Edvard Grieg - Funeral March for Rikard Nordraak

[matavidya]

Oh GOD, how beautiful!

[PatrickLohKamp]

this is wonderful!

[jonanjello]

Great video, Feneco2. Thank you for sharing

[TheHUSCLAR]

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[moonvelvet]

oh sweet Jesus, that's beautiful.

[Heikkibat]

Inefable. Absolute. Amazing. It was the BSO for a theatre play I wrote called "the hero", about a boy who dies in a war for his beloved. Words come short.

[ulvhedne]

Words just come short....

Great music, truly moving - something deeper than music itself..

[333verissimo333]

Could you put the name of the paintings?

[Cotif11]

what's the painting at 0:33 ?

[rzamal]

Edward Gierek Funeral March for Rikard Nordraak

[jessicafischerqueen]

Great video, well done on that.

[Ixtlamictlan]

I could repeat this funeral march again and again and again and again eternally

[mgokalparslan]

very epic piece. i'd like to have a piece like that for my funeral.

and i don't understand why grieg is not as popular as man other compsers, does he have to be a german to be performed?

[AlgisKemezys]

This is just Great.

[MsAnnoyingComment]

2:43 Hey, Dracula! Hello, old friend, it's been forever. :) At least, that picture is on the cover of my Dracula book.

[NobleThiellus]

Thank you for this

[523205227]

Very bad music. Not dramatic enough. The paintings are on the conterary, very good.

[egalitarianist]

@523205227 This may be the most dramatic funeral march I've ever heard - as well as the finest and most touching. Funeral marches are not supposed to be more dramatic than this. Sombre, yes, but the fight is over. Death has won, and the survivors are left with their loss. G's grief was made worse by his feelings of guilt for not heeding the pleas of Nordraak and his father to be with him. G could not admit to his terror of further exposure to TB which had already destroyed his own left lung.

[rbrown6984]

Wow, excellent music coupled with excellent artwork. ++

[TheD435]

what was the painting at 3:37? its amazing

[funerax]

klassika i v afrike klassika.v ney vse prekrasno;daje pohoronnye marshi.

[whythewar1]

I'm sad... I can only press the like button once D:

[sweetpeariot]

Incredibly inspired music set to amazing, haunting paintings. Perfect.

[Anjesis]

The whole thing is awesome, but I especially love how he used the bass drum!

[mustanginet]

What is the painting at 3:57?

[ChaosIgnition]

@mustanginet I too would like to know.

[plane15man]

I love the part in the tuba when it the song keeps building and then in comes the tuba with the tri-tone jump, that's awesome.

[exhornnerd]

Beautiful, quite beautiful. Grieg, though a world famous composer of course, is much under-rated. This is a fabulous recording with some haunting images. I suspect Grieg loved his friend very much, what a wonderful piece of music to honour his passing! Thank you for posting... D

[LordEizen]

wow whats the painting at 1:45 ?

[feneco2]

@LordEizen that's caspar friedrich's "sea of ice" :)

[LordEizen]

@feneco2 wow it looks like some kind of wreckage or like a building that fell down

[NERDFREAKINGPOWER]

@LordEizen superman's arctic base.

[LordEizen]

@NERDFREAKINGPOWER wow 1 year ago xD

[ptose]

what's the paint approximately at 7:34 ?

[feneco2]

@ptose the name is "one of you shall betray me" by ilya repin :)

[th00negative1]

is edvard grieg the original composer of this song or did like chopin do it?

[jetblack132]

without a doubt, the greatest funeral march ever. made all the better by the DWS and maestro Fennell.

[SUP2EMAN]

Please tell me where you got this recording I want to download it and I cannot find it on I-tunes. This is the best funeral march ever written BAR NONE!

[Kimmygutt]

I like how it sounds about 4:00

[jackson12345678901]

Firstly, amazing piece of music but is this arrangement necessarily catching the true style? Overall, in my opinion, the triplets at the end of the bars are too short and detatched, when they should be smooth and flowing.

Examples of this are bar 1 and 3 in the trumpet and trombone as well as in the B section with the clarinets.

This is just my opinion that it is not capturing what the piece should be like.

[668christina]

sad and emotional not :(lmao

[egalitarianist]

668christina: What you are looking for is a dirge. A funeral march is not supposed to be melodramatic. It should be somber, reflective and respectful of the deceased. Other funeral marches such as Chopin's and Verdi's may be just as effective, but I have never heard one better than this.

[asummeronthebeach]

we played this song yesterday at our christmas concert in church. i think it was the best!

but this interpretation is sometimes a little strange. listen at 5:35 and 5:51, the trumpets play very short hard tones, they don't fit in really.

[Mockington]

´how's the last painting by friedrich called? the one with the ruin of a church or sthlt and the snow?

[feneco2]

It's Caspar Friedrich's "Abbey Graveyard".

[whythewar1]

@feneco2 6:47? What painting is that, jesus dude the paintings you chose are better then the music, and for grieg that's saying something, cudos.

[VI1988TU]

it is a very good march for a wind band! but i dont think that this march is able to walk it,,,

[franklinmanor]

Who is performing here? Thank you.

[feneco2]

Dallas Wind Symphony. Conductor - Frederik Fennell.

[MsBosson]

c est magnifique!!! tu peu me passe ton msn et me l envoyer la musique ? stp

[grantrummel]

who orchestrated this? i was under the impression that this was solely written as a piano piece by Grieg.

[egalitarianist]

@grantrummel This is Grieg's own orchestration for large wind ensemble and percussion (1867, rev. 1899). Grieg requested this version be played at his own funeral, but when he died, no competent wind ensemble was available, so his close friend Johan Halvorsen (1864 - 1935) had to quickly re-score it for the orchestral instruments that were available. He did an excellent job, but Grieg's own version is still best. (Halvorsen was married to Grieg's niece.)

[monkeystu52]

what a fantastic piece of work. very good paintings to accompany yet another piece by Grieg.

Thank you very much for the additional information also. Appreciated.

Keep up the good work!

[Khatodo]

It sounds thin. I'm used to doing this piece with a big brassensemble.