MTT/SFS: Stravinsky's Rite of Spring (IV)

[sasquatch471]

Who is the tuba player at 7:34?

[zgrmuffin]

3:30 Okay, who's the wise guy who shoved a cowbell in my trumpet?

[zgrmuffin]

1:03 epic english horn vibrato!

[g3org33r3]

I wish it would I could turn my volume louder

[rondelidemagnesio]

I reaaly like the alto flute, she sounds so native :D

[Nobodyknowsme021]

I don't know what Stravinsky smoked when he wrote this but I want some of it.

[Quacking444]

This is probably the coolest piece of music ever. There's an awesome bass clarinet part!!!

[funnyguy9799]

What's the name of the cute female violinist with the curly black hair, with the small ring on her right pinky finger?? Wouldn't mind taking her out for dinner and a movie..

[TheLastMyztery]

A very agile Timpanist at 5:00 :D

[jofro1996]

why are the first chair people allways the weirdest???

[Alexjr1543]

I love when the french horns suddenly play very loudly.

[kaleidoscopeheart91]

This is literally the best piece ever written for orchestra.

[warsd4]

@kaleidoscopeheart91 It's incredible that it's almost 100 years old and is STILL so ahead of it's time...

[LordN3mrod]

The operators are apparently very knowledgable in music! Their work seems to be as substantial as the conductor's!

[sahand144]

That' such a cool ending

[LordN3mrod]

2:40 - that's where Barber got his inspiration for the last movement of his piano concerto :)

[SgtDonuts]

Anybody looking for the whole Salonen version, here it is :D

/watch?v=Gi16suM21jQ&feature=r­elated

[SchwarzeDose21]

nice piccolo trumpet mute! :)

[honron21]

Why in the beginning of the ritual action of the ancestors in almost every version the horns play staccatissimo? in the score it is written a very long note without any staccato.

[gpeddino]

I can't even imagine the impact this had back in 1913...

[musicmann008]

@gpeddino from wat i heard it started riots lol. This piece really was way ahead of its time. Simply amazing

[sharpcheese19]

4:26 sounds like t mobile?

[MauComposer10]

The horns!

[sahand144]

Coolest ending ever

[sasquatch471]

what type of trumpet is that? 3:28

[MauComposer10]

@sasquatch471 Is Eb Bass Trumpet, according Stravinsky's score

[CharlieBladeRemus]

2:24 - HOLY CRAP! French Horns just startled the hell outta me!!!!!

[gcerpa1980]

I absolutely love the closing!

[TwoBlumen]

@lAMWEASEL It was meant to hark back to primal rhythms. The final part is a sacrifical dance, where the priests and community work themselves into a frenzy before murdering a young girl as part of an ancient ritual. The music is meant to be brutal, dissonant, and inelegant by the standards of the time. Even now, the piece has the ability to shock - it jars, and doesn't resolve at all into consonnance. It does not attempt to degrade culture but to remind us where culture began.

[LtSettaiTenshi]

As probably the most musically eclectic and ignorant person on this comment board, I just have to say I truly enjoyed the music. 

[looney1023]

8 horn parts!!!

[jipke]

Man, that bass drum - timpani duel at 7:06 is epic!

[selaromyar]

Did any notice that Maesrto Thomas was smiling at cetain passesges, especially at the end? I believe that this is the difinative pre-revision recording of the The Rite of Spring.

[Jvenvell]

with all this conducting debate everyones forgotten bernstein. you practically get an interpretive dance when he conducted it

[fledgehog]

@Jvenvell or anything, for that matter

[darkthunderz13]

MTT FTW!!!

[fadethetrade]

Greatest musicians/composers of all time 1)Beethoven 2)Stravinsky 3)Zappa

[venskus2009]

@fadethetrade mahler? hahah

[sivadepilif]

Timpani rules!!

[BeowulfVids]

Amazing number of brass instruments!

[trum4schilke]

YAY BASS TRUMPET

[mortalfrog0815]

what the fuck is wrong with that viola? 

[imsleepyanddead]

@mortalfrog0815 lessen pain of tendonitis and arthritis by making it wider rather than longer. isaac stern once said don erlich put it in the sun for too long, graffiti in symphony hall showed.

[jipke]

@mortalfrog0815

I've been seeing people write about "that viola" but what/who do you mean?

[mortalfrog0815]

@jipke at 2:58 you get a good shot at it... on the right upper side, bearded viola player!

[jipke]

@mortalfrog0815 Ah yes I see thanks :)

[mozartmahler61]

This is my absolutely favourite Rite's conductor....more than Boulez and every other....only Salonen is,in my opinion,near MTT...

