Stravinsky - The rite of spring - Sacrificial Dance

[Nobodyknowsme021]

Great interpretation, full of madness and insanity.

[lednew2010]

Nice job!

[gpeddino]

Conducting this piece must be the coolest thing ever.

[ShoppingCartProds]

AAAAAAAAAAAH!

[xgreenspanx]

If I heard this for the first time live, I'd probably go mad and start fighting the people next to me.

[Donkeyarmer]

anyone who thinks that conducting an orchestra is easy is just... wrong. and with out a score? ive never even though of it.....

[spymass]

I'm sure he is great conductor but only one shifty nervous looking violin player at the back is actually looking at him. All the rest are looking at their score.

[stamstuff]

@spymass who need a conductor in our days for known music? players of today practice with a CD at home insted. conducters are needed only for new music like Yossi Hamami piccolo concerto 'Freakollo'.

[cnmaster01]

@stamstuff A gross misunderstanding of the conductor's role.

[stamstuff]

@cnmaster01 then you better watch this 2:40 documentary-

watch?v=4Z9WVZddH9w

[cnmaster01]

@stamstuff Cool graphics, but I haven't seen anything that's convinced me, or even anything that wasn't either obvious or laughable, yet. This makes two shameless plugs. First, that dull concerto and now a dull movie. Granted yes, there are plenty musical environments that don't need conductors, but the scenario you provided is just foolish. Put on a Brahms Symphony with no conductor see how it works out. Most of the conductor free music IS new music.

[stamstuff]

@cnmaster01 Maybe this graphic will work for you. Lets see if you know how is the conducter.

watch?v=cBhZ27CaWe4?

Enjoy

[cnmaster01]

@stamstuff Yes, I'm a hardened supporter of OWS. Care to explain what this has to do with anything?

[x3Diego3x]

ruknkdnme

[bewareoftheginge]

I bet that drummer fucks hard.

[aliebi]

@bewareoftheginge like a sewing machine

[DShane99]

@bewareoftheginge

\

Porn Rules

[whydoyouletmego]

una orquesta de japoneses, que loco

[nicidemoniki]

piękne i takie niepokorne....

[Darkwarrior702]

YES!



[oldfashionedplain]

fantasia



[amithabajan2]

this guy is the building block of dream theatre. what a fucking crazy song.

[shrinandan]

This is a fantastic piece. It is the crescendo of the entire Rite of Spring composition. It is wonderful to listen to the whole piece. It'll give you chills!

[glennsown]

In case you're wondering, the maiden is leaping to try to catch the sun, so by bringing it to earth, summer can begin. Yes, she is terrified!!

[glennsown]

Want to see where this music fits? See the Joffrey ballet performance, where this music is in Part three, where the maiden sacrifice takes place,

[Filipinoboy044]

I think the timpani player needs to be sacrificed with that hair cut

[predoje]

@Filipinoboy044 haha i agree!

[PIANISSIMO13]

Amazing Stravinsky!!!! Wonderfull!!!!!

[thesoundsmith]

Somehow, this performance seems a bit artificial or forced, like they're either holding back or reading notes rather than playing music. It gets better around 2:35 when the tension builds, but up till then, I just didn't believe them. Especially the timpanist, he is too timid -not too soft, just laid back...

[emalovesauttom]

*got chills*

[nuku666]

Guees this is were the deviljho theme song came from.

[benj637]

a hornline in the background at around 3:16 - 3:25 sounds almost exactly like Phish's composition "Guyute".

[TheFrancisJames]

its based upon pagan rituals and stuff like that. google it, theres tons of stuff

[mrotwist]

This is a sacrificial dance in which a selected female who serves as a sacrifice in a savage rite dances to her death.

[1994Stew]

OMG 2 sets of Timpani! This has to be epic...

[BeauJames59]

@1994Stew (smile) In James Brown parlance, Stravinsky knew how to "give the drummer some".......

[Humbler25]

@BeauJames59 your sick...

[screwyourvanityplate]

Magnificent performance!

