My wife and I travelled from Beijing on the Trans Mongolian Railway through Mongolia to join the Trans Siberian Railway four days by train from Moscow! This music is shot full of the vast country that we saw!! Marvellous!
@@fazertace6837 It was a stroke of luck! We went to a presentation with a friend of ours just to keep her company! There we got the urge to go! It is the highlight of our travelling life! We will always be thankful that we went!
We Asians usually think that "Central Asia" refers to the region where the five Stan countries are located, and the region you past on the K3 line of Beijing-Ulaanbaatar-Moscow railway is precisely not Central Asia, but North Asia and Siberia. If you take K9797/9795 from Beijing to Almaty, you will pass through Central Asia... welcome to asia
@@slavish_superiority And you would be correct. Central Asia is most certainly made up of the five Stan countries of the Former Soviet Union, AND Afghanistan, at a minimum, but also Pakistan, depending on the viewpoint. Having worked in Central Asia extensively, this is also the view of most of the western world. Russians, however, view things somewhat differently.
@@padgit8r486 I should be right. We East Asians such as China, Japan, Korea, Mongolia, Turks, Persian，etc., divide geography based on thousands of years of traditions such as way of life, inter-ethnic exchanges, folk traditions, beliefs, language, writing, natural law, tribes, states, and international alliances. Westerners are not qualified enough to judge our culture. The Russian concept of Asia, derived from the last 300 years of colonial expansion, is even less convincing.
J Joe Townley We must remember, Borodin died way too young. He completed this piece, but he left his third symphony unfinished, as well as Prince Igor (I've heard that he wrote as much music for Igor as Wagner did for The Ring). His students and friends did what they could with the incomplete scores, but could not match his vision!
5610winston You know your music history pretty well. Rimski-Korsakoff describes in his autobio how after Borodin died suddenly of a heart attack RK and Glazunov went into his flat which was occupied by half-dozen or so cats (Borodin loved cats) and found hundreds of scraps of music scores, hand-drawn staffs w/ music notes on the backs of napkins, menus, and just about anything Borodin could lay his hands on. They had to make sense out this chaotic mess and they did an admirable job. RK assigned G the job of arranging and orchestrating the overture so most of what you hear is G's handiwork, while RK set about to organize and orchestrate the scraps he found. It's a fascinating tale and the results, of course, are phenomenal.
I had not seen this reply before tonight. Thank you. His achievements are especially remarkable when you consider that in addition to the cats, his flat was infested with a parade of family members (sometimes sleeping on top of the piano) and professional acquaintances from the Chemistry department, including Mendeleev, and that his flat was bisected by the access hall to a student dormitory. Most of my music history comes from liner notes from old LP's and CD's.
Totally agree! I was sitting at my pc one day and put this version on. About 6 repeats later I thought I should listen to something else. It held me captive for 6 listens!! What a piece of music!!!!!!
That is a fair critic actually. If the listener feels starving for more then the composer did not exploit the material fully. Incidentally this is how commercial pop songs work with the masses, a few seconds of musical idea floating in the middle of nothing, and not developed or contrasted with another theme, then ends abruptly or in a downramping volume loop. The listeners is frustrated and repeats the piece over and over. Exactly as you did, you are a true product of the consumer society.
I took a travel in Kyrgyzstan this summer. We drove for about 1800 km, mostly on gravel roads. When I think about this wonderful travel this is the soundtrack playing in my head.
Borodin was one of those composers who could paint pictures with music. He could create space and appear to slow time, invoke contemplation and suggest tranquility
Borodin really soothes my soul. I play his music many,many times! Ijust cannot get enough of his beautiful melodies. They calm me, rest me ,and inspire me. What more can I say>
This reminds me of a trip I wanted to take about 50 years ago. I was 19 I had a boring job as a switchboard operator making just above minimum wage for a big insurance company, downtown. There was a travel agency downstairs. It had a brochure for the Marco Polo tour. It started in Venice then it took you to places with names likeTehran, Samarkand, Tashkent, Ulan Bator, Badakshan, Beijing and finally back to the US. There were other names, but I cant remember now. All I remember was the silks, Oriental rugs, spices, Beautifultreasures I would see if I went. Sadly, it would be 3,000 which I did not have
There are people that live this way! No cars, no cell phones, no laptops! And quiet. None of the background noise we don't even notice until the rare occasions we get away from it. All the way around beautiful video.
