St. Paul's Suite IV. Finale (The Dargason) - Holst

[xaprilmayjune]

It's very good, but oh gosh, the ending.

[miniminiawesomeness]

How many violas are there in this orchestra? Because we have three at my school and when we have the melody no one can hear us at all(: hahaha

[aaronaaron87]

Sorry but that was a bad performance with tuning and such...not to be a stuck up critic.

[pereiraopera]

I'm inviting you to watch Russian chamber orchestra playing Holst. Just go on PhilharmoniaNSK youtube chanel.

[leejustin99]

Too flat on a lot of notes

[juwan66]

Mehhh.... overall band version sounds better

[CherryDrop96]

Good just a few tuning issues and bowing but well done :)

[oliveira130394]

Muito bom! ótimo, interpretação excelente !

[trogonidae]

This is a part of BOTH the 2nd Suite in F (I play oboe!) and St. Paul's. They're both by Holst.

[benjierooster]

My favorite part is when the conductor is forced to conduct in 1 because ot the greensleeves melody being in 3. I played this in high school and I always enjoyed the slight confusion it seemed to cause the audience and the challenge it posed for the orchestra to stay together on beats that don't quite match up. Brilliant.

[ShamuGuy42]

We are doing this for nationals. You guys did an amazing job!

[MrPcGames2]

Work on the ending, also, intonation.

[apostleguy]

Ok, so for those who are wondering why this is sounding so similar to Second Suite in F, its because Holst rearranged and rescored Second Suite in F as PART of St Paul's Suite. He wrote them both. This is just an orchestral arrangement of Second Suite.

[llamasarus1]

this is the most geniusly written orchestra song and its stuck in my head.

[bonjouretavoir]

lol we played this in the winter concert in grade 7...i remember

i like this song better than intermezzo =PPP

[tpocain]

3:11 Yeah, get on that bass, boy! I've always loved this!:)

[tpocain]

I did this with a concert band in high school, but I think it sounds so much better with strings...:)

[FigmentsFan]

Sounds great on strings, but the original he wrote, back for the Military Band, really makes this piece sound a lot better. It's a lot fuller, and I'm usually always the guy to give things to strings first. That says something.

[n8ames]

Violas killed it ;_;

[thehalfninja1]

@n8ames

Oh sure.. blame the violas, we do everything wrong >.> and speaking of violas, I wish my orchestra teacher would use this seating.. puts the Viola right out front. :P

[n8ames]

@thehalfninja1 We did that one year, but I hated being on the outside. It just felt weird ._.;

[simplyxgabrieful]

we're playing this song! you guys were good ! dont listen to everyone else. sure, it got a bit messy at times but thats bound to happen in high school! the only super huge thing i heard was the last note because you didnt end togetehr but it was fine other then tht!

[pielady211]

i love this song =) my high school played it last Thursday....

[adrianvel14]

oh man the violas were sloppy ahah. same as the violins. good performance though! :)

[lukphonp]

this is torture *~*

[Pooki70729]

Is it me, or is there something egotistical about their performance?

[lukphonp]

thats cus its a catholic school and they have expensive instruments but no talent

[jtindull]

the end didn't end together...but overall this was really good..can't hear the basses at the end but I enjoyed it..cellos rule!!!

[hellorikkio]

This makes me want to have sectionals everyday so my viola section never sounds like this. Even though we did when we played this.

[SakuraHyuuga101]

no offense but this video makes violas have a bad name, bad intonation, rushing, and just sloppy in general.

[chandeliirX919]

violas threw everybody off at the part where the violins are playing "Green Sleeves". -_- that's the best part of the song.

[Nukefuzion]

Violas can make or break a song and they obviously broke this song.

[drummiebear]

piece*

[Nukefuzion]

@drummiebear Well thanks for the correction. I need to work on being more familiar with the terms relating to music.

[ikrazyman]

nice playing

[freezii999]

you couldn't hear the basses when they has the melody because the upper strings played to loud

[dondonp12004]

I played that tune when I was a high school sophomore. Now, as a university sophomore, I'm playing it again.

[KyoTheFoxDemon]

What instrument do you play? Viola?

[dondonp12004]

Cello, my secondary instrument. My primary: piano.

[Zimbobway16]

I played this last year but we played it faster then this.

[hylianviolinist]

I think maybe a bit more work on the intonation would've made it much better, but still a great performance. c:

[zbaritones]

i'm sorry but I prefer brass instruments, even just wind players over strings for this suite...and what happened at the end there were like 4 separate cutoffs

[joshyfishie]

no wayyyy. string own

[gec1994]

don't even listen to these people yall did a great job! my high school played this! i enjoyed it! especially the violins! great!

[jogacoeur]

get a life man. no one cares.

[ultimabass]

I also love where the song goes serious at 2:26.

