Liszt - Dante Symphony - 1. Inferno (1/3)

[Dihelson]

Liszt could have written all Wagner´s music. He had genius for that. I believe Liszt was equal to Beethoven and Haendel. He could make all the music he wanted to. This is superior music. Not a mere parrot like John Williams make on his soundtracks...oh god !

[hadaAnnEd]

no no se puede comparar esta pieza con el heavy metal, mas si se puede decir que muchas bandas de Metal Progresivo estan basadas en musica desde la raiz, cosas tan maravillosas como esta obra de arte, real alimento para el alma y los sentidos...

[GilbertoAndres2449]

Nunca antes había escuchado la sinfonía Dante de F. :Liszt, hace dos dias escuché el Magnificat del tercer movimiento y quedé impresionado por su belleza, lo que me ha hecho escucharla entera, mi opinión es que es magnífica.

[MrPeguin666]

This song plays when Chuck Norris eats cereal

[HelloAdrian2]

Google :)

[Nganguenf]

Une pièce inspirée de ""La Divine Comédie"" de Dante Alieghéri. Liszt dans toute sa virtuosité, laisse transparaître tout le caractère dantesque, intrinsèque à l'oeuvre...Il est à coup sûr, le plus talentueux et le plus cultivé des pianistes!!!

[callasnuts]

Orchestra and conductor please??

[rockmati]

Listen to "Inferno" by War From A Harlots Mouth. Fucking great!!!!!!!

[montypythonfanatic1]

2 People are touring the Inferno

[MelancholyBleeding]

If Liszt was born in 1974 he would be named Lars Mikael Akerfeldt and would be the vocalist of Opeth!

[Aemasone]

@MelancholyBleeding So very true!

Nice to see someone else who enjoys both the music of Liszt and Opeth. :)

[annefrankisaho]

@MelancholyBleeding

Why would a great composer be the vocalist of a pussy fake prog band?

[MelancholyBleeding]

@annefrankisaho

Difficult to explain to you...looking into your username *snort*

I can only fell sorry for you and feel ashamed for mankind, for your inability to scope into the similarities that more than anything else unite Late Romantic Era's music with modern Progressive/Melodic/Technical/­Symphonic Black/Death/Power metal.

But, I shan't dwell in the thesis of relative evolutionism and time discontinuity before you do me the favour of defining "pussy fake prog band". Quid pro quo.

[CHRIS1974100]

great post

[MrANTONIOS383]

Ο ΛΙΣΤ ΕΚΤΟΣ ΑΠΟ ΚΟΡΥΦΑΙΟΣ ΣΥΝΘΕΤΗΣ ΗΤΑΝ ΚΑΙ ΚΑΛΟΣ ΧΑΡΑΚΤΗΡΑΣ.ΔΕΝ ΥΠΗΡΞΕ ΝΕΟΣ ΣΥΝΘΕΤΗΣ ΠΟΥ ΝΑ ΜΗΝ ΤΟΝ ΥΠΟΣΤΗΡΙΞΕ ΚΑΙ ΤΟΝ ΕΝΘΑΡΥΝΕ Ο ΛΙΣΤ.

[lovellespice]

epic epicness!!

[stomwi]

4:25 the best:D:D:D:D

[Whyolin]

hát nem egy májáliszene

[cj12cc]

What is the orchestra playing in this? thanks

[GALLERIEVONDADA]

BUT NOT POSERMETAL

THIS IS REAL ETERNAL ART

[lelepianoforte92]

l'ho scoperta x caso stamattina questa sinfonia =)

molto bella!!! spero ci sia pure x pianoforte solo, su youtube

[witness124]

This purely and wonderfully conveys the evil that is reflected in what must be the worlds greatest poem.

[ThePianosarah]

Oh, ich kann mir das gar nicht anhören. Diese Klänge. Nicht, dass es nicht schön wäre, aber es macht mir Angst.

[KatzenfutterdeLuxe]

Vielen, vielen Dank für die gute Klangqualität, nach der Vertonung des großen Werks habe ich schon lange gesucht. Es gibt anscheinend nicht nur Schund hier.

[witness124]

Where did you get the set of images? Is there a name for them?

[weepingwillow11]

@witness124 The illustrations are by Gustav Doré. I stumbled across the name in the comments of another Inferno video. =] The pictures are very striking, aren't they?

[witness124]

@weepingwillow11 Thankkyou very much. I agree, they are extremely striking, whihc is why I like them.

[witness124]

Where did you get the set of images? Is there aname for them.

[77liszt]

incredible!great liszt

[AphroditeEros33]

Prima!!! Vielen Dank!!! *^o^*

[metallicragex]

This piece is awesome. And btw, the Wagner debate is completely irrelevant. This is Franz Liszt, enjoy his music and do this asinine debating somewhere else.

