@ happy ghost... You racists make me sick. By the way, im white. Obviously you havent looked into racial demographics far enough to find out that there are a wide variety of outside factors that contribute to those findings. The sad part is that everything youve said against frican peoples has been debunked for at least 20 years. Probably longer. Who ever your psychology teacher/sociology/anthropology prpfesser was obviously was really bad at his job or you just didnt pay attention in class. Al
@555paint -- Excuse me, pray tell what is next. If someone is amazing at conducting, performing, or anything else, then I believe gender should not even matter. In fact, I found the second part more invigorating -- she was outstanding!
@bluerox3 Obviously you are whipped...this is a man's profession! Ok lots of times it is a gay man but a man none the less!! You don't see men trying to force their way into the Harp section do you
@555paint -- O_o, aren't you the one whipped? Because you frankly have your mind stuck on the past, where we had double standards. Well, guess what? We do not, and SHOULD NOT, have borders based on gender. It is not people's faults for being born a guy or a girl. If a guy loves harps (and maybe has delicate hands for it), then go ahead. Why should we judge and stop them from following their passion?
@bluerox3 Wow...you get the politically correct award of the century....women can't be composers either by the way....I would be willing to guess all the composers you listen to are men and for good reason. All you do is make a bunch of assertions...
@555paint I'm making assertions just as you are. Besides, ever thought that there were no women composers because they could not become one? No. Apparently it's because they do not have some male intuition to come one, and not because society would not let (or encourage) them like you're doing now. Besides, just because There were no women composers does not mean there can't be women conductors. Oh and thank you for the insulting sarcasm.. Yeah, that proves that I'm ignorant (*rolls eyes*).
@555paint -- Great Laugh. I meant your perspective is stuck in the past. But it's alright, because that's when times were at their best! Yes, just keep thinking that if your mind is in the past, so is your appreciation for music! After all, that's how everyone else is thinking too!
Anyways, I'm just going to stop here because I am here to listen to music (whether they be created by a guy or a girl), and not to create equality arguments against a sexist.
@555paint let's see you reply to me calling me an asshole bur then when i react you say i am the one trolling You tube....oh Ok. Nothing like being absurdly inconsistent
@DTfan43 Dear Mr/Ms/It/or?: You assume I am a "sir" but you have absolutely no way of knowing if Iam a man or a woman...that you make the assumption tells me everything I need to know about you--a brain washed product o a pollitically correct cultrure. I would rather be an asshole than a brain washed PC zombie like you
@555paint well i assume that u r a guy with that out of date mentallity of your's. If you r a woman i would be shocked because that would defy my logic that you would have that mentalitiy about your own sex. No im not a talentless nobody: yes i may scream because i love metal but does that mean i suck: no. I also play electric bass, double bass, tuba, and i used to play baritone. I am in the top 50 high school bassists and the top 10 high school jazz bassists in the state of Texas.
@555paint What drives someone to the point that all they can do in their life is sit on Youtube and troll on people. I just dont get it. Im not going to bother myself with a sexist troll like you. Have a good life.
I guess I can only speak for myself--but every single stinking note is an absolute fight to write--good notes and rhythms never run freely about--no matter how great or experienced you are as a writer, and so I really appreciate a tremendous amount of thought put forth from any conductor when doing an interpretation. (Of course, I try and be very precise in the score. Look at a Schoenberg or Stravinski score sometime and you will see vitually every note covered by some type of character . . )
look this link up on youtube, this is the beginning song yes used in concert at queens park rangers in 1975. Yes - Sound Chaser - A Celebration, 1969-1979
It is very interesting that when the composer of this wonderful suite conducts the finale... he seems to plow right through the dramatic final chords... and not as many contemporary conductors today who milk those chords for all their drama. I enjoyed both very much but found the contrast in styles fascinating. I do think though that the horn solo preceding this part is what really sets up the whole finish.
This is really interesting. When I played this in my orchestra, the ending was much more legato and full. It's interesting to see how he wanted it to be, but it also shows how versatile 20th century music can be.
It is interesting that Stravinsky keeps the ending a little shorter because traditionally other conductors have kept everything long at the end of the suite...awesome clip to have been able to watch!! =]
I am so happy this footage is on youtube. I have a 1953 issue of the suite by Eugine Ormandy with a nasty scratch in the finale, so it repeats over and over...
