Stravinsky Conducts Firebird

[MissJesusfan]

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[annemarieclaudia]

Mon mouvement préféré ! Il me tire les larmes à chaque fois.

[EmzMeister]

This is one of my favourite compositions of all time.

[peppersax]

Boy, this man set the bar for all those to come. Notice the musical idea that Stravinsky starts @:23 with the WW's and then, the strings. Those 'colors' sound strikingly familiar to music that Bernard Herrmann composed in many of his pieces. One can 'dissect' much of IS music and hear clearly where film composers as: BH, Jerry Goldsmith, John Williams, Marco Beltrami..well, for that matter...EVERYONE either ripped, borrowed or was inspired by his genius! Oh yea, the ending is simply brilliant!

[PoopTruffles]

Old man conducting like a boss.

[sowanmustafa]

Gorgeous !

[Performerx43]

amazing. I love this piece to death!

[DrStrangefate]

A true master.



[ahg7522513]

Locura y Creación eso vi esta noche, una Gran Velada, una GALA EXTRAORDINARIA, un Creador con muchísimo carácter. Inolvidable será para mi este disfrute pero por sobre todo para mi alma. Cuanta Belleza!! Tanto, que supera mis palabras. Para El Maestro, una OVACIÓN... ETERNA ! ! Fdo.: unhombrecalido.

[ahg7522513]

Esta noche... He llegado al vuelo, de alcanzar un Cielo tanto que, me ha desvelado la Generosidad del GENIO. He apreciado sus manos escuálidas desbordando poesía y Talento mas allá de lo imaginable esta noche, el por mi Admirado GENIO me ha hecho sentir que en ese mismísimo Cielo que imagine me ha sorprendido porque al verlo sinceramente sentí que en su humanidad tocaba yo, las mismísimas manos de DIOS ! ! Fdo.: unhombrecalido.

[slaxwell55]

Is a poet and a musician meant to meet..?Are the notes of the song in the same beat..? Wow that was one of the most beautiful pieces of music I've ever heard...

[CodyHernek94]

Why on Gods green earth do people regard "rite of spring" as stravinskys best work.

[drjj10]

what performance would be good for say, a scary movie? 

[jimicheesecake]

Holy Shit.

[NqkoisitamBG]

One of my favorite Symphonies. Truly amazing ...

[JeffClaireB]

No wonder audience and players have a combination of rapture and sadness - they know this is an historic and unrepeatable event; to see the master conduct one of his great works composed almost 60 years before. Imagine if we had footage of Beethoven conducting his 9th in 1824; this comes close. And to see Stravinsky smile at the end is once in a lifetime! Just glorious. All hail the time-defying power of the camera

[JeffClaireB]

The audience and players have a combination of rapture and sadness; they know that this is an historic and unrepeatable experience, to see the master conduct his own work from almost 60 years previously. The camera ( especially the tv camera) really is one of the great inventions, allowing us all to cheat time. Imagine if we had footage of Beethoven conducting his 9th in 1824! And to see Stravinsky smile at the end - that is truly once in a lifetime..! Just glorious

[helloworld1989]

@ssembler1 yes they did. A great piece by a great composer :)

[ssembler1]

Did Disney do a variation on this for a movie other than fantasia 2000? I have never seen fantasia 2000 but this music sounds so familiar to me. Please help it has been driving me crazy for weeks!

[jhb134]

@ssembler1 - Stravinsky's Rite of Spring was used for the original Fantasia. I don't think Disney ever used Firebird, in any of his films.

[jhb134]

@jhb134 - correction, any of his films, other than Fantasia 2000!

[xq1985918]

wtf 64 dislikes? are they deaf?

[ripperrick666]

Amazing!

[rekab7070]

How well he conducts is almost secondary: what I find most engaging is to watch his eyes and notice how very carefully he listens. Imagine if we had videos of Bach or Mozart conducting - although we do not, at least we have this document of the last of the Titans. 

[victoriouswarrior78]

@rekab7070 An observation as well. 

[cantoresdefreites]

OH MY GOD.... I Can´t believe what i see and listen.... I Got shivers down my spine

[ravigniani]

climax factory

[SuperElf4ever]

Wht key is this music in? thx!!

[sandm827]

@SuperElf4ever Eb minor

[Emissariant]

I remember listening to this in my 5th grade music class. The other kids complained the whole time, but I rather enjoyed it.

[duffieman123]

great indeed, but he also looks like nosferatu

[ZachSolten]

@duffieman123

if nosferatu could compose

[duffieman123]

@ZachSolten ye, that would be fakin awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i would totally go listen to it!

[Bingo1059]

Timefor3 did an amazing cover of this, the kicker is they merged it with a modern song, Firework, but made it sound gorgeous! I just saw them live and they are simply inspiring!

