Penderecki: "The Dream of Jacob"

[RobDavies2708]

next time on LOST

[cookumms]

ive never been so afraid of a bible verse

[MegaCirse]

Cet extrait a été utilisé par S. Kubrick dans une des scènes les plus angoissantes de "Shining", vous en souvenez-vous ?

[kriiiipsujuku1]

Woot it gave me nightmares!!! :D

[agniky]

satan himself would have had problems writing this...

[HYPERDISTORTED]

i thought i'd make it, but hell, it got me at around 3:15

[MonsieurSlick]

All of the videos of Krzystof Penderecki's music on Youtube have really creepy pictures.

[KeepMusicEvilBXL]

Thanks for info, I love it off course, but when I hear it, it sounds more like a stairway to Hell for me... It's keeping music evil, I LOVE IT!

[Mattnek]

i wonder if akira yamaoka got inspired by this composer

[pillowsinmypants]

from the shining! i think. It reminds me of it

[KSmoothSaxG]

Easily the most terrifying thing I have ever heard.

[KeepMusicEvilBXL]

This "Jacob" must be really pissed off!

[outsidemendham]

@KeepMusicEvilBXL

Why? Don't you like Penderecki. He IS a master of technique.

[comma1138]

@KeepMusicEvilBXL

Actually its from the bible and hes seeing a vision of a stairway to heaven.

[GiovanniTancrediChan]

@comma1138 Lol heaven must be a horrible place then

[Gredya]

war sound...

[foodiste]

I am in love with this piece. Such a well crafted nightmare.

[Wrathmont313]

The only remotely scary aspect of The Shining to speak of.

[MrsValerie92]

Room 237...

[Grime1996]

I cant even listen to this song,1:32 send shivers down my spin

[AshandSmoke]

JESUS CHRIST. If I had balls they would be shriveled right now.

[sojer4x4]

I am "shining" now aaaaaaaaaaaaa... aaaaaaa... aa...

[roflmaodue]

Thanks for giving PT Anderson inspiration to write There Will Be Blood, Penderecki!

[1005MYBABY]

fucking scary!!!

[WarpedButNot]

Fuckity fuck, my spine is spasming with fear. 

[Aspire4720zg]

Johnny Greenwood of Radiohead is a big fan of Penderecki.So there r many songs of Radiohead was inspired by this amazing composer!

Like this !

[zsleepyrockerz]

I loved it!

...but i also nearly pissed my pants. Im glad Penderecki cant follow me home with his orchestra. Tht scared me more than any killer could.

[tachirsint]

@zsleepyrockerz

The simple fact, I think, of being followed by an orchestra is quite frightening. Must be with how I imagined it. jesus

[mimiqrrr]

SIMPLY HORROR - i like

[AznDominazn69]

ive never been scared of a SONG before, movies? yes. Songs? not really. Penderecki is a genius to be able to scare you with an orchestra alone. a mad genius.

[Akich117]

this is fucking scary as fuck

[brianmale1]

i really liked the scary part......oh wait



[Obama13To16]

Reminds me of Radiohead - How To Disappear Completely

[yeahyeahyaha2]

I find this hard to masturbate to

[sENoZ93]

@yeahyeahyaha2 lol small foker :D

[lewllo]

@yeahyeahyaha2 Ffock off, stolen comment you knob!

[yeahyeahyaha2]

@lewllo Yep, I didn't get creative, I just post it in a video that would grow it to a whole new level

[vaguelyhumanoid]

Everyone mentions this piece's use in The Shining but no one mentions its (wonderful) use in Inland Empire.

[AvoidAFeud]

I like the part where it gets all weird.

[guidonz]

*doors and windows open

[guidonz]

double dare ya to listen to this in bed, at night, home alone, with all the doors and windows on. (if that dont scare the crap out of you then you are already too far gone and should seek medical advice)

[lambd01d]

7 people are running to their mothers.

[spottySTC]

i'm pretty sure that 2:54 part was an inspiration for "Dead space" music

[kutlessrocker23]

Why is this so scary? 

[milouribebotta]

this is how I imagine the entrance to hell.

[pejamo]

I want to know what instrument is making the continuous whirring noise.

