Mozart - Symphony No. 25 in G minor | First Time Reaction!
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- Takács-Nagy, Weinberger Chamber Orchestra.
This is the first time DJ has sat down and listened to an orchestra play. Of course he has heard Mozart but he doesn't know it. How does he respond to 10 minutes of classical music with a camera pointed at him?
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Mozart was a teenager when he wrote this. Not bad eh? Now listen to the G minor symphony no 40.
@thethikboy, if you are impressed with Mozart's ability to compose at a young age, consider listening to Alma Deutscher, the Mozart living among us, right now. She is composing on the same level and wrote her first opera before Mozart did, when it comes to comparing their age.
@@redbandita020 yes, but she has been able to learn from Mozart! Listen to Mozart's predecessors and see his genius. Even Hatdn's greatest works written after Mozart's death do not quite measure up.
@@redbandita020 At the same level ? Are you serious ?... Did you ever listen to Mozart's Waisenhaus mass composed at 12 ? Alma Deutscher music is cute but don't compare a gifted child with the greatest musical genius of all times..
Yeah, when I saw the title of this video I thought "Wait, did he mean to listen to #40 and got the wrong G minor?"
i was born in salzburg amd sometimes i just walk around listening to lacrimosa kleine nachtmusik türkischer marsch and its insane how nostalgic i feel walking around knowing mozart might have walked the same street as i do rn
The conductor does most of the work during practice. He tells everyone exactly how he wants each section to play. Essentially the musicians play their instrument and he plays the whole orchestra.
That’s is one of the most beautiful way of describing it !
If orchestra is seen as one organism, conductor is it's brain,
That's not the case, when a conducter works together with the Vienna Philharmonic. They may have some agreements but in the end the conducter has to follow the instrumentalists' will and becomes "just" a show master. The musicians of the orchestra don't even look at him or her most of the time.
They probably think: "Well, we are the best and most famous orchestra in the world. We don't need any conductor." 🙂
@@tubekulose I don't know where you got such and idea. Some conductors are very subtle, but they are always in charge and in control. The players may look like they're ignoring him, but they can look at their score and the conductor at the same time. It's his vision of how slow or fast, how loud or soft, and so many other elements of the performance. Believe me, the conductor is always the leader.
@@ralphficker167 But correct me if i am wrong (i am not a specialist) but things like the speed of the music and other details weren't defined by the composer already?
The precision, the discipline , the talent and devotion of these members of the orchestra to the music is phenomenal 👏.
Mozart was one of the most gifted musicians ever: that is not subjective.
The conductor does more than keep time - he interprets what he believes the composer's vision of the piece. is.
And tells everyone how to play their instruments, regardless of what instrument they actually know how to play! LOL
*30 years a cellist. ;)
I think he should move to France and be french, I want him to get a big Frankfur... oh sorry! I was meaning to write that to anybody who loved The Last Jedi movie!this IS music, not todays sampled crap!
They do most of it in rehearsals
correct...
well said
@@FoxyJane1348 true. Some do it masterfully. Others….well…I’ll leave it at that
This takes me back. My mom was in an orchestra (violin) and every day I head repeated sections over and over! Miss it now. Mozart was always my favorite.
This symphony is a prime example of "Sturm und Drang"- a cultural movement especially popular in German-speaking Europe in the last half of the 18th century. The overarching characteristic of "Sturm und Drang" (literally "storm and urge" in German) is the expression of (often abrupt) contrasts of deep feelings. In other words, the literature and music of this cultural movement was "dramatic" (as the guy in the video said). The minor key, the different tempos, the dynamic changes, the general alternation of happy and sad sections, etc. all contribute to the emotional extremes of this piece.
Please, Eric Satie, Rachmaninov, Prokofjev's Dance of the Knights.J.S.Bach Toccata und Fuge. And the Ouvertüre Parcefal by Richard Wagner!!! Greetings from Dresden, Germany! 🙋❤👍
Yes, especially Rachmaninov!!! ❤️❤️
I'm originally from Ohio. I recommend seeing the Columbus Symphony whenever they resume. For$ 20-$30 you can sit in the balcony and be blown away. Doesn't matter what's on the program. Good to see other Buckeyes. I'm in Alabama now.
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i am from michigan and a michigan fan, so the one sweatshirt is difficult lol. but it is all good, i love his reactions, intellect, apprecation of great music :)
I’m a singer composer and have recently discovered the immense pleasure of watching reaction videos. I mean, really this is what music is about - sharing the experience. And I’m so appreciative to find folks reacting to great works of classical music. Loved your video, guys!! If you like drama, but also like a bit of darkness, you might try Alfred Schnittke’s Viola Concerto. The first movement is in my opinion one of the scariest pieces of music ever written. He is a poly-stylist, which means he embraces all styles of music and brings them into his pieces almost in a dramatic, symbolic and certainly cinematic way. I think you both would dig. There’s a great performance by Yuri Bashmet, for whom the piece was actually written. Anyway, carry on fellas! And thanks for posting this video!
