Strauss: Ein Heldenleben ∙ hr-Sinfonieorchester ∙ Andrés Orozco-Estrada

[@algo1649]

It would be great to have some words from the musicians on the backstage after the concert. Like they do after football matches. It would be very inspiring for other musician colleagues from all over the world. Love HR! Bravi!

[@ciupenhauer]

this is one of the best ideas I've read on youtube. I will comment it on every video they post until they start doing it :)

[@herbiecactus6687]

Orchestras are not leveraging the information age. We should be able to see in an app who's playing that day at the very least.

[@foveauxbear]

You have never played in an orchestra, right? Never going to happen, two reasons 1) sports stars earn millions and can afford taxis home etc 2) musicians concentrate 100% of the time during each 3 hour rehearsal call and again during each public performane. Concert ends, most just want to run for their tram/bus to get home.

[@polyfloralhoney]

@@foveauxbear athletes also concentrate 100% of the time in their games. They also want to go home or enjoy the moment. It's possible for a short interview. They aren't dying after a concert, just tired.

[@NotBroihon]

​@@foveauxbearBrass players want to hit the closest pub

[@_ViolaNotViolin_]

Viola Excerpts
5:41 - 7:03 rehearsals 16-19
26:49 - 27:51 rehearsal 77- 4 after 79
30:04 - 30:24 pick up to rehearsal 85 to 6 before 86
35:13 - 36:03 pick up to rehearsal 94-6 before 98

[@zec2006]

Thanks man!

[@leithmascari5053]

Honestly saved my entire audition lol, no way I’m finding there rehearsal numbers otherwise 👍

[@bethlehemhadgu7308]

you a real one

[@niklausgaschen9858]

Strauss, the big music-hero and his own heldenleben, shown as a great symphonic poem. Masterwork indeed.

[@ItsOvaNinethousnd]

Ein Meisterwerk, you mean.

[@claryyy]

00:21 "Der Held" (The Hero)
04:32 "Des Helden Widersacher" (The Hero's Adversaries)
08:00 "Des Helden Gefährtin" (The Hero's Companion)
- Strauss explicitly confirmed that the hero's companion was a portrait of his wife, Pauline de Ahna. He wrote to Rolland, "She is very complex, a trifle perverse, a trifle coquettish, never the same, changing from minute to minute."
20:14 "Des Helden Walstatt" (The Hero at Battle)
27:50 "Des Helden Friedenswerke" (The Hero's Works of Peace)
- Strauss extensively quotes his previous works in this section. He quotes his early opera Guntram (eight times), his symphonic poems Don Quixote (five times), Don Juan (four), Death and Transfiguration (four), Macbeth (three), Also sprach Zarathustra (three) and Till Eulenspiegel (once). The lieder "Traum durch die Dämmerung", Op 29/1 and "Befreit", Op 39/1, are quoted once each.
34:22 "Des Helden Weltflucht und Vollendung" (The Hero's Retirement from this World and Completion)
notes taken from wikipedia

[@foveauxbear]

Clearly one of Germany's top orchestras.

[@m.2456]

David Trainer at this point I think they’re one of the world’s top orchestras.

[@leonardoiglesias2394]

@@m.2456which is the same thing, almost….if you are one of the best football players in Argentina, Brazil, Germany, Holland, Italy, France, etc…probably you are going to be one of the best in the whole world.

[@user-il9db2oo7j]

The Frankfurt radio orchestra is top 10 of world orchestras

[@mr.thickey1820]

Yes, "Ach du lieber, mein schatz"!!!!! "Overwhelming" might be about the best word I could use to describe this music AND orchestral performance!!! How could these great musicians "endure" such a lengthy & demanding piece of music??? The MENTAL & PHYSICAL FATIGUE must be enormous!!! ALL the soloist's passages were unbelievably gorgeous!! I especially loved the ones by the concertmeister (violin), the "Cor Anglais" or English Horn, & the outstanding young man on the French Horn, among many others too! My "difibrulator" almost blew a gasket! This orchestra must be considered one of the very FINEST of any, not that anyone could really make such a judgement!!! I'm still "recoiling" from what I just heard! My love affair with classical music has has become "more passionate" than ever, even at my age of 81! "Gesundheit"!!!!!