This has always been my favourite piece of Classical Music. It is beautiful beyond comparison. In December 2019 I flew AIR CHINA from London Heathrow to Beijing. The Flight was up to Scandanavis, then over Moscow and The Russian Central Federation, Siberia, Khasakstan, Mongolia, & China. Sadly the Cabin Crew would not allow the window blinds to be raised to enable us to view this vast landscape (but I did get a glimpse). This piece of Borodin's music was constantly in my head
That's some wonderful even if frustrating memory. For those of us who will never visit that region, this piece is all we'll ever have. Conversely, we'll just have to always imagine we're flying over. We'll Just have to pull down the window shutters and imagine we're over those steppes. So my friend you'll never be alone in your imaginings. Blessings 🎼🎶🛫😊🤝🏼😄 ❤🌍🖤
I flew China Southern from Beijing to Manchester in 2010 and we had no such restrictions, I have a vivid memory of so many of the rooftops of Ulaanbaatar being bright blue
As a therapist, I like my patients to listen to GOOD music. This is one of my all-time favorite musical selections. I love the quote:" music sloths the savage beast".
Music about my homeland, expressed in European. It is really interesting and strange. I can understand the feelings of Western people about Mongolian land.
Arslan, so true your appreciation! Although, Central Asia includes more countries and regions than Mongolia, to the west all turkic peoples and other ethnicities! The beauty is the wide spaces and majestic sceneries of a vast land where people and animals interact strongly as to become one. My spirit is happy when I see riders on their small celestial horses running through the tundras. Do not pay attention to unworthy commentaries!!!
Borodin's father was Georgian actually, though he was born out of wedlock and never legally claimed by his father and was raised in St Petersburg by his Russian mother, who also didn't claim him. But he wrote a lot about Central Asia in his music and showed influence of central Asian music in his work, e.g. this piece and his opera Prince Igor. He may have felt some kind of connection to it because of his Georgian blood, tough to say but neat to think about
And so, it’s in the evening of today when I hear this piece of beautiful music, and what apt and concurrent timing, the finishing passage painted the failing sunset that marks the end of my day here … ❤
Borodin was a very interesting man. He was not just a chemist, but a leading organic chemist and researcher of his age. Music was more or less a hobby for him. The general public (at least in the US) may best remember him today for his connection to the Broadway musical and film “Kismet”. Some of his beautiful melodies were adapted by Robert Wright and George Forrest, notably the songs "Stranger in Paradise", "And This Is My Beloved" and "Baubles, Bangles, & Beads". Borodin received a Tony Award for this show in 1954 despite having died in Russia in 1887.
He died relatively young, the illegitimate son of the local great lord, who did not marry his mother but who gave him a first class education. He was a kind man with a loving family and many friends.
I live in the middle of a huge city. All I ever see are buildings, houses, cars and freeways, shopping centers, 3 million people everywhere. This beautiful music is like a vacation for my sanity every time I hear it. Someday...I'll go there.
In fact there is a kind of magic in this music. I have felt it for the firs time when I first heard Borodin's Price Igor... and later on Korsakov's Sheherazade! I'm from Portugal (Europe) but I feel kind of homesick when I hear this.. funny isn't it?
Carol: there's no there, there. It's ... eerie, beautiful, strange and empty and full, all at once. I can never listen to this without remembering it, the music is so perfectly evocative
Such incredible music that can carry you along on a journey wherever that may be. For me, a young man driving from the Georgia coast to Texas in the late 70s. My journey was a good one, and Borodin supplied the inspiration that guided me in those momentous personal times. As I said, "...wherever that journey may be!" 😊 This musical piece is so powerful that for some it would be an appropriate piece to play while receiving Last Rites. ...including me.
I once loved a guy from Kazakhstan when I was 20, and this music always reminds me of him and it's a lovely bittersweet feeling. Especially 4:39 .... wow, what a beautiful chapter of my life it was! I'm so glad to have the music to remember it by :)
Borodin is vastly under appreciated in both the East and the West. One of the fathers of organic chemistry, he once commented that the ability to make love and compose music are two of God's greatest gift to man, but neither is suited to be one's greatest vocation. Also, a medical physician, he founded a great medical clinic.
