Mendelssohn :Symphony No.4 in A, 'Italian', 1st movement

[ecogirl657]

im playing this in orchestra. it's a lot faster than how we're playing it now... and i still suck at it at our tempo :P but cool piece nonetheless

[Kennychan222]

now that's the music!

[ashleigh007050]

thumbs up if barbie broght you here

[Makashi11]

@ashleigh007050 Fuck off

[mtlicq]

Please Acknowledge the orchestra that 's playing this performance. This one is really good. I'd like to find that orchestra and hear more of their works.  Give them credit too !

[deardeardearmozart]

RPO?

[commentsviewing]

1:32 reminds me of his violin concerto

[demonbarber17]

breaking away!

[julienbencze]

@PhysicalsimForever I don't forget him, Schubert is fantastic, his trios, his unachieved symphony, his lieder...I love Schubert. He is the real transition between classical and romantic music. He partly inspired Mendelssohn at his very beginning by the way.

[siamakghh2000]

@PhysicalsimForever I'm afraid that world has reached the end of its creativity ! God help us all.

[siamakghh2000]

why there are no more such nice musics any more?

[SohRabIR]

Great men make great things.

[sempercellist]

Now why do i keep thinking of dancing barbies every time the main tune comes up?

[ramram3467]

@sempercellist me too.. XD since this is the music they used when they danced ballet.. :)

[zxpalpha]

Yay i've found it. I heard this in a simpson episode and I fell in love with the music :D

[Cheeseburgeh]

Absolutely beautiful!

[notaire2]

Vielleicht die schönste Symphonie Mendelssohns.

[loulie1997]

Is this song actually in a ballet?

[OssieWildemint]

Epic.

[TheLexusNight]

What's the font you used? [:

[Mr3152527]

My favorite part is from 3:20-4:30

[cheryl88510]

This was played at barbie the 12 dancing princess!

[Lythya]

I heard this concert yesterday. It was amazing. No matter how good sound equipment you have and no matter how high you turn the volume, it's just not quite the same.

[LebannersHook]

@Lythya I know what you mean. I would love to hear this live. But they do have some crazy equipment for the Audiophiles. Like 20,000 dollar amp's and speakers that cost upwards of 30,000 dollars. I hear this equipment can simulate a live performance precisely. Though I can't speak to this because I haven't heard a system like that. Even after all that cash I still have my doubts... like I couldn't tell if I was in a concert hall what was playing, a orchestra or some speakers.

[ffiaux]

Hey look, it's Dave with his bike behind the Cinzano truck!

[bostonpiano]

@ffiaux

"Breaking Away" :-)) big smiles.. I got the reference (tis where I first heard this, 32 yrs ago) great movie

[ffiaux]

@bostonpiano LOL Yes! Me too, it took some years to know who composed it also. Love that movie! An this symphony.

[Trondborg]

@HerrWagnerfreund:Nur eben dass das Judentum keinerlei Nationalität, sondern eben eine Religion darstellt.Von daher waren all diese verehrungswürdigen genannten Herren, wie Einstein, Heine, etc. und andere Juden selbstverständlich Deutsche.Dies oftmals sogar sehr patriotisch, es machte vom bürgerlichen Sinne z.B. im Wilhelminischen Reich keinen Unterschied ob Christ, Moslem oder Jude, genauso wie es Heutzutage keinen Unterschied geben darf.

[joanbrate]

Agreed- This is a wonderful lilting piece of music

[MrMudpuppy1]

I whistle this as I bicycle ride. Remember the movie Breaking Away?

[bostonpiano]

@MrMudpuppy1

I do!! :)

[startug]

@MrMudpuppy1 Who doesn't? This song is awesome!

[Littleflower176]

@MrMudpuppy1 Nope, who cares.

[Tsgarlin]

Great frickin' piece of music! Though, I admit, I prefer his Scottish symphony... especially Fingal's Cave.

[Ryuzakki01]

OMG I FOUND IT.

