TCHAIKOVSKY - Symphony no6 (Pathetique) - Herbert von Karajan & Wiener Phil

[eliasbb]

What is that very reedy/buzzing instrument near the end of the symphony? Bass clarinet? Bassoon? It sounds so beautiful.

[Gordontrek]

If you know me personally it's very hard to make me cry. The first movement drove me to sniffles once. Oh woodwinds, you are soooo delicious......

[thrashmetalfiend]

I swear I heard some of this music on Ren and Stimpy.

[sherban1930]

Караян добавил к красоте и лиризму Чайковского силу и небывалую глубину. Получилос чудо.

[9InfernoDrako]

Two days ago I found in You tube a miracle:TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No.6 NBC Tocanini STEREO Live 21 March 1954 (remaster feb 2012)....

[seponvi]

Tchaikovsky-Karajan  the best interpretation ever!!!!!

[ikeday]

I'm just curious. I think it is very strange that all the clarinets player hold their instruments at the same angle. The video shows us the clarinets are on line, like soldiers march. Is it very common for the German orchestra or Karajan's style? I can find that the flutes are the same fashion.

The music is very beautiful, so I don't care what I mentioned. But, I was just feel strange.

[cagin]

@ikeday Those shots are not taken during the performances. They are taken during playbacks and during playbacks so that the players can stay on the same line.

Check : Karajan - Beauty as I see it / Die Schönheit wie ich sie sehe (Part 6) [1.30] &

Karajan - Maestro for the Screen / Filmstar Karajan, (Part 4) especially is important but I recommend you to watch the whole doc. anyway.

Both on YouTube...

[cagin]

@ikeday Let me add that in his videos for Unitel and Telemondial all, I mean all, wind and percussion parts and some string parts are re-shots. Exceptions are those New Year or All Souls Day concerts. Rest is, how to say, a kind of fabricated images.

[wj4710]

What about von Karajan? We are listening to Tchaikovsky, right? So please, leave all the negative out of this section and spoil the music all together, please.

A child of St. Petersburg, my dear Tchaikovsky being, please let him be all honour, will you, please?

"written by a citizen of St. Petersburg

[11chivita11]

何と華麗で的確な指揮。カラヤンは、偉大な指揮者でしたね。

今更ながら、感銘致しました。

[1987DiasJoao]

Karajan knows more music and orchestral conducting dead, than any one of you alive!

Karajan is the best ever!

[zolochnaya]

@1987DiasJoao But Bernstein know the Tchaik 5 the best!

[lesliefoy49]

are you sitting ,listening and watching partiture,everybody makes mistakes ? always happen,it is not painture

[conductorforlife95]

@gustopheles I meant to say 36:25

[conductorforlife95]

@gustopheles I didn't watch the whole perfomance... the ending of the 3rd mvt. Only speaking about the 3rd mvt., the problem started at 3:25 and it went downhill from there. I don't know if it was an actualy mistake on his part, or just poor interpretation of his pattern by the orchestra. Believe me, Karajan was a great conductor, however there were many times in other performances that I've seen where the orchestra had trouble interpreting his conducting. This was not uncommon

[conductorforlife95]

@lajtinga Maybe if he actually led his orchestra better, he wouldn't have had problems like those. And no, this was not the only occasion that he messed up. I have nothing against him, for he was great at telling the orchestra exactly what he wanted, but he butchered that 3rd mvt. He disserviced Tchaikovsky.

[gustopheles]

@conductorforlife95 hey, at what time in the video did he mess up? I like Karajan very much, and I'm wondering what to watch out for in this performance.

[TheeCaptainAmerica]

@gustopheles me too!

[ArgelGeovanny]

Sinceramente este video me saco una lagrima, solo tchaikovsky puede ponerme los pelos de punta

[TawnaPennykp447]

hihi bin so lieb

[schneider876]

Hello my name is rafael and i live in Brasil !

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

it did not money but by the love of music , THEYDID THIS WITH SEVERAL PEOPLE

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[isaachill87]

I don't get this karajan guy. He's famous but I don't know why. He doesn't get into his music that much. its boring

[adam246811]

@isaachill87 Yes he's not like Leonard Bernstein when it comes to showing emotion on stage. But his genius lies in his rehearsal time - just listen to his recordings, & its obvious that there's something different about his style. His sound primarily, is probably the silkiest and thickect you'll ever hear. There's a video on YouTube of him in a rehearsal of Schumann's 4th Symphony - have a look at it - it's brilliant. :)

[chocotastic]

@isaachill87 Wow. This comment as absolutely floored me. I'm trying to decide whether it's worth my time to explain as to why what you just said is probably one of the most incorrect and blatantly wrong things in the world of orchestral music.

