Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4, 3rd mvmt

[bubblytar]

The Clarinet solo at 2:45 makes me think of Diagon Alley o.0 wonderful piece!

[collindotlloyd]

Bleh. SFS did it better.

[CCasey325]

I'm a bassist and have't played violin in ages, but the lady plucking at 5:23 has gotta be my favorite thing. Just kinda slapping the strings hahahahahah

[VioLynn0803]

You just know every oboe player loves to be the douche bag who plays the oboe blare at 1:49. :D

[jwbeauch]

Stunning!!!

[Yuliviolinista]

Pizz !!!!! I like !!!

[chopinvalseop42]

Hands down my favorite movement from this symphony. Although the second movement could very well be the same whilst listening to it. I just love tchaikovsky!

[lovemetu]

@chopinvalseop42

I saw the LSO playing this very music in april this year in London, also on the bill Sarah Chang performing the Bruch Violin Concerto. Just mindblowing evening, nothing better than seeing it played live and watching the 'Divine' Sarah play, best evening entertainment ever !! Bravo to Classical music and the Musicians who perform it !!

[fernandofariajunior]

It's incredible how a small difference in tempo makes this a completely different piece... still like it faster, though...

[dickdona]

This the Fun movement of all time.

[Diatommy554]

This series of videos has got to be the best thing on youtube. hands down.

[katbtmn]

KUJALA!!

[kapoczka]

Everyone- I like to request your prayers. I have to play the piccolo part. Just got the music tonight. ;)

[hennimore1]

@kapoczka Lol! I have similar feelings about the 1st Clarinet part in Borodin's Polovtsian Dances :(!

[goodchessactor]

Tchaikovsky, the master of the pizzicato...

[hennimore1]

@goodchessactor Tchaikovsky: the master of everything!

[TheTherese3]

The paradyme of our times.do you young Turks get this?

[AmandaCbx]

toquei esse movimento ! meus dedos ficaram com bolhas... ashuahsuah'

[lindabindaboo]

Really, hearing this music is fantastic. Hearing it live is INCREDIBLE! :)

...But performing it yourself.... wow, just wow. The feeling is indescribable!! :)

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[lovemetu]

@lindabindaboo

I went to the Royal festival hall 21st April 2011 mainly to hear Sarah Chang play the Bruch violin concerto No 1, Sarah was unbelievable, so much emotion in her playing, the audience went crazy at the end of her performance, she is so wonderful. Also on the programme was Respighi Fountains of Rome No 1 and the Tchaikovsky Symphony No 4 , Orchestra was the Royal Philharmonic. What a feast of music it was,

I loved this movement, live its fantastic to hear it, a wonderful night !

[benomind]

@lindabindaboo Saw the Hopkins Symphony Orchestra perform this live earlier and this scherzo: pizzicato ostinato part was amazing. Windwood and brass instruments have a field day in this symphony. I especially enjoyed the piccolo parts, Tchaikovsky truly knew how to compose.

[eamflutes]

Go Walfrid Kujala!

[mobile507]

i listened to this video in 2008 and i still listen to it in 2011. btw nice horn angle mulcahy

[rrvtjd]

Awesome!

[1bateleur]

most inventive scherzo ever! my favorite one with bruckner's one in his 9th symphony

[cristian0693]

Si la magia tuviera un sonido sin dudar seria este.

[geosulli]

Such a score card audience. It's the music stupid. Being played by imperfect humans. Sit back and enjoy the genius of Tchaikovsky, for Christ sake. Can any of you play this any better. If you can are you in on of the top 5? or does it make you feel superior pointing out flaws. Ever had a bad day? Maybe they are. It happens. Watch sports? Ever see one of your superstars have a bad game. Well wake up, It also happens in perfomances. I know!!! I'm a pro horn player and have seen it .

[StarWarsChick27]

I love during the piccolo solos all it shows it the hands on the player! Like it's trying to say "Look how hard this part is!!" I love it!! GO CSO!!!

