A dramatic 10 minutes of the Firebird by Igor Sravinsky, Note the gradual transition as it finalizes in a breathtaking last 4 minutes. As a music lover, the ending is a tribute to the Firebird, and will capture the heroic end of this masterpiece, one of the greatest pieces of music written.
@@walterfutterweit6476 I am 17 years old and my dream is pianist(you can check my channel) I'm very thanks to Agosti who transcribed this marvelous 3 dances for piano.
Walter Futterweit I hear you with the rain. I drove over a hill in a storm. At the point the piece was most powerful the sixty foot trees were swaying and a flock of birds flew over. I was overwhelmed.
How great is The Firebird? I am 79 and have been listening to it since I was a teenager and I never fail to be charmed and enthralled by the sonic experience produced by the master magician himself. Of course, Pierre and the WP add to the thrill. It doesn't get better than this.
Along with the soul-warming finales to “Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition,” (Ravel’s orchestral iteration) and Smetana’s “The Moldau,” “L’oiseau” provides every possible image of Elysian Fields, All’s-right-in-the-the-World, There-is-Grandeur-in-this-view-of-life resolution.
Yes, it is quite an emotional conclusion. Amazingly, Stravinsky was commissioned by Diaghilev to compose this with only his short piece "Fireworks" as his repertoire.
great sensitivity to important musical detail...this mythic story goes to our core and like a subtle thought in this story its the details of harp, piccolo, subtle tremolo, soft hunt horn calling the countryside that well serves the bold conclusion....to call, to haunt....to signify Maryushka's Firebird......her glowing rainbow feathers were magic and remain undimmed, but show their colors only to those who love beauty and seek to make beauty for others.
Although to Stravinsky himself this was not his greatest work for me it still takes me to another place, especially the hymn!. It made me go out and buy this Pierre Boulez version on 33 rpm when it first came out!
+Jesus Lopez Dominguez lol, someone with a spanish name replies in english to a german comment that he doesn't understand french. That's what I call globalization. Anyway, he says that the french horns at 7:56 are dreamlike, and that he wishes that this kind of music must play at every public place/in every public restaurant.
@blechmusik Danke, für das Hochladen dieser wirklich beeindruckenden Interpretation. Ein wunderbares Finale, und das, obwohl nur fünf oder sechs Damen die Herren dabei unterstützen konnten.
There is another wonderful performance of this piece on UA-cam, also with Pierre Boulez, but instead conducting the Chicago Symphony. It's interesting not only to hear the different approaches taken by two great orchestras, but also similarities and differences in Mr. Boulez's own interpretation.
I love how Pierre Boulez integrates the bass trombone part with the tympani part in the finale, but i would've loved to hear a better controlled sound like the Chicago Symphony Orchestra version. I also love how the trumpet sound is full and rich with energy! Great job Wiener Philharmonic!
Having played this excerpts of this piece in high school orchestra, finally hearing the entire piece was a fantastic experience; especially from 9:20 on, as I played trombone. The Finale of the Finale.
Aus Anlass des 132. Geburtstags von Igor Strawinski, gibt's hier den Feuervogel "L 'Oiseau de feu" (Finale), mit den Wiener Philharmonikern u. Lt. von Pierre Boulez. Eine Aufnahme von den Salburger Festspielen. Viel Spass!
Nadia Sloat it’s been 5 years since your question, i don’t know if somebody answered it for you… that’s Viennese oboe, one of the instruments that makes Vienna phil special. They don’t use “regular” oboes that you might be familiar with.
@Magnas01 The ballet was composed in 1909-1910. Three suites were made from the ballet. The 1911, 1919, and 1945. Ansermet was thought to be the best interpreter of Stravinsky aside from Stravinsky himself. Ansermet did not like the suites. This is a snippet from the ballet that Boulez and the Wiener orchestra are attempting to play.
@iOnlySignIn - Well, Karajan was often, in the SHADOW of his, great predecessor - Furtwangler. To be honest, I like Monteux, in parts of Stravinsky's legacy, ESPECIALLY the (seemingly) ancient version of Rite of Spring interpretation, from 1929! Monteux also recorded some, excellent Stravinsky recordings, with the Boston Symphony, et. al. Thanks!
@RRpitchperfect - (all-male) - No, but it must SEEM like it! I see one woman, next-to the bassoonist, and another, in the string/violin section. Boulez has specialized in Stravinsky's music, for decades; this is, but, one example.
They're actually #3 behind the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (#1) and the Berlin Philharmonic (#2). As for their hiring practices, I have yet to come across a European orchestra that is "overrun" by Asians, women and/or "other minorities". On top of that, I don't believe that you can measure musical ability, skill and talent or a person's general musicality by the colour of their skin or their gender.
