Janáček - 'Sinfonietta' final movement

[kkkdddfffeee]

why does the first flute look like bill nye

[cryptid5]

I find myself acutely aware of the shape of the conductor's head.

[Ariladelfi]

ya en el tercer libro ... y esta pieza sigue siendo clave !! no lo quiero terminar :'(

[rosaazuldetuvientre]

Aomame in the taxi

[storageheater]

Well, I enjoyed that, so that's one single positive thing I can say about 1Q84: it went on about this so much I felt obliged to look it up.

[TheVaughan5]

Strange how so many so called "star conductors" don't shine so brightly when compared to a great conductor like Boulez - wonderful!

[beethoven75]

Oh my god... this last chord is extraordinary!!!!!!!!!!!

[centetl]

Haruki Murakami es un verdadero chingón y su libro 1Q84 excelente!!

[GazelleandStar]

I'm reading 1Q84 too - I thought the initial part of the music slow - but it builds beautifully.

[cclairm95]

magnifique

[FOATKI]

fredda ma ben suonata

[PharmerPetenuts]

1q84, after the 10th or so mention I had to come check it out, very nice

[Ariladelfi]

4:42 - 7:28 !!! WOWWWWW

[FREEFALLINGFILM]

inspired to try this music from 1Q84

[PeterJBowling]

Don't let appearances fool you. There's always only one reality.

[trumpet90909]

@PeterJBowling In my world, there is more than one. I nearly cry every time I hear this.

[kampsam]

1q84...with tears in my eyes :D

[muslit]

wonderful piece. a big bore of a performance.

[Mezzotenor]

If Prague ever hosts the Olympics, I hope the part beginning at 4:53, the reprise of the opening movement, becomes the official fanfare for the event. In fact, if memory serves, some sort of athletic event WAS the inspiration for this excerpt. Thank you, Maestro Boulez and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and thanks for posting this!

[Marlestor]

¡Janacek is one of my favorite composers!

Amazing the way he conceived the music, the orchestration as always superb... and human

¡Love him!

Thank you for posting this :)

[Aaaaaa21211]

Thumbs up if you're here because of 1Q84 ;)

[vetagiXD]

Yo también estoy leyendo 1Q84 xDD

[mmborras]

leyendo 1Q84!!!

[kostaskg]

Amazing! 

[helyanwe6]

boulez is amazing!

[ansluiken1]

I am reading 1q84. What is the message of this sunfoniettea?

[MsModernComposer]

Janacek is so earthy and primitive, I love his music! Perhaps Stravinsky learned a thing or to from him.

[volimcipele]

helps me to feel better 1Q84

[ansluiken1]

@volimcipele I am reading that book now. Why do you feel better now when you listen to the sinfoniettea?

Wahat happens to Aoname when she listen to the music in de taxi? Whar means thsi musc for Haruki Murakami?

[Bagas]

My favorite classical-folk fusion dude

[victorhacker777]

LOL I'm reading 1Q84 xD

[mapeivve]

@victorhacker777

Sí, Murakami tiene un conocimiento profundo de la música y de la literatura, y los conjuga de manera genial en sus libros.

Lo que noté también es que el tema musical de la sinfonietta fue tomado por Emerson Lake & Palmer en una de sus canciones, ahora no recuerdo el nombre...

[jugarconfuego]

@victorhacker777 lol the lovely girl next to me is reading it too

[bananadanuh]

@victorhacker777 HILARIOUS! I am as well!

[GiraffesEatWindmills]

@victorhacker777 me too :)

[Shixai]

great...nice performance...

[GustavMahlerHorn]

Timpani!

[autodidactas]

I´ve goosebumps. Reminds me to Aomame and Tengo, nice song and wonderful book. Increíble Murakami con sus libros, y excelente banda sonora la que los acompaña.

Que música más bella.

[eugeniejan]

@autodidactas

Je suis très surprise des références Murakami et par ces livres et son écriture très surprenante !

[AJRead2]

7:02 The timpanist is just sitting on an office swivel chair.

