@Buckfutter1000 ... open interpretation of music, learning and adding to it, conductor and intention just because it was written does not mean it must happen
...the guy that plays the clarinet solo apparently is the only black guy in the orchestra...funny how he's all emotional and into it in the middle of expressionless white faces...that's worth a little lol...goo Johnny, go go go
@BehnamLot Tchaikovsky? Stravinsky? Prokofiev? Rachmaninoff? Shostakovich? I could go on. Russia is one of the richest powers in music history, and a greater composers than Mussorgsky in Russia more than a dozen.
They're beginning dancers. This is what most people look like after six months to a year of Ballet practice. They're actually staying together pretty well, and I think it's great for newbies to get performance experience. Why they're performing in front of a far superior orchestra, though, I couldn't tell you. Is it a college performance, possibly?
meh kinda like how this piece we're playing at our halloween concert tomorrow is going to have dancers. the piece is meant to play in the dark, but we have to put light on for the stupid dancers in front. completely ruins it.
as far as I'm concerned, one boy witness a witch gathering in this song, so whatever those dancers are trying to do, I don't see any link to what the song is about. They should remove the dancing part.
I think maybe if the choroegraphy was better this may not have been so sad to watch. I danced for a long time and I've been playing viola for almost as long as I danced and the dancing was so .... unemotional for such an emotional piece. But in their defence the choreography was kinda pathetic.
Music got better at the end. I don't know about you guys, but I think the orchestra should have practiced a bit more on this one, get better musicians, or better conductor. It just didn't sound quite right and as powerful in the beginning as found on the first youtube post "Night On Bald Mountain" posted by ClassicsHouse. The Dancers, heavy and slightly uncoordinated. And what's with the capes? Having the dancers wear dark and/or blacks clothes would do better.
I dance and I'm not a stick! You don't have to weigh 80 pounds to dance, you just have to learn how to work WITH your body. But the uncoordination doesn't help them I agree. Nor do the costumes.
At the beginning of the song i looked at the comments and saw that people where talking about how distracting the dancing was, but i thought it would be really cool to have the dancing it in... i was wrong, the song going to a dance is cool but it's super distracting from the music.
@Jolter210 I am sorry if you took my comment wrong. When i wrote " Who let the retards in" it was certain for idiots who were trolling this performance. This happens to be in my top five fav pieces in classic music. ;)
@nosferatusbutt I am sorry if you took this comment the wrong way, but this happens to be one of my fav pieces of music and i wrote "Who let the retards in" for idiots who were trolling this performance a year ago. ;)
The Bald Mountain in next to the Kiev (Cap. of the Ukraine) and witches are believed to "shabash" there for a few nights per year. It is understandable what dancers tried to do but in this case, the orchestra shouldn't be on the stage. Girls, first of all were too heavy an unemotional and, it seemed like they wanted to steal a focus from the orchestra . Disturbing, but an idea to dance witches dance is wonderful!
Honestly one of the more pleasurable and energetic renditions I have heard of 'Night on Bald Mountain'... unfortunately it is marred by the idiotic dancing. They should all be ashamed.
Mussorgsky is one of my best composers. His music is amazing. His music was initially composed for piano and orchestrated by another famous Russian composer, Rimski Korsakoff.
Mussorgsky is one of my best composers. His music is amazing. His music was initially composed for piano and orchestrated by another famous Russian composer, Rimski Korsakoff.
This orchestra performed this kind of poorly. The strings were not together in too many parts, and the winds weren't great. I have nothing to say about the horrible dancing...except from 3:50 through the next ten seconds is just ridiculous, besides the whole dance itself
This song is not meant to portray total evil, listen to everything, it is dark in the beginning as it is the fear of the night to come and slowly those fears rise and fall in the night and storms come and pass. The title a night on bald mountain shows that it is an adventure. It does not say hell keeling over. The dancing doesn't fit but in an artistic standpoint, it adds a little to the presentation
Where did they gather the dancers from? Es terrible'. Please tell me that they are not from a good art school in Montreal. That would defeat what little confidance I had in Canadians.....very little
I mean straight up, any man who uses dance as a form of expression is a faggot; We are masters of the physical world, not its slaves (which of course women are, like it or not)
The music is good, although the dancing is rather distracting. If the piece was in fact originally written for ballet than you can't really complain, though I do wish, however that the dancers were not there as they do distract the listener from the music, regardless if they're supposed to be here.
The dancing really doesn't compliment the song. The song is more of a Dark mood, whilst the dancing is far from that. The outfits are well... A tad too shiny, with the exclusion of the "capes."
@gudrica This song was actually written for a ballet-play about bald mountain, but got cancelled because people didn't want to see any satanic presentations.
@doof86 wow it's called conducting & it helps the musicians, like when you need to decrecendo he'll get lower & the shorter the sound of the notes the shorter the movement & the longer the notes the more smooth legato movements... so im not seeing how this is "funny"
@xXtaliyahAyyXx i'm just wondering, are you blind? there were, in fact, dancers that were dancing around on the stage in front of the orchestra. or, did you only watch the first 20 seconds?
@doof86 of course when I personally interpret this overture, I also think of a bunch of sissy little ballerinas prancing around like complete homosexuals, seems only natural they would be included in the performance...
@parsifal3142 Speak for yourself, man... I'm a heterosexual man who worked in a goddamned flower shop for 4 years... My point was that this particular overture doesn't exactly evoke the sense of fairies prancing around in supertards... Is better described as the ravenous destroyer of Souls taking a deep breath...