@Gresilde ok so how about you spend some time digging out old footage and uploading it - then you can call people rude. Be grateful for the person who uploaded this so we can all enjoy it!
I played under Stravinsky in Dublin in 1966 (viola). I was 24 then. Shook hands with the great man during a rehearsal break. He conducted his Symphony of Psalms only. The first half of the concert was conducted by his assistant - Robert Craft.
Stravinsky perspired profusely, and kept a bath towel around his neck for most of the rehearsals!
It was wonderful to be in his presence, and I still boast about it!
@MrPadraigOConnor really ???? how was the big maestro in real life? i love the work of stravinsky !!!! i have all his work in cds and many of them in scores i just study music so i can play one day stravinsky tell me more about your experience !!!!
I didn't mentioned but think this part of the Firebird must be as joyful to play as it is to listen to... I'm gonna try to transcribe this and play it on the guitar, but it won't be as powerful as it is in this video, I know ^^
@oOCrossroadsOo If you get time to write it out i wouldn't mind seeing how you interpret the piece for the guitar, not to mention i'd like to play it myself.
It's interesting to see how Stravinsky thought "it should go"... versus the "traditional ways" it is interpreted. This begs the question- who is right? The original composer? The newer versions? Does Classical evolve like jazz and other forms?
really good question, i think every conductor has his own vision of piece he is conducting. The more personal he gets involved the more composition develops. So it develops the piece into new form. So answer to your question may be that it evolves with great conductors. :) other then that try listening to new form.
I don't know how someone would argue that anyone other than the composer is "right". Genres might evolve but if the composer of a piece of music says "this is how it should be" then that's that. Other conductors can do something different but I don't know when (if ever) "different" is "better".
@jimbobago i think that music is something that is completely subjective in that it is interpreted differently for everyone. it is "better" for individuals, and a certain arrangement cannot be deemed better for all listeners
There are always better, great, and perfect choices. Just because it is score written mean it is a perfect choice. Look how many composers revise. Maybe a score will offer latitude for tempos and alternate voicings (Mahler). How about "Pictures at an Exibition" where Ravel completely rewrote sections of the piano score? I am NOT advocating rewriting by anyone other than the composer, but even in a Schoenberg score there is flexability in music which goes beyond the composer.
In the perception of music, as in the perception of everything else, there is a thing called refinement. One CAN enjoy music without having reached such a refinement, but that does not give one the right to criticize those who have!
@PhilistineTheArtLuvr Well, there ARE people who have more sofisticated criteria than the non-collapsing ceiling rule! I am not talking about miserable nit-picking: there are geniune and interesting points of an aesthetical nature to be made when comparing different interpretations.
@PhilistineTheArtLuvr One doesn't need to be a conaisseur to know if he likes or not what he is listening to. I don't know what about you, but my intelligence goes beyond "since the music is played by professionals, I like". Furthermore, many amateurs are better than many professionals who just work for paying their bills when month finishes.
@PhilistineTheArtLuvr It's funny how professional musicians labour as hard as they can to raise the standard of music, to the point of forcing it into the heads of young children daily, yet the paying public can't tell the difference between an professional performance and an amateur one.
The trouble is with Susan Maelki's rendition is that it seems laboured...compare her with Gergiev's version, which seems to have that extra bit of va-va-voom. I guess its down to the individual conductors interpretation though
What a silly comment, rockhopper. The 2nd conductor is Susanna Malkki, the musical director of Paris' legendary Ensemble Intercontemporain... the top ensemble in the world for contemporary music - so I guess she's got plenty of musical taste!
FREEBIRD!!! - actually no offense to Mr. Stravinsky on his Bday, but I don't think I would have recognized the Skynard Classic, although I loved Ed Grimley with the crazy triangle at the end. Bravo! - Any way, I must be traveling on now... Thanks Google!
wow.. I just found about this guy from google's logo wishing him happy birthday. so i looked him up... and I'm glad I did. I'm not a big fan of classical music, but this is simply amazing... Happy BIrthday Igor!!
