Saint-Saëns - Emmanuel Villaume - Symphony No.3 Mvt.2 (excerpt)

[wilco9742]

7:40 [chills] get some!



[PersonneAnnonime]

j'espère sincèrement que les 4 personnes vont mieux depuis. il faut avoir un sérieux problème pour ne pas aimer ça.

[Roboctopus]

The organ entrance on the 4th mvt. just makes me want to SCREAM.

[craftyhan]

Four people have no soul.

[trumpetmaner]

it's cool how the musicians all move the same way. i don't believe i've seen that before.

[tokyomumbai]

Wonderful!!



[tokyomumbai]

Wonderful!!

[ouinonyes]

I played that third trombone part for this piece!! YAYYY!! awesome

Love the piano run

[kokomanation]

5:33 my favourite

[kevinlew41]

What is NHK?

[ngy1010]

@kevinlew41

Its a japanese TV channel ( forgot what is stands for )

but that orchestra is supported by that company - very good orchestra :)

[rmsturge]

@kevinlew41

NHK = Japan

[khalao68]

NHK = Nippon Hoso Kyokai = Japan Broadcasting Corporation

The orchestra was created on October 5th, 1926, as "New Symphony Orchestra". After being briefly called the Japan Symphony Orchestra, it was renamed the NHK Symphony Orchestra when it began to receive full financial support from NHK in 1951.

[OoSallyTomatooO]

I saw this symphony performed at Notre-Dame de Paris, that was amazing !

[Travestipsy94]

I played the piano part with another orchestra, but this is GREAT!

[petergdo]

its a pity that you dont have the end of this symphony played by the NHK, the interpretation is rather good and the tempi are quite correct. this is copared to many others a highlite interpretation

[goldengirlwithmyopia]

'scream' you chopped the end off! it is like coitus interruptus! what a tease! bad karma!

[Shotgun93Steve]

What I find inspiring in Babe is that it's a bout a pig who always looks on the bright side of life no matter what, and finds a hidden strength in himself that only the farmer knew.

Only this type of song can match the amazing story of Babe.

[grantrummel]

@Shotgun93Steve wow. wow.

[Shotgun93Steve]

...Yeah...maybe I should have kept that opinion to myself...

[Lysimachus]

No, no, you shouldn't have. It's perfectly fine if you feel inspired by farmyard animals. I'm inspired by a cow and it's magestical properties in overthrowing the "farm" template.

[Clarinet16]

esta sinfonia con la primera de brahms, las mejores

[sodapo461]

That'll do pig. That'll do.

[3NUNS]

Thanks Monsieur Villaume.

[Jussibfan]

Is there a better current conductor for the French rep than Maestro Villaume? I can't think of one. He knows his stuff.

[Clorow]

I always loved the piano runs. I never expect them (even though I've heard this a million times) since the piano isn't a very common orchestral instrument.

[Clorow]

Good one, Nancy Drew.

[eoghdes18]

The conductor is totally freaking out from the maestoso on, to try to get them to speed up... :s

[9level9]

Another great incomplete video.Great organs, orchestra, conductor ets, but terrible ending.

[phantom4087]

It's played more beautifully here than in nearly any other recording, but there's just something missing.

[novisibersk]

I'll bet the orchestra would play just as beautifully if he DIDN'T have to look like he was chopping cords of wood. sheez!!!

[TheThetraveler]

On the contrary! This is what is brilliant: It is a very tight scherzo and it brings out the fire and the precision out of the score. When the music should be fluid (7 57, for instance), his beat is very soft and elegant!

Believe me, the orchestra is responding exactly to these movements...

[choirmasterUK]

Not sure I would quite agree with this. The Scherzo movement sounds a tad too quick to enjoy the the myriad of contrasting orchestral colours employed. It's like ticking off a shopping list. The Maestoso, however, reverts to a more orthodox tempo. I love the sound of this organ.

[bloggulator]

The organ looks bizarre... but sounds incredible.

[TrompenCham167]

It was built by Rieger fairly recently and they do like to adopt this sort of style regarding the appearence of the console. I think it is very pleasing aesthetically.

[LJBSasha]

Not bad for a European console; however, I truly wish they had a whole lot more pistons (not just generals but divisionals, which then would require them to be distributed under every manual!!). Continental-European builders generally still continue to be extremely shy of giving the organist the full resources needed to allow dispensing with registrants/page-turners - something I very much hold against them. [Also, their being less than in love with expressive divisions is deplorable...]

[LJBSasha]

Mind you, on checking Rieger's website regarding this instrument as well as looking closely at stills of this video, it seems that the fully complement of pistons, for once, IS there - but mainly made so as to blend in with the white-on-black manual-keyboards (although some also seem to be such as to light up...). However, my reservation for them supplying only ONE expressive division on a four-manual - as well as general chariness with pistons on other instruments in Europe very much holds!!

[joeyboi87]

what a horrendous looking organ console

[novisibersk]

Good stuff! Villaume reminds me of Solti, always gesturing downward like he's folding hot steel. I don't get it.

[newtonbrook]

Great piece, the Japanese do it right, too bad it was cut off at the end, the ending is the best part.

[erzahler1]

yes brilliant, I want to hear the rest of it. Love Emmanuel Villaume's energy. organist is Gregory D'Agostino, exciting performance

[AlienWay]

it's brilliant. i don't know how to describe it already

[GS195]

They should make a Fantasia animation for this whole symphony.

[Gaudi0r]

BEST SONG EVER!! it's the hardest, but by far the most rewarding i've ever done in my career!! very good recording! brought back so many awesome memories

[musico81986]

The best recording I've found of this song on Youtube! You can hear the organ ringing the hall, you can feel the basses as they PIZZ their notes, and I'm using regular speakers! Good job!

+5

[iliesko]

Can you post the complete symphony?

[HokutenOverlord]

can you say, anticlimax?

[ponti169]

wonderful!! thank you for posting!

[fouxdefa]

Why I'll always love watching classical concerts better than any other kind...it's so fascinating to see how the whole orchestra--all those talented people--is the conductor's instrument.

[becksterABZ]

Great piece. Wonderfully played. Dont know why people dont want to listen to the whole movement as it is instead of the part where the organ comes in as it is all stellar. X

[Blackhawk145]

Admittedly I was guilty of that for the longest time. I had the whole piece, but always skipped over that just to listen to 7:05-8:54, but one day for kicks I decided to listen to the whole thing and I was just completely blown away by it. So outstanding in every way.