The story behind "Night on Bald Mountain" is inspired by a short story (Nikolai Gogol, a russian writer) in which witches would gather on Bald Mountain and hold sabbath.
@moreau17 Well it may have been originally intended for stage performance, but the fucking Disney flick knocked it outta the park... I'm gonna go ahead and say it was the perfect complement to the song...
1.) for me it is too slow. this music is ecstasy pure and i this tempo i just start sleeping.
2.) there are too many mistakes from the orchestra. about a year i heard it in düsseldorf,germany and it was much better(eg: the pelvis at 6:20 is very bad)
3.) the quality of the record is very bad. ok, it's an upload and the quality has to be very low but not as low as that.
all in all i have to look for a better version. i hope i can find it here at youtube.
Infact, there arent that many mistakes made by the orchestra....at 6:20 there is no mistake...At the end there is a mistake by the french horn player but other than that this is very well played by the orchestra
infact there IS a mistake. i dont now if you are able to hear it or if you know this piece but in 6:20 the cymbals are too slow. they have to be like the strings but they aren't and this happens a few times.
sry that i correct you but i know this piece very very good ;-)
Oh, I'll be casual. To put it nicely, it sounds like a migraine.
I don't think what you've put can be understood - it "isn't an orchestration"? What's that mean?
bssnboo, the dancers are the one part I like of this video. It is just a personal opinion, but I find it funny that people think the music is being demeaned by the dancers when it's this pile of awful noise.
Why do you like this 'music of evil spirits worshipping the devil on St. John's Mount'', chucknorris0240?
I take it that I like your sense of humour. ... Might be back with some goodies that aren't about demon worshipping on Midsummer's Eve or black witchcraft on a hill with no greenery! And I do think the sounds can't be separated from this theme.
Alright lecochonbleu, so based of what you've commented, it looks like you just don't like this piece because of the themes it was written on? That's your opinion, okay, but I'll say that its an extremely narrow-minded one. Just because music isn't written about happy things doesn't mean its not good. Does that mean you despise Saint-Saëns' "Danse Macabre" as well? That has similar themes.
@chucknorris0240 It's the music, or sound, Chuck. It's as diabolical, as "bad", as terrible basically, as the theme to me. I've noted before that the lyrical part at the end, written by Rimsky Korsakov does sound nice. As it happens, not only do I not like 'Danse Macabre', I say it's not much better than quite poor music i.m.o. But I've heard it so much, and for a surprising first listen, and a good number of subsequent listens, it's reasonable enough. It's just not very good music. cont. >>
I remember when I was 17 or 18, playing in the 1st violins in the city youth orchestra where I grew up. The weekly sectionals tutor was a longstanding 1st vln. player of our regional orchestra, The Ulster Orchestra (U.K.). We were rehearsing Khachaturian's "Masquerade Suite" and he was trying to say as politely as poss. suggestions about how to deal with "music that isn't exactly first rate, shall we say", "... not Brahms" for example. He mentioned Saint-Saens & Danse Macabre.
... cont. Masquerade Suite is a really funny piece by definition. It's a peice which seems really evidently to me not to be claiming to be mistakable for great music. And lot of it can sound quite bad (& sore) if not done very sensitively, which can be difficult. Especially if you're played or heard it a lot - it can sound like "Wacky Races" cartoon music only. But it also can sound great if done well. Very difficult indeed, not really technically, but muscially. A really strange niche indeed.
I really fail to see how you can just say the music is outright bad. Music itself is subjective in nature, so how could it be classified as something so concrete as "bad?" Plus, I think Danse Macabre is a wonderful piece. Do the tritones frighten you?
@chucknorris0240 What you put is not quite true, really. There really can be bad and abysmal music, as objecively as there can be with such things. I could write some now in a few seconds. And I have no doubt I could play it to a lot of people who would laugh and say, 'that is awful' - while some would think it art, perhaps very meaningful. Music is subjective in terms of appreciation, but it pertains to humanity, and there is, v. often, something of the objective. Danse Macabre doesn't last.
@chucknorris0240 Yes, Chuck, I suppose they might frighten me. Your holding that music can't be 'bad' as such only means that also, there can't be any 'good' music, music only being subjective. I KNOW there are collections of notes which could be produced not only to offend you but which would make you think them actually evil - they being produced, or at least hoped, for that purpose. I'm not saying tritones are bad at all, but Saint-Saens, like many, used it from the assoc Diabolus in Musica.
... The devil is endlessly far from good. I like good. I don't like the devil, to put it mildly.
It's not that the tritone is just any diminished 5th I could go to a piano & write in a nice composition (in my dreams!!). It's the Diabolus reference, and concurs with the vln. being put out of tune to produce it at the start. Doesn't sound like it's meant to be fine music. It's O.K. at best, skittish music.
Saint-Saens did write great, lovely music like the Intro. & Rondo Capriccioso
Contrary to a several of the recent comments, I personally think it's nice to see the symphony orchestra and the dancers united! There should be more of this type of unity and programming. What is the harm? This added an extra level of dimensionality to that concert. I am sure the dancers appreciated the opportunity.Those of you are music 'purists' can close your eyes if you're so offended...
This "music" is awful. It's dire. And I'm so glad I know that. Because I think I thought I loved this piece or somthing when I was playing it in youth orchestra years & years ago. I wasn't sure, I didn't conclude, but really valed the playing of what I thought was a special niche kind of expression. But it's just "god damn awful" & no better interpretation in (allegedly) music will you find of those 3 words. Mussorgsky's original is a bit bitter than this Rimsky-Korsakov recomposition, still bad
Do you have any idea what you are talking about? This is a wonderful song that I have played numerous times. Im about to play it tonight infact..This is a wonderful piece of music that is quite complex.. So until u know what u r talking about, be quiet.
