LSO Conducting Masterclass with Valery Gergiev

[Thylovely4you]

what a wonderful, deep, caring, passionate conductor!!

[jin12345678]

great students.

[Pookja]

is it possible to know the name of the song starting from 2.22 - 2.57 ? it sounds so beautiful.

[MaestroSerge]

Rachmaninov, Symphony No. 3, 2nd mov.

[sararonald]

q teso! muy bn

[padsax1]

james lowe by far and away the best of the students

[dajohnthomas69]

what a sense of humour he has! but what he does is magic and he knows how to transport that magic to these young people. Great rehearsal music by the way, never heard it before...

[ivolva]

2:20

[ilkinond]

What's the fiddle concerto here? Sounds great.

[kotetsu131]

It just shows you how much of a God Gergiev is, look how little he does in that scene and yet how well it works!

[hornplayer84]

2:23 very good!!

[DarkRaimundo]

Rachmaninov's Third Symphony is a jewel.

[FungoBoy]

3:50 signature Gergiev hand motion =D

[maxicaas]

Well done!

[Biber0315]

From what I've seen of his own conducting, Gergiev is the LAST person who should be giving a conducting masterclass!

[theMerghe]

Hello, I'm sure conducting is not about the shallow judgment of a conductor, but emotions, concentration and vision, which are displayed in this video very well. And on no account about human language skills. I saw a Prokofiev-Rachmaninoff interpretation by Gergiev last weekend, and the orchestra worked very well. That's the point.

[Biber0315]

True it is, but I have to give more credit to the orchestra who can actually figure out what he's trying to do with his hands/arms. Sure doesn't make it eas y for them. Take the downbeat to his Mahler 2 - it looks more like he's having a seizure than conducting. Though there are times when he appears very old school a la Stakowski. Certainly not a stick waver hence the highly emotive qualities which can be distracting.

[silk2626]

@Biber0315

It's Mahler Symphony 6 I think. ;)

[logenisti]

No. Mahler 6 is at the end of this. The "fiddle" portion is from Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 3 (Mov. 2)

[panosJ3]

the border line between great musicians as Gergiev and normal muscians is the capability to understand that conducting is make music not beat the tempo.

[SuperSax875]

@panosJ3 I'd have to disagree. I would not call anyone who believes that beating time is conducting a musician at all. Musicianship starts with this understanding.

[failedassassin]

Hello people making up work, or doing work one year from now...

[CIinton]

the image quality is amazing!

you can even try hi-definition next time, so ppl can watch it in full-screen!