[DeathG4n]

@pejamo Sounds like one hell of a solo instrument :)

[TheShredworthy]

@pejamo A brass ensemble I think

[TheShredworthy]

oh, wait, THAT whirr. I dunno lol

[overner2001]

"Surely the Lord is in this place and I knew it not!" The inspiration for this haunting piece. A timely reminder that God is present: it's just we don't always notice...

[VVillowz]

@overner2001 Surely you know not of what you talk about.

[RemovdSande11]

I listen to this whenever I play S.T.A.L.K.E.R....

never been scared so much in my life but I love it.

[AngaratoC]

Koji kondo inspiration for the temple of shadow.

[TheNatedagreat4]

Damn this is that suspense movie music rite here! :) i love it<3

[ChevalierAeon]

Lock someone in a dark 1x1m room with super high ceiling, with single red light and play this music full blast...

[GrigoriSom]

@ChevalierAeon ... and then prepare to pay for their psychological counseling for the rest of their lives.

[988288086]

@ChevalierAeon  full blast would only make him faint.

[halokid211]

i feel like someones gonna stab me in the back when im listening to this

[jhv48]

Kubrick used "The Dream of Jacob" in the soundtrack of "The Shining"

[fredxavier85]

This is fucking creepy!

[farrelllowe]

Too bad we cannot ask Jacob what he thinks of this piece.

[facialnoob]

Dude! Freaky, reminds me of the scene in Part IV from the Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Coleridge. (storm scene) epiC as!!!

[albedrios]

se paso de vergas el vato



[herbienbrian2]

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[witness124]

@herbienbrian2 All quoting movie and no playing outside makes Jack a comment troll.

[BestOfTheBestNumber9]

I love Penderecki, music like this is fascinating. People won't admit they actually enjoy this kind of stuff, but of course they do, in the same way you enjoy a good horror movie; it's scary and thrilling to listen to. of course though I'm playing this on headphones, otherwise people in the room will think I'm going insane

[YThorr]

@BestOfTheBestNumber9 Well said!

[AFall1000]

Non-identical music!

[msl5858]

Horrifyingly beautiful...

[clarinethottie1234]

Amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[RichardKleiner]

If you could record the sounds that came out of your own mind, this might have come out of Penderecki's.

Such an interesting representation of a Biblical passage.

[theLAoriginal96]

This is the most horrorfying thing i know. ive seen a lots of hoorror movies (including shining) and this is the most pervert thing that i know.

but its fascinating and beautiful.

[OKO9Productions]

for those who are into experimental films and/or like penderecki and/or the shining, i made a short film using this music, it's hard to describe it other than edgy and harrowing. check it out if you like!!

penderecki is awesome. a composer way beyond his time. 1974???

[TheDavid2222]

@shiftyoliver1 It has nothing to do with Tristan!!! I'm saying with regards to their lives in general beliefs put you in a certain envirenment in life. I NEVER claimed that being atheist would change a note from being a B flat to a C. In a more general context what I'm trying to say makes total sense.

[1234sss]

man i feel like this song is just horrifying as hell. i love these post-war central european composers

[JamesraynorII]

@1234sss i hate then

[joru100]

@1234sss this is just expressionist music, which actually thrived in austria and germany about 70 years before this was composed. this just seems to be more sinister in nature than say Schoenberg.

[Loiginer]

@1234sss

This is not actually a sacred music as we see in slavonic, byzantine or european music...

This is art, special kind of one, that scares who listen...

[TheDavid2222]

@shiftyoliver1 In the context of just this piece of music, no his beliefs don't matter. In the whole scope of things a composers beliefs can have a massive affect on their careers. Beliefs can influence musical direction. I would even claim that beliefs, and the feelings that lead towards those beliefs, are the main motivational factors for a composer. So really wanting to know where a composer's value system comes from is a VERY worthy question.

[TheDavid2222]

@TheDavid2222 I JUST said in the context of an individual piece it doesn't matter, but in the LONG RUN it affects a composers goals, and tendencies, style and everything else. I'm the last person on the entire planet that would have to be told to listen to all composers of all beliefs. I have been devoting my time to Classical music for years now, I play in an orchestra. Ideologies affect how an individual thinks, therefore affecting their composing style end of story.