I agree, this is an excellent composition by Modest Mussorgsky. I first heard it as a child and i was a bit scared but i can say that for many years i can't get bored of it. Good luck at your preformance I'd like to hear you playing if i had a chance...
It's not until. I listened to this piece lots & lots when I was much younger. I think I thought I loved it. I played it in the city Youth Orchestra. I hunted out recordings not only of this version, but others, including the Mussorgsky original. I used to be a Mussorgsky fan. While I'm not so much anymore, I think this is poor music actually. That's not going to change - it's a few decades of getting to what I feel is an appropriate appreciation.
Also, I've just remembered I studied this at school, in a 19th Century Tone Poems module for the end of school (18) level (A-Level in U.K.).
The music teacher agreed that this is not good music, though I wasn't sure then. What I disagreed with her about is her retort, that many repeat, that this is "classic orchestration". I don't agree. Rimsky Korsakov is known as a great orchestrator, which he can be. But I think that's in less than 1/2 his work. & enough of the rest is not so good at all.
Well I hate to tell you this but your music teacher is an idiot as well. Ive been playing the oboe for around 15 years now and everyone that I know of loves this piece of music..Keep in mind that those are all professional musicians and you are not.
You're even, maybe, a little worse than I am, NYPhilharmonicOboist. I know that my extreme and, no doubt, unexpected personal opinion was blatantly and, I suppose, impolitely posted below. While it might appear to be presented like some objective, learned analysis or consensus of the sounds of Mssr.s Mussorgsky and R-Korsakov, there's no doubt it's only my personal feelings. But I haven't rallied people around to have it suggested that my feelings are the correct ones.
And, also sorry to the orchestra and people connected with it and friends, relations, and just anyone watching if my comments seemed impolite and affected appreciation. I hope they didn't - I guessed people may be used to subjective posts saying things like "The BEST song" and "This is tortorous noise" all the time in YouTube, more often in other music than classical.
I am not saying anything negative about the orchestra performance.
When I saw the dancers come out I swear I burst out laughing because that was the stupidest thing to do! I've played this before and well, there is so much to listen to that you wouldn't need the dancers to make the piece better(if they think that is what they did then they are...there is no word for it). I'm just glad they didn't mess of the solos at the end. They focused on the musicians and not the dancers. This piece really hard to play too! But the solo for the flute is fun.
When the Low Brass first comes on in there part and through out the song they need to play a little louder and the strings need to back off more. Some tuning might be needed also. But i dont know what level of playing they are at, but overall pretty good.
If you are worried about the dancers, you are missing the point of the music. It is a beautiful piece. Like literature, it is built in layers. It has many themes and sub-themes. You need to interpret the music.
My interpretation is similar to that of Fantasia, it brings something dark into mind, but more along the lines of something more sinister than vampires (if that's what these dancers are trying to do). Mine is that our life is plagued by the dark aspects of life (the demons in the night) and they are numerous. But at the end when the music is calmer, it represents the dawn of hope and determination. That eventually it will end.
Like all excellent classical music, it is built in layers. It is like an excellent piece of literature. There are themes and layers of meaning and interpetation. You have to listen carefully. Some people just don't get it.
My middle school band sirector told us the the man who wrote this was a mad drunkard.... the whole band laughed... but I was the only to fall out of my seat. Its a good peice
You realize that anybody who wrote any good music was really messed up. beethoven was probably the craziest person ever. Brahms used to dress in drag and play piano at whore houses. being a drunkard was probably a common them among all major composers to tell you the truth. And the dancers do suck.
Eh...Everyone ezcept for my cousin... He's cool... Not messed up... He wirtes music. He's really cool. I just can't get over the fact that I have a cool cousin.
I don't think Beehoven was at all crazy. Mozart and Beethoven spent almost all their time writing music and neither of them was alcoholic; in fact I do not know any important composer who was alcoholic.
EARTHWORM JIM!
deadzombies4496 2 weeks ago
.... *the brass come on* AHHH OHH GODDD *change it*
bbrabant 1 month ago
I think the music is amazing, however the dance isn't quite nice.
688james 2 months ago
"What do we burn besides dancers? More dancers!"
drpsionic 4 months ago
where is the stopped horn!? >.< i play horn in my highschool, there is supposed to be stopped horn in a couple of places. hmm
Buckfutter1000 4 months ago
@Buckfutter1000 ... open interpretation of music, learning and adding to it, conductor and intention just because it was written does not mean it must happen
ihavederphands 1 month ago
HAHAHAHAHAHA...i cant stop laughing at the dancers
3490megs 4 months ago
Justice -stress live ....
nyamcz 5 months ago
I can do without the stage........ only music....
jttogo20031 5 months ago
Id shit my self is someone starting hopping towards me screaming like that! 3:57
ManIhTwoLinJay 5 months ago 2
...the guy that plays the clarinet solo apparently is the only black guy in the orchestra...funny how he's all emotional and into it in the middle of expressionless white faces...that's worth a little lol...goo Johnny, go go go
mongolenpup 6 months ago
Got that Disco feelin'~
Gonnakillyou 6 months ago in playlist Fear The Winter-Nist Akath
Beautiful clarinet solo near the end...I had the chance to play that solo once.
enigmaticallyso 7 months ago
at first i was like "what dance? what the fuck is everyone talking about?" but when it reached 1:00 i was like "......fuck"
tattivalenti90 7 months ago
All in all, a good musical performance of a bear of a piece. Kudos!