[windstorm1000]

Boulez is clear and good here, but keep the man away from Bayreuth! He ruined the Ring! His conducting style is the antithesis of Wagner's.

[araggorn]

1q94

[ArtD42]

I think Boulez did an excellent job here.

Incidentally, why are all the musicians wearing black? Very strange, and entirely unnecessary.

[AJRead2]

@ArtD42 It's something all musicians in orchestras do.

[ArtD42]

@AJRead2 No, I'm talking about the shirts, not the jackets. Example:

/watch?v=0FLRcNJYSZE

[AJRead2]

@ArtD42 That's just the way they decided to do it, I guess. All the classical music concerts I've been to (2) they've worn all black.

[mooobtube]

@ArtD42 Why is it unnecessary to wear black may I ask?

[MsModernComposer]

@mooobtube Aside from it being tradition, it's just to keep all of the players in the same attire as to not attract any attention away from the music by clothing. Imagine all the players wearing different colors with graphics and sayings on them. Think of it as a black-tie affair, haha!

[traineemusician]

Absolutely exhalting! Pierre Boulez is a real genius!

I am surprised and shocked to see people criticising Boulez himself, I do not suppose even the great conductors; Abbado, Rattle, Ozawa and the like would have done so, what are we to do so?

[doubleredsx3]

best version of sinfonietta finale i heard, i love boulez!

[LuisBlamor]

Es sobrenatural. La mejor versión que conozco (Kubelik y Mackerras) de este finale de otro mundo. Saca el verdadero expresionismo de Janacek.

[gabrielpt26]

It's not my opinion. I think Boulez keeps all music very "clean",with a mathematic precision. He makes us to understand any note, any tonalitty... the bright of the music must come to us from the composer, not from the director. Boulez interpretations are always a reference for me! Even in more passionated music. His Mahler's 6th, for exemple, is great!

[BritinIsrael]

Boulez is just not suitable to conduct Janacek. He is like a robot with no human touch.

Janacek's music has been touched by a 'spark of God' and it needs a Karl Ancerl or a Kertez to carry across its message.

However the greatness of Janacek will always shine through.

Boulez should stick to his own compositions or the 'mechanical' direction that a lot of his 20th century favourite composers require.

[MrWhitedj2002]

Bravo!

[dagzine]

hahahah. studies *do* show atonal music is harmful to life on earth.

i'd love to see the control for that experiment.

moron.

[suephilwill]

Yes a bit slow but the percussion, brass and other wind is perfection. Sooooo good.

[LordMgls]

Very interesting!!

[venca2]

This is a wonderful piece of music. Pierre Boulez did great again.

[inspiredmelancholy]

Brilliant. Simply brilliant. I'm a total amateur ignoramus, don't even listen to classical music, but all I know is that this piece just MOVED me. Effing Brilliant. Thnxx to K for the intro <3

[KhagarBalugrak]

I'm surprised the orchestra was able to play this well with Boulez conducting. Boulez conducts in such a cold and lifeless manner, it's a wonder he has managed to become so famous for his conducting.

[rlneesam]

Conductors inspire orchestras by their command of the music, their knowledge and their charisma. Boulez has all of these plus he is a composer and understands how to convey the score to the listener.

[1912tash]

You don't know shit about Boulez

[KhagarBalugrak]

Oh yes I do. I know he's written abominable atonal garbage (did you know that atonal music kills plants within three weeks of intermittent exposure???), and that everyone in the business considers him to be a narcissist.

[thecomposer101]

I feel sorry for you on two levels.

first of all that is not an efficient way to kill a weed.

Second of all you have hurt my feelings. I like Boulez' music and may I lend you a suggestion?

when hiding behind a cloak of anonymity on the web. Do not discount the fact that you are still human and am accountable by the universal code of manners.

But I am actually more sorry for you then anything because you will never enjoy the sounds of most new music if you havesuch a closed mind.

[KhagarBalugrak]

Sorry if I hurt your feelings. Obviously, if you compose regularly, you are capable of writing good music.