[quasimojo8]

it's amazing how the conductor can just stand there barely showing a beat and still they're perfectly together. It's like all he's needed for is portraying emotions

[XEA6L]

@quasimojo8 Exactly.......tht's what orchestral conductors are supposed to do; "portyaying emotions" nothing more, and certainly nothing less.

[veloqis]

@quasimojo8 Most of the conductor's important work is putting the piece together to his liking and his interpretive imagination through many rehearsal sessions. In truth, by the time the orchestra performs the piece on stage, a conductor's job has already been done, and the orchestra can, in most cases (depending on the piece) play without a conductor. Several solists even prefer playing without a conductor.

[yorgomtl]

Mmmm, the Land of Chocolate....

[0GL]

The oboe entered like a severe case of PE.

[c4exclusive]

the sound of the oboe is sooooooooooooooo sharp, i really don't like it

[nottravis28]

@c4exclusive

No he's not..

[c4exclusive]

ok, compared to the sound of the german,dutch and french oboist it is. Maybe it is normal in america, i don't know

[SHdrummerguy08]

@c4exclusive Europeans tune to a different A than AMericans

[nottravis28]

2:38 The tuba player looks bored.

[PiccoloFlute2010]

Love his face @2:48 :)

[jonatanliv]

Gran Sinfonía, y que buena interpretación, Grande baremboim

[mca1218]

Always loved movement no. 3 of this very epic symphony. The plucking strings always remind me of a chase scene in a suspense film- some kind of big adventure coming to en end- and the end is the 4th movement finale.

[BeowulfVids]

Tchaikovsky IS NOT always about happyness. The reason he wrote this symphony was fate during the troubled times in his life, when he dumped his wife. He wrote this movement during his visit with the russian peasantry. The pizzicato and woodwind features are used to represent Belalikas, Flutes, And Viols. In fact, this entire symphony is about sadness, and the fourth movement practicaly proclaims revolution.

[peppersax]

One of the best (if not the best) pizzicato movements EVER!!! Epic!!!

[BrasilioGonzalez]

Barenboim's Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony is very interesting, but only during the first and the second movements. In this pizzicato ostinato, Barenboim makes the same mistake that almost all conductors do: THEY FORGET THAT TCHAIKOVSKY'S MUSIC IS ABOUT HAPPINESS! Where is the orgasm in this movement? At 5:15? That's not orgasm when the subject is Tchaikovsky!

[RelaxationMediaVideo]

This piece is a real pick me up.

[classicalmusic6]

2:33-3:10 is so amazing and pretty! The CSO brass NEVER dissapoints!!! THE WHOLE MOVEMENT IS AMAZING. Barenboim can get alot out of them without waving his hands like an idiot. Very impressive.

[Gozaburo1]

A bit of a boo boo at 2:24 by the flutes, and Barenboim heard too!

[TheKevinV08]

LOL the tuba player at 2:38 is just twiddling his thumbs...

[Nomm098]

@TheKevinV08 ROFL That was the highlight of my day!

[LJBSasha]

@TheKevinV08: The tuba is silent throughout both this and the preceding (2nd) movement - we catch the tubist at the end preparing his instrument for the 'tutti' launch of the 4th movement. Until then, what's left for him to do, given his part being silent?

[jasonextreme]

Barenboim makes a great conductor as well

[Violanerd6]

is the principal violist peter slowick?

[classicalmusic6]

@Violanerd6 The Principal viola is Charlie Pikler. Peter Slowik never served as principal.

[samdajellybeenie14]

I love that little smile he gives at 2:23!

[dmitryflute]

Woodwinds made a little mess there. They got too emotional and fucked up few notes. That is why he smiled :))

[PositiveHalo]

Amazing dynamics! Playing with that level of dynamic while using pizzicato and not making a metalic twang requires an enormous amount of patience and control over plucking hand.