They claim one of the most reacted music videos in YT is Ghost Love Score (symphonic metal) by Tuomas Holopainen from Kitee (kitt-eh), near the Russian border in Finland, performed by his band Nigthwish with the Dutch singer Floor Jansen.
Well the reason they don't "like music like this" is because they are not exposed to "music like this". I was exposed as a small child by my mother, fell in love with the Dvorak New World Symphony at age 7 and started playing the viola. I have been playing ever since in any orchestra that will have me. The world of classical music is incredibly amazing but so are other forms of music as well. Its great and transforming and soul satisfying to be exposed to all kinds of beautiful music. Mozart was simply out of this world but my personal favorite is Beethoven (try the 7th symphony or of course the 3rd and 5th.)
It baffles me Mozart composed this when he was 17 years old... What were y'all doing at 17?
Mozart called this his Egyptian Symphony. In it he played with Arabic motifs and rhythms. He was very open and curious about foreign cultures.
@@heinedietiker4943 I very much doubt Mozart himself called it that, nor is there anything actually Arabic or Egyptian about the piece. If it is sometimes called that, it was almost certainly applied to it long afterward.
Check out what Mendelssohn was doing at the age of 17!
Hey, I may not have written a symphony at age 17, but I am still alive at an age when Mozart was dead .. So Yeah, Tradeoffs.
Ha!
It'd be awesome if you'd do a reaction to Tchaikovsky's Overture of 1812. It's so powerful.
It’s on my list of music to show him
Played this at Summer orchestra camp during a storm... so, freaking, cool!
My theory as to why people don't listen to classical music much these days is because they don't have the tools or skillset to "actively" listen to it. People know the lyrics to the latest top 40 song, they know the beat, the harmony, heck even the dance routines if there's a video out there when it's done live. But I suspect that the average person feels lost or dumb when listening to classical music. Sure, they can groove to it and like it enough on a surface level, but it's so much more rewarding once you understand (even the basics of) the form and structure of it, the same way we know all the different verse and bridge to our favorite pop tune. For starters, if people had a cursory understanding of things like sonata form, rondo, binary and ternary form, the fugue, strophic, and theme & variation - even just that much - would open up a world of "aha" moments when listening to classical music. That's like 95% of it right there.
How would you recommend someone quickly become versed in the basics of classical movie theory? Something relatively accessible?
@@raiden6156 Just to clarify, are you asking about music "theory" specifically? My point was about "form & structure" (which doesn't necessarily preclude the theory aspect).
@@tfpp1 I guess I'm just asking what is the most efficient/accessible way to get enough of an understanding of classical to truly appreciate it?
@@raiden6156 I guess the best approach might be to do a little homework on what I would call "Music Appreciation". It's information you would learn in a general course you'd take as a GE in undergrad. For starters:
1) Know the characteristics of each of the four major music periods (Baroque, Classical, Romantic, 20th Century), and a tiny bit of what was going on in the world that helped define these eras.
2) Learn a few, key bullet points about the lives/works of a handful of composers of each period (Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Liszt, Brahms, Berlioz, Strauss, Verdi, Wagner, Debussy, Stravinsky, Rachmaninoff, Copland, Glass).
3) Understand a few basic terms like music texture (monophonic/homophonic/polyphonic), consonant vs. dissonant, abstract music vs. program music, religious music vs. secular music, a few genres (solo, chamber music, art song, symphonic, choral, opera, ballet).
4) Finally, what I said in my original comment about form, understanding how those forms unfold. You can just google all of this stuff and learn till your heart's content. If you'd like a brief list of actual pieces of music to work through, let me know.
I used to teach music appreciation in college, which is basically a compressed course in learning how Western classical music functions and how to listen to it, so it's kind of a passion of mine. Anyway, hope this helps.
@@tfpp1 Same here!! I was once stopped by the class when I told them the next piece would last 6 minutes. They said it was too long! It was the Prelude do Das Rheingold so they could hear the development of an idea into a big climax. But they said 3 minutes was enough. If you couldn't say something in 3 minutes you were stupid. It was hard to break through that! It changed the direction of my teaching into lengthening their attention span.
I was a junior in high school when
'Amadeus' came out. I had been exposed to a lot of classical music already, and loved it. But the movie gave it context. Requiem still slays me.
Need the scene of Salieri being rushed off to the hospital ward ...and opening credits - with this music
It sounds like an old squeeze box, out of tune
@@dugswank Would you happen to be thinking of the "rusty squeezebox" line from the movie as Salieri describes the opening of the 3rd movement of Mozart's Serenade for 13 Winds?
@@dugswank actaully that was a differnet piece that saliri was describing. i can't think of the name of it. but it wasn't this one
Salieri got done dirty by that movie.