@Josep489 No, the Vienna piccolo is shrill like the strings. The version you downloaded in far better. The piccolo in your version has a much broader sound that I prefer. He also observes accents and dynamics better. Muti was principal conductor of the Philharmonia for years, I like what he did with that orchestra, Boulez conducted La Mer, with the Philharmonia and Cleveland, and I liked what he did with both orchestras. But I do not think his conducting is up to par in this work.
Beautiful and brilliant piece. Ironically, PB allows himself to conduct it because it is old music. If it were written in, say 1985, he would have condemned it because of being 'not of its time'. Read his articles to understand his historicist views on music history.
+John Borstlap You are absolutely incorrect! He believed that all music written in the 20th Century was to be championed! No matter how it was written! Besides, he was a true champion of Stravinsky and other composers like him no matter when it was written!
Alex Handley I fear you have been misinformed.... PB was well-known for his contempt for 'les invalides de nostalgie', with which he meant the 20C composers who had not felt the 'necessity' to embrace avantgarde languages. He viewed music from a historicist perspective, as if fixed on a time line. In 'Orientations' - a collection of articles and essays - you can read it all there.
+Aaron Dvorak The Vienna Philharmonic did not admit women until 1997, the last of the major orchestras to do so. Since then, representation by women has slowly increased, but the VPO lags behind other comparable orchestras in this regard. Non-caucasian players were also subject to discrimination. However, the orchestra now uses blind auditions, which helps to limit discrimination against women and non-caucasians.
if the first thing that comes into your mind while listening to this masterpiece is the sexist problem, and not the great feelings of freedom and liberation that it inspires, well that means, without underestimating this important contemporary issue about equality, that you simply underestimate the capacities of music itself :)
A dramatic 10 minutes of the Firebird by Igor Sravinsky, Note the gradual transition as it finalizes in a breathtaking last 4 minutes. As a music lover, the ending is a tribute to the Firebird, and will capture the heroic end of this masterpiece, one of the greatest pieces of music written.
Great post Walter!
Thanks, glad you enjoyed this masterpiece, Bianca
The ending loves music, good food, and walking on the beach in the rain.
@@walterfutterweit6476 I am 17 years old and my dream is pianist(you can check my channel)
I'm very thanks to Agosti who transcribed this marvelous 3 dances for piano.
Walter Futterweit I hear you with the rain. I drove over a hill in a storm. At the point the piece was most powerful the sixty foot trees were swaying and a flock of birds flew over. I was overwhelmed.
How great is The Firebird? I am 79 and have been listening to it since I was a teenager and I never fail to be charmed and enthralled by the sonic experience produced by the master magician himself. Of course, Pierre and the WP add to the thrill. It doesn't get better than this.
I came just to listen to 7:43! We learnt this 3 years ago at our music institute!
One of the greatest pieces ever composed.
ua-cam.com/video/MqlSi1LhKzs/v-deo.html
I love that piccolo hang-over at 1:43. It's such masterful playing.
so true!! talk about a powerful player!
9:43 I love that low E.
Along with the soul-warming finales to “Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition,” (Ravel’s orchestral iteration) and Smetana’s “The Moldau,” “L’oiseau” provides every possible image of Elysian Fields, All’s-right-in-the-the-World, There-is-Grandeur-in-this-view-of-life resolution.
finale of the Firebird is wondrous, enchanting, magical and any number of adjectives that haven't been invented yet
I did not like this for many years now I love it
The Performance of Gergiev with London Symphony Orchestra was great
the end makes me cry
Yes! It's a shame for those that don't have such a grand reaction. The French Horn, that beautiful theme, gets me every time.
Yes, it is quite an emotional conclusion. Amazingly, Stravinsky was commissioned by Diaghilev to compose this with only his short piece "Fireworks" as his repertoire.
Everytime....
Everytime
I freely admit. It took me many years to appreciate this wonderful music, shame on me.
The chords at the end always get me. Ahhhh too good!
7:39 to the end WOW!
Stravinsky + Boulez...doesn't get much better than that.
TheThirdMan actually it does.... Stravinsky + Gergiev..... much better....
Tears, bloody tears in my eyes, just when I play that slow transition to the final in my head!!!
great sensitivity to important musical detail...this mythic story goes to our core and like a subtle thought in this story its the details of harp, piccolo, subtle tremolo, soft hunt horn calling the countryside that well serves the bold conclusion....to call, to haunt....to signify Maryushka's Firebird......her glowing rainbow feathers were magic and remain undimmed, but show their colors only to those who love beauty and seek to make beauty for others.
Although to Stravinsky himself this was not his greatest work for me it still takes me to another place, especially the hymn!. It made me go out and buy this Pierre Boulez version on 33 rpm when it first came out!
I have heard that he thought that this was his best piece tho
7:56 der Hornpart. einfach Traumhaft. Ich wünsche mir solche Musik in der Art muss in jedem öffentlichen Lokal in jedem Restaurant laufen
+Jesus Lopez Dominguez lol, someone with a spanish name replies in english to a german comment that he doesn't understand french. That's what I call globalization.
