Tchaikovsky Symphony No.4

[Atramentumink]

Thank God I have this symphony on DVD

[schneider876]

Hello my name is rafael and i live in Brasil !

The channel Berlin Philarmonic notices sent ywo in my account letting my channel in bad condition for i have posted a symphony 7 and 9 complete with Karajan conduction ,

if they do not have this material not cet others because i´m puttig you send this to say they blocked me and that's how they return the love from fans

it did not money but by the love of music

Thank you for your attention !

they are doing it with several people

[TedMcAuley]

This is incredible! Bravo!

[metafixi]

mind = blown

[ExtrackterYT]

Insane. This is bliss. Goddam, sitting applause?! maybe they were spoiled at the time. Magic, sublime. I'm going for it a fourth time now :)

[Bekuh]

amazing

[sahand144]

Karajan is a boss

[RaYiiX]

If I were woman, I would love this guy.

[firebot4]

What a beast, Karajan....

[davtra]

Gotta love Karajan

[HIMADESU223]

*Jaw droppes onto ground* *putting back my jaws* AMAZING \(>3<)/

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[pinkfloyddwc]

man he's so lucky to be in control of that awesomeness! it must be an amazing feeling!

[gatormanism]

I hate how the people barely applaude and do not even bother to stand up!!!!!

[vane602]

That was amazing

[oldboyinoc]

I've never heard any other conductor do the Tchaikovsky 4th as well as Karajan. One cannot imagine a more powerful performance of the last movement....absolutely stunning. A popular online DVD rental service has his recording of this work with the Vienna Phiharmonic, which is also a great performance.

[Levill91]

God himself...

[DolfLoneWolf]

Pure extasy! Pure musical orgasm! More emotion than this: impossible.

[pittelviejo31]

Mis 2 minutos de música clásica favoritos. ;)

[boeingguy223]

Im not a conductor YET (still working on High school) But i own a baton and i always play this video since i am greatly fascinated by his conducting gestures (especially on many Tchaikovsky performances) ITS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO IMITATE IT!! ITS SO BEAUTIFUL!

I especially want to imitate 1:01 because i especially like that technique!

[chocotastic]

@boeingguy223 Hahaha, don't worry, because NOBODY can imitate Karajan.

[firedragon798]

Awesome... Fantastic... von Karajan is the fuck master !

[josepchile]

fucking awesome! 

[Rulosky1]

Es realmente maravilloso !!

[CTK8000]

You know it's something special when you come back to see the same video the next day because you remember how amazing it was before. :)

[CTK8000]

That has to be one of the top 5 performances of all time. The continuity and the consistency... I mean, regardless that the audio recording lacked clarity... I could still hear the perfection of every note and rhythm. Bravo!

[domenicofama89]

Wow!!!! Perfect!!!!

[miliona1re]

Jesus Christ......

[gibemere]

Holy crap!, but I don't like the cymbal crash a the end, it makes it seem triumphant.

[hamza55]

Tchaikovsky's Bible ...

[Dofol]

Karajan=master

[bf2oyajinonituki]

カラヤン先生かっこいい！！！

[jacotrumpet]

wow they really were playing as if their lives depended on it. what a performance!

[ShawDAMAN]

O_O best describes this performance

[1capomafioso1]

Чайковский - гений!

Исполение на высоте!

[sansui1991]

wonderful please more

[billyguns2]

This orchestra was one of the wonders of the world under the inspired leadership of Maestro Von Karajan; I was fortunate enough to hear them live, and it remains the greatest orchestra playing I ever heard. New York critics, who I am convinced are bought off, never give us a single honest review of New York orchestra concerts. As to the tepid applause here, perhaps there were only a few people in attendance, it was a Sunday afternoon, or they hated Tchaikovsky.

[ilikepie9876543210]

What's with the weak applause at the end? :/

[Josep489]

@ilikepie9876543210

yes!!!

it's impossible that the people gives a serious applause at the end... come on!

[lediangel1]

Спасибо ! Получила большую душевную разрядку !

[keiji4956]

Caesar Karayan......Miracle Karajan....His performance really make a deep impression on me.Before Karajan was no Karajan,and after Karajan will be no Karajan....Thank you very much for upload....

[flute200]

So moving. I like the intensity.

[sergiobantam]

4º Mov...Bernstein..+ 4º Mov...Karajan+ 4º Mov....Kondrashin...+ 4º Mov. Rozhdestvensky, 4º XPTO ...etc... BUT:

2º Mov...?.

[otherjoe1234]

i like how at 1:38 karajan doesn't do the typical fp-crescendo that most conductors do, he just makes it even louder and more intense. lol, he's like "screw you, i'm not turning it down! let's give it more!"