[@king638]

Beautiful comment. I hope you’re staying safe out there my friend

[@javiermedina5313]

Imagine the fatigue of the composer after this too, can't imagine how someone can compose like that, that orchestral counterpoint is so sophisticate... Yes, this is one of the best orchestras in the world (if not the best) and this conductor knows his job, great conductor, perfect tempo.

[@MehdiD.Ardebili]

I love Richard Strauss's music!

[@royberridge9039]

He is the best. Well, him and Schubert.

[@lilalola33]

Dieses Orchester gehört unbedingt in die erste Reihe in Europa --und das will was heißen !!!!!!!

[@clintow]

Seidenberg got a gold plated 103! And of course he sounds absolutely incredible as always!

[@sfbirdclub]

He deserves it!

[@johnvaughan7096]

@@sfbirdclub He's left now and gone solely to teaching, I believe.

[@rauberhotzenplotz8069]

@@johnvaughan7096 You‘re right, he is teaching now at the Musikhochschule Mannheim as the Professor for Horn, and does there a great job as well!

[@harryhagan5937]

@@rauberhotzenplotz8069 Much less stress there, but what a loss to orchestral music.

[@leonardoiglesias2394]

I will buy one for me too. Maybe I will take some lessons too…or watch some tutorial about how to play the horn.

[@_.-._.-._.-._.-.]

Oh my. What an incredible performance from the concert master!!

[@harryhagan5937]

I don't understand why there are not many more kudos given in his direction. Outstanding virtuosity! What a musician!

[@TheVaughan5]

On the strength of this it seems there is a major new talent in the conducting world - outstanding!

[@dominiquemartin-bg8ol]

vraiment époustouflant sublime orchestre merveilleux chef solistes incroyables

[@christhornley1664]

A World class performance from a World class orchestra. I'm a big fan of Richard Strauss, I would say his music is a combination of the late romantic and the dissonance of the modernists, very powerful. Bravo!

[@IdinaelTejedaOficial]

Tremendo orgullo siento, esta es la verdadera cara de Colombia, viva la música, la música clásica, viva el arte.
Para deleitarse uno con una obra musical a esta hora de la noche.
Gracias, maestro y hermano Colombiano, Andrés Orozco - Estrada. Bendiciones y abrazo ancestral desde Taganga, caribe Colombiano.
Aho, Mitakuye oyasin

[@leonardoiglesias2394]

Es de los mejores directores colombianos!!!! El otro es Dudamel!!!! Tambien, orgullo de Colombia!!!!!!

[@IdinaelTejedaOficial]

@@leonardoiglesias2394 Por supuesto, por eso hablo de mi orgullo colombiano, aparte de la hermandad con él como generadores de arte.
Y en cuanto a Gustavo Dudamel, hasta donde se, él es de Venezuela y su historia y oportunidad en la música para erigirse como gran director nació de la oportunidad y de la apuesta del gobierno y apoyo a los niños en el arte, dando resultados magníficos en la sociedad.
Abrazo canción amor y paz. Bendiciones para ti y tu familia.

[@javiermedina5313]

Enhorabuena y felicidades, tienen a uno de los mejores directores que he oído del mundo. Sus tempos son perfectos para mis oídos.

[@Santalucesguy]

XD que miercoles hacen escuchando esto en la costa?? 😂😂😂😂

[@nicosuarez6962]

39:50 The hero's retreat sounds so peaceful and magical ❤️

[@Hocin61]

Sincercely one of the best performances of Heldenleben of Richard Strauss.Great orchestra in size and even in performance.The conductor is simply amazing and precise with a lovely extra latin tricks to the orchestra that warms the atmosphere.Thank you I enjoyed a lot.

