaten by a wolf or go back and be a failure. Ivan was determined to find the Firebird and prove to his father that he wasn’t useless. So he entered the forest and there he encountered a toothless wolf. But how could a wolf be dangerous if he did not have any teeth? A pedlar had given Ivan a wolf’s tooth in his father’s city. The tooth was useful for polishing the golden apples to make them extra clean and shiny. Ivan took pity in the wolf and gave him the tooth. The wolf was very grateful and decided to accompany Ivan to the castle of Koschei the Deathless. (This was where they knew the Firebird was imprisoned)
But the evil wizard, Koschei the Deathless had another prisoner: Princess Vasilisa, princess of incomparable beauty. The wolf knew some facts about the princess and he issued Ivan with this warning.
“Do not look at her! She has been bewitched by Koschei the Deathless. He has turned her heart into wood, and hidden it so she could have no feelings. You will fall hopelessly in love with her, and she will never be able to return the feelings.”
The wolf was not the bravest of animals; he left Ivan to go into the castle on his own. Without the wolf there to remind him, Ivan forgot all the warnings and fell deeply in love with Vasilisa.
Now the prince had to master two difficult tasks: he had to rescue the Firebird and his princess. Before he had the chance to take the princess away, Koschei the Deathless appeared. He said that Baba Yaga, a terrible witch, had stolen the Firebird. Koschei the Deathless told Ivan that if he got the Firebird back from Baba Yaga, he would give Ivan the opportunity to choose between the princess and the Firebird. The wizard told Ivan how to find Baba Yaga, and how the Firebird was tied with a golden cord to Baba Yaga’s crow, Vanka.
Ivan set off to find the Firebird, riding on the wolf’s back. When they found the witch’s house, they saw that both Baba Yaga and the crow were fast asleep. Once again the wolf issued a warning to prince Ivan.
“Before you go, a word of warning. The Firebird will be fastened by a golden cord. Bring the Firebird, but leave the cord.”
Of course Ivan forgot this warning, he went to get the Firebird, he was about to leave with the Firebird with the golden cord still tied to the it, when Vanka the crow wakes up and squawks and squawks. Baba Yaga also wakes up and now Ivan was captured.
The wolf heard all this and went and fetched princess Vasilisa. Vasilisa pretended to be a pedlar woman and tricked Baba Yaga in to letting her into the house. When Baba Yaga and the crow were once again asleep, Ivan, the Firebird and princess Vasilisa ran away.
They all went back to Koschei’s castle. Ivan was then stuck. He had to choose between the Firebird and the princess. He would not be allowed back in his father’s house if he didn’t bring back the bird, but how could he leave his beloved princess behind. Koschei (as he was truly evil) then tried to turn Ivan’s heart into wood. Vasilisa saw this and suddenly burst into tears.
“Stop!….. Stop that I tell you! Stop your crying!” shouted Koschei the Deathless.
In an instance, Vasilisa realised where he had hidden her heart …… in her tears. Koschei the Deathless died and Vasilisa’s heart was no longer wooden. Ivan then told the Firebird that he was free, but the Firebird chose to come to the Tsar’s castle with him.
When they arrived, Ivan’s horrible sister - princess Katooshka tried to prevent them showing the Firebird to the Tsar. She gave Ivan and Vasilisa two apples from the golden tree (she had poisoned them to try and catch the thief). Ivan and Vasilisa both died!
Now only the Firebird, who had promised to return a favour to Ivan, knew a solution. She flew to the fountain of life and therefore could return and revive the children with the magic water.
The Tsar now noticed how he had mistreated Ivan and that Katooshka should be punished forever. He banished her to lead a pedlar’s life. However, Ivan and Vasilisa also took pleasure in the thought of being free and jolly pedlars. Finally they all decided to become pedlars and lived happily ever after!
Charles Stewart, thank you very much for this tale! :-)
I have an old Masterworks recording of him directing this, and Rite of Spring. I had never seen him directing it until this. Wonderful!
i liked the lady at the very beginning! but of course this is a master piece that the world could not be without
Fantastic, simply fantastic, thanks a lot for share this beautiful vid meneltar, thank you very much!
Thank you so much... This is my favorite piece of classical music.
uno de los más grandes genios de la musica y del pensamiento humano, gracias por este magnífico video
I want to see him conducting the "Dance of the Earth" and the "Sacrificial Dance". These excerpts are so awesome!
I keep listening to 6:54-7:40 over and over. Sublime. Always loved this suite.
14:43 there's that lick
People who understand music better than I speak reverently of this composition. I can only tell you of the ballet that I see when I hear it, of the gentle clarinet that caresses me at 13:24 after all the twitterings, and its lordly coda that is the signature of a genius. Thank you Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky, may you R.I.P.
23rd time I've heard this piece and I learn something different each time, musically.
just divine ! full of simpicity and yet very complex ! a piece of this magnitude seams created by an angel !
I love the way the ending makes you feel.
The 1965 version from London is still by far the best version of this epic Suite !!!!!
Igor, as always, bringin' it in a big way -Ass-kickingly gorgeous and Life-Affirmingly beautiful...
