Nice. Following in the footsteps of her brother Felix. Or should I say Felix following in the footsteps of his sister Fanny. Their styles are so similar. What talent must have run in that family. I say man, woman, black, white, Hispanic, Asian or whatever bring great music to the table. Works like this deserve to be heard.
Fanny was the older sister - I mentioned that in my comment posting this excellent performance at my FaceBook-page - so Felix followed her footsteps. And indeed, there should be more attention for female composers, philosophers, painters and writers....
@@SebastiaanHolStadsgids Actually, no, they started at the same time, and they had the same teachers. Fanny was fifteen when she started composing pieces, Felix was eleven - and they were four years apart, so you can count two and two together.
Let me start by saying I applaud Ms. Chen's interpretation of this overture, she is a brilliant conductor and a pleasure to watch. I am so happy how Fanny Mendelssohn's music is starting to get popular over the years. Fanny's music fills your heart with joy. I heard a quote from the writer Victoria Sirota who sums up the talent of Fanny Mendelssohn, I quote " Fanny Mendelssohn's music is very original, not like Felix, and yet of that school. You hear the early 19th century, you hear Beethoven, Schumann and Liszt, but you also hear a Woman. A Woman who is strong and has her own identity." End quote.
I wouldn't presume to place her above THE greats of classical music. But she's really great among women composers, possibly the only one of that forever sidelined bunch who's worthy of the epithet 'genius'.
Hi! I am that oboist and the founder of ROCO! Thanks for your comment. Yes, we always take great joy in the music and communicating it. So happy you noticed!
What makes me very sad, is that some woman like Nannerl Mozart, WolfGang's sister, during that time were not allowed to compose music, although they were extremely talented they wanted to become musicians but couldn't. It would have been so great to hear the many female composers of the past and to imagine what their music might have sounded like if they were taken seriously.
Yeah but that aint fannys case lol, fanny was a very respected musician and her brother played lots of her pieces giving her credit, schummans wife was also a very renowned player who performed across europe with great success...
It makes me sad to think about the countless lost talents, male or female, who were born into the wrong family/class (i.e. not enough money, no respect for music, another job already intended by parents etc), the wrong circumstances (i.e. a war), or the wrong gender to ever come to shine.
@@joanneaugust6611 That is why we have to continue our fight for equal opportunities for all. While, at the same time, being aware and grateful that so much has been achieved already, we are standing on the shoulder of giants, the courageous people in the past, who stood up against slavery, and for women's rights, gay rights, animal's rights, nature's rights etc.
@@recipoldinasty Still... we talk about Felix, but hardly about Fanny nowadays...(OMG it seems that the youtube comment-textfield switches to Hebrew mode - right alignment - due to your name, I think, a bit difficult to type :-) )
Thanks for sharing this fantastic female composer and this brilliant performance of hard work and history....i feel so much more enlightened and fulfilled for the experience...God is good 🤓
I am so happy I found this recording! Excellent playing of a hidden gem that more and more will make it's way to the standard repertoire. Thank you members of ROCO and wonderful Mei Ann Chen.
This is really nice interpretation of this overture by Fanny M, and I am so impressed by the expressive but clear conducting of Mei-Ann Chen, what an amazing woman! Also, I like how the oboes looked at each other and bonded for a moment at 2:56
Beautiful performance and a great work. I would have loved to see this performance live. Sometimes playful and sometimes big and dramatic, with nice twists in between. Great! I really like the change at 4:46 (starting at 4:35).
Just for the story (i like it since i am both doing maths and music): the other sister married the great mathematician Dirichlet (who among other things, showed the there are infinitely many prime numbers ending in each of the digits 1, 3, 7 and 9)
Всю красоту Мироздания Создатель открывал человечеству через музыку, к сожалению, человек часто был глух к Божественным звукам! Великая благодарность проявленным в Плотном плане Сущностям, во всех веках несущим нам очищающие, пробуждающие наши Души звуки!!!
This is a beautiful piece, beautifully done but the filming leaves a lot to be desired. The camera rarely seems to be pointing in the right direction! You hear lyrical and interesting moments from the violins or the flutes, say, but the camera is pointing at an idle cellist.