[RyaZila24]

2:45 the best part

[iamemod]

2:50

priceless

[RyaZila24]

@iamemod

lmao!!!

[UnshavenStatue]

pizzicato ftw

[violinamateurBX]

wow...everyone has a different style of pizzicato.....i am also learning this symphony and watching each style i now also have my own style

[mozartu]

very good version of Tshaikovsky

and so incredible symphony

[Fuenuenuenuenue]

I love the 3.part

i just heard it yesterday evening in the Philharmonie Dortmund with the Symphony Orchester.

It was wonderful

[adalguzm]

This could be one more piece in the nutcracker :D

[plop292]

the violinist at 5:24 just made my day

[c4exclusive]

plop292, at 2:04 you get a first impressions of the lady hahah, just in front of the flutes

[azzai45]

lol, everyone seems to have their own unique pizzicato! And I must say, watching the bass strings vibrate is quite satisfying!

[cookiebella512]

i love the flute and piccolo in this movement!

[zanxquantum]

I love watching the low brass in this video

at 2:37 you can see the tuba player start twiddling his thumbs lol.

Why is Charlie Vernon using all the alternate positions? And whats the deal with the 2nd trombone player pointing his bell up there.

[violinistx100]

Who's playing piccolo in this video?

[lantora84]

Walfrid Kujala

[FinaleFantasy]

My dad always said you could never snap a string plucking. Then he played this movement, got excited and snapped his E string plucking.

Fun music.

[cl427x]

on subject of the piece, awesome job CSO/Barenboim :)

[cl427x]

clearly someone doesn't know how to play a stringed instrument.

V

[AdioBlackMentality]

When you do pizzicato on a string instrument, there only a certain dynamic you can go to without popping the string off. it sucks. haha.

[iWyke2]

....u know how wrong you are?

[AdioBlackMentality]

how?

[Faircrowd1]

Absolutely superb - the whole symphony is great tho`.

[holamen12]

May be this and the finale movement are my favorites

[headshotfanatic]

Yes i do

[headshotfanatic]

iF YOU NOTICE THE DIRECTOR IS DIRESCTING AT DIFFERENT SPEEDS SOMETIMES AND THE BAND IS KEEPING UP WITH HIM THAT SHOW THEY WATCH HIM GOOD

[lilly763]

If by band, you mean the Chicago Symphony =P

[zimnyleszek]

they don't look at him at all:D

[zenrarity]

What, you haven't heard of peripheral vision?

[nottravis28]

@headshotfanatic

Illiterate much?

[lilly763]

Yay for the piccolo player! Not many people can play that part...

[goodchessactor]

I saw a documentary on the 4th symphony and the piccolo player player said something like "a lifetime of study for 4 seconds of terror!"

[holamen12]

Is this movement diffucult for the bass, because of the pizz?

[violinistx100]

No, It's quit common for the bass(and all others) I've seen it a lot and it's fairly common and a few friends said it's not difficult on the bass.

[pianoman9763]

@goodchessactor hey, i totally saw that too! i saw it like 2 years ago and it was about the san francisco symphony performing this :)

[pianoman9763]

@goodchessactor i know exactly what you're talking about! i saw it about 2 years ago. it was about the san francisco symphony performing this :)

[pinkfloyddwc]

@goodchessactor lol yeah i was thinking about that same one :)

[ScaldingHotSoup]

@lilly763 yeah, this picc part is the bane of my existence right now.

[1upMusician]

@lilly763 In tune. lol.

[heshoopman]

@lilly763 All the notes are there, but to me it sounds quite out of tune. I love the Chicago Symphony like most other people, but I feel like that piccolo soli isn't really up to par with the rest of the orchestra. I will admit though... at least the notes were there! It's not easy to sit tacet for two full movements and then play something like that!! And the solo at 2:46 is right on it!

[MaestroKyle2009]

I love this movement, probably one of my favorite Tchaikovsky pieces. However, I think they play it a little too fast for my taste, and the woodwind and brass sections don't play their notes quite as staccato as necessary to match the strings' style.

