I need to give the people in this video credit. I'm a ninth grader right now in wind ensemble and we need to p[lay this for our concert coming up. I'm playing the baritone part and it's hard. We're not playing this fast but we're starting to speed up. Plus this song is just all over the place notes wise. It's not easy to play fast or slow.
@tankparry97 im in ninth grade and I need to play this on thursday. i play percussion and I must play this on marimbas. if I had practiced sooner it would have been a much easier piece
You guys are amazing! We're playing your exact version of this song in our band class right now (at literally the same speed)...and I'm a clarinetist. Which leads me to my next point, I really commend your clarinet players for doing such an outstanding job.
It doesn't matter how challenging a piece of music is. Our high school band played it this year and we won grand champion. We know it was challenging but our band tore the music up and studied every note. Our band direcor is AMAZING. We would seriously pwn u guys with THAT attitude.. :)
In this recording, the tempo is not stable and it is very unpleasant. Furthermore, some of desks miss precision. This opening is very delicate to play, deserves a mechanical precision from the beginning to the end. The general work on the nuances is also essential and offer the possibility to gives more colours to this piece.
@MrsMikkl I'm guessing you've never tried playing this. This actually makes it clear and easy to listen to. Faster, and the eighth notes during the presto section(especially the same notes) wouldn't be able to be heard as staccato. That's my personal view, and seeing that I play it in my wind ensemble.
we sight read this today in our hs band, it sounded crappy and it was really slow, but it was really fun, and with any luck we'll do it for our winter concert
Very true. Slow and clean is much better than fast and messy. However, it's a little tacky that the conductor started at breakneck speed and then slowed down to a manageable tempo at 0:12. There shouldn't be a dramatic tempo change there, and you might as well play the WHOLE piece the same tempo. Playing easier parts faster is pretty annoying.
That depends...playing music at the same tempo all the way through is also quite boring, and the beginning up to 12 is an introduction, which is to grab your attention, and then it settles into the main theme. Again, I think it works, but that is why music is so human...because it's not meant to be created and recreated exactly the same each time.
Although I agree that music should NOT be "created and recreated exactly the same each time," a musician must heed directions of the composer, and cannot change them. Nowhere in this piece does Kabalevsky write con rubato, a piacere, or any other phrases that mean rapidly changing pulses are suggested. The introduction of this piece does not have a different tempo marking than 0:12 of the piece. The rapid tempo at the beginning just makes the melodic tempo seem heavier.
All very valid points. I wonder how true to the composer's directions Toscanini was. He was known to use this piece as a showy number while touring with the NBC Orchestra.
I am not liking the conductor I am a grad student for conducting and how the hell can the band follow that. Secondly the whole ensamble needs to perfect the art of articulation and this is something that HAS to be evident in a peice like this. Nice legato section too fast for me pull out of the texture and hold back a little and it will be awesiome! Flutes and clarinets I fell were too dominat in some parts and the bottom needs to be in tune. Needs work but good job. Felt like brass was tired.
can't say i have seen a bass played like that to me it could use more of a wood wind and brass bass sound not much more of brass but a good deal moer out of woodwind bass
fantastic job if i was there i am sure i would have stood up this peice is probably the most difficult i have heard in a while but wow very very nice job
the lack of bass can be an issue of recording more than the band's sound... I saw quite a few bassoons in there.
Bass clarinets are the missing ingredient.
Otherwise well done! I still remember trembling fingers and a bleeding tongue, I played this a couple years ago in a high school band. The clarinet part is awesome!
:DDD I'M WITH YOU THERE~! -Is a bass clarinet player-
Dude. It was amazing. Like... I was sitting in my band class, (We're doing this song now) and all of a suden, I just drop out just to hear what it would sound like, and the entire peice failed.