[demonswoop]

Wagner expressed anti-Jewish sentiments. He also had Jewish friends throughout his life. People are complex and contradictory creatures. To mark him as a Nazi is ignorant (or disingenuous), as he died half a century before the rise of Nazism. In any case, he was a magnificent composer. When we begin to throw our artists out with the bath water, we'll soon find we have none left

[Gargantupimp]

Wagner Was A Nazi!!

[Sword1479]

@Gargantupimp No he wasn't.

[Gargantupimp]

@Sword1479 Yes he was!!! Original Nazi is to Wagner as Original Pedophile is to Micheal Jackson!!!!!

[Sword1479]

@Gargantupimp The Nazi party wasn't around until after Wagner died. He was antisemitic, but he couldn't have been a Nazi.

[wierdo1232123]

Des, you are awesome for posting all of these Liszt music vid!!!

[lagoondiver]

I'm thinking about a new Disney Fantasia with the story of Dante and this music playing in the background...

[Gargantupimp]

@lagoondiver Yes and the rotting tortured souls of men pleading for sanity littering the entire toonscape!! Kids are gonna luv it!

[PickledHarrrington]

You can hear Dante and Virgil descending through the Red Gates of Dis...

[thedreamforce]

What recording is this?

[gwaur]

@thedreamforce

This appears to be the Berlin Philharmonic and Daniel Barnboim for Elatus. This recording is also on Spotify and, on top of being otherwise identical, they both have the same strange humming sounds at 3:32 and 6:19. :P spotify:track:5WLmG3A9HqpN75iu­ltYhRC

[mangaka350]

the way listen to this song

i think of dante's inferno game =O

[terrorforce007]

this reminds me sooooooo much of metal.

I wonder if liszt would also be into metal if metal existed back then xd.

[Vampiresss8]

@terrorforce007

i bet all romantic composers would be metalheads 2day !

[terrorforce007]

haha yeah you're right XD

[90tomyboy]

@terrorforce007 With that hair? Sure!!! He would have been the wildest headbanger on Earth!!!

[floydier]

Thank YOU!!! Love this music...Liszt one of my favorites of the Romantic era,...

[historygenius]

Yeah, at 4:25!

[historygenius]

@nuandii That's wfat I thought!

[richisinpiano]

@nuandii LoL!!!!!!

[chamoyloco]

@nuandii heavy metal its tacky compared to this

[ERIKANOGUEIRA2507]

@nuandii tsctscttscttscttsctstcthuahdau­shaushuahsuahsu

very funny!!

[espiritusilente]

@nuandii no compares a la simplesa del heavy metal con esta pieza

[geminigoth]

@espiritusilente Te apoyo compadre, comparar Heavy metal con musica clasica, por dios! el hecho de que en la actualidad a todo genero musical se le encime metal no significa que tenga que ver con dichos generos. El Heavy metal utiliza las guitarras (en sincronía con el bajo y bateria) de forma áspera, potente y desgarrantes de manera que transmite agresividad; lo que hace al genero fuera del contexto para las obras clasicas.

[Bassoonater]

@nuandii I'll translate what my mate espiritusilente wrote. Ehem... do not compare the simplicity of heavy metal to this piece.

[Maralegar2009]

No,No,No,

Wagner not dissuaded him , it s the opposite ...But Liszt seems to think about last part before wagner notice it to him ....

[BarbaraPloyer333]

Huh- I didn't know Liszt composed something inspired by the Divine Comedy. This is just amazing- I mean, Liszt was one of the best of all times. A complete genius- insane music for his time, mind you. This guy's just amazing!

True- conscious tone row! Yaaaaaaaaah!

[slashslashdotdot]

Unfortunately his friend, Wagner dissuaded him from writing the last part of this piece, so instead it has some "Magnificat" instead.

[BarbaraPloyer333]

Wagner!? Why did he think there would be something wrong with this work? Did Wagner think it was much too dark or something?

[slashslashdotdot]

It's a damn shame. Wagner was a nazi (I'm not saying that he didn't write good music, but you have to agree, he WAS a nazi).

[witness124]

@EstaTotAgafatAqui Well, at least there's one sensible chum around here.

[MrMephisto89]

@EstaTotAgafatAqui

Well - Wagner was no Nazi, as this ideologie did not exist during his lifetime. He was however an radical Anti-Semite and German nationalist - not exactly a person i'd like to have known ;-)

Also Bayreuth was used for propaganda during the "Third Reich" in close cooperation of the NSDAP and the Wagner family.

The Nitzsche topic is (even) more complex - in fact too complex to discuss it in a youtube comment imo.