[TheDavid2222]

@shiftyoliver1 That's not a stupid question. Beliefs and ideals are what motivates actions. If you do not understand the importance of ideals then that is your problem. You seem like the type of person that is so unbelievably shallow that you wouldn't be able to understand why people spend so much time studying philosophy. What does it have to do with this video? You must be kidding! The composition is set in a Biblical context! You need to figure some shit out.

[OKO9Productions]

Penderecki is a god in human form... well okay that may be a bit much but he still has such a unique talent, and way before his time too! If you guys like his music check out my video I made using this song, if you want.. it has a very Shining-esque feel to it!!! :D cheers.

[TheDavid2222]

are there any atheist composers?

[regpharvey]

@TheDavid2222 Yeah, but they all suck ;)

[TheDavid2222]

@regpharvey Johannes Brahms doesn't suck

[regpharvey]

@TheDavid2222 It was a joke. hence the ;)

[TheDavid2222]

@regpharvey okay lol

[SaiteK1911]

Dream of Jacob? No.

It's called "The Awakeing of Jacob"

Duno why it's called Dream of Jacob. lol

[deliman]

@SaiteK1911 not sure, but i think there were two versions. the one in the shining was the awakening of jacob, while this one is the dream of jacob.

[thumppurrr]

@Chicosonata "Hero with a thousand faces" Joseph Campbell, but the gospel of John in the New testament. Pray and ask God to reveal Himself and in time you will pick up His trail. You must seek Him to find yourself and eternity. Good luck fellow pilgrim!

[IcyScythe]

this is a nice audio "preview" to Hell.

[shmush3]

Where can I get this recording?

[joru100]

how many recorded version are there of this? i'm aware of just two, this one, and the one used in the shining soundtrack. are there any others?

[Beenyad]

how the hell does one write this kind of music? i mean writing melody is one thing but this is just... it tells such a story

[destroyhobbits]

I've always felt that this piece was imbued with a religious awe of ancient times. This is Jacob's mind witnessing the face of God, and Penderecki captured the dissonance in the mind of man coming to grips with the truly incomprehensible.

[intervalkid]

@Chicosonata

How to encounter an Eternal Being I couln't say for sure as they only come to whom God chooses. However I would say that the first thing to do would be to have absolute faith that Christ is alive and real. Analyse your ways and find whatever is less than ideal and aim it at what is ideal. Try never to let a lie get by your mind or tongue uncorrected and stand against lies, injustice and perversion without fear of harm.

[binarynightmare]

@intervalkid

I'm just curious, becuase you seem to be fairly knowledgeable about Christianity, but I thought Christ wasn't alive. I thought he died and his spirit came back, and spirits are dead (or undead, depending on your opinion). Or is it that his actual body came back, then sort of coalesced with his spirit and became transcendant, then ascended to Heaven? Or have I missed something entirely?

Mind you, I'm not criticizing - I'm just curious becuase I never understood.

[FrauofGermany]

@binarynightmare

I can explain that. Christ literally, in Christianity, returned from the dead. Body and all. Then he floated magically up to Heaven.

[binarynightmare]

@FrauofGermany

Huh. Fair enough.

[horns2112]

The bathtub scene in "The Shining."

[vquiroz007]

jajajajja me sako un pedo jajajaj

[TrevWks]

Influence on James Horner's main title for ALIENS.

[tom77092]

@TrevWks Yeah, I think you're right, though this is more sombre.

[dantreel]

scary

[TheAnonymousAnomie]

This song puts a completely new twist on experiencing the divine. It makes me realize that if one were to communicate with a God it is completely plausible that it would be a terrifying experience. You would be experiencing something which your human mind could not fully comprehend and is totally bigger than yourself. I think this is perfect really. It sounds really omnious and otherworldy.

[TheSingingCello]

It sounds like jacob is trying to climb his way out of a pit with a thousand screaming demons and regardless of how hard he tried it keeps pulling him back down, idk... doesn't really fit words and its okay, kind of cluttered and flimsy, the tension seems too drawn out and it mixes and mashes its way through the whole thing.

