@@raymondschroeder7270 exactly! Without performers the composer would have nothing. Vice versa! In its purest form, after the work and dedication, no intimidation, only respect.
It's really amazing and heartwarming to see an old man of 82 needing the support of a cane, becoming so alive on stage with his music and transcending the boundaries of age with it. Brilliant.
I grew up in the 60's. My home had every kind of music playing all the time. My mom played this album all the time. I fell in love with both the music and the album cover. How wonderful to be able at my age (59) to watch him conduct his magnificent creation.
A friend of mine pointed out Stravinsky smiles around 6:00. It's probably because he cues the horns slightly early...which makes this even better. I love this.
Sorry to be *that person* but he doesn't cue the horns early... 4th horn enters two before the allegro, exactly where he cues, and then the 2nd horn an octave higher the bar later!
What makes this amazing performance even more interesting, is that the BBC broadcast was produced by David Attenborough who was also in the audience listening.
wow... this man is a legend... your looking at the guy who composed Rite of Spring and Firebird, probably the most influential songs of the 20th Century... Just Spectacular
Something so astounding about watching him conduct, his face responding to every nuance. Makes me hear things I didn't before. In the music. What a rare treat, thank you for posting.
@@abuasaduzzaman6964 I have always much preferred Stravinsky. I heard "The Rite of Spring" when I was 11 years old (not from Disney's Fantasia). It was a profound experience that would reverberate in further investigations of his music. Then when I learned about the man: his triumphs in Paris, his life in Los Angeles, his appearances on American television, he became an icon in my life, forever enshrined as a very special human being. I even have Picasso's portrait of him on my wall.
Wow, so cool that we live in an age where we can watch footage of all this! Can you imagine if we had footage like this of Mozart and Beethoven and the famous poets reciting their works, etc.? The people of the distant future have no idea how lucky they'll be that they can look back on all the collected history of mankind from video/photographs on up.
To take license with a tempo = sentimentality? I think tempo has simply far more to do with timing. Sentimentality is more a function of the melody and it's chords. Via tempo you can accentuate that melody by, say, lingering on it, but it is still the melody and chords that dictate the emotions the music conveys.
Leader, Hugh Bean; (1'27") bassoon, Gwydion Brook; (1'45") oboe, Peter Graeme; (1'56") cello, Raymond Clark nearest camera, Peter Beavan behind; (4'25") horn, Alan Civil
Now not only is his composing supreme, but his conducting is beautifu, he really makes the orchestra FEEL the music, it's very lyrical, expressive, intricate and detailed as a performance. Well done Stravinsky. God bless!
Fantastic. Beautifully played. Lovely sound. Magnificent brass. This time genius is the right word - for Stravinsky. Three great ballets written within four years of each other. All three with their own character and all three innovative, absorbing, brilliant, exotic and exciting.
The french horn solo in this song is the reason I love playing my french horn. That solo is one of the most beautiful and uplifting melodies I've ever heard. The ending also just makes me want smile uncontrolably for hours and go and save the world or something :D
Can you imagine such magnificent orchestral writing and utter beauty coming from the young stravinsky who'd only composed a few orchestral works at the time (1908)? Rimsky did a good job teaching young Igor.
The leader was Mr Hugh Bean, my violin professor at the RCM, the one who shakes hands first with Stravinksy. He told me about this moment, and showed me photos of it, and during the rehearsal, when he talks to Stravinsky. He was of course extremely impressed by this experience.
The way he builds it up to the epic conclusion is exactly what I've been looking for in this piece although I prefer the modern interpretation of blasting the hell out of the brass in the end. Perhaps he originally did too but since it's Stravinsky he can do whatever he wants with this piece and people will still love it.