This song is on Voyager One's gold record floating through outer space along with other songs from earth. I wonder what other intelligent lifeforms would think of this.

[ThatOneGuyWhoIsMe]

Reminds me of the Titanic.

[Caessariotosamusa]

Wonderfull!!

[EFDavis930]

I cannot describe how fucking amazing this is... The Rite of Spring, and THIS movement specifically, is probably the most difficult thing to conduct from memory, ever.

RIP Hiroyuki Iwaki

[CaitDL3929]

Huge riots broke out at the premier of this song. He knows the word "rebel" better than any strung out rocker today.

[dubya68]

Woah... it's like slayer gone classical...

[pjt2003]

It's not the starts and stops..it's the pulse my friend!

[billyguns2]

I guess Karajan and a few others have spoiled me forever; I don't think the performance of ANY music should have downward impetus because it breaks the musical flow. Too many stops and starts here for my taste.

[johnsaje2010]

He was the pioneer of polytonality.... well ahead of composers of that time era!!!!!

[JuilliardOrBust]

Stravinsky must have had a vendetta against any form of Baroque style or order. It really seems like he wrote the piece without time signatures originally, then - since he had to put them in - put them in a way to screw with everyone's head.

[berickson925]

This is what schizophrenia sounds like.

[trainz10]

Stravinsky must have been such a Rebel in order to compose this, not to mention publish it! :P

Brave man he must have been. :P

[gcravista]

WARNING: hard conduction! =p

[TranscendingMusic]

AMAZING.. love stravinsky

[UlimorUdamenta]

I love the struggle in the music, you can hear it very clearly in this version!

[earlrobicheaux]

This was part of a series of three ballets ending with the firebird, which represents the life force and dances herself to death. The music of these revolutionary ballets requires for a new language and Stravinsky actually went to ancient Russian weavings for a new pitch complex known as sliding transposition. The rhythmic structure is sectional and does not use mixed meter, but rather accents which occur over the barline. Hence it was called the New Primitism.

[shadowscollide44]

@earlrobicheaux No, Firebird came first, then Petrushka, then Le Sacre. Have you ever looked at the score for this piece? It absolutely changes meter, sometimes with every measure. Stravinsky did not use a "sliding transposition;" he used a variety of layering ostinatos, sometimes in different keys (which typically shared the same mediant, as in F major and F# minor), he often created pitch classes by splitting the octave into symmetrical tritones and minor thirds and a variety of other ideas

[sieracki001]

This is pathetic - PLAY WITH WITH SOME FUCKING BALLS - don't just sit there!!!

[sorcerersinger24601]

and this was a BALLET?? i wanna see choreography!!

[xxxxcensoredxxx]

tight as fuck



[carpediemsrce]

This is so amazing...breathtaking really!!

[luistr3x]

So does Rattle and Dudamel (remembering the scores I mean) but i have to say that I do love this conductor as much as i ilove the others i mentioned! BRAVO

[ledormant]

I really like the conductor's smile at the end of the piece.

[ledormant]

This conductor and his orchestra are absolutely amazing !!

[KayIce]

It feels like the arrival of Sephiroth.

[amistrymister]

Wow. All of it from memory. Insane.

[tzhuff]

i'm not so sure constantly looking down at a score would have kept the tempo more stable. if you were dancing yourself to death there could be some wavering.

[giligara30492]

You feel the tension all the way through, without finding any solace in a beautiful melody or a stable harmony, or rhythm, for that matter. It is the work of genius in that it evokes perfectly what a primitive "Sacrificial Dance" would have been: monstrous, chilling, terrifying, and yet deeply attractive on some morbid level.

[doumdon]

On dit qu'il avait une mémoire dite photographique ou eidétique... (Réf: wikipédia japonais, dans l'article 映像記憶 (mémoire eidétique) et 岩城宏之著、『楽譜の風景』、岩波新書、p138～139、19­83年初版)

[otherjoe1234]

playing this next semester!

[Adeline4Hearts]

Playing this at the moment!!! excllent! Strainsky amazing!!!