[otherjoe1234]

okay, who were the 4 jackasses who thumbs-down'ed this awesome video?

[kl0441]

I'm sorry, but I disagree with the cymbal crash at the end (also an added bass drum note). If it's not there don't play it. Even though I have no idea why it is not there, it is not there nonetheless.

[TheDigitalMonk]

These musicians and the conductor get it. They just get it.

[saly10]

OMG that was amazing. Such power.Karajan truly at his best with no back problems or anything which he had later on in his career. Although on a personal point I would have thought that if the composer had repeated the section in approximately the middle it would gave the finale an even greater intensity

[otherjoe1234]

loud. i like it

[brtherjohn]

Karajan has recorded this numerous times. The main differences in all of his performances primarily lie in the tempo in the 2nd movement: it's either 9 or 10 minutes long. Sometimes he added a huge cymbal crash at the very end - as he does here. It sounds better with it!

[marieantionette]

i agree the cymbal crash is nice

[Necroman666]

@marieantionette I love it. It is so spectacular and glorious.

[lovemusicman810]

@marieantionette but the beat is wrong!amazing~

[moontjemo]

He is definitely the best:)

[phoolisness]

I'm not one for absolute statements, but im tempted to agree with that one.

[PPchopin]

oh god karajan is the best

[starbeastrave]

This is my favorite classical music sequence. The finale of the 4th overture.

Praise composers like Tchaikovsky.

[Thomascello]

Its a symphony ;)

[gaaraofthesand2334]

this is powerful stuff, but i can't help laughing at the way the conducters act during the performance

[turxxx]

Wow! That was impressive.

[AmadoDom]

simplemente hermoso tchaikovsky genio

[JAKOBVDP]

the best music ever!!!!

[contrerados]

Fire! Fire! Fire!!!!

[dpoceta]

The most exciting last section I have heard!

[Matt123ttam]

jesus christ almighty. DAYYUUMM

[ljt07c]

Never thought I would live to see a conductor gutsy enough to add an extra crash cymbal and bass drum hit at the end! LOVES IT!!!!!!

[Baldgol4]

Stand up people...get out of your seats!!

[CanadaPisces]

Superb! TY!

[wangweiflute]

天神 在指挥

[mattpgrein]

Damn!

[qwert64]

Epic.

[TaNdYbOyZ]

my orchestra is playing it this fast and were a high school orchestra

[Memphismastermind]

Wonderful. Now can you play it this well?

[Zwijnhaat]

Maybe Karajan should stick to Wagner, this is way too fast...

[Thracozaag]

The live Rodzkinski is even faster.

[cagin]

@Zwijnhaat

many other are faster like mravinsky , svetlanov etc.

[HPPcello2]

holy crap they took that fast!!

[TetrahedralPete]

He realised he left the stove on at home...

[therabbitsfoot]

hahah!

[pietrovaldes]

Karajan the Greatist conductor

[dandtvest]

This video makes me chlostrophobic!

And HOW can they play that fast..

I am playing this. Its tough!

[waverly2468]

My first exposure to Karajan was in 1982 when his recording of the Sibelius 2nd Symphony came out. It was one of the first digital recordings. An incredibly morbid and brooding performance that left Ormandy and Philadelphia in the dust.

[lolcow]

it looks squashed...

[Musicmaster345]

I wish someone had the entire video... :(

[JeeRant]

What a heavy, blazing, almost crushing Germanic sound. I like it, though.

[ShillienFeuer]

A fast piece, but bad quality of video.

Well, sounds good, good work.

[contrerados]

Fire! Fury! Passion! Those are the proximate words that come to us when we hear this spectacular finale of Tchaiovsky's. Karajan was exhausted as he demanded so much from the orchestra, but it was well worth of him.

[imsleepyanddead]

they sound so..... PERFECT!!!

[Shankovich]

ACK! SRY i meant Karajan!!! I was watchign alot of videos with Bernstien as conductor ^_^

[Shankovich]

Prestooo!!!!! yea! this is so much better at this faster tempo! Bernstien rules, and so does this berlin orchestra!!

[Sinneo91]

For the record, This is Karajan, not Bernstein

[Shankovich]

Yes, I said that lol

[Sinneo91]

...I just now discovered that when I linked back to this video.. Sorry :)

[pyang88]

its faster than some other recordings of this piece, but i still like it. karajan did a fantastic job with this. bravo

[Tommo108]

This sounds like the song played at the end of The Day of Sagittarius from The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya.

[regimaster5000000]

It is

[passi0602]

BEAUTIFULL. i cant stop listening to it?

its a musical, classical drug. HIT ME AGAIN.

[cssa12]

WOOOOWW!!!

