Tchaikovsky Symphony No.5

[ALBERTO79600]

WONDERFUL MUSIC WITH AN ASTONISHING FINALE THAT ONLY A GREAT GENIUS AS TCHAIKOVSKY CUOLD FIND TO END THIS BEAUTIFUL WORK OF ART.

[sahand144]

Karajan is a legend

[agencyjp]

Splendid next to Mravinsky

[Grima21]

Die Wiener - neben den Berlinern die besten!!!

[jarwillnc]

Listening to this clip only makes me want another crack at this symphony one more time before my own finale.

[Zwiebly]

try using those moves for dacing at the next party

btw: awesome

[allegri0358]

That's a genuine article !!!!

Bravo,Mr.Maestro,brovo,our maestro!!

[allegri0358]

That's a genuine article !!!!

Bravo,Mr.Maestro,brovo,our maestro

[reoparudo888]

チャイコフスキーの交響曲第5番（特に第4楽章）は私の大好きな­曲です。涙が出るくらい印象に残る音楽ですね。

[hamza55]

This is just..wonderful !

[bf2oyajinonituki]

右アングル！

[iczerman]

Loved the conducting gesture at 2:00! The Karajan Klaw!

[xsilentrainx]

austrian german playing russian music.. interesting.

[BillF1967]

It would be nice if more of this particular performance could be posted.

[violaz101]

this looks very very hard

[im2foolish4u37]

it is, my orchestra just played it today. but that just makes it all the better!

[kotetsu131]

Oh but so much fun! Those of us who play trumpet love this symphony for very good reason. As you can see it's like Tchaikovsky's personal gift to trumpet players....

[TheRenato990]

symphony nuber 5 mi minor ma préférée !

superbe ! grandiose !

[chillerbanane]

love this music!!! played it when i was 15...

[Rstrings2000]

yeah! made it sound like junk and didn't get a dime for doing it.

in fact, you payed to have the honor to perform it. :)

[toscaninizt]

Needless to say, the Vienna Philharmonic back in 1984 could still easily be considered the top orchestra in the world. Even today, despite various debates and standards it is still ranked as the top orchestra in the world. Karajan just found more power with the Berliners, his choice of the Berliners over the Vienna Philharmonic, was much more a personal choice than a musical one.

[MyMusic0201]

@toscaninizt

Bernard Haitink once stated that the Berlliners were the more 'masculin' orchestra and the Viennese more 'feminine'. Not a bad comparison when you realise that the Berlin sound is more muscular and the Vienna sound more flexible and transparent.

[morinoroba]

日本語大丈夫でしたね・・・。この曲大好きなんです。いつもなが­らカラヤンは本当に素晴らしいです。ありがとうございました。

[morinoroba]

Wonderful performance！

Karajan is my favorite　conductor.

[parkthoven]

Sounds better than the one with video with Berliner Philharmoniker~

[kwakos22]

When was it?

[SadLisa777]

Great! I love him.

[roqi54]

teşekkürler

[IAmSavingFerris]

Does anyone know where I can find a recording of the theme from this played on horn?

[ArturoAlejandroS]

Magnific and wonderful recording,one of the best.

[motz76]

The best recording of this great piece of music,

THX Herbert, THX VPO!

[LeahGirl009]

How can anyone hate this music? I think it's pure emotion that can only be expressed without words.

[chugza]

a la Jimi Hendrix

[unnameableuser]

@LeahGirl009 Is not the music that they dislike. Just the conductor.

[unnameableuser]

@LeahGirl009 Is not the music that they dislike. Just the conductor.

[unnameableuser]

@LeahGirl009 Is not the music that they dislike. Just the conductor. 

[lucimarmoraes]

Como pode ser comentários desse tipo, não compreendo?????

[AlekkoVenturi]

at 1:30 begins the fun!

[botsu1983]

c'est juste super

[BillF1967]

Genius.

[ashleyxdaydream]

What a great song.

:)

[bdrman]

By the way, for all of you enchanted with the comment war going on check out the video that is actually playing. It's not to bad at all.

[mikaboy13]

Seriously Bernard and jwretro

Get a grip (both of you), and discuss the video. Personal issues or problems should be dealt with away from a public forum.

If you care to discuss the music instead of wasting wall space, go right ahead. If not, keep comments to yourselves please, so I don't have to go pages back to find good, interesting responses.

[Foretecapu89]

instead i think karajan was a great conductor,it's wonderful to feel him..