Beautiful piece of music. For me it sounds like the landscape is playing this music, the wind blowing through the steppes and the animals crossing it and finally the wonderful dusk and the sun hiding behind the horizon.
Solo una sublime obra puede dar origen a este magnífico video , que me emociona profundamente como si fuese de mi país, a pesar de la enorme lejanía geográfica y cultural. Desde Córdoba ,Argentina. INFINITAS GRACIAS POR COMPARTIR l
I fear I may have commented here before..who cares. What an absolutely beautiful piece of music. Really need to pay my respects, to Borodin, Dostoevsky, Stravinsky, Mussorgsky(!!), Tchaikovsky et al. one day. St. Petersburg here I come!
My soul would have crossed the Japan Sea to reach the steppes of Central Asia , and I would have been sensitized to this masterpiece and footage . I'm just intoxicated with this specutacular performance and wonderful footage From Tokyo of the Land of the Rising Sun 🇯🇵
I traveled across Russia on the trans Siberian railway and as you look out the window you see what motivated Borodin to write this! This music is shot full of this vast country! It brings back memories! Wonderful! Mongolia is vast grasslands and distant forests! A fabled land!
Hauntingly beautiful music. I love the way the eastern and western melodies intertwine throughout. I listen to this piece often as it makes my scalp tingle.
When.my Dad first shared the LP with this on it, almost 40 years ago, I Never DREAMED something like this would be available online to see. This video, to me, strikes a heavy blow against the argument The Internet Is Evil
This beautiful music captures the wide open spaces of the endless Steppes. Borodin understood the land, sky and the people who lived in this land hardly touched by modern life.
Extraordinario, Borodin cuanta paz sabe trasmitir con su música, y cuánta belleza y delicadeza en sus composiciones, un verdadero Genio de la música Rusa, y las vistas cautivan por su grandeza inmensa, a pesar de ser estepas desérticas y calcinadas, Felicidades 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
Beautiful music and an excellent clip. I loved the Bakhtiari camels and the rider carrying the hunting eagle. The moon-faced girl and the young "bogatyr" too. Don´t worry about the reindeer; it is surely a pet-present from the Yukagir of Northern Siberia. From these steppes wandered many peoples towards the west and the east and even the south. Guess what an "urga" is. A man is holding it!
Gilda, I am a contra-bassist in two orchestras here in Arkansas, and have played this piece several times. You have done a wonderful job of post-production on this video. Thank you!
Just love this version by the berlin Orchestra. Weird how there are like 1000s of different versions of each piece of Classical music yet you can just spot the versions you like. I think i like the speed of this one. Can't put it into words but it just has a playful feel. Steady but not rushed. Like they are in no big hurry to get where ever they are going. Just enjoying the journey.
I love the high notes with which this work begins. A great piece to play for high-schoolers who need to be weaned from the drivel which is pumped into them by mainstream corporate media. Hoomeyow!!
Thank you so much for this exotic video and the magical music of Borodin. The oboe haunting and melancholy with transitions to adventurous plucking traveling strings, and the deeper bassoon, crescendos and the handsome Asian rider coincide nicely. The central melody is romantic and lovely as the traditionally dressed Asian girl we get a glimpse of; the French Horn and oboe so warm and haunting. 💔❤️ a recorder at the end? Wonderful. Thank you so much for your posting this incomparable video and music!
A beauty, both music and landscapes. Thak you. Everything is political, life is politics, it depends on the side you look at it: art is revolucionary, nature it is too. Mankind can be or not. Still believing in a Brave New World for Europe and Asia!
A world bereft of technology and a simpler life far from want , hate , politics , faith . A world that once was but will never be again and this haunting piece weeps for those lost times never to return just memories and regrets
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Congratulations to all who built your soul here listening to this gift.
At 3:18 when the camera pans out to show the steppes in theirvastness the music erupts to a magnificent theme which echos those wide plains and the people that live there. Perfect blending of music and image, one of the best I've seen/heard on UA-cam.
Always my favorite! Without your explanation, I have (for the past 30 years) listened to this and likened it to a bittersweet tension...something innocent caught in the in-between. So although I knew it was written about Mongolia, I have thought of Afghanistan these last ten years. Thank you so much for this video. It is beautiful.