[bkmenor808]

Brilliant stuff. Was this in the Shining? That whole movie was great b/c of the tension created by the music. And i heard PT Anderson listened to this stuff. Probably made him go made like Jack Nicholson!

[SimulacronX]

@bkmenor808 Yes, this is used in "The Shining", and the accidental discovery of its soundtrack in a local vinyl shop opened-up the world of dodecaphony or serial music for me. Enjoy.

[herzeleid7213]

Jesus at 3 minutes I was waiting for something horrible to burst through my door and kill me. I know next to nothing about classical music, but Penderecki creates more tension in his work than I've ever heard anywhere else.

[JavierGueneau]

here's johnny haha.. go check the snocat to see what I mean.. Go check it out!!

[intervalkid]

Why would you describe Jacob's experience like this?

[Sandemose]

@intervalkid Man, didnt Jacob experience something divine, a ladder coming down from heaven with angels climbing up and down? Who said meeting/experiencing God would be something only plesant and wonderful? Penderecki describes as no one else the horrors of the divine. Because I think there is such an aspect of the holy.

Best, Sandemose

[intervalkid]

@Sandemose

He may have been afraid afterwards but not during, even afterwards I'm sure it was more of an excited fear. This sounds more like doom and horror, then the fear of magnitude that would result from a vision receiving the blessings God promised him in the vision.

[vaguelyhumanoid]

@intervalkid

God is beyond mortal comprehension. Jacob saw a ladder with angels going from heaven to earth and back in a dream, and then woke up and found out it was real. Angels in the Old Testament looked like winged animals covered in eyes, flaming wheels covered in eyes, and winged humanoids with skin as bright as the sun. Why wouldn't he feel like this?

[intervalkid]

@vaguelyhumanoid

You are thinking of the four beasts that say Holy Holy Holy Lord God Almight which was and is and is to come. This is in the book of Revelations which is New Testament. Angels do not appear such neither in the Bible or in my experience. Jacob not only saw the Angels but also the Lord spoke and made him promises.

I have personally had religious/spiritual experiences with Eternal beings and it is nothing like this. The world however sometimes is.

[vaguelyhumanoid]

@intervalkid

Maybe the darkness of the piece could also represent Jacob's dismay at not realizing that he encountered God.

[IcyScythe]

@vaguelyhumanoid I think it's more representing his terror of being in the presence of a being of infinite power. But hey that's just my opinion.

[Possedee]

Amazing piece!!

[Maxcherrybailbonds]

This is what Paul Thomas Anderson listened to when he was writing There Will Be Blood.

[Jubalover]

AND JACOB POURED OIL ON THE STONE WHICH HE HAD USED FOR A PILLOW AND THAT PLACE HE CALLED, 'BETHEL' WHICH MEANS HOUSE OF GOD.

[scgcdmluvr]

HERE'S JOHNNY! }:)

[gezmark]

@scgcdmluvr Jack!! Jack!! stop! pleaseee!!!

[MOTHIKAS]

Perfection.

[Funloverdude]

"Surely God was in this place.....and I knew it not!"

[innerdeth]

@Funloverdude then he put the stone on the ground as a signal

[SimulacronX]

Wow! Scariest piece of music ever. Thanks, I love Penderecki and Ligeti.

[RideMyBMW]

This would be awesome in a movie about aliens..."Cracking the Area 51 vaults"

[FreeInquisition]

This is cool. Sounds similar to the Bartok used in Kubrick's The Shining.

[hungmunchkin]

@FreeInquisition This is the music used in the Shining. The soundtrack includes Bartok, Penderecki and Ligeti. There's a great essay about the use of these composers' music in The Shining, titled Rehearing the Shining by David J Code, in Music in the Horror Film: Listening to Fear, edited by Neil Lerner.

[FreeInquisition]

@hungmunchkin Thank you very much.

[ICEMAN6282]

I recognize this piece of music from the room '237' scene in The Shinning.

[infek12344]

Psycho ffs

[elchristo7205]

do you have a llink to the notation for any of his songs it would be quite swell to see it

[mooreentstudios]

Amazing quote to base a piece from.

[shad0ki11]

Holy shit! I started getting goosebumps around 3:05 +

I love Penderecki's music because my body physically reacts to it without having to think about it. It's scary.

