Igor Stravinsky conducts The Firebird (L'Oiseau de Feu)

[randallmckay]

i wonder what Mozart's band would have sounded like with him conducting it?

[jdebruynviolin]

So beautiful... I understand the people saying they don't like some of his other work (it can be really inaccessible) but HOW could you say it about this clip? It's so profoundly gorgeous!

[oneoctavelow]

If an alien (an extraterrestrial), would ask me to explain what music is I would play it this piece.... followed perhaps by Debussy's 'Prelude to the afternoon of a fawn' - in my eyes this work alone is sufficient to qualify Stravinsky as the 20th Century's most influential composer - genius.

[TheGeekhunter84]

My band is doing this song for our show next year. XD

[lifedoctor]

I don't think I've ever seen the word 'genius' spelt correctly on youtube. I despair.

[martimtavares]

this is like if we could see giotto in the action of painting

[LizzzRosaaa]

beautiful bassoon sound. <3

[MrR12S]

genious Stravinski  inforgetable

[rvn10rvn17]

one of the russian composers i will never understand

[OriginalBasaliskos]

This is what made me fall in love with the bassoon.

[zabuzato]

@OriginalBasaliskos i'm a bassoonist lol xD

[poupee58]

What absolutely beautiful music.

[tyrelroo]

As a bassoon player, I can't imagine playing that solo, so important in the instruments' orchestral repertoire, one of the most frequently-asked audition solos... in front of the man who wrote it. Performance usually doesn't make me nervous, anymore, but *whew*.

[dakwa1]

Such a wonderful, powerful, and very creative composer he was.

[sectec77]

2:43 is like:

PLAY!! let me ear you, mmmm a little more

ok.

[mauriwayar]

which orchestra plays?

[Entropy56]

This music is sublime. The era in which it was conceived is a time capsule of history where we are the lucky few that have been transported into dimensions of a world beyond.

[jonycuddlesgert]

Wonderful to watch Sir Igor (Stravinsky) himself, composer/conductor.  Great great thrill for me. Thank you, "medicitv". =jonycuddlesgert.

[tracehazarrrrd]

utter magic, its like watching the creation of the world, or hearing it...

[Jitpring]

He rightly wasn't pleased with the bassoonist the first time he came in.

[miltonmisfit111]

ok dexjoe...u would be glad to write seven pages about stravinsky he is the greatest composer ive ever seen and hes not annoying at all and this piece is the best piece hes ever composed and i think that if you think hes annoying then you should go away and not look at these videos...

[Slopies]

If you think dexjoe's comments are ennoying, you should go away and not write about them.

[miltonmisfit111]

ok i never thought his comments were annoying but ok i love assuming things and wow i wrote this two months ago jeez...and another thing if you think my comments are annoying then you go away thank you very much

[MaestroVNG]

Incredible ! He even crying at the last moment. It's Very impressed me! Bravo ! Bravo ! Bravo !

[Akilwrath]

hmm.. somehow, the melody sounds kind of freaky to me.

[1madDogz]

Well yes! some of it should sound that way to tell the story.

[Akilwrath]

*nod nod*

[dexjoe]

u think hes annoying i haveto write out 7 pages bout him

[noizer666]

I have to transcribe the score on finale :o ...

beautiful music

[mihce1]

omg i gotta learn this guy its anoying

[Tuvadog]

Such a genious!!!! I love Firebird and to see Stravinsky conduct is amazing. He does it, on the video, with great authority. I love his face expressions and the minimalistic hand movements in his conducting. Fascinating. His music is outstanding!

[piratzrule]

i dunno. which orchestra is it. i dun think a professional orchestra needs to beat at like that with right hand all the time. but it is a fantastic piece, one of the great orchestral works.

[ceterni2]

maravilloso Stravinsky !!!!!

[BalthasarMA]

Multo obrigado. Marvelous.

[embcomposer]

Este video muestra una vez más la grandeza de este músico ruso. Gracias por tenerlo en la red.

[ArialXK]

This is AMAZING!! So inspirational..

[drummanDet]

Отличная мелодия

[thefho]

he was Russian composer,pianist and a conductor I like the melody ^-^

[garyopenhill]

ok, yoda.

[garyopenhill]

well put. You're a master of words.