[AgApE010]

When and why did the classical music era end? To the best of my knowledge, the last great piece of such music was Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring" in the very early 20th century. I wish there was still people like Mendelssohn and all the other greats composing new music. Intelligence in music seems to have taken a nosedive into the ground. Hence, rap.

[SilverSteam1]

@AgApE010 Ah~ But The era of Classic music has not ended! It has only faded into the background But it's still there ;) I much prefer a good piece of classical to a popular rap....But Maybe that's because I play Trumpet... IRRELEVANT! Still and always will be an amazing Piece~

[araldo1952]

mendelssohn war natürlich ein deutscher! er war erst jude ,wurde dann evangelisch! hat auch kirchenmusik geschrieben!

nur weil adolf alle juden zu Nichtdeutschen erklärt hat

ist doch historisch gesehen mendelssohn ein deutscher !

[HerrWagnerfreund]

Nein. Das hat nichts mit dem guten Onkel aus Österreich zu tun, sondern es ist ein einfacher Fakt, dass ein Angehöriger des französischen Volkes ein Franzose und kein Deutscher ist. Und ein Angehöriger des ethnischen jüdischen Volkes ist ein Jude und kein Deutscher. Mendelssohn war kein Deutscher, genausowenig wie Heine, Einstein oder Philipp Veit, dessen bekanntestes Gemälde die überlebensgroße Germania in der Frankfurter Paulskirche ist.

[mynameissssjane]

this man was GENIUS.

[cullivoebhoy]

Many thanks for posting this video. 5 Stars - one of Mendelssohn's best pieces - and for those that go on and on that Felix was German Lutheran or he was Jewish - So what? - First & Foremost, we are all citizens of the world, that just happen to be born in different places

Music is one of the very few things that trancends the usual barriers such as languages, borders and predjuces that divide us human beings, so let us all enjoy it for what it really is - pure joy and nourishment for the soul

[spinynorman230]

A Norwegian writing an "italian" symphony?

[Fizzisist]

@spinynorman230 Yep, why not? He also wrote the Scottish Symphony.

[Lity10]

@spinynorman230 actually he was German.. :o

[spinynorman230]

@Lity10 ;) I know,just that Norway is a lot farther from Italy.

[HerrWagnerfreund]

Why?

[Truthsetsyoufree100]

@spinynorman230 Mendelssohn was German

[spinynorman230]

@Truthsetsyoufree100 .. I won't even honor that with a response.

[cullivoebhoy]

@Truthsetsyoufree100 For those like you that go on and on that Felix was German, Lutheran or he was Jewish - So what? - First & Foremost, we are all citizens of the world, that just happen to be born in different places!

Music is one of the very few things that trancends the usual barriers such as languages, borders and predjuces that divide us human beings, so let us all enjoy it for what it really is - pure joy and nourishment for the soul

[HerrWagnerfreund]

No, he wasn't.

[Brantov]

Превосходная музыка, изумительное звучание.

[simhopp]

great jewish composer, along with Offenbach.

[Gondring]

@simhopp -- A Jewish Lutheran.

[cullivoebhoy]

@Gondring: For those like you that go on and on that Felix was German, Lutheran or he was Jewish - So what? - First & Foremost, we are all citizens of the world, that just happen to be born in different places!

Music is one of the very few things that trancends the usual barriers such as languages, borders and predjuces that divide us human beings, so let us all enjoy it for what it really is - pure joy and nourishment for the soul

[Gondring]

@cullivoebhoy -- I wasn't the one who brought it up...I just clarified the previous poster's comment.

[cullivoebhoy]

@simhopp For those like you that go on and on that Felix was German, Lutheran or he was Jewish - So what? - First & Foremost, we are all citizens of the world, that just happen to be born in different places!