In the slower legato part, it NEEDS the bass, reedy sound. Bari/tenor sax is a little too overpowering. -Nodnod-
Aww...I didn't mean to make you feel bad. Believe me, it took lots of practice before we could get it so fast. But I have to say...we were great once we had it down! We took Sweepstakes in a national band competition in Hawaii that year. It IS a great piece. :)
VERY VERY GOOD! I'm playing this in wind ensemble, in high school, I need lots of practice, i heard no high school band has ever played this. but your band is amazing!
well, jeez, its hard enough for me already, way to go and make me feel like crap. lol im kidding, but thats good for you guys... i absolutely love this piece, it is so dramatic and moving
just got to be careful and hope others are to, though switching instruments takes some embroucher control..... alot of it i remember having to switch from a tuba part to a trumpet part and that almost took all i had to switch in the span of 3 measures lol..... shocked the hell out of the audience
To everyone who keeps saying "It's too slow!" or "This is utter crap!":
Remember that they're not an orchestra. We're playing this in our high school band, and it's not that easy. Woodwinds have to coordinate all of their fingers - not to mention tongue - strings have it easy (or at least easier) in comparison.
Yes, they COULD (obviously) have played it faster/cleaner/with better dynamic effects with more time to prepare, but what band couldn't have? Give them a break.
@rho421 dude strings do not have it easy we have to go faster than this and were only 8th graders with a mix of older people. and yes i do see that you said "or at least easier" this thing goes fast as hell!
@rho421 Strings do NOT have it easier! I've been playing the cello for nine years, the tenor saxophone for three, and I've just started to pick up the french horn--and the technical difficulties are obviously greatest on the cello. You have to coordinate your fingers and your tongue? We have to coordinate our right shoulder, elbow, wrist, and fingers with our left hands, which have the task of pinpointing the exact point on the fingerboard where intonation is good to within a few millimeters!
@C0urante And, on top of that, the job of doing both artfully and with complete musicality is placed on our shoulders. With a woodwind instrument, the only real shaping is done with the supply of air and how it is shaped through the embouchure; the fingers do absolutely nothing with regards to expression; string players have to focus on creating dynamics, tone colors, and articulations with their bow hands--while vibrating and through doing so, creating just as much shaping on their left hands!
@C0urante And when do you ever see a clarinetist have to shift their fingers between positions? They remain in basically the exact same place the entire time, with simple, binary coordinates for each digit that create the note that is being played. Cellists, on the other hand, have to shift between dozens of positions on the fingerboard in order to find the correct note, the difficulty of which is only exacerbated by the fact that the distance between each semitone gets increasingly smaller
@C0urante on the fingerboard as a rise in pitch is created. And when doing this shifting, the decision must be made on what fingerings to use, which strings to play on, and how the differences in each will affect the musical meaning of the passage they apply to.
Strings have it easier in comparison? You've got to be joking.
im guessing this is well played, but i think it loses its meaning at this speed, i think it should be played slower... its just notes instead of a melodie.... and there aren't many dynamics
This is always a great piece to perform. GREAT JOB! I think with more time you could've played this full speed. Remember you're in control of the music and your intruments, not the other way around. Piece of cake.
that's not a bad job. our high school wind ensemble actually played this for our spring concert. it was faster, it's supposed to be like 4 and a half minutes and we sightread it at 6:30 haha. but yea it took a while to get there. tough piece, great job
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guys my band is playing somthing harder than that and we are only in eighth grade. Well we are the one of the best middle school band in california (we where rated superior 7 times, we have braging rights), sorry if i ofended you.
@crothblatt sorry were not as good as you i wish i had YOUR talent. and dude nobody gives a damn that you got 7 superiors id like to see what else things you got
My band is doing this.... MHHSW High School Concert Band FTW!!!
SuperDave61164 6 days ago
so many of my fellow ninth graders must endure this piece
theclash181 2 months ago
I need to give the people in this video credit. I'm a ninth grader right now in wind ensemble and we need to p[lay this for our concert coming up. I'm playing the baritone part and it's hard. We're not playing this fast but we're starting to speed up. Plus this song is just all over the place notes wise. It's not easy to play fast or slow.
tankparry97 3 months ago
@tankparry97 im in ninth grade and I need to play this on thursday. i play percussion and I must play this on marimbas. if I had practiced sooner it would have been a much easier piece
theclash181 2 months ago
Slow
lesabre84 7 months ago
Way to do fast, and then not.... MAINTAIN A TEMPO!
hahastandupcomedy 8 months ago
@hahastandupcomedy THE FREAKING SONG CHANGES TO PRESTO FROM ALLEGRO!!!!!!!!!!!! Get your facts straight.
