Grieg Two elegical pieces - Våren (Last Spring)

[JulianaBoBana]

3 people accidentally clicked the dislike button

[SpecialForcie]

I have the most amazing case of goosebumps.

:)

[nicholson112358]

3:13 *dies* ...so full and elegiac.

[daryatk]

All I can say ..... Simply beautiful. It captures so much emotion, I ended up with tears in my eyes . It brings back memories.

[Ramaz1969]

One day, I'll travel to Norway to put flowers on your grave. Thank you Mr. Edvard Grieg.

[oOHisMastersVoiceOo]

My dad played this on the violin on my grandmother's funeral :')

[touhoufreak]

+1 if you see the Score of this in the background of the Prismriver Sisters spellcards...

[Samodiva007]

That piece of music is so,so special to me...it's so beutiful..Thank you for uploading it!!!:)

[01wales]

never heard this piece till today... it's completely wonderful!

[rylisgranny]

Would like to thank you for putting up such a pretty piece of music. I listen to it once a day. Thank you

[moltoallegro19]

@rylisgranny The pleasure is all mine, truly. I uploaded this because I love it so much and I wanted as many people as possible to discover it and appreciate its beauty, and every positive comment about it makes me happy that yet another person is listening and feeling the same way I do when hearing it - the same way Grieg himself probably felt when composing it more than a century ago. You're welcome.

[karlakor]

@moltoallegro19 I also thank you for uploading Grieg's Last Spring. My mother was Norwegian, and I grew up listening to Grieg and Sibelius, but not until I was grown did I discover this piece. I don't know how anyone can listen to this and not be touched.

[newFranzFerencLiszt]

i think you should listen to this for voice

[ofsjast]

This piece by Edv. Grieg is balm for the soul. I use it after a stressed day to relax. Instrumental by orchester, or choral. Try finding the vivasandnes' version

[iChirnx]

Whoever Disliked this is a Moron with no Soul.

[moltoallegro19]

@iChirnx Most likely, yes.

[narayanan26]

@iChirnx absolutely Morons for sure

[juresaiyan]

@iChirnx he's not a moron with no soul. he simply know nothing about the depth of the human spirit.

[HalfPinoy100]

@juresaiyan

why give a damn for the dislikes?

they're just 3 anyway..

[Marixxen2]

Edvard Grieg, tomorrow i'll visit your grave and thank you properly...

[Anjesis]

Edvard Grieg has my heart. It's with him in his grave.

[ungeth]

seems to me as though comments shouldn't have been disabled so the music can sing for itself not some rant about word choice taking up half the comments

[ungeth]

@ungeth haha wow bad typo i meant should not "shouldn't"

[seadhnabourke]

This is so fuckin beautiful my feet ended up gettin stuck up my own ass and now i've got shit under my toenails

[irenelsm]

a nice song

[akamaru3]

Oh my FUCKING god so FUCKING BEAUTIFUL I CAN'T FUCKING TAKE IT. FUCK.

[rigstula]

I just came back from the gym, and listening to this is truly wonderful after having been tortured by rubbish like Katy Perry and Kesha for two hours.

[Jiyangc]

this is so fucking beautiful

[joyceen1]

It makes me sad to hear such a beautiful piece of music described as "God damn beautiful". I would wish this music would clean up the words of the person who posted it.

[moltoallegro19]

@joyceen1 Oh, please, ma'am or sir, I could hardly believe that it's worth your time complaining about a person's usage of strong expressions (especially since it is quite a light one). I am a man who very seldom curse and use such language, but I do think it could be ok when you want to add extra power to your expressions. And if it makes you "sad" hearing someone referring so to this piece and believe that people who appreciate this music should use a slightly more elevated language...

[moltoallegro19]

@joyceen1 ... then you don't understand the meaning of classical music (a hint: it has nothing to do with what kind of language you use) and I would consider you rather pretentious.