Anyway, he says that the french horns at 7:56 are dreamlike, and that he wishes that this kind of music must play at every public place/in every public restaurant.
I have not listened to enough of Stravinsky.
I first heard this piece at the Lincoln Center in NYC. I'll cried at the end
Magnífica composição de Stravinsky.....grande condução Pierre Boulez !!!
That's also an excellent finale. Tempo, volume...played by seasoned, professional musicians.
It took me years but I finally came to know this wonderful music.
Just so beautiful and very very clever and spellbinding
Simply brilliant!
omg i'd love being here, playing with Boulez :)
@blechmusik
Danke, für das Hochladen dieser wirklich beeindruckenden Interpretation. Ein wunderbares Finale, und das, obwohl nur fünf oder sechs Damen die Herren dabei unterstützen konnten.
I love the ending of The Firebird. From 10:24 and on gives me chills!
For some reason this piece reminds me of when an athlete finally crosses the finish line in a long, long race.
There is another wonderful performance of this piece on UA-cam, also with Pierre Boulez, but instead conducting the Chicago Symphony. It's interesting not only to hear the different approaches taken by two great orchestras, but also similarities and differences in Mr. Boulez's own interpretation.
7:45 That is literally movie music itself! It is quite remarkable to have composed such works in those days
Watching this on Disney's Fantasia 2000 made me love this from a very young age ❤
ua-cam.com/video/MqlSi1LhKzs/v-deo.html
Youhooooooooou !!! Cet oeuvre est magnifique à en donner des frissons ! Une pure merveille :)
They performed it in a perfect way.
I love how Pierre Boulez integrates the bass trombone part with the tympani part in the finale, but i would've loved to hear a better controlled sound like the Chicago Symphony Orchestra version. I also love how the trumpet sound is full and rich with energy! Great job Wiener Philharmonic!
One of the best I've heard. Love the pacing, the extreme ritardando just before the coda.
love the detail Boulez draws from these players, great performance of a masterpiece.
that bassoonist is just magnificent! just as the rest of the orchestra, i also love the horn solo!
Having played this excerpts of this piece in high school orchestra, finally hearing the entire piece was a fantastic experience; especially from 9:20 on, as I played trombone. The Finale of the Finale.
beautiful resolve for this work.
最初の入りが素晴らしい。指揮振りを見るだけで、安心します。
from 7.00 till the end : absolutely jawdropping !!!
Such a perfect version!
It´s really hard to find a better video on youtube!!
Aus Anlass des 132. Geburtstags von Igor Strawinski,
gibt's hier den Feuervogel "L 'Oiseau de feu" (Finale),
mit den Wiener Philharmonikern u. Lt. von Pierre Boulez.
Eine Aufnahme von den Salburger Festspielen.
Viel Spass!
I remember I played this in 6th grade and I loved it! I'm a trombone player by the way.
Wow... Great piece!!! I love music's modernism
ejemplarmente maravilloso ,dispuesto al ensombrecimiento
Masterpiece!! !
At 4:45 does anyone know what instrument that is I know it's in the oboe family, but I've never seen it before.
Nadia Sloat it’s been 5 years since your question, i don’t know if somebody answered it for you… that’s Viennese oboe, one of the instruments that makes Vienna phil special. They don’t use “regular” oboes that you might be familiar with.
Perpetualsify not the hero we deserved but the one we needed
INCREDIBLE!!!
Boulez is a true master
The Buster Keaton of conductors!
Looking backwards I simply don't know why I did not understand this masterpiece, first time round., but I'm cured now.
@Magnas01 The ballet was composed in 1909-1910. Three suites were made from the ballet. The 1911, 1919, and 1945. Ansermet was thought to be the best interpreter of Stravinsky aside from Stravinsky himself. Ansermet did not like the suites. This is a snippet from the ballet that Boulez and the Wiener orchestra are attempting to play.
抑制されたフォルテの中にも響きがしっかりと残っている。音楽の渦に飲み込まれた印象。ブラボー！！！
Very nice.
@iOnlySignIn revisen la version de Gergiev en el festival de salzburgo en 2000..........
@SophiaMacLoren @Voodopuppe87
VPO's headcount is 140 (8 women + 132 men); 2 women are on stage: 1st violin, bassoon;
Very very good :-)
best video on youtube!
@iOnlySignIn - Well, Karajan was often, in the SHADOW of his, great predecessor - Furtwangler. To be honest, I like Monteux, in parts of Stravinsky's legacy, ESPECIALLY the (seemingly) ancient version of Rite of Spring interpretation, from 1929! Monteux also recorded some, excellent Stravinsky recordings, with the Boston Symphony, et. al. Thanks!
Splendid!