W7TFO 7 months ago
THE CYMBAL PLAYER MUST TO BE KILLED!!!
MrRbjunior83 9 months ago
that trombone player needs to be shot for ruining that first entrance. literally ruined the whole video for me haha.
(not really shot haha but seriously)
and wow he did it again the second time.
lookhowhighijump 9 months ago
OMG were they trying to make the choregraphy look so out of place and disorganized?
2PplWhoMakeVids 9 months ago
The brass should be ashamed of that entrance at the beginning. Holy out of tune.
mprimecoleman 10 months ago 9
@mprimecoleman its not a very good version to begin with, its not nearly as powerful as one would like it to be
teenmetalhead666 1 week ago
Mussorgsky is the second best russian composer ever. I think it's clear who's the best.
BehnamLot 10 months ago
@BehnamLot Tchaikovsky? Stravinsky? Prokofiev? Rachmaninoff? Shostakovich? I could go on. Russia is one of the richest powers in music history, and a greater composers than Mussorgsky in Russia more than a dozen.
ophido 10 months ago
They're beginning dancers. This is what most people look like after six months to a year of Ballet practice. They're actually staying together pretty well, and I think it's great for newbies to get performance experience. Why they're performing in front of a far superior orchestra, though, I couldn't tell you. Is it a college performance, possibly?
flybynight512 10 months ago
The piece in Disney's World of Color has a drum starting which make for an energetic pace. Disney sounds better :)
thersjoel 11 months ago
@thersjoel as that may be this is the original
misterlizard97 9 months ago
Combining movement with this music is positive yet the choreography and dancing in this piece leaves something to be desired.
ilaniaabileah 11 months ago
clarinet solo @ 9:38 is amazing, i play it too in my orchestra :P
floris09172385 11 months ago
I know the beginning ^^ its from a game for nintendo or better there use the music for the boss-enemie ^^
Irgendwer22 11 months ago
They all gather in and smell the conductors butt and rejoice at 7:00 min in
Worlock1989 1 year ago 2
@Worlock1989 What are you, five?
CaptainGora 1 year ago
@Worlock1989 LMFAO
Hadzibg 11 months ago
All I can think about is Chernabog when i here this, but any ways it's a badass piece of music
slipknotress666 1 year ago
19 people fell off the bald mountain
eijarel 1 year ago 2
Is this song from a story?
TheNaomiengland 1 year ago
Und nowz the time on Shprockets vhere vee dance.
SPLEclipse 1 year ago 8
@SPLEclipse Possibly the funniest comment I've ever seen on YouTube.
Tokopol 1 year ago
hahahahahaha dencers
jayorteg713 1 year ago
meh kinda like how this piece we're playing at our halloween concert tomorrow is going to have dancers. the piece is meant to play in the dark, but we have to put light on for the stupid dancers in front. completely ruins it.
twigagawizard 1 year ago
I was expecting to see the permed guy from fatboy slims video right here right now to start freestlye dancing half way thru.
Dakatt1 1 year ago
I don't care if this song were for a ballet. I don't want to see people dance. I like the music. No dancing is necessary.
tadwight30 1 year ago
i think this song can do perfectly well without the dancing lol nicely played though b(^_^)d
Flash617 1 year ago
as far as I'm concerned, one boy witness a witch gathering in this song, so whatever those dancers are trying to do, I don't see any link to what the song is about. They should remove the dancing part.
spannung1 1 year ago
wow the violins are not together! and it's out of tune....
violinfreak2010 1 year ago
I am not talking about their weight, but they dance heavy.
Wookierabbit 1 year ago
I think maybe if the choroegraphy was better this may not have been so sad to watch. I danced for a long time and I've been playing viola for almost as long as I danced and the dancing was so .... unemotional for such an emotional piece. But in their defence the choreography was kinda pathetic.
GeorgiaOnUrMind89 1 year ago
Music got better at the end. I don't know about you guys, but I think the orchestra should have practiced a bit more on this one, get better musicians, or better conductor. It just didn't sound quite right and as powerful in the beginning as found on the first youtube post "Night On Bald Mountain" posted by ClassicsHouse. The Dancers, heavy and slightly uncoordinated. And what's with the capes? Having the dancers wear dark and/or blacks clothes would do better.
Wookierabbit 1 year ago
@Wookierabbit
I dance and I'm not a stick! You don't have to weigh 80 pounds to dance, you just have to learn how to work WITH your body. But the uncoordination doesn't help them I agree. Nor do the costumes.
GeorgiaOnUrMind89 1 year ago
dancinha pobre, mas não importa, a música é maravilhosa!
daniela2486 1 year ago
At the beginning of the song i looked at the comments and saw that people where talking about how distracting the dancing was, but i thought it would be really cool to have the dancing it in... i was wrong, the song going to a dance is cool but it's super distracting from the music.
meostarfox 1 year ago
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WHY they need dancers?
music is HEARING not to SEE..!!