[TheB0P]

2:19 "Ready..... Aim........."

[darkalleyheroes]

Thrilling performance. And the cinematography was quite nice!

[SecretJudge]

Is that Jeff Budin on bass trumpet?

[88DrOctavius]

7:34 Holy crap, my tuba teacher!

[guillenmt95]

french horn pavillons en l'air!

[dougal429]

Regarding the D trumpet at 0:14 - the pitch is correct but it sounds very much like the player accents the D flat rather than the B flat and the C - I think that's why it sticks out slightly. The semitone interval between the D and 1st C trumpets doesn't help matters but it is correct!

[DJNotNais]

when do they turn pages? do they just memerize the whole thing? o.o

[Daruqe]

2:14

I do not agree that those tremolos should be accented.

[JosephGlaser]

This is actually a very good version. I've never heard the Rite played so clearly.

[ctfamily40]

Say what you want, I still think that this interpretation is amazing. The bass drum and the timpani have so much power and presence, and the ensemble is so incredibly together at the end of the Danse Sacrale- even considering the fast tempo. Performances of the Rite don't have to be "rough around the edges" to be viable- the brutality is written into the music as it is.

[troop150colorado]

Looks like a fun piece 2 play.

Where can I get the trombone music for that?

[ledormant]

Matt Damon is playing the bass clarinet.

[AnishProductions]

Not dirty enough. :P

[AIPThePharaoh]

at 0:14 the trumpets are playing other notes!! there isn't an semi-tone!!!

[kongming819]

@AIPThePharaoh I think you're hearing wrongly...

[AIPThePharaoh]

@kongming819 i have the partiture for this piece, and i know that you're wrong.:) there's an other note... I know that is just 1 mistake( at that place) but still...:P

[kongming819]

@AIPThePharaoh I have the 1965, 1967, and 2000 editions of the score, not to mention two versions of the 4-hand arrangement. I also have perfect pitch, and the trumpets were definitely playing the right pitches (recheck D trumpet). Although some of the winds may be slightly out of tune, that doesn't mean that they were playing the wrong notes. There aren't any VERY conspicuous mistakes in this vid that I know of. I've listened to this piece 500 times...

[David0794]

@AIPThePharaoh i think it's correct.

[schnozz87]

I've never seen a timpanist look so uncomfortable playing the timps...

[abccwy]

The shape of the "viola at 4:34 is so weird. Is it really a viola?

[hornerinf]

This one is a yawn compared to the others on YouTube.

[Nuker1337]

Not the best performance I've heard, but it's above average in my opinion.

[TheKevinV08]

this is probably the best version on youtube, with Salonen/ LA Phil's. Sacrificial dance is way too fast for me, and Gergiev/LSO's is too slow for me. THIS is PERFECT... except the bass clarinetist messing up at 4:09.

[AIPThePharaoh]

@TheKevinV08 SALONEN is the best. But someone deleted the video from youtube... that speed was just perfect!!! this phil makes many mistakes...

[HectorJW2007]

It's a shame YouTube eliminated Salonen's performance. Right now my favorite is one by Semyon Bychkov with what I think is the Osaka Philharmonic.

[LtSettaiTenshi]

@HectorJW2007 Unfortunately the Osaka Philharmonic performance was set to private mode. :c

[kongming819]

@TheKevinV08 Bass clarinet didn't mess up at 4:09. In fact, if anything, that was the cleanest run I'd heard.

[LLJtbone]

@kongming819 I listened to it twice. I thought that dude played rather stellar. The licks were well executed.

[ppgppgppgppg]

PERFECT PERFECT PERFECT

[tommyk77]

Probably the worst I've heard. Too fast, like waaayyy to fast. Sounded like he couldn't wait for it to end. It wasn't bad, far from that, but it was the 'least good' of the ones I've heard.

Salonen still holds the crown in my mind. Bernstein if he was still alive

[ppgppgppgppg]

well, it is kind of rushed, but I was someone who has been STUCK with that damn LSO version for three years, and then ANYTHING would sound perfect after that.........Ozawas is even faster I remember....had a whole thing last about 30 minutes only....

[tommyk77]

Which LSO? I don't like Valery Gergiev's version. That one's really fats in the Augurs of Spring.

I guess the good thing about MTT and SFS is that they are tight

[MaxxUS08]

nah...Ozawa.

[kongming819]

@tommyk77 Which Bernstein recording?

[tommyk77]

@kongming819 The LSO and NYPO disc where the latter is playing Firebird