I like that you guys enjoy classical music. I would just like to say that the music you hear in films fall under the category of film music similar contemporary classical music. Mozart is from the classical period of classical music. If you didn’t know, Classical music is a generic term used to denote four eras of Western European music: Baroque (1600-1750), Classical (1750-1820), Romantic (1820-1900), Contemporary (1900-present). The name for these eras go along with the artistic eras for Western visual art. This type of music is made by geniuses. It’s compositional styles, techniques, and melodies have laid the foundation for the music genres that we listen to today. Although you could say that this music was for the elites back in the baroque and classical period,music of the Romantic period was more open to the public. Nonetheless, religious works, operas, and other works were open for the public during the baroque and classical period as well. Although most people paint the composers of this type of music as serious men, they were far from it. A lot of them were eccentric, young, and not wealthy. The notion that these composers were wealthy is far from the truth. As a consequence, some advice. Before you listen to this music, try to put yourself in the mind frame of the composer and the age that they were living in. Also, I recommend that you look at visual art from that time period whilst listening to the music. Hoped this help. Peace keep up the good work !
Wow. Lots of good info here. Yes I am aware of the differences in periods and I was using the term classical in the generic sense.
+ before this is early music medieval period and renessance. In medieval era we have sacred music ( very mistical, serious mood), and secular music (some songs in this era is very pop, easy melodie, repetive and strong rythmn,). In renessaince we have same thing, but songs in medieval era for me is more closer to today pop music ( diffrent, but has many element like today pop) than renessaince. When I listen some happy trobadour song I don't feel like I'm listen classical music ( or some high "art") I feel like I listen some very old pop music. I have a question what is pop/party music of baroque, renessaince, classical? OK, some pieces in classical music is very funny. Is this folk music in these period? Internet give very little informaction about this. I know Mozart write Eine kleine music and this something like light/easy music. Yes, today we have contemporary classical music, but we also have pop/rock music. And this (pop/rock)music can be for light/easy but also can be complexy, exsperimental. You can choose Radiohead or Rihanna.
This question is for Mario Neira.
mario, i would have argued the oppoisste, that 1900-present wasn't classical, but that the 4th would actaully be the opposte, predating baroque, in Renaissance, which is probably i the neighborhood o f1500 something to 1600 ish but yes. however, the music that john williams composed for example for superman, star wars et al, is literally modern classical or really orchstral/symphonic musicc :)
I go for baroque! But “modern” and “contemporary” and even “mid century modern” are, like “Y2K” and inflation, transitory and shortsighted. Terms with term limits.
A Dutch writer (Simon Vestdijk) once called Mozart "the demon of gallantry". Not bad... 😉
I also heard the first movement from this symphony for the first time thanks to the movie 'Amadeus' (1984). This particular piece seems to be influenced by the so-called 'Sturm und Drang' movement ('storm and drive' or 'storm and stress'), which was a pre-Romantic movement in German literature & music between the late 1760s and mid 1780s. The most famous novel of that period was Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's 'Die Leiden des jungen Werthers' (The suffering of the young Werther). Very passionate and emotional stuff.
This chamber group is good!
Mozart drafted this Sinfonia in g-minor at the age of 17 in September 1773 while visiting Vienna with his father - completed / orchestrated in Salzburg in October 1773
You want classical Music that sounds like Star Wars? Try listening to "The Planets" by Gustav Holst. Start with "Mars" and then "Jupiter". That will tell you where John Williams got his ideas.
Symphony No. 5 - Mahler
Also Hans Zimmer (particularly in Gladiator!) I was convinced at one point that the soundtrack actually included Mars from the Planets till I realised Hans Zimmer had just incorporated it's themes into his own music.
Holst is much more modern, I think, but it's much more calm. Chopin or Lizt would be my favourite for anyone to react, those men are great
Indeed.
You forgot Kings Row by Korngold
It's not a song- it's a "piece " or more accurately, it's a Symphony.
Next piece- A Brandenburg Concerto.
My fave is no.5.it has a great harpsichord cadenza that's like an amazing guitar solo.
Yes, technically a “song” involves a singer singing. (Get it?) But since nearly all pop music involves a singer singing, “song” has become the generic term for a piece of music in the pop world, whether it has singing or not.
In the classical world, most music does not involve singing, so “song” still refers only to a piece with a singer. (And not all pieces with singers: many are operas or masses or whatever, which are also not songs and do not contain songs. So the term usually refers to individual non-dramatic, non-religious works with a single singer, so long as the composer hasn’t labeled it something else.)
In the classical world, generically you may have a “work” or a “piece of music”, and more specifically a symphony, overture, sonata, concerto, opera, mass, cantata, song, tone poem, march, waltz, intermezzo, ballade, nocturne, prelude, fugue, or any number of other labels for different types of pieces.
@@matthewv789 its not popsong. Its classical so its a piece. Dont mess with CLASSICAL MUSIC!
Everything is not pop! Keep american expressions to your country only!
