Episode 2: Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- How to commemorate your friends by ONLY GOING AND WRITING A MASTERPIECE; this video reveals the touching story behind Mussorgky's famous suite.
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MUSIC CREDITS:
Composer: Modest Mussorgsky
Work: Pictures at an Exhibition
Orchestration: Maurice Ravel (1922)
Performer: Philharmonic Orchestra of New York
Conductor: Artur Rodzinski
Year: 1946
Label: Columbia Masterworks
Catalogue No: MM641
With thanks to Emilia Strachevskaia.
0:58
Narrator: His mate Victor Hartman just died. He was only 39.
Chopin: First Time?
I know i shouldn't laugh but this is too much 🤣
Chopin: *bruh*
Mozart and schubert:***Pathetic***
Ooh, that is cold!
@@ramprasada7451 Yeah and Mendelssohn too
Ottorino Respighi made a tryptych of pieces deticated to Sandro Botticelli, and Max Reger made four tone poems set to paintings by Arnold Böcklin.
2:18 What about Douglas Gameley?
Baby Van Gogh
I am SO impressed with how this piece is presented. Brilliant. Your WONDERFUL videos should be showed in schools to get children into classical music, as part of their music education. Someone should speak to the Ministry of Education on your behalf! What an amazing contribution you have made to classical music. BRAVO!
Here's an idea, how about making a video about Berlioz' Symphonie Fantastique. That should be fun.
Thank you so much!!!! Some teachers actually already include our videos into their classes and this makes us very-very happy
@@ClassicsExplained Yes! I'm a teacher and I'm definitely showing this video to my students! Thank you for creating this!
This vid was actually shown in my school 2 years ago lol, still watching this vid to this day ❤
I've never seen this adorable version of Modest
Haha! Cute little man, isn't he!
@@ClassicsExplained SO KAWAIIIII DESUUUUUUUU!!!!
Makes me want to pinch his wittle chubby cheeks. 🥰
What this video covered was a piece made famous by Maurice Ravel in 1922 (who wrote Mother Goose, Bolero, Pavane for a Dead princess, Tombeu de Couperin, etc.). Night on Bald Mountain was brought to fame by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in 1886. Baba Yaga would be set to music by Anatoly Lyadov in 1904. The saxaophone in The Old Castle segment appeared in Bizet & Guiraud's L'Arlésienne Suites.
Some of the pictures introduced in this video have been hanging on the wall of my music faculty, and I never understood why there were there and what they meant (especially the egg one). Now everything makes so much sense! Brilliant!
We are glad we helped adding meaning to the images! :)
I want to give poor little chubby Modest a big ol’ hug. Poor guy! 😭
me too :(
Hartmann must be like: "Damn Modeste, your little musical tribute to me is more famous than any of my paintings! Congrats bro!"
And Mussorgsky is like: "Thanks Victor, I'll drink to that!"
I am definitely showing this to my students! Thank you for making this, and keep up the good work! :D
Thank you! We'll do! :) Do you teach music? Where?
He made good on his promise. I'm one of his students :D
21st century: No one is interested in classical music anymore.
London 2017: Let's design the composer like a Japanese anime character!
I don't get it
0:42 The five, a group of Russian composers consisting of Nikolai Rimsky-korsakov, Alexander Borodin, Modest Mussorgsky, Mily Balakirev, and Caesar Cui (left to right in that order). Their goal was to make specifically Russian classical music popular.
Perhaps my favorite part about this piece is Mussorgsky's undying love for Viktor and the purely Slaivic art that they both loved to create. I think we can all understand this feeling when it comes to other people or even our own cultures.
Will you do Night on Bald Mountain? That was actually the first piece from Modeste I played in high school and it still stays in my ears
My friend took her children to see the Dallas Symphony Orchestra do an arrangements of excerpts from this piece today, and I shared this video with her to show to them so that they may gain a better understanding of the creative process of a magnificent composer. Thank you so much for making this video!
Thank you so much for sharing this with us! This is exactly the purpose of our project!
If every Theory class was taught like this 🎶 might be a less narsaccitic place and more full of kindness and depth.
Remarkable, this definitely needs more views.
Thank you for your support!
Lucky to stumble upon this. Fantastic work, keep at it man.
We are the team of two - a man and a lady :) Many thanks for the warm feedback! The next video is coming soon!
I came here from ELP (Emerson, Lake & Palmer). They made Pictures at an Exhibition really rock!!
me too lol
4:36 LOL “vache” means Cow
Criminally underrated channel
The "promenade" theme at 2:40 is what you hear in Civilization VI when you finish building the Hermitage Museum, perfect choice.
