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  • 5:45 where have I heard that melody before? Was it made famous anywhere?

  • for me it is full of romanticism, dancing fairies interrupted by sudden chaos

  • I have heard of this symphony for years, it is a favorite of my HS band teachers, but I never got around to listening to it....but I must say....I am floored!!! This is truly sublime! I love the gentleness of the 2nd movement.

  • It is incredible all the things and places that you can bring to your imagination just by listening to masterpieces other humans interpret!!

  • Music is creation - old or new, it doesn't matter. I have eminem on my ipod and Dvorak, too. Good music isn't just about how it sounds, but how you personally respond. The New World Symphony makes me tingle everywhere and has since I picked up a discount tape of it when I was 14 just to act snooty. Who knew I'd fall in love with classical music?

  • 3:17 is my favorite part

  • I always wondered : do you guys also hear a train steam whistle at the end ?

    It might not be the best version for it, but really these two last chords make me feel like i'm on some hilltop, hearing a train in the distance.

  • I always wondered : do you guys also hear a train steam whistle at the end ?

    It might not be the best version for it, but really these two last chords make me feel like i'm on some hilltop, hearing a train in the distance.

  • Is it just me or does the conductor Derek Gleeson totally look like Chris Martin?

  • english horn 1, french horn 0

  • test

  • la mejor sinfonia que hay, es perfecta

  • Our conductor was literally in tears when we were performing this piece!

  • @Crosskeys The very words I wanted to say whenever I listen to classics in youtube.

  • @LinguistTroubadour @Crosskeys I couldn't agree more.... and I'm only 12. :-P

  • Thank God For the Irish!

  • @gttiger07 thank your parents for brainwashing you into the belief of your god.

  • it's .. A M A Z I N G

  • This is my favorite part. It is such an amazing climax, very beautiful. Makes me think of impressionist landscapes and woodland scenes.

  • uhhhhhhhh

  • uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh­hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh­hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh­hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh­hhhhh

  • Why doesnt society like this music ?!!?!? Mix this with some Punk Rock , and you will have the best music ever written, or a possible paradox either way ...

  • **musical orgasm**

  • Cesi poklesli kulturne. Chceme byt vic a vic jako zapad ale samy nicime nasi origanalitu jako narod hudebniku. Co Cech, to muzikant. Bohuzel tohle uz neplati.

    TRANSLATION: The Czechs have deteriorated in a cultural point of view. We try become more and more like the west at the price of losing our originality as a nation of musicians. "A Czech, a musician". This saying unfortunatly does no longer apply.

  • @JohnnyBravoFan101

    Dvorak said himself that this work was purely Czech in style and nature; and that the American themes he used were superficial and untrue to his artistry.

  • How can anyone NOT like this music ? This piece engages the heart, mind and soul. It has the ability to transport me to a joyful and uplifting sphere far above and beyond the confines  of this ordinary world.

    Thankyou,Antonin.

  • Etiquette code for posting beneath videos:

    -Don't post snobby comments about how classical music is under-appreciated and how modern music pales in comparison.

    -No-one is impressed by the fact that you 'love classical music even though you're 12' - so you should, it's fantastic.

    -Commenting on the 'like' bar, how the very start to the very end is 'the best part', or referencing Justin Bieber doesn't make you funny; just a tiresome, unoriginal troglodyte.

    Peace out!

  • @Crosskeys Thank you for summarizing everything that is wrong with the world!

  • @Crosskeys -and no posting any rules, as we all too well know, they were meant to be, and will be, broken. Let us just stop posting our opinions and watch the performence.

  • @Crosskeys The very words I wanted to say whenever I listen to classics in youtube. 

  • @Crosskeys The very words I wanted to say whenever I listen to classics in youtube.

  • 10 people could not believe this too be reality so they thought it would be ok to click dislike in their dream!! WAKE UP PEOPLE!!! THIS IS FOR REALS!!!..and i got goose bumps

  • dvorak is a BEAST. hands down my favorite composer ever <3

  • @firelilyxxx I completely agree with you. I could listen to this symphony all day.

  • 1:27 to 3:30 - To me, the most beautiful piece of music that I have ever heard. Truly inspired!

  • Gorgeous...

  • 10 people where standing upside down, when they voted dislike.

  • 10 people where standing upside down when they voted dislike

  • 10 people where standing upside down when they woted dislike.

  • i love listening to different composers interpretation of the music. i am nineteen years old, and know this piece inside and out. however, i have heard things in this version that i have never heard or noticed before.