Music is one of the very few things that trancends the usual barriers such as languages, borders and predjuces that divide us human beings, so let us all enjoy it for what it really is - pure joy and nourishment for the soul (I love Jewish Humour - Jackie Mason is my favourite)

[HerrWagnerfreund]

No, first and foremost, we're not citizens of the world. At least I think so. And so did and do a lot of other people. Art may be cosmopolitian to a certain extend but even the great poets and musicians admitted and admit that the nation also is very important for them and their works. Cosmopolitism might be very popular at the moment but you have to accept that not everyone must necessarily think like you.

[paintballKid545]

@HerrWagnerfreund okay lets see you write somthing like this

[HerrWagnerfreund]

I can't. Mendelssohn surely was a great genius. But he wasn't a German genius. This might be sad for us but we have enough geniusses.

[joanbrate]

@HerrWagnerfreund

Where are your credentials as a music aficioado.... if when, you can create

such music, perhaps you can be a critique.

[pennerdwo]

I love how it sounds from 3:57 to 4:04 *_*

[Fizzisist]

Beautiful piece. So appealing.

[kappelmeister123]

this is a very handsome rendition of mendelssohn...he was very talented..one of the few music child prodigies..he was skilled in languages and the arts...this pictuure reminds me of a painting of one of my favorite authors Nathaniel Hawthorne...he was so mercurial...

[LovelyDay1396]

does anyone know where i can download this? thank you

[Kigorusan]

This song makes me wast to get wings a fly, and dance

[chidaisy04]

Oh how I love this piece!

[mcraig2006]

Love it! Always reminds me of the movie "Breaking Away" about the little 500 bike race. You can hear this piece while the team is biking through Monroe County countryside. I"m a Hoosier, so it's a sentimental thing for me, :)

[modramafoyomama]

guess he liked italy.

[Dogaradodia]

Certified Intergalactic! I hereby rename it as "Intergalactic Symphony". What orchestra is this? Who's the conductor? Date?

[mannymanatee]

@Dogaradodia It says London Symphony but no conductor or date... sorry... :(

[r0b3rt330]

Just watched breaking away, and had to have the music for summer bike riding!!

[verbatim2436]

Love this piece! We play it in my orchestra and this sounds better because it's probably not an arrangement. Good recording as well

[dagwort]

Waldo de los Rios did a pop adaptation of this that got a good bit of radio play back in 1970 or so. I was a kid and heard it all the time, but I never knew who it was. Then Rush Limbaugh played a Rios/Mozart piece just recently. Now I had a name, and it got me to searching around again--and I found it. What a thrill.

[MasterMorty]

this is used in barbie and the twelve dancing princesses. I didn't realize that mendelssohn wrote it.

[werq34ac]

Lol, I know the melody, but I didn't realize Mendelssohn wrote it until now

[uoieaz]

This song is great. I used to listen to it all the time and then forgot about it! I'm glad to hear it again!

[KarrotKun1]

This first movement is always a breath of fresh air! Ahhhhhhhhhhh... Reminds me of the Pastoral Symphony as well.

[Mark1966C]

does anyone know where i can download this music please? Thanks

[dancingsprinkles2]

@Mark1966C itunes

[alex9920iasi]

Very beautiful music !

[andreibolkonswki]

En qué se diferencia una calculadora de una toalla?

-en que la calculadora calcula, y la toalla secal culo-

[qtpa2t4eva]

we just played this at bpm 104!! the best orchestra @ our skool and we ROCKED IT!!!

[kokoklownanr]

cool, this is the audition piece foe SCSBOA

[AznLanceLord]

lol yeah it is.

[yutingyuting123]

Our Orchestra is sightreading it tomorrow! Sounds fun. :D

I can't believe they'd make a middle school play this, though.

[happysmiles153]

im in high school and we are playing this song. it is NOT hard at all. Unless you are a complete failure at violin or you are just starting. its really basic.

[Kalamari92]

Good luck!

