I've done Les Noces as a choral singer. For all my decades of experience, I can't think of another piece that transports the performers to another dimension the way this one does.
This takes me back to the early 1980s. I had the privilege to sing in this in the Welsh premiere in Cardiff under the late and great Cecilia Vajda's direction. Really enjoyed this performance despite sound/video synchronization.
Stravinsky abrió una brecha de constrastes e intensidades, manifiesta una pasión para romper con todo lo reprimido, con todo lo establecido, es una maravilla que trascienda! Amo sus Noces!
I sang this at the Verbier Festival in 1996 with the Halle Choir and Verbier Festival Orchestra. Kent Nagano was conducting. It is a fantastic piece to sing - once you have got to grips with the rhythms.
Just last week I saw Kent Nagano conduct this piece with the Orchestre Symphonique De Montreal. From 1996 to 2024, Les Noces must be meaningful to Nagano!
All they do is just hit stuff. ANYone can do that! ; > )) (Well, they did show a cymbal being hit once with a stick and a mallet hitting the tubular bells a few times at the end. The producer finally came through. All right!)
Toujour avec la meme émotion. Etudiant, je l'écoutais, en me servant à la Discotèque de Paris, il y a plus de 50 ans. Pas une ride. Magnifique. Une vraie explosion. J'aimerais avoir le texte de ces noces.
There's a killer recording of this piece - really raw and primitive - by the Dmitri Pekrovsky Ensemble. (Not sure about the spelling there...) Highly recommended. Dig the FOUR pianos!!
I saw the Pokrovsky Ensemble perform it live at Amherst College with MIDI-controlled pianos (as on the recording). They were amazing. Pokrovsky unexpectedly died shortly after the concert.
This performance is almost as good as Bernstein's. There is an old Columbia recording with Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber, Roger Sessions and Lukas Foss on piano. You'd think it would be great but it is a dry and stilted performance. Lukas Foss, I think, said he was not really up to it as a performer and was scared to death (this might have been Sessions but they were both such gentle people). At any rate, it would be fun to hear the original orchestration that Stravinsky discarded.
I love this piece, but I have to admit sometimes it sounds like a catfight! Going from mainstream FM radio classical (yet another ballet by Delibes or somebody) to this is like going from the Carpenters to Captain Beefheart.
One of the greatest compositions of the 20th Century, IMHO, and Stravinsky's masterpiece, even greater, again IMHO, than Le Sacre du Printemps. The rhythms in this piece alone are more interesting, more dynamic, more percussive, more stimulating, and way more sexy than any 4-on-the-floor "dance" music.
Мне понравилось...Конечно сравнение с исполнением Покровского неизбежно, но исполнение Гергиева это сравнение выдерживает, в отличии (например) от анемичного Бернстайна. Энергично и с хорошей степенью "безумия". Бас - большой молодец! Ну и конечно "Настасья Шернобровая ")))) это отдельно удовольствие(ни к кому не в укор, конечно)
Terrible rhythmic problems for everyone.I'm going crazy studying one of the 4 piano parts for a future performance..but incredibly amazing music....!!! Genius Stravinsky...
Imagine the recording where the pianists are Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber, Lukas Foss and Roger Sessions. Still, as a ballet, this piece transcends. I get it.
I just came here from Samuel Andreyev having said that Antheil`s Ballet Mechanique was essentially a rip off of Les Noches. I’d never heard Les Noches before. By golly, he might be right. Amazing similarity.
If you're going to post comments on YT make them constructive and use some manners. Clearly, your knowledge of classical music is greater than mine but don't flaunt it by putting people down with sarcasm.
as it was by the Symphony of Psalms as well...but Orff was no Stravinsky. Carmina Burana is a lot of fun, but it pales against Les Noces on any measure (except maybe ticket sales and use in TV ads).
Orff was no Stravinsky: that's an understatement. The two cannot be mentioned in the same breath. This thing about trying to legitimise Orff by comparing him to Stravinsky has annoyed me to know end. Stravinsky was a master, Orff was not. Simple as that.
I don't think this performance does it justice. There are some fine recordings of it, including some good historic ones. It takes a while to "get" this piece. The more familiar it becomes the more it can be appreciated. I think it is right up there with Petrouchka, Firebird, The Rite and Symphony of Psalms. It was Stravinsky's favourite piece.
