Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring - Sacrificial Dance

[obiwanobiwan13]

It's like if an entire orchestra SCREAMED...

Which can be jarring at first, and yet, once you get past that initial jolt, you realize just how much raw emotion is in this surprisingly-calculated piece...

It's certainly one of the most innovative pieces I've listened to, it's not Mozart or Beethoven or Tchaikovsky, but it's not trying to be, and for what it's trying to be, it succeeds with flying colors (if the Devil existed, he'd NEVER have this as his theme--too wicked for HIM!)

;)

[Nobodyknowsme021]

This caused a riot back in 1913 when it was first performed.

[h4s4t4n]

Very mathematical. I love this. It's like the mathcore of classical music.

[1212boochie]

Wow ... some people have a very small idea of what is music. Quit listining to the beber and that fucking friday song and find out what music really is. Ignorance

[zigifrojd]

I only listen classical, but this is terrible, I would rather listen death metal which I hate than this, death metal would sound better than this. I honestly think you can go insane from this. My head hurts.

[TheLVB1827]

@zigifrojd lol i thought the same thing initially. now this piece is revolutionary for me. give it another chance in a couple weeks. Watch the ballet from the begining too (ninjinsky's original choreography of course)

haha, i wouldn't call this classical music either, think it premeired 1913. The French were not pleased

[thepinksomething]

This song makes my balls wet

[TheMormonSorceress]

@thepinksomething Be glade this peace wasn't in the origonal Fantaisa. Probaly wold have tromitied the kids more than Night on Bald Mountain.

[nottheissue1]

It's currently finals week and this song is playing constantly in my head.

[mrdutchmandan]

@JonathanMartinovici good point Jon, I didn't mean to say that other genres of Classical music do not include any syncopation, but you would have to agree that this syncopation and rhythms in this work are a lot more complex and intense that previous works, which is exactly why it recieved such a negative response at its premier. people just weren't used to it.

[mrdutchmandan]

@MrOwenmorg Correction: it actually has rhythmic intensity and syncopation, unlike a lot of other Classical music that has boring/simple rhythms

[JonathanMartinovici]

@mrdutchmandan More correctly again: almost all classical music (going back even to some medieval music) has syncopation and rhythmic intensity. Each style just has different ways of using it.

[MrOwenmorg]

got no real rhythem to it

[TheLVB1827]

@MrOwenmorg not that you can follow

[IvoXMeTaL]

I'm a metalhead, and I think Stravinsky's compositive ability is over any metal mucisian's

[beefcake8888]

@IvoXMeTaL

...no shit. I don't think anybody claimed it was.

[IvoXMeTaL]

@beefcake8888 Just sayin'

[beefcake8888]

@IvoXMeTaL

it's cool man, im just fucking around.

[IvoXMeTaL]

@beefcake8888 heheh OK, I thought that sounded harsh, but if you say you were screwing around...

[SeBassIronMaiden08]

the photo of stravinsky is approaching!

[mrdoctorprofessorsir]

the time signatures in this song are crazy

[koskesh333]

wild pagan ritual = illuminatist music

[saladshootavvv]

I've said this many times and I'll say it forever...Le Sacre is literally the best thing ever and the meaning of life. It's an aural orgasm for 30 minutes.

[Polyphemus47]

@saladshootavvv And I'll bet I've said it as many times as you have, or at least paraphrased. I'm so glad to see so many in agreement - I don't know ONE other person who feels this way about this incredible experience.

[111Jabberwocky]

Soo strange that its amazing

[kezadrone]

He was asked on many occasions to score films but thought they were below his work.

[CH3MIS7RY]

@kezadrone and he was right...

[kattodcan2]

Well... I am not a classical music type of person but I can see why it was used in Fantasia and I know enough about music to know that this was brilliant.

[MrNorm1949]

My favorite work by Stravinsky

[jrmetmoi]

This is the best piece of classical music ever because it precedes the dramatic Hollywood movie score, and it can still be used to great effect today.

[RobinStawinski]

What an awkward last name!