Beautiful country! Reminds me muchly of the American West where I have lived the last 50 years of my life- but far vaster in scope. Often have dreamed of visiting the area, but life has passed me by with that alas, not completed. Excellent music, excellent photography! Thanks for posting this...
I just tried twice to disable the ads in my settings, saved my changes, but the ads still show up and I still don't profit from them.. Thanks for watching!
This is one of the most beautiful and enchanting pieces of music ever written. If I could afford a vanity plate on my little vintage Nissan Sentra....BORODIN it would say.
Una hermosa visión musical de vida en plenitud de libertad, llena de colorido, digna de tener presente, llena de añoranza de una tierra lejana, misteriosa, con caracteres humanos de gran belleza, pureza palpitante y sencillez amorosa... Cuantas veces escucho esta obra me transporta a un mundo del que no quisiera regresar...
Can't even begin to imagine how beautiful the nighttime sky is there so wide open no pollution
My wife and I travelled from Beijing on the Trans Mongolian Railway through Mongolia to join the Trans Siberian Railway four days by train from Moscow! This music is shot full of the vast country that we saw!! Marvellous!
I've done a lot of travelling around the world but I've ALWAYS wanted to do what you did. Lucky beggar.
@@fazertace6837 It was a stroke of luck! We went to a presentation with a friend of ours just to keep her company! There we got the urge to go! It is the highlight of our travelling life! We will always be thankful that we went!
We Asians usually think that "Central Asia" refers to the region where the five Stan countries are located, and the region you past on the K3 line of Beijing-Ulaanbaatar-Moscow railway is precisely not Central Asia, but North Asia and Siberia. If you take K9797/9795 from Beijing to Almaty, you will pass through Central Asia... welcome to asia
@@slavish_superiority And you would be correct. Central Asia is most certainly made up of the five Stan countries of the Former Soviet Union, AND Afghanistan, at a minimum, but also Pakistan, depending on the viewpoint. Having worked in Central Asia extensively, this is also the view of most of the western world. Russians, however, view things somewhat differently.
@@padgit8r486 I should be right. We East Asians such as China, Japan, Korea, Mongolia, Turks, Persian，etc., divide geography based on thousands of years of traditions such as way of life, inter-ethnic exchanges, folk traditions, beliefs, language, writing, natural law, tribes, states, and international alliances. Westerners are not qualified enough to judge our culture. The Russian concept of Asia, derived from the last 300 years of colonial expansion, is even less convincing.
The problem with Borodin in general and this piece in particular is that his music is so damn beautiful it leaves the listener starving for more.
J Joe Townley We must remember, Borodin died way too young.
He completed this piece, but he left his third symphony unfinished, as well as Prince Igor (I've heard that he wrote as much music for Igor as Wagner did for The Ring). His students and friends did what they could with the incomplete scores, but could not match his vision!
5610winston You know your music history pretty well. Rimski-Korsakoff describes in his autobio how after Borodin died suddenly of a heart attack RK and Glazunov went into his flat which was occupied by half-dozen or so cats (Borodin loved cats) and found hundreds of scraps of music scores, hand-drawn staffs w/ music notes on the backs of napkins, menus, and just about anything Borodin could lay his hands on. They had to make sense out this chaotic mess and they did an admirable job. RK assigned G the job of arranging and orchestrating the overture so most of what you hear is G's handiwork, while RK set about to organize and orchestrate the scraps he found. It's a fascinating tale and the results, of course, are phenomenal.
I had not seen this reply before tonight. Thank you. His achievements are especially remarkable when you consider that in addition to the cats, his flat was infested with a parade of family members (sometimes sleeping on top of the piano) and professional acquaintances from the Chemistry department, including Mendeleev, and that his flat was bisected by the access hall to a student dormitory. Most of my music history comes from liner notes from old LP's and CD's.
Totally agree! I was sitting at my pc one day and put this version on. About 6 repeats later I thought I should listen to something else. It held me captive for 6 listens!! What a piece of music!!!!!!
That is a fair critic actually. If the listener feels starving for more then the composer did not exploit the material fully. Incidentally this is how commercial pop songs work with the masses, a few seconds of musical idea floating in the middle of nothing, and not developed or contrasted with another theme, then ends abruptly or in a downramping volume loop. The listeners is frustrated and repeats the piece over and over. Exactly as you did, you are a true product of the consumer society.