Conducting in his time wasn't the same as it is now. Mozart conducted too, he didn't use a baton, but it definitely wasn't the kind of conducting it is now. But no, you don't need a baton, though I like using it. lol
I can watch this over and over. Is it my imagination or does he cue the brass early at one point and a quick smile when he realizes what he did but they wait for the right place.How many of us would have come in early. It's Stravinsky.
john mackey references the ending of firebird for his piece "kingfishers catch fire mvt. II"
amazing piece, I love the way he slows it down and tries to camouflage. you hear it and you know it sounds familiar but you can't pinpoint where exactly you know it from. =]
haplesshero13 you can very easily compare the pitches of the last chords of the old and new versions on this same clip - it's not a 'whole tone'... nowhere near... it's a touch less than a semitone higher. That really isn't going to make a great deal of difference to the tempo!
If this was sped up then whoever played the tape should be fired as the kind of tape this would have been recorded on is very rare today and needs someone who knows what they're doing to replay it. And it would also have a specific configuration for replay. It is not sped up - it was played this fast.
It is sped up. The tuning is about a whole-tone too high. This produces a higher pitch. (Akin to how sped-up tapes of people talking sound really squeaky and high-pitched.)
Enjoyed this very much! Stravinksy seems like a difficult conductor to follow. Susan Maelki seems much more able as a conductor - clearer leading indications and inflections on upbeats. Love the sound of the brass in the second orchestra too!
How interesting that this video contains as far as I can tell - the newest and the oldest, i.e., Stravinsky conducting the 1945 version and Maelki the original 1910 version (not the 1919 version). The "modernized/downsized" 1945 is kind of "cute", but the 1910 is lavish, magnificent - faithful to the spirit of Stravinsky's original concept (one I wish he would have have stuck with - at least with regards to his three ballets [Firebird, Petrouchka, and Rite of Spring]!).
You can tell they're different versions (1945, 1919 respectively), the articulation of the chords is completely different. The 1945 version is so much better, I don't know why people keep insisting to play the 1919 suite.
it must feel soooo good to have an orchestra play your music :D
hjiuhfhrehui 1 week ago
1:36, woman violist is trying to erase Stravinsky!
thegoodgeneral 2 months ago
fascinating. He conducts that last expression of his primary motif so much more staccato than i've ever heard it before.
thewalrusaurus 3 months ago
This man has more talent than we havw in strand of dna!
ROLANDMC80EX 3 months ago
How can I find more of the 2nd piece? Me wannie. Or the first for that matter.
donj2222 3 months ago
Four people are stupid, Igor Stravinsky was a genious! I love, love, love, love this song!
Phantomofthenovels 3 months ago
Now we know that pitches are a little sharp in Stravinsky's time :))
ClassicHolic 4 months ago
@ happy ghost... You racists make me sick. By the way, im white. Obviously you havent looked into racial demographics far enough to find out that there are a wide variety of outside factors that contribute to those findings. The sad part is that everything youve said against frican peoples has been debunked for at least 20 years. Probably longer. Who ever your psychology teacher/sociology/anthropology prpfesser was obviously was really bad at his job or you just didnt pay attention in class. Al
FunkyDandy420 4 months ago
some people conduct like they're epileptic
thevidguy11 5 months ago
Igor, una delle teste più "fini" di tutta la storia della musica ...
MrPirzio 6 months ago
what time signature is this in? i totally forgot!
peytonjmusic 7 months ago
@peytonjmusic This section is in 7/4.
YoJoe456 6 months ago
With "Susan Maelki" do you mean Susanna Mälkki?
Sidi110 7 months ago
@Sidi110 yeah right !!!
heunoproduction 7 months ago
@heunoproduction OK thanks!
Sidi110 7 months ago
@Sidi110 She is amazing!
donj2222 3 months ago
snoop dogg, kesha, TPain, and lady gaga disliked this video
amkoraiem 9 months ago 7
Hello. I like a lot to see this video...but i do not understand why to mix Stravinsky's version with one by someone else.
papanoche 9 months ago
@papanoche just to show what a great man he was
dampfbratscher 9 months ago
@dampfbratscher haha...I guess so!!!
papanoche 9 months ago
Women make great harpists...let's leave it that way
555paint 10 months ago
is that a woman conducting in the second part? oh god what's next?
