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Such great playing- is that Klaus Tendstedt conducting? jeez- it's so dark I can barely tell. It looks like they're playing by moonlight. How the hell can those guys see their music, let alone the conductor?

God, he is so CUTE and totally CHARMING!!

@inkey2 Haha! You're right, he has too- I never noticed that before- and they're so WHITE !

Can someone explain the psychology of american talk show seating arrangements, whereby the host's chair is about a million feet taller than the guests? Letterman is the same.

@Satinesophie What he says at the beginnibg is nothing more interesting than a fale start- so you haven't missed anything. He simply says ''You know something? There was... There's been a lot of rumours lately''.. etc

Oh right- he was born in 1970, huh? He looked pretty old for a 39 year old. What's that great american expression for people like you? Oh, that's right- you fucktard.

@Shadow2945 Yes, his high 'e natural' is a bit wobbly. It's very unusual to ever hear a single imperfection from the Berliner, isn't it?!

Superb playing! Bravo!

er.... what are we looking at ? Your little red cars? Oh !... very nice!

@martinchapple1 You are correct- you were indeed looking South- east. It appears you have a better grasp of geography/ compass points etc than the local guy ( and that's OK, local guy!)

@HauntedUnitedGaming hahaha!

@MrNutana hahaha! A witty, droll and thoroughly - deserved response to the self- aggrandising prophet of doom.

haha- you probably didn't notice that at the start of almost every accent except your 'posh' one you said '' Now, THIS accent makes people sound a bit thick...''

This is my new favourite performance- they are sensational under Maestro Chung. My only disappointment is the inaudible bass drum at 1.33. The orchestra is in 4/4 time and then the bass drum comes in against it in 3/4 time- then, of course the rest of the build-up; oboes, horns, tamtam, and guer...

Of course, what the poor little darling means by sexually 'confused' is that these ancient peoples weren't all fucked up about sex the way HE has probably been taught to be.

Hahaha! All that 'promised land' shit the white folks used to try to convince the poor black slaves that their miserable lives were worth enduring, way back in earlier centuries, is

alive and well, isn't it? They still believe it!

Oh christ I'm sick of people posting a million versions of Dance of The Knights- this great score has about one and a half hours of OTHER fantastic music in it too! Same with the symphonies- get over the bloody 'classical' symphony #1.

@AJHyoton I agree that one slip doesn't necessarily ruin an entire performance, especially with so distinguished an ensembe. It's just very unfortunate though that the cracked notes are in one of the a) most sublime moments in the work, and b) one of the most exposed. Imagine how poor Gwyneth Jon...

@Katrinawitch THIS is the film with the nude scene, not Maurice

Can someone please explain to me why so many youtube clips never have their sound and video in sync? What is it, some weakness in the technology?

I'm surprised to hear Ian Charleson say ''... but it hasn't stopped me appreciating the ladies'' ( appreciative chuckles from the men). I guess he hadn't come out then. As a gay man myself, who came out when I was about 10, I'm always surprised and saddened when I hear gay men feeling obliged to...

I'm astonished to see the grammatical error in the subtitles. At 37 the line reads ' I'm writing to you in the year of greace 1758' ! Now, there is a gentle little word ' grace' and there is a financially troubled little country called Greece. How on earth did this typo make it onto screen? Didn'...

@Lelija45 male dancers don't need point shoes because they never dance on point.

@TitoMunozConductor Maestro,you are correct, of course. After subsequent replays of this performance I have no idea what it was I first heard that made me agree with the other comment that it was the 1911 version. Maybe it was simply that your young orchestra plays with such weight that I mistoo...

You're absolutely correct- I had never noticed. It's sounds wonderful, though Mahler wrote it for an F trumpet.How ironic that someone ( presumably Bychkov) is ' improving' Mahler's orchestration- something Mahler himself did to other composers, like Schumann. This is a terrific performance- it...

I've always been puzzled by what sounds like a grammatical error- can anyone help me out here? Barbra seems to sing'' Turn around and turn around, Try floating through the air- Can't you be a little more respect? '' Huh? BE a little more RESPECT?

It ends up in the key of A major- the sopranos belting out a top c# on the last chord- wow! I agree the choreography is a bit lame- but then, it's pretty typical of English choreography- you know.. the men always seem to be sticking their thumbs into their braces while doing high kicks on alterna...

Mine too! I think it must be because it is great fim-making- every aspect of this short scene; a long travelling shot ( especially for 1938), Margaret Hamilton ( already terrifying!), the bike, the costume, the bleak landscape, all underpinned by that fantastically scary musical motif- tight tril...

He sure was one of the most beautiful men who ever lived but, boy, listen to him squirming to avoid conceeding that, far from being heroic, those 'brave' ' pioneers', so mythologised by John Ford in movies of the 40s and 50s, were nothing more than self- righteous ( oh yes, they had god on their ...

It's amazing to me that this audience finds this talent- free non- comedian funny. He has no material and absolutely no comedic instinct. I've watched funnier funerals. Aren't americans strange...

@lednew2010 What do you mean? I have seen dozens of performances of The Rite over the past 40 years, and am intimately acquainted with the written score, including, of course, the timp parts. I have never seen a ' simplified' version of them. Is there any performance on youtube you could refer me...

@darkprose Haha! yeah, I know- that fantasy, so many ( usually male) orchestra- lovers have of 'driving' one of those gleaming machines called Symphony Orchestras. I used to love 'conducting' The Rite Of Spring in my bedroom, as a teenager. You've just GOTTA release your physical response to the ...

@TheVaughan5 There is an excellent Marris Jansons/ Oslo Phil complete Tchaikovsky symphonies including a terrific, strong but not over- driven .Manfred

it never ceases to astonish me how the Berlin Phil manages to attract not only the best wind players but also the hottest

@rickmortensen2 it's the second movement, called ' Anfortas' Wound' that belongs to the early 20th C world of early Schonberg

@link2400 The fact that they DO bend and flex so much is precisely the reason that they DON'T snap off. If they were rigid... that's exactly what they WOULD do.

I'm truly shocked by the number of wrong notes! Listen to 6.37 for example- it's a bloody mess of split octaves and missed notes. And throughout the whole piece the rubato is so extravagantly exaggerated, as was the custom at the time, that it seems laughablytrivial- there is no accumulation of ...

Thankyou so much- it is VERY much appreciated !

wonderful- but where the hell did youget the shitty recording of the Blue danube from?! It sounds like a school band- so many wrong and out of tune notes- especially in the horns, trombones and piccolo.

Runyus- thanks for the correction. I didn't know the word 'innervate', which is why I thought he had misused 'ENervate'. I stand happily and humbly corrected!

@Justina14ification Exactly! It's the publisher who failed- not the timpanist!

After all these years in Berlin I note Sir Simon is still only able to say the odd word or phrase in german ( '' sehr leisse'') to his orchestra. When he wants or needs to say a whole sentence, even a simple one, as at the end of the clip, he has to revert to english- yet every european conduc...

@AndyMcGore Yes indeed,Andy! And my top secular pick, which has the same unbelievably life- affirming ending is Schoenberg's Gurrelieder! Check out some great performances of the finale ' Seht die Sonne!' on youtube, including a newish one from a wonderful Spanish Youth Orchestra ( though played ...