@RRpitchperfect - (all-male) - No, but it must SEEM like it! I see one woman, next-to the bassoonist, and another, in the string/violin section. Boulez has specialized in Stravinsky's music, for decades; this is, but, one example.
der feuervogel rockt !
Ive seen this Entire piece Perfomed live.. fucking Epic!!!
What dynamic is it at the end of the piece?
+Jena Cullen Fortissississimo, I believe, or ffff. Stravinsky didn't do things by halves.
How is it not mezzo forte after the crescendo?
On the trombone parts it's subito pp
The preferred musicological terminology for that dynamic indication is “bigger than Dollywood”
Yes
i used not to like the firebird! but that is just wonderful!
yes, and then jump to Siberian Khatru...YES
I hear you Mark !!! 🙏🏻
@@elderlypoodle9181 YES!! me too!! But it can be "Parallels" too;)
@@elderlypoodle9181 YES!! Me too!! But it can be "Parallels" too ;)
para celebrar el equinoccio de primavera dejar lo viejo...
10:11
I know it's only a note and it's a minor mistake but somehow this drag pisses me off so much.
He's concise baby!
Drumming the Timpani on this must be a blast.
misterjag I’m about to play timpani on this with my college symphony and I honestly can’t wait
Where is the tuba?
That's some fun trolling. Congrats !
They're actually #3 behind the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (#1) and the Berlin Philharmonic (#2). As for their hiring practices, I have yet to come across a European orchestra that is "overrun" by Asians, women and/or "other minorities". On top of that, I don't believe that you can measure musical ability, skill and talent or a person's general musicality by the colour of their skin or their gender.
horn solo 7:40
Music is the soundtrack of Eternity.
What happened at the very first moment of Eternity?
Music began to fractalize.
6:12 to 6:20 is fat music to a drummer's/percussionist's ears. That's musical genius at work.
does anyone know what version this is? 1919?
10:42 kinda sounds weird but otherwise epic
+N LM That might have been the same flute player at 8:33 who seems to be in a bit of a hurry...
at 10:41 the instruments kept going in the guys face lol
@Josep489 No, the Vienna piccolo is shrill like the strings. The version you downloaded in far better. The piccolo in your version has a much broader sound that I prefer. He also observes accents and dynamics better. Muti was principal conductor of the Philharmonia for years, I like what he did with that orchestra, Boulez conducted La Mer, with the Philharmonia and Cleveland, and I liked what he did with both orchestras. But I do not think his conducting is up to par in this work.
Beautiful and brilliant piece. Ironically, PB allows himself to conduct it because it is old music. If it were written in, say 1985, he would have condemned it because of being 'not of its time'. Read his articles to understand his historicist views on music history.
+John Borstlap You are absolutely incorrect! He believed that all music written in the 20th Century was to be championed! No matter how it was written! Besides, he was a true champion of Stravinsky and other composers like him no matter when it was written!
Alex Handley
I fear you have been misinformed.... PB was well-known for his contempt for 'les invalides de nostalgie', with which he meant the 20C composers who had not felt the 'necessity' to embrace avantgarde languages. He viewed music from a historicist perspective, as if fixed on a time line. In 'Orientations' - a collection of articles and essays - you can read it all there.
Im gonna keep it simple and just say you are wrong. But nice try though
Alex Handley
How could you know? (Irony)
+Alex Handley Really? I think he didn't have a good opinion of, for example, Shostakovich. I don't know even if he ever conducted his music
2:14
7:41
interesting the resonant end
yayay
@SophiaMacLoren i saw one woman playing viola :D
4:07 ???
hey just relax. I know how you feel but these guys have been around since Karajan
JonTron 9:20
Wiener Symphoniker
Erich Leindsorf
(Wiener Konzert 2011)
Der Feuervogel
James Bond theme in background 4:45
Soooooo Gergiev or Boulez???????? :)
Where are all the women in this orchestra? I saw one bassoonist.
The Vienna Philharmonic do have a reputation for being quite sexist.
+Aaron Dvorak The Vienna Philharmonic did not admit women until 1997, the last of the major orchestras to do so. Since then, representation by women has slowly increased, but the VPO lags behind other comparable orchestras in this regard. Non-caucasian players were also subject to discrimination. However, the orchestra now uses blind auditions, which helps to limit discrimination against women and non-caucasians.
Aaron Dvorak just because there aren't many women doesn't make it sexist. It's just a COINCIDENCE that the men did better in the auditions.
if the first thing that comes into your mind while listening to this masterpiece is the sexist problem, and not the great feelings of freedom and liberation that it inspires, well that means, without underestimating this important contemporary issue about equality, that you simply underestimate the capacities of music itself :)
Fields where have few women: music (composing), math, physics, engineering
I don't know why. But it seems.
9:05, isn't that a female harpist at the front?
yes... whats with that?