Borodin: Second Symphony - Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra - Concert HD
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- Опубліковано 6 гру 2010
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Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest o.l.v. Karel Mark Chichon / Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Borodin: Tweede symfonie / Second Symphony
I. Allegro moderato 0:03
II. Scherzo. Molto vivo 7:19
III. Andante 12:30
IV. Finale. Allegro 21:54
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Amazing this guy was a "Sunday composer". Composing took a back seat to his career. He wasn't very prolific either, but his compositions were of such high quality that one can only imagine what else he could have wrote if he did this full time, amazing just amazing !!
SO TRUE, marcusdolby ! !
And, most amazingly, was at the same level in his first activity, chemistry!
So very true!
He was a great chemist too The discoverer of the gas Boron which is named after him
Hate to bring it up, but boron was discovered 25 years before he was born, and it is a metal.
He did, however, research the benzene fluorides in depth and his paper on the subject is still the definitive word on that group of compounds. He discovered many useful reactions, including a method of synthesizing nitrogen-based agricultural fertilizers.
He was also an early champion of training women to be Medical Doctors.
The 3rd movement has to be one of the glories of the Romantic Movement in music.
It makes me remember how much I liked this when I was 15 years old.
Now at 64 I still enjoy it very much.
It is so powerful, beautiful, majestic...
Hey Fernando, you're not alone to say that! This remained one of my favourites throughout the years too!
Qué divertido encontrarse con un comentario tuyo en este video.
Saludos, Fernando.
@@janvanc7190 Jan, you speak the truth. This beautiful and enchanting piece of music is as fresh and touching as when I first heard it over 70 years ago.
@@janvanc7190 "Powerful, beautiful, majestic." Jan you are so right.
This lovely music still has the power to move me that it had 70 years ago.
@@jirafachina Por ahí lei, Gonzalo, que ademas de su genio Borodin era tipo encantadoramente hospitalario y tolerante. Su mesa, los domingos, era de no menos de 30 personas y gatos y perros se paseaban por doquier.
One of the most beautiful and easy to listen symphonies. Very ahead of its time - because as amateur Borodin wasn’t as tied with conventions. It is like concentrate of the best from the music of his peers into one awesome medley. No long developments, no time wasting, stright to the point. And I bet that the last movement inspired Hollywood western music a lot.
Borodin, Balakirev, Cui, Mussorgsky, and Rimsky-Korsakov were members a Russian group some called the"Mighty Five." Their intention was to bring Russian themes into classical music. They opposed the Western musical themes that Russian graduates of the mainly German conservatories had used in their compositions. Borodin was busy teaching, scientific research, family, and music was a pastime. Therefore, much of his compositions were finished by other people. Rimsky-Kosakov finished the great opera Prince Igor. He was a close friend of Liszt. Liszt premiered some of the Borodin works. These five were the creators of some the first "Russian Sound" in classical music. However, many of these themes came from the" People". This is a fine video, played by one of the great orchestras, in a hall that makes the whole thing shine.
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As I remembered, only Kosakov was the full-time professional musician among the Mighty Five. :)
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Remember that Borodin has a fascination with Central Asia; as witnessed to by In the Steppes of Central Asia and his opera Prince Igor, amongst others. One should not seek pictorial explanations for music as a rule, but it is impossible to avoid the image of Tatar horsemen charging across the steppes in the first movement.
@PolishViking, it is quite an opera. Very long. Borodin took so long over it that one night, Rimsky and (I think) Balakirev sat and orchestrated it while he treated the completed pages with a chemical solution of his own invention! I do not know if it is the case today, but for many years the only monument to him in Russia/the USSR was as a scientist. You probably know the Polovtsian dances; they are available on UA-cam in an operatic performance. Igor is also the only opera I know of to feature a musical setting of a solar eclipse.
When symphony goes into the 3rd movement, it sounds like a mist image of late autumn forest in Russia. That’s such a magnificent and gorgeous composition of Russian folk classical music !