I took a travel in Kyrgyzstan this summer. We drove for about 1800 km, mostly on gravel roads. When I think about this wonderful travel this is the soundtrack playing in my head.
As suggested by the painting in the opening and closing, this Borodin composition captures the spirit in many of the paintings by Nicholas Roerich.
Borodin was one of those composers who could paint pictures with music. He could create space and appear to slow time, invoke contemplation and suggest tranquility
Also he was khemistrist and surgion
A very perceptive comment. Many thanks!
Exactly. You nailed it my friend!
Borodin really soothes my soul. I play his music many,many times! Ijust cannot get enough of his beautiful melodies. They calm me, rest me ,and inspire me. What more can I say>
This reminds me of a trip I wanted to take about 50 years ago. I was 19 I had a boring job as a switchboard operator making just above minimum wage for a big insurance company, downtown. There was a travel agency downstairs. It had a brochure for the Marco Polo tour. It started in Venice then it took you to places with names likeTehran, Samarkand, Tashkent, Ulan Bator, Badakshan, Beijing and finally back to the US. There were other names, but I cant remember now. All I remember was the silks, Oriental rugs, spices, Beautifultreasures I would see if I went. Sadly, it would be 3,000 which I did not have
They play these songs on the radio a lot. I'm not complaining because they're a really beautiful.
There are people that live this way! No cars, no cell phones, no laptops! And quiet. None of the background noise we don't even notice until the rare occasions we get away from it. All the way around beautiful video.
Borodin's beautiful haunting music with stunning scenery. Perfect.
I feel the same! Music by Borodin is addictive! Thank you.
This has always been my favourite piece of Classical Music. It is beautiful beyond comparison. In December 2019 I flew AIR CHINA from London Heathrow to Beijing. The Flight was up to Scandanavis, then over Moscow and The Russian Central Federation, Siberia, Khasakstan, Mongolia, & China. Sadly the Cabin Crew would not allow the window blinds to be raised to enable us to view this vast landscape (but I did get a glimpse). This piece of Borodin's music was constantly in my head
That's some wonderful even if frustrating memory.
For those of us who will never visit that region, this piece is all we'll ever have.
Conversely, we'll just have to always imagine we're flying over. We'll Just have to pull down the window shutters and imagine we're over those steppes.
So my friend you'll never be alone in your imaginings. Blessings
🎼🎶🛫😊🤝🏼😄
❤🌍🖤
@@winstonmiller9649😅😅😊
Why couldn't the window blinds be raised?
I flew China Southern from Beijing to Manchester in 2010 and we had no such restrictions, I have a vivid memory of so many of the rooftops of Ulaanbaatar being bright blue
Why couldn’t the window blinds be raised?
As a therapist, I like my patients to listen to GOOD music. This is one of my all-time favorite musical selections. I love the quote:" music sloths the savage beast".
"sooths" surely?
Music about my homeland, expressed in European. It is really interesting and strange. I can understand the feelings of Western people about Mongolian land.
Arslan, so true your appreciation! Although, Central Asia includes more countries and regions than Mongolia, to the west all turkic peoples and other ethnicities! The beauty is the wide spaces and majestic sceneries of a vast land where people and animals interact strongly as to become one. My spirit is happy when I see riders on their small celestial horses running through the tundras. Do not pay attention to unworthy commentaries!!!
Borodin's father was Georgian actually, though he was born out of wedlock and never legally claimed by his father and was raised in St Petersburg by his Russian mother, who also didn't claim him. But he wrote a lot about Central Asia in his music and showed influence of central Asian music in his work, e.g. this piece and his opera Prince Igor. He may have felt some kind of connection to it because of his Georgian blood, tough to say but neat to think about
Every so often I come back to this hauntingly beautiful and tranquil piece. Thanks Gilda!
One of the most picturesque composition of Russian Music literature. Vivid, lively and powerful .
Thanks for the upload
And so, it’s in the evening of today when I hear this piece of beautiful music, and what apt and concurrent timing, the finishing passage painted the failing sunset that marks the end of my day here … ❤
Love the camels stepping in time with the beautiful music. Great editing for great composition, thankyou.
Borodin was a very interesting man. He was not just a chemist, but a leading organic chemist and researcher of his age. Music was more or less a hobby for him.