[HansUTB]

просто вихрь...

[Musicmaster345]

Does anyone have the full video of this? Fantastic performance by Karajan as always.

[ipcvc]

whew! what a rush!

the cello part is a beast, but I love it...

[briosgaid]

Does anyone have flute tips for this? I feel like there's no way anyone can play it super fast without some alternate fingerings I'm not privy to...

[jabsomdoc]

i kno what you mean - we have the same prob on the violin. those fast scales and 5 note runs are easy on the piano, but dont fall particularly well under the fingers with instruments. the only thing i can recommend is practicing it slow with a metronome and going faster gradually. or try playing it in slow syncopated rhythms.

[briosgaid]

Thanks! Fortunately my conductor doesn't take it too quickly for me, but I'm always astounded by how fast the pros are able to do it on my LP.

[UlfenDaddy]

The viola part is worse... whole sections popping from A string to G, skipping D, unless you want to be in 7th position on D string and pop back to first on G... it's really the same problem. Tchaikovsky rarely cared about the technical difficulties he posed for string players; that's why his Violin Concerto is so difficult. The music isn't, the technique to execute it is. When we played 4th Symphony I paraphrased Hanslick's remark that I wasn't playing my viola, I beat it black 'n blue.

[music0923]

so fast.....!!

[videofanto]

If you had an idea what is this music about you wouldn't say "so fast".

[music0923]

so fast.....!!

[TheDanceOfMaternity]

Like him or not. Karajan is known because his interpretations become the new standard of how the piece is to sound.

Here, however, that is not accomplished. The bass drum, and the cymbal note at the end annoys me (you'd understand if you were a percussionist).

Michael Tilson Thomas's interpretation of this movement is way better. Although, If there is a whole Karajan Tchaik 4 on youtube, I'd love to see it.

[phidelt2]

actually, i am a percussionist and it doesnt bother me a bit.

[mamcdonald]

Dude, it's Tchaikovsky. You can take some "liberties" with it.

I've always kind of questioned the last measure of this piece for all the percussion parts. Triangle has a single hit (where a roll would probably work better), no cymbal/BD...it's a very odd measure, indeed.

I'd say it's kind of up to whatever the conductor/musicians want. Aleatory Tchaikovsky? Chance-kovsky?

[frodoofthe9]

goose bumps, all over me

[MahlerBruckner]

what the hell just happened to me????!!!!!

[frustratedcat]

AWESOME

[jbpalmag]

¡Bravo¡, ¡Bravisimo¡

[darkprose]

Is it my imagination, or did he add a cymbal crash and bass drum beat on that very final note? Doesn't bother me a bit if he did, of course, but I don't remember that in other versions of this movement.

[Will6721]

Some orchestra do add the extra bass drum and cymbal crash at the end...i remember having to do it.

[ClassicalMMAChef]

Awesome, someone please upload the whole symphony!!!

[davikva]

Woow that´s what I call ENERGY!!!

Karajan, please return!!!

[lon21]

wooow

i wish i could play my violin like those dudes

[MiTTeLMeer]

Hehe, imo they don't watch the conductor^^

[dasteufelhund]

Perfect!

[FlowingFlames]

weeeeeeeeeeeeee

love it, everything was just perfect!

[pianist12]

The cymbals are just right.

[xeralogis]

Us Low Brass players have an apt and pithy expression for the kind of gargantuan energy that Karajan milks from his Berliners in this Tschaik 4 finale : BALLS TO THE WALL! We live for such peak moments, the same way that soccer fans around the world live to see 11 players aggregate brain waves and move synchronistically and synergistically up and down the field while scoring aesthetically pleasing goals against the opposing side. It's the same magic that exists in classical music!

[ThaSchwab]

Is that a young Andreas Blau at 0:58!? I think so. :)

[KoreanMale12]

wow and omg

[JLwaldhorn]

where is the rest?

[cheesymoo243]

sweet.

[bigdonkey002]

WOW

[IsaacDelarge]

I've listened to about 20 versions of this movement, when I heard this, I got CHILLS up my spine.

[monstrzlodei]

jelezno

[pinoypaine]

BRAVO!!!Exhilirating!!!!!!!!!

[bmarquez12345]

yeah not a big fan of karajan either but damn.

[gerryrains]

I don't know what the old guy was on for this performance, but a lot of other conductors should try it. Simply unbelievable. FIVE stars! Nuts, SIX stars!

[shug1688]

Wow!

[jabsomdoc]

I really don't like Karajan, but this is hands down the best Tchaik 4 finale I've ever seen/geard.

[gerryrains]

jabsomdoc,

You hit the nail on the head. Now I don't have to write an opinion.

Thanks