[60ECg]

@thrumymind The side panel (with Alan Civil's picture) is the entire suite. The entire suite recording is much clearer than this one. As this one is afflicted by some of the problems of a motion picture newsreel of the 50's.

@OurOwnTube You are quite right. On youtube there are a couple of recordings of Stravinsky conducting Firebird. None are nearly as good as this one. And the reason is the quality of this orchestra.

[theotherbeatle68]

The conductor is the painter and the instruments in the orchestra are the colors he uses. He is also responsible for the representation, if it was bad, it was because of the composer, likewise i it was good. He keeps everyone in time also. But in this case Stravinsky actually wrote the composition for the piece as well. Are you thinking of Composers or Conductors? Composers dont usually conduct their compositions. Stravinsky is doing both in this sense making it that much more amazing.

[OurOwnTube]

one thing I never understood is (maybe because of the average brain of mine)... why do conductors get so much praise while the instrument players have a big role in the performance too? can someone explain? thnx

[gnrcr]

The Arts channel is the shit.

[PoopTruffles]

Look at him with his bad ass pair of glasses and smug look.

[thePmr]

Не хочу показаться фамильярным, но...

...он мужик, блеать!!

[gypsypikis]

I love his eyes at 4:09

[ExirKamalabadi]

The quiet contentment of a master near the end of his life, with nothing left to prove to anybody. It's amazing how he maintains total control of the intensity of the music without exerting any energy.

[ShadowFox37]

@ExirKamalabadi Beautifully put. I couldn't have said it better myself.

[alexiusdante]

@ExirKamalabadi He gave life to the music. It controls itself at his command.

[victoriouswarrior78]

@alexiusdante What I saw in this as well. Incredible!

[Performerx43]

@ExirKamalabadi its one of those things that, once its been a part of you for years and years, you can't get rid of it. No matter sick or old you are. By that point, it just comes so naturally.

[60ECg]

@Atxmanster09-This is the Philharmonia orchestra and was performed in London. The entire performance is listed on the side panel to the right. It is the same performance except it is the entire suite. The side panel shows this with the picture of Alan Civil, who is principal horn. In addition, the recording is much clearer than this snippet.

[locketsss1]

Stravinsky es un gran compositor

[locketsss1]

esto se llama muscia dedito arriba

[Springbokke1000]

Fantastic! Thanks for posting this!

[philmixer]

Over 1 million 2 hundred thousand hits just says everything really!Absolutely magnificent!

[ChristianOrtega123]

This is the best music ever written in history to me! :) We are playing this for our Region Orchestra, and I'll be seeing this performed by the Fort Worth String Orchestra in a couple of weeks! :D

[Takerukun17]

Lejos, el mejor compositor del siglo XX.

[maxanbe]

this kind of music makes you feel alive :D

[DiNoZsEy]

Even my pc works faster listening to this music O.O

[ChristianOrtega123]

@DiNoZsEy Uhh, what's that supposed to mean? :\

[AbuseDaForce]

The Great Fucking Stravinsky

[CHNWestFPS]

Wow this is so awesome!! Definitely something that you should keep a copy of. too bad this is recording is made so early that sometimes it sounds out of tune =(! and LOLz at 2:07 the player on the second row right behind the concert master made a classic bowing fail!

[moonday555]

awesome !

[xuxoemc]

o.O wow . . .

[vpmitchell]

60 dislikes??? 

[EONJESUS]

60 personas prefieren el reggaeton

[thrumymind]

this is amazing!! what year is this from?

[cjdstruction1]

@thrumymind 1929

[thrumymind]

@cjdstruction1 thanks! this is surprisingly great quality for such an old film.

[cjdstruction1]

@thrumymind I know right?

[daniela9488]

TOTALLY BREATHTAKING :D

[steeler3258]

I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[sweetdablanco911]

omg! its amazing!!!

[fhornredmuse]

I love how he touches his ear and face to cue the musicians for tuning. That's so cool.

[iseefurtherthanyou]

It makes me so happy to see the man proud at the end. He deserves all of the applause and more. Absolute genius!!!!!!

[ThisisTedWells]

How lucky we are to see a performance conducted by Stravinsky himself.

[StonierWilliam]

I'm a jazz musician but this...is in incredible. Even Charlie Parker loved this...and lived it.

[sofiahelfrich]

Why is this version of the music different from the one in the Disney movie?

[macree01]

@sofiahelfrich Disney version uses a way condensed version of the real 1919 version of the Firebird Suite. So its actually Fantasia thats different.

[tanzpartner]

Is this available anywhere on DVD?

[AmaraEmme]

wooow major pressure on the orchestra O_O

[MrPrithvits123]

@AmaraEmme true.

[doyouwantfries20]

This makes me....i want to.....im speachless...