SuperDave61164 6 days ago in playlist Favorite videos
Our high school band is taking on this piece, it's a beast, but I'm so excited to take it to KMEA this year! :)
shizzlenip 1 year ago
So, I am a 9th grader in high school wind ensomble and we're playing this for contest
cooker2345 1 year ago
You guys are amazing! We're playing your exact version of this song in our band class right now (at literally the same speed)...and I'm a clarinetist. Which leads me to my next point, I really commend your clarinet players for doing such an outstanding job.
I love this piece; once again, outstanding job :)
Klinx585 1 year ago
Wow..@rho421
It doesn't matter how challenging a piece of music is. Our high school band played it this year and we won grand champion. We know it was challenging but our band tore the music up and studied every note. Our band direcor is AMAZING. We would seriously pwn u guys with THAT attitude.. :)
LOLiLoveMusic14 1 year ago
In this recording, the tempo is not stable and it is very unpleasant. Furthermore, some of desks miss precision. This opening is very delicate to play, deserves a mechanical precision from the beginning to the end. The general work on the nuances is also essential and offer the possibility to gives more colours to this piece.
jeaune67 2 years ago
Why is the person who's doing the camera seem so against clarinet players? I didn't see any footage of them =[
darkbloodmay 2 years ago
Too slow to listen--feels so bogged down.
MrsMikkl 2 years ago 2
@MrsMikkl I'm guessing you've never tried playing this. This actually makes it clear and easy to listen to. Faster, and the eighth notes during the presto section(especially the same notes) wouldn't be able to be heard as staccato. That's my personal view, and seeing that I play it in my wind ensemble.
darkbloodmay 2 years ago
we sight read this today in our hs band, it sounded crappy and it was really slow, but it was really fun, and with any luck we'll do it for our winter concert
astronomicat 2 years ago
The tempo might be slow, but it allows for more clarity and is quite tasteful.
ogpimpmore 2 years ago
Very true. Slow and clean is much better than fast and messy. However, it's a little tacky that the conductor started at breakneck speed and then slowed down to a manageable tempo at 0:12. There shouldn't be a dramatic tempo change there, and you might as well play the WHOLE piece the same tempo. Playing easier parts faster is pretty annoying.
rycsu84 2 years ago
That depends...playing music at the same tempo all the way through is also quite boring, and the beginning up to 12 is an introduction, which is to grab your attention, and then it settles into the main theme. Again, I think it works, but that is why music is so human...because it's not meant to be created and recreated exactly the same each time.
ogpimpmore 2 years ago
Although I agree that music should NOT be "created and recreated exactly the same each time," a musician must heed directions of the composer, and cannot change them. Nowhere in this piece does Kabalevsky write con rubato, a piacere, or any other phrases that mean rapidly changing pulses are suggested. The introduction of this piece does not have a different tempo marking than 0:12 of the piece. The rapid tempo at the beginning just makes the melodic tempo seem heavier.
rycsu84 2 years ago
All very valid points. I wonder how true to the composer's directions Toscanini was. He was known to use this piece as a showy number while touring with the NBC Orchestra.
ogpimpmore 2 years ago
This is good, but the tempo is so slow.
thedrillmaster16 2 years ago
We're doing this music now, and I just love this!!
Isn't the presto part supposed to go a little faster than the allegro part? It seems kinda slow. :[
icu00evilpanda 2 years ago
I wish they play slightly faster, and better recorded. Nevertheless, beautiful performance.
jhh0237l 3 years ago
Heh...in high school we'll be playing this in several days, and I've got the first clarinet part which is challenging but loads of fun. :P
ShinySkarmory 3 years ago
The tempo settled seriously just within the first few eight measures or so.
Charles802 3 years ago
I'm in 8th grade and i just performed this piece like last saturday but we took it much faster than this =(
theonlyone6291 3 years ago
Got any videos of it?