[@harryhagan5937]

What a towering monument of composition. Words end. What a terrific orchestra! What a performance by all! Thank you all so much. Such enjoyment.

[@notaire2]

Wunderschöne Aufführung dieses farbenprächtigen Meisterwerks mit perfekter Synchronisierung aller Instrumente. Alle Spieler, besonders der Konzertmeister, sind wahre Helden!

[@ruggerolauria830]

Il primo violino è un mostro di talento. È geniale... Per me è tra i più grandi al mondo... Una sensibilità straordinaria...

[@clmarkus]

Wunderbar farbenreich musiziert. Ich bin ein großer Fan des HR Sinfonierorchesters 👍

[@bobareebop]

The ending pas de deux between the solo violin and solo horn has never been played more beautifully.

[@davidjared3402]

Beautiful, beautiful music. Bravo, Maestro Orozco-Estrada. You and the FRS are a gift to the musical world!

[@soffronitsky]

Wonderful performance.
Astonishing Samuel Seidenberg.

[@Joelcardosocl]

It is my favorite horn player in orchestra!

[@davidjared3402]

Wow, did this man write some beautiful music! Many thanks to FRS for sharing SO many posts.

[@vitellia7299]

Sehr gut musiziert und komponiert von Richard Strauss!

[@juancanovasvegara9554]

Infinitas gracias a esta maravillosa orquesta de la radio de Frankfurt por descubrirme una obra tan bella!

[@leonardoiglesias2394]

Eh……te enteraste bien tarde , amigo….se ve que la musica clasica te importa un carajo…..callate, mejor.

[@nicolasferri304]

no podés dejar de escucharlo una y otra vez, que gran interpretación

[@leestamm3187]

Fine performance by an excellent orchestra led by one of the best young conductors in the world.

[@DavidvonSztankovHorn]

Bravo Seidenberg....📯

[@harryhagan5937]

Yes, bravo indeed, but what about the concertmaster/leader of the orchestra? Wow!

[@charlemanson4326]

1 - 0:21
2 - 4:32
3 - 8:00
4 - 20:14
5 - 27:50
6 - 34:22
(i think)

[@t.nubert6973]

Thanks for this! The hr SO people should have done it ...

[@nemmerneti]

This is the Best performance I found in the internet. Bravo for the whole orchestra. You made this wonderful piece, one of my favourite compositions! Thank you for that!

[@ewaldsteyn469]

Andrés Orozco-Estrada's commercial recording of Ein Heldenleben (which I have not heard) got a very positive review. Based on what I hear on this recording, I can understand why. He is doing an excellent job here as well with this great orchestra. This is a performance (in excellent recording quality) that can hold its head high with the greatest commercial recordings (Karajan, Beecham and Haitink - to mention my favorites).

[@jandrewscali]

Love this orchestra! Love this conductor! Stirring performance. Bravo all!

[@musicaled4016]

I am fascinated with relationships between orchestras and conductors. All of the voices are essential to make a performance great and this is an example of each section complementing the others. This is one of two orchestra-conductor relationships in which I find Ein Heldenleben live!

[@leonardoiglesias2394]

Rubish.

[@tlampful]

@@leonardoiglesias2394 Rubbish is spelled with two Bs.

[@juergenspatschke1560]

welch orchestersprache malerisch bildlnich in einer ureigenen leidenschaflicher sprache zum traditionellen kontra buergerschreck herrlich hervorgebracht

[@ZaddyGohan]

9:40 incredible articulation

[@jamescecil3563]

The mighty Richard Strauss-what a treasure.

[@JorgeSmitt]

Excelente versión, orquesta y el Concertino Argentino Alejandro Rutkauskas una maravilla! Bravo!!!

[@alexkije]

Love this introduction march! This was the theme for THE BIG STORY on radio years ago!

