Bernstein performs Mozart's 40th Symphony - 2/3

[TheChairoplane]

Herr maestro needs not a score

[msflyingpigz1]

J'aime la chanson! J'aime écouter de la musique classique!

[reignofdalglish]

The first violinsts- playing is class!

[GabrielPadecopeo]

member2798 Totalmente de acuerdo. La versión de Bernstein es insuperable, el tiempo es perfecto para la obra.

[ArtemisiaxAbsinthium]

the guy looks like peter falk

[TheAkasolo]

Il y a cinq personnes qui connaissent pas encore le coton tige.

[TheAkasolo]

C'est également mon tempo favori

[FebalanceChaosCrew]

guys.... i just watched an episode of simpsons and there was a really sad tune.... and i loved it, anyone know what it was?

[GameParodyGuy]

@FebalanceChaosCrew That would be requiem mass lacrimosa

[Pelleas1007]

this tempo is great.

[Pelleas1007]

great tempo

[jdubbari]

An amazing conductor!! 

[HeartGoldMVP]

Great recording, but I like faster, louder and more violent.

[theBike45]

Hearing this rather morose rendition of the G minor makes me appreciate those who have been successful with this piece - the incomparable George Szell and his Cleveland, which routinely bested Lenny every year in competitions, and Andre Previn as well. If you want to hear an exposition of a composer's work that is actually understandable to non-musicians, catch Previn's rehearsal/observations of Brahms. It accomplishes what Bernstein's predantry never allowed- it actually educates the viewer

[iguarni]

GENIUS!

[Rheinmetall1]

What a performance...I really don't know what to say.

[iguarni]

@Rheinmetall1 I totally agree!!!!!!!!! Nothing to say!

[Annahola1]

Excellent! ! ! My dear, I love Bernstein..., not only for his talent and soul - but so really even now I'd love with Lenny...,If I could resurrect him, of course, but somehow I can't, hahah..., just at this track Mozart, his personal interpretation of course ! (...) "What the eyes see and ears hear this does not hurt" (...) ...

I greet you hot, my all friends !...........

[mnemko]

For me, life doesn't get much more pleasurable than listening to this. We should be so grateful, not just to Mozart, not just to Bernstein, not just to the Boston Symphony, but the techies who figured out how to record it and make it available to all of us for free on YouTube. Wow!

[ELGORITHM]

ELGORITHM FUTUR GRAMMY AWARD

[k9nubfeiw0]

ㄱㄴㄷㄻ

[luigyariobros123]

the raving rabbids version was better

[pointreyes6]

I like this

[ryoushii]

If Bernstein loved this, I'm glad to be in such exalted company, because of the final trio of symphonies Mozart wrote, this is the one I most love as well, in part, because for me, it gives a glimpse of what Mozart could have evolved into as a composer had he lived another decade or two. I just picture this train continuing, and running into Beethoven and imaging the result of that impact on both composers and their music.

[rodstartube]

bernstein plays it more vienesse, as it was composed; karajan plays it more like a german hammer (good in his style).

[tylerofdenmark]

Bernstein's interpretation of this symphony was just fantastic. I think that stemmed from the fact that Bernstein had a passionate love for this particular work of Mozart. He gave some brilliant lectures on this symphony at Harvard. I don't know if those lectures are available on YouTube or not.

[Celolapia1]

@tylerofdenmark I was able to obtain these lectures from my music professor on VHS, astonishing...

[tylerofdenmark]

@Celolapia1 Oh my bad I see them now... Please forgive my, um, retardation ;)

[gentat1]

Anybody know where i could get the piano score for this ?

[meyerjohannes]

Beutyiful

[DualThunder]

wtf is up with the flute posture at 0:40? lol

[moose1252]

@DualThunder when you're in the Boston Symphony Orchestra you can do whatever you want. 

[manilio91]

a 00:40 plays fidel?? ah ah

[gh103]

Not many pieces of music can reduce me to an emotional wreck, left speechless at the utter genius of the composer......well.....this is one of them. Got it first on vinyl...wore it out. Bought it again...wore it out again!! 6:11 to the end literally makes my brain tingle.

[Ch3ckm4t3]

When Mozart Symphony played by a full Romantic size orchestra, the string section just seemed a bit too heavy for me.