[rachmaniralf]

@moltoallegro19 Here Here (squared)

[emilyunderscoremarie]

@moltoallegro19 I love you

[moltoallegro19]

@emilyunderscoremarie Love you too, sweety ;)

[ozzymate666]

@joyceen1 It's FUCKING great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Sibyl3n3]

@ozzymate666 You are all close-minded and eager to attack. Stop projecting these things onto people who don't feel like reading "god damned" and other immature, vulgar modes of expression when they want to experience a little bit of heaven. Every one of your comments detracts attention from what's essential--Grieg, and this piece. And still you persist in these back-and-forth jib-jabs that are meant to gratify your OWN egos and make YouTube and other Internet music sources even uglier.

[ozzymate666]

@Sibyl3n3 why was that a reply to my comment??

[Sibyl3n3]

@joyceen1 I agree with you. "God damn beautiful" sounds like adulation, not admiration. The latter is an exercise of the mind and heart; the former doesn't do anyone, or -thing, justice. I'd say the person who attacked you for that polite, reasoned complaint has more self-righteousness than appreciation for the beauty of the piece.

[moltoallegro19]

@Sibyl3n3 Quite the opposite, actually, that was what I was accusing him/her of. I am by no meaning self-righteous, however he/she acted in a highly self-righteous manner when judging me for using a very common expression to describe this music and insinuating that this music should stand above such things; as if it were not composed for common people, rather for pretentious snobbs.

[Sibyl3n3]

@moltoallegro19 If you were to consider the tone and brevity of the complaint, you'd learn there was no pretensions at all. The music doesn't belong to you, me, or him. Presuming to speak to the essence of the piece, both in your attack and the original description (while those who disagree with it are somehow part of the forces of ignorance) is uncalled-for.

[moltoallegro19]

@Sibyl3n3 It doesn't matter how he/she put it, rather what he/she meant: that this kind of music should "clean" people from strong (yet harmless) expressions. And that opinion is very much pretentious and missing the point of the music; I believe that coming to a video forum on the web and complaining at someone for using "God damned" and saying that this music should elevate this person to a level of not using such common language is stupid, ignorant and pretentious.

[joelbrigginshaw]

@Sibyl3n3

Contrived much?

[Sibyl3n3]

@joelbrigginshaw How so?

[rachmaniralf]

@joyceen1 ??? They are only words. If you can't take them then the world is gonna be a goddamn harsh place for you. Seriously, there are worse things to worry about.

[xxxTman95xxx]

one of the most beautiful things i have ever heard... music will never be the same..

[1worriedman]

This achingly, beautiful,mysterious piece makes me wonder if the past Spring or the coming Spring will be MY "LAST SPRING".

[hornvin]

3:10 - 3:25, no music is better than that !

[eldvindur]

Mankind is capable of such beauty and wonder

and terror and pain,

this is just beautifull,,,

[GuinnevereB]

I like this tempo and interpretation much better than the very slow, super-dramatic one that is currently in fashion, and that is simply personal taste. It's a beautiful, moving melody under every hand and every instrument I've ever heard play it, and in every voice I've ever heard sing it. For all my life, since I was old enough to remember, I've loved it. I will love it forever.

[shellsybelle]

One tends to drift into a world of pure heaven when this is being listened to. Magical, thank you!

[yosoyamorverdadero]

Esto es Celestial

[paintballKid545]

how do you dislike this

[PuShIngRaDoMbUtToNs]

im playing this in my middle school orchestra :D

[MiimoFaiiry]

gotta love a bit of grieg :) always there when i need a soft romantic tone :)

[JordanPool13]

The opening progression is amazing.

[sheephops]

A mate of mine wants this played at her funeral ..............

[insainiac33]

@sheephops Well it's either this or "House of Fire" by Alice Cooper

[orchdork607]

I love this! We played it at all-state orchestra a few months ago and I still listen to it a couple times a week. It's so pretty! =)

[ilovescarlatti]

I LOVE Grieg !!!!! Fantastic composer ... North soul and sadness ... Many of his pieces are at the toip of the music...... From Como Lake Italy

[GhostWolf471]

I first heard this piece as a full orchestral directed by Carmen Dragon. It gave me the opportunity to discover one of the best composers of all time. Edvard, wherever you are, your music continues to stir the soul in delightful and profound ways. Thank you for your generous gift you have given us.