Hi: Thanks for the comment. I am the founder of ROCO. We were livestreaming since 2013 way ahead and doing it for free, so one of the first orchestras but with very few people and cameras. Since then we have added cameramen and cameras, but the amount of people, time and money it takes to do this well is astonishing. Check out our newer streams and you can see.
What a shame that Fanny's composing and her knowledge of musical form wasn't allowed to expand and grow like her brothers. She obviously had a great talent, but there's a lack of cohesion in a lot of her music that saddens me because I know a lot of that comes from her not being trained/not having an outlet for her music other than her home. She was able to do whatever she wanted, but nothing hones form better than knowing that ones music will be in front of a skeptical public. That being said, you can hear the talent and the shared ideas the two of them had. I heard several quotes in this piece from her brothers music(Though I am sure they both stole from each other and worked on each others ideas in their own pieces.)
What an ironical fact that Fanny couldn't compose more orchestral music because of her condition of a high class woman in the XIX century. She was very talented, but a woman of her class could only compose to "entertain" her family and friends in Sunday parties at home. And her brother Robert having success and recognition as a composer. Fortunately things have changed nowadays with prodigies like Alma Deutscher.
@@lenasdaydream obviusly, I meant actually how he could not be probably inspired by this piece, I truly find such a great relation between this piece and some sounds on Sibelius
I’m a direct descendant of Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel. This is the 1st time I am hearing her music. Thanks so much ❤️
Oh my gosh that’s so cool! I am a timpanist and I love her work!
Incredible! Have you read her son Sebastian's history of the Mendelssohn family?
Really famous family going way back. She is first rate maybe the best. So powerful.
Nice. Following in the footsteps of her brother Felix. Or should I say Felix following in the footsteps of his sister Fanny. Their styles are so similar. What talent must have run in that family. I say man, woman, black, white, Hispanic, Asian or whatever bring great music to the table. Works like this deserve to be heard.
Fanny was the older sister - I mentioned that in my comment posting this excellent performance at my FaceBook-page - so Felix followed her footsteps. And indeed, there should be more attention for female composers, philosophers, painters and writers....
@@SebastiaanHolStadsgids Actually, no, they started at the same time, and they had the same teachers. Fanny was fifteen when she started composing pieces, Felix was eleven - and they were four years apart, so you can count two and two together.
Let me start by saying I applaud Ms. Chen's interpretation of this overture, she is a brilliant conductor and a pleasure to watch. I am so happy how Fanny Mendelssohn's music is starting to get popular over the years. Fanny's music fills your heart with joy. I heard a quote from the writer Victoria Sirota who sums up the talent of Fanny Mendelssohn, I quote " Fanny Mendelssohn's music is very original, not like Felix, and yet of that school. You hear the early 19th century, you hear Beethoven, Schumann and Liszt, but you also hear a Woman. A Woman who is strong and has her own identity." End quote.
Fanny mendelssohn was an excellent composer. She deserves all the attention and also deserves to be know as the greatest composer of all time.
I agree with great, marvelous, fantastic, outstanding, divine and master of highest arts. Also her brother was a master on its own.
Nah, the greatest is my mum.
I wouldn't presume to place her above THE greats of classical music.
But she's really great among women composers, possibly the only one of that forever sidelined bunch who's worthy of the epithet 'genius'.
2:56 The two oboists are so pleasantly amused at the "surprise" chordal harmony shift at that point.
Hi! I am that oboist and the founder of ROCO! Thanks for your comment. Yes, we always take great joy in the music and communicating it. So happy you noticed!
What makes me very sad, is that some woman like Nannerl Mozart, WolfGang's sister, during that time were not allowed to compose music, although they were extremely talented they wanted to become musicians but couldn't. It would have been so great to hear the many female composers of the past and to imagine what their music might have sounded like if they were taken seriously.
Yeah but that aint fannys case lol, fanny was a very respected musician and her brother played lots of her pieces giving her credit, schummans wife was also a very renowned player who performed across europe with great success...
It makes me sad to think about the countless lost talents, male or female, who were born into the wrong family/class (i.e. not enough money, no respect for music, another job already intended by parents etc), the wrong circumstances (i.e. a war), or the wrong gender to ever come to shine.
