I was introduced to this piece by a dream. I dreamt that I met Dvorak, and although I didn’t know much about him or his music, I wanted him to know I thought he was cool. So I told him I really liked his 7th symphony (even though I had actually never listened to it and wasn’t even certain it existed). Dvorak was very pleased to hear this, and told me that he felt his 7th symphony was underrated compared to his other works. After I woke up, I discovered that Dvorak’s Symphony No. 7 is indeed a real piece of music, so I had to listen to it and find out why my subconscious had recommended it. So, thanks to a dream, I’m listening to this marvelous (and indeed underrated) symphony for the first time! I love it!
Unbelievably sharp articulation and definition in the inner voices, and exquisite, careful balancing. You can clearly hear every last fine detail. What a fine performance.
Yes me too. I'm a bit younger than you :-) but Y.T. has introduced me to a wealth of great music (esp. 20th c) that otherwise I probably would never had got to know. This symphony however is not new to me, I bought an l.p. of it when I was about 19 or 20
Yes, it's awesome! I found lot of classical music here and I listen to many composer. I sometimes listen to opera with my grandpa but i still prefer instrumental pieces. Which is your favorite composer?
Paul Lewis I fully agree. As well as this excellent performance from Frankfurt there is also a very interesting one on UA-cam by the Orchester des Staatstheaters Cottbus under their American conductor Evan Christ.
I don't know why, but I just came across this wonderful performance. Outstandingly conducted and play by one of the best orchestras around. You always have such enjoyable concerts and the video and audio is always outstanding. Just love your channel. Thank you so much for all the concerts you upload. Especially when the fact is there are no commercials.
To me this is one of the greatest symphonies ever composed. The conductor and orchestra are superb in their performance. This is one of my favorite performances of this piece, from the chosen tempo to the levels played for each instrument. Wonderful audio and video as well.
Upon doing a research project on this piece for my music history class that requires me to look at the score and listen to a variety of recordings (very typical, I know), it sounds as though the final 10 measures are slightly altered to include the 1st horn in the melody of D-D^-C#-C-A-G-A-Bb-G-D-F#. Though this isn't notated in the score, it sounds absolutely marvelous, and adds just the little bit of texture and finale that other recordings of this piece lack. What an incredible piece, and a stunning performance by the Frankfurt Radio Symphony.
Antonin Dvorak one of the world's greatest composer, amazing versatility when he can speak through music from his Czech homeland in his early symphonies to even America's spiritual soul in his 9th Symphony - "From the New World."
I'm inclined to agree. Herbert Blomstedt led a wonderful performance with the Berlin Philharmonic last year, which was also, sadly, the last time I heard this splendid work until this video was posted.
Lovely rendition. Drama when drama is called for. Luminous in the right places. Tempos excellent. This orchestra is doing what an orchestra should do: they are the Messengers! Great shout out to the technical and recording team too. Wish I could have been there. Thank you very much.
Antonin Dvorák was the best in orchestrate in his time, even better than composers with big name like Brams. Hearing works such as this symphony, we can feel the extraordinary homelands passion mixed with the most complete music ever composed. So I enyoy Dvorak every time here and there and for that reason he is and will be my favorite composer of all times!
I like just about ever note of this symphony including those wonderful parts people have listed with timestamped links. I would like to add this amazing rhythmic beast 34:42 All those moving parts so perfectly written and performed!
Going to see the Florida Orchestra perform this in January along with rhapsody in blue it’s going to be my first orchestra concert can’t wait to see it!!
Went to hear this yesterday performed by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall, Birmingham, UK. Super performance, conducted by Anja Bihlmaier. Dvorak was such an inventive composer, with an apparent inexhaustible supply of new melodies. Wonderful. Yes, the 7th Symphony should be as popular as number 9, the New World Symphony. Recommend that anyone interested in this listen to all the Dvorak symphonies.