[GryphonWahle]

@Ch3ckm4t3 I totally agree. I say there are about 40 too many string players playing there. 

[SuperZeroo]

@GryphonWahle That's simply wrong. Perhaps the style has got old-fashioned because of the evolution of the so-called "historical interpretation", but Mozart himself saw some of his symphonies premiered with orchestras in which a total amount of 40 violinists were playing. And that's not an opinion, that's a fact which can be found in the some of the letters he used to wrote to his father.

[Dodo251]

@Ch3ckm4t3 You're kind of right.

[iguarni]

One of the best masterpiece in music history!!!! Mozart in the legend!

[barbavassilis]

greater Mozart

[barbavassilis]

great leonardo

[TheLetMAnn]

what a touching...................... in ma soul

[iguarni]

perfec perfect Leonard Bernstein was a genius!!!!! Count off Mozart!

[thejazztenor]

perfect descending line at 3:54. listening him lecture about this and then hear the performance is so refreshing.

[mario54671]

What?? Where are the other three movements???

[colourfulwithaU]

Sounds grand. This is a conductor who got inside the music.

[shyjaa]

Haha i love the conductor

[louielamson2000]

Went our mind feeling weakness, music like this gave us new energy and recovery HUGE PUSH.. Very good. Thanks

[joeljamh]

ese ruco se parece a magneto de los X-MEN

[hymnistic]

Listen very closely you can hear; "Maria!" (at 7:13)

[cagalvis]

Where that sound come from? The sky.....nothing like Mozart....

[Barnaldomort]

so fucking passionate I love it!

[matthewR77]

Horn angle FLUTE! :)

[rickypix]

Boston Symphony at this moment is golden

[ilovealexanderrybak]

the best way ive ever heard it played before.

[pianopio]

bella esecuzione come sempre bernstein il meglio

[grumpyjellybean]

It's to bad Mozart didn't write for trombone.

[thesir27]

occasionally there's a trombone in his scores (Magic Flute overture has one). an uncommon instrument to have in an orchestra in his time

[majortom51970]

One of the best interpretations I've heard...

[davidjb100]

7:23 - 7:28 sounds like a last glimmer of hope, in which the flute is begging for forgiveness, only to be answered by frustration. Mozart always seems to have subtle hints of emotion that break free of his near limitless control, and I am convinced that no one understood this better than Bernstein.

[FAWPro]

wow that sounds sorta poetic lol But that is a good way to put it.

[davidjb100]

Why thank you! Lol.

[fitzgerald1337x]

i think the tempo here isn't necessarily something that should be debated because, remember, this was done specifically so that he could discuss it before/after. if you watch the other videos related to this, you'll notice that he's talking a lot about the harmonic progressions and whatnot.

[atralfalgar]

The best interpretation I ever heard !

[eoghdes18]

I quite enjoy the tempo. I like it faster too, but it's easier to appreciate the harmonic shifts at this tempo. It feels more Mozartean at this speed.

[CsOH23]

I LOVE it!!!

[member2798]

This is my favorite tempo. Every other version sounds too fast to me.

[DDBconducts]

Mozart noted: Molto (!) Allegro

[tokeification]

@member2798 hmm see i like it sped up. i think it adds to the agressive and spastic nature this piece seems to have...

[890phil890]

@member2798 what year is this?

[member2798]

@890phil890 1973.

[mightyafrowhitey]

@member2798 I completely agree. I've always thought they took this too fast. Don't know what tempo Mozart had in mind when he wrote it, but it really doesn't matter much does it. 

[adhamfeteha]

Try Furtwangler. It is the best.

[eoghdes18]

Furtwangler almost always is. :)

[cvpmus]

Yes, I think the tempo is too slow. We must see that in the score Mozart writes MOLTO ALLEGRO, so I think it could be a little faster. If not, the repetition (Eb D D, Eb D D, Eb D D Bb) of the beggining of the first theme has to have a progressive crescendo to balance the efect of the repetition and it sounds, in consequence, too much romantic. Compare, if not, the version of Harnoncourt and you'll clearily see how the tempo affects the expression and phrasing.