[apaboy50]

its 4 am and this music is scaring the shit out of me, i love it

[VeryVery1]

Me encantan las atmósferas que él crea, es fantástico!

[TheR3volutionary]

Isn't this also called "The Awakening of Jacob"?

[BADSYNE]

what the hell was jacob dreaming about!?

[matheusdoria]

@BADSYNE - There is a story in the bible where jacob dreams about a stairway to heaven where demons and angels goes up and down and that vision was extremely terrible to him...

[BADSYNE]

@matheusdoria Aaaaaaaaaah,

thank you!

there are several scary elements in that story. kind of like the place he was sleeping in was haunted...

[kratoslinkmaster]

the beginning is the children in the waiting room then their called in and the middle is the operation this music is like fear in audio form

[kratoslinkmaster]

all i can think about is dr mengele murdering children at aushwitz while listening to this

[DerekBayRoberts1]

I'm confused, i thought this was called "AWAKENING of Jacob"

Anyrate i recall this one "Room 237"

[krakenopolis]

Impresionante e inquietante partitura, de extraña belleza y sonoridad...

[psychopathtoine]

so glad i discovered this music!

[MartinaUrticaAura]

Hauntingly beautiful music. But I wonder, if prince Rainier liked it, after all 25th anniversary is a happy celebration:P

[jdbrown371]

Beautiful painting. Does someone know who the artist is?

[sakura4184]

Wow......

[Ultraman725]

I got a man running from a group of soldiers as tension mounts, what are you guys getting?

[thepantherx12]

I loved listening to this piece, I've never heard it before but it has to be said the imagery in my head was very intense.

At first it felt like an alien landscape and a man wondering it, but the man then fell and kept falling, then broken on the floor but still alive he could see things in the dark, I felt the man's dread and hopelessness.

It went on like this in my head, I think it was man experiencing going to hell in my head.

(I'm not religious, just what I imagined)

[youvebeenthunderstru]

I mean, if anyone's ever watched The Shining they always think of that while hearing this. But it's a good piece of music on its own.

[Kneam]

A powerful work, stimulating the imagination, from an important 20th-century composer.

[TKProgs]

There's no accounting for taste.

[GeorgeMaj15]

I am glad I don't watch a lot of horror films because I love Pendereski for his own works, and don't associate it with films. This piece has some of the best use of percussion, along with Dimensions of Time and Space, and the choice of woodwinds and organ (unless I'm hearing clarinets) in the beginning is brilliant.

[GeorgeMaj15]

*Time and Silence. I had a Freudian slip!

[gpwerner]

If J.S. Bach is the Alpha of classical music, then Penderecki is the Omega IMO: the last great voice of unity before the listless abstraction of Glass and Adams came to the fore.

What incredible use of dissonance here. Even if that wasn't his intent, who composes the dark night of one's soul better than Penderecki? Big influence on the "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" and "Matrix" scores.

[Phoenix1342689]

Those violin glisses are nothing short of unsettling. Such a twisted piece.

[bill291212]

i love this music, but it scares the crap out of me! is it supposed to?

[mooreentstudios]

I think it's supposed to be unsettling and overwhelming.

[xxXCalculatorXxx]

Beautiful, intense, stunning, powerful.. amazing piece brings tears to my eyes

[Darkwarrior702]

Great stuff very haunting atmosphere

[okayillgonow]

That's not surprising. In fact, this is available on The Shining (film) soundtrack.

[oceanic6survivor]

@okayillgonow its in the shining??? CReEPPPY that was such a creepy movie.

[Linuxiu]

Excellent piece, but does anyone else hear "Aliens"? I wonder if James Horner ripped specifically from this piece when he composed that score.

[esordiendes]

la più tetra delle musiche

[attilagaborcsur]

When the bass comes in at the beginning (and some certain points of this piece) - it sounds like the slow breathing of a human during sleep. Wonderful. I can see the whole scene with Jacob, the heavenly staircase, the angels, and with God. Even if i didn't know the Bible story i would be able to find it out with the help of listening the piece. I suppose that Penderecki's source material comes from the true and firm belief.

[dead2disguise]

absolutely amazing work I agree with Gabyclass below total genius!