This was one of my favorite videos ever! And I’ve been on this site for a long time. Very very underrated content on this channel. Keep on the great work please! Brilliant visualizations as well.
Hi Alex! Thank you so much for your kind feedback! We’re glad you enjoyed it! We will certainly keep doing our shorts. Hopefully, number of views/subscribers is only a matter of time.
2:35 drip
Oustanding! Such a great teaching supplement, informative, entertaining, accurate, and impeccably realized. Thanks so much...you should definitely do more! Anything from the Ring Cycle, Night on Bald Mountain, Dvorak's Symphonic Poems, etc. etc etc...
Thank you so much for this kind feedback. You are spot on with your suggestions! Don't want to be a spoiler, but we are currently working on two of your examples :)
Catacombs also appear in Respighi's Pines of Rome.
Who are the other mighty handful. Mussorgsky is in pink, who is in red, green, blue, and yellow?
Great Gate of Kiev always gets me a little emotional anyway but you got me - especially that part about processing to heaven! I credit this piece with getting me into classical music. Aged 7 I had a tape from a magazine to accompany the TV show Oscar's Orchestra on one side the first movement of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1, on the other the piano version of Baba Yaga and the Great Gate of Kiev. I played it over and over and over and twenty five years later Pictures at an Exhibition is my favourite piece of classical music. Really goes to show the importance of accessible classical music education (like this!).
Thank you so much - this is a really appreciated, supportive comment. Keeping getting excited about great classical music :))
Having recently listened to Pictures at an Exhibition with no context, reading the titles of each piece was... confusing to say the least. This is a great explanation.
We have lived up to our channel's purpose!
Most marvellous musical masterclass.
Thank you! There will be more soon!
Omggggggg this is so good, i don't know why i'm so teary at the end
Finally, Ravel gets the recognition he deserves!
I actually at first ONLY did know the piano version🤔😅
5:38 🤣🤣🤣🤣
This is such a fascinating piece. I remember hearing my bio Dad (may he rest in peace) practicing the Grand Promenade or Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuyle on his trumpet when I was little.
My favorite movement is the. Great gate of Kiev
Baby van Gogh
Baby Van Gogh
THE SUGABABES I SQUEALED WITH LAUGHTER
Respighi made an ominous Dance of the Gnomes in 1919, rivaling the Gnome in Pictures.
How in the world do you have 70 subscribers? That is ridiculous. Your sketches are really good, I mean even making the effort of drawing stuff is already really good. This video was kinda funny, in a nutshelly and informative(y).
Thank you for your support! Hopefully, the number of subscribers is only a matter of time. More videos- more subscribers. We are working on it!
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Now its like 54K
2:13 Reddit be like
THIS VIDEO (and I assume all others alike) IS JUST SHEER GENIUS!!!!!
Osamu Tezuka’s Pictures at an Exhibition:
3:32 Journalist
4:02 Gardener of the Artificial Landscape
4:30 Cosmetic Surgeon
4:48 Big Factory Propietor
5:03 Beatnik
5:16 Boxer
5:42 TV Talent
5:57 Zen Priest
6:42 Soldiers
7:21 Allegorical Conclusion
I feel so sad because this is amazing, but I can't show it to children I know because I live in Brazil and they can't understand.
What a beautiful video!
I know you don’t upload often but these videos are really great and deserve more views.
Thanks so much - working on uploading more and more now we are seeing a real demand for it :)
5:42 Good melody
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This is my favorite classical piece, this is an amazing documentary.
This channel is absolutely awesome, I was wondering if it has in common with the ELP album and it turns out it does! Keep up the good work!
Ravel, who orchestrated Mussorgsky's Pictures, is better known for his Pavane for a Dead Infanta, Mother Goose, Le Tombeau de Couperin, and Bolero.
Wow, this is great! I am working on a program for youngsters from high schools in and near Rotterdam who come to attend a concert of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra to hear and see this piece. We will work with animation as well and this video gives me a lot of inspiration. Thank you so much! Are you still working on more video's?
Thank you for your feedback! Yes, we will be making more. We are happy to collaborate with you on your program! Feel free to drop us a line at classicsexplainers@gmail.com
Why does 0:42 sound SO Much like the 1812 overture
I have always said that this work is one of the best works for introducing students to orchestral music. The episodic nature means there is a lot that can be "acted out". This video is wonderfully entertaining and a great introduction to understanding the story of the music.
Thank you so much for this warm feedback! We will be releasing more videos soon and hope you will enjoy them too
Chopin was an exile from Poland.
