Keeping Score: Stravinsky's Rite of Spring (II)

[Leoptxr]

7:38 Do anyone have this recording?

[eddielu620]

great explanations and commentary - thank you!

[gjyyngii]

If that is a bassoon, then I'm a baboon!

[npoulis]

Stravinsky is my favorite. So wild and sexy music.

[mprimecoleman]

Niiiiiice viola 1:43 Looks like it's straight out of a Dali painting.

[guillenmt95]

look at the viola in 8:05 :S!

[MultiDoodaa]

this is great

[PrettyLittlePinup]

I can't decide which piece I love more. Firebird, or Rite of Spring.

[bastadesaudade]

Keeping Score is done with great knowledge, sensibility, will to share and fine editing techniques with the aim of making us understand better what this is all about. MTT is the right one! No one could have done it better. Thanks!

[JoshuaLuty]

What the hell is the percussionist using on the tam-tam at 2:40 ????

[RogueRotting360]

@JoshuaLuty Large felt coated mallet.

[FungoBoy]

MTT's conducting can sometimes be so patronizing.... i will be very pissed if i were in the orchestra (ha... ha. ha.) but i guess it's good for the educational aim of his program

[1andonlyDEl]

This is one of the best documentaries I've seen regarding The Rite of Spring so  far, very good at presenting a well rounded context regarding the piece.

[Agghasi]

I Love This Documentary :D

[SuperBrenden]

love this documentary so far

[JorPove]

Uno de los milagros de la musica contemporanea es que logra desembarazarse (aunque no siempre y no del todo) de las modalidades romanticas heredadas del movimiento musical occidental. Es gracias a una curiosa simultaneidad entre Schoemberg y Stravinsky entre otros pocos,que la revolucion actual comienza. El mismo Stravinsky ,como bien apunta Thilson Tomas, no tiene inconveniene en re- usar material de su maestro Korsakov para crear una nueva concepcion ,volviendo a las raices eslavas antiguas.

[RogueRotting360]

Exactamente. En mi opinión, el Rito de Primavera es uno de los pedazos más hermosos que he oído alguna vez.

[JorPove]

Coincidimos RogueRotting 360...la pieza si uno la toma sin ver el ballet es hermosa per se.

Si le agrega el ballet es distinta la sensacion..pero siempre emocionante.

Uno no puede mostrar insensibilidad ante el dramatismo de los giros que Stravinsky imprime a esta musica.

[VarimathrasHighlord]

Agree Schwab

[hylelogos]

What is the name of that book mencioned by MTT?

[HolyHansemandse]

at 0:42 there is an really large looking viola in the right side of the picture, what is that? i have never seen anything like it.

[ThaSchwab]

That violist was known for his hideously distorted instrument. Obviously it didn't sound any different from a regular viola, or he wouldn't be up in that chair.

[29041138414579]

it's don ehrlich's ergonomic viola, it's actually quite small and very light. the sound is very bright.

[ThaSchwab]

What kind of idiots would rate this 3 stars?

[EDGJZConglomerate]

@ThaSchwab

2 years later: What two kind of idiots would dislike this?

[jesemus33]

@ThaSchwab Those are not an ordinary idiots....those are the BIGGEST IDIOTS