555paint 10 months ago
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bluerox3 10 months ago
@555paint -- Excuse me, pray tell what is next. If someone is amazing at conducting, performing, or anything else, then I believe gender should not even matter. In fact, I found the second part more invigorating -- she was outstanding!
bluerox3 10 months ago
@bluerox3 Obviously you are whipped...this is a man's profession! Ok lots of times it is a gay man but a man none the less!! You don't see men trying to force their way into the Harp section do you
555paint 10 months ago
@555paint -- O_o, aren't you the one whipped? Because you frankly have your mind stuck on the past, where we had double standards. Well, guess what? We do not, and SHOULD NOT, have borders based on gender. It is not people's faults for being born a guy or a girl. If a guy loves harps (and maybe has delicate hands for it), then go ahead. Why should we judge and stop them from following their passion?
bluerox3 10 months ago
@bluerox3 Wow...you get the politically correct award of the century....women can't be composers either by the way....I would be willing to guess all the composers you listen to are men and for good reason. All you do is make a bunch of assertions...
555paint 10 months ago
@555paint I'm making assertions just as you are. Besides, ever thought that there were no women composers because they could not become one? No. Apparently it's because they do not have some male intuition to come one, and not because society would not let (or encourage) them like you're doing now. Besides, just because There were no women composers does not mean there can't be women conductors. Oh and thank you for the insulting sarcasm.. Yeah, that proves that I'm ignorant (*rolls eyes*).
bluerox3 10 months ago
@bluerox3 Yes I am stuck in the past becuase the past was great: Beethoven and Wagner and all the greats and today?yuk
555paint 10 months ago
@555paint -- Great Laugh. I meant your perspective is stuck in the past. But it's alright, because that's when times were at their best! Yes, just keep thinking that if your mind is in the past, so is your appreciation for music! After all, that's how everyone else is thinking too!
Anyways, I'm just going to stop here because I am here to listen to music (whether they be created by a guy or a girl), and not to create equality arguments against a sexist.
bluerox3 10 months ago
@555paint let's see you reply to me calling me an asshole bur then when i react you say i am the one trolling You tube....oh Ok. Nothing like being absurdly inconsistent
555paint 9 months ago
@555paint u sir r an asshole enough said.
DTfan43 9 months ago
@DTfan43 Dear Mr/Ms/It/or?: You assume I am a "sir" but you have absolutely no way of knowing if Iam a man or a woman...that you make the assumption tells me everything I need to know about you--a brain washed product o a pollitically correct cultrure. I would rather be an asshole than a brain washed PC zombie like you
555paint 9 months ago
@555paint well i assume that u r a guy with that out of date mentallity of your's. If you r a woman i would be shocked because that would defy my logic that you would have that mentalitiy about your own sex. No im not a talentless nobody: yes i may scream because i love metal but does that mean i suck: no. I also play electric bass, double bass, tuba, and i used to play baritone. I am in the top 50 high school bassists and the top 10 high school jazz bassists in the state of Texas.
DTfan43 9 months ago
@555paint continued: so let me say again that bottom line you r an asshole. What the hell have you accomplished hmmmmmm?
DTfan43 9 months ago
@DTfan43 Wow are you a talentless no body or what?
555paint 9 months ago
@DTfan43 what the hell is that video you posted? your audition for America Doesn't Have Talent? You are a sure thing...
555paint 9 months ago
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what is that video you posted? your audition or America Doesn't Have Talent? You are a sure thing....
555paint 9 months ago
@DTfan43 And once again you are obvioulsy whipped...and loving it.
555paint 9 months ago
@555paint What drives someone to the point that all they can do in their life is sit on Youtube and troll on people. I just dont get it. Im not going to bother myself with a sexist troll like you. Have a good life.
DTfan43 9 months ago
@555paint Excuse me but you are the one who contacted me with a comment/reply not the reverse....take a look in the mirror (yuk i you can stand it)
555paint 9 months ago
Watching Stravinsky conduct and interpret his own music is unbelievably exciting and inspiring!
Thank you for posting this.
zenoky64 10 months ago
The conductor is Susanna Mälkki (Maelkki), not "Susan Maelki"...
MrFvasconcellos 1 year ago
God damn that is some bass drum hit @1:17
JoshuaLuty 1 year ago 6
@JoshuaLuty yeah awesome right :D !
hjiuhfhrehui 2 weeks ago
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God damn that is some bass drum hit @1:15
JoshuaLuty 1 year ago
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JoshuaLuty 1 year ago
Wooooow!
Really, i Came!
Aberwitz88 1 year ago
I swear.. every time I listen to the Finale of Firebird, I end up fighting back tears because of it's power...