I've watched this over and over again. This is what gladdens my heart: imagine you are Stravinksy here--you are 82, so you can't be all theatrical and conduct with sweeping motions--you conduct with your face, a finger to an ear, one closed fist keeping time, softly at first and then majestically. You wrote this masterpiece over 45 years ago, yet you can fill the Festival Hall with an appreciative audience to hear your composition and watch you conduct. After the brilliant brass fanfare at the end, the audience lightly applauds, and you acknowledge the orchestra in a perfunctory manner. Then you turn around to face the audience, and the cheering starts, along with a standing ovation--rare in those days. You are caught off guard, and smile and bow, a very old man for 1965. Now you turn back to the orchestra, pleased, and really thank them, and shake the hand of the 1st violin to your left, a cellist (?) to your right, as the cheering increases. You turn back to the audience again, happy and grateful, and acknowledge their love with waves. You are helped off the platform and steered towards the rear--you can see the intense respect that the 1st violinist has for you, as he helps you down and bows to you several times. Another violinist towards the rear spontanteously reaches for your hand , for you are a living legend. You are helped down again, and still the audience claps and cheers, and you have to bow to the side balconies and wave once more to the entire crowd. You, Stravinsky, have outlived Lenin (1924) and Hitler (1945) and Stalin (1953), whose legacies are blood, not art-----How many of us could: a) write a beautiful ballet, and b) conduct an orchestra playing our ballet, and c) live long enough to savor our achievement?? No unmarked pauper's grave for you (Mozart), no suicide before ever having sold a painting in life (Van Gogh), and no dying of an overdose (Janis Joplin) or a plane crash (Jim Croce) before your music really took off! And Mr. Stravinsky, because you gave me this beautiful piece of music (I first heard it at the Buffalo Phil with Michael Tilson Thomas conducting in 1976\77 ), I am so happy that you lived to savor this moment, and that you were given this gift of appreciation back. And I am thankful for the archivist and for whoever posted this.
@saintsaens21 It's amazing how, often enough, when the composer is present, either actually conducing or even just "there" the performance generally becomes "that much better."
Of all the ghosts haunting UA-cam's cyberspace, can you think of anyone more venerable or celebrated than this man? AND this timeless, gorgeous piece of music? So much to celebrate here.....so much to be joyful and thoughtful about. The media has captured a moment in history that will never be forgotten.
This video is most popular with: Male 45-54 Male 55-64 Male 35-44 I heard this piece when I was about five. I loved it. I am fifteen right now and I still love it. This IS music. There is no piece of music today that can give you the beautiful feeling that Stravinsky's music can give you. I am so thankful to my parents who introduced me to this kind of music at such a young age. If the hadn't, I would be playing electric guitar instead of viola and listening to modern music. :(
What the master composer got perfect, the master conductor performed perfectly...It doesn't get better than that !! See how intense he is in making sure his work is properly communicated to his audience. How wonderful to be a part of that. Obviously on in years, see how the performance transforms him, smiling at the end, even applauding his own orchestra, actually spry as he walks off stage. That truly is the magic of the arts !! Don't let it die, our society needs it more than ever now ..
This is the first time i'm hearing this and the second it played, my eyes watered for no reason. I was reading a book and they said about the Firebird...so here I am..
This is arguably the best ballet ever composed, and this finale sends chills down my spine from the overexposure to beauty in its purest and most concentrated form. Stravinsky, I hope that reincarnation exists because I want more!
How brilliant conducting. Very detailed, precise and expressive, without being romanticized. Sweet when it needs to be, harsh and violent when it needs to be
So many great stories at UCLA with us composition majors about the Schoenberg-Stravinsky rivalry...poor Gershwin had to lie if he was already booked playing tennis with one when the other called..."They were impossible to have in the same place..." he explained to friends; "I didn't want to make either one mad".
+Rhondda Nunes Is UCLA's music composition major good? I am a student studying in community college in SF Bay Area. I am gonna transfer to a UC system university for music composition major in 2018. But I don't know if this major in UCLA is pretty good. Especially I'm interested in learning orchestration and counterpoints skills. Could you give me some information about UCLA's music composition major? I'm really appreciate!