[@niklausgaschen9858]

And his surprising "concerto for violin and orchestra".

[@megabugginout]

Strauss was a happy man…you can here it in his music…

[@terrhal5577]

yes he was and his music makes happy hormones

[@rudyfan1926]

Bravo! Bravo to the dead silent audience, too!

[@yumenoouji7617]

Kinshara Buntodan! third program, Ein Heldenleben!

[@tangogamingS]

😂

[@DK-hs4gb]

28:57 Don Juan

[@StefanGraz]

26:44 Reprise 😍

[@ciupenhauer]

Those 7 notes right before the Reprise, to quote Federer "God, it kills me!"

[@maxbaumann2451]

There are some many different Kinds of instruments in this piece, ist sounds so great!

[@hornkix]

This orchestra sound amazing...great !!!

[@swayamnath7018]

Richard Strauss at his best

[@omarbacacota367]

The passage where the recapitulations of the main theme occur starts at 26:07

[@stanobert3475]

Outstanding performance!!

[@noahmarez]

Amazing Orchestra

[@Edubarca46]

Andrés: Eres el orgullo colombiano. Créeme, lo eres para los amantes de la música verdadera y estamos fascinados con tu talento musical. You are the Colombian pride. Believe me, we, real music lovers, are fascinated with your artistic talent.

[@leonardoiglesias2394]

Like Pablo Escobar! Yeah!!!!!!!

[@robertfrankgill5962]

I love the HR Sinfonieorchester and its UA-cam videos. I also very much like videos of the BBC Proms. And yet... The producer in Frankfurt does love showing an occasional shot of the top of the organ pipes and then slowly coming down. Likewise in London the producer simply must show us the gallery (at the top) and slowly descend. I wonder, could these two gents or ladies be in some way related? And is there some sort of religious significance to all this? I think we should be told. Fabulous stuff, all the same. :-)

[@jasonmcchristian4867]

I'll never understand why camera operators or producers will spend any amount of time away from the ensemble. There is SO much to capture. We don't need to see the hall, show the live players.

[@parkch1123]

Very Good Performance
and Sound Quality is good.

[@sienna19lan]

22:16 Bass battle scene

[@sienna19lan]

2:52 letter 9

[@bigcedock]

Just catching up to this amazing performance! I can ignore the less than fabulous video direction for the sake of the excellent orchestra and conductor. Hi, Thaddeus! Going to miss Herr Seidenberg.

[@Pavamingo]

Where is Seidenberg going?

[@rauberhotzenplotz8069]

@@Pavamingo left for teaching

[@Pavamingo]

@@rauberhotzenplotz8069 Dankeschön!

[@omarbacacota367]

26:07 The recapitulation of the beginning starts about here.

[@igorkiklevich7300]

Amazing orchestra.

[@utenorman1283]

Magnificent and very moving!!!

[@cheesebiscuit6199]

One of the performances of all time

[@ronaldbwoodall2628]

I'll not disparage an acknowledged masterpiece; I'll only say that I enjoy the "Alpine Symphony" and especially the "Domestic Symphony" to a greater degree. I do retain a sentimental attachment to "Heldenleben" however, as in my youth I heard its opening every week as the theme for a popular radio drama, I'm not sure which one, but it was quite impressive then. Perhaps only familiarity dulled its effect over time, but in any case I did enjoy this fine performance of it.

[@annreid8531]

I will find out and let you know. I remember it from radio also, then it traveled to TV with the same music!

[@javiermedina5313]

I think domestic is better, yeah, it's like 6 years after this so I think it's maybe more mature.

[@honda412000]

Fantastic playing, fantastic sound, fantastic conducting. Just for curiosity I invite you music lovers a compare this sound with the sound of the same orchestra playing the 5th Schostakovitch directed by David Afkham. Tell me what you think.

[@philthefox1948]

Hello Honda. ListenEd to Chosta-Afkham at least a dozen times. Fabulous. Above all the Largo.

