ROSSINI. "The Thieving Magpie". Overture

[pinkestflamingo47]

Sherlock.......

[MatthewRyanBJJ]

KENNY VS SPENNY !!!!!

[STVG71]

Love the one eyed dog in the foreground. Never noticed it until today!

[ryanz614]

Also came here because of Murakami!!! :D

[sdbinoshkosh1]

wonderful talented people I loved it

[ririrue]

Isn't ironic that I'm reading The Wind-up bird right now? *I think not*

[fearlessAx]

Just starting Wind-up Bird. Came here to set the scene.

[clusterfurm]

lets all head over to the milk bar

[jordanforever21]

A clockwork orange!

[VanityFair0905]

Done reading "The Wind-up Bird Chronicle"! Kafka is better. Thumbs up if you agree!

[VanityFair0905]

Done reading "The Wind-up Bird Chronicle"!

[shamuiepie]

His flute has a C foot. >.>

[UnexptedB]

I like this song.

[Glee0k]

Also a Murakami reader....

[No1KelvinTsai]

I am from Taiwan, also a reader of Murakami.

Just finishing reading "The Wind-up Bird Chronicle," I searched this song and then came here.

[bdempster44]

@No1KelvinTsai i also live in taiwan, almost finished with "The wind up bird chronicle" but from America. cheers.

[PGJ8300]

"When the phone rang I was in the kitchen, boiling a potful of spaghetti and whistling along with an FM broadcast of the overture to Rossini's The Thieving Magpie, which has to be the perfect music for cooking pasta."

[sauske772]

@PGJ8300 It so is....

And I love Mr. Murakami's works.

[MisterTimothyRyan]

Yep, another Haruki Murakami reader here. I just finished "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle". It's 4:23 a.m. Wow.

A great performance, too, I might add.

[MisterTimothyRyan]

Freaky! I just saw that the time I wrote in my comment - 4:23a.m., when I finished "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" - came up as a link, so I clicked it...

[TheZeldaLover1]

a clockwork orange anyone

[LegendaryElitz]

@TheZeldaLover1 yep very.

[sauske772]

@TheZeldaLover1

Nah, Murakami.

[joedokko]

bird, dressed in blachk and white. thieving, living and growing. who is that bird. a complex architechts. creative, vigorous. yin yang bird...

[joedokko]

bird, dressed in blk. thieving, living and growing. who is that bird. and whatis it doin'?

complex architechts. creative, vigorous. but the bird is also dressed in white. yin yang bird...

[guidomano]

The last minute BLEW me away!

[guidomano]

Loved every second of it! One of my favorite pieces.

[Rick6315]

gorjust & gor-jost it tee bliss & joy

[kurt88Meyer]

Oh joy! Oh bliss! ... Oh joy! Oh bliss!

[lizzy1e]

Another Murakami reader here. :)

[loulouyan45]

Hello Murakami fans. Just finishing "Wind up Bird".  Damn good read.

[JaguarEarlobe]

@loulouyan45 - yep - just finished winf up bird myself. Wow! Magic

[vladpiranha]

I'm surprised at how good the sound quality is to a simple video like this.

[Ausut]

Made me really happy to see that I'm not the only one here because of the Murakami book. :)

[beh1310]

muraka.....

[soymilkakira]

murakami reader here as well - I on the other hand just didn't know how this sounded so i decided to listen to it - although i would have preferred it if i could listen to the Toscanini one and compare it to the Abbado T_T

[lordnecro82]

my droogs!!!

[roendm]

murakami reader here..

[theodicy]

I probably would not know any classical music but for Murakami.

[lccbaseball]

Murakami here too. Damn that guy is good.

[sauske772]

murakami reader here. just finished the wind up bird chronicle about 20 minutes ago and decided to look this up

[senorjuash]

I waited until I finished Wind-Up Bird Chronicle to remind myself of what this sounded like.

[intensefroid]

Me too - reading Murakami, and couldn't remember what this overture sounded like.

@ 4:28 is what I recognize. Hard not to think of Ren and Stimpy.

[netoneok]

Giovacchino Antonio Rossini (Pesaro, 29 febbraio 1792 – Parigi, 13 novembre 1868)

[classiccarv8]

Erm...guess what? Another Murakami Reader here. Anyone tried cooking pasta to this?