When I was piano soloist for the NEW YORK CITY BALLET...the company under the direction of George Balanchine, created the STRAVINSKY FESTIVAL in 1971...my first year there. There were many ballets created to Stravinsky's music...and he was there to watch Mr. Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, and others create dance works to his music. These ballets became very well known...and are performed in many companies around the world. It was an astonishing amount of work. It was a privilege to be there...
I was still in high school when I saw a NYC Ballet program that summer (or possibly the following) at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles. During the intermission I looked under my bench and through a opening in the ampitheater floor I could see Balanchine rehearsing with a dancer before Agon was performed! I think Symphony in Three Movements and several other ballets were done, of course as a memorial to Stravinsky. Were you there?
Amazing to see the composer transcend the technicality of making music and putting his will into the musicians, like playing one piano, and creating such beauty. All the musicians are playing like one instrument, they are so cohesive. It is truly magnificent.
Love this clip, after 6:00 glimmers and hints of a smile to cross Stravinsky's face and then big grins. Must be pleasant to look back to a work you did 55 years before and still be happy with it. (he was 28 when he wrote this)
If you go to 2 minutes and 48 seconds just watch what he's going through. You can see that he's remembering something and I almost feel like he's going to cry or he that he's getting close to that. This man was 82 here and conducting the first ballet that he did for the Ballet Russes. This ultimately brought him to Paris and sadly while he lived in France he lost his wife his mother and his daughter. I imagine these things were in his mind but I could be wrong
Forget the good, better, best nonsense. This is the most amazing video on UA-cam today. The composer himself conducting he own work, look at his face. He created this and to see his expression on hearing his own creation is priceless, one of the most memorial melodies ever created, beautiful horn solo, nuanced climax of sound, just to see him smile at the brass chords, nothing more to say, either you get it or you dont.
I'm happy to be a young teenager that respects this kind of music. My full orchestra is playing this right now, and I wish everyone in my orchestra could watch this video. Beautiful :)
This is what true art is. Creating something and knowing it by heart; every single joy and pain. I bet every time Stravinsky heard his masterpiece, it blossomed to reveal a new moment to him, and those of us who love it still.
No wonder audience and players have a combination of rapture and sadness - they know this is an historic and unrepeatable event; to see the master conduct one of his great works composed almost 60 years before. Imagine if we had footage of Beethoven conducting his 9th in 1824; this comes close. And to see Stravinsky smile at the end is once in a lifetime! Just glorious. All hail the time-defying power of the camera
Que increible ver a Stravinsky conduciendo, siendo él, un paradigma inigualable de la música, una mente fascinante. Este es uno de los pasajes mas emotivos de la música, a mi gusto.
His teach was Rimsky-Korsakov. Two of the greatest composers in my opinion that have ever lived. Something about Russian composers... Makes me tear up every time I hear this :')
If any of you are wondering what's happening at 6:34, this is what this passage is SUPPOSED to sound like......like a squawking bird......hence the title, Firebird. I love this performance. For a 60's brass section, this was amazing.
The version you provided was recorded with high quality equipment, this version clearly uses recording equipment that pales in comparison. Also, we must factor in that the composer is the one with the vision as you said. Music is mental, building houses is physical. So, technically the architect in this situation is better for the job. Stravinsky's version is more solemn, that he was a stern man. The version you provided seems more joyous and gentle, not akin to the 'Firebird'.
Boy, this man set the bar for all those to come. Notice the musical idea that Stravinsky starts @:23 with the WW's and then, the strings. Those 'colors' sound strikingly familiar to music that Bernard Herrmann composed in many of his pieces. One can 'dissect' much of IS music and hear clearly where film composers as: BH, Jerry Goldsmith, John Williams, Marco Beltrami..well, for that matter...EVERYONE either ripped, borrowed or was inspired by his genius! Oh yea, the ending is simply brilliant!