I think this works needs to be viewed from the context of it's sources: Russian peasant song and modernism. The melodies are all based on Russian folk song. But it is angular, extremely percussive, broken up into fragments, like musical cubism. The work is remarkable for it's originality. In fact, it has not aged much at all since it was written, almost 100 years ago! Thats incredible.
The lead vocals and chorus have this very traditional western singing style and it doesn't work with this type of thing... You really need traditional Russian singers.
I suppose you're right about that. When it was performed, it was usually done with classically trained singers. However, I get more of a feel for the roots of the piece in rural Russian tradition and folklore when the traditional singers are involved. Some of them have a shrillness in tone that you don't find anywhere else and it really gives it a new dynamic to the piece. It's a fantastic piece either way, at the end of the day! :)
That is exactly the point of classical music - using classical music singers and instruments. My ex was a russian folk singer and she said the same thing you said after we saw Boris Godunov. It's not a folk music. There are also no russian instruments, as you can hear.
Maybe so but this is the way Stravinsky designed it. Stravinsky's father was a famous Russian bass so he practically grew up at the Mariinsky Opera and this is probably the kind of sound he heard in his head. I love the Pokrovsky Ensemble recording but I think it's a mistake to think it's the only way. And Gergiev infuses this performance with so much energy that I think, in its own way, it's just as Russian.
I saw them in performance about 20 years ago. Amazing (and using 4 sychronized Synclaviers together with live percussionists--a nightmare to pull off but didn't miss a beat). Sad that Pokrovsky died so young. Check out the Teodor Currentzis recording, which strikes a nice balance between traditional Russian singing styles and more "westernized" singing.
If you mean 11:37 , it's Russian folk tradition - there wasn't such thing to sing in tune in Russian village , just from the heart . And here she's crying about the daughter who's gonna leave sweet home ( yes , man,this mysterious Russian soul,traditionally even bride used to cry at that moment:))). So it would sound completely lifeless with pure A , big like she makes it this way.....
I've done Les Noces as a choral singer. For all my decades of experience, I can't think of another piece that transports the performers to another dimension the way this one does.
did you try Schnitke psalms of repentance?
The fourth movement is the first thing my guests are gonna hear at my wedding reception this Saturday.
Congratulations!
I'm happy for you, but a word of caution: if anything can scene-steal a wedding, this is it.
Are you still married?
Bravo!Cea mai bună interpretare!❤
This takes me back to the early 1980s. I had the privilege to sing in this in the Welsh premiere in Cardiff under the late and great Cecilia Vajda's direction. Really enjoyed this performance despite sound/video synchronization.
Stravinsky abrió una brecha de constrastes e intensidades, manifiesta una pasión para romper con todo lo reprimido, con todo lo establecido, es una maravilla que trascienda! Amo sus Noces!
I sang this at the Verbier Festival in 1996 with the Halle Choir and Verbier Festival Orchestra. Kent Nagano was conducting. It is a fantastic piece to sing - once you have got to grips with the rhythms.
Just last week I saw Kent Nagano conduct this piece with the Orchestre Symphonique De Montreal. From 1996 to 2024, Les Noces must be meaningful to Nagano!
Very unfortunate that sound and motion isn't syncronized. Music fantastic.
Part 1
1. La tresse - 0:03
2. Chez le marié - 4:35
3. Le départ de la mariée - 9:42
Part 2
4. Le repas de noces - 12:26
This must have been one hell of a wedding!
It's simple. I LOVE this!!!
This is wild! Just awesome.
THIS IS MAGMA!!!11
Anyone else here for college music theory class? :) Still, seriously impressive. I can't imagine having to sing that. RESPECT
Why don't they give close ups on the percussion?
Percussionists are musicians too.
All they do is just hit stuff. ANYone can do that! ; > )) (Well, they did show a cymbal being hit once with a stick and a mallet hitting the tubular bells a few times at the end. The producer finally came through. All right!)
What a fascinating work
Toujour avec la meme émotion. Etudiant, je l'écoutais, en me servant à la Discotèque de Paris, il y a plus de 50 ans. Pas une ride. Magnifique. Une vraie explosion. J'aimerais avoir le texte de ces noces.
Até o presente, esta apresentação de 2011 foi a melhor desta composição. Parabéns à todos.
Work of a genius.