[ultimabass]

A bit off at the start, but it got great when Greensleeves was introduced... sadly you could hear the violas' intonation :(

I played this with my orchestra this evening, and we screwed it up royally...at least i did. I play bass.

[CommanderP]

Really an awful performance for such a large school...

[Pallustri]

rushing much? yes

[Phnxkon]

the song isnt much slower than this if this is even fast....

[Pallustri]

Rushing is not the same as tempo.

Rushing is when you play your part too fast. this usually occurs when you play fast parts.

The tempo is good.

[tallviolinboy]

I love the first Greensleeves introduction part, where the cello section takes the melody...Cellos seem to never be able to like grasp the concept of the whole thing, like i don't get it...

[kittystolemycookie94]

we r playing this in our orch......but this orch. sounded like they hardly practiced, they werent 2gether, they were out of tune, and the 1st chair was out of tune at the solo at the end of the song....

[notmyfuture]

Intonation was horrigle they didn't even bother to adjust, they were out of tune, it was rushed and mostly they wern't together especially at the end

[jafleischman93]

the violas are really out of tune :(

[manoman12354]

its ok..the ending was kinda-well...off...he went down and the first chair did it on time but then the rest of the orchestra did it later sounds dumbish

[fob199]

the melody was rushed the entire time XD c'mon man. i was like why does it sound bad and i got out my violin and figured out the melody in like 4 minutes. =P

[HIMspaz]

why in sweet god are the cellos in the cellos in the violin 2/viola section??

[manoman12354]

because sometimes they do that to represent like old music literature. im not sure why they do it here

[xxBohemexx93]

i really appreciate the cello and bass sections

my school's concert orchestra (we have 2) has a bass section that cant match a pitch with each other sometimes

we are performing this piece in our winter concert

[skyline777]

same here, except for the bass section stuff you said

[hoopsmaster13]

sorry guys, but you sound like my middle school orchestra!

[KitttyNeko14]

Agh, I play second violin in this piece D: It's a fun piece; however, it's a bit difficult. But once you get the rhythm down, the whole song is pretty easy!

[Pimadude]

Yikes, that very last solo is a killer for me, i practice like an hour a day on that.. AHH!! she was good on it tho, over shot the last note, but it sounded ok after the Trill

[fob199]

Meh you guys are okay xD there were some really out of tune parts but whatev. thats just the unreliability of the violin for yah. nice job :P

[LaurenBlogs]

Wonderful :) I recently saw another high school preform this....I just love it! Nice job :)

[AVALOS365]

AWESOME!!!!!!!!!

[Soledge]

the stage and layout look surprisingly similar to the hall in Marquette university in Wisconsin

[microschrott50]

to my mind it's really to slow... and the intonation is also ver bad partly...

I can't say that it's bad, but it sounds really uncorrect...!!!

[theawsomeQ5fansite]

i played this at camp comments:

louder solo

1st's need to quiet down when they dont have a solo

and ur ending needed to be a bang!

also when you guys stand up STND UP TOGETER

all in all good performance

[speedyswish]

I played this at camp. But we sounded so bad compared to this, I almost cried while listening to it.

[DowneyAdmirer1]

hmm my 8th grade band playing the high school version this year.

we dont sound nearly that good.

[small joke, we kinda suck]

love it. (:

[BaBYlAWnMoWer24]

I love this

[liciavershawn]

OMG.. this takes me back. We played this my freshman year in HS. You guys sound good! Wow i miss playing in an orchestra.

[tiger941]

such an awesome piece

[AvidViewer567]

I was trying to find the Fantasia on the Dargason from Second Suite and this sounded very similar so much that it fooled me...nice performance! ^^;

[DTHRocket]

I thought that it was part of 2nd suite in F.

[jogacoeur]

nope, St. Paul's.

[DTHRocket]

I think that they're both based on the same dance. It sounds almost exactly like 'Fantasia on Dargason' from his 2nd Suite in F.

Good performance!

[ricolee830104]

@DTHRocket You're right. Holst adapted the Finale of his Suite No.2 in F for String Orchestra for this occasion.

[macosx406]

@jogacoeur you're both correct. In the band world it is referred to as "Fantasia on the 'Dargason'", while as the orchestra world refers to it as the "Finale (The Dargason)"

[Tanjo3]

@DTHRocket This is actually a string arrangement by Holst of that particular movement.

[ujibo42]

@DTHRocket Well you'd be wrong then, wouldn't you?

[ujibo42]

@DTHRocket

[Aleve909]

@DTHRocket it's identical to 2nd suite's dargason, probably adapted or arranged for a symphony and renamed.

[trogonidae]

@DTHRocket

It is a part of both - not sure which came first. (Suite in F is arranged for band, and St. Paul's for orchestra.)

[WarriorMusic1993]

@DTHRocket It is; this was a suite Holst later wrote. Second Suite came first.  He justed added it in as one of his ideas. Finale and Fantaisia on the Dargason are the exact same piece. Just Orchestra