0t0nic 1 year ago
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nosferatusbutt 1 year ago 19
@nosferatusbutt It's classic don't go judging music just because you don't like it doesn't mean you have to be disrespectful about it
Jolter210 3 months ago
@Jolter210 I am sorry if you took my comment wrong. When i wrote " Who let the retards in" it was certain for idiots who were trolling this performance. This happens to be in my top five fav pieces in classic music. ;)
nosferatusbutt 3 months ago
@nosferatusbutt i thought you meant by the performers now I feel dumb
Jolter210 3 months ago
@Jolter210 Its cool dude. ;)
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@nosferatusbutt I am sorry if you took this comment the wrong way, but this happens to be one of my fav pieces of music and i wrote "Who let the retards in" for idiots who were trolling this performance a year ago. ;)
nosferatusbutt 3 months ago
The Bald Mountain in next to the Kiev (Cap. of the Ukraine) and witches are believed to "shabash" there for a few nights per year. It is understandable what dancers tried to do but in this case, the orchestra shouldn't be on the stage. Girls, first of all were too heavy an unemotional and, it seemed like they wanted to steal a focus from the orchestra . Disturbing, but an idea to dance witches dance is wonderful!
ZeevRoizman 1 year ago 2
They should've taken the money they used for dancers and hired a real harpist.
Fauxharmonic 1 year ago
Honestly one of the more pleasurable and energetic renditions I have heard of 'Night on Bald Mountain'... unfortunately it is marred by the idiotic dancing. They should all be ashamed.
Tokopol 1 year ago
Are you serious? Wow. The music is good. But those dancers...they must have lost a bet.
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Mussorgsky is one of my best composers. His music is amazing. His music was initially composed for piano and orchestrated by another famous Russian composer, Rimski Korsakoff.
688james 1 year ago
Mussorgsky is one of my best composers. His music is amazing. His music was initially composed for piano and orchestrated by another famous Russian composer, Rimski Korsakoff.
688james 1 year ago
This orchestra performed this kind of poorly. The strings were not together in too many parts, and the winds weren't great. I have nothing to say about the horrible dancing...except from 3:50 through the next ten seconds is just ridiculous, besides the whole dance itself
MsHallo1985 1 year ago
One of the best orchestra songs ever!!!
In my band class we played this song at competiton
aballofmeat 1 year ago
This song is not meant to portray total evil, listen to everything, it is dark in the beginning as it is the fear of the night to come and slowly those fears rise and fall in the night and storms come and pass. The title a night on bald mountain shows that it is an adventure. It does not say hell keeling over. The dancing doesn't fit but in an artistic standpoint, it adds a little to the presentation
youthbowler12 1 year ago
Where did they gather the dancers from? Es terrible'. Please tell me that they are not from a good art school in Montreal. That would defeat what little confidance I had in Canadians.....very little
snowboardkitten 1 year ago
I mean straight up, any man who uses dance as a form of expression is a faggot; We are masters of the physical world, not its slaves (which of course women are, like it or not)
Casper3701 1 year ago
the music is beautiful, but the dancing is distracting and simply ridiculous
DisneyClassicsFan 1 year ago
the bass drum sounds terrible. tuned way too high
WhiteLightning1220 1 year ago
I can just imagin one of the dancers trrpping and knocking over the conducter
peteran19951 1 year ago
The music is good, although the dancing is rather distracting. If the piece was in fact originally written for ballet than you can't really complain, though I do wish, however that the dancers were not there as they do distract the listener from the music, regardless if they're supposed to be here.
ThePianoKid1994 1 year ago
"Harp" is horrible.
JunkerSchmidt 1 year ago
The dancing really doesn't compliment the song. The song is more of a Dark mood, whilst the dancing is far from that. The outfits are well... A tad too shiny, with the exclusion of the "capes."
Gokan1690 1 year ago
Dance completes music, or actually dance and physical movement are the origin of music.
Whether they dance well or not - well that's subjective :P
Darkonomist 1 year ago
OMFG GAY DANCING!?!?!?Ruined the whole thing for me -_-
gudrica 1 year ago
Indeed I am unsure of just how the dancing illustrates the EVIL forces which are taking over the mountain top between dusk and dawn
123pfflyers 1 year ago
@gudrica This song was actually written for a ballet-play about bald mountain, but got cancelled because people didn't want to see any satanic presentations.
Creaturelover18 1 year ago
Does anyone else think Earthworm Jim when they listen to this?
bobbels101 1 year ago 4
Scary o.0
Spyrosuperfan 1 year ago
Yes, that music is indeed startling.
tapesan09 1 year ago 2
Oh my god, the dancing is so distracting XD
Its so corny! Who's idea was it to make people dance ridiculously in front of musicians playing such a masterpiece? It totally ruins the mood.
I tried looking away, but its like a train wreck- I CANT STOP WATCHING XD
doof86 1 year ago 99
The idea probably came from someone who has seen Fantasia one too many times...
Baktor 1 year ago
That's true, for sure. FANTASIA is great, and it was the first film to show music videos along with surround sound.
tapesan09 1 year ago
hahaha I read your comment then the next second these dancers just flew out from the stage. I was cracking up xD
testyourflex 1 year ago
@doof86 wow it's called conducting & it helps the musicians, like when you need to decrecendo he'll get lower & the shorter the sound of the notes the shorter the movement & the longer the notes the more smooth legato movements... so im not seeing how this is "funny"
xXtaliyahAyyXx 1 year ago
@xXtaliyahAyyXx i'm just wondering, are you blind? there were, in fact, dancers that were dancing around on the stage in front of the orchestra. or, did you only watch the first 20 seconds?
iluvme4never 1 year ago
@doof86 of course when I personally interpret this overture, I also think of a bunch of sissy little ballerinas prancing around like complete homosexuals, seems only natural they would be included in the performance...
Casper3701 1 year ago
@Casper3701 I couldn't decide which is more offensive, the silly dancing or your homophobic comments.
parsifal3142 1 year ago
@parsifal3142 Speak for yourself, man... I'm a heterosexual man who worked in a goddamned flower shop for 4 years... My point was that this particular overture doesn't exactly evoke the sense of fairies prancing around in supertards... Is better described as the ravenous destroyer of Souls taking a deep breath...