Magma - mekanik destructiv commandoh... 70 ans après....
quand j'ai découvert magma en 77, j'ai reconnu instantanément la marque de Stravinsky surtout Mëkanik
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네 대의 피아노, 열세 대의 타악기를 조합. 성공적 !
There's a killer recording of this piece - really raw and primitive - by the Dmitri Pekrovsky Ensemble. (Not sure about the spelling there...) Highly recommended.
Dig the FOUR pianos!!
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I saw the Pokrovsky Ensemble perform it live at Amherst College with MIDI-controlled pianos (as on the recording). They were amazing. Pokrovsky unexpectedly died shortly after the concert.
I've heard this since highschool, I can't forgot "MY MOTHER-IN-LAW DID". 🤣🤣
This performance is almost as good as Bernstein's. There is an old Columbia recording with Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber, Roger Sessions and Lukas Foss on piano. You'd think it would be great but it is a dry and stilted performance. Lukas Foss, I think, said he was not really up to it as a performer and was scared to death (this might have been Sessions but they were both such gentle people). At any rate, it would be fun to hear the original orchestration that Stravinsky discarded.
...and unfortunately, it's in English.
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Cats go crazy with this
I love this piece, but I have to admit sometimes it sounds like a catfight! Going from mainstream FM radio classical (yet another ballet by Delibes or somebody) to this is like going from the Carpenters to Captain Beefheart.
One of the greatest compositions of the 20th Century, IMHO, and Stravinsky's masterpiece, even greater, again IMHO, than Le Sacre du Printemps. The rhythms in this piece alone are more interesting, more dynamic, more percussive, more stimulating, and way more sexy than any 4-on-the-floor "dance" music.
You know thing's for real when you see 4 pianos in a song
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"Carl Orff must have been familiar with this score"
Yes, Orff was strongly influenced by Stravinsky in the 1920s.
There are certainly some similarities in Trionfo Di Afrodite.
More like Köhntarkösz. I believe that latter actually quotes this in a moment.
Video and sound are not well synchronized.
+Henk Barendregt not well is a kind observation on your part, this thing is completely off the charts...
Yep, it was an understatement.
Unique💐
The sync problem doesn't take away from the perfection of the performance.
Gergiev is Russian in the same way as was the composer.
You're right....it does have a flavor of Magma from Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh, I believe :)
Let's say that Magma album has the flavor of Stravinsky Les Noces.
Мне понравилось...Конечно сравнение с исполнением Покровского неизбежно, но исполнение Гергиева это сравнение выдерживает, в отличии (например) от анемичного Бернстайна. Энергично и с хорошей степенью "безумия". Бас - большой молодец! Ну и конечно "Настасья Шернобровая ")))) это отдельно удовольствие(ни к кому не в укор, конечно)
Terrible rhythmic problems for everyone.I'm going crazy studying one of the 4 piano parts for a future performance..but incredibly amazing music....!!! Genius Stravinsky...
I love the soprano wife
Great music
If you play this piece backwards you get "Bootylicious" by Beyonce
It's true! Just try it!
Beyonce would be so lucky if this were true.
What part?
Great, charming and beautiful solo soprano. Anyone knows who is she?
Irina Vasilieva
Sound is off from image what a shame
Unfortunately, I am agree with the previous comment...and the rest is excellent! Thanks.
One wonders if this inspired Peter Gabriel's "The Family and the Fishing Net".
I don't think so. But from that Peter Gabriel, I am almost sure Steve Reich was an influence in the song "San Jacinto".
des sous titres seraient bienvenus!
the new magma song sounds lit
yes certainly, the master of Chritian Vander is Stravinsky
Please is anybody able to post the Bernstein video ? Not been able to see that for years
Somebody can tell me who are the soloists?
Thanks
この作品は衝撃的
Imagine the recording where the pianists are Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber, Lukas Foss and Roger Sessions. Still, as a ballet, this piece transcends. I get it.
who are the performers here? It's great!
Für Xylophon 6:35 8:50 10:10 11:20 12:35
I just came here from Samuel Andreyev having said that Antheil`s Ballet Mechanique was essentially a rip off of Les Noches. I’d never heard Les Noches before. By golly, he might be right. Amazing similarity.
I didn't know Jennifer Saunders had operatic training ;)
The chase
Does anyone know the names of the 4 singers?
It's easy to see that this work inspired Carl Orff.
