STRAVINSKY - FLOOD Created by Jaap Drupsteen part-1/3

[cedricthecentaur]

Checked this out as I'm just getting into Stravinsky. I've heard this somewhere before, perhaps in a film about the Book of Genesis. Whether you take this stuff literally or not, it still is loaded with meaning, and Stravinsky underlines its sheer breathtaking majesty.

[petezilla]

Is the narrator's speech part of the original score/setting?

[petezilla]

@petezilla to answer my own question: it is.

[johnwillattplant]

This is marvelous!

I was hoping to find the original telecast - but this is perhaps a richer find. Thank you,

nikolaos333 - would love to know more about it. The Flood has an elusive and irreplaceable magic, and this video has seized it beautifully.

[crowkangi]

bearer of light

[audiobuttmaster]

I always say: Ψυχή περίεργο όσο Είναι αυτά όσο, my nizzle.

[Whiskybar23]

maybe a new kind of "Gesamtkunstwerk"? (total art, as Wagner wanted it) this piece is completely heterogeneous... synthesis between chritsianism and paganism, between oratorio, drama and ballet, between tonlity and serialism..

Stravinsky, you're just a fucking genius!

[Bolenderable]

I wouldn't be surprised if you are right about this being a Christian/pagan fusion. Persephone clearly was. But in this case I don't see the paganism. Help me out! I agree it is a work of genius. The younger composers of that time, such as Boulez and Carter, seem stuffy and old fashioned compared to this man just turning 80.

[Whiskybar23]

I mean, it was quite new to insert in a cantata (or an oratorio) some dancing parts : the old testament spirit generally doesn't want to have anything to do with sensuality and body expression. Especially this ballet, which was written right before Vietnam in a very puritan country, looks like what was called a "Mystery" in Middle Ages, and includes comic parts : even the Satan character looks a bit clowny. Don't you think so, Bolenderable? Nice to talk with you!

[Bolenderable]

Ah, then. Okay. I suppose the rhythmic choral singing near the beginning and also near the end, somewhat akin to Les Noces, may also be "pagan" in some broad sense. Of course, Josefs Legende would also then be a pagan/Abrahamic fusion. And I agree, in a way. I mean, it is odd to see Old Testament figures dancing! Nice to speak with you, as well. :)

[Bolenderable]

I shouldn't imply that no younger composer back in the 60s was as impish and devilishly clever as Stravinsky. Ligeti was. Possibly Nancarrow too. Boulez is, and Stockhausen was, a great genius. But the word "clever" just doesn't seem to stick to Boulez and Stockhausen as much as it does to Stravinsky. In a way, he was Petrushka.

[Phaidra69]

Το βιντεάκι σου είναι εξαιρετικό και λίαν πρωτότυπο ! Συνέχισε την ωραία προσπάθεια και βάλε και λίγο Ραχμάνινωφ ....που μ' αρέσει και μένα πάρααααααααα πολύ !!

[Phaidra69]

Ούτε κι εγώ θα δηλώσω φανατική της μοντέρνας τέχνης , αλλά πάντως θεωρώ χρήσιμο να την παρακολουθώ γιατί πάντα βρίσκει κάποιος ενδιαφέροντα πράγματα σε αυτήν .

[VJTwinFlames]

WOW! This is amazing!

Wonderful way of telling the myth, great video, so surrealist, great music and all, breathtaking

*****

[DANILISHINA]

this is fantastic! a real masterpiece, this video - very unusual, moving, absolutely breathtaking....congratulation­s to it´s creator!

[GenericGene]

Very good -

[deiktes]

Φυσικά εκπληκτικό :)

[CanPcess]

Its so special wonderfull, beautiful, thank you:-)!

[doctormarkon]

Φανταστικό.

Δεν το είχα ξαναδεί

[nikolaos333]

Ναι. Είναι πολύ περίεργο και πολύ σπάνιο!

[xmilenako]

Φοβερό! Και άγνωστο. Ευχαριστώ πάρα πολύ Λαόνικε dearest, όσο δεν φαντάζεσαι ... Made my day!

Μόλις συνδέθηκα, πάω να δω και το 2ο μέρος.

[GreenPisss]

Poly kalo file mou! Egw den ta katalavainw toso afta ta moderna, protimw to baroque, alla oi eidikoi lene oti o Stravinski einai spoudaios, 5 asteria kai fav apo mena. (poly gelio exthes, eh?)

[HellenicMagic]

Ιγκόρ 4 ever!Μπράβο φιλάρα!

[doctormarkon]

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