Casper3701 1 year ago
@doof86 hahaha your comments are so hilarious I cant stop laughing!
ValiaLustt 1 year ago
@doof86 I KNOW! lol god that's so annoying... Im trying to watch the orchestra play, but they are CONSTANTLY moving, stealing my vision!
JayceMearesShit 1 year ago
@doof86 It's called visual art. If your 'artistic' side is solely stimulated by sound (music) then look away from the screen and LISTEN to the music.
tenormadness126 1 year ago
@doof86 Its to keep such a large arrangement of Musicians balanced and well timed, it would be chaos without a conductor.
mortierox 11 months ago
@doof86 wait...you WATCHED the vid? I just started it up and then went to another tab...
empath69 7 months ago
@doof86
The story behind "Night on Bald Mountain" is inspired by a short story (Nikolai Gogol, a russian writer) in which witches would gather on Bald Mountain and hold sabbath.
So it is not ridiculous :D
Gesang01nele 4 months ago
@doof86 it's to keep people entertained
Jolter210 3 months ago
This ballet screams evil. It would be the ultimate bad guy theme in a sci-fi film. :D
Awesome. Simply awesome.
Kuhlfurst 2 years ago 4
Haha, yeah... except the end part.
Ragtime44Films 1 year ago
i played this in marching band, woo!!!! love it
westiebuddy 2 years ago
Gotta love the peaceful outro, contrast FTW.
IHaveCheatsOn 2 years ago
was the dancing necessary? baha.
benny7101 2 years ago
This music was originally written for a ballet actually.
moreau17 2 years ago 26
@moreau17
realy? :o
Tuga1143 2 years ago
lol the evilest ballet of all time.
str84ever 2 years ago 5
@moreau17 Blasphemy, this music was written for level 2 of Earthworm Jim!!!
ffhk1 1 year ago
@moreau17 Well it may have been originally intended for stage performance, but the fucking Disney flick knocked it outta the park... I'm gonna go ahead and say it was the perfect complement to the song...
Casper3701 1 year ago
@Casper3701 chill out... shit.
moreau17 1 year ago
@moreau17 ...so?
ophido 10 months ago
@moreau17 whaaat? can't imagine.
HuginnG 10 months ago
@moreau17 You'd be hard pressed to call that dance a ballet, haha.
emmabrkrshrp 8 months ago 2
@moreau17 yeah, a ballet OF DEMONS!!
ZachSolten 5 months ago
@benny7101 what dancing?
SilencingSin 2 years ago
@benny7101 lol -____-
SilencingSin 2 years ago
I agree with pastreee878 not dark enough for my taste,still a great performance...
TGS265 2 years ago
Is it just me or are they off a little at the beginning?
Aerien 2 years ago
i saw this today in zagreb! very interesting piece
mkrznar 2 years ago
need bigger sound
PASTREEE878 2 years ago
Wonderful performance... but what's with the added thematic?
immutabledude 2 years ago
this is cool even though i heard in a video game first
shimeonmorpheus 2 years ago
justice - stress ;-)
alanbmx 2 years ago
i don't like this record.
1.) for me it is too slow. this music is ecstasy pure and i this tempo i just start sleeping.
2.) there are too many mistakes from the orchestra. about a year i heard it in düsseldorf,germany and it was much better(eg: the pelvis at 6:20 is very bad)
3.) the quality of the record is very bad. ok, it's an upload and the quality has to be very low but not as low as that.
all in all i have to look for a better version. i hope i can find it here at youtube.
DaKillaaa 2 years ago
Infact, there arent that many mistakes made by the orchestra....at 6:20 there is no mistake...At the end there is a mistake by the french horn player but other than that this is very well played by the orchestra
NYPhilharmonicOboist 2 years ago
infact there IS a mistake. i dont now if you are able to hear it or if you know this piece but in 6:20 the cymbals are too slow. they have to be like the strings but they aren't and this happens a few times.
sry that i correct you but i know this piece very very good ;-)
DaKillaaa 2 years ago
there is a mistake lol. also the brass is late a bit after that too but anyways pretty nice
strflex 2 years ago
What I want to know, lecochonbleu, is why you find this to be "terrible" and "awful." And also, why would you say this isn't an orchestration?
chucknorris0240 2 years ago
Oh, I'll be casual. To put it nicely, it sounds like a migraine.
I don't think what you've put can be understood - it "isn't an orchestration"? What's that mean?
bssnboo, the dancers are the one part I like of this video. It is just a personal opinion, but I find it funny that people think the music is being demeaned by the dancers when it's this pile of awful noise.
Why do you like this 'music of evil spirits worshipping the devil on St. John's Mount'', chucknorris0240?
lecochonbleu 2 years ago
ok you need to shut up you have no idea what you are talking about..Come back and reply when you have some musical taste.
NYPhilharmonicOboist 2 years ago
@NYPhilharmonicOboist - O.K.