DasBullWy 1 year ago
I guess I can only speak for myself--but every single stinking note is an absolute fight to write--good notes and rhythms never run freely about--no matter how great or experienced you are as a writer, and so I really appreciate a tremendous amount of thought put forth from any conductor when doing an interpretation. (Of course, I try and be very precise in the score. Look at a Schoenberg or Stravinski score sometime and you will see vitually every note covered by some type of character . . )
callmeBe 1 year ago
@callmeBe bravo man, very interesting and precise way you found that.
Alexthepwner1 1 year ago
igor stravinsky was a legend in the art of music ! he's creativity reaches another level that is rare to have in one's mind! he's amazing !
AnnabelleSibilang 1 year ago
look this link up on youtube, this is the beginning song yes used in concert at queens park rangers in 1975. Yes - Sound Chaser - A Celebration, 1969-1979
StringSerenades 1 year ago
It is very interesting that when the composer of this wonderful suite conducts the finale... he seems to plow right through the dramatic final chords... and not as many contemporary conductors today who milk those chords for all their drama. I enjoyed both very much but found the contrast in styles fascinating. I do think though that the horn solo preceding this part is what really sets up the whole finish.
rowlrich 1 year ago
This is really interesting. When I played this in my orchestra, the ending was much more legato and full. It's interesting to see how he wanted it to be, but it also shows how versatile 20th century music can be.
violin12100 1 year ago
Critiques die out. Stravinsky's music will be played for the next thousand years and beyond.
rickardo004 1 year ago 3
@rickardo004
Longer my friend.............much longer! Him,Tchaikovsky and Shostakovitch are my favorite composers ever!
peppersax 1 year ago
It is interesting that Stravinsky keeps the ending a little shorter because traditionally other conductors have kept everything long at the end of the suite...awesome clip to have been able to watch!! =]
jojoasblok 1 year ago
Newer one pretty much demolishes the original....
Querymonger 1 year ago
I am so happy this footage is on youtube. I have a 1953 issue of the suite by Eugine Ormandy with a nasty scratch in the finale, so it repeats over and over...
VinylLad 1 year ago
Yes,.... the 2006 version is fine, BUT I don't want to hear it after Stravinsky's own rendition, thanks very much.
Plain rude.
Gresilde 1 year ago
@Gresilde : I enjoyed listening to both versions one after the other, it helped me comparing how it sounded in the past and how it would sound now.
Both amazing, but I still prefer the original.
oOCrossroadsOo 1 year ago
@Gresilde ok so how about you spend some time digging out old footage and uploading it - then you can call people rude. Be grateful for the person who uploaded this so we can all enjoy it!
NZFCKOELN 1 year ago
perfection times two.
teft 1 year ago
I played under Stravinsky in Dublin in 1966 (viola). I was 24 then. Shook hands with the great man during a rehearsal break. He conducted his Symphony of Psalms only. The first half of the concert was conducted by his assistant - Robert Craft.
Stravinsky perspired profusely, and kept a bath towel around his neck for most of the rehearsals!
It was wonderful to be in his presence, and I still boast about it!
MrPadraigOConnor 1 year ago
@MrPadraigOConnor really ???? how was the big maestro in real life? i love the work of stravinsky !!!! i have all his work in cds and many of them in scores i just study music so i can play one day stravinsky tell me more about your experience !!!!
gatoulis25 1 year ago
I didn't mentioned but think this part of the Firebird must be as joyful to play as it is to listen to... I'm gonna try to transcribe this and play it on the guitar, but it won't be as powerful as it is in this video, I know ^^
oOCrossroadsOo 1 year ago
@oOCrossroadsOo If you get time to write it out i wouldn't mind seeing how you interpret the piece for the guitar, not to mention i'd like to play it myself.
trevprs 1 year ago
This isn't the type of music I usualy listen to, but however it is still awesome, amazing, surprising, totaly epic.
oOCrossroadsOo 1 year ago
What version of te Firebird is it? It's the 1919 one??
carl0zraul 1 year ago
:26 pelvic thrust!
tomshaw35 1 year ago
easily one of my favorite songs by stravinsky!
NightbladeNotty 1 year ago
1:20 fricking scared me
TheKevinV08 1 year ago
The trumpet part is pretty hard because of all the flats
SK8EMERICA9 2 years ago
I read from "Dialogues & A Diary" that Stravinsky preferred conducting without a baton...