[FungoBoy]

wow anyone that could memorize the rite of spring is one bad ass mofo

although i think having a score would've made the tempo more stable, it's kind of wavering at times right now

[izumeypup]

wow the conductor great, not to mention the pice is fantastically chilling

[nusua]

This is so badass.

[meowkie]

Terrifying, utterly terrifying.

I'm actually quite phobic of La Sacre...but I'm forcing myself to embrace the terror nowadays. If Stravinsky intended for me to feel this way, than by God, I'll feel this way!!

Yes, the conductor is absolutely amazing!

[Mozart61]

ottimo direttore! Ed assolutamente sconosciuto,almeno dal sottoscritto....Tutto precisissimo,anche se un pò piattino....Salonen e Tilson Thomas continuano per me ad essere inarrivalibili nel sacre.....

[ledormant]

Comment peut-on jouer cette musique sauvage en gardant ces visages fermés et impassibles?

[TheKevinV08]

I'm just really inspired by this conductor, he can remember the whole score of the Rite of Spring, and Stravisnky put so many deveations to the time signature- from 5/4 to 3/4 to 2/4 back to 5/4

[flyingV1043]

The time changes are much more difficult than that but what you say is very true!

[bulucette]

PERFECTION

cri

[pcaceresh]

Rock'n Roll...!!!!!!!

[fastertortoise2]

sounds like a frantic, terrifying fight-to-the-death upon scorched earth.... or something

[3NUNS]

@fastertortoise2 : Wikpedia this and learn somethin´!

[hottekerstbabe]

@fastertortoise2 obviously...you are too focused on the metaphor for the WWI :S

this weird composition is an attack on the bourgeoisie, the end of the nineteenth century

[imsleepyanddead]

@fastertortoise2 i still can't believe this was composed before ww1

[musoderelict]

@fastertortoise2 Beautiful comment. I think Stravinsky would have been proud to here that.

[nalunoteri]

A supreme work of a genius! This is not for everybody...just for very refined ears who know about music...

[Gettinghitonattheban]

@nalunoteri

Or someone who is just really pissed off. o_o

[syncreticJasmeen]

@nalunoteri Sorry, but you need to get off your high horse :) I don't have very refined ears, nor do I know much about music, but I still thought it was incredible and enjoyed it immensely! Why should we limit people's ability to enjoy beauty by intimidating them right off the bat?

[tomcornhole]

@syncreticJasmeen because academics are all high falutin'.

did you know that within the piece, there is a resonant frequency or

tonaL vibration that can affect human bio-energetic fieLds?

it's true.

[syncreticJasmeen]

@tomcornhole Wouldn't surprise me, but that kind of supports the idea that it's within everyone's capacity to be affected by and enjoy this stuff :)

[BandGeek3430]

wonder what was going on in stravinskys head when he was composing this

it is so BADASS

[shrinandan]

@BandGeek3430

You are so right! It is totally BADASS!

[3NUNS]

@BandGeek3430 : What was going through Stravinsky´s head at the time ? Common sense of course !

[DarkZekeX]

@BandGeek3430 you know the plot of the ballet right? This is when the chosen girl dances herself to death.

[midifromhell]

@BandGeek3430 He had a toothache. :-p

[gatoulis25]

the point with one conductor is to rember all the score out of by heart this is no something new in conducting of orchestra [this about the note of the video] the good one with this conductor is that he has feelings about the Rite !

[kittyvu88]

WHOAA

this is really, really good!

No wonder they've named an auditorium after him in melbourne... :)

[mynameisjonas240]

THIS IS SO INCREDIBLY BAD ASS

[jyebur]

Yep, I'm expecting quite a few thumbs-down for this one, but....

Jesus Christ is this piece UGLY. I don't think there's ONE redeeming feature in the entire score....

[jyebur]

I take it back. The rest of it is perfectly nice. The sacrificial dance is the only...horrific movement.

[midifromhell]

Really? I think the Spring Round Dance has some horrifying moments too. It's even worse because it starts off so sweet.