[AustinShowen]

Great, impassioned performance of the g minor symphony! I like Bernstein's interpretation much better than Karajan's.

[marccreate]

It's great. Not the best acoustic. NOT Symphny Hall.

[Adamalgorithm]

I like this performance

[hapzone]

Personally, I think they're playing it too slow

[miltyu97]

Interesting observation.

Maybe we as a society have adapted to a higher-paced lifestyle?

How would the people of Mozart's day have interpreted Bernstein's tempo of conducting?

We can only speculate.

[hapzone]

That makes sense although I prefer it played at a faster speed-the Italian tempo means something like very fast in English so I feel it should be played a bit faster. I think you are right about how people would have thought about it hundreds of years ago, though.

[1ragnar1]

bersteins recording with the vienna philharmonic is much better, but this is very good, too.

[MI6MI5]

I would've liked the tempo a tiny bit faster.

[bearkabob]

Leonard Bernstein is good. Although, when it comes to Mozart he tends to interpret his works on the slower side. Its worth listening to but this is not one of the definitive interpretations. Herbert von Karajan and the Berliner Philhmarmonker are one of the few to own that distinct honor. In some respects I do believe that there is some "less than world-class" music being made here. The interpretation is rather dull and uninspiring.

[vikramkrishnan]

i agree this piece has a bit more paaion than lenny has given it. mind you he is one of the best, probably the best when it comes to beethoven's ninth or mahler. but this is certainly not one of his best

[Nachtmarchen]

It wasn't a Karajan specialty either. Karajan lets the notes blur into each other, the strings cloak and cloud all the other instruments - it sounds spongy and bland, much slower than the actual tempo he chooses. I'm talking about his Berlin years of course, his 50s stuff could be good - though never really was much of a Mozartean. Interesting that Lenny chooses a much more appropriate tempo for the piece at the piano, did he fear the orchestra wouldn't be able to keep up with him?

[eoghdes18]

Furtwangler was a complete incompetent when it came to classical/early romantic music. His Beethoven symphonies are appalling, and his Mozart Requiem should be taken of the market it's so bad!

[nileppezdude]

lmao at the guy spaced out at 3:56

[ilmaestro18]

how on earth is this performance sloppy?

[nreitman]

Pretty damn sloppy for an orchestra of the big five.

[scutterbotch08]

One of the greatest conductors the world has ever seen conduction one of the greatest orchestras the world has ever seen. Excellent video! Thank you!

[sakuno1996]

I can play it on my Flute.

[ThaSchwab]

Damn flautist was holding the flute so wrong it wasn't even funny.

[thelightisahead]

lol. I'm not a flautist, but I'd like to be, so I'm interested - how is she holding it wrong? It looks slanted to me, interfering with where the mouth sits over the... hole. lol

[ThaSchwab]

She was holding it VERY low. It's supposed to be parallel to her mouth, or at least close to.

[thelightisahead]

Ahhh I see, I did wonder if that was it. It's silly how players who are meant to be part of a professional orchestra can make such glaring errors!

[nijikon5]

I've been in both marching bands and orchestras from elementary to high school, the only time you are required to hold the flute parallel to your mouth is for marching competitions based on uniformity and presentation points. There isn't a more correct or incorrect way to hold your flute in orchestra type environment.. We also have to remember that these players all auditioned to be there, professional orchestras are very exclusive and only accept top caliber instrumentalists.

[dasteufelhund]

whatever position that allows that flutist or any instrumentalist play and sound at their best, is fine by me. That is Doriot Dwyer by the way the first woman to play in an American Orchestra(BSO). So I think she did something right to earn that chair.

[jaxsyd]

We used to play this often in the Edmonton Symphony way back in the mid-70s. It is great to hear it again. Why is it not played more often?

Bruce

[Blackdragon595]

Because these are the days on people who are too lazy to learn hard pieces and would rather be happy in their ignornace of being good at simple works.

[sakuno1996]

I love it!

[TeachTomCR]

we performed this in high school and was ambitious project that propelled many of us to All-City Orchestra in NYC, Thanks Mr. Solotoff!

[Clayford27]

Amazing. I love this, thanks so much for posting this!

[sourcemerlin1]

Thank you very much!

[foda23]

Beautiful, thanks for the video.