La Damnation de Faust

[usamaki10]

gave a thumbs up for the intense triangle performances at 3:46 and 4:12

[Toelzerfanclever]

A DVD with this work by Hector Berlioz is available in the online - shop of the Toelzer Boys´Choir. Interested ? Then you will find the link of the shop in the information on my last video...:)

[OrionoftheStar]

My college band was going to be playing this. We were practicing and everything--but I had to make a medical withdrawal, and never got to play the completed version.

It makes me sad. :(

[1Troger23]

Sie spielen Noten, aber machen keine Musik bähh!

[1classicliberal]

@1Troger23 aah come on it wasn't that bad

[mcj05]

Who are the soloists?

[mcj05]

Hmmm who is the director?  I am hoping he speaks the native language.

[mulnz8817]

CHARLIE SHEEN

[Scorpio11294]

Vous vous vous c'était bien là bas, vous c'était hummm arff..comme ci comme ça..Dites vous la bas on n'vous entends pas ..ahh ne vous entends jamais hein!! Faites attention faites TREEEES ATTENTION!

[Daisukae]

Rockin' the Triangle...epic win.

[Daisukae]

Guy at 3:27 ...nuff' said.

[ttwin02]

du grand desastre!!!!!!!

[kappelmeister123]

this is an awful performance of this piece - there is ZERO feeling in the playing. You could probably have honda or toyota provide you with a bunch of robots to play this....

[mikeyjrn]

@kappelmeister123 AGREED Asian orchestras are technically perfect but completely void of feeling!!

[TheVaughan5]

@kappelmeister123  I agree with this comment. I usually like the NHK Orchestra but somehow this performance doesn't take off - strange, as Charles Dutoit's recording of this wonderful work which he made with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra (c.1994) is really wonderful, quite different from this lack lustre performance.

[DrEpicFail]

Gracias!~

[etwip]

J'ai une conception personnelle de l'ouvrage. Ce n'est pas assez orgueilleux, ce n'est pas assez triomphal...De l'orgueil bon sang !

youtube.com/watch?v=ayPxRa2UrP­o

[angel75020]

@etwip Musicalement, c'est pourtant d'un très bon niveau, mais à bien regarder, on sent que quelque chose n'est pas passé entre le chef et l'orchestre...Ce n'est pas négatif, mais il y a des hauts et des bas...J'ai écouté sur un vieux 33 T. La Marche Hongroise, interrétée par l'Orchestre des concerts Lamoureux dirigé par Igor Markevitch en 1959 et hélas c'est supérieur...C'était sublime!

[Scorpio11294]

@etwip pah pah pin pin pin pin pin poum poum tchack!!! c'est de la bouillie tout ça!!!! C'était pas mauvais , c'était TRES MAUVAIS!!!!!!!! Reprenons au 17!

[LLJtbone]

I wonder if they're playing Yamaha tbones!

[ilikepie9876543210]

Trombone part 3:31 FTW!

[littleangelinpink]

This music is lovely.......the flutes sound very soft and airy....

it's so relaxing, it could put me to sleep. (in a good way)... ^_^

[AdmRomulus]

Very nice! Was this filmed in Japan?

[Munchie113]

@AdmRomulus

I don't think so, I don't see any giant robots or girls flashing their panties or getting raped by tentacle monsters.

[Yomioka]

Playing this for my highschool band.

It's so much fun.

[mokaneka]

ma pierdolnięcie ^.^

awesome

[pronyma]

je came

[djam59]

"c'etait trés bien, trés bien" applaudissement

"non... moi c'etait bien" lol

[Vincshen]

Stanislas Leufort ! la grande Vadrouille !!!!

"je ne veut que berlioz et moi" lol

[matthieujohn]

De l'orgueil bon sang!!!!! pa pa pa pa papa paaa! Enfin!!! gnignigniii c'est de la bouillie tout ça!

Cétait pas mauvais c'était très mauvais...