However, studies do indeed show that atonal music is destructive to life on Earth. It may not be the fastest way to kill plants, but it does surely kill them all the same. This isn't surprising, since atonal music was conceived of as a rejection of (a destruction of) tonality rather than something that can contently exist in its own right.

I do apologize for being harsh though.

[KhagarBalugrak]

I'm not trying to be harsh now. I'm just telling it like I see it.

As I see it, atonal music is pretty much a natural response to the emotionally barren, industrialized, bureaucratized, restricted way of modern life - it definitely evokes all of those qualities. In that sense, atonal music is definitely expressive. Art will always imitate life, from now until the end of time. It's just the nature of things.

[thecomposer101]

@KhagarBalugrak

I definetly accept your apology and I think that you have some interesting thoughts on it.

Personally I think that tonality is somewhat of a restriction, I'm a composer and I'm always searching for new sounds and am overjoyed by all of the new music that I hear, tonal and atonal togethor. You said that it imitates life and I LOVE that because it validates my purpose. (In one aspect), in others not as much, but that one definetly.

[KhagarBalugrak]

I see a composer's purpose as this: to create beautiful, uplifting, sincere and deep music. If that means imitating life, so be it. If, however, life does not produce anything beautiful to be imitated, we should search elsewhere in our own imaginations for that beauty.

As far as atonal music is concerned, I'm afraid I disapprove of it, due to its deleterious effects on the human brain and other life on Earth. Perhaps in a universe with different laws of nature, it would be wonderful...

[supermonkeygirle]

I'm sorry sir/madam. I've enjoyed our little conversation but I really must say one thing.

DON"T SAY THINGS AS FACTS THAT OUR YOUR OWN OPINION.

You obviously THINK that you know a lot. You are not an expert on the subjects that you are talking about and that is PAINFULLY OBVIOUS. I suggest you take a long look at what you are really saying about yourself through these comments.

[sgabriel]

@KhagarBalugrak Brother, you are out of your mind.

[KhagarBalugrak]

@sgabriel, no, actually, YOU are out of your mind to think that atonal music is beautiful, and that is has no connection to the changes in the lives of people that have occurred over the last 100 years. Art imitates life; for you to think otherwise is simply ignorant.

[sgabriel]

@KhagarBalugrak My dear colleague, you are right: I am out of my mind. But on a completely unrelated matter, you are out of your mind. But I didn't make any of the assertions you attribute to me! To clarify my comment, I wasn't questioning your comprehensive and infallible assessment of the dangers of atonal music (I mean, where does one begin?), but rather your mad ravings about Pierre Boulez as a conductor.

[KhagarBalugrak]

@sgabriel, I apologize for misinterpreting your comment. Boulez just doesn't do anything for me as a conductor. I mean yes, he's competent, he has a good memory, good conducting technique, and he has an extensive knowledge of the musical repertoire, but that's where it ends, as far as I can see. His conducting doesn't communicate anything that I'm able to perceive...it seems like he's just keeping time. Maybe in 10 years I'll eat my words, but that's how it seems to be as of now...

[sgabriel]

@KhagarBalugrak But, you do hear the results of his 'just keeping time", right? Doesn't this hint that there might be something there?

[heliogabalus227]

Lovely Czech music played by a talented orchestra. The main motif is one of my favorite passages of symphonic music, ever. And yes, that was quite the brass section!

[richybaker]

Of course not, this is Pop Music. Britney Spears took this "tune" and made a second version of the "womanizer" with a rapper. Woo!

[malma3]

:))

[rlneesam]

)) --,,, ''((  vomits

[rlneesam]

Britney Spears has all the attributes of a cabbage but lacks the brain.

[malma3]

Britney has only one atrribute, in the middle of the legs :)

[clobclark]

You're all fucking dumb shits. This is Romantic era music, go straight to hell all of you.

[rlneesam]

Thank you for your enlightened view of us dumb shits. Perhaps you could get your head out of your stinking arse long enough to take a breath and then go back to whatever shite hole your mother put you in to rot before your unicelled brained father (or so he believed) pissed on it. No offence meant you onanist.