The general public (at least in the US) may best remember him today for his connection to the Broadway musical and film “Kismet”. Some of his beautiful melodies were adapted by Robert Wright and George Forrest, notably the songs "Stranger in Paradise", "And This Is My Beloved" and "Baubles, Bangles, & Beads". Borodin received a Tony Award for this show in 1954 despite having died in Russia in 1887.
He died relatively young, the illegitimate son of the local great lord, who did not marry his mother but who gave him a first class education. He was a kind man with a loving family and many friends.
Balsam für die Seele. Hat uns auch während des Studiums oft geholfen...
I absolutely love this piece of music. It reminds me of being a child and I feel like my heart breaks every time I listen to it.❤
There was a time, not long ago, that this music kept me alive. I'm sure there are others who feel the same.
I live in the middle of a huge city. All I ever see are buildings, houses, cars and freeways, shopping centers, 3 million people everywhere. This beautiful music is like a vacation for my sanity every time I hear it. Someday...I'll go there.
Beautiful words. Luckily I'm often in the nature, it's really inspiring and relaxing. But music already helps us achieve that.
I know exactly just how you feel! Music for the soul.
I feel the same :/ Best of luck when you commit to it.
In fact there is a kind of magic in this music. I have felt it for the firs time when I first heard Borodin's Price Igor... and later on Korsakov's Sheherazade! I'm from Portugal (Europe) but I feel kind of homesick when I hear this.. funny isn't it?
Carol: there's no there, there. It's ... eerie, beautiful, strange and empty and full, all at once. I can never listen to this without remembering it, the music is so perfectly evocative
Such incredible music that can carry you along on a journey wherever that may be. For me, a young man driving from the Georgia coast to Texas in the late 70s. My journey was a good one, and Borodin supplied the inspiration that guided me in those momentous personal times. As I said, "...wherever that journey may be!" 😊
This musical piece is so powerful that for some it would be an appropriate piece to play while receiving Last Rites.
...including me.
I once loved a guy from Kazakhstan when I was 20, and this music always reminds me of him and it's a lovely bittersweet feeling. Especially 4:39 .... wow, what a beautiful chapter of my life it was! I'm so glad to have the music to remember it by :)
Listening to this music, suddenly, everything become so beautiful.
WHAT a wonderful trek Borodin takes us on to the heart of central Asia...
Une des plus belles œuvres jamais composées. Magnifique, émouvante...
The combination of this music and the footage you've put with it is absolutely brilliant and moving to the very soul. Thank you so much, Gilda.
Borodin is vastly under appreciated in both the East and the West. One of the fathers of organic chemistry, he once commented that the ability to make love and compose music are two of God's greatest gift to man, but neither is suited to be one's greatest vocation. Also, a medical physician, he founded a great medical clinic.
magnifique voyage musical dans les steppes immenses et rudes, j'aime ce sentiment d'éternité qu'il procure.
this song has been stuck in my mind all week its so good honestly one of the most underrated short orchestral works id say, the melodies are beautiful
His compositions have so many similar chords that make it easy to identify his work. Love "Prince Igor".
Beautiful piece of music. For me it sounds like the landscape is playing this music, the wind blowing through the steppes and the animals crossing it and finally the wonderful dusk and the sun hiding behind the horizon.
Some of the themes sound so mscuch like Mike Batt`s , Caravan on the move. Was he inspired by Borodin?
If I'm struggling to sleep with the problems of everyday life weighing heavy on my mind I play this, problems solved.
Agree. Peace within the soul comes from this passionate moment in music.
Musical Ed
Borodin's music as therapy. It has always worked for me. Glad to hear that it works for you too. Thanks for letting me know!
I just love this piece..even without these beautiful visuals it's easy to imagine the way this place looks and feels.
This piece always reminds me of the intermezzo from Carmen. Mountainous nomads. 💢
Solo una sublime obra puede dar origen a este magnífico video , que me emociona profundamente como si fuese de mi país, a pesar de la enorme lejanía geográfica y cultural. Desde Córdoba ,Argentina. INFINITAS GRACIAS POR COMPARTIR
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I fear I may have commented here before..who cares.
What an absolutely beautiful piece of music.