"Stanislas Lefort"

[Fallschirmjaeger963]

La Grande Vadrouille!:D

[MrTofuRobot]

xDDD

[mondayblues5]

beautiful orchestra.

[amdokamal]

Вы воскресили прошлого картины,

Былые дни, былые вечера.

Вдали всплывали сказкою старинной

Любовь и дружба первая пора.

Пронизанный до самой сердцевины

Тоской тех лет и жаждою добра,

Я всех кто жил в тот полдень лучезарный

Опять припоминаю благодарно.

[gadwin45]

this is an absolutely perfect performance of this piece of music. this is the only way this should be performed. i love it

[almostlasse123]

They're Japanese. They don't do anything wrong. They're perfect and they can't help it.

[dasboten]

@almostlasse123 The drone orchestra

[Xiphos893]

@almostlasse123 Except WWII

[LuisGtzColunga]

@almostlasse123 The passion of a work has no nationality, is a shame that you think that, all professional musicians practice for long periods of time to master a single piece.

[BenGabbay]

@LuisGtzColunga I think it was a joke. :) You do have to admit that most Asians are strangely incredible in their musical talent.

[leoufdu38]

Very good prestation

[Dmoney9800nigga]

Does anyone know if there is a video of the part when Marguerite ascends to heaven?

[Forssi0282]

20 minutes ago I was sitting in the Wiener Konzerthaus listening to this masterpiece of music ...

I'm still speechless - it's just overwhelming ...

Thanks to my colleague who gave me her ticket :-)

And THANKS to Berlioz for composing and Ramón Vargas for being such a great Faust !! :-)

[gretchenamspinnrade]

I attended that performance (in April 2009) and am disappointed - the acoustics of the Wiener Konzerthaus is HORRIFIC!

In spite of a great orchestra, a master piece of music and a star cast - the effect was pale and transparent .. for me at least.

SUCH A PITY!

[hiljaakusip]

this is great but i feel that the begninng the rákoczi part is kinda slow :s

[gkb8282]

this is a great tempo

[ThemafiaMaestro]

That guy with the triangle is classic! I love it!

[Art2Fly]

lol the guy with the triangle

[Gothguy47]

note great skill required. =P

[Seanuk]

aaww bless him!! he is trying his hardest as well.. the guy on the big drum must put him off! lol

[gypwin]

a fine singer.also check out on you tube 'gentleman john' and 'gypwin'

[LiveJenGirl3]

La Damnation de Faust is an extraodinary piece i played it my freshamn year, i love it and this orchestra did an amazing job.

And by the way Hector Berlioz did write this song.

[pearlh12]

The final song (last 2 minutes) is Minuet of Will-o-the-Wisps -- conjured up by Mephistopheles before Faust meets Marguerite.

[ElementsConverge]

whats the name of the two songs after the Hungarian march? the one where sir Willard White sang the bass part?

[zygamo]

the one sung by the bass is "la Puce"

[Masterl83]

it make me shiver but to many bass

[musicalywhoo]

Bass solo!!

[manhands18]

I don't understand. Who wrote this? Berlioz or Liszt?

[egapnala65]

To be honest, I believe its a traditional march they both used.

[endresr1]

Berlioz wrote it. Liszt did not. However, several composers such as Liszt and also Wagner and Schumann used the poem of Goethe's "Faust" to set music to. Hector Berlioz did indeed write "The Damnation of Faust."

[IllaRoss]

i've seen "la damnation de fauste" at the teathre and i think (i'm almost sure) berlioz wrote the opera and franz (ferenc) liszt wrote the music (this music), also called "Ràkoòzy marsch" ,is one of his rapsody...

[sepandee]

There is no opera for this music, or at least by Berlioz. He wrote the music and the libretto, although he had help with the latter for some parts especially for the beginning and middle sections.

[8tevez]

This is the Hungarian Rapsody, also Rákóczy March !!! wrote by Liszt Ferenc

[gretchenamspinnrade]

I thought that "Rákóczy march" is a hungarian national march? Implemented in many pieces of music, however composed by an anonymous? Anyone know anything about this, perhaps?