UA-cam has idiots, we all know that. Like the entry below that calls this music 'post romantic ****'. And I say that with no respect whatever. But I've spent the afternoon on here because I'm not well at the moment and I've heard Tchaikovsky speak and Rachmaninov play tenderly with his wife and childen. Thanks so much for putting this up here. I saw it on TV at the time and never thought to see it again. Thank you karthiktn and yes, fools and all, thank you UA-cam.
Imagine how intimidating it would be as a musician playing for such a monumental composer ...
Was thinking the same thing. But such a humble man. No batton and a great smile to each section.
I've worked with John Adams and other composers and trust me, it's way more exciting than intimidating.
@@jeanparke9373 awesome! All that practice and nagging parents and it all turned out awesome!
you sir are obviously not a musician. we are never intimidated, rather, we are brave and confident, or we would sell shoes, perhaps
@@raymondschroeder7270 exactly! Without performers the composer would have nothing. Vice versa! In its purest form, after the work and dedication, no intimidation, only respect.
This is precious and wonderful moment. To see the great Stravinskij conduct his own masterpiece.
It's really amazing and heartwarming to see an old man of 82 needing the support of a cane, becoming so alive on stage with his music and transcending the boundaries of age with it. Brilliant.
For a this moment he became the apotheosis of the muse of music.
This made me cry SO HARD by the end of it... I'd never heard the Firebird before today and It's so beautiful... thank you for posting.
I grew up in the 60's. My home had every kind of music playing all the time. My mom played this album all the time. I fell in love with both the music and the album cover. How wonderful to be able at my age (59) to watch him conduct his magnificent creation.
A friend of mine pointed out Stravinsky smiles around 6:00. It's probably because he cues the horns slightly early...which makes this even better. I love this.
Alicorn Studio you've obviously watched the film Eroica. Marvellous film !
He's like "What's going on? Why isn't this horn working?" and a second later "whoops. Skipped a bar. Hopefully no one noticed. lmao." ;-P
Sorry to be *that person* but he doesn't cue the horns early... 4th horn enters two before the allegro, exactly where he cues, and then the 2nd horn an octave higher the bar later!
@@GeorgeMortonconducts we need THAT person. Accuracy and truth are valuable.
@@GeorgeMortonconducts yes thank you! His little smile was adorable, though. It's so good to see that he enjoyed the performance of his own piece.
What makes this amazing performance even more interesting, is that the BBC broadcast was produced by David Attenborough who was also in the audience listening.
wow... this man is a legend... your looking at the guy who composed Rite of Spring and Firebird, probably the most influential songs of the 20th Century... Just Spectacular
Rite of Spring a "song"?...🤔
I also really found Petrushka to be very spectacular too.
Piece, but I agree with your statement.
Something so astounding about watching him conduct, his face responding to every nuance. Makes me hear things I didn't before. In the music. What a rare treat, thank you for posting.
Yes, he wore every note on his face and in his eyes.
Hard to imagine the 20th Century without Stravinsky. His music bears an unmistakable mark of genius.
What about Bartok. I mean Stravinsky good and all, but Bartok is better in my opinion. Do you like Bartok
@@abuasaduzzaman6964 No valid comparison
@@abuasaduzzaman6964 I have always much preferred Stravinsky. I heard "The Rite of Spring" when I was 11 years old (not from Disney's Fantasia). It was a profound experience that would reverberate in further investigations of his music. Then when I learned about the man: his triumphs in Paris, his life in Los Angeles, his appearances on American television, he became an icon in my life, forever enshrined as a very special human being. I even have Picasso's portrait of him on my wall.
I have him and Bartok as the two greatest of the 20th century.
@@abuasaduzzaman6964 You should tell us why you like Bartok. And maybe which of his compositions you'd recommend.
Wow, so cool that we live in an age where we can watch footage of all this! Can you imagine if we had footage like this of Mozart and Beethoven and the famous poets reciting their works, etc.? The people of the distant future have no idea how lucky they'll be that they can look back on all the collected history of mankind from video/photographs on up.