The skill and technique of these performers are off the charts. They are the wonderful Alchemist of Dvorak‘s music Vicissitudes are the lot of man . How mutable is the world ！ However , Dvorak will surpass and transcend the times and race and nation . From Tokyo of the Land of the Rising Sun 🇯🇵
i always tear up during the third movement, and after doing some research i finally understand why. he had some internal conflict between his duties to his country and the death of his mother two years before. this piece, as well as some others, were created as a result of those. truly a wonderful composer- and a wonderful performance! thank you once again for a wonderful showing 💓
author of THE DEATH TAX sez: Strongly reminiscent of Brahms' sheer melodic power, this majestic work holds its own against any--including that of my fave composer Brahms. Anyone who knows Dvorak only for his New World Symphony is missing the boat here. Bravo on a memorable performance I only wish I could have witnessed!
I love them too, but in the score, they dont play the d c# c progression, just the woods and second violin. But its sounds so much better with the horns. Just wondering if Oundjjan just added it.
4:30- 5:05. Such a incredibly glorious build up to a wonderful sequence, Powerful and passionate, and then back down to gentle contemplation. Dvorak was far more of a genius than he ever thought, and his modesty is forever one of his virtues. He wrote a lot of mediocre music, and that’s OK, but his masterpieces will last as long as humanity lasts.
Wonderful performance of one of the greatest symphonies ever (well, it helps being a Dvorak aficionado). Nothing this orchestra does is ever less than excellent and this channel is one of the best on UA-cam - at least for the lover of symphonic music. And once again, at the end there is that one person bellowing his BRAVO before anyone else gets their hands together. I wonder what it takes to do this... Does it mean you are an attention-seeking oaf or an enthusiastic music lover ? Perhaps both, as these traits are probably not mutually exclusive ? Or is it just the revival of a centuries long tradition which has rather waned in the last few decennia ?
Oh, this fella is quite unique with his symphonies. They sound great. I dunno about any being better than the last, but his are up there with some I prefer, ay this point.
21:15 when you are at a feast, dancing with your long-time wife and both of you are thinking of all the past years full of suffering and love and that you both will go on and on and on, indulging in the rhythm of life
Dvořak has a magic about his works, his orchestration can only be comparable to Wagner and Stravinsky for his intimate appreciation of each instrument's colour and applies the notation as precisely as Seurat. It maybe a symphony but to my ear/mind has a symphonic poetry which shows how ahead of his contemporaries he was, similarly Janacěk. Ace ❤
Just watched this at Bridgewater Hall in UK paired with Brahms’ second piano concerto. Interesting to hear how much Brahmsian thematic material appears in the Dvorak work of which the composer himself explained he made a deliberate effort to avoid national folk themes in pursuit of a more germanic (and ultimately more popular at the time of its composition) character.
Peter Oundjian was, of course, one of the leading first violinists in the string quartet world. If I recollect rightly he was with Tokyo and left when he was injured. I reviewed one of his first outings as a conductor. He has grown considerably since then, which is natural, for he was always a fine musician. So I'm glad to hear this very convincing performance with one if the world's great orchestras.
Something about this performance seems more graceful and balanced and full than the other one, perhaps the addition of an audience and denser seating affects the orchestra somehow.
If anything, it was more the other way around. Specifically, Brahms' Symphony No. 3 in F was very clearly inspired by Dvorak's No. 5 in F, which was written 8 years prior.
One of the greatest of symphonies - by any composer. Certainly Dvorak's best.
The best orchestra who offers their excellent full pieces free without ads to the general public! May this continue!
Agree
I was introduced to this piece by a dream. I dreamt that I met Dvorak, and although I didn’t know much about him or his music, I wanted him to know I thought he was cool. So I told him I really liked his 7th symphony (even though I had actually never listened to it and wasn’t even certain it existed). Dvorak was very pleased to hear this, and told me that he felt his 7th symphony was underrated compared to his other works.
After I woke up, I discovered that Dvorak’s Symphony No. 7 is indeed a real piece of music, so I had to listen to it and find out why my subconscious had recommended it. So, thanks to a dream, I’m listening to this marvelous (and indeed underrated) symphony for the first time! I love it!