Wow. I've never listened. To Borodin. This sounds very modern. Its kinda like a film score!
One of the few symphonies I'm able to hear from start to end
The more I listen, the more I like this very romantic symphony and the more I appreciate the simply marvellous Concertgebouw Orchestra and that world beating acoustic of the legendary hall.
What a genius Borodin was. Heavenly music performed by a wonder orchestra. Nothing could be better.
And an important organic chemist too. He published many papers on the subject in his time that are still relevant today.
I love this symphony. It is absolutely awesome. How could a man who worked as a dilettante write a so perfect music? The themes, the construction, the orchestration, all is perfect in that symphony.
I love Borodin's music, but I think you're being a bit too kind...Don't forget Tchaikovsky regarded him as a not-so-good composer, although he said his fantastic piece ''in the steppes of central Asia'' is almost great.
@@mousikopaigmonas23 Don't remember too that Ravel loved his music very much wrete a "pasticcio" for piano, and rhat his gtoup of friends "les apaches" whistled a theme of a Borodin quartet as a signal to meet together.
@@gerardbegni2806 That's pretty awesome. And I love his quartet No.2.
Russian and Asiatic music were huge influences on turn-of-the -last- century European composers. One of Ravel's compositions for the Academie was rejected as being "overworked Rimski-Korsakov". But that didn't stop him, thank goodness
@@stynway59 I fully agree with you.
I bought a record player in a carry case when I was 14. This record came with it. I played it endlessly until I got a second record. I started a life long love of Russian folk, religious and art music.
We're playing the first movement in the symphony orchestra at my high school. I love this piece so much! A few months back we played In the Steppes of Central Asia, and I love that piece even more. Borodin was an incredible composer on top of being a chemist. That man had unmatched talent.
Riley Parker Yes he did indeed. A true marvel of the left and right brain.
He was an organic chemist.
One of the most succinct symphonies ever, Borodin knitted a work of pure genius. Half an hour and never a hint of wasteful music.
I love this symphony, it contains beautiful melodic lines and a strong national character. Even though its first performance in St Petersburg was a failure, it was one of the first major works in Russian music to have found success in Western Europe.
"Superb" is the the closest I can come to describe this work .
Glorious Symphony from the pen of a Master and beautifully played.
Science-is-god
When I was a young metalhead my mother had this Borodin's 2nd Symphony LP... when I put the record on the pick up it blows my head! Awesome composition!
I can't believe I've played this and lived to tell the tale
hahaha
I was in an elementary school concert band, fifth, sixth, and seventh graders (a composite of musicians from eleven schools in north Atlanta) in the late 1960s, an we played the first movement of this piece, transcribed to C-minor and arranged for band.
We competed in regionals and got a 'SUPERIOR' rating.
We also traveled to Pittsburg, PA for a festival at Duquesne University.
Happy memories.
I still love this piece, Borodin is still my favorite composer.
We are all pleased! We would not want you to suffer too much! Travel through Siberia! Then you might understand???
I agree! 🎻
What a talent !!!! What a masterpiece !!!!!!
Exactly!
Thank you Borodin and Musicians.
What a great symphony this is.
So many years trying to find a version of the Borodin second that could me bring back to those glorios 1960's years, when a fantastic eruption of music, orchestras, conductors, soloists etc..filled all our lives. This symphony marked my teens years and will remain in my soul forever...
This version of Karel M. Chichon is just what I was looking for..a definitive version.
Thanks also to Concertgebouw orchestra and of course Alexander B...and the poster..
I agree, too many whiz-kid conductors now who are more interested in themselves than the music, but based on this performance Karel M Chichon knows quite a lot about intelligent interpretation - helped it might be said, by the magnificent C.O. A. and of course the incomparable acoustics of the hall..
You are indeed fortunate .
@@TheVaughan5 thanks einstein for the info.
12:22 the 3rd movement is really an one of a kind, great to see this piece peformed in het concertgebouw
Never heard Borodin before. Very interesting music and harmonic sentences.