@@joanneaugust6611 That is why we have to continue our fight for equal opportunities for all. While, at the same time, being aware and grateful that so much has been achieved already, we are standing on the shoulder of giants, the courageous people in the past, who stood up against slavery, and for women's rights, gay rights, animal's rights, nature's rights etc.
@@recipoldinasty Still... we talk about Felix, but hardly about Fanny nowadays...(OMG it seems that the youtube comment-textfield switches to Hebrew mode - right alignment - due to your name, I think, a bit difficult to type :-) )
@Baila Hie
Hogwash. No right exists other than the ones we make up.
Thanks for sharing this fantastic female composer and this brilliant performance of hard work and history....i feel so much more enlightened and fulfilled for the experience...God is good 🤓
Grazie di questa bella esecuzione.... Evviva Fanny!!!!!
So beautiful !
So nice! Fanny Mendelssohn was a great composer!
Precious
I am so happy I found this recording! Excellent playing of a hidden gem that more and more will make it's way to the standard repertoire. Thank you members of ROCO and wonderful Mei Ann Chen.
What a fine performance, expressively directed. Thank you for introducing me to this fine work.
Bravo! All of this is so hard to learn, but becomes easier and fun!
I really hope to see Ms Chen over here in Austria!
This is really nice interpretation of this overture by Fanny M, and I am so impressed by the expressive but clear conducting of Mei-Ann Chen, what an amazing woman! Also, I like how the oboes looked at each other and bonded for a moment at 2:56
Beautiful performance and a great work. I would have loved to see this performance live. Sometimes playful and sometimes big and dramatic, with nice twists in between. Great!
I really like the change at 4:46 (starting at 4:35).
僕はファニーメンデルスゾーンのこの曲が大好きでとても気に入っています(^^♪。
Thanks Fanny, great overture.
Just for the story (i like it since i am both doing maths and music): the other sister married the great mathematician Dirichlet (who among other things, showed the there are infinitely many prime numbers ending in each of the digits 1, 3, 7 and 9)
Всю красоту Мироздания Создатель открывал человечеству через музыку, к сожалению, человек часто был глух к Божественным звукам! Великая благодарность проявленным в Плотном плане Сущностям, во всех веках несущим нам очищающие, пробуждающие наши Души звуки!!!
Love the conductor!
Nice
Hear, hear !!!
I LOVE FANNY 💕🥰🎵🎶🎹
This is a beautiful piece, beautifully done but the filming leaves a lot to be desired. The camera rarely seems to be pointing in the right direction! You hear lyrical and interesting moments from the violins or the flutes, say, but the camera is pointing at an idle cellist.
Hi: Thanks for the comment. I am the founder of ROCO. We were livestreaming since 2013 way ahead and doing it for free, so one of the first orchestras but with very few people and cameras. Since then we have added cameramen and cameras, but the amount of people, time and money it takes to do this well is astonishing. Check out our newer streams and you can see.
What a shame that Fanny's composing and her knowledge of musical form wasn't allowed to expand and grow like her brothers. She obviously had a great talent, but there's a lack of cohesion in a lot of her music that saddens me because I know a lot of that comes from her not being trained/not having an outlet for her music other than her home. She was able to do whatever she wanted, but nothing hones form better than knowing that ones music will be in front of a skeptical public. That being said, you can hear the talent and the shared ideas the two of them had. I heard several quotes in this piece from her brothers music(Though I am sure they both stole from each other and worked on each others ideas in their own pieces.)
Those women so happy playing a female written composition.
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2:40
German-style rotary valve trumpets! A rarity in American orchestras. Hope they become less rare in the USA.
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What an ironical fact that Fanny couldn't compose more orchestral music because of her condition of a high class woman in the XIX century. She was very talented, but a woman of her class could only compose to "entertain" her family and friends in Sunday parties at home. And her brother Robert having success and recognition as a composer. Fortunately things have changed nowadays with prodigies like Alma Deutscher.
Can anyone else relate this to Sibelius?
Sibelius was not even born when Fanny wrote this piece…
@@lenasdaydream obviusly, I meant actually how he could not be probably inspired by this piece, I truly find such a great relation between this piece and some sounds on Sibelius