[iwanabana]

i think it's a little bit too slow.....maybe personal taste lol

[skitzo429]

whoa, violinist at 5:24, crazy cat lady hah

[goodchessactor]

Here you can see different schools of pizzicato playing, index finger while grasping the violin, middle finger in the air and others.

[violinistx100]

anyone have any tips for a beginer piccoloist??? i'm changing over from flute soon and would like some tips and what to expect type things THANK YOU!!!

[voicesinurhead01]

Practice.

[violinistx100]

um....thanks, but that really wasn't helpfull

[voicesinurhead01]

Sorry, but there's only so much one can give for advice on a Youtube comment.

[calman125]

lol 5:25 the violinist looks like a cat batting at a ball of yarn.

BRAVO! this is one of the most challenging, yet innovative movements of any symphony.

[FungoBoy]

despite being one of the greatest composers ever lived, i think tchaikovsky was being very mean by telling the piccolo to tacet mvt.1 and mvt 2, and then 161 measures of rests, and then come in with the giant solo =p

[nickysaxpiccolo]

haha so true

[parelaca]

Yes, this is Tchaikovsky how I know him in The Nutcracker or Swan Lake :) Nice

[evasflute]

woohooo kujala!!!

[BDFDJOE]

never do i hear this 3rd mvmnt, that i don't admire the genius to have interjected a most compelling showcase for any orchestra's string-section..  it never becomes mundane, far from it, and it's conclusion is, pure delight. for all music lovers.. bdfd joe, bedford, mass.

[pizzaboy456783]

2:57 Amazing!!!!

[akm10293]

The piccolo is unbelievable...That part is insane...

[ElenoreDinosaur]

Alex Klein, is, and will always be my hero!

Rock on oboes!

[goorioles747]

The ending of this movement is so surreal, my mouth drops in awe at the end every single time I listen to it. And that is aided by this absolutely stellar performance!

[ictusbk]

when this symphony was premiered in 1878, the audience demanded an encore of this 3rd movement. it is still a tour de force!

[fliboi78]

Damn Kujala. He makes the most impossible things look like child's play. I honestly do not know of a wind section better than this one. Stellar!

[kiracore84]

ps i think tchaikovsky would have absolutely lost his mind to hear such a virtuosic performance

[kiracore84]

you could be right, because this is such a great and professional orchestra, but i think Barenboim has had a long and fruitful association with the CSO and is on the whole a worthy successor to Rodzinski, Reiner, Kubelik, Solti et al... anyway this is a great performance I think, and surely Barenboim can take some credit for it...

[musickrazy43]

i know that barenboim was and still is a great figure in the music world. however, i feel that his conducting doesn't portray his interpretation of this music properly. i think that in this case, he could be absent, and the orchestra would still play this way. he doesn't seem to have much of an influence on the orchestra or the audience.

[NoodlePowa]

OMG WOW

[overlord1294]

Stellar clarinet playing

[ndosg15]

Kujala isn't playing along with the flutes between 2:24 and 2:33 just to warm up before the big solo...that part is actually in the score

[TurnoutBurnout]

Don't worry too much about the quality... it's still a lot better than most YouTube videos.

[levnest15]

yeah no duh

[Lovethieve1]

Does anyone know if David McGill's Bassoon has the gentlemen's cut?

[LittleCellist1]

i know i'm talking about a professional orchestra, but the dynamics during the pizzacato sections are just incredible

[elias1015]

the pizz could be as fast u can....

[aflute4u]

I think everyone should remember who we are talking about before you go making your... rather unprofessional/immature comments. These are the people who have help pave the way so to speak for us... Why don't you enjoy it for what it's worth versus attacking every note. And word to the wise... make sure your performance is perfect before trying to go against one of the best in the biz... (Sagarflute)

[Q1770]

how fast the violin pizz could be?