Mozart's music often gives me literal goosebumps, on hearing it. Even pieces I've heard dozens of times before. Perfection.
Written when he was 17!!! talk about a genius!
Daddy, can I write an opera? "No, you're not old enough." "Hold my wig........."
Would really love to see more Classical (esp Baroque) reactions! This was great and I’m a staunch lover and supporter of Classical music.
Another great soundtrack to listen to is the “Dredd” movie ST. brilliant
The fact one young man conceived of and put this on paper is staggering!
This was only the first movement! I adore Mozart's ability with themes and variations. And the way he uses dynamics is unbelievable! It's also important to note that any good musician in an orchestra learns to keep the conductor in peripheral vision at all times and switch back and forth between reading the music and the conductor. No one ever wants to play the wrong kind of solo by missing a cut off or sudden dynamic change.
BTW Symphony No. 40 has always been my favorite Mozart. You should give it a try.
Yep, I can even whistle the first few bars. very well known piece. 👍
I would watch Amadeus repeatedly while going thru the architectural design studios in college for creative inspiration. Great movie.
The music is fine, the story has nothing to do with the real Mozart...
Conductors do most of their work in rehearsal In performance, they keep time with the right hand, give cues with the left, and use body gestures or whatever to keep the energy up. Like they might crouch and make down gestures for quieter, spring up for louder. He also reminds them of what they learned in rehearsal, so if they aren't quiet enough or loud enough the conductor would gesture. Keep in mind also that the conductor is leading them, not playing along. Some conductors are a beat or even a bar ahead of the players, which looks disconcerting. Also, conductors have to be able to read full orchestral scores like the rest of us read ordinary writing, and imagine the whole thing in their heads. The conductor of an orchestra is like the director of a play: it is an intricate art, and they all have their individual styles.
Conductor acts like a director to the composer's screenwriter. Also, like a "monitor" speaker for band performances. He can hear what the crowd is hearing out in front and can make adjustments. The sheet music may say for one part to play loud, but if it isn't loud enough to stand out to the audience the conductor gives them a cue to increase their volume. And they help keep time too.
Baton is the name of the stick. You really need a conductor because it keeps the time for all the instruments like the DJ conducts the crowd to dance with arm movement or hands gestures @tranceconductor
One of his best! Check out the one thats known as "Elvira Madigan"
Great selection to introduce classical music to a newcomer. To the point about the conductor’s body movements influencing the rhythm/tempo... yes, that is the main reason. This particular conductor’s movements are a bit funky since he’s often not waving his baton to the tempo... which, as a musician, can be a little scary if you can’t clearly see the beat that’s being set. Playing in an orchestra, a musician’s particular seat may be acoustically in a place where they themselves have a tough time hearing the other musicians... so the conductor (right in the center of it all) can use gestures to let any musician know to raise/lower their volume.
Well said
The little stick in the conductors hand is called a Baton
I love how caught off guard he looked at first but then he quickly got into it. Mozart's music is so powerful. Anyone w/a pulse has to get some feeling from this piece. Props to the editing! Def had me chuckling.
I haven't checked all the comments, but Twinkle Twinkle Little Star is not by Mozart, he just wrote variations of the tune which was from a french children's song. I.e. Mozart remixed it. Check out Wikipedia for more info.
Hey, this Mozart guy sounds pretty cool. He may have a promising career. One to watch for sure. When's his next drop? 🎵🎶😎👍🔥
P.S. Another classic that people don't often know they know is "All by myself" redone by Eric Carmen in 1975 and also released later by Celine Dione. It is actually from the 2nd mvt of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor (A fantastic piece.).
This was actually one of the best renditions of this symphony I have heard.
Great reaction. Classical music is the second (forgotten) root of modern rock music. I don't understand that people don't like it.
Try Modest Mussorgsky's pictures of an exhibition
The word maestro is most often used in addressing or referring to conductors. Less frequently, one might refer to respected composers, performers, impresarios, musicologists, and music teachers.
I'm loving many of your reactions and am happy to see you including classical music as well as Black Sabbath! Please try O Fortuna from Carmina Burana by Orff. You may recognize it from scary movies....Then there's Beethoven's Fifth. A must for everyone. (I prefer the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra with Rene Leibowitz conducting.)
"there isn't a move without a sound track?"
"I don't know...it would be a very good one..."
AHEM HITCHCOCK! AHEM THE BIRDS! AHEM.
Lets not forget that Mozart was 17 years old when he wrote this. One of the greatest musical journeys is following Mozart into maturity.
I grew up on this music. We used to play it in orchestra.
This version is slightly faster than other versions and I have to say the slower versions are more pleasing....but that’s just me.
The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields recordings have always been a favorite of mine.
I love Mozart and many other classical composers. He was the Rock Star of his time.
But I must say that Rossini is my favorite. He lifts me up the most where classical composers are in question :)))
Thanks for the reaction!
I love Rossini too!