Really need to pay my respects, to Borodin, Dostoevsky, Stravinsky, Mussorgsky(!!), Tchaikovsky et al. one day. St. Petersburg here I come!
My soul would have crossed the Japan Sea to reach the steppes of Central Asia , and I would have been sensitized to this masterpiece and footage .
I'm just intoxicated with this specutacular performance and wonderful footage
From
Tokyo of the Land of the Rising Sun 🇯🇵
Fantasía, ensoñación,....
No se puede describir mejor un paisaje así, duro, eterno,....
Gracias Borodin!!!!.
I traveled across Russia on the trans Siberian railway and as you look out the window you see what motivated Borodin to write this! This music is shot full of this vast country! It brings back memories! Wonderful! Mongolia is vast grasslands and distant forests! A fabled land!
Exactly so.
Hauntingly beautiful music. I love the way the eastern and western melodies intertwine throughout. I listen to this piece often as it makes my scalp tingle.
Che melodia da sogno! Una carezza per l'anima! 🙏💓💓💓
When.my Dad first shared the LP with this on it, almost 40 years ago, I Never DREAMED something like this would be available online to see. This video, to me, strikes a heavy blow against the argument The Internet Is Evil
Très beau voyage et très très belle musique, merci pour ces beaux instants💕🧡❤💛💚💙😍
This beautiful music captures the wide open spaces of the endless Steppes. Borodin understood the land, sky and the people who lived in this land hardly touched by modern life.
Extraordinario, Borodin cuanta paz sabe trasmitir con su música, y cuánta belleza y delicadeza en sus composiciones, un verdadero Genio de la música Rusa, y las vistas cautivan por su grandeza inmensa, a pesar de ser estepas desérticas y calcinadas, Felicidades 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
Breathtaking. Brought tears to my eyes, it's such wonder pairing of music and images. Thank you!
Beautiful music and an excellent clip. I loved the Bakhtiari camels and the rider carrying the hunting eagle. The moon-faced girl and the young "bogatyr" too. Don´t worry about the reindeer; it is surely a pet-present from the Yukagir of Northern Siberia. From these steppes wandered many peoples towards the west and the east and even the south. Guess what an "urga" is. A man is holding it!
Gilda, I am a contra-bassist in two orchestras here in Arkansas, and have played this piece several times. You have done a wonderful job of post-production on this video. Thank you!
merci infiniment pour ce morceau d'une indiscible pureté musicale.
absolutely beautiful song.
5:43 always gives me chills when i hear it. truly magnificent
Giving this a listen after hearing he was one of the chemists who discovered the Aldol reaction in Organic Chemistry. Amazing.
Maravilloso Alexander Borodin y Mongolia!!!
Otherworldly beautiful scenery, unearthly beautiful music!
I love this,
JML
I only go here through music and imagination...what a beautiful composite of music and images.
Beautiful. Peaceful. Magnificent!
Just love this version by the berlin Orchestra. Weird how there are like 1000s of different versions of each piece of Classical music yet you can just spot the versions you like. I think i like the speed of this one.
Can't put it into words but it just has a playful feel. Steady but not rushed. Like they are in no big hurry to get where ever they are going. Just enjoying the journey.
I love the high notes with which this work begins. A great piece to play for high-schoolers who need to be weaned from the drivel which is pumped into them by mainstream corporate media. Hoomeyow!!
When I wakened this morning I switched on the radio and this is what I heard. What a lovely way to start the day.
So beautiful , i want to live in the steppes one day , as a nomad , having a dog a horse and just herding sheep , anyone else have that dream ?
Димитър Димитров yes my bulgarian brother, we have!
Димитър Димитров
yes and fly falcons too!
+Димитър Димитров wonderful romantic , and i would also love to .
Close my eyes and gaze upon the sky with this tune in my head !
Of course I've the same dream !
Chile, has (not so wide but) steppes too, so that is a dream of some chilean too :)
Thank you, Gilda. Exquisite blend of video and music. Very moving. There is still beauty in this sin-stained world.
What a glorious piece of music--and the images from Mongolia suit it beautifully.
I keep coming back to this beautiful music video. It speaks to my soul. I don't care how "accurate" it is; it's art.
Dear Gilda,
This video suits the music perfectly. The images alone are classical. Thank you so much for creating it. I love Borodin.