[EelofTheTRIMS]

the orchestra i play in (south downs youth orchestra) which is based in lewes is playing this in a concert soon. its a great piece

[peshkin]

I think It's not the best performance, also this is not enought for the Wiener Philharmonic, but anyway the strings especially are amazing

[MrBillShow67]

Perfection.

[adinanemorino]

Compare with any other performance in youtube...Karajan is the best.

[ahamayoisac]

This is just funny. Karajan doesn't posess Bernstein's passion. Just listen to both conduct Egmont. Plus music is not a sport, one cant really have higher, faster and father. I'm Russian, and a daughter of one of Russia's top 10 conductors, trust me in the spirit of the piece its well done.

[helmsdeep84]

I wish it was a complete video...

[jwretro]

This is one of my favorite symphonic finales. Our community orchestra performed this back in '93. It was the first time I relaxed and played without letting technically difficult passages intimidate me. It made the concert a lot more fun for me. To think..I had been playing about 21 years at the point. lol

[jwretro]

Keep your juvenille comments to yourself. Music should trigger a good memory. It doesn't mean one lives in the past. Perhaps if you had any significant moments in your meaningless life, you wouldn't take pleasure in trashing my good memories...or anyone elses. Grow up!

[BernardProfitendieu]

oh, relax! I was just kidding around jeesh!!

[jwretro]

Perhaps you should give a little more thought to the manner in which you kid around. Any normal person would have been offended by that remark. We do not know each other so how did you expect me to react? Save jokes like that one for people know you and understand your unique sense of humor.

[BernardProfitendieu]

get a grip!! do you only expect reactions from people who know you?! you're posting your opinions on youtube for crissake!!!

any normal person would have moved on with his life by now!! why don't you do the same?

[jwretro]

When posting your opinions here or on other sites you have to remember offensive remarks or "jokes" often spark a response. If you cannot handle the response then choose your words a little more carefully.

By the way, since you are replying again, it appears you have not moved on with your life either. Apparently I'm not the only one who needs to get a grip. Follow your own advice young man and learn to leave well enough alone.

[comengetit9]

hhahahahahahhahaha

you made me cry with laughter

I have read this whole arguement between you too

and I must say that you are too funny.

The prune juice thing had me spit up water all over my screen.

hahahahahaha

[RayDelmonico]

Karajan was natural for Tchaikovsky. He made many recordings of this symphony either with Wiener Phil. or Berliner Phil. all of them are among the finest.

[homanap]

I watched a Mravinsky performance on TV some time ago.... it had nothing to do with karajan's conducting but it was as amazing! This symphony is overwhelming!

[Rusalka1975]

Mravinsky is not recommended to watch on TV, is better live in the Concert Hall :) Don't like you stamp "it had nothing to do with karajan's conducting". Karajan have "nothing to do" with Mravinsky's tutti intensive dramatic culmination just before the brass march, for example. No judge, both are great.

[homanap]

hear every beat!

[homanap]

in his trills

[ahamayoisac]

I remember Evgeni Aleksandrovich, he was my fathers mentor. I remember when he was rehearsing the Shostakoviches 5th for his 70th jubilee concert at the Leningrad Philharmonic, I was there with my mother. At the end Mravinsky went down and down onto his score and finally dropped his arms. His wife ran towards him in panic, yelling, Zhenya, Zhenya..He lifted his head somwhat and said:"Be quiet, you fool i was doing a piano".

"Molchi, dura, ya piano delal." Genius.

[homanap]

I am happy because I an going to attend a concert next year in Paris where the WP will perform Tschaikowsky 5th conducted by Gergiev. I am not fan at all of the conductor but I think it is going to be a great moment like every time I have attended WP concerts in Paris.

[homanap]

I like this concert a lot! It is karajan and the Wiener philharmoniker! What else could one ask? I like the timpanist a lot - Roland Altmann - for being so noble in his playing that one can hear beat (check him in Mozart Coronation Mass with Karajan too!).

[justin760]

AWESOME performance although they give the lower strings no credit when they get the heck of triplets which is incredibly hard. All the Brass and Woodwinds know though LOL it's a great piece one of my favorites especially the second movement of this symphony.......... Listen to his last symphony he wrote too He knew he was going to die but he didn't name every symphony he wrote sure little russian etc but Symphony No 6 Pathotique,

[pcronin16]

such an amazing production! I absolutely adore Karajan!I am sure some of the instruments had battle scares after this! Some of those violinists look so old im surprised they didnt have a heart attack.