Oboes are a double reeded instrument ( the cane reed is split in 2) . A clarinet is single reeded. At the time Mozart wrote this, 1786, not many orchestras has clarinets as it was a relatively new, not common, instrument.
One of my favorite symphonies. I also love Tchaikovsky's Sixth Symphony
Another great piece to introduce a love of classical music is JS Bach's Toccata and Fugue in d minor (organ only), and the recorder version of Badinierie.
Beethoven's 5th Symphony!
For the past week I walked past the house Mozart lived in, in the city of Linz, twice a day. Breathtaking.
Now that's something I'd like to experience myself too! Awesome!
How I wish I could hear some of these pieces for the first time again! Love watching your reactions
Mediocrities... Mediocrities to all!! Amedaeus was one of my favorites too.
“You are absolved! You are all... absolved!”
The requiem by Mozart absolutely melts me every time. I've seen it live 3x and I'm going to see it again this month. The voices shake the room and the music blends perfectly together like water. It's an emotional rollercoaster.
I think of a conductor as a person playing a very large instrument, the orchestra. He determines tempo, emotions, reminds everyone when to come in or cut off. Music is the language of emotion.
I have no idea if you're still reading these comments, but the difference between the oboe and the clarinet is that the clarinet has one reed while the oboe has two! Both clarinet and oboe reeds are made out of wood, but the more "buzzy" or "sharp" sound you hear from an oboe is from the two reeds vibrating up against each other. (Bassoons have a double reed as well.)
Oh, and as for Twinkle Twinkle, Little Star, Mozart didn't write the original melody; he merely wrote a series of variations on it for piano.
Welcome to the world of Western classical music. We're very glad to have you join us!🎻
This is hardly "western" classical music. Glad they joined us yes. A little fact:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart[a] (27 January 1756 - 5 December 1791), baptised as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart,[b] was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period. Born in Salzburg, in the Holy Roman Empire, Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood.
@@mattg56 Okay, so you're saying Roman is western, am I understanding?
@@mattg56exactly, this masochism among western people to consider everything their ancestors did as not “authentic” while at the same time acknowledging and asserting that other cultures and people do have unique and authentic culture. Is very strange.
17 years old when he wrote this masterpiece, shortly after he finished his major opera Lucio Silla at the same age.
the Baton in the hand of the conductor usually counts the beat, The conductor knows all the parts and has a concept of what the composer had in mind. He pulls the orchestra together.
For conductors you have to watch different guys do it to see the influence. I used to see the National Symphony Orchestra a lot, and they had their main conductor retire (Christoph Eschenbach) and they hired a new meastro (Giandrea Noseda) was hired. Watching that transit was really fun because Eschenbach is an ace technician, super precise and dialed in, Noseda is fiery and passionate. Both great conductors at the top of their game, but totally different styles.
Listen to Mozarts’s “Requiem”. It’s a masterpiece. Also, if you like horns, give Respighi’s “Feste Romane” and “Pines of Rome” a listen.
Cinematic and dramatic: the drama in the sound makes cinema pictures in your mind. Other great soundtracks that don’t require a movie: “Immortal Beloved” and “Chaplin” (both demonstrate where inspiration comes from), “Last of the Mohicans,” and first “Pirates of the Caribbean,” “Jonathan Livingston Seagull,” to name a few. “2001”. “Rudy”. So many…
Johnathan Livingston Seagull is a masterpiece by Neil Diamond.
Sheer brilliance...sheer beauty and fire!! In AMADEUS this part is played during Constanze's flight back to her dying husband in Vienna...
The horn parts in this symphony were intended for horns without valves, which meant that the players would get all of the different notes purely by changing the shape of their lips. The notes each horn could play were limited (usually to major key arpeggios lower down and simple scales higher up), so the trick was to choose the set of notes each horn would be able to play - this was challenging for minor key symphonies like this one, but Mozart was rather good at this given he wrote quite a few. :)
The horns in the video are almost certainly French horns with valves (which only really appeared from the 1820s onwards), which means the players can play a lot more notes and control their tuning more easily, but they are still difficult instruments to play. (I agree that they and the orchestra as a whole performed that movement rather well.)
The original instruments sounded different .
Check out the Academy of ancient music.They play on original instruments.
Pitch was also controlled by moving the right hand inside the bell of the horn. More tones than the harmonic series could be gotten that way, but the timbre and dynamics would change, sometime quite dramatically!!
Oh yes, that song Twölf Variazionen in C by Mozart is based on the French song "Ah vous dirai-je maman".
You just mixed up the t und the z. ^^
It’s „Zwölf Variationen“. :3
@@minosnegle7579 Lololol! Oh, wow! I did! xD Thanks!
The first movement of Beethoven's Seventh is a reaction I would like to see.
I'd like to see reaction to the SECOND movement, which I feel is one of the most emotional pieces of music I've ever heard. I ALWAYS shed a tear or two while listening to it.