There are real similarities (esp' crazy rhythm patterns) between Les Noces and Carmina Burana.
If you're going to post comments on YT make them constructive and use some manners. Clearly, your knowledge of classical music is greater than mine but don't flaunt it by putting people down with sarcasm.
@@IsaacAsimov1992 i just hate the piece.
Hmmm...Carl Orff must have been familiar with this score.
+David Eaton You are right!
Yes, the Burana was influenced heavily by this piece
Orff - like a lot of composers of XXth century and contemporary - simply would not exist.
as it was by the Symphony of Psalms as well...but Orff was no Stravinsky. Carmina Burana is a lot of fun, but it pales against Les Noces on any measure (except maybe ticket sales and use in TV ads).
Orff was no Stravinsky: that's an understatement. The two cannot be mentioned in the same breath. This thing about trying to legitimise Orff by comparing him to Stravinsky has annoyed me to know end. Stravinsky was a master, Orff was not. Simple as that.
When was this performance?
June 2007
Me ha recordado mucho los Carmina Burana. No le encontráis muchos parecidos?
BACH ..HELP ME
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Conductor Valery Gergiev
ゲルギーさん、爪楊枝なしですか？
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wish this was not out of sync - ugh. I sand the bass (father) role in college. Amazing work.
I listen to classical/opera every day. I like Stravinsky. But this particular piece--I just don't get it.
I don't think this performance does it justice. There are some fine recordings of it, including some good historic ones. It takes a while to "get" this piece. The more familiar it becomes the more it can be appreciated. I think it is right up there with Petrouchka, Firebird, The Rite and Symphony of Psalms. It was Stravinsky's favourite piece.
I think this works needs to be viewed from the context of it's sources: Russian peasant song and modernism. The melodies are all based on Russian folk song. But it is angular, extremely percussive, broken up into fragments, like musical cubism. The work is remarkable for it's originality. In fact, it has not aged much at all since it was written, almost 100 years ago! Thats incredible.
Keep listening. Every time you hear it, you'll notice more.
the cymbals are quite off and some tambourine
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19:45
The lead vocals and chorus have this very traditional western singing style and it doesn't work with this type of thing... You really need traditional Russian singers.
I'm talking traditional Russian folk singers. Try the Dmitri Pokrovsky Ensemble :)
I suppose you're right about that. When it was performed, it was usually done with classically trained singers. However, I get more of a feel for the roots of the piece in rural Russian tradition and folklore when the traditional singers are involved. Some of them have a shrillness in tone that you don't find anywhere else and it really gives it a new dynamic to the piece. It's a fantastic piece either way, at the end of the day! :)
That is exactly the point of classical music - using classical music singers and instruments. My ex was a russian folk singer and she said the same thing you said after we saw Boris Godunov. It's not a folk music. There are also no russian instruments, as you can hear.
Maybe so but this is the way Stravinsky designed it. Stravinsky's father was a famous Russian bass so he practically grew up at the Mariinsky Opera and this is probably the kind of sound he heard in his head. I love the Pokrovsky Ensemble recording but I think it's a mistake to think it's the only way. And Gergiev infuses this performance with so much energy that I think, in its own way, it's just as Russian.
I saw them in performance about 20 years ago. Amazing (and using 4 sychronized Synclaviers together with live percussionists--a nightmare to pull off but didn't miss a beat). Sad that Pokrovsky died so young. Check out the Teodor Currentzis recording, which strikes a nice balance between traditional Russian singing styles and more "westernized" singing.
good quality but out of sync.
Подскажите, пожалуйста, как зовут баса?
Геннадий Беззубенков
Hmmmm
lol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My goodness. The soprano's vibrato spans two whole notes! So a sung A sounds like ABABABABABA. Shame as there are some good moments elsewhere.
If you mean 11:37 , it's Russian folk tradition - there wasn't such thing to sing in tune in Russian village , just from the heart . And here she's crying about the daughter who's gonna leave sweet home ( yes , man,this mysterious Russian soul,traditionally even bride used to cry at that moment:))). So it would sound completely lifeless with pure A , big like she makes it this way.....
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There must be a medical term for the awful wobblato. How to ruin good music.
Amazing composition. The soprano though is unbearable.
Boring después 5 minutes.
no me gusta. cientificamente puede ser piola pero es horrible de oir