Stravinsky was the best executor of his own work. Maximum precision, intensity, total commitment. No trace of sentimentality.
To take license with a tempo = sentimentality? I think tempo has simply far more to do with timing. Sentimentality is more a function of the melody and it's chords. Via tempo you can accentuate that melody by, say, lingering on it, but it is still the melody and chords that dictate the emotions the music conveys.
Stravinskian spotted haha
Leader, Hugh Bean; (1'27") bassoon, Gwydion Brook; (1'45") oboe, Peter Graeme; (1'56") cello, Raymond Clark nearest camera, Peter Beavan behind; (4'25") horn, Alan Civil
Thank you for giving individual credit to these amazing musicians
I studied with Hugh. Such a wonderful musician and human being.
What a coup for the Philharmonia orchestra to have attracted this giant to guest conduct his own music - the other 4 must've been green with envy!
Such a precious document. Thank you IMMENSELY for uploading it!
The bassoon solo at 0:58 is so beautiful, sends shivers down my spine every time.
It's a great moment in music and a truly transporting composition.
The face of a man leaving a legacy and knowing it. Magnificent.
The grand finale brought me tears as I watched the smile of success on his face. This man will be remembered for eternity...
Now not only is his composing supreme, but his conducting is beautifu, he really makes the orchestra FEEL the music, it's very lyrical, expressive, intricate and detailed as a performance. Well done Stravinsky. God bless!
Absolutely. You are Great.
The french horn sound is so magically serene! What an alluring piece!
The great Alan Civil, the one who took over the principal horn position from Dennis Brain upon the latter's fatal accident.
A beardless Alan Civil.
Fantastic. Beautifully played. Lovely sound. Magnificent brass. This time genius is the right word - for Stravinsky. Three great ballets written within four years of each other. All three with their own character and all three innovative, absorbing, brilliant, exotic and exciting.
The french horn solo in this song is the reason I love playing my french horn. That solo is one of the most beautiful and uplifting melodies I've ever heard. The ending also just makes me want smile uncontrolably for hours and go and save the world or something :D
this is an amazing part of the internet. being able to watch stravinsky conduct the most beautiful piece of art of all time.
Very true. What a gift this video is!
I love how he touches his ear and face to cue the musicians for tuning. That's so cool.
Wow what an incredible never to be forgotten performance with respect and a fantastic response from an extremely emotional audience, Bravo !!!!!
he conducts with his face. pure emotion.
Can you imagine such magnificent orchestral writing and utter beauty coming from the young stravinsky who'd only composed a few orchestral works at the time (1908)? Rimsky did a good job teaching young Igor.
Stravinsky conducts Stravinsky!!!!!, awesome. Thanks for share this treasure. Do you have whole master piece?
That was amazing.. his excitement and smiles he was holding back were thrilling to watch.
manooo.... Stravinsky!!! Esse vídeo é realmente uma raridade! Estou boquiaberta!! =D
Very thank you, Karthiktn!
A mic drop would've been legit from Stravinsky
Stravinsky and Copland are the only composers that can make me cry from a beautiful piece. You've succeeded again, Igor.
4:23 everyone in the audience goes, "Ohh...There it is."
wow, I cannot believe never have seen this incredible video. Marveillous, amazing, incomparable
My favorite composer!
The leader was Mr Hugh Bean, my violin professor at the RCM, the one who shakes hands first with Stravinksy. He told me about this moment, and showed me photos of it, and during the rehearsal, when he talks to Stravinsky. He was of course extremely impressed by this experience.
This is one of my favourite compositions of all time.
Oh Mr. Stravinsky....Take Me...... take me to The Fairy That lives in the forest we call music...
Eraleon this is probably the weirdest comment I've ever read
Watching his facial reactions while conducting his own piece is absolutely beautiful.
The way he builds it up to the epic conclusion is exactly what I've been looking for in this piece although I prefer the modern interpretation of blasting the hell out of the brass in the end. Perhaps he originally did too but since it's Stravinsky he can do whatever he wants with this piece and people will still love it.