Our HS band is struggling with it. meh
Lancex9384 3 years ago
Our HS band is struggling with it too, so I would too like to see a vid. :o
DigiPeachFruit 3 years ago
I am not liking the conductor I am a grad student for conducting and how the hell can the band follow that. Secondly the whole ensamble needs to perfect the art of articulation and this is something that HAS to be evident in a peice like this. Nice legato section too fast for me pull out of the texture and hold back a little and it will be awesiome! Flutes and clarinets I fell were too dominat in some parts and the bottom needs to be in tune. Needs work but good job. Felt like brass was tired.
chrisbruce323 3 years ago
the presto part doesn;t seem that fast. I played this my sophomore year and we took it faster
iWouldLOL 3 years ago
im playing this my sophomore year too, and we are also taking it faster lol
invisibleninja7 3 years ago
are you playing the sax? if so, go sax!
if not, (rasberry)
xilix1000 3 years ago
Lol some reason it reminds me of Harry Potter lol I love it though!!! I never got to play this!!! D: I wish i could find the clarinet part!!!
crackerpoppoodle 3 years ago
dat must have been so scary to see on sheet music, whenever i get sheet music it tends to scare me and then we play it and we sound amazing.
LilRed245 3 years ago
can't say i have seen a bass played like that to me it could use more of a wood wind and brass bass sound not much more of brass but a good deal moer out of woodwind bass
fantastic job if i was there i am sure i would have stood up this peice is probably the most difficult i have heard in a while but wow very very nice job
ipguitar 3 years ago
the lack of bass can be an issue of recording more than the band's sound... I saw quite a few bassoons in there.
Bass clarinets are the missing ingredient.
Otherwise well done! I still remember trembling fingers and a bleeding tongue, I played this a couple years ago in a high school band. The clarinet part is awesome!
davitogrubba 3 years ago
:DDD I'M WITH YOU THERE~! -Is a bass clarinet player-
Dude. It was amazing. Like... I was sitting in my band class, (We're doing this song now) and all of a suden, I just drop out just to hear what it would sound like, and the entire peice failed.
In the slower legato part, it NEEDS the bass, reedy sound. Bari/tenor sax is a little too overpowering. -Nodnod-
Taggerung797 2 years ago
p.s.- well no high school in palm bay florida, that is.
LSysyn15 3 years ago
Aww...I didn't mean to make you feel bad. Believe me, it took lots of practice before we could get it so fast. But I have to say...we were great once we had it down! We took Sweepstakes in a national band competition in Hawaii that year. It IS a great piece. :)
mconejom 3 years ago
VERY VERY GOOD! I'm playing this in wind ensemble, in high school, I need lots of practice, i heard no high school band has ever played this. but your band is amazing!
LSysyn15 3 years ago
my hs band played this back in 1994 - and faster too.
mconejom 3 years ago
well, jeez, its hard enough for me already, way to go and make me feel like crap. lol im kidding, but thats good for you guys... i absolutely love this piece, it is so dramatic and moving
LSysyn15 3 years ago
very good performance-
the director isn't doing much more than keepign time, though.
JohnsonzKid 3 years ago
may not be as expressive as others
ipguitar 3 years ago
my school symphonic orch. played this, its a fun song,
GO TIMPANI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
slayermonk007 3 years ago
this is my skool im in band i play trumpet
Midgetman303 3 years ago
This is really good but... Aww no strings. Love the clarinet section BTW
UnderAvg 3 years ago
i pLAY THE CLARINET
2307g 3 years ago
Me too!!
lol
SuicideSilence4lyf 3 years ago
Awesome!
I play every manner of clarinet.
The alto clarinet is good no matter what anyone says, so what if it takes a while to tune!
razputin50 3 years ago
i play flugelhorn on this song in high school
thematrixkid17 3 years ago
it is really slow... i usually have to fly between 1st oboe and english horn during this.
RandomGirl2008 4 years ago
Why were you playing both?
Clorow 4 years ago
because im the only one in our school district who can play english horn, and it has some "important" parts in it or something
RandomGirl2008 4 years ago
So why didn't they just get an extra person to play Oboe or something while you just play English Horn?