[53tine]

Edvard Grieg most certainly DID know how we're feeling in March, April and even May here in Scandinavia!

Ice's smelting, rivers are getting free to flow... Go all The Four Seasons go!

[Sibyl3n3]

1:33 - 2:00: a masterfully understated tenderness here. It conveys the full breadth of Grieg's humility towards nature and humankind's role in it.

[MagicalMusicMuse]

This recording has perfect agogic drive... Whomever this conductor is, they certainly know how to draw upon the most artistic qualities of this piece... from the clock-inspired quarter notes, to the ideas of blossoming and growth, feelings of death, remembrance, and beauty.... this recording is exquisite. Congratulations.

[moltoallegro19]

I say "thank you" on behalf of the Oslo Camerata and Stephan Barratt-Due.

[rachmaniralf]

@MagicalMusicMuse HERE HERE!!! Only a little faster than it should be. Conducting is otherwise brilliant. It's dynamics would have a more dramatic effect if only it took it's time.

[SpecialForcie]

@MagicalMusicMuse Whoever*

[MetallicaBOR]

grieg,my favourive romantic composer

[ilovescarlatti]

@MetallicaBOR  i love him too ...

[roguespeare]

I believe this arrangement conveys exactly the mood and tempo Greig (yes, "Greig") intended.

[moltoallegro19]

What du you mean, "Greig"?

[roguespeare]

@moltoallegro19 Grieg was born in Bergen, Norway on 15 June 1843. The original family name was spelled Greig, originally from Scotland.

[moltoallegro19]

Really? Never heard that. Thanky you for teaching me something new.

[egalitarianist]

roguespeare: Forgive me, but while that's good for a laugh, it's also ridiculous. Grieg's great-grandfather Alexander Greig changed the spelling so as to keep the same pronunciation on moving to Norway. From then on the family name was and is Grieg. If you insist on ancestral spellings, maybe you go with his earlier ancestor Scottish Admiral Greigh or who knows what before him. Most European family names came in to being and their spellings stabilized only in the past few centuries.

[egalitarianist]

Incidentally, even though having a Scottish great-grandfather makes Grieg one-sixteenth Scottish, since most Scots have Norse ancestry, Grieg was about as Norwegian as anyone else in Norway.

[yaypej]

yeah and he probably got his musical skills from the other side, im thinking of his uncle Ole Bull that was a famous Violinist. He is a real norwegian!

[LunaTheDeathEater]

@moltoallegro19 His family name was Greig before they moved to Norway :)

Beautiful piece! 

[ChudFapper]

@roguespeare

He was never called Greig. His great grandfather was scottish, making him about 1/8th scottish, and the name was likely changed to Grieg long before he was born.

[Maverick00119]

I've heard to many records like this...it's way to fast

[Maverick00119]

I think this piece should be played much slower.

[hippojuice23]

Yeah  i agree it draws out the melody more.

[Rhaaaab]

I had the wonderful opportunity to play this piece at a summer violin work shop. One of my favorites!

[richardsaxecoburg]

The most perfect thing ive heard on Youtube so far...

[haugstule]

våren = "last spring" ? "våren" can also mean "the spring"

[moltoallegro19]

Actually it IS "The Spring", as you say. However the English/Americans use to translate it to "Last Spring" for some reason, don't know why.

[haugstule]

well, then i guess it`s ok! ^^

[fiddlrs3]

The original Lied has a text that refers to the singer feeling they will not live much past the coming of spring, and sings poignantly in that context.

[Starbirdy9999]

Don't you mean Op.34, because that's what I saw this piece was.

[moltoallegro19]

Oh, you're actually right. I'll change it right away.

[Varjele]

This is the most beautiful thing I have heard in a long long time, wonderful, simply wonderful!

[Shankovich]

Absolutely beautiful! I have a recording that I like more though, the only reasons being that it's slower (6:40 minutes) and that it sounds a bit aged (the strings have that wonderful shaky tone of the old recordings). This piece would fit so well as the ending theme to the credits of a movie :)

[ztav23]

It was in fact used as the closing theme for the radio and TV program "I Remember Mama" in the 1950s

[GuinnevereB]

@ztav23 As a little girl I watched the TV show and thrilled to both "Våren" and the Sarabande from the Holberg Suite, that was used as the opening theme. The music was so well known, presumably, that no reference to the titles or attribution to the composer was deemed necessary back then. At least, I don't recall any ever being made, but my child's mind often wondered about the source of such heavenly melodies and harmonies.