Go Borodin go!!An underperformed composer
First of all, Borodin was a first-class chemist and doctor, and in fact his contribution to organic chemistry was so fruitful that his syntheses (esp. the aldol reaction) are still widely known. application in chemical engineering and pharmaceuticals.
2nd mov: 7:00
3rd mov: 12:21
4th mov 21:54
Thanks you for performing this underrated symphony, we are lucky enough to be able to listen to it whenever we want !
That glorious final movement always prompts in me a terrific euphoria.
If only Alexander Porfireovich had written more. His musical genius was remarkable.
i agree.
Borodin died at 50. He was dancing with his wife when he suffered a heart attack. Borodin was generous and hospitable to
many. Borodin also supported women going into medicine. He was one of the greatest of Russians.
Borodin, Бородин, un científico universal y un compositor entre los mejores
And...a fine pocket pool player...I'm told.
In preparation for performing this piece in the next 3 weeks, I've been listening to all versions on youtube by different orchestras. Marvelous music. I learned about Borodin as a chemist long before I heard his music, and I've been enthralled by all his works since.
Did anyone else hear a little of John Williams' "The Cowboys" in the 4th movement? I can't explain the similarities I think I heard, but I'm sure they're there.
+David Bloss so he didn't produce much symphonies?
+David Bloss I certainly thought the 4th movement sounded very "american" somehow
+Tiana Pi Tesr 3 !! Master pieces !!!
Listen to GOLOVANOV! He uncovers all the beauties of this score!
I thought I heard to gun shot. But I thought it was just my imagination running away with me.
perfection from the podium to the orchestra........wonderful string section
Borodin = poeta!!!
My favorite of Borodin...what a composer
Simply Awesome music Alexander Borodin is a master and what a brilliant orchestra they played it so sympathetically too.
Magnificent! One of my favourite all time symphonies!
Look, this is my favorite symphony in the entire repertoire..period..can there be a greater example of contrast? It covers the spectrum..the slow movement is my favourite..capturing the Russian melancholy...superb..
I discovered this music in college and fell in love with it. Never had the chance to perform it, but it has a special place in my musical heart.
A proof that epic metal was made way before guitars were invented...
Wonderful! As for his string quartets, there may be greater ones...but there are none more beautiful!
I agree. This is the first time I have ever responded to a flower. Love it!
@@elizabethschaeffer9543 thanks einstein.
Magistrale uitvoering! Geweldige sound. Geweldig orkest!
Ogni singola nota è messa al suo posto, ho i brividi ogni volta che la sento.
I like this sound. Beautiful!
A masterpiece of gorgeous sound and textures!!!!
La obra sinfónica mas importante de Borodin, es esta 2ª sinfonía, compuesta durante siete años, ya que su verdadero oficio era la de químico de la facultad de San Petersburgo, compaginó su trabajo con su vocación musical. Además por compromisos adquiridos, también compuso al mismo tiempo que esta sinfonía, la música para ópera El príncipe Igor.
Excellent rendition !
Thanks a lot
Bravo! The trumpet in the 3rd movement at 19:35 is particularly moving
Thanks for this upload. Good to hear a symphony by a composer rarely played these days apart of course from the usual Prince Igor dances!
Emoción hasta las lágrimas. Qué grandes músicos. Gracias mil por subir esta joya. ❤️
En muchas décadas de oir la mejor música, ésta es sin duda la gran versión de esta magnífica sinfonía, que adoro, en una orquesta superior. Gracias por compartir el placer de este video. Desde la Argentina.
La versión de Gergev es preciosa
That horn in the second movement is so gorgeous
Borodin was a Professor of chemistry, I think, I may be mistaken . The principal horn player of this orchestra is world class, an absolute joy to listen to.
Hi David; you are right and he was very successful in the scientific field. I can only imagine becoming friends with Rimsky-Korsakov and Mussorgsky and being part of “The Five”!!. What a group!. I agree with you, an absolute joy to listen to the principal horn, the rest of the members as well.