[NeverAloneForever]

@classiccarv8 Yes, and performing a bit of the old ultra violence.

[BenLaeli]

"As we walked along the road to the grocery store, any coon sense startle tingling. Something is wrong. I knew I must act. A coon must know when to defend itself."

[lexuy]

haha and another murakami reader here :) beautiful music.

[Vincek88]

Four people carrying that whole overture? BRAVO!!!

[frankothecat]

Yeah I'm here because of Murakami

[alyssasw]

Why not add another: Mr Murakami was my Rossini muse, but there is no composer better than Chopin~~~ ahh such beautiful music, but in no way can I see this music being related to the wind-up bird chronicle...I'd think some sick Russian Shostakovich classical would be more assuming.

[watanurse]

If you are interested in classical music, start with Warner Bros. cartoons, particularly the 'Rabbit of Seville'. It is amazing.

[watanurse]

Fantastic. Rossini overtures are great to listen to. You can imagine walking into the theater and hearing this music as you are settling into your seat:-)

[geezaweebrek]

Here because of Toru Okada too

[videogamegenius]

OMG FUCK ME SO SPECTACULAR

[SuperApple94]

I was brought here by the clockwork orange movie, but I also love Murakami! His books are excellent and he usually chooses really good songs

[gina888warhol1]

its funny its boring at first and than.....

[nikkiforever2007]

as most people here, my interest in this song sparked thanks to the wind up bird chronicle. i can't help but feel that the rythm has some really strong symbolic meaning. anyways, i actually like this, sounds peaceful and its more interesting than most classical music.

[nellie2581]

My favorite.

[txnygotw]

I just have to know what the waiter was whistling...

[silversoul1987]

I got spaghetti on the stove and so I gotta listen to this!

[THeEraSerr]

omg i actually know who murakami is i tried reading that windup bird book but it was too long and weird haha...but that was years ago i might give i a go again :P

[debzuma]

I've just finished reading The Wind-up Bird Chronicle too. Facking book!!!

[shirononeko]

Murakami brought me here as well. I am also eating pasta but, not spaghetti. I'm eating stuffed shells! I feel like since the first book is called "The Thieving Magpie" I should know what the song sounds like so I can think of it as I read haha.

[fadedsun303]

This is so funny. I was just reading The Wind Up Bird Chronicle for the third time and I thought to myself, I really need to hear what Thieving Magpie sounds like, so here I am. :)

[SuperEverton1976]

Amazing tune, i love it, but tbf it was A Clockwork Orange that introduced it to me. Film and classic music go so well together, Wonderful.

[yodasoldia]

hahaha wind-up bird for me too

[Alexxxandra05]

Am just finishing to read the Wind-up bird cronicle and had to hear this once again. It's a very tough one to whistle, respect to the waiter! :)

[jonkheere1]

Really soothing music!

How apt though that one of our High Street banks use this as a background to their TV ad campaign.

[oritaco]

me too wind up bird brought me here, i guess i'm gonna cook spaghetti and pasta too

[hillt0p]

that's exactly why I came here, and weird enough I'm eating pasta, but not spaghetti. hahaha So you're a murakami fan as well?

[kyolover67]

haha, I looked this up because of the Wind-Up Bird Chronicle too.

[meeptroid]

Finished Kafka on the Shore and After Dark recently and just began reading Wind Up Bird, had to check this out, haha :D

[sas147741]

Amazing

[THISNAMEOWNS]

I imagine that this would be difficult to whistle

[swams0]

Wind Up Bird Chronicle... haha most of the comments on this video are about what brought us here.

[1964712708]

I, like many others am here because of the Wind Up Bird Chronicle; I imagine this would not be easy to the whistle, as the "waiter" (in the book does)

[xxxhens]

As others, Murakami brought me here. Genius. I can also recommend Kafka on the Beach, a very powerful work as well.

[blah197]

Again, here because of the Wind Up Bird Chronicle. Now I just have to go through and eat all the food in that book...

[safusu]

I also came here out of curiosity from Wind-Up Bird Chronicles.

As for its relevance to the novel... yeah, I can see myself doing it too.

[Gateshead46]

Perhaps I take things for granted - but if you've never heard of Rossini's Thieving Magpie even without watching "A Clockwork Orange" you really need to educate yourself and your peers!