I've watched this over and over again. This is what gladdens my heart: imagine you are Stravinksy here--you are 82, so you can't be all theatrical and conduct with sweeping motions--you conduct with your face, a finger to an ear, one closed fist keeping time, softly at first and then majestically. You wrote this masterpiece over 45 years ago, yet you can fill the Festival Hall with an appreciative audience to hear your composition and watch you conduct.
After the brilliant brass fanfare at the end, the audience lightly applauds, and you acknowledge the orchestra in a perfunctory manner. Then you turn around to face the audience, and the cheering starts, along with a standing ovation--rare in those days. You are caught off guard, and smile and bow, a very old man for 1965. Now you turn back to the orchestra, pleased, and really thank them, and shake the hand of the 1st violin to your left, a cellist (?) to your right, as the cheering increases.
You turn back to the audience again, happy and grateful, and acknowledge their love with waves. You are helped off the platform and steered towards the rear--you can see the intense respect that the 1st violinist has for you, as he helps you down and bows to you several times. Another violinist towards the rear spontanteously reaches for your hand , for you are a living legend. You are helped down again, and still the audience claps and cheers, and you have to bow to the side balconies and wave once more to the entire crowd.
You, Stravinsky, have outlived Lenin (1924) and Hitler (1945) and Stalin (1953), whose legacies are blood, not art-----How many of us could: a) write a beautiful ballet, and b) conduct an orchestra playing our ballet, and c) live long enough to savor our achievement?? No unmarked pauper's grave for you (Mozart), no suicide before ever having sold a painting in life (Van Gogh), and no dying of an overdose (Janis Joplin) or a plane crash (Jim Croce) before your music really took off!
And Mr. Stravinsky, because you gave me this beautiful piece of music (I first heard it at the Buffalo Phil with Michael Tilson Thomas conducting in 1976\77 ), I am so happy that you lived to savor this moment, and that you were given this gift of appreciation back. And I am thankful for the archivist and for whoever posted this.
55 years before! Firebird was written in 1910!
THE MASTER AT WORK, MOVES ME TO TEARS AT 4:23 WHEN THE FRENCH HORN CUTS IN.
@saintsaens21 It's amazing how, often enough, when the composer is present, either actually conducing or even just "there" the performance generally becomes "that much better."
Of all the ghosts haunting UA-cam's cyberspace, can you think of anyone more venerable or celebrated than this man? AND this timeless, gorgeous piece of music?
So much to celebrate here.....so much to be joyful and thoughtful about. The media has captured a moment in history that will never be forgotten.
I love how near the end of the piece there are momments when his face goes from : / to :)
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I heard this piece when I was about five. I loved it. I am fifteen right now and I still love it. This IS music. There is no piece of music today that can give you the beautiful feeling that Stravinsky's music can give you. I am so thankful to my parents who introduced me to this kind of music at such a young age. If the hadn't, I would be playing electric guitar instead of viola and listening to modern music. :(
What the master composer got perfect, the master conductor performed perfectly...It doesn't get better than that !! See how intense he is in making sure his work is properly communicated to his audience. How wonderful to be a part of that. Obviously on in years, see how the performance transforms him, smiling at the end, even applauding his own orchestra, actually spry as he walks off stage. That truly is the magic of the arts !! Don't let it die, our society needs it more than ever now ..
This is the first time i'm hearing this and the second it played, my eyes watered for no reason. I was reading a book and they said about the Firebird...so here I am..
This is arguably the best ballet ever composed, and this finale sends chills down my spine from the overexposure to beauty in its purest and most concentrated form. Stravinsky, I hope that reincarnation exists because I want more!
How brilliant conducting. Very detailed, precise and expressive, without being romanticized. Sweet when it needs to be, harsh and violent when it needs to be
So many great stories at UCLA with us composition majors about the Schoenberg-Stravinsky rivalry...poor Gershwin had to lie if he was already booked playing tennis with one when the other called..."They were impossible to have in the same place..." he explained to friends; "I didn't want to make either one mad".