You might find it 'boring', but most people who actually know what they're talking about with music like this find it the opposite.

That being said, this concert was at a time when Karajan was in his decline. Old age and health problems tend to do that.

[Levill91]

13:27 <3

[44Ulysse]

putain charle chaplin a totalement volé ce thème pour les lumières de la ville !!!!

[totallyfuzzy]

MONO, ruins it completely

[nenomarti]

Para alguns "experts", é "kitsch"... Para mim - que não sou "expert" em coisa alguma - é música! E de excelente qualidade! Senão a melhor!

[jlmusicfan57]

As an individual who has a Masters' degree in music and first heard this symphony as an undergraduate over 30+ years ago it has always been my favorite orchestral work of all-time. The sheer passion and emotion as composed by maestro Tchaikovsky has always taken my breath away. Thank you for this exquisite performance by probably the greatest orchestra on planet Earth - the Vienna Philharmonic!

[Classicfan94]

i so adore the 3rd movement!!

[Shaysailor]

Such beautiful camera work! I've never seen it like this, so amazing to watch. Thank you for this gift!

[PageboyHaircut]

@Shaysailor You are welcome. Consider it my treat to you.

[lesliefoy49]

kiváló szerző,kiváló karmester,kiváló zenekar



[conductorforlife95]

AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! The end of the third mvt. = NOT BALANCED!!!! Too heavy in the brass, tempo pulled tooooooo much, and it wasn't together. YUCK!

[lajtnga]

@conductorforlife95 Can you do it better? ;)

I would like to see that..

You know.. Even professionals make mistakes, they are also human beings :)

And I wish you a wonderful day, sir :)

[Rx4pabulum]

Listen to the composer’s Symphony No. 6, “Pathetique,” with an awareness of the possibility that this was a suicide note in musical form.

[gustopheles]

@Rx4pabulum Repressed homosexuality does that to people even as brilliant as he.

[sahand144]

Best piece ever written

[OrchestrationOnline]

I once saw a performance of this symphony where the conductor played the 4th movement attacca to the end of the 3rd - almost like that opening B minor 6 chord was an immediate chastening of the triumphant ending G major chord. It was devastatingly effective.

[OrchestrationOnline]

This is a gorgeous performance - keep in mind that many of the close-ups were done after the show as re-takes, then edited in. This explains the strange case of the timpani being next to the trumpets in one shot, then the trombones in another, or the flutes disappearing from the winds when the bassoons are playing, and vice-versa. However they did it, it's very well done.

[OrchestrationOnline]

Love the Vienna horns at 18:46!

[TheTherese3]

God gave us Tchaikovsky.Tchaikovsky gave us Go

d.This is when men were men.

[TheTherese3]

Easily the rock Star. Don't you get it??

[TheTherese3]

All in all ,his music was so dangerous,and we are just getting it.We are pleabes!

[TheTherese3]

And then we are confronted with this.

[TheTherese3]

This movement can power a sizable city.And it's not even finished.People still clap thinking it's the finale.Mr Tchaikovsky always kept us on our feet.

[TheTherese3]

Ingres never heard Tchaikovsky.If he had ,the man may have scrapped Mozart.I suspect he would have gave the master a portrait..or two.Peter you the man!

[TheTherese3]

Art is a nexus.When one approaches Peter that person must be prepared for critique.Herb knows his Tchaikovski.Just think a German orchestra giving us Russian music?? These are great times to be alive.

[sahand144]

This is amazing........

[carmaiolox]

capolavoro beautiful

[adecastrouno]

me ha parecido que karajan dirige bien a su partitura, que es a quien mira mas frecuentemente. no se le puede negar la energia y ritmo que imprime.

[newFranzFerencLiszt]

violin viola cello

you forgot the double bass

[kamngaty]

@newFranzFerencLiszt

thank's for interested.. i really appreciated

now everything is ok

[newFranzFerencLiszt]

@kamngaty lol!

[butterfingers6m]

Oh my.. the Andante part is really beautiful... Karajan really bring up the incalzando and ritenuto...

[TecnoCorps]

una persona prefiere reggueton

[teresa2610]

thanks you, I like this simphony and I love Karajan. Very good performance.

[1812Beethovens9th]

Great to see the full Symphony performed live! :)

[cardinalstl5]

Mmm yum this is really good