[SebastianKillerQueen]

Clockwork.

Orange.

[YourDressIsRed]

Murakami for world domination!

[jenriv89]

Also here because of Murakami's The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

:D

[BggProductions]

Very cool.

[7855waldo]

BRAVO!

Gawd, it's great to watch people who know what they're doing perform so well.

Thanks!

[Zerhino]

Here because of Murakami, woo.

[Tsumikun]

all i need to fully enjoy this song is a tumbler of cutty sark. ;)

[MiraiLegend]

Haha I came here because of The Wind-up Bird Chronicle. Woo!

[tommyrensh]

me too!

[dandeexxxx]

wheres Alex?

[redfieldTnT]

Wind up bird chronicles!

[Npowell01]

I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy ones, and that the oomny ones use like, inspiration and what Bog sends. Now it was lovely music that came into my aid. There was a window open with the stereo on, and I viddied right at once what to do.

[7855waldo]

My brainy not ooppie what you say. I needy translation pagies.

[swantonist]

woo Murakami

[snake1141]

Its funny how many Murakami readers are here

[KekOffensive]

there are a lot, aren't there?

[sauske772]

@snake1141 i'm one~~!

i actually just finished the wind up bird chronicle about 2o minutes ago

[sauske772]

@snake1141

I know, right?

[dave0mary]

Needs drum rolls aka: Fiedler's version. Too formal and dry.

[Nexus6]

"As we walked along the flatblock marina, I was calm on the outside but thinking all the time. So now it was to be Georgie the General, saying what we should do, and what not to do, and Dim as his mindless, grinning bulldog. But, suddenly, I viddied that thinking was for the gloopy ones, and that the oomny ones used like inspiration and what Bog sends. For now it was lovely music that came to my aid. There was a window open, with a stereo on, and I viddied right at once what to do."

[RowanSpry]

Hmmm reading the Wind up Bird Chronicle i head this sounding very different in my head. Wasnt expecting it to sound so 'proper'. Damnit its ruined it!!!

[logan16wol]

I came to listen to it too after reading the first page of that book hahaha!!!!

I've always thought this overture was good for the Roadrunner cartoons around 4:30 or 4:45

[DjH0use]

Likewise.. lol. Just finished Kafka on the shore, and I'm on the first page of The wind-up bird chronicle.

I love the music. Ta 4 post.

[BlyndEnigmatic]

I don't know, since I read the Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, I find this to be indeed, the perfect song for making pasta. I'm not very good at it, but it makes it fun.

[BraedenX]

And since I watched clockwork orange, this seems to me the perfect song for beating the sharala out of a gang of outlaws (along with MY gang of outlaws) :D

[doorsfan711]

LOL BraedenX this totally makes me think of clockwork orange too xD

[Russenliebchen]

Alle Achtung! Vor der Gemeindeorgel die diebische Elster, das ist wie am Strand den Schneewalzer!

[youthfatality]

lol I love stumbling on this song and seeing all the wind up bird chronicle references from people! I think I'm gonna go read it now!

[Maykashara]

what does nutmeg listen too the last time he cleans?

[haideron]

nice work

[Pratalax]

lovely, a close up of.....utterly expressionless faces.

[MasterToku]

Spaghetti.

[Pratalax]

haha just started reading that.

[XxBabasonicosxX]

what's "Spaghetti"??

[lamjjn]

so funny. that's why i looked up the song. gotta love murakami!

[wakeuplan]

that's why i'm watching this too, ha.

[ismailmustafa]

Wow I definatley didn't expect to find so many people here doing the same thing I was doing. Funny

[paulkon2010]

ditto

[starcorea]

it has to be the best music to cook spaghetti to.

[yeuxjaunes777]

spaghetti??? fucking ''iggnorantti'' hahaha.

[bruja966]

jajajá

[dandeexxxx]

i guess they say pasta

[solidkingcobra]

I lol'ed. I like to listen to this while studying.

[DisturbedRocks101342]

You must've read "The Wind-up Bird Chronicles" also. The book starts out with the main character (Japanese), Toru Okada, making spaghetti to this overture.

[EdOscuro]

I wonder who in this comment trail is attending WMU? Just finished the book today in connection with a class, and it's the reason I've pulled up this video.

[fordieform]

yeah. i hv no idea wt u gys r tking abwt...