That's almost 3 minutes of applause. But he deserves every second of it.
wow i havent heard this in a while. Its a beautiful thing how your appreciation grows over the years.
Happy birthday.Igor!
Great vid thanks for posting it...
Great piece of music
Great composition by a great artist
13 thumbs down? Who in their right mind?........
I think the new term is "intellectually disabled". It replaced "retarded".
Remarkable upload!!! Thank you so much!!!
Thank you for posting this! Please post some more!
Que relíquia!
Stravinsky conducted NHK Symphony Orchestra in the Osaka International Festival 1959.
This is "The Firebird" Suite (1945 version).
o my god. even though the quality is not really good, the beginning is the best i've EVER heard. it really gives me creeps. the WHOLE of my body have goosebumps
unique definition with a word : sublime!
Un video histórico de un músico que fue más allá de lo clásico.
@phlizmo
such musical thoughts are very rare, and deserve the deepest respect.
j.
Thank you for upload it!
The sliding string harmonics in the opening still send shivers down my spine. I might be very wrong (and often am) but I'm sure that Mr Stravinsky said that in one part of the ballet, the scoring for the brass section recalled the taste of "Marmalade."
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Me too. That would be a dream come true!!
I love this. (: Blue Knights 2012 is playing the finale in this year's show.
Genius. That's All.
Wonderful.
@ezteliita
I find tears streaming down my cheeks every time I watch his curtain calls. The man and his music are a true gift from the Gods...
@sanchaofgo Thank you ! Happy New Year!
日本人にとって名誉なひとときなのに、日本語コメントがないのが寂しいので日本語で敢えてコメントします。晩年のストラヴィンスキーが益々精確さと簡素さを追い求めていたのが分かる演奏でした。ごちそうさまでした。晩年のストラヴィンスキーはベートーヴェンやモーツァルトやハイドン果てはボッケリーニの特に室内楽曲にしか関心がなかったそうですから。
+jus cogens 若き日のN響指揮研究員だった故岩城宏之さんが打楽器奏者として演奏されているところも貴重な映像ですね。岩城さんは生前N響アワーでストラビンスキーがリハーサル中に突然指揮をやめてある楽器（確かクラリネット）の楽譜を書き直し始めて、その間楽員たちはひたすら待ち続けたというエピソードを話されました。偉大な作曲家ではあったけど名指揮者ではなかったこともｗただ書き直している間、子供のように嬉しそうな顔をして書き直していたそうです。
+contarou この貴重な映像の下、日本語で会話が出来てありがたい限りです。名指揮者ではないかもですが、音楽が好きなのが伝わってきて、好みではありますね。岩城さんは晩年までそのネタはよく話して下さっていましたよね。
This is wonderful! You made my day!
i used to watch the one of the finale everyday... now i can watch THIS everyday! ohhhh yea (:
My god....how fantastic.
You really ought to say *AWESOME*!! Everybody says "Awesome" now...lol
bellissimo filmato
@ellesmithfagan It says in this video " May1, 1959 at Osaka Festival Hall." 3:25 The Orchestra is NHK Symphony Orchestra.
Sometimes I am close to thanking god for giving us youtube...
Quite a good performance in fact I am really amazed how good the quality is. I was wondering how large the orchestra was as it appears kind of small .
21 Century technology is amazing in that we have such wonderful and historical performances at our finger tips.
Magistral!!!! El Mismisimo Strawinsky dirigiendo. DE ANTOLOGIA
The definitive performance.
ohhh so beautiful thanks for uplodaing this :DDD
It is.. So perfect...!
Thanks for post it!
How can it, as an experience of the soul, get any better?
La parsimonia más hermosa
An old Stockhausen interview brought me here for research
the FFFF section at 27:56 gets ruined by the brass overblowing... but it's still awesome! thanks for posting this!
thank you gracias
Dios supremo los pelos de punta desde el primer compas
17:11- Infernal Danse
21:15- Berceuse
i'll edit later when i have time to go through sections
@mendozairis It happens alot in orchestra, because this is what true music is, and most classical musicians like Igor Stravinsky have such vision that they can inspire a crowd of people.
3 minute ovation.
bel video,Grazie
i just...cant stop crying D:
Skillz that killz sonnnn! Stravinsky ma boiiii!
'The lick' brought me here... (14:44)
sensational
C'est évidemment LUI LE MEILLEUR...
@sirlollo American TV doesn't show this kind of stuff much anymore either. They fill PBS with "viewer requests" during fundraising, and of course, viewers never request classical music (unless it's sung by Andrea Bocelli).
Love his look at 28:07. Even he can't deny how wonderful this was:)
@meneltar Well... I guess such an important community website should have a good public relation staff... Very nice post, by the way! ;-)
There is NO such thing like "gods". HIS talent & hard work only.
Talent & hard work are for 2nd rate drudges. It's truly been said that "Work is for Mules and Fools!" For genius, all things are easy.
For example, Jackie Du Pre playing the Elgar cello concerto: ruclips.net/video/OPhkZW_jwc0/видео.html
you're the best!
@meneltar There are actually RUclips Partnerships now where if you have popular enough videos, youtube will pay you and you can post videos as long as you want. You can also put special pictures as the thumbnail for the video