Thank you so much for this exotic video and the magical music of Borodin. The oboe haunting and melancholy with transitions to adventurous plucking traveling strings, and the deeper bassoon, crescendos and the handsome Asian rider coincide nicely. The central melody is romantic and lovely as the traditionally dressed Asian girl we get a glimpse of; the French Horn and oboe so warm and haunting. 💔❤️ a recorder at the end? Wonderful.
Thank you so much for your posting this incomparable video and music!
This may well have been the most beautiful video I have ever seen.
なんで日本語のコメントが無いの？
この景色は日本では見られない。壮大なイメージが膨らんで気持ちがおおらかになる！イイネ、ボロディンは！
You Tube at its best - well done great music along with fantastic scenes!
Bucolic asia of the19th century alive for all who listen...
No TV, no roads, no noise....
Molto bella la musica di Borodin e questo pezzo è davvero speciale. Amo questo brano. Guacomo
The combination of music and video done here is so beautiful, it's crazy.
A beauty, both music and landscapes. Thak you. Everything is political, life is politics, it depends on the side you look at it: art is revolucionary, nature it is too. Mankind can be or not. Still believing in a Brave New World for Europe and Asia!
Our favorite work by this composer...
Thank you for the Borodin music and the beauty of the video!
Just lovely, really lovely.
Beautyful and simply charming.
Simply sublime.
Makes me cry too, but not from sadness but beautifulness
Isso sim… e uma música que soa muito bem a nossos ouvidos, a sonoridade instrumental e vocal, simplesmente incrível !
Bravo!!! Thank you so much Gilda for putting this beautiful piece together.
Please let me add my thanks to his. You have created a marvelous blending of music and art.
A world bereft of technology and a simpler life far from want , hate , politics , faith . A world that once was but will never be again and this haunting piece weeps for those lost times never to return just memories and regrets
Congratulations to all who built your soul here listening to this gift.
At 3:18 when the camera pans out to show the steppes in theirvastness the music erupts to a magnificent theme which echos those wide plains and the people that live there. Perfect blending of music and image, one of the best I've seen/heard on UA-cam.
This bland of music and image is exceptional My deepest thanks.
Always my favorite! Without your explanation, I have (for the past 30 years) listened to this and likened it to a bittersweet tension...something innocent caught in the in-between. So although I knew it was written about Mongolia, I have thought of Afghanistan these last ten years. Thank you so much for this video. It is beautiful.
Wonderful Video! I travel imaginary!
This one always makes me happy. So beautiful!xxxxx
Me too. I get the same feeling watching the sunrise across water on a brisk morning...Borodin was basically an amateur, genius though
Beautiful country! Reminds me muchly of the American West where I have lived the last 50 years of my life- but far vaster in scope. Often have dreamed of visiting the area, but life has passed me by with that alas, not completed. Excellent music, excellent photography! Thanks for posting this...
This is absolutely breath taking!
The classical piece and the scenery in the video!
Thank you so much, Gilda Tabarez, for making this beautiful video for us to travel with.
Thank you for letting me know that you enjoyed it. This makes me very happy.
Truly amazing. One of my favorite, thanks for sharing...cheers.
Creía escuchando las estepas del Asia central es la musica que mas amo en mi sepelio quiero compartirla gracias serge gouliaff gracias Borodi .
I just tried twice to disable the ads in my settings, saved my changes, but the ads still show up and I still don't profit from them.. Thanks for watching!
Download "ADBLOCK" It works, I do not receive any advertisements on You Tube
Extraordinary, in every way. Thank you.
This is just beautiful
I love this.Years since i last heard it, id forgotten all about it. So lucky to have UA-cam.
This is one of the most beautiful and enchanting pieces of music ever written. If I could afford a vanity plate on my little vintage Nissan Sentra....BORODIN it would say.
Beautifully done Gilda. I still want to travel on the Trans Siberian Railway. Perhaps one day when the war is over.
Una hermosa visión musical de vida en plenitud de libertad, llena de colorido, digna de tener presente, llena de añoranza de una tierra lejana, misteriosa, con caracteres humanos de gran belleza, pureza palpitante y sencillez amorosa... Cuantas veces escucho esta obra me transporta a un mundo del que no quisiera regresar...
El mundo de la pachequez, de la felicidad ahi donde ya nada puede destruirse.
Qué bonito.. .