+Rhondda Nunes Is UCLA's music composition major good? I am a student studying in community college in SF Bay Area. I am gonna transfer to a UC system university for music composition major in 2018. But I don't know if this major in UCLA is pretty good. Especially I'm interested in learning orchestration and counterpoints skills. Could you give me some information about UCLA's music composition major? I'm really appreciate!
What a genius. An amazing human being. Could people today even appreciate Stravinsky??
When I was piano soloist for the NEW YORK CITY BALLET...the company under the direction of George Balanchine, created the STRAVINSKY FESTIVAL in 1971...my first year there. There were many ballets created to Stravinsky's music...and he was there to watch Mr. Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, and others create dance works to his music. These ballets became very well known...and are performed in many companies around the world. It was an astonishing amount of work. It was a privilege to be there...
You are a legend as well. 💜
I was still in high school when I saw a NYC Ballet program that summer (or possibly the following) at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles. During the intermission I looked under my bench and through a opening in the ampitheater floor I could see Balanchine rehearsing with a dancer before Agon was performed! I think Symphony in Three Movements and several other ballets were done, of course as a memorial to Stravinsky. Were you there?
Perhaps not in the history of music, But he's certainly the greatest composer of the 20th century.
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, what about Rachmaninov, Prokofiev and Shostakovich?
Amazing to see the composer transcend the technicality of making music and putting his will into the musicians, like playing one piano, and creating such beauty. All the musicians are playing like one instrument, they are so cohesive. It is truly magnificent.
That is the Philharmonia Orchestra, the best orchestral mechanism ever created
Love this clip, after 6:00 glimmers and hints of a smile to cross Stravinsky's face and then big grins. Must be pleasant to look back to a work you did 55 years before and still be happy with it. (he was 28 when he wrote this)
He is just amazing
Damn thank you!! so dope!! Those orchestral excerpts always kicked my *** lol
Musically still sharp as a tack, Doesnt miss a note.
Did you notice that at 3:07 he's like "I can't hear you" to the bassoon? I believe that's interesting
a rare gem, thank you!
If you go to 2 minutes and 48 seconds just watch what he's going through. You can see that he's remembering something and I almost feel like he's going to cry or he that he's getting close to that. This man was 82 here and conducting the first ballet that he did for the Ballet Russes. This ultimately brought him to Paris and sadly while he lived in France he lost his wife his mother and his daughter. I imagine these things were in his mind but I could be wrong
How can so many conductors fail to use staccato-detache chords near the end?
That is the question :) I start to believe that they don't understand neither the music, nor Stravinsky. It's not a crime but... very close to one.
I’m so used to the new interpretation that I was surprised to hear it played as intended. I like the grand “new” interpretation.
One of the greatest french horn solos ever, and I'm a violist!
Great video thanks!
Must be nerve wracking to have that solo in front of Stravinsky.
The man.
...THE LEGEND!
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Forget the good, better, best nonsense. This is the most amazing video on UA-cam today. The composer himself conducting he own work, look at his face. He created this and to see his expression on hearing his own creation is priceless, one of the most memorial melodies ever created, beautiful horn solo, nuanced climax of sound, just to see him smile at the brass chords, nothing more to say, either you get it or you dont.
Genius
Pensar que los bosquejos de "El pájaros de fuego" los vio su maestro Rimsky, y ahora ver a Stravinsky dirigiendo dicha composición es asombroso
A rare treat.
This is the most metal thing I've ever heard.
In all seriousness, it';s an effing masterpiece.
I'm happy to be a young teenager that respects this kind of music. My full orchestra is playing this right now, and I wish everyone in my orchestra could watch this video. Beautiful :)
Beautiful times, good master. For ever living in the memori music
Wow. What a guy
This is what true art is. Creating something and knowing it by heart; every single joy and pain. I bet every time Stravinsky heard his masterpiece, it blossomed to reveal a new moment to him, and those of us who love it still.