  • I first heard from the New World when I was living in Prague. I would go periodically to Levna Kniha and load up on cheap DVDs and funky old acoustic blues CDs pressed in Germany. One of the treasures was a CD put out by L-K themselves of Novy Svet. It became obvious from where American films were ripping off their tastiest riffs. That's why Dvorak is so familiar: even though he never made it past Ohio during his lifetime he spent a good part of the 20th century inspiring Hollywood.

  • @MsFgh123

    Right church, slightly wrong pew. Dvorak did get a bit further west, to the little town of Spillville, Iowa, where he spent a summer with his family, listening, thinking, getting inspired. He's said to have written his American Quartet there.

    There's a charming little book on it, by Patricia Hampl, came out in 1993, very worth tracking down.

  • first time i heard this, i sobbed uncontrollably. i don't know why.

  • @14point0 'first time i heard this, i sobbed uncontrollably. i don't know why.' I still do after 30 years of listening...it is Godly inspired music, that's why

  • F-King Au-some!

  • What is with the pauses near the end? 5:45ish.!?! Is that in the score? Never heard that before...

  • @crommo yes, the piece was written that way

  • @crommo There are three measures that have a fermata over beat four, which are rests. (I've got the trombone part in front of me right now)

  • like Non Ce Piu Celtic woman

  • Yay, no WW2-Discussion here, that's pretty rare on YT!

    Great one. I love it.

  • dvorak has left us a beautiful expression of hope and the possibility something greater than what was left behind. thanks for the upload!

  • @pamie769 The movement itself isn't broken down, I think most people think that it would be too long as one video.

  • I have always wondered why this particular movement is always broken down in two. Was it the intetion of Dvorak? If someone could please advise me

  • @pamie769 Can only upload 10-minute vids on YouTube. The movement on my CD is seamless. Where else is this movement broken down in two (besides YouTube?

  • @pamie769 If you are referring to the two separate videos, it's because YouTube only allows videos to be ten minutes in length. This movement runs longer than ten minutes, so in order to upload the entire movement it must be done in two parts.

  • Whenever I listen to this, I shut my eyes and just let the music sink in. It is such a wonderful feeling.

  • I love the whole piece, the first part prepare you for the second, I wish they were posted together here.

  • When the bass does pizz. it's amazing.

  • @mikethps I agree! My friend plays the bass in our orchestra~ he's amazing!

  • @pnut749

    I assume that means everything else is perfect?

  • The short string duet that starts about 5:33 is beautiful beyond words. I only wish it were longer!

  • @joelbbishop You should check out Gerhard Hetzel playing the violin during that section. watch?v=229MtHJRvUw It starts about 1:25 in on that version. It is amazing.

    (Gehard was the Concert Master for the Vienna Philharmonic.)

  • 4:30, the English horn needs to address intonation

  • It sounds like dreams to me ... gentle, beautiful dreams

  • @MsCosmicSea You're So Write im In Love With Ever last movement

  • who like freedom, listening that music

  • Wow. Just wow.

  • omg 5:37 to the end just tears on my heartstrings! love the cello solo..... <3

  • When I was 9, in 1967, my father gave me a vinyl copy of the Berlin Philharmonic performing the New World Symphony. I still have it . . .it's in pristine, unscratched, unmarred condition, almost a miracle for a vinyl analog recording from that era. Played on a high-end linear tracking turntable, it carries a richness and depth that modern digitized recordings and media cannot hope to match. I actually pity those who appreciate this music, yet cannot hear it in its true, un-sterilized form.

  • I don't think I've ever heard any music so emotional! It's amazing. How can someone not like this?

  • how can someone not like this piece? particularly in the 1:30's.... beautiful.

  • love this

  • meravigliosa opera

  • 4:33 to 4:57is the best

  • 5.38' speechless...so perfect!

  • Aurgasm! This symphony makes me want to write about PIRATES!

  • @xXRomanticideXx Yeah, some of his work here does remind me of Scheherizad (sp?)

  • Sinfonía soberbia, deslumbrante, única.

  • Oh, I love this movement... I live in the city and it makes me feel like I'm standing on a wide open plain. Wow.

  • Australian Broadcast Commission had an excellent feature on Dvorak today :)

    I grew up without this style of music :(

    My 10 month old son is going to sleep on me listening :)

  • @mangeHer , better late than never, there are so many people, especially the youth who do not know what exists beyond Hip-Hop and Rap, how empty can their lives be... ;-)

  • @DeadOriginal - I know what you mean! I'm 16, and so many of the people I know think I'm weird for listening to classical music, or liking anything older at all. I don't know why, since this is so much better than what we have today! Nothing on the radio captures this kind of emotion. This is one of my favorites. :)

  • @DeadOriginal not entirely true, i'm 23 and wouldn't say i am old, there's plenty of young folk as well who like classical music. i think that generally 'my generation' take better care of their health now than previous generations but wouldn't say how 'ignorant' older generations must be for not matching up.