[xtremetwe]

And to think, we wouldn't have had these pieces, if it wasn't for Russia being communist..

[MrSk0rpio]

@xtremetwe at this time, the russia was still tsariste, the comunism wasn't born at this time

[connorross123]

Gotta love that last note.

[doninvictoria]

@connorross123 Yes, indeed!

[spradley387]

cant believe you would compare him to sonny & cher...plz

[zigifrojd]

Vivaldi, Handel, Corelli, Purcell, Mozart, Beethoven. You know yourself best epic composers, but mostly baroque for begining. It is very important to listen classical from Corelli, Bach, Handel , Vivaldi, Rameau, Purcell, Monteverdi, Scarlatti..... and then go foward to Mozart, Beethoven........ It is best to listen from baroque to classical, not reverse like some people do and they have big gap and cant understand classical like they should.

[saladshootavvv]

@zigifrojd "not reverse like some people do and they have big gap and cant understand classical like they should." What's the way they "should" understand it? What is this "gap"? What exactly are they missing if they go backwards? Please give something specific and not just a vague generalization. If anything your argument should be that people should start at antiquity and move forwards. You really want to go over Bach before Palestrina?

[zigifrojd]

@saladshootavvv Not reverse like some people means do not listen classical era and think you know classical music if you didnt listen baroque like Frescobaldi, Corelli, Bach... It means Dont listen only Beethoven and say I know classical like some idiots I know. They dont know shit, probably like you dont know shit when you posted this stupidity of comment.

[saladshootavvv]

@zigifrojd Whoa. Learn English if you are going to try to speak it. I don't even have the slightest clue what your point is as well as the point of your insult.

[zigifrojd]

@saladshootavvv Go fuck youself and die moron, you make world and people sick you sick fuck.

[pitbull2005]

Huge lapels rule!

[TheDavid2222]

@33dgtp some metal would suprise you with it's complexity and ingenuity. It is certainly not comparable it to Stravinsky's brilliance, but some metal is truly impressive. If you are interested in music at all I would encourage you to explore the genre before condemning the entire genre to the status of "noise".

[33dgtp]

@TheDavid2222 ...You are actually right...

[MrErickphilips]

@TheDavid2222

I am currently undecided as to whether or not Metal is my kind of genre. Could you list me some examples of the complex Metal you mention?

[slantedseven]

@MrErickphilips Dream Theater's a good one to start on if you like melodic lines and virtuoso instrumentals. I recommend starting with "Metropolis 2000: Scenes from a Memory" if you go down that route. If you like your music a bit heavier, you could try the bands Blotted Science or The Human Abstract. Hope this helps! =)

[animeHEAT]

This wasn't in Fantasia.It should have.I have an idea.Disney should re-create the Rite of Spring part and have THE SACRIFICAL DANCE IN IT!!Yes,I'm a sick fuck.

[dorminolkw]

good hi-fi sound>*****! P'ls show from which version,,THX..

[freakyjames101]

im so glad my music teacher showed me this. its really good

[HendrixClaptonSRV]

why arent these kind of things instilled in education at an early age man.. i never even heard of ANY of this stuff until i started listening to Miles Davis and Coltrane and all the jazz greats who said Stravinsky was a genius. now im seeing for myself.. but why? we could be so far advanced musically if everyone was just aware. atleast im glad ive heard it!

[faramirsmaiden]

@whatevernice345 the Russian elite were speaking French since the late 1600s

[whatevernice345]

Those that were dancing the Rite of Spring were Russian, right? The first time that the ballet premiered in Paris 1913, were the Russians able to speak French (or English) to communicate with the French people. I don't know. I'm just wondering

[designerhell]

Igor Stravinski gathered hard copy of the caucasion pagan ritual folk songs and dances for the interpretation. It was the 1st time done. It was also against the grain of the christian factions that attended the performances. It didnt really make sense to the 'cultured ear. It was a bold move on Stravinskis part, back in the days of uber conformist ideals.

[enessx1]

Insanity.Beauty.Love.Lust...