Actually, it would be great to see reactions to all four movements, and then see the realization that the entire work had a shape and goal. And tell the listener Wagner's comment that the 7th is the "apotheosis of the dance".
@@paulsomers6048 one of the best symphonies ever composed
@@dansmodacct Yes, and Sibelius' final version of his no. 5 for the same reason.
Funny thing, I’ve listened classical all my life, and l could hear a Rap lyric on top of this. WAM played a story in his mind as he composed you can bet!
No, you have your story in your mind. Mozart had shapes and their relationships in his mind.
I absolutely love Mozart's work. So full of genius surprises.
Hey nice sofa table and walls! It's 95% of the screen, come on.
i think reactions on youtube can be a way to introduce classical music to many people, Orchestras should supports this, there are many ''reactors'' that live from this, on YT, and many people following then
Leonard Burnsteins Saturday concerts for kids was televised for awhile and he was the best teacher of classical music and introduced an entire generation to orchestral music. Somebody should do this again, or drum up some of those old videos. They were exciting when I was young.
@@douglasleinbach6313 its good too, but i was talking about this new languages on internet, the ''reaction'' is a kind of language.
I depress myself with the realization that by the time Mozart was my age, he'd been dead for fifteen years. What an absolute musical genius. I'm glad I stumbled across your channel, gentlemen, if I may be so bold, no peace moves me like the first movement of Mahler's masterful 2nd Symphony.
Yo please tell who was conducting this, this version is amazing
Nice vid as well, hope you guys do more classical
Maybe Beethoven's 5th next?
Idk who the conductor is but the Orchestra should be in the description
@@GetSidewaysReacts Geez guys! READ!! First in the description: Takács-Nagy, Weinberger Chamber Orchestra. Takács-Nagy is the conductor!!
Variations on a theme! That's what it was all about in those days! Thanks for putting classical and other period music out there. I was obsessed with Amadeus when it came out. I'd load up the CD player with 5 symphonies, or albums of piano concertos, and let them go for hours. I've actually toured the house in Salzburg where Mozart was born. A different world 200 years ago. Mozart's last 4 symphonies are incredible, but the piano concertos are light and beautiful too. The Requiem is unreal; the clips used in the movie are great, as Tom Hulce breaks down the sections. Mozart really was a musical genius, with the benefit of being raised by a father who was a composer himself.
Were you aware you were strumming your fingers or was that just a reaction?
Not sure. What's the time stamp where I was doing that?
8:12 I saw tapping, following the arpeggios. Thats exactly the same thing I do when I listen to music😅. My friends all keep saying it freaks them out when I just start doing that in class (I'm listening to classial music in my head).
Seems to me that the neophyte instantly gets subtleties that the other older dude will never comprehend.
"The oboist is kind of like a clarinet" --and the oboist weeps in frustration. I forgive you because this was a fun reaction. Oh yes, the oboe reed is made of (wait for it) --reeds. So is the clarinet reed--the clarinet and saxophone sound is created by air pushed through a single reed tied to a wooden mouthpiece. The oboe and basson sound is air pushed through two pieces of reed tied together called --wait for it-- a double reed.
12:48 - "I don't know why people don't like music like that now". Really? More people love Mozart now than ever in world history. 🌎 They just don't know it yet.
Most if not all music for movies are recorded by a Symphony Orchestra.
I too grew up in the '80s and being raised on.. a fair bit of classical (dad and his '80s hifi stereo system), as well as watching Amadeus. I really think that, although classical did reasonably well, both during the '80s and in the lead-up to it, that film *really* did its share of bringing a lot of people exposure to Mozart, people who otherwise wouldn't have been that into it, along with kind of the rise of the audiophile industry, because classical music was frequently a great test of such sound systems.
I suspect part of the (apparent) "decline" is that audiophiles seem to have relegated themselves either to the extremely expensive high-end setups, or to the expert enthusiasts, both of which would less common, while the ordinary masses have switched down to listening on earbuds and watching on mobile screens, laptops, or computer screen.
that WAS hard rock/ heavy metal. i had the stank face through that whole performance. what gets me is the deep silent beat. the vaccuum. mozart is unreal
Mozart: the King of Melody.
I discovered Mozart from the movie Amadeus too. I was 16. I had never experienced music like that although I enjoyed classical music when I rarely heard it. I would try to catch it on public radio when I could. Mostly at the time I was into metal and hard rock but man I loved to lay back with headphones and drift on this new (to me) music. I still sometimes catch my mind replaying Mozart's Songs. It was the most beautiful music I have ever heard. Until I discovered Bach. I'm not claiming Bach was better then Mozart but Bach resonated more with me. Anyway I think I want to explore more of this music. I still know little of it Keep it up 🤟
A lot of Mozart's music almost... takes your soul and carries it on this exhilarating journey, like your entire spirit just soars. And I think this is one of the pieces for which that description fits better than most, and why it does so well for opening Amadeus.