[Arpimagyar89]

yes it is a Hungarian national march,its was composed anonymously around 1730 during the Hungarian revolution against the the Hapsburg(Austrians) and it was later used in other revolutions....later it was arranged by Liszt,Berlioz.....

[svoboda85]

Berlioz wrote the Damnation of Faust

[SnafeComposed]

endresr1 and svoboda85 are right.

Get on wikipedia and type in "Damnation of Faust" and read the first section. It will tell you there.

Berlioz wrote this. I guarantee it.

[eran0004]

It's a traditional march of Hungary (Rakoczy March) and it is from at least the 18th century, which means it must have been written a hundred years before Liszt and Berlioz used it. When it comes to late 19th century music, a lot of composers borrowed melodies from older popular music.

[littleannieEM]

Anyone else notice that the music is behind (or the picture is ahead)?

[dramamajor1985]

What year was this video recorded?

[littleannieEM]

Why do you want to know? It was very recently, I know that.

[mbturner625]

so awesome... gotta love opium

[littleannieEM]

I play 8 instruments and I also play in a youth orchestra. I find it fun. Our symphony orchestra played this at our first concert. i wanted to hear it played by professionals, and i did. it sounds exactly like the professional orchestra. i was really surprised.

[ichiromo]

Either you guys are really good, or you have really bad ears.

[littleannieEM]

lol

[x1134xflipx]

odd thing is that the first few measures of this song sounds like Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody #2.

[Kimberley102]

Berlioz and Liszt were close friends and Liszt was said to have been very influenced by Berlioz's music.

[FrostPegasus]

It's exactly the same as Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody no 15. That's more important.

[malloy611]

Was there ever a better baritone than Willard White. I mean i base this assumption purely on his dramatictly moving performance in "Damnation of Faust"

[xxpockyluverxx]

my orchestra is doing this song :]

i love it <3

[bluedevils088]

mine too

[xxpockyluverxx]

what instrument do you play?

[bluedevils088]

baritone, trombone and tuba in this song

[littleannieEM]

my orchestra played this song. what instrument do you play in this piece? I played crash cymbals.

[guesswho147]

clarinet

[musicalywhoo]

double basss. Mm.

[bluedevils088]

3:30 was so hard for me to learn at first for tuba

[ahug4you323]

LOL i love how they close up the triangle player at 4:20 when u cant even hear it cause its all ffff

[foo8lover]

If you listen carefully, you'll hear it ;)

[ahug4you323]

well of course, my point was being they do a close up on probably the one instrument that is given the least amount of attention in the song, where they should have given it to the cymbal player to show the impact of that part of the piece.

[littleannieEM]

I played crash cymbals when my orchestra played this piece.... wow they must love me :-). Well to my point, if you are a skilled musician, you know that all instruments have an extremely important part in a song, and if an instrument is left out, you can hear a major difference. The triangle has the exact same part as the snare drum, so you may be able to hear it better if you listen to the snare.

[ahug4you323]

of course, but some instruments are supposed to have more of a impact, the harmony instruments provide the movement and the instruments that are built around the harmony are the ones that are supposed to stick out, thats why composers put parts in for percussion like cymbals and all the auxiliary pieces from all the different cultures to give a different feel the piccolo is the same, their octaves and timbre make them stick out.

[j72050]

..the Toscanini version will send chills down your spine...despite lower fidelity

[goooober]

my favourite Berlioz piece

[Trombone0817]

I like the March a tad faster, but other than that, very good. :)

[WalterCairns]

I wouldn't entirely agree. It is best played in a sedate way, in order to protray the relentless unstoppable momentum of the war machine. It's the way Colin davis approaches it

[Trombone0817]

I could certainly see how you feel that way, I just enjoy it a bit faster myself(Though, not /too/ much faster. Maybe 8BPM faster or so).