12347771 2 years ago
Bravo!
reverendbryan 2 years ago
nice
I'm so proud to be a New Zealander now
frozinfire 2 years ago
Why? lol
Lity10 2 years ago
Well, just felt honoured to have him here in my country that's all. =)
frozinfire 2 years ago
i love the timpani part
Percussiongurl 2 years ago
It's interesting to see how Stravinsky thought "it should go"... versus the "traditional ways" it is interpreted. This begs the question- who is right? The original composer? The newer versions? Does Classical evolve like jazz and other forms?
MrNoelJMIS 2 years ago 2
really good question, i think every conductor has his own vision of piece he is conducting. The more personal he gets involved the more composition develops. So it develops the piece into new form. So answer to your question may be that it evolves with great conductors. :) other then that try listening to new form.
Kutko23 2 years ago
good points! :)
MrNoelJMIS 2 years ago
I don't know how someone would argue that anyone other than the composer is "right". Genres might evolve but if the composer of a piece of music says "this is how it should be" then that's that. Other conductors can do something different but I don't know when (if ever) "different" is "better".
jimbobago 1 year ago 2
It seems like that is true, but certainly in jazz the music evolves with concurrent performances...maybe "right" and "wrong" are the wrong terms...
MrNoelJMIS 1 year ago
@jimbobago i think that music is something that is completely subjective in that it is interpreted differently for everyone. it is "better" for individuals, and a certain arrangement cannot be deemed better for all listeners
monkeyaround92 1 year ago
There are always better, great, and perfect choices. Just because it is score written mean it is a perfect choice. Look how many composers revise. Maybe a score will offer latitude for tempos and alternate voicings (Mahler). How about "Pictures at an Exibition" where Ravel completely rewrote sections of the piano score? I am NOT advocating rewriting by anyone other than the composer, but even in a Schoenberg score there is flexability in music which goes beyond the composer.
callmeBe 1 year ago
wow, im surpised this is on youtube.
sireofzelda 2 years ago 28
@sireofzelda everythings on youtube :) (don't correct me, i'm exaggerating)
steadric 1 year ago
@sireofzelda Wow! I'd let Suzy take me out for dinner. :) She's a lot better looking that Igor.
Harlan346 1 year ago
nice memory
BernardProfitendieu 2 years ago
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s2dsayer 2 years ago
I've got to get something off my chest in regard to comments on music playing.
I can't keep quiet about this anymore.
In this instance, for example, both performances sound great to me.
I thank God I'm not a music connoisseiur.
I swear, I've never met a more miserable bunch than music critics. They fret over the smallest thing and never stop agonizing about it.
To me, as long as the ceiling doesn't fall on the stage I'm always happy to hear music played by professional musicians.
PhilistineTheArtLuvr 2 years ago 73
In the perception of music, as in the perception of everything else, there is a thing called refinement. One CAN enjoy music without having reached such a refinement, but that does not give one the right to criticize those who have!
majortom51970 2 years ago 5
I couldn't agree more. Try not to make mistakes. If you do, then at least make them with conviction, dammit!
Capuano 2 years ago 3
@PhilistineTheArtLuvr I couldn't agree more.
MariusChamberlin 1 year ago
@PhilistineTheArtLuvr Well, there ARE people who have more sofisticated criteria than the non-collapsing ceiling rule! I am not talking about miserable nit-picking: there are geniune and interesting points of an aesthetical nature to be made when comparing different interpretations.
majortom51970 1 year ago
@PhilistineTheArtLuvr One doesn't need to be a conaisseur to know if he likes or not what he is listening to. I don't know what about you, but my intelligence goes beyond "since the music is played by professionals, I like". Furthermore, many amateurs are better than many professionals who just work for paying their bills when month finishes.
LordMgls 1 year ago
@LordMgls Get over yourself.
MuscleheadsUnite 1 year ago
@MuscleheadsUnite
Are you a proud musician - or just another dumbass dropping by?
LordMgls 1 year ago
@PhilistineTheArtLuvr totally agree...thanks for sharing!!!
atomik4568 1 year ago
@PhilistineTheArtLuvr It's funny how professional musicians labour as hard as they can to raise the standard of music, to the point of forcing it into the heads of young children daily, yet the paying public can't tell the difference between an professional performance and an amateur one.
Maybe the profession should take note....
wks1978 5 months ago
men, thats absolutely nonsense, crazy!! the best seconds ever in the history of music!! No doubt!
andrecuri 2 years ago
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god, the key is so annoying
zarkingtaters 2 years ago
I love the power of the brass at 1:30. Simply marvelous.
olafsirpab 2 years ago
Love the brass too. Very robust.