Excellent video, thanks.
Bravo! Cheers from Brazil
The pensive horn passage at 15:00 is so wonderfully arresting --- great symphony .
sometimes western interpretation of russian music is a bit "alternative", but not in this case. so exact reading of the compositor's idea is really charming. you did it with big love. thank you very much!
Borodin is probably the only person to have composed great music and discovered a new chemical reaction which is named after him.
Hold my beer
And founded a school for women to train in medicine. Absolute legend.
This is great music beautifully played
18:54 Beautiful line right there.
I had the LP with In the Steppes of Central Asia. Love them both.
Thank you for posting this wonderfully beautiful work and
outstanding performance.
Regards-John
i didnt know this until i saw this live yesterday, i just have to watch it again
In 2007 I travelled through Mongolia and Siberia to Moscow! That trip made this music make sense! It reflects the country and its people! It is so appropriate!!!!! The orchestra is just about the best in the world!
I’m here after playing this at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp 🥹
Beautiful music.
Oeuvre magnifique dans une interprétation magnifique. Bravo !
Maravilloso. Gracias por subirlo
1:46 пп
7:20 2ч
8:40 трио
12:30 3ч
14:36 т2
21:54 4ч
22:53 пп
It seems that some of the best uploads are those of avroklassic; what the production and all that, plus the fact that the RCO is a first-rate orchestra...Thank You!...
Good performance of this wonderful work which influenced other symphonic composers such as the young Sibelius whose 1st symphony owes more than a little to this work.
before I came across this symphony I had never even heard of Boridin now Im a fan I want to hear more of this man and to think that for him music was just a hobby if this is how good his hobby gets he must have been a brilliant chemist
chris foster I gather he was a brilliant chemist and physician. Borodin was also a kind, generous, and hospitable man plus a devoted husband. I don't know if he had any children. Borodin was a feminist and supported women's higher education, especially their going into medicine as physicians. He died of a heart attack at age 50 while dancing with his wife at some kind of an event.
A great composition.
A Masterpiece. Simply.
I performed a wind orchestra transcription of the 1st movement in an honors band when I was in high school. The impress it left in my mind and heart never faded.
Many years ago I was in an elementary school symphonic band, and we played the first movement of this piece (transcribed into C-minor). My first introduction to Borodin's music, and he has been my favorite composer ever since.
In high school we did the 1st movement in full orchestra. Cant imagine doing it in elementary school....
Это поистине чудесная музыка!!!
Many Thanks!!!
REALLY amazing finale. The summation of all Russian romantic orchestral color.
Love the third movement
2nd mov: 7:00
3rd mov: 12:21
4th mov 21:54
Mission Impossible: 26:34
Ahahah😂😂
Sounds more like that theme from Ep. 1 of Star Wars
If you enjoy the echos of classical composition in John William's scores, you must have heard it in Holst's suite, The Planets!
Thanks for posting this great recording. Too bad we get pathetic small minded people on this site that have to turn comments into a spat with their over inflated egos instead of just posting something intelligent.
Indeed. Ain't nothing perfect. Even the sun has spots.
Vladislov Kyzinski There is one perfect thing I have found-"Eugen Cicero-Exercise".A 3-and-a-half minute piece that has everything I want in a piece-variety,beauty thrills when it suddenly switches unexpectedly from classical to hard-swinging jazz without losing the beauty,and building to a great climax before returning to the original classical theme.
I met Borodin by Bukowski's poetry. Couldn't be more happy.
+Loseurillusions me too lol
What a magnificent symphony! Time just makes it better. Thank you for uploading it, Tim!
You can hear Borodin's influence in Hollywood film scores by the Eastern European refugee composers a generation or three later, especially in the western genre.
Yep
many thanks!!!
This goes to prove that classical was just metal before electricity was involved! Love this heavy piece, had to resist the urge to head bang while playing it in orchestra.
I agree!! I am a 53 year old life long metal fan. But for the last 2 years, I listen almost exclusively to classical music.