This is an exquisite recording. What a privilege to hear it.

[Rhaaaab]

I played this at a music festival. Along with a few other movements

[WYiXiang]

I remember playing this last year. I loved it.

[Cosmopolite100]

This was the closing theme of "Mama", on CBS Television from 1949-57 about a family of Norwegian heritage who lived in San Francisco in the early 1900s. The series was based on the Broadway play and film "I Remember Mama."

[izzyrjones]

woops! i raed one star by accident :S i meant 5! I love this sooo much! We played it in our chamber orchestra last year-I miss playing it!

[metalheadlass]

very soothing

[barscotch]

I guess when you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail, but this guitar player would love to hear a version of this played on the classical guitar, maybe in a duet or larger guitar ensemble. In fact LAGQ should record this, don't you guys agree? I mean, the piano version of this is lovely too.

[brainwasher9876]

I think a guitar version for this would sound wonderful. Please upload one if you can.

[ArletteBlackRaven]

it is my imaginacion or this version is too fast ??

[Ramaz1969]

It is. In my opinion too

[JorPove]

I thing the correct name of the pieces are: "elegiacal pieces" .Is just the absence of an "a". Thanks. Beautifully music.

[JimboJohnsy]

It is so strange. At one point in time I used to loathe the sound of strings maybe it was because I heard far to many beginners however this piece really shows the true beauty of the violin and all string instruments for that matter. I say this as a cornet player in a brass band

[metalheadlass]

all the orchestra instruments are beautiful in their own way. there was a musician who once said that if it wasnt so, then everyone would dump the orchestra and just play one instrument

[aristopus]

I've been studying classical music my whole life and this is one of my very favorites.

Good post Kenny. I can hear and feel what you're saying.

[Monail]

3:14 .... beautiful....

[MrKennyBones]

This piece is so amazing. It has got part of all that music can give you all together. It's the story of a man experiencing his last spring, and he probably knows it. Perhaps it's cancer, who knows (I most certainly do not :) But you can clearly hear the tips of both darkness, desperation, but also hope and shear bliss at some points. But then it falls down into reality again, remembering that he's sick.. It's so moving.. Edvard Grieg was an amazing talent.

[blondes4mee]

Beautiful. So very beautiful!

[nokiachris81]

vakker, vakker, vakker!!!!! Er stolt av å være norsk når jeg hører noe så vakkert :))))

[thomandy]

Helt enig :) Stolt av at Grieg er Norsk :))

[GuinnevereB]

@nokiachris81 , Det er vakkert, og du har rett til å være stolt av eders land og sin berømte komponisten. (jeg ikke vet eders språk, så jeg måtte finne en oversettelse program.)

[badmuslim]

it is too fast, but very nice. I miss something though. The high notes from the violins played soft, but with a fast moving bow repeating the same tone. If someone can describe it with the correct notation words - please do so..! I miss it especially at 3:23 - we often have have this as a postludium at funerals - I'm norwegian

[moltoallegro19]

Eftersom du är norsk hoppas jag att du förstår, även om jag skriver på svenska (är personligen från sverige). Jag tror att ordet du söker är "tremolo". Och om du lyssnar riktigt noggrant så hör du att det faktiskt finns där, även om det är lite otydligt ibland.

[badmuslim]

I'm thinking of the sound you get if you use a light bow, moving it just a cm or so...

[moltoallegro19]

Yeah, I understand what you are talking about, and I am pretty sure that it's called "tremolo".

[graufinken]

you're absolutly right.much too fast ;)

[captaincabeman]

i think it's played a little too fast... but i love this song. i want to cry whenever i play it.

[casherler]

How can one listen to this and not think of HEAVEN?

L. Curt Erler

[nicoleisthebomb1]

moving.

[TheCiderHouseRules]

simply breathtaking........