Unbelievably sharp articulation and definition in the inner voices, and exquisite, careful balancing. You can clearly hear every last fine detail. What a fine performance.
♦️Thanks to the internet, I'm listening to more composers than ever in my 76-years ♦️
Yes me too. I'm a bit younger than you :-) but Y.T. has introduced me to a wealth of great music (esp. 20th c) that otherwise I probably would never had got to know. This symphony however is not new to me, I bought an l.p. of it when I was about 19 or 20
yes that's awesome
Ditto that thousands
Yes, it's awesome! I found lot of classical music here and I listen to many composer. I sometimes listen to opera with my grandpa but i still prefer instrumental pieces. Which is your favorite composer?
Thanks to the internet I can listen to whatever I want whenever I want. It also helps me hook up with lots of local ladies!
Eine hervorragende Sinfonie! Mein Lieblingsstueck meines Lieblingskomponisten des 19. Jahrhunderts.
This has to be one of my favorite musical pieces. Every time I hear the ending I feel like saying "Amen."
I. Allegro maestoso: 00:39
II. Poco Adagio: 11:10
III. Scherzo Vivace: 21:15
IV. Finale Allegro 28:46
Thanks for uploading btw.! ;)
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I love Dvorak's comment on this symphony. "God grant that this Czech music will move the world!"
It did, and still does.
Oh yes. Without question one of the greatest symphonies of the 19th c.!
Paul Lewis I fully agree. As well as this excellent performance from Frankfurt there is also a very interesting one on UA-cam by the Orchester des Staatstheaters Cottbus under their American conductor Evan Christ.
@@paullewis2413Agreed. There were, mind you, a few others. Bruckner, Tschaikowsky.....
@@paullewis2413 ki
It excites me down below. (And, yeah, that is exactly what I am talking about.)
I don't know why, but I just came across this wonderful performance. Outstandingly conducted and play by one of the best orchestras around. You always have such enjoyable concerts and the video and audio is always outstanding. Just love your channel. Thank you so much for all the concerts you upload. Especially when the fact is there are no commercials.
To me this is one of the greatest symphonies ever composed. The conductor and orchestra are superb in their performance. This is one of my favorite performances of this piece, from the chosen tempo to the levels played for each instrument. Wonderful audio and video as well.
My deepest gratitude and appreciation to the musicians who give us so much beauty and joy. May you live forever and prosper.
Upon doing a research project on this piece for my music history class that requires me to look at the score and listen to a variety of recordings (very typical, I know), it sounds as though the final 10 measures are slightly altered to include the 1st horn in the melody of D-D^-C#-C-A-G-A-Bb-G-D-F#. Though this isn't notated in the score, it sounds absolutely marvelous, and adds just the little bit of texture and finale that other recordings of this piece lack. What an incredible piece, and a stunning performance by the Frankfurt Radio Symphony.
Antonin Dvorak one of the world's greatest composer, amazing versatility when he can speak through music from his Czech homeland in his early symphonies to even America's spiritual soul in his 9th Symphony - "From the New World."
This is a resplendent work of art.
Thank you, Dvorak.
I'm trying to do homework but the absolute beauty of this symphony is distracting me too much!
A lovely performance which makes you wish this symphony was performed as often as the 8th and 9th.
More; this is Dvorak's real symphonic masterpiece!
I'm inclined to agree. Herbert Blomstedt led a wonderful performance with the Berlin Philharmonic last year, which was also, sadly, the last time I heard this splendid work until this video was posted.
And then there's the quite unjustly ignored 6th by Mr. D. What a great piece that is!
Yup. From the 6th on each Symphony is a homerun. I like this one the most. The 9th is so damned overplayed.
I agree, there's not a single boring or monotonous section of this piece
Lovely rendition. Drama when drama is called for. Luminous in the right places. Tempos excellent. This orchestra is doing what an orchestra should do: they are the Messengers! Great shout out to the technical and recording team too. Wish I could have been there. Thank you very much.
brilliant comment I like this :)
I love this symphony so much. Even when Dvorak writes in a minor key it’s still full of joy x
Thank you all in Frankfurt Radio Symphony for a truly remarkable performance.