And there is The Dance of the Earth and The Glorification of the Chosen one. I mean, the whole piece is laced with terror and violence.

(But I actually like that, so I'm not complaining.)

[flyingV1043]

I actually deeply enjoy dissonance.

[dimsimlord]

It's meant to be ugly...

[Webbleking]

Actually no. It is meant to represent the "sublime uprising of nature" actually stated by stravinsky. In the excerpt from it know as the "Sacrificial Dance" accompanies a maiden who has been chosen to dance herself to death to assure the comming of spring. Hence the harsh dissonances, irregular rhythmic patterns and the violent offbeat accents. He goes back to the basics of music which is why it is called primitivisim. It's a legendary piece and so is the riot that ensued when first played.

[texashigh10]

This isn't supposed to make you feel good retard, or please you. If this made you feel uncomfortable and maybe slightly unnerved and disgusted, it did the job. Not all music is to make you feel better about yourself.

[kormoranov]

a great piece genius

[owidije]

mocno..

[omgtkseth]

EVERYBODY THAT LIKE THIS MUSIC, READ. There is some retard guy that says that music that has no key is just noise, made by some loser with no musical knowledge, and ends with a big mass of blotched tones. If anybody is willing to fight in Stravinsky's name, the name of retard is "RealityBend" . Dont be afraid of hatemailing him, he isnt a real retard, he is just stupid...

[TOHOFIEND54]

This isn't music it is something on higher, deeper level. To call it a moving piece would be an understatement. Anyone who judges this on a purely musical level will find themselves disliking it.

[mikeyjrn]

Agreed...the tone is good, but absolutely no musicality whatsoever. They're just playing the notes on the page.

[murph118]

Why is anyone giving this comment a thumbs down...

[FirstGirlPianist]

right!

[Giovanni222]

Yeah, but this has a key. It's very rare to write music that has absolutely no tonal centre.

[omgtkseth]

Would you say that 'key' also applies to chromatic scale?

[Giovanni222]

If you treat every note of the chromatic scale evenly like in serialism then no, but if there is a sense of chordal harmony, then the music has a tonal centre.

[tomestubbs]

Schoenberg, Ives, Webern, Berg, Carter R atonal!

[Giovanni222]

They're atonal some of the time. But only when they're writing with the specific intention of being atonal.

[tomestubbs]

The Rite Of Spring is actually quite tonal. There are dissonances sometimes but nothing compared to Bartok or Schoenberg.

[SophosVII]

s2dsayer: hardest? uhm, idts...

But I fully agree, the Cleveland/Boulez is beyond amazing.

[ahshorn]

Wow. By conducting anything from the Rite of Spring by memory is amazing. It changes time signature about every bar.

[Jarppase]

Very possible..

[verbosemute]

Amazing piece...I can only hope my symphony will play this someday...I'm sure the lower brass have a riot on some of these parts :)

[s2dsayer]

Has to be the most difficult piece to perform....as well as conduct! My favorite recording is Cleveland/Boulez. Cleveland back in the day was just unmatched....

[wanflove]

hmm.. a really good performance would make your heart pound.... not this one though. iv had my heart pound like crazy on other vids of the rite of spring...

[ddrucker]

I agree that it's a bit too slow, but he does hit the right groove just before the end. It's missing a certain edge til then. Listen to Ozawa, Bernstein or Gergiev do this piece. It has to be almost frantic. That last flourish was originally when the virgin is thrown into the air above the crowd (according to the original choreography); ritual brutality. tommyk77 is right; it wasn't the music that caused the riot; it was the dancing, which bordered on what was considered obscenity at the time.

[otherjoe1234]

i prefer the ozawa recording over the bernstein one, although its faster, the musical phrasing is far superior and more fine tuned that i've ever heard anywhere else.

[salsadance999]

where can i get bernstein's and Ozawa's version?