This one ROCKS!
I hate it when people compare classical to metal. Metal has no meaning, it is just loud musical-noise.
@@IsaacW. believe it or not, metal and classical are similar, music theory wise. depends on the subgenre though, I suppose. many classical pieces can make some pretty killer riffs. to each their own, though.
@@finnthewitch while classical music can be bastardized into metal, original metal cannot be used in classical. Have you noticed that?
@@IsaacW. i dunno, i’d beg to differ ua-cam.com/video/kL09wRp9pwg/v-deo.html
A Master Piece !!
18:54 Heavenly
Es una de las sinfonías más bellas....
Oh, my academic chemist of world regard, my Slavic folk history patriot, my orphaned aldehyde submediant prince-I’ll love you til the steppes roll in like the tides and Peter’s great horses plow the Baltic. If only you left us one more great symphony (The “Siberian!”), or an essential Eastern European Clarinet/English Horn/French Horn triple concerto, or, perhaps best of all, an Orthodox Easter Mass, to bookend Brahms’ German Requiem. Only you could make Russia so proud.
I have heard a recording of his first symphony in which an English horn substituted for the 'cello section in the statement of the main theme of the slow movement. I have also herd one where that theme is stated by a solo 'cello.
A Siberian symphony? The opening movement of the third symphony certainly might have been headed that way. One of the visitors who heard Borodin play the slow movement of the third through in an impromptu recital described a set of variations, remarkable in that each variation was crescendo throughout, and that the theme was quite unlike anything Borodin had ever written before.
One of his piano works was used as a basis for a section of a requiem.
I have always considered Borodin's A-major Quartet to be essentially a symphony scored for string quartet. Too much music there to be heard clearly if it had been scored for full orchestra, rather like the Scherzo in D-major for string quartet which was the only portion of Borodin's third symphony that he got completed on paper (the first movement was recreated by Glazounov from memory, from one of the in-home recitals), and Glazounov orchestrated the scherzo based, in part, on Borodin's notes in the margin of the quartet score.
I love your comment! And I share your love for Borodin. Many thanks!
All the variety and exuberance of Dvorak, yet "Russian"in it's foundation----quality!
Thanks! ! !
very expressive conductor
Flawless rendition of this challenging symphony with perfect synchronization of all instruments, in appropriate tempo and without superfluous rubato. The conductor should be estimated much higher.
Thanks einstein.
Con todo el resplandor de la musica rusa la interpretacion de esta sinfonía tiene gran brillo.
Una bellissima e coinvolgente pagina sinfonica
I've never understood why this piece isn't performed more often than it is.
No doubt. I think I have heard it maybe once live. I do get to perform it myself next Spring along with Rachmaninoff 2d Concerto.
@@craigkowald3055 You lucky dog!
Borodin. Great music every time.
alexander borodin was a true genius. if only he had focused on his music more and not his work.
maybe the result it would not have been majestic.... WORK IS BORING
On the bright side, he contributed much to chemistry. Also, quality over quantity!
@@FuegoAzul.MusicProd Dumb fuck...
Borodin composed some beautiful melodies throughout all of his works, Prince Igor et. all , and yet he dos not feature very highly in the Best of selections. Very strange.
I also think Borodin is highly underrated. His music is terrific :).
Borodin's String Quartets are among my most favorite. I play them for my massage clients on a regular basis.
marvellous conductor
Love it!
At Univ. of Texas in Austin , back in the late 50's, I was a cellist in the Univ. Symphony, and our conductor was Alexander von Kreisler, a man trained in Russia. Through him, I came to know this Symphony, as well as Overture to Russlan & Ludmilla, Cappricio Espagnole, Scenes from Boris Goudonov, "Adieu les Forest" from Joan of Arc, Tschaikowsky's Roccoco Variations, AND, we played Tchaikowsky's Romeo and Juliet Fantasy,... to precede a performance of the 1st Piano Concerto... with Van Cliburn as soloist.