Clorow 4 years ago
because second chair oboe is already having to play 1st part, and our other hs oboe isn't that good or dedicated...so i'm playing both
RandomGirl2008 4 years ago
How are you able to play both during the concert?
DarkKnight6464 3 years ago
How are you able to play both during the concert?
DarkKnight6464 3 years ago
i switch during times where one rests and hope that the instruments stay on their stands
RandomGirl2008 3 years ago
Sounds like it takes a lot of talent!!
DarkKnight6464 3 years ago
just got to be careful and hope others are to, though switching instruments takes some embroucher control..... alot of it i remember having to switch from a tuba part to a trumpet part and that almost took all i had to switch in the span of 3 measures lol..... shocked the hell out of the audience
Aznir666 3 years ago
talk about the slow down.....
not that were playing it at tempo but
oh wow....this is really like wow....
Cris2183 4 years ago
Terribly slow and not clean at all. MY high school could play this at least 30 clicks faster and just as clean if not cleaner.
uknowwassup 4 years ago
this is incredibly sloppy
haynes26789 4 years ago
To everyone who keeps saying "It's too slow!" or "This is utter crap!":
Remember that they're not an orchestra. We're playing this in our high school band, and it's not that easy. Woodwinds have to coordinate all of their fingers - not to mention tongue - strings have it easy (or at least easier) in comparison.
Yes, they COULD (obviously) have played it faster/cleaner/with better dynamic effects with more time to prepare, but what band couldn't have? Give them a break.
rho421 4 years ago 9
@rho421 you have to remember that the microphone on this recording was obviously not professional, so its gonna sound a bit muddy.
scrumsguy 1 year ago
@rho421 dude strings do not have it easy we have to go faster than this and were only 8th graders with a mix of older people. and yes i do see that you said "or at least easier" this thing goes fast as hell!
eshsteywart 1 year ago
@rho421 Strings do NOT have it easier! I've been playing the cello for nine years, the tenor saxophone for three, and I've just started to pick up the french horn--and the technical difficulties are obviously greatest on the cello. You have to coordinate your fingers and your tongue? We have to coordinate our right shoulder, elbow, wrist, and fingers with our left hands, which have the task of pinpointing the exact point on the fingerboard where intonation is good to within a few millimeters!
C0urante 4 months ago
@C0urante And, on top of that, the job of doing both artfully and with complete musicality is placed on our shoulders. With a woodwind instrument, the only real shaping is done with the supply of air and how it is shaped through the embouchure; the fingers do absolutely nothing with regards to expression; string players have to focus on creating dynamics, tone colors, and articulations with their bow hands--while vibrating and through doing so, creating just as much shaping on their left hands!
C0urante 4 months ago
@C0urante And when do you ever see a clarinetist have to shift their fingers between positions? They remain in basically the exact same place the entire time, with simple, binary coordinates for each digit that create the note that is being played. Cellists, on the other hand, have to shift between dozens of positions on the fingerboard in order to find the correct note, the difficulty of which is only exacerbated by the fact that the distance between each semitone gets increasingly smaller
C0urante 4 months ago
@C0urante on the fingerboard as a rise in pitch is created. And when doing this shifting, the decision must be made on what fingerings to use, which strings to play on, and how the differences in each will affect the musical meaning of the passage they apply to.
Strings have it easier in comparison? You've got to be joking.
C0urante 4 months ago
hey is this the Maryland concert band the stage looks familiar and a few of the players, i think I went to high school with a few.
badandy939 4 years ago
Yes it is.
gedtag 4 years ago
hahah, i just played this in my highschool orchestra, and i swear, we went 3x as fast. the 1st violin part is INSANE!!! omfg.
fhqwgads2005 4 years ago
Violin part? Am I missing something?
Clorow 4 years ago
This piece is too weird - the 3rd trombones go higher than the 1sts sometimes...
Clorow 4 years ago
TOO SLOW!!!