[cleberyv]

Sorry, I'm repeating previous message in (bad) english: Internauts, if you enjoy classical music and realy want to feel why pieces like this are famous, you need to buy a sound board and two good sound boxes. A statement of an audiophile who only wants to divulge the classical music.

[cleberyv]

Internautas, se gostam de música clássica e querem realmente sentir porque peças como esta são famosas, precisam saber que compensa comprar uma placa de som e um par de caixas acústicas razoáveis para o seu computador. Vocês sentirão a diferença.

Palavra de um audiófilo que só quer divulgar a música clássica.

[audiophile55]

This is phenomenal! BRAVO! Thank you so much for posting this!

[kruskev]

is this the piece that is mentioned in murakami's 1Q84?

[Mickalicious89]

This is fabulous!!!! I loved every second of it!

[gmatusk]

Performed Oct. 2 and 3 by Saint Louis Symphony conducted by David Robertson with extra trumpets supplied by the U.S. Army Herald Trumpets (used for ceremonial occasions -- 17 were here in St. Louis) --- Robertson learned how to conduct Janacek by conducting in Brno,Moravia, Czech Republic.

[bobr0405]

Janáček is our best composer, I think. Sinfonietta is great, his glagolitic mass is also great. It could be faster. Czech orchestras play this part about 5:30 min.

[messorek]

Part of this (since 4:50) was used today to welcome pope Benedict to Brno, Czech Republic, it was tremendously brilliant !

[SordidGuy]

ABSOLUTE GENIOUS!!!!!!

[dagisa123]

Janacek was genious-but so crazy...

[aamish911]

why crazy? sorry i know nothing about him except he loved someone like 40 yrs younger haha

[dagisa123]

look at his picture and you can notice why is he mad...Hair like a windy storm, eyes like a black holes and moustage like walrus...And the most important thing is his robbery-he stoled issue with the folklore songs and notes from our Moravian village and he go for composer of these music pieces...That's all.nice day

[venca2]

This must be SO difficult for the orchestra. Great job!

[jmvirgfb]

(1) I first saw this played live in either 1974 or 1975, before I was in school. It was the start of my interest in percussion, I found the timpani mesmerising and the cymbals terrifying, I still learned the percussion and most of the other parts all the way through over the years.

I missed this broadcast last year so downloaded it on iPlayer. With respect to everyone involved, sadly - it's not a great rendition. On this final movement the orchestra miss time the first beat at 0.09 ...

[jmvirgfb]

(2)...it's all good however until 1:14 where Pierre takes it at a snails pace. It's so slow by 4:20, it should be pounding along, my pet hate happens at 4:41 where the clash cymbals come in two beats to early (just like a previous Proms recital in the late 80's) - the guy on the timpani's so eager and enthusiastic (very animated!) to get the proper tempo back he's a bit to far ahead of the rest of the orchestra, but with the tempo being up to speed by at the cymbal error...

[jmvirgfb]

(3)... by 7:05 suddenly it's a rush to the end.

I adore this music, I've seen the BSO many times but this isn't a great performance (which isn't the fault of the orchestra).

One of the video responses to this from Michel037 which lasts 9:59 is far better, almost as good as the SImon Rattle recording from the mid 80's.

Sorry to the BSO and Rupert for being so down on this!

[jmvirgfb]

Having said all that, at 7:20 there's a bass drum roll accompanying the timpani roll which I've not heard on any other recital, it almost overpowers the timpani, that's a GREAT moment!

[atomicmrpelly]

I was astonished at the sound this orchestra made in this concert and the other one they did with Boulez, having heard them shortly before being conducted by someone else, won't name names though!

[doubleredsx3]

the sound from the oboe is simply beautiful during his solo.

[Dorm2003]

platero55. With the greatest respect, here is the instrumentation. The fanfare team is 9 trumpets in C, 2 bass trumpets (they are same pitch as trombone), 2 tenor tubas (known in UK as euphonium/USA as baritone), and timpani. Orchestral brass is 4 horns in F, 2 trumpets in F, 4 trombones and tuba. Unusual to have 4 trbns. Also, would have been trbns in F. There are times when they are all playing chords in low register.