  • @ianmartin2008 same deal goes for me

  • @ianmartin2008 And I'm 17.. I don't think thats old either. I listen to rap, hip hop, all that "teen garbage", but I'm a classically trained musician as well. Nothing can move the mind and soul like classical, plain and simple.. maybe dubstep but thats different :)

  • @DeadOriginal sorry to buck the trend here, but I can't stand hip-hop, rap, or pretty much anything written since Ravel died.

  • This is still by far one of my favorite parts of the entire Symphony... I miss playing it!!!

  • I like the 4th movement best!.

  • This is some of the most powerful music I have ever heard.

  • This is the blending of two cultures, European, Dvorak's discovery of the New Negro, through the musical legacy that Harry T. Burleigh shared while a student in New York where Dvorak was teaching. he was able to take simple melodies that feeds that soul and turn them in to complex musical images of inspiration! This symphony is National monument!

  • 2:50 -  3:04 is amazing!

  • wow

  • qué precioso

  • sehr schoen///// oboe sounds very good

  • at 0:36 the basses sound amazing

  • Yeah. Aural orgasm...

  • Hmmm...considering that this Symphony seems to have a key and a recognizable harmonic/melodic structure to even a 16 year old, I don't think that it would be very accurate to call this atonal. o.0

  • Excellent.

  • 2:58 - 3:20 is amazing

  • AURAL ORGASM!

  • This entire Symphony is amazing, but if I had to pick which movement really rises above the rest, I'd have to say it would be this one.

  • This is so beautiful. The melody goes from adventurous to peaceful in a few notes with a smooth transition. That's amazing!

  • The most beautiful piece of music ever written, to me.

    When I listen to it, i' m mesmerised; I go into the fetal position and let the music envelop me, surround me and and surrender to the music.

  • Off the top of my head, the only other symphony i can think of that's comparably beautiful to this is Sibelius' 1st symphony. If you haven't heard the Sibelius you haven't lived. It's on youtube

  • The melody at the beginning of this video section is achingly beautiful. Doubtless there will be another one along in a minute that surpasses it

  • i thought this performance was just right on the money for, section-voicings and dynamics... that audience must have enjoyed that adagio movement so very much; the entire ensemble was in top form and very comfortable working w/ the maestro's minimal movements, especially giving room for soloists to do their best,,, love it very much; thank you for sharing this experience w/ us..... bedford joe usa

  • to add to what aboss115 said, pop is the "made in China" of music. it's very cheap, simplistic and bland.

    garbage in my opinion...

    the only styles of music that posess any inteligence in their composition, or that require musical experience to play, and forethought of structure would have to be classical music and metal. metal is the only modern style that can compare with classical. the rest is just a bunch of re-hashed monotonous "products".

  • indeed soooo true. though i have no idea about metal though. i thought all modern music was primitive these days... even the neo-classical compositions... hmm, you may have changed my mind:)

  • Goosebumps....the first part of this clip is SO eerie. I think because the first and last movement are so amazing, this movement gets looked over. Personally this is probably my favorite one :)

  • world is so beautiful...

  • from 0:00 to 7:45 is the best! =)

  • @Alkemedis23 yeah....that last second blows!!!!! But in all seriousness, this piece is heavenly

  • @Alkemedis23 :)

  • It will be a long time before we see such revolutionary and inspiring composers again

    if we ever do considering the direction in which music is heading and what is 'considered' music

  • I completely understand. Both sides are guilty. Pop music's vulgarity and complete simplicity vs. Classical music's modern atonality. I sometimes don't know which side to pick.

  • @aboss115music Maybe you just don't understand atonality, hmm? Perhaps you're looking for the wrong things in different kinds of music.

  • this is easy - this one that makes you feel good :) if neither does - pick no one :)

  • @aboss115music

    I don't think even the most uninspired of modern pop music composers would dare to call this atonal.

  • pop music? i sense an oxymoron there...

  • @wertyuioqp1 that's funny!!

  • @funkyalto John Williams!

    But yes, the composers from the romantic period were inredible!

  • @funkyalto I believe they're out there, but they've yet to "come out of the woodwork". I can hear them coming! : )

  • @funkyalto Well Dvorak wasn't necessarily "revolutionary." No doubt his music is awesome, but his goal was to create American sounding classical music. So he took the most American story out there, the story of Lewis and Clark. But the piece sounds too similar to his works in Czech to be a new type of Classical.