[akikofan]

i love the pizzacato part.so magical.

[czechprince2010]

ah man I love this piece. I just played it in a summer conservatory and that Clarinet solo is veryyyy hard.

[barryc86]

Donald Peck is The Man.

[ThaSchwab]

Which instrument?

[WAKeele]

Principal Flute

[loofascraper]

Best opening oboe solo ive ever heard from this Symphony

[maestrojeremy]

I absolutely love his conducting of the brass entrance! How beautiful the brass play here: even though they are playing 16th notes, it seems as if there is a simultaneous legato and lightness to the brass passage that is difficult to acheive. Bravo Chicago Symphony Orchestra!

[edcassells]

2:53 to 2:59 - - best pic solo I've ever heard on this symphony. Bravo!

[sagarflute]

Got to disagree, after the slur the tongued notes were then late/not with the trumpets and then the last note split. Hardly a perfect performance

[Rachman1337]

I disagree for a different reason: the solos of a CSO performance of a Mahler symphony are much better. :) ...in my opinion, it's all good.

[PacoLevy]

Sounds like Kujala plays along with the flutes to warm up before the piccolo solo.

[ThaSchwab]

When? When the flutes first come in or 2:24?

[powellpicc1985]

Hmmmm...I wonder. It's a really REALLY good idea, regardless!

[iWyke2]

i love the beginning

[AdioBlackMentality]

i play bass and this movement is fun but a challenge to play.

[darkprose]

Tchaikovsky had a great sense of humour! Here, and the third movement of the Pathétique, we have a great drunken excess and play. I love this movement.

[eristaviserbia]

I would agree that they are quite boisterous. Though I liken the 3rd movement of the 6th Symphony to a march of Roman knights!

[darkprose]

Interesting take. I always found it interesting that in the full statement of the march (of the 6th), the melody is in the strings and not the brass -- sometimes the beats of the horns and the timpani all but overpower the melody. A unique march, indeed. Is it triumphant, though? In isolation, one might think so, but what follows exsanguinates any triumphalism from its strident beats, I think. Embedded in the Pathétique, the III mvt is manic irony.

[DaddyofT]

Alternating between fatigue and boredom. Like this movement and Barenboims interpretation. There is no much more to this symphony than just mere notes.

[AgentJohnson1]

How did u get this video? is it on a dvd i can buy? if so were did u get it? i really want it.

[ThaSchwab]

Lol, just watch it one here. :)

[AgentJohnson1]

yea but i want high quality dvd sound and video.

[medpiano]

Sorry, this is from my own recording of the live PBS broadcast back in 1997 (that's also why not of the best quality--no digital TV back then!)

[ThaSchwab]

Looks like the principal second violinist was using his middle finger to pluck, unlike everyone else using their pointers. :P It's much easier that way though.

[medpiano]

I often alternated between 1 and 2, just to avoid fatigue (and boredom)

[ThaSchwab]

The piccolo player really struggled a bit when he had the melody after the clarinet solo. I mean, yeah...dotted 8th notes his hard on a flute, but he was also a little bit late.

[goodchessactor]

You're right but that piccolo solo is the hardest to play in all of classical music. Piccolo players hate Tchais fourth!

[ThaSchwab]

Sorry ... meant sixteenth, not eighth notes. :)

[dasteufelhund]

Maybe you do, but I always have fun with these excerpts. Especially Tchaik 4th!

[dasteufelhund]

Incredible picc playing, Wally Kujala!

[AdioBlackMentality]

it has a whole bunch of accidentals to.

[LJBSasha]

@AdioBlackMentality: If those D-flat passages had been written in D-flat major, perhaps it might have helped?

Otherwise, what's so difficult about that fife passage you flautists/fifists are so upset about (from a keyboardist)? The speed of those notes (notably the 32nds)? Tessitura? Breathing?

[JLwaldhorn]

That brass section is really good!

[cellocraze]

oh yes, they were excellent