Tulipso 2 years ago 3
The trouble is with Susan Maelki's rendition is that it seems laboured...compare her with Gergiev's version, which seems to have that extra bit of va-va-voom. I guess its down to the individual conductors interpretation though
nicksorg106 2 years ago
triangle solo cool
parodycreator25 2 years ago 5
What's solo about it?
Moo0z0r 2 years ago
sorry. i don't get what you are asking
parodycreator25 2 years ago
It's not a solo. lol
Moo0z0r 2 years ago
sorry i'm latino maybe it's not a solo but it's almost one
parodycreator25 2 years ago
yes. and it IS cool. you're right.
BernardProfitendieu 2 years ago
What a silly comment, rockhopper. The 2nd conductor is Susanna Malkki, the musical director of Paris' legendary Ensemble Intercontemporain... the top ensemble in the world for contemporary music - so I guess she's got plenty of musical taste!
tzarara 2 years ago 2
One of the greatest composers has absolutely no podium technique - followed by someone else with absolutely no podium technique nor taste.
therockhopper 2 years ago
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agreed, the second conductor is absolutely awful
zarkingtaters 2 years ago
Triangle solo!
Kermit4Prezident 2 years ago
dude look at the link from google thenread the article CLOSLEY. this isnt freebird at all.
Tnez92 2 years ago
do you mean firebird?
parodycreator25 2 years ago
REtard
olafsirpab 2 years ago
google brought me here too =D
btw happy birthday
Dhampirekar98k 2 years ago
loooooool
google brought me here too
happy birthday Igor ^^
YuroichiA 2 years ago
google brought me to this secret film lol.
This is wonderful, I never knew stravinsky did this? HAPPY BIRTHDAY IGOR!!!!
kikimenor 2 years ago
Google brought me here
thisweekinhalo 2 years ago
same
Incoherente 2 years ago
FREEBIRD!!! - actually no offense to Mr. Stravinsky on his Bday, but I don't think I would have recognized the Skynard Classic, although I loved Ed Grimley with the crazy triangle at the end. Bravo! - Any way, I must be traveling on now... Thanks Google!
gilstube 2 years ago
I've been punked - FIREBIRD!!! In that case the piece Rocks! WOO! (holds lighter high) Didn't look much like the Freebird crowd.
gilstube 2 years ago
happy birthday Igor nice vid google brought me here lol
kendallfineday 2 years ago 2
i think it brought us all here. :)
chiarosol 2 years ago
Feliz cumpleaños, Igor. Con tu Pájaro de fuego, lograste todo. Sensacional.
marconigrama 2 years ago
Wow, this is amazing. Fantastic. Happy Birthday Igor!
zsuzsmus 2 years ago 2
wow.. I just found about this guy from google's logo wishing him happy birthday. so i looked him up... and I'm glad I did. I'm not a big fan of classical music, but this is simply amazing... Happy BIrthday Igor!!
Thndrbolt545 2 years ago 3
Happy Birthday Igor :) :) .
vigo894 2 years ago 3
He writes the strangest stuff. Heard Symphony of Psalms?? Weird. If the end of the world had a song, that would be it.
dirkwears 2 years ago
I love firebird! What a great composer! But he looks a little funny when conducting, doesn't he?!
JT112358 2 years ago
this is so POWERFUL :D
bwonderlandj 2 years ago 3
bellissimo video.
settiklavio 2 years ago
This is awesome!
haha Phantom Regiment played this in 2007.
sffforzando05 2 years ago
Beethoven didn't use one...
fas11030 2 years ago
Conducting in his time wasn't the same as it is now. Mozart conducted too, he didn't use a baton, but it definitely wasn't the kind of conducting it is now. But no, you don't need a baton, though I like using it. lol
TromboneConductor767 2 years ago
I don't think there are any laws about conducting with a baton.
ojgville 2 years ago 3
7\4 section.... gold!
dorfischer 2 years ago
The sound from 1:31 - 1:32 is so immense!
DHWOO 2 years ago
I like the percussion too and the violinists give nice accent!
mina8596 2 years ago
I love it because it is so original and cool!!!!
mina8596 2 years ago
i find stravinsky a magnificent conductor :P
foreignboy221 3 years ago 2
I have to admit that the percussionist at 0:50 is priceless... Intense concentration before his --triangle-- solo.