John Williams lifted a number of the primary themes in the Star Wars soundtrack from, appropriately enough, Gustav Holst's "The Planets".
The reason a lot of classical music sounds like movie soundtracks is because the movies copied classical music. If you guys listened to the instrumental sections of Wagner's operas, you might say, 'hey that sounds just like a lot of 1940's and 1950's movies.' Wagner was so evocative, innovative and popular, he was copied for decades.
I vote for Tchaikovsky's violin concerto, first movement, for your next classical reaction. No one won't like it.
I know Wagner better than I know any movie from the 40’s & 50’s
@@GetSidewaysReacts Yes, I shouldn't have typed "you guys". Obviously, you know Wagner! What I meant was that the average person that does not listen to classical music. And you probably know too that the guys from Metallica, when they heard Wagner, were amazed and declared Wagner the "heavy metal" of classical (which I guess I'd kind of agree with).
The big tune that Williams "wrote" for the aliens in "Close Encounters" to play, and the folks on the moutain top to respond to, was actually by Richard Strauss from "Der Rosenkavalier". Williams added a single pitch octave drop after Strauss's 4th note, then finished with Strauss's next note.
Baton is the stick that a conductor holds & waves.
Twinkle Twinkle is known as a theme and variation piece. There are so many classical pieces that are used tor musical soundtracks. Adagio for Strings , Carmina Burana (Old Spice) to name just two. I suggest Rhapsody in Blue by Gershwin with it's clarinet opening, jazz feel and tempo changes is a winner. I think you'd like it a lot.
Mozart was THE MAN. Upon my first hearing of his piano concerto #24 I gasped and said to myself;”this theme is intractable like a piece of granite; what else can possibly be added after this statement?” Well, Mozart, of course, added quite a bit. Some years ago I referred to it as “the dance of the armed warrior.” This brother remains the pinnacle of musical genius. Such profound concepts and transcendent artistry are an extremely rare spiritual grace. Yeah, Mozart remains THE MAN to this day. PWG
I too LOVE this concerto. Especially the second, slow, movement. Pure austere perfection...
thank you for suggesting that!
Exhilarating ! Thank you for reacting to this! Music like this is thrilling and exciting while being complex and masterful, Art in its truest sense. I love this! I'm of millennial generation and this sort of music is exciting and real to me, as well as more meaningful. Imo lots of popular music "fashionable" nowadays is unnecessarily dumbed down, plastic, shallow, insincere and overhyped. I always come back to this sort of music, it's more stimulating & satisfying and leaves a more meaningful lasting impact on my mind and soul.
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star is a French folk song. All Mozart did was take the folk song and make variations off of it. The actual folk song itself is not by Mozart but the variations are.
My impression is that the then-18 year old Mozart was ‘re-infus’d’ by all the ‘new Musick’ coming out of Vienna during the summer of 1773 during a summer leave from stuffy secluded Salzburg-this particular sinfonia (October 1773) reflecting the Sturm & Drang (‘storm & stress’) movement in Europe (1766-1776) where the dramatic element is highlighted - unlike the commentator who insists on calling this opening sinfonia movement a ‘song’ which it is certainly not … LoL
It's great that you are introducing the great music of all periods to your subscribers/audience.. but please.please please ..... This is NOT a 'song'... a 'song' is only one compositional 'type' of music. I am a 40 year pro violinist... let me educate you here. This is a 'symphony'... Mozart composed 41 symphonies, Beethoven 9, Brahms 4 etc. and a myriad of other composers composed many as well.. A 'song' in the baroque, classical, romantic eras, and later is found mostly in operas and is called an 'aria', the Italian word actually translates to English as 'air', but it is basically the musical term for 'song''. Another Italian word for song is 'canzon'. The German word for 'song' is 'lied'- 'lieder' as 'songs'. The great early Romantic era German composer Franz Schubert is famous for his many 'lieder'. The great Austrian late romantic composer Gustav Mahler wrote 'song' cycles as well, e.g. 'Das Lied von der Erde' and 'Ruckert' Lieder' 'Songs on the Death of Children'... But, they both also composed symphonies, and other 'types' of compositions. Many other great composers of all periods composed 'arias' and 'lieder'. A 'piece', or 'opus' (the Latin word for 'work'), or 'composition', can be a 'song', a 'concerto', a 'symphony'. a 'sonata', 'overture', 'tone poem', a 'suite' etc. etc. etc. To put it another way... 'all Poodles are dogs, but not all dogs are Poodles'... 'all Model T Fords are automobiles, but not all automobiles are Model T Fords'. And in the music of the 16th - 21st centuries, 'all songs are 'pieces' of music, but not all 'pieces' of music are 'songs''... and in fact, most music from the baroque through the late romantic periods are not 'songs'. I think it would be great for your audience to call the 'piece' you are presenting by it's proper compositional 'type' name... in this case, the 'type' name is in the very title of the opus, 'Symphony No 25 in G minor'... not 'Song No 25 in G minor' I've performed this 'opus' many times.. Indeed, most compositions have the 'type' name in the title... eg . Violin 'Concerto' No. 1 by Bruch... or Piano 'Sonata' no. 1 by Beethoven, etc etc etc
More about 'song': The baroque, classical or romantic period 'song', 'canzone', 'aria' or 'lied' is different from the 20th and 21st century folk, pop 'song', most of which are in the format
(verse 1 - verse 2 - chorus - verse3 - bridge - chorus) or very close to that... Chicago's 'Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is' an example of an aberration, having the form (verse1 - chorus - verse2 - chorus - verse3 - chorus), no bridge. The 'song', 'aria' or 'lied' or 'canzon' of the 16th - 19th does not follow such a predictable structural format... much freer.