Really amazing!!! What I need to do for use this video to show my students in the class and concert? I will follow your guideline^^ thank you again!!
Thank you! Please, feel free to use it in your class! We could supply you with extra material if needed. Actually, it would be great to discuss your curriculum and concerts so we could adjust our videos schedule to it. Let's keep in touch! Please, email us to classicsexplainers@gmail.com or become our patron at www.patreon.com/classics
I recently started teaching fifth grade music and I’ve been watching a lot of videos and I mean a ton. This is very well done and I love it and will use it.
Make more of these! I'm so glad I discovered this channel!
The third video is coming soon! And we will only stop when there are no more classical music pieces to explain :) We are super grateful for your support!
Oh my God, it's pronounced MOO-soark-sky
Could you please do another one of these videos
Fun fact for any double bassists, the Ravel version was commissioned by Koussevitzky!
I loved the concept of the channel and the execution. But I think a less cartoonish aesthetic would fit better the music
2:24 LEOPOLD!
2:26 Don’t forget a version by Isao Tomita!
I'm going to play the masterpiece this summer in a symphony orchestra, so I'm going back to this masterpiece of a video to resume my knowledge.
Well made.
Thank you!
I really love this piece and video!!
It is described in a lovely and Modest way of remembering Hartmann and his friend
That piano suite! Now it makes so much sense why it shows up in Civilization (especially the Achievements Hall in CivRev.)
This is amazing!! Great summary of the feelings and themes the score presents 🤩🥰
10/10 Good job
Thank you!
Pictures of an Exhibitionist 😲
Edit: I subscribed 👍
Suggestion for the cherry on the cake and get everyone all teary: at 8:30 fade over to the real picture of M.M. ;D And thanks for the great video!
Thank you very much! It's a very funny and interstening video about my favourite musical piece!
Wow! Great explanation! Love the idea, keep it up guys.
Thanks so much!
ma teacher gave us this to watch
this makes us so happy!
Hot damn what a great video!
Thank you! We are glad you liked it!
Fun fact: If you grew up in the U.S. during the 1980's, you probably first heard this music on the soundtrack of the Smurf's cartoon show. I remember, after growing up, hearing the Gnome and thinking "Hey! That's Gargamel's theme!"
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Before The Five and Tchaikovsky, there was Mikhail Glinka- best known for his Ruslan and Lyudmila (famed for its overture).
Night on Bald Mountain was revived by Rimsky-Korsakov in 1886. Baba Yaga would be set to music again by Lyadov in 1904.
The Nutcracker in Tchaikovsky's drama is not so terrifying, except to the Rats.
Mr. Levy succeeds. Great and greatly accessible explanation of a classic perennial. Maybe this video will be remembered in it's own right.
Thank you so much! We hope so :)
Poor Hartman😭😭😭
Brilliant video & channel concept, please keep making videos!
Thank you for your support!
Horrible beginning😨
Tomita's version is also fantastic
Yep! :)
Very interesting video, keep up with the good work fellas. Subscribed!
Many thanks for the nice words and for subscribing, Lucas! The third video is coming soon :)
Fantastic video... Very entertaining analysis of a masterwork
Ashkenazy's orchestration is the best don't @ me
His piano performances of the piece are my absolute personal favourite
I like your videos but you are way too british, it is complicated to understand you, could you add subtitles to yoir videos pls? Great content tho
Oh so sorry to hear that. Perhaps adjusting the speed in settings could help? Also, I think there are subtitles - you just need to switch them on. And I'll double check that they are there!
Thanks for your reply and your content! I really appreciate this channel
How can _anything_ be too British?
:-D
Amazing! Can't wait to see more videos by you guys!
Why did I ever start crying at the end!?
I need more of your videos! Your work is just too good. I am laughing as my brain rewires itself with the knowledge it is absorbing. well done, chaps
Thanks so so so much - we love your support :)
We played his works in the school orchestra today and i like it
Captivating work! Well done, more please :)
I've just discovered the channel. What a fantastic job! Congrats and keep up the splendid work!
Thanks so much!
Keep up the Good work mate ;D
Thanks so much!
Do Carnival Of The Animals
Yeah do Carnival Of The Animals Please!
I Agree With You Megan!
DO IT!!!!!!!!!!
Episode 18.
Check it out.
I dunno, I would say Mussorgsky succeeded in his goal of memorializing Hartman. It is undoubtedly the case that the only reason he is remembered today at all is because of this work. It may be greater than his art, but we know who he is and are still viewing his pictures because of it, presumably as Mussorgsky intended.
Wonderful! The story of one of my favourite pieces of music told in a wonderful way.