  • @funkyalto Don't be so negative, praising someone who's talent's already been acknowledged is an easy thing. I agree it'll be a long time before we can hear such fantastic masterpieces... but i'd suggest you really start listening to the music that's played nowadays instead of living in the past of classical music: we do not all consider Justin Bieber and co. as good music, some are playing what you call "music", and i swear this can be really great, even with electric guitars and no violin.

  • @funkyalto Praising someone whose talent's already been acknowledged is an easy thing. I agree this is a fantastic masterpiece... but i'd suggest you really start listening to the music that's played nowadays instead of living in the past of classical music: we do not all consider Justin Bieber and co. as good music, some are playing what you call "music", and i swear this can be really great, even with electric guitars and no violin.

  • @funkyalto I disagree. What is popular is maybe not a good direction, but there is so much out there that is unique beautiful and well written. Dig deeper. With the internet it is easy to find stuff that is both new and really good.

  • @funkyalto

    In terms of modern composers, you are wrong. What would we do without composers such as Hans Zimmer? Sure he's known as a film score writer, but he is extremely talented. Many great composers today are film score writers; they have learned from such greats as Shastakovich, thereby bringing neo-classical motifs into modern classical music.

    However, I see where you are coming from. It's totally understandable and I agree that classical is being overshadowed by crap music like rap.

  • @ThreeARKs I think it's sad that you would disregard whole categories of perfectly legitimate and creative music, try listening to music just for what it is and forget what it's called. Besides, Hans Zimmer is not even that great, there are many rap artists better at what they do than he is at what he does

  • Dvorak is the best, I've been listening to his New World Symphony since I was 8 and I don't get tire of this.

  • yes, there is not much music like this...

  • thank you very much. xxxxx

  • This is wonderful, both the work and this version of it!

  • EXCELENTE PARA ESTUDIAR!

  • eso mismo estoy haciendo ahorita xD

    esta pieza es de lo mejor!!

  • Amazing.

    The most touching movement of probably my favorite symphonic work, and the Dublin Philharmonic plays it perfectly.

  • masterpiece... Thank You for sharing,

  • If you think it is good on a laptop, get nice speakers and see what that does!

  • god this movement is absolutely beautiful.

  • mi favorite composer is dvorak and this es mi favorte symphony

  • This sets the mood. From the first crescendo at 0:29, and until the end. Beautiful.

  • Dvorak is very good composer :-))))

  • Love it, love it, love it :)

    I won't ever forget how it felt to play this.

  • good to see my ancestor's work is still appreciated, and an impressing rendition at that

  • 1:30 absolutely gorgeous

  • i love the upright bass part at 0:36

  • 5:00-7:45 My favourite part;)

  • Absolutely ... the pauses made me want to cry ...

  • This is the better movement than the whole New World...

  • 0:00-3:33 makes my soul cry..fantastic part!

  • 0:00-3:33 makes my soul cry...fantastic part!

  • Beautiful. I preformed this with an orchestra last fall, I can't get enough of this part of the movement.

  • The first three minutes are my favourite in this whole symphony. Sounds corny but music can take you to another place.

  • It is so touching this theme... An originally Slav, melancholy theme...

  • @plica06 not corny at all bro...

  • @plica06 no way it's corny! This is possibly the best thing on Earth, taking you to a more peaceful state of mind. I played the 2nd movement and I swear, the music changes you.

  • im soo excited to play this with YOA in august woot im gonna be a second violin though

  • i played it as second violin too =D but few years ago...i'd really like to play dvorak again *.*

  • I'll say it once and again...the clarinets even though secondary in this piece steal the show. Their underlying lines are amazing. The first wind parts may take the center stage but they simply get you to tears. Thanks for posting

  • 3:36-4:02 starting with the oboe and then flute and clarinet joining. I love it! It makes me happy. =]

    The whole piece is so touching. It gives me a knot in my throat.

  • delirium from woodwinds in the start...

  • the first and a half minute is just amazing... what a passion and delirium from woodwinds...

  • lol the tuba player at 4:03 . he looks like azamat bagatov!!!!!! but seriously, most touching and stirring music ever. ever.

  • The whole version of this music is one of the best pieces to introduce new listeners to Classical music. Simply timeless

  • Deeply beautiful music. The essence of life can be created and heard.

  • gotta love the upright bass at 0:36!!!

  • Dvorak > Most Other Things

  • Love Dvorak :* hehe

    Music Lover -ME:)

  • pft

    beethovens - violin concerto in Dmajor 3rd movement KICKS ASS