I take it that I like your sense of humour. ... Might be back with some goodies that aren't about demon worshipping on Midsummer's Eve or black witchcraft on a hill with no greenery! And I do think the sounds can't be separated from this theme.
lecochonbleu 2 years ago
Alright lecochonbleu, so based of what you've commented, it looks like you just don't like this piece because of the themes it was written on? That's your opinion, okay, but I'll say that its an extremely narrow-minded one. Just because music isn't written about happy things doesn't mean its not good. Does that mean you despise Saint-Saëns' "Danse Macabre" as well? That has similar themes.
chucknorris0240 2 years ago
@chucknorris0240 It's the music, or sound, Chuck. It's as diabolical, as "bad", as terrible basically, as the theme to me. I've noted before that the lyrical part at the end, written by Rimsky Korsakov does sound nice. As it happens, not only do I not like 'Danse Macabre', I say it's not much better than quite poor music i.m.o. But I've heard it so much, and for a surprising first listen, and a good number of subsequent listens, it's reasonable enough. It's just not very good music. cont. >>
lecochonbleu 2 years ago
I remember when I was 17 or 18, playing in the 1st violins in the city youth orchestra where I grew up. The weekly sectionals tutor was a longstanding 1st vln. player of our regional orchestra, The Ulster Orchestra (U.K.). We were rehearsing Khachaturian's "Masquerade Suite" and he was trying to say as politely as poss. suggestions about how to deal with "music that isn't exactly first rate, shall we say", "... not Brahms" for example. He mentioned Saint-Saens & Danse Macabre.
lecochonbleu 2 years ago
... cont. Masquerade Suite is a really funny piece by definition. It's a peice which seems really evidently to me not to be claiming to be mistakable for great music. And lot of it can sound quite bad (& sore) if not done very sensitively, which can be difficult. Especially if you're played or heard it a lot - it can sound like "Wacky Races" cartoon music only. But it also can sound great if done well. Very difficult indeed, not really technically, but muscially. A really strange niche indeed.
lecochonbleu 2 years ago
I really fail to see how you can just say the music is outright bad. Music itself is subjective in nature, so how could it be classified as something so concrete as "bad?" Plus, I think Danse Macabre is a wonderful piece. Do the tritones frighten you?
chucknorris0240 2 years ago
@chucknorris0240 What you put is not quite true, really. There really can be bad and abysmal music, as objecively as there can be with such things. I could write some now in a few seconds. And I have no doubt I could play it to a lot of people who would laugh and say, 'that is awful' - while some would think it art, perhaps very meaningful. Music is subjective in terms of appreciation, but it pertains to humanity, and there is, v. often, something of the objective. Danse Macabre doesn't last.
lecochonbleu 2 years ago
@chucknorris0240 Yes, Chuck, I suppose they might frighten me. Your holding that music can't be 'bad' as such only means that also, there can't be any 'good' music, music only being subjective. I KNOW there are collections of notes which could be produced not only to offend you but which would make you think them actually evil - they being produced, or at least hoped, for that purpose. I'm not saying tritones are bad at all, but Saint-Saens, like many, used it from the assoc Diabolus in Musica.
lecochonbleu 2 years ago
< cont.
... The devil is endlessly far from good. I like good. I don't like the devil, to put it mildly.
It's not that the tritone is just any diminished 5th I could go to a piano & write in a nice composition (in my dreams!!). It's the Diabolus reference, and concurs with the vln. being put out of tune to produce it at the start. Doesn't sound like it's meant to be fine music. It's O.K. at best, skittish music.
Saint-Saens did write great, lovely music like the Intro. & Rondo Capriccioso
lecochonbleu 2 years ago
Contrary to a several of the recent comments, I personally think it's nice to see the symphony orchestra and the dancers united! There should be more of this type of unity and programming. What is the harm? This added an extra level of dimensionality to that concert. I am sure the dancers appreciated the opportunity.Those of you are music 'purists' can close your eyes if you're so offended...
bssnboo 2 years ago
This "music" is awful. It's dire. And I'm so glad I know that. Because I think I thought I loved this piece or somthing when I was playing it in youth orchestra years & years ago. I wasn't sure, I didn't conclude, but really valed the playing of what I thought was a special niche kind of expression. But it's just "god damn awful" & no better interpretation in (allegedly) music will you find of those 3 words. Mussorgsky's original is a bit bitter than this Rimsky-Korsakov recomposition, still bad
lecochonbleu 2 years ago
Do you have any idea what you are talking about? This is a wonderful song that I have played numerous times. Im about to play it tonight infact..This is a wonderful piece of music that is quite complex.. So until u know what u r talking about, be quiet.
NYPhilharmonicOboist 2 years ago
I agree, this is an excellent composition by Modest Mussorgsky. I first heard it as a child and i was a bit scared but i can say that for many years i can't get bored of it. Good luck at your preformance I'd like to hear you playing if i had a chance...
antinoj2005 2 years ago 2
It's not until. I listened to this piece lots & lots when I was much younger. I think I thought I loved it. I played it in the city Youth Orchestra. I hunted out recordings not only of this version, but others, including the Mussorgsky original. I used to be a Mussorgsky fan. While I'm not so much anymore, I think this is poor music actually. That's not going to change - it's a few decades of getting to what I feel is an appropriate appreciation.
The R-Korsakov coda at the end is nice music.
lecochonbleu 2 years ago
Also, I've just remembered I studied this at school, in a 19th Century Tone Poems module for the end of school (18) level (A-Level in U.K.).
The music teacher agreed that this is not good music, though I wasn't sure then. What I disagreed with her about is her retort, that many repeat, that this is "classic orchestration". I don't agree. Rimsky Korsakov is known as a great orchestrator, which he can be. But I think that's in less than 1/2 his work. & enough of the rest is not so good at all.
lecochonbleu 2 years ago
Well I hate to tell you this but your music teacher is an idiot as well. Ive been playing the oboe for around 15 years now and everyone that I know of loves this piece of music..Keep in mind that those are all professional musicians and you are not.