[MrMephisto89]

@MrMephisto89

Just to be clear: This does in no way damage Wagner's music itself. Also this whole discussion is rather misplaced =)

So let's just enjoy the genious of Liszt.

[ZyklonCable]

@EstaTotAgafatAqui

partly correct. Nietzsche hated the german society and the christian society in general. Wagner was a big fan of german culture and mythology. I woulddescribe him partly as a nationalist but for sure he wasnt a nazi lol. People who think like this are stupid. Anti/semitism was very popular at that time, not only in germany

[FreeVonHelton]

@EstaTotAgafatAqui The National Socialists usually never twisted what people accuse them of. People twist what they thought and did. I'm sick of Nietzsche being praised in every Wagner (and even Liszt) related video.

Nietzsche's writings advocated a form of inequality and cruelty incompatible with modern sentiment whether he hated his own country or not.

Hating his own kind only makes him less compassionate.

[TristanHaney1]

@EstaTotAgafatAqui The Nazis didn't twist the fact that Wagner was a raging anti-semite.

[Makkaroni0]

@EstaTotAgafatAqui

At first Nietzsche and Wagner became Friends. But later Wagner was hated by Nietzsche for his Antisemitism

[OldSchopenhauer]

@EstaTotAgafatAqui That's a lie.

[drakan80]

@OldSchopenhauer There's evidence in letters Nietzche sent to both Wagner and Nietzche's sister regarding his offense to Wagner's explicit antisemitism, and his sister's marriage to an antisemite.

[morvensky]

That comment doesn't deserve a thumbs down. Wager was extremely anti-semetic

[pjkorab]

hahahaa!! yeah, and Jesus was a mormon xD

seriously, where do You people come from?? Wagner was an antisemite, true enough, but that's all. And mind You, being an antisemite was much more common and pc then (and grounded by centuries of hate and stupid myths), so he wasn't such a bad guy, as some pc's want him to be :>

[slashslashdotdot]

Look, I didn't mean it literally. It was a joke, learn to tell the difference. Opinions on Wagner are conflicted to this day. Many will argue either for or against his character, but I was specifically referring to his anti-Semitism. Even if it was more common back then (btw just because everybody's doing it doesn't make it right) he was notably head and shoulders above the rest. He published public attacks on the jews and jewish musicians. He even wrote a letter to Liszt justifying his stance.

[pjkorab]

Cool, I'm not bashing You or anything - a joke is a joke (You could have put some smiley in though, so people *could* tell the difference ;P). And I'm not justifying his antisemitism - i'm just saying it's fairly understandable, just like, say, the medieval inquisition.

Btw, I hate it how even a slightest connection to antisemitism makes all these fiery debates here on YT.. Frankly, I don't like Wagner very much, but does his antisemitism make his music worse?

Peace to You, people ;)

[wierdo1232123]

I agree. I'm Jewish, but I don't think that its that big of a deal here. So what? Wagner was an anti-semite. It doesn't matter when were talking about his music. Its as good or as bad as you think it is whether or not you knew he was an anti-semite!

[Rizzo2013]

Wagner wasn't a Nazi. People can speculate but he was simply Hitler's favorite composer.

[lambday]

It is actually interesting to note that Wagner's music has been given a bad name (to some extent) because it was favored by national socialist circles, while a lot of Carl Orff's most famous work has been revered and appreciated without being stained by such associations. 

And why is that? After all, Orff composed to please the ears of those very nazi circles...

[d60944]

Liszt also composed a piano sonata inspired by the Divine Comedy (the "Dante Sonata" - the closing movement of the main part of Book 2 of teh Annees de Pelerinage).

[brianpwnz777]

hey tell me where i can get this

[jacoclaypool666]

The first conscious tone row!! Thank you Franz!!

[TheLuke1840]

Tchaikovsky´s Francesca... now THERE´S a real Inferno!

[jirkakobera]

is this in whole tone scale?

[SaigheadBhriste]

Epic.

[fervask]

the most special moment to enjoy and fly with this melody to me is a saturdays night. with the lights turned off in my room. = )

[fervask]

i mean: the right order is?

1. inferno

2. purgatorio

3. magnificant

[HelveteKeiser]

normally the order is inferno purgatorio paradiso,but instead of Paradiso (wagner told him that it would be impossible to depict paradise in music) he composed a Magnificat,so your order is correct! :)

[fervask]

thanks!

[HelveteKeiser]

you're welcome mate!

[DesAbends]

The last part of Magnificat could be the very Paradise, at least the gate of it.

[HelveteKeiser]

Yeah.I think it works like in the poem were Dante would hear the devine music from the Paradise.

[Gargantupimp]

@HelveteKeiser F WAGNER!

