Great! I look forward to hearing that!! Thank you for sharing this performance: I love to keep playing it from the beginning...that repetitive chord helps me to concentrate. I guess I just dont like large choirs..too much 'warbling'.
The orchestra is brilliant, very 'tight' and the pace has an urgency of foreboding and tension entirely appropriate. The choir usually ruins performances of this work...a large group of voices is difficult to control and here they have to function like the instruments as a single line. I guess that it´s nigh impossible for them to emit a sound as 'clean' as the instruments of a Stravinsky orchestra. I wonder what this would have sounded like with a very small group of voices.
We must not forget that the SOP is an extremely difficult piece of music. Getting it perfect technically is almost impossible. Yet I have another recording of this great work conducted by Ed Spanjaard which I never uploaded because, although technically the best performance I have ever heard, it didn't touch me musically. This comment made me reconsider my objections and decide to upload it after all. I shall try to do so In the course of this week. Stay tuned!
This piece just gets inside of you. It enters your body and soul and rips everything apart, just to lead all your minuscule bits to rejoin in what is an admiration for Stravinsky. It gets inside your head, and its not the kind of music you can hum, but you think about it and think and think and think until all you can do is listen to it again and try to understand, but forever fail. Long live Stravinsky. A legend never dies.
Its rare to find young peoples who are into this kind of music (i consider myself a young bastard too 26). Its a nice change from the cr*ap we usually listen to. Love this era of music - people had to have talent to make music back then!
I played Symphony of Psalms when I was 19. In the third movement when the timpani starts its recurring three note pattern I floated up into the air. Probably my most extreme reaction to any music. I think it is an extraordinary piece.
When I first heard this piece, I thought that it was pure garbage (too much sniffing of the glue as a kid):). Man, was I in the wrong zone. I now have EVERYTHING THAT STRAVINSKY HAS RECORDED! I t just took me well over 25 years to appreciate this man's genius! Stravinsky will forever ROCK!!!
Thank you posting this. I've loved this piece ever since I first heard it some 30 years ago. I've had the honor of singing it three times and am looking forward to singing it again some day.
Great! I look forward to hearing that!! Thank you for sharing this performance: I love to keep playing it from the beginning...that repetitive chord helps me to concentrate. I guess I just dont like large choirs..too much 'warbling'.
marcusleprince 3 months ago
The orchestra is brilliant, very 'tight' and the pace has an urgency of foreboding and tension entirely appropriate. The choir usually ruins performances of this work...a large group of voices is difficult to control and here they have to function like the instruments as a single line. I guess that it´s nigh impossible for them to emit a sound as 'clean' as the instruments of a Stravinsky orchestra. I wonder what this would have sounded like with a very small group of voices.
marcusleprince 3 months ago
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We must not forget that the SOP is an extremely difficult piece of music. Getting it perfect technically is almost impossible. Yet I have another recording of this great work conducted by Ed Spanjaard which I never uploaded because, although technically the best performance I have ever heard, it didn't touch me musically. This comment made me reconsider my objections and decide to upload it after all. I shall try to do so In the course of this week. Stay tuned!
carminum 3 months ago
This piece just gets inside of you. It enters your body and soul and rips everything apart, just to lead all your minuscule bits to rejoin in what is an admiration for Stravinsky. It gets inside your head, and its not the kind of music you can hum, but you think about it and think and think and think until all you can do is listen to it again and try to understand, but forever fail. Long live Stravinsky. A legend never dies.
Mrmasternik 3 months ago
This reminds me a bit of Carmina Burana.
cedricthecentaur 6 months ago
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Well that's good for you Jimmy.... Fucking retard...
Carthsgtr 2 months ago
Flute player reminds me of Nickolson's Joker...
Nunreal69 6 months ago
Its rare to find young peoples who are into this kind of music (i consider myself a young bastard too 26). Its a nice change from the cr*ap we usually listen to. Love this era of music - people had to have talent to make music back then!
matt2010ism 8 months ago
cool
jocko500 10 months ago in playlist choirs- "our father"- psalms 1- nat k cole!
I played Symphony of Psalms when I was 19. In the third movement when the timpani starts its recurring three note pattern I floated up into the air. Probably my most extreme reaction to any music. I think it is an extraordinary piece.
moylanhome 10 months ago
When I first heard this piece, I thought that it was pure garbage (too much sniffing of the glue as a kid):). Man, was I in the wrong zone. I now have EVERYTHING THAT STRAVINSKY HAS RECORDED! I t just took me well over 25 years to appreciate this man's genius! Stravinsky will forever ROCK!!!
peppersax 1 year ago 9
I too heard this piece as a young boy. It made a profound impact on me and led to a lifelong love for Stravinsky.
buchadolph 1 year ago
Yes, very fast and percussive in those recurring E minor chords, and indeed the best Symphony of Psalms on YouTube thus far!
DrMarkAlburger 1 year ago
It's very fast, but I still like it. The best version on YouTube so far!
Ahwellmaybe 2 years ago 5
This is truly one of Stravinsky's Best Pieces. It has made me meditate on
what makes a masterpiece. This fulfills all aspects of that, as I now evaluate it.
Thanks for posting this here.
johndega 2 years ago
One of my Favourites...
Carehuea 2 years ago
niceeeee.
ChadTheCunt 2 years ago
Thank you posting this. I've loved this piece ever since I first heard it some 30 years ago. I've had the honor of singing it three times and am looking forward to singing it again some day.
lark005 2 years ago