Dvorak, Berg, Copland

[katrina1998able]

love this concert...

[jumalog1]

It is the best music I have heard

[MrJuzzam]

The winds section performance, specially in the 'simple gifts' part was one of the worst I've ever heard.

[BritinIsrael]

It doesnt have to sound like Beethoven or Mahler, for example. There are many modern 12 note compositions that i admire and can honestly say that even John Cage's "prepared piano " works are to me more palatable than the Berg Violin Concerto. But that is my personal opinion.

[BritinIsrael]

Maybe " non music" was the wrong description, and i apologise if i upset or offended anyone. Maybe i should have said "unmusical"! I use this word because i find the Berg Violin Concerto totally devoid of any musical value orsubstance. I am convinced that if one of my grandchildren suddenly found a violin and bow laying on the floor and tried to make some sounds out of them , the result would not be any different, and maybe even more acceptable to the ear.

[spikethepoet]

@BritinIsrael Look at it this way. Do you only watch one genre of film?

[BritinIsrael]

Honestly i have tried and tried and tried........... but i just cannot call the Berg violin concerto "enjoyable" in any sense of the word. This rates, alongside most of Stravinsky's output, as total NON MUSIC!!!

[mahlerman101]

@BritinIsrael It always bothers me when people claim that something is "non-music." What is music, in the general sense? A collection of gestures manifested in sound that recreate our moods and feelings. People who listen and study Mozart all the time (I love Mozart) seem to forget that Berg and Stravinsky manipulate the same gestures. Berg is all about gesture, the Brahms of the 21st century. As for harmony, there has been a logical progression from Palestrina on - hence the beaty of creativity

[mahlerman101]

@mahlerman101 hence the beauty of creativity that makes our very humanity so unique. Great art demands a unique voice for it to be marveled at and remembered. Unfortunately for your tastes, composers have been trying to desperately free themselves of the shackles of their influence (take a look at Brahm's anxiety over Beethoven's legacy) such that, yes, radically new styles evolve, styles that inherently still apart of musical idiom, i.e., gestures.

[1888junkteam]

excellent work!

[Lamvesp]

Perfectly executed.

[anahit13]

cool, how did u get an hour long in 1 video/ isnt the limmit 10 min or something?

[svlamb]

Great to have a performance of the Berg Concerto on YouTube. It is one of the greatest of all violin concertos and should be better known. Appalachian Spring makes a surprisingly good partner for it - imaginative programming.

[carolynan]

Amazing  love Copelands music especially thanks!!!

[Scott06066]

Copland was my first introduction to Classical music. This is beautiful. Thanks!

[wesleyan97]

Yay! The Berg concerto and Appalachian Spring on the same program...they're like the two sides of my soul.

[infintomx]

I enjoyed this concert very much, thank you for posting!