D0ug16 3 years ago 3
I can watch this over and over. Is it my imagination or does he cue the brass early at one point and a quick smile when he realizes what he did but they wait for the right place.How many of us would have come in early. It's Stravinsky.
neorleansrussell 3 years ago
john mackey references the ending of firebird for his piece "kingfishers catch fire mvt. II"
amazing piece, I love the way he slows it down and tries to camouflage. you hear it and you know it sounds familiar but you can't pinpoint where exactly you know it from. =]
GoCowboyBand 3 years ago
haplesshero13 you can very easily compare the pitches of the last chords of the old and new versions on this same clip - it's not a 'whole tone'... nowhere near... it's a touch less than a semitone higher. That really isn't going to make a great deal of difference to the tempo!
1075gabby25 3 years ago
If this was sped up then whoever played the tape should be fired as the kind of tape this would have been recorded on is very rare today and needs someone who knows what they're doing to replay it. And it would also have a specific configuration for replay. It is not sped up - it was played this fast.
freekymusic 3 years ago
It is sped up. The tuning is about a whole-tone too high. This produces a higher pitch. (Akin to how sped-up tapes of people talking sound really squeaky and high-pitched.)
haplesshero13 3 years ago
That was great...
Babaldira 3 years ago
I honestly prefer a slower tempo, as the one which appears after the stravinsky's conduction.
I think it can be more expressfull that way, and that you are better able to appreciate its greatfull beauty.
anyway i love this piece so much!
9jea1 3 years ago
Maybe it was originally slower, but due to the old (1960's?) tape it is sped up??
NZFCKOELN 3 years ago
dunno
9jea1 3 years ago
hell yea, bass drum! =)
shadowthief3 3 years ago
I love the tempo of it: Perfect! Not everyone milks it that hard.
blackakres 3 years ago
1:20
thats gotta be a one of the largest bass drum malletes i've ever seen
YoshiEgg154 3 years ago
Amazing, beautiful!!!
weidside 3 years ago
Enjoyed this very much! Stravinksy seems like a difficult conductor to follow. Susan Maelki seems much more able as a conductor - clearer leading indications and inflections on upbeats. Love the sound of the brass in the second orchestra too!
secretdecoder 3 years ago
I had already heard Stravinsky was not a good conductor, but I didn't know it for shure until I saw this!
luizcadu 3 years ago
HAHA I love the way he conducts the 7/4 section!!!!!
Not at all like what people typically do today
Rachmaninov08 3 years ago
NICE!!!
1OOYears 3 years ago
the orchestra at the end has a really FAT tuba sound on the bottom! heck yeah!
gengunfire 3 years ago 4
Is that it when it plays the sustained Bs and F#s? I was thinking it was the contrabasses since the camera was right next to them
SuperJox 3 years ago
Yeah, him and M. bass trombone are spanky m***erf***ers XD
JMR6916 3 years ago
What a conductor! His music is extraordinary!
orpheusads 3 years ago 2
And a better composer :)
las798 3 years ago 8
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akiramorigami 3 years ago
has anyone seen the picture of him looking like a pimp? lol hes a legend and my idol
TheUndertaker8 3 years ago
How interesting that this video contains as far as I can tell - the newest and the oldest, i.e., Stravinsky conducting the 1945 version and Maelki the original 1910 version (not the 1919 version). The "modernized/downsized" 1945 is kind of "cute", but the 1910 is lavish, magnificent - faithful to the spirit of Stravinsky's original concept (one I wish he would have have stuck with - at least with regards to his three ballets [Firebird, Petrouchka, and Rite of Spring]!).
ProTwoAm 3 years ago
who is the conductor at the final of this video?
she is very well , nice movements...brilliant.
vayansealachu 4 years ago
read "about video" on right hand side
heunoproduction 4 years ago
where can I find her ?
she dont appear in internet i wanna meet her.
vayansealachu 4 years ago
You can tell they're different versions (1945, 1919 respectively), the articulation of the chords is completely different. The 1945 version is so much better, I don't know why people keep insisting to play the 1919 suite.
LDGuy 4 years ago 2
neat video. i wish there was video of Tchaikovsky conducting, yea right!
cwinger10 4 years ago
WOW...i dont seen this video yet...thank, thank
Jafuet 4 years ago