[doubleredsx3]

baritones and euphoniums are actually different instruments, although they can be used interchangeably in the states.

[Dorm2003]

Sorry to split hairs doubleredx3. The orchestral 'tenor tuba' is a large bore instrument, known in the British Military Band and British style Brass Band as a 'euphonium', so called because of it's euphomous sound. The British brass band also has baritones, which are the same pitch, but a saxhorn of narrower bore.

[Dorm2003]

Published military/wind band music has the instrument named euphonium/baritone, not because they are the same instrument, but because the tenor tuba is known as a euphonium in Britain and a baritone in the USA. I understand that the Bb saxhorn (known as baritone in UK) is called by it's original name in the USA.

[ThaSchwab]

Do post the first movement, please. :(

[ianduckworth]

Hm, quite well done, a little bit precise for any Czechs, but good to see Boulez broadening his conducting repertoire now he is over eighty.

[atomicmrpelly]

The timpanist is fantastic, we really enjoyed his preformance at all the BBCSO proms this year!!!

[schnozz87]

That is John Chimes, in my humble opinion quite possibly the best timpanist around today.

[atomicmrpelly]

Yeh a real musical legend!

The principal trombonist is pretty hot too... in the musical sense! Her solo in Bolero the following night was excellent!

[Dread2005]

What?! Euphoniums?! They're supposed to be Wagner tubas, right?

[platero55]

Nope, they're supposed to be euphoniums. Janacek was looking for more of a military band configuration. Thus, he asks for trumpets, tenor trumpets, bass trumpets, cornets, flugelhorns, euphoniums and tuba. Plus the usual horns and trombones. Love that rich brass sound! I've never heard it live, though. :-(

[bbocaner]

The part calls for "tenor tuba" which is more appropriately covered by euphonium than by wagner tuba, but I've seen even the new york philharmonic use wagner tubas -- I suppose it's cheaper to pay two of their horn players doubling than it is to hire two extra musicians to play euphonium??

[rlneesam]

Or one tenor tuba. Did you miss the arithmetic lesson at school?

[hudbafan]

Fine performance, excellent sound. Btw, Janáček used the "speech melodies" particularly in his operas, but yes, this unusual style is apparent also in his orchestral and chamber works. I think, Boulez's interpretation isn't so bad. I love the version of Czech conductor František Jílek and Brno State Symphonic.

[Dorm2003]

Unique composer. Yes jerrytomball, part of his unique style and tonality is what he termed 'speech melody'. I started to know and love the music of Janacek in 1967 when I was sixteen. He had only recently been introduced to the UK by Charles Mackerras, and I still have a soft spot for his recording with the Pro Arte Orchestra. I heard this performance, and was not too impressed with it. Boulez is not my kind of musician, he writes crap, and his interpretation of this was dull. No drama.

[jcmud]

What is in the air of Chekia that produces so many great composers?

[Moky009]

gut :)) I can breath very well... hehe... Thats true, that small nation and they heva so many famous compousers, Dvorak, Smetana, Janacek and others...

[jcmud]

Right you are. I love and admire them all...

[Stravinsky91]

@Moky009 Bohuslav Martinü and Josef Suk also ;)

[DirtyDarkDragonfly]

@Moky009 Thanks, I am from Czech Republic:D

[venca2]

@jcmud Alcohol :-)

[Antarktida1337]

@jcmud ^^ Well, when its not a smog, there are alcohol vapours.

[DirtyDarkDragonfly]

@jcmud Thanks:) I am from Czech republic:D

[ETTA48]

An unique composition, excellent performance, an excellent video, an excellent sound, wonderful brass-section, great orchestra, superb, perfect, I am deLIGHTed.....

There is an amazing ballet (Jiri Kilian) with this music on tube, performed by the "Netherlands Dance Theater"....

[jerrytomball]

Such highly original music! I think Janacek used what he called "speech melodies" when composing. This style also comes out clearly in his string quartets.

[tippettt]

Magnifficent! Can you upload also the Glagolitic mass please? It's one of my favorite choral works

[Janinka34]

Great.