The dynamic *and* harmonic crescendo at around 15:30 in the starting in the strings is just too incredible.
Antonin Dvorák was the best in orchestrate in his time, even better than composers with big name like Brams. Hearing works such as this symphony, we can feel the extraordinary homelands passion mixed with the most complete music ever composed. So I enyoy Dvorak every time here and there and for that reason he is and will be my favorite composer of all times!
Good choice. Personally I've "narrowed" my favorites to about !0 ---Dvorak included .
Слушая, получил удовольствие. Оркестр и дирижер на высоте. Прекрасное исполнение. Привет из Киева. Спасибо.
Согласен, и привет из Австрии.
Привет из Минска! Предвкушаю долгие и многочисленные переслушивания и пересматривания этой симфонии именно в исполнении этоко оркестра!
37:30 - One of the truly great moments in music!
Yes-thrilling is too small a word!
As always, Frankfurt Radio delivers with excellent sound quality and feeling .
I like just about ever note of this symphony including those wonderful parts people have listed with timestamped links. I would like to add this amazing rhythmic beast 34:42
All those moving parts so perfectly written and performed!
14:28... chills every time we played it, chills every time I hear it
The exact same. Best part of the symphony
The last few minutes of the third movement make you feel like you're flying. absolutely magnificent
My favorite Dvorak symphony. Prefer this work to the 8th and 9th. Underrated. In my top 5 symphonies, all composers considered.
Going to see the Florida Orchestra perform this in January along with rhapsody in blue it’s going to be my first orchestra concert can’t wait to see it!!
I’m going to the same one! lol
Went to hear this yesterday performed by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall, Birmingham, UK. Super performance, conducted by Anja Bihlmaier. Dvorak was such an inventive composer, with an apparent inexhaustible supply of new melodies. Wonderful. Yes, the 7th Symphony should be as popular as number 9, the New World Symphony. Recommend that anyone interested in this listen to all the Dvorak symphonies.
I’m glad the direction of their videos has improved. The improvement from this to 2019 is remarkable.
The Stockholm Phil is still the best at this, though (see www.konserthuset.se/en/play/)
Still long way to go in my opinion, when I have to watch a resting french horn while there is a french horn solo going on.
(Notes to self)
0:39 1st movement (skip) | 11:10 2nd movement (skip) | 21:15 3rd movement | 28:06 scratch segment
28:28 scratch | 28:46 4th movement | 30:51 preview of dance | 31:21 dance | 35:18 dance light | 35:49 dance
Best and very underrated symphony!
..THE REASON WHY I LOVE DVORAK.....PERIOD
The skill and technique of these performers are off the charts.
They are the wonderful Alchemist of Dvorak‘s music
Vicissitudes are the lot of man .
How mutable is the world ！
However ,
Dvorak will surpass and transcend the times and race and nation .
From
Tokyo of the Land of the Rising Sun 🇯🇵
i always tear up during the third movement, and after doing some research i finally understand why. he had some internal conflict between his duties to his country and the death of his mother two years before. this piece, as well as some others, were created as a result of those. truly a wonderful composer- and a wonderful performance! thank you once again for a wonderful showing 💓
A thrilling completely successful creation. Santa fe symphony played it today. Visceral in intensity. In top best symphonies of all time.
Большое спасибо! Замечательный концерт в исполнении замечательного оркестра!
Seit ich als Kind die Maazel Aufnahme mit den Wienern gehört habe, ist dass meine liebste Dvorak Sinfonie.
Great cinematography.
In this orchestra‘s performance,
all is full of far superior splendor
My emotion’s depth is unfathomable and immeasurable
ふす
For many years, Peter Oundjian was the principal conductor of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.
Dvořák is the most underrated composer
author of THE DEATH TAX sez: Strongly reminiscent of Brahms' sheer melodic power, this majestic work holds its own against any--including that of my fave composer Brahms. Anyone who knows Dvorak only for his New World Symphony is missing the boat here. Bravo on a memorable performance I only wish I