AndyAnker 4 years ago
ugh.....too slow?
amanda644 4 years ago
yeah this is good but it's really slow......it's so much better when it's FAST! :-D
marioman60 4 years ago 3
A slow, crappy performance.
buckeyeba 4 years ago
go trombone i have a band concert this thursday
halo3pro6 4 years ago
needs 2 b fastur
taterhonkey 4 years ago
que bonita...
S33re 4 years ago
honnestly, thers missing the French horns, how can there be a wind ensemble without em? its like the "piece de la résistance"
P4tCau 4 years ago
Nawh, they got 'em. Over in the left corner. You catch a glimpse of 'em around :52 or so, and it actually pans over later in the video.
xShilonx 4 years ago 3
im guessing this is well played, but i think it loses its meaning at this speed, i think it should be played slower... its just notes instead of a melodie.... and there aren't many dynamics
P4tCau 4 years ago
actually, it's under tempo. the band as whole needs work with the dynamics.
yellowgolddragon 4 years ago 2
I think it was a bit under tempo, but very nice nonetheless!
AHungryOyster 4 years ago 2
hi sydmuso
we're playing this arrangement of colas atm at concert band, the publishers are MCA Music Publishing, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53213.
Arranged by Donald Hunsberger.
hope this helps!
kaisernik 4 years ago
there are two arrangements for this piece. i played the older one.. pretty happening. haha
addiemuz 4 years ago
good job! this is a really fun, exciting piece to play.
well done! a great, together band
ItIsGothFunk 4 years ago
Does any one happen to know who the arranger and publisher were of this arrangment?
sydmuso777 4 years ago
"transcribed by Donald Hunsberger"
that's all I can remember
I'm sorry!
ItIsGothFunk 4 years ago
This is always a great piece to perform. GREAT JOB! I think with more time you could've played this full speed. Remember you're in control of the music and your intruments, not the other way around. Piece of cake.
skyyabsolute 4 years ago 2
Too slooooooooww.
buckeyeba 4 years ago
we played this slow when I was in eighth grade in Santa Fe Youth Symphony (or should I say we went slower)
whitsoxrule 4 years ago
that's not a bad job. our high school wind ensemble actually played this for our spring concert. it was faster, it's supposed to be like 4 and a half minutes and we sightread it at 6:30 haha. but yea it took a while to get there. tough piece, great job
numba1bigcid 4 years ago
I like it. What college is it?
JovianLord 4 years ago
haha DENIED
funkymonkey1412 4 years ago
yea we're playing this song for our spring concert, faster, but none the less we're playing this song.
wh0sthis 4 years ago
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Bandnerd90210 5 years ago
yea.. the violin1 part is kind hard. esp throughout the suite.
azuresky06 4 years ago
my youth orchestra is playing this now. my conductor wants to take this piece approximately 5 times this tempo. i think he's insane.
consentofheaven 5 years ago
como se llama esta obra?
juanpeople 5 years ago
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guys my band is playing somthing harder than that and we are only in eighth grade. Well we are the one of the best middle school band in california (we where rated superior 7 times, we have braging rights), sorry if i ofended you.
crothblatt 5 years ago
Upload the video, or it never happened :p
gedtag 5 years ago 5
lolx...u went big headed didnt u...but i still tink that if this band play the piece i little faster is better leh...
Artanis333 5 years ago
I agree with gedtag though, post the videos so we can appreciate it.
rsampaio 5 years ago
At least administer proper spelling when "bragging".
consentofheaven 5 years ago
i highly doubt that.
wh0sthis 4 years ago
@crothblatt sorry were not as good as you i wish i had YOUR talent. and dude nobody gives a damn that you got 7 superiors id like to see what else things you got
eshsteywart 1 year ago
@crothblatt
What the hell is harder than Colas Breugnon? Unless you played Extreme Make-Over by Johan de Meij flawlessly, i don't believe you. :P
Witch1993 1 year ago
I remember playing this in high school symphonic band.
Mikoto99 5 years ago
NICE...IMPRESIVE
Artanis333 5 years ago
Excellent young musicians but the piece was played a bit too slow. Is this High School or College?
pope0331 5 years ago
It's college.
gedtag 5 years ago
sounds really pro
f15x28 6 years ago
Kool'
yangzavenue 6 years ago