-hero

[jahcreator]

hey, does anyone know the chords for this on the keyboard?

[pljames999]

for how many musicians are in this piece i can believe how full the sound is!!!!!!

[rjs15]

the scene where alex breaks into the catladys house always pops into my head when i hear this. truly fantastic movie and music peice.

[ningundiosexiste]

true. kubrick's a genius. this song was perfect for that scene.

[torrentANONYMOUScodc]

Beautiful.

[cherrypal]

agreed. I found this via a link from the William Tell Overture. Its splendid!

[zitanewl]

Well done Guys! I love it that your stable energy keeps pumping through the whole piece, making the tunes float with so much ease.

It's a tough one to play, and you did it really marvellously. Thanks for lifting my spirits. :)

From a true (and little tired) Murakami fan.

[MBbackwards]

I thought i only liked this because of clockwork orange, but its just really good in general

[JustSmileReinah]

thieving magpie should be tagged when you're referring to his book.

[lucythewhitelady]

Hahaha billionth person to say so but Murakami is love. I'm totally checkin out all the songs he refers to in all his books and I like this one a lot the tune is familiar.

[lolprsat]

hahaha i read murakami's book too. wow. this song would be good to make spaghetti to xD

[mokiyan]

Ah, I was led to this by Murakami as well XD

He includes like 30 references to music in each book and always has a scene where a character is drinking Perrier xD

[devilsrecon]

horrible

[godsofdeathloveapple]

I first heard about this from the novel, "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" by Haruki Murakami. Tough tune to whistle and good music to listen to while making spaghetti.

[mitchwalrus]

I just finished that book last night. I was looking it up to get an idea of what it sounded like following the waiter through the hotel. I'm glad you're a fan. Be sure to hit up South of the Border, West of the Sun if you haven't already.

[ashley0211]

Yeah, I also reached this music through "The wind up bird chronicle" by Haruki Murakami. Now I feel "The Thieving Magpie" is pretty wonderful.Now, I'm almost in love with this good music as much as the Murakami's works :]

[stakeout500]

Yet another one pointed towards this piece of music by Murakami!

[ROOIDRAAK]

That is quite amazing. I also looked up this piece of music due to Haruki Murakami's book.

It's the third one of his that I'm reading

[jenriv89]

Is he that good? Now I'm excited. I'm just starting Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. :)

[ROOIDRAAK]

Check out Kafka on the Shore and Norwegian Wood. Also pretty good

[Nezamani]

I also heard about it from that novel. When i first listened to it I'm like "He was right! It is perfect for cooking spaghetti!" XD

[lemarcmty]

BRAVO!!

Amazing performace by amazing musicians!!

Where are they from? Russia?

[EddyARB]

Italy

[jakaput]

Rossini is the man

[U2rock08]

clockwork orange

[oanapredescu]

Music from A Clockwork Orange!!! Love it!

[thebaloob123]

Not just from Clockwork Orange...it was just used in it.

[oanapredescu]

I know dude...

[lachness11]

Why do people get so uppity when they are corrected? Would like to be called a name you aren't or be associated with something that had nothing to do with why you exist? ie: The music was written in 1817, well before movies were even thought of.

[wysiwyg248]

Amen to thebaloob123,

Kubrick used Rossini's overture for "La Gazza Ladra"

By the way, great performance and very delicate (the first part). However, it was written to be played as a march, check Abbado's rendition.

[lachness11]

Music that appeared in a Clockwork Orange. LOL

[MikSane]

LOL

[RegardeLaMer]

Wonderful... What a divine arrangement!

[BenryShipper]

This was an amazing performance. I absolutely loved it!

[AristonMenHudor]

Supposedly Rossini wrote the overture in an evening!

One evening! One!

How is it possible?

What a Master! What a great genius!

Pretty arrangement.

Read Stendhal's life of Rossini! I can email it to you. It's an education.

[barringtonbank]

Rossi wrote a piece of music called The Storm, and I can not remember what music he put that piece of music in. Great music by the way.

[solidsnake016]

Perfect!

[psychopath73]

Very good performance. It was nearly as good as the selection they used in A Clockwork Orange.

[ninaflute]

I enjoyed hearing your work. What a nice concert. Post more and feel free to add as responses to my videos, too. Your friend, Nina