[yutingyuting123]

Thanks!! :)

[julienbencze]

Mendelssohn boring? Aïe Aïe my dear, Mendelssohn is the only classical composer who's genius competes with Mozart's. Listen to the Hebrides ouverture composed at age 20 in 1830, listen to the Songs without words, listen to the violin concerto in E minor...If you are not sensitive to Mendelssohn's genius, this monster who deeply inspired Schumann, Chopin, Liszt, Brahms, Wagner,Grieg, Tchaïkowsky among others,well... You miss someting unique, and it is a pitty for your "taste" development!

[magpiemanboy]

listen to this song. how is it boring?? it makes me smile, EPIC-NESS :D

[xabiche]

@julienbencze God speaks to us all in different ways, my friend.

[DonPortulinus]

@julienbencze He is romantic, not classical

[julienbencze]

@DonPortulinus I know, by classical composer I meant classical music composer in the broader sense, that is, the music composed from 1600 to today's contemporary music (Ligeti, Boulez...). But more aprticulary, Mendelssohn belongs to the romantic period, indeed (from 1815 to 1900 more or less).

[ilalesana]

hopefully this helps me do my hw i cnt focus! GRRR AGH!!!! but i like it it sounds very nice

[flaze3]

Totally empathise...

[twiketchup]

The chamber orchestra in my school is practicing this now... I have the music it is so much fun to play :D

[yutingyuting123]

Me too! :)

[roseaseela]

i love it, lively and happy :)

[roseaseela]

I LOVE IT , very lively and happy :)

[ButterS38g]

Yeah right like felix the cat! haha

[DerangedFather]

Great hair on that guy, I do my hair like that

[ButterS38g]

Dude how awesome would it be to have felix for a name? I personally like my own name as well as many others. Felix is friggin' awesome too!

[dacatholicbandorgan]

Like Felix the Cat. LOL!

[iams34]

Amazing!

[Makashi11]

@iams34 What a crap adjective to describe this music.

[happybunny213250]

my orchestra is playing this...its awesome music!

[bobzebulider]

same here you wouldnt happen to be a youth group would you?

[happybunny213250]

yes

[technohippie24]

mozarts 25th symphony

[Killergurl18]

they used this in a barbie movie... called the magic of pegasus... i know because i watch over my cousins in my place and I stuck up on children movies so they dont get bored

[jannokas85]

That's so cute! :) Aww, take good care of those little ones! ;)

[5h4n3u2b]

That's exactly how Mendelssohn would have wanted it to be.

[KTstudios07]

really? I don't think so.

But I think that it's good to bring children the classical music nearer this way.

[5h4n3u2b]

No, I was being sarcastic. I don't think it's bad that it's on a Barbie movie, just funny.

[KTstudios07]

ok:) sorry, I didn't recognize it.^^

[Ackbarfangirl]

Ah, now the Barbie movies were like artistic for being kid movies. I liked how they used From the New World too. And even Nutcracker, tho the animation was really old and creepy in that one.

[ThroughMusic]

Wow...

Wonderful, this is one of my fav. tunes!

Thank you!!!

[10203040frencHorn]

x double "love it!"

[GillyLoove]

i played this in a ellite orchestra! it sounded soo good! i play the string bass!

[Sinfoniette]

This is a quite slow and quite version of it. The flutes sound a little dragging, and overall, it does not sound like a 'fantastic' rendition, but just an amateur one.

[lostboyalexw]

...

[TinhYeu12]

-looking for an adjective-

soft

seductive

lush

pure

harmonic

splendid

deafening

glorious

[joydgreat23]

bloody brilliant!!!

[raoulh8ter]

*claps* wonderful!

[ovonijemojeime]

the video doesnt make any sense, like why the colours keep making glasses and a cape. But the song is amazing, seal pups have the best voice!

5 stars overall, keep rockin' classic dude!

[DeadSilence2389]

So beautiful!

[SexyMusicMania]

Magnificent. Bravissimo.

[punklarry]

My fav classic tune

[fixitAlchemist]

actually this is romantisism... which is after classical, beethoveen's music was the bridging gap fromc lassical to romantic music :)

[KEM0SAVY]

Absolutely brilliant. Applause.