[GODMONSTERRARGH]

3/16, 5/16, 3/16, 4/16, 5/16. This guy was insane.

[sirscrotum]

I cant beleive I got told I got no taste in music for going on a lady gaga Telephone song and saying that the song was catchy but not what I call "real" music.

This is real music and not made from a cookie cutter with a catch to it.

[meowkie]

@sirscrotum :) Personally, I don't believe there is any such thing as "fake" music as much as there are "fake" musicians, and even then, the beautiful thing about music is how far it reaches, and how many people it touches, and how many different ways it can touch (heyo!). Lady Gaga can't be compared to Stravinsky. They are two ENTIRELY different things!

[gatoulis25]

when stravinsky played that at 1913 all the theater was angainst him and this music

[3NUNS]

@gatoulis25 : Absolutely.

[Nexus52085]

@gatoulis25 Not to contradict you, but the way I heard it was that some people liked it and some people hated it. When you mix a hall full of people so subdivided with a piece like this, a riot happens.

[gatoulis25]

@Nexus52085 yea they are many many stories about 

[masadekiru1mariolove]

That's like MH3's Deviljho's battle theme...

[DangerVonCoken]

may fahvrat song

[b0ttomzone]

The Rite of Spring caused a riot when it was first performed.

[ToneSpectra]

It's not that difficult to get people riled up, a pointless football match can do that. People also cry their eyes out at the most inane love songs. My only problem is that the rhythms are described as sophisticated yet 'primitive'. What exactly is this 'primitive rhythm' supposed to be? If any rhythms can be described as 'primitive', it's the uniform patterns of European classical music. If they mean African rhythms, in reality they are highly sophisticated and nothing like this caricature.

[witness124]

@ToneSpectra The actyual rythyms are primitve, and very simple. The trick is that they are syncopated, twisted, placed offbeat, or some other odd technique.

[cappadinoceo]

sounds like this was from the original "planet of the apes"

idk 4 sure

[stamstuff]

to stravinsky lovers. maybe you would like this concerto.

just write the word FREAKOLLO, and you would get to a 2 parts concerto, enjoy.

[markodefen]

imagine stravinski vs. prokofiev

[MsAmIReallyDoingThis]

stravinsky is one of those people whose head i just wish i could get into... it's so horrible that i'll never meet him.

[alreadytaken334]

Gotta love those quintuplets..

[vtina91]

scarry song

[W0nderBreed]

my god this is sweet.

[charmingemily]

what orchestra and conductor is this from?

Thanks!

[syntacticalnightmare]

not sure it can be compared to metal, or indeed Sonny and Cher. its a completely different style of music.

[1337jazzdrums]

ok, but you know that this song has nothing to do with that right?

[ConductorsHateMe]

did you know that:

Israel was not a state until the 1940s

Le Sacre du Printempts was written in 1913, and was about russian pagan rituals.

Also, Stravinsky was an anti-semite, just like you, and despite that, he was still a genius, and this piece transcends beauty, so just shut up. and learn a thing or two.

[fastertortoise2]

@ConductorsHateMe israel was a state before the romans called it palestine

[childofthemarshalsea]

But didn't he work with some of the leading Jewish conductors of his era such as Otto Klemperer? Klemperer, in fact, was a great admirer of his, though that doesn't mean he liked him personally.

[cappadinoceo]

this sht sounds like halloween!

sounds like the white girl that always falls when running from the killer...

[TheBittyman]

this could've been in a horror movie

[TheGreatDissolve]

@TheBittyman it's based on REAL occurrences. forget movies.

[85Dazed]

@TheGreatDissolve Itr was based on a dream he had

[erniaalcd]

@85Dazed It wasn't based on any dream. Stravinsky used to collect on a notebook every theme he thought of, coming from traditional Russian music. At the time of the composition he even asked Rimsky-Korsakov to make research for him and provide him with some truly archaic popular music from the utmost remote recesses of the rural Russia. He had in mind to compose the most "russian" of his composition. Therefore he spent a long time meditating, sorting out, rewriting this masterpiece.