The generic term for a composition of any type can be, 'piece' or 'opus' ... So... to sum up. (Every 'song' is a 'piece' of music, but not every 'piece' is a 'song')
I applaud your doing these... you are turning many onto the great music from the 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th centuries... BTW You might want to play some great Gregorian Chants and later Renaissance music.. 95% of the music from the Renaissance was in the church, and 95% vocal (no instruments)... I suggest works by great Renaissance composers such as: Josquin des Prez, Thomas Tallis, Orlande de Lassus, et al. It's very ethereal, mystical, AMAZING music! I think your subscribers might like to hear it as well. In fact, here is one of the most exquisite Renaissance choral works by Gregorio Allegri (1582 - 1652) "Miserere mei, Deus' ua-cam.com/video/H3v9unphfi0/v-deo.html Give it a listen... you will be amazed!
If others out there desire to know the definitions of the different 'types' of compositions from the Renaissance thru 20th centuries, easy to do. Here's a great place to start: promusicianhub.com/types-musical-compositions/ Now, it's really not necessary that one knows exactly what 'type' of 'piece' they are hearing and enjoying, or, to paraphrase Shakespeare , 'a piece by any other name would sound as beautiful'... But "while all roses are flowers, not all flowers are roses"
I love your series. I love classical and baroque music (know so many many pieces well). HOWEVER tried this on my teenage kids. Did not work. Sad.
You should really look into P.D.Q. Bach (Peter Schikele) - “New Horizons in Music Appreciation”, and his performance of Beethoven’s 5th Symphony. To get the full effect of his sheer brilliance, make sure to check out and listen to the original recording - not the video of the performance with an orchestra.
I can't understand what is the point with presenting this guy DJ whose first 'reaction' to whatever play he listens is always as smart as 'Wow' or 'This is crazy'. A-L-W-A-Y-S.
Ah, your buddy the DJ really liked this.... I could see by his face, his rapt attention and smiles and concentration... I am so pleased. I hope he is converted to Mozart. He wrote 675 known pieces of music, and was dead at 35. Does he know that "twinkle, twinkle little star" was written by him?
He's on the same level as Beethoven , Chopin, Bach , Brahms , Mendelssohn, just different styles of music nothing else just brilliant !!!!!!...
The historical innacuracies in Amadeus are mostly meaningless. It is true to its intention: a roar of praise and approval to the genius of Mozart, a man for whom music was his first language.
When you can write entire scores and operas without making a mistake, or corrections, you're on a whole other level. I don't know of anyone else who can do that
I think he heard the cosmos, like we can hear the next note in Mozart's music with intuition. There are always layers of movement in his symphonies. If you think about it in terms of elements and waves coming together, that's how I see his ingeniousness.
@@samhartford8677 all artists get into flow for sure. But to write charts with dozens of instruments on different keys, and NOT make any mistake (ever) is something else
It's like a 100 channels mixing console, but you have only pen and paper and it's all in your head. The way they write music for an entire orchestra, all those counterpoints... it's kind of magic
And many composers composed sitting at a desk, not at a piano. You can hear the music in your head without having to play it. I write without a piano, then check it later at the piano. Rarely find anything needing a change.
How do you define a mistake? I can think of two kinds of mistake: 1. You write down something that doesn't work musically - which is a non-issue for people who only start writing things down after they came up with their music and tried it on an instrument. and 2. You write something you didn't intend to write - i.e. the equivalent of a typo. Avoiding those is ultimately just a matter of practice in reading and writing music.
The fact that Mozart made no corrections isn't that impressive to me. That pales compared how impressive the creative act to come up with a symphony - dozens of instruments contributing to one harmonious soundscape is. Writing the result down is the least creative and least impressive part about the process.
To think this was written by a 17 year old........
Explaining the conductors purpose as giving the musicians energy is perfect! While they can be the time keeper, at a upper levels their purpose is really more to unify and direct the entire orchestra to a singular place.
Also what separates oboes/bassoons from clarinets/saxophones is that the mouthpiece is reed is two pieces of reed vs. one.
Next time maybe part of the orchestrated Pictures at an exhibition? It is a great intro piece because of the text painting.