[@bemer65351]

My favorite, der held

[@Quotenwagnerianer]

My favourite moment is the transition back into the recapitulation back to the hero theme. That cadence is to die for.

[@jameshenderson9711]

You MIGHT have the best horns in the world. The opening minute of that is INSPIRED.

[@MsBossio]

Que teso el maestro Orozco. Un orgullo latino este hombre.

[@leonardoiglesias2394]

Como Carlos Kleiber!!!!!!!!! No hay caso, tienen que ser latinos! Mira sino Herbert von Karajan….

[@meborach]

Trompas bem destacadas, que legal!!! 👍😆👏

[@eduardoaraujo8988]

Tudo tem destaque, tanto instrumentos solistas como naipes.

[@gregoriokuhn9146]

Me ha encantado tanto la orquesta como el director. Bravo 👌 💪

[@MehdiD.Ardebili]

God, I love the music starting from around 20:14

[@tristanmoreno2346]

Love that flute critic character

[@misseuphonium]

23:50 about where the euphonium excerpt starts

[@andrewmackintosh4272]

Sublime! Magnificent!

[@jasonmcchristian4867]

Amazing performance as always by this ensemble. I would be livid as a conductor, however, if I saw the camera operators next the percussionists as they were. They are inside the ensemble. Heads would roll.

[@Pavamingo]

Where should they be seated in your opinion?!...

[@jasonmcchristian4867]

@@Pavamingo Considering they have zoom lenses, anywhere else would do.

[@Maria-Lind]

this is beautiful!!!!!! amazing

[@joseantoniodeabreu]

amazing solohorn

[@huwzosimos8839]

Fantastic! many thanks.

[@josephoo7]

Ling Ling 40 hours a day told me to come here.

[@eduardafreire7766]

lol brett and eddie couldn't sight read this piece but they encouraged us to listen so here i am

[@uraharakisuke1329]

Yeah, this would have definetly been enough to defeat Mask de Masculine

[@tangogamingS]

Fr

[@musicalepiano4853]

Masterpiece!

[@jvdesuit1]

Awesome performance of this great work by this great orchestra and perfect conductor. Also an example to all orchestras around the world and the national Television to enable a public which could not afford either the price to attend these concerts or are too far to travel to Frankfurt, by uploading their performances. BBC could take example instead of having its greedy way of either forbidding people to watch their program in different regions of the planet and of forbidding the upload of their televised presentation especially during the Proms.
This work is quite unjustly criticized by so called music specialists.
Always amusing to hear in the 5th part of the work Strauss using excerpts of 9 his works (opera Guntram (eight times), his symphonic poems Don Quixote (five times), Don Juan (four), Death and Transfiguration (four), Macbeth (three), Also sprach Zarathustra (three) and Till Eulenspiegel (once). The lieder "Traum durch die Dämmerung", Op 29/1 and "Befreit", Op 39/1, are quoted once each).
Superb solo violin and incredible mellowness in the 8 Horns unison.

[@robertfrankgill5962]

jvdesuit1 I agree with the opinions you have expressed. But above all the last paragraph I found extremely interesting, my knowledge of Strauss's music being rather narrow - just the tone poems, the oboe concerto, the 2 horn concertos & the Four Last Songs.

[@jvdesuit1]