Is a inspiration
Bravo !!!!!!!!!!!
Bravissimo !!!!!!!!!!!
No wonder audience and players have a combination of rapture and sadness - they know this is an historic and unrepeatable event; to see the master conduct one of his great works composed almost 60 years before. Imagine if we had footage of Beethoven conducting his 9th in 1824; this comes close. And to see Stravinsky smile at the end is once in a lifetime! Just glorious. All hail the time-defying power of the camera
Well I didn't notice until I scrolled down to read the comments..
Que increible ver a Stravinsky conduciendo, siendo él, un paradigma inigualable de la música, una mente fascinante. Este es uno de los pasajes mas emotivos de la música, a mi gusto.
This beginning of this section is my favorite of the entire suite
His notes are shorter at 6:34-7:00. In the newer version, they're longer. We've jacked his music!
No tympani at the climax? -Must have been sick that day........ boooo!
overreacting much? still sounded amazing
Ah yes, London 1965. Stravinsky's farewell performance. David Attenborough was the program's host
His teach was Rimsky-Korsakov. Two of the greatest composers in my opinion that have ever lived. Something about Russian composers... Makes me tear up every time I hear this :')
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, do you know only 2 Russian composers? look up video "top 30 Russian composers"
Stravinsky: do i look impressed to you?
Orchestra: *plays double time*
Brilliant mind and the performance one of a kind 👏
Awesome
Bravo, one of the most wonderful pieces of classical music.
Agree with you
Amazing performance…
Always great for the composers to conduct just what they wrote down!!!!!
Agree with you
Гигант!!!!!!
1882-1971 - Igor Stravinsky, Greatest Composer in history of Music.
Aaahh the french horn leads that glorious little melody. So triumphant... I love it
سترافينسكى جااااااااااااااااااااااااااامد
حقيقى عبقرى
If any of you are wondering what's happening at 6:34, this is what this passage is SUPPOSED to sound like......like a squawking bird......hence the title, Firebird.
I love this performance. For a 60's brass section, this was amazing.
Sorprendente la manera tan sobría de dirigir una orquesta sin manierismos ni poses, vicios tan frecuentes en los jovenes directores de hoy en día
What a gorgeous display of the human mind... what it is capable of.
He actually conducted very,very good!!!
How it is possible,that all thought he was a miserable conductor?
Greatness is possible
Superb! Marvellous! It's an eargasm! I am in awe of how the whole piece comes to a finish in such a marvellous fashion.
The way, he gives the cues! Fascinating!
This video is also said to put an end to a controversy in the bassoon melody @3:00. Some scores show a D-flat, others a D natural. D-flat won..
The version you provided was recorded with high quality equipment, this version clearly uses recording equipment that pales in comparison. Also, we must factor in that the composer is the one with the vision as you said. Music is mental, building houses is physical. So, technically the architect in this situation is better for the job. Stravinsky's version is more solemn, that he was a stern man. The version you provided seems more joyous and gentle, not akin to the 'Firebird'.
Boy, this man set the bar for all those to come. Notice the musical idea that Stravinsky starts @:23 with the WW's and then, the strings. Those 'colors' sound strikingly familiar to music that Bernard Herrmann composed in many of his pieces. One can 'dissect' much of IS music and hear clearly where film composers as: BH, Jerry Goldsmith, John Williams, Marco Beltrami..well, for that matter...EVERYONE either ripped, borrowed or was inspired by his genius! Oh yea, the ending is simply brilliant!
UA-cam has idiots, we all know that. Like the entry below that calls this music 'post romantic ****'. And I say that with no respect whatever. But I've spent the afternoon on here because I'm not well at the moment and I've heard Tchaikovsky speak and Rachmaninov play tenderly with his wife and childen. Thanks so much for putting this up here. I saw it on TV at the time and never thought to see it again. Thank you karthiktn and yes, fools and all, thank you UA-cam.