NYPhilharmonicOboist 2 years ago 2
You're even, maybe, a little worse than I am, NYPhilharmonicOboist. I know that my extreme and, no doubt, unexpected personal opinion was blatantly and, I suppose, impolitely posted below. While it might appear to be presented like some objective, learned analysis or consensus of the sounds of Mssr.s Mussorgsky and R-Korsakov, there's no doubt it's only my personal feelings. But I haven't rallied people around to have it suggested that my feelings are the correct ones.
lecochonbleu 2 years ago
And, also sorry to the orchestra and people connected with it and friends, relations, and just anyone watching if my comments seemed impolite and affected appreciation. I hope they didn't - I guessed people may be used to subjective posts saying things like "The BEST song" and "This is tortorous noise" all the time in YouTube, more often in other music than classical.
I am not saying anything negative about the orchestra performance.
lecochonbleu 2 years ago
I somewhat agree, it sounded way better at a slightly slower tempo.
InconspicuousBarrel 2 years ago
dancing? why do they have to ruin the piece by dancing?!? WHYYYYYYY?!?!?!?
Darthnut92 2 years ago
The dancing is vexing. The attempt at interpretative dance is an effort that was wasted I'm sorry to say. Eeesh.
Tsb18e 2 years ago
I can't tell if the dancing is supposed to supplement the music or vice versa...either way the music is way better.
rivertam42 2 years ago
annoying bunch of spasmodic hyperactives -.-
snufkin789 2 years ago
if they danced like the ghosts in the movie it would be awesome... why did they have to sance like that?! it's so stupid xD
chuck7790 2 years ago 2
Agreed. Music is too good for the dancing. Dancing's kinda cheesy
tailsaint 2 years ago 6
"Omg, its coming. Its getting closer. Run, RUUUUUUUUN!!!!!"
:)
Th3BritishGuy 2 years ago 4
I am a Frosh who got in the Cmaber/top orchestra and we are playing this as an ensemble with the varsity band. :O it's crazy cool!
hehehe I'm glad I play viola, poor violins :(
Kaiiish 2 years ago 2
que horrible toca esta orquesta
migguns 2 years ago
IM PLAYING THIS SONG
dickerson426 2 years ago 3
i bet you feel realy special
starhealer14 2 years ago
Which song?
snufkin789 2 years ago
When I saw the dancers come out I swear I burst out laughing because that was the stupidest thing to do! I've played this before and well, there is so much to listen to that you wouldn't need the dancers to make the piece better(if they think that is what they did then they are...there is no word for it). I'm just glad they didn't mess of the solos at the end. They focused on the musicians and not the dancers. This piece really hard to play too! But the solo for the flute is fun.
bookgeek15 2 years ago 6
HA! That dancing is so cheesy!
Emmamalou 2 years ago 3
how could they destroy such a masterpiece with this dancing?:S:S:S
kostas373 2 years ago 4
Id rather them zooming in on the musicians than terrible dancers
StreetFightBroadcast 2 years ago 2
i love this song but the dancing is gay
Random2412 2 years ago 2
It looks like an elementary school pageant. We lose sight of how great classics such as NOBM are when they are degraded by this kind of spectacle!
SweetSweetWaldo 2 years ago 4
Those dancers.. my gosh..
If I were there I'm sure I would have keeled over in hysterics. That dancing is just beyond ridiculous.
SophieSafiye17 2 years ago 29
I agree, it looks like some classical version of Michael Jackson's "Thriller."
Katyusha666 2 years ago 4
When the Low Brass first comes on in there part and through out the song they need to play a little louder and the strings need to back off more. Some tuning might be needed also. But i dont know what level of playing they are at, but overall pretty good.
Freakinname435 2 years ago 5
I agree that the low brass should play louder, but I think the strings are playing at just the right dynamic.
LOTRzagorath 2 years ago
If you are worried about the dancers, you are missing the point of the music. It is a beautiful piece. Like literature, it is built in layers. It has many themes and sub-themes. You need to interpret the music.
Maggi G.
ponerzz 2 years ago
My interpretation is similar to that of Fantasia, it brings something dark into mind, but more along the lines of something more sinister than vampires (if that's what these dancers are trying to do). Mine is that our life is plagued by the dark aspects of life (the demons in the night) and they are numerous. But at the end when the music is calmer, it represents the dawn of hope and determination. That eventually it will end.
hist777 2 years ago 2
Like all excellent classical music, it is built in layers. It is like an excellent piece of literature. There are themes and layers of meaning and interpetation. You have to listen carefully. Some people just don't get it.
ponerzz 2 years ago
My middle school band sirector told us the the man who wrote this was a mad drunkard.... the whole band laughed... but I was the only to fall out of my seat. Its a good peice
SaraLousie 2 years ago
You realize that anybody who wrote any good music was really messed up. beethoven was probably the craziest person ever. Brahms used to dress in drag and play piano at whore houses. being a drunkard was probably a common them among all major composers to tell you the truth. And the dancers do suck.
thecasualties6 2 years ago
Eh...Everyone ezcept for my cousin... He's cool... Not messed up... He wirtes music. He's really cool. I just can't get over the fact that I have a cool cousin.
SaraLousie 2 years ago
I don't think Beehoven was at all crazy. Mozart and Beethoven spent almost all their time writing music and neither of them was alcoholic; in fact I do not know any important composer who was alcoholic.
ComtedeMonteC 2 years ago
Beethoven became crazy because he got deaf , which is a normal fact if you understand that he had comunication problems in this situation...
You wrongly call them messed up, they are just EXTRAORDINARY. They were uncommon because they were better!!!
Kirens 2 years ago 5