[otherjoe1234]

itunes is where i got them. the ozawa isn't showing up for some reason right now, but its with the Chicago Symphony and is on an album with a performance of the firebird (not the best, cymbals are left out in the end) and fireworks fantasy for orchestra (the ablum cover is also green if that helps). the bernstein is part of the bernstein century series, the album includes ROS, the Firebird 1919 suite, and scythian suite

[salsadance999]

thx.

[sashaloveslife]

it's a dance!!! faster!

[andresgualdron]

amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!

[nextxoxexit]

such a freaky ballet. such great music.

[settiklavio]

ottima orchestra

[acroboomslayer]

lol, the timpani player.

[chrisfactoryboi]

Yeah that made me laugh aswell, hes hitting all the right notes though even if he is the Forrest Gump of percussionists!

[clear047]

What a strange conducting pattern...all over the place. Effective, though.

[andantea09]

Truthfully, if you can play this piece this well, you don't need a conductor lol...

[g0rsk13g4n9st4]

well it is dissonant. an experimental piece. when it was first premiered (in Paris, France) there was an uproar. i happen to like the entrance theme though.

[chrisfactoryboi]

Yeah there was a giant riot at its premiere. Saint-Saens stormed out of the theatre aswell!

[g0rsk13g4n9st4]

lol, wouldn't you like to see that on camera? i would ;)

[otherjoe1234]

bbc did a documentary remake movie performance of it, called Riot at the Rite. its on youtube somewhere

[tommyk77]

Supposedly. But that is disputed.

Also, it was the dancing that caused most of the fuss

[chrisfactoryboi]

The choreography was very sexual.

[RICE510]

No surprise, Saint-Saens was a pillow biter.

[jyebur]

Rice510, what the hell is a pillow biter??

[RICE510]

Thanks to youtube's totally screwed up navigational format I have no idea what post of mine you're referring to.

[HandyTheXxxX]

It may be due to the 3,4,5,6 and 7/16 time signatures. ;)

[childs311]

hahaha, that's great. goofy looking guy, but has nice tone.

[SalsaFrescas]

Cracked up when I saw the timpanist.

[jabsomdoc]

i like this guys conducting better than ozawa

[louiseduvee]

I'm riveted!

Thank you!

[jdrzewicki9]

Anyone know where to find the score to this wonderful song?

[TravisEdward]

you can't find the entire thing online for free because its not public domain, but you can buy it from Amazon for pretty cheap. It is where I got mine. :)

[tonytrilex]

Its too slow

[chucholuchocucho]

tony ,,this is the original tempo in which it was written.

[tonytrilex]

Your right my mistake I looked it up. I own the score its 126 equals eighth note I just heard it a better recording. Im not putting down the orchestra at all. Im only saying iv'e heard it recorded in better quality.

[octavine]

where can i find the score of this?

[Jojo007407]

From your band teacher

[sists43]

Amazon

[NeatEat]

Im playing this in my orcestra class... But I am not really loving my current conductor :[

[aiyaaa]

The timpanist is just fabulous.

[LewisSmith]

I love Stravinsky. I just read through the score while listening to this and I was in Heaven.

[hinneinisannidanni]

It's a little bit like staring into the sun, I think, trying to read the score.

[LewisSmith]

LOL.... I suppose you're right. Still a lot of fun.

[flyingV1043]

I've read through it a few times and there are instances where I just go O.O and then catch up a few minutes later. Stravinsky was a musical asshole, God bless him.

[nahomkuya]

very good intepretation!!

[iatealltheLps]

i love the timpani guy

[adamspapa101]

Mr , Momose

[skater15153]

hahaha hells ya that guy kicks ass i wish we were best friends so i could make him play to wake me up ala Coming to America (which my dad is in...actually he's one of the violin players even though he's a sax player...little tid bit)

[viniciusb1]

so much energy, anger and... whatever, unnamed feelings touch me when I listen it. Love this entire piece. Stravinsky was a genius.

[Stimulator7]

that was rather fabulous

[echozoolo]

does the orchestra only have one bass player? or are they in the back?!

[rudmad00]

i can see 2... most likely there's 10

[echozoolo]

kind of on the slow side. i've heard this movement played at way a faster tempo.