Це відео не доступне.
Перепрошуємо.
ORCHESTRAL SCORE STUDY #4: Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra (Britten)
Вставка
- Опубліковано 15 вер 2022
- DO NOT OWN THE RIGHTS TO THIS COMPOSITION OR THIS RECORDING, THEY ARE THE PROPERTIES OF THE COMPOSER, PUBLISHER AND PERFORMER. THIS VIDEO IS SOLELY FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES AND HAS BEEN MONETIZED FOR THE COPYRIGHT OWNERS.
Please consider contributing to the creation of this content by donating via patreon!
www.patreon.com/anthonyotoolemusic
www.anthonyotoolemusic.weebly.com
composed by Benjamin Britten (1946)
reduction and analysis by Anthony O'Toole
performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
conducted by Andre Previn
Monumental work, my friend, on both counts. The final note is never held long enough for me, though. Cheers also to Sir Malcolm Sargent.
Very True, I always think that after a long work like this that final chord should be somewhat proportional to its duration.
Thanks Anthony… this brings back fond memories of playing in the Florida West Coast Symphony and the years that this would be programmed for our school concert series… Playing the Britten Young Person’s Guide 4 times a day for a solid week was a chops marathon. What extraordinary fun! THANKS for the memories! Keep up your scholarly work.
This was on one of my first classical CD I ever owned as a kid and I listened to it over and over. I’ve never played the piece which is odd since I play in a few orchestras regularly! But maybe someday
I've been binge watching your score studies of wind bands, So glad another for orchestra has come out! Thank you so much for making these!
Im truly flattered by you binging them, if you are a super fan do consider becoming a patreon supporter! patreon.com/anthonyotoolemusic
I've been obsessed with this one for about 25 years. Checked out the study scores from the library enough times to get cut off, so I bought a copy. I love the breakdown and the recording you chose. Much appreciated to have is so accessible, and with your insight. Thanks
Glad you enjoyed it! I always try to be as accessible to as many as possible while still containing valuable insight.
Such a great analysis and a wonderful piece. I think it's unfortunate orchestras choose to still programme this work though given the (as far as I'm aware) credible accusations of child abuse against britten and the living victims today. Gives me a similar feeling whenever I hear MJ on the radio.
Yes I’m aware of his not-so-secret history of abuse. Much like many great artists and there art it leaves a disgusting stain on their output. I’ll be the first to say, a lot of the great artists aren’t exactly the best people.
Huge Tannhäuser vibes from the Trombone feature. And I think I heard a Tristan quote at the end of the Oboe section…
certainly, I think Britten wants to poke fun at that pompous self-important attitude of the trombones.
Wonderful music, wonderful analysis. But - oh my - when the Purcell returns in the brass at the end, no amount of analysis takes away the sheer perfection of that moment. Amazing.
I wonder if anyone has noticed how Britten throws in some in-jokes in the oboe and clarinet variations. The oboe variation ends with an unresolved Tristanesque chord which tries to be F seventh and would be but for the yearning F sharp which in turn wanders upwards chromatically. The clarinets (and cello and tuba) interrupt this reverie with a curt B flat harmony. Away they prance like ponies with their carefree arpeggios. As you correctly observe, they fool around in two keys, B flat and F, and as every clarinettist knows, the latter is the compound dominant of the former, the result of the application of the speaker key. But the fun's not over. In bar 100 the second clarinet keeps landing on an E natural (leading note in F, non-existent in B flat), not twice but thrice plus a sustained trill. Remember the longing F sharp we just heard on the oboe? Ah yes, says the first clarinet, let's have some fun, and at bar 108 blasts out an E FLAT in altissimo. Was that what you were trying to say mon cher hautbois? To drive home the point these two Katzenjammer twins finish their game with the trilled E natural.
The two bassoons rise from their leather upholstered chairs, put down their copies of the Times and go for their pre-prandial walk while musing on the intemperate ways of the young people of today.
The first thing that comes to mind when I hear this piece is Moonrise Kingdom. Great movie
never saw it!
England had English composers between Purcell and Britten. Sir Arthur Sullivan.whom wrote a grand opera "Invahoe" that ran for 156 consecutive performances. He also wrote a symphony and his famous light operas with Gilbert.
Fantastic!
thanks! hope you're writing!
Excellent didactic video essay on a didactic piece of music.
i love this! i would love to see Copland's Rodeo on here as well (specifically Hoedown)
Händel is mentioned as German and Haydn as Austrian. Both were actually German, or from Magdeburg and Austria respectively if one want to be more specific. Austria should be recognised as a part of Germany at least until 1871.
Good point, yeah I believe Händel is from Saxony one of the pre-unification kingdoms that become part of the German Confederation.
@@AnthonyOTooleMusic He was born in Halle, then capital of the duchy of Magdeburg, wich was ruled by the electors of Brandeburg, later kings of Prussia.
Don't forget about Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.
very nice work. anybody knows where I can find free scores of orchestral music with chords written such in this one?
thanks! the score to this isn't that expensive, like $12
@@AnthonyOTooleMusic no it is not, considering the work. Alas I am from Lebanon where the government stole all our money and left us jobless...
13:43
'HAUNDEL' ? - IT'S 'HANDEL' - like the thing on the end of your am with 'el' added. I can only hope this is a not great AI text to speech narration, because anyone who knows anything about classical music knows it's Handel', not Haundel. Dear god...
Its time for your daily chill pill