[fervask]

anybody may write the right order of this piece by movementes

[jhh0237l]

Finally, granddaddy of all is the megalomaniacal symphony by Scriabin called the "Preparation for the Final Mystery". While it is not as profound fugue score, it has double or quadruple orchestral needs. It may be available on London label by Vladimir ashkenazy conducting DSOBerlin. The symphony encompasses 3 CD -- longer.. than you guessed it.. Mahler or Havergal Brian's "Gothic" symphony and excellent recorded sound.

[jhh0237l]

This is one of the best records that Barenboim has ever conducted, which ranks to THE top of the charts. All hellish music is worth any money. Bu......t, that is not the hellish music you should listen to. While not a symphonic version, try Mephistopheles by Arrigo Boito. Bu....t that is not end of it. We stil have Mussorgsky's Night on a Bald Mountain (original score on Virgin records, and by Abbado on LSO/DG).

[tituscaesar]

who conducts? what is the orchestra? date? you seem to have missed out all the essentials...

[Sinfoniette]

Say that after you listen to it; I think you can guess that this is some great music, whoever the conductor is. Does it really matter THAT much? Isn't music the essential part of it?

[DesAbends]

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Berlin Radio women's Chorus

Daniel Barenboim.

[gabsart]

great symphony, I could listen it for ever!

[Kalen1457]

Gosh...I think I have listened to more classical music than my teacher!

[siebhirn]

look out for the 2-piano version of this piece !!!

"liszt is the man".

[DesAbends]

Great! but I think the transcriptions for two pianos made by Liszt "impoverish" the orchestral score. I mean, it's impossible for two pianos, even with a great transcription as Liszt made, to express the power of a giant orchestra, with many colours and nuances. My opinion.

[siebhirn]

you´re absolutley wright,that´s impossible !!!but just listening the two-piano-version WITHOUT KNOWING the orchestral score(i first knew the two-piano version !)was amazing !!!

i was knocked down by the beginnig of the "inferno" !

one of the most powerful and aggressive liszt i know!!

w-o-n-d-e-r-f-u-l-l !!!!!!!

thx for answering !

[Spiritakis]

@DesAbends

I agree. Liszt's transcriptions for solo piano are magnificent and worth hearing, but I'd rather go with the original orchestral version when there is one. (Mephisto Waltz No. 1 is probably the only exception.)

Great performance of the Dante Symphony. May I inquire who the performers are? Barenboim? I know it is not Sinopoli for sure but then I have to guess.

[ST1CK3LS]

@DesAbends Chopin managed it

[DrJobs]

@siebhirn "liszt, chopin, rachmaninoff, ravel are the men" in different ways :P ;)

[sparebone]

Very powerful and scary stuff. It really is fantastic. I could listen to this with a scary black and white cartoon of dante coming out of hell. It would be an interesting work and the illustrations would have to be of a nature similar to the shakespearian cartoon short films produced.

[mchiarina]

¿tiene algo que ver con la sonata dante para piano? además de la inspiración, claro está...

[Yohimbero]

Muy buena, me parece una obra exquisita y muy recomendable oir mientras se lee la Divina Comedia......

[siebhirn]

and the winner in the category "most wonderfull human beeing ever" :Franz Liszt for "himself" !!!

[JP250506]

This is a wonderful rendition indeed given its fearsome threnodies. Apart from Liszt's Faust and Mahler's Resurrection symphonies, the only other symphonic work that can possibly conjure up such hellish depictions is Josef Suk's Asrael Symphony. Does anybody care to post concert performances, or at the very least musical excerpts of this much neglected work on youtube?

[d60944]

Hmmm. Rachmaninoff composed some pretty terrific hellish music in his opera "Francesca da Rimini" (also based on Dante's Divine Comedy)

[JP250506]

@JP250506 - Now you can hear a wonderful interpretation of Suk's symphony by Walter Weller to appreciate its striking affinity with Liszt's Dante's Symphony. Just type "suk asrael weller" on utube's search engine.

[olga2809]

I didn't know this music, but it's fantastic, thanks a lot for posting!

[anfalagu]

Esta sinfonía es hermosa sin duda, gracias por subirla, es una gran forma de

Difundir la música sinfónica del gran Liszt. Cuanto me encantaría escuchar sus poemas sinfónicos y la sinfonía fausto o el oratorio cristo que acá en Uruguay no se consigue tales grabaciones

[DesAbends]

Gracias, muy gentil!

[mayorde18]

googlea "El rincón melómano faust symphony"

el oratorio cristus esta en taringa (googleando "taringa liszt christus") ojala ayude

[gilraen690]

hahaha "googlea" and "googleando"

lol.

made my day.

[maxi937]

I can't believe their's only three comments about this fantastic music!