If you're interested in operas there are 4 major operas by Richard Strauss to be viewed (I put a link to each one if available on youtube):
1/Elektra, ua-cam.com/video/jq1qfG0r4LE/v-deo.html
and for the most famous Elektra of all times, Birgit Nilsson :ua-cam.com/video/nfLUtGqaM5M/v-deo.html.
I possess also the audio of a performance given in Paris under Strauss's specialist Karl Bôhm with Nilsson, Varnay, Rysanek and Sotin. It was on April 25,1975. The performance was given in honor of Germany's President Walter Scheel in the presence of the French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing. Approximately mid way to the performance there was a general electric failure in the district of the old opera house; it lasted nearly 20 minutes. During that time the auditorium only lit by the internal electrical system, the two presidents went on discussing until the performance resumed. At that time we had a president which had a real culture, not like the fools we've got later with Mitterrand and consorts! If you wish a copy of the cd, it won't be a problem to make it for you. Unfortunately at that time vidéo was at it premises.
2/Salome (inspired by Oscar Wilde's play), This recording because Böhm again is the conductor but it's a movie performance, ua-cam.com/video/ildwhas43sY/v-deo.html
3/Rosenkavalier, Two magistral performances of this fantastic opera:
Covent Garden with the great Te Kanawa bringing you in tears at the end of the first act: ua-cam.com/video/3D7abQTy71I/v-deo.html
And
The historical performance by Karajan and Schwarzkopf: ua-cam.com/video/HAw4iDDWby8/v-deo.html
4/Capriccio, Strauss's last opera ua-cam.com/video/EOFki9ykmBs/v-deo.html . There is a fantastic production by the Paris Opera house with Renée Fleming unfortunately not available on youtube but availabe on dvd. It can never be exported because it uses the particular configuration of the Old Paris opera which behind the stage has a Foyer which communicates with the main stage whence giving a full perspective of 50m with the auditorium reflecting in the huge miror at the back of the foyer which very intelligently Robert Carsen uses at the end of the opera in particular. The main theme of the libretto is : what is more important music or words in an opera and for the countess it will be the dilemma whom will she choose between her two suitors, the musician or the poet; at the end she wont choose.

[@stephenmessick865]

All we needed were some quotes from his greatest symphonic work "An Alpine Symphony." And also a bravo for the concertmaster.

[@johnvaughan7096]

Magisterial!!!

[@user-ds3yv7hu9y]

Awesome!!!!!

[@philippecirse4872]

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[@jamestaylor35]

Incredible

[@gerdlindlar1980]

merveilleux

[@georgeluft7881]

@20:14 Phantom Regiment 2008?? Hello??

[@stephenjablonsky1941]

I find it interesting that at the Golden Mean of the piece (29 minutes) the Don Juan hero's theme appears in the horns. I wonder if that was intentional.

[@clarinet2boy]

Yes it was. Strauss composes a lot of his other themes into is other pieces. He does this in his other tone poems as well. As well, he actually quotes from all of his other tone poems in this piece.

[@herbiecactus6687]

This man knows how to handle the bow-taking.

[@anthonybarone6571]

3:00 Double Bass excerpt

[@dadohoresh384]

WUNDERBAR!

[@philthefox959]

Un sommet du postromantisme servi par une phalange et un chef remarquables. L''enthousiasme de ces musiciens (regardez attentivement la flûte solo, la Salamanquaise Clara Andra de la Calle) est communicatif, et le public ne s'y trompe pas. Seule remarque : les caméras. Mais le son est excellent pour un youtube. Bienheureuse cité de Francfort ! un conseil : abonnez-vous.

[@calebsmith631]

Good job on this I really liked it😄.

[@HhHh-rg2sl]

26:41

[@gabrieleevangelista2636]

A very good performance, even if, strangely, the orchestra seems to me, slightly undersized, with 7 and not 8 doublebasses and a percussionist (suspended cymbals) in minus. I've already noticed similar things in the videos of Scriabin's "Poem of Ecstasy" and "Prometheus", conducted by Markus Stenz (in this case without the organist, too). Maybe I'm wrong?

[@juergenspatschke1560]

immer noch!

[@AbnerBorges]

Cello excerto
21:15
24:42

[@flower56.]

Bir kahramanın hayatı-nobel

[@isaac1859]

4:45

[@violinesurseine845]

Bravo. Please who is the concerrmaster ( violin soloist) ? His very good .

[@pocoloco1200]

41:22

[@gabrieleevangelista2636]

Sorry, watching this video again, I've realized exactly 8 double-basses!