[3NUNS]

@TheBittyman : Don´t be so common !

[pimpinallstar917]

@TheBittyman this was actually for a baley weird but true

[liejliej]

Did you know Igor Stravinsky and Coco Chanel had an affair?

[liketammysaids]

@liejliej Yep and theres a film about it called Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky

[CkRo]

This is not only better than "Metal", but better than the complete works of Sonny & Cher.

[3NUNS]

An excellent comment.

[3NUNS]

@CkRo : Yes !!!!!!!!!!!!

[now5230]

@CkRo thats not saying much...

[IcyScythe]

@CkRo cause you've listened to all metal right? hahaha.

Second part of your comment cracked me up though so you get points for that.

[brainDAMAG3D]

@CkRo

Technically this was the "metal" of Stravinsky's days since it has the same violent inspiration effect and the debut of this started a riot. Just saying.

[WolfieboyMachi]

@CkRo

Why did you Metal in quotes?

[SonofDostojevskij]

Fucking amazing.

[abbyscks]

it's so interesting to listen to this and watch the ballet at the same time.

I love it.

[concrete852]

I am a metal fan and I love this. And I am pretty sure that you ask any proper metalhead to listen to this - she/he would completely enjoy this stuff!

[Muloc7253]

No.

[inuyasha2448]

true story man, i enjoy classical even though i also listen to its complete opposite(devourment, whitechapel, thy art is murder, hour of penance)

i actually got into classical from a metal band, fleshgod apocalypse, should check them out they have some awesome piano pieces in a few songs, namely "oracles"

[ShadowInfest]

@inuyasha2448 Thy Art Murder is nice :D but this isn't classical music ;)

this is Expressionism with some aspects of russian folklore and a little influence of neo-klassizism, though love this peace hehe so brutal stuff^^

[ShadowInfest]

@ShadowInfest instead of though there should stand a by the way *

[notapanda2]

Chaotic. I love it.

[PassionsBandeta]

This song brings shivers to me in a good way. I dont see why most people in the world hate this genre of music.

[sagat4]

oh no horor film:)

[Crillie]

Because you actually have to listen. People are too lazy these days.

[mooshoobutt]

Great dynamics! Who played this? Igor Stravinsky is SUCH a great composer. I totally recommend this song. Five stars! Definitely!

[Alu10000]

This is MUSIC!!

Thanks Igor.

[tested2comply]

i cant believe this song has so few views, it is definitely one of the best i've heard here on youtube; full of enthralling suspense and macabre images

[billycosboy]

When this song was first played the audience threw rotten fruit at the orchestra because they were not pleased with all the dissonance.

[quatre03]

who the fuck would carry rotten fruit arround to a concert?

[3NUNS]

a grocer that couldn't sell his produce

[ttt8699]

@3NUNS So he re-planted it, letting it grow, blossom, and mature for future generations to rediscover and ultimately love!

[MusicPredominates]

@ttt8699 : An excellent and well thought-out response mister !

[tanwilliamzq]

This music somes very spine-chilling but I like the scary atmosphere of sacrifice in this music.

[Methoxypropan]

haunting. amazing. changing rhythms. pure violence of nature, baby!

[Alruss]

+1 Anyone knows who the interprets are? This version's pretty awesome ^^

[gera1262]

Who are the orchestra and the conductor? plz i must know!

[tinster666]

This is who we thank for moving the Music Capitol. The French Couldnt handle this intense music, it was just to hardcore, so he moved to LA and brought music with him

[alucard624]

Yeah, they rioted in the theater during the whole piece. You would think it was rock concert or something, geez.

[MikesSexy101]

soo this definitlly sounds like it's from Jeepers Creepers 2.

[lMeanMrMustardl]

Beautiful.

[reefrunner9]

Igor is my distant cousin......or so the legend goes....afurman

[Shreddy13]

Who are the orchestra and the conductor?

[AlannahMuriel]

I LOVE this kind of music

[KEM0SAVY]

very good. It was always exciting.

[pokani365]

this is amazing! very powerful piece. Suspenseful and thrilling!