'Manfred' Symphony - 1st Mvt Part 1/2 - by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Op. 58

[sermossman]

respect!!!!! λεμε

[arielunbound]

Thanks for uploading this! I bought a LPO one recently and it was rubbish, nothing coming up to having heard it live. I've read the poem, "Manfred" too:it's neurotic, messy, a struggle between make-belief and the need to dump the lot and get real: which Byron ultimately refuses to do. Then in-between: god, what? HELL, and this fantastic music.

[THEMEXICANPET]

...sal de mi puta cabeza, sal de mi mente, de mi, dejame en paz!!

miss you so much... rbk

[LJBSasha]

For what's available so far on YouTube (as of 2009/11/02), behold the performance that truly does justice to this lovely work. Pjótr Iljích fully understood - and could completely empathise with - the character of Manfred (who himself reflected the persona of Lord George Gordon Byron, the abnormalpoem/novel's author, and his own abnormal procilvities, incest included!!), and the result is some of his very greatest music!!!

Most warmly recommended - 5 stars out of 5!!!!

[LJBSasha]

PoledniceWP, many, many thanks for posting this performance - neither of the other two offerings available as of yet even equal (let alone surpass!!) this heartfelt emotion that is let bare here!!!

[LJBSasha]

Oops, forgot to also endorse the outstanding programme-notes relative to Lord Byron's poem/novel, which inspired Pjótr Iljích to write such a superb piece as this!!

[Lukecash12]

This beginning statement really makes me think of Janacek. Do you see it too?

[PoledniceWP]

I think I see what you mean; there's something about the opening statement that conjures a kind of cognitive dissonance in my mind - it's Tchaikovsky, but then it isn't Tchaikovsky. However my brain attempts to understand it, it renders the depiction of Manfred particularly devastating, and I just can't quite describe how perfect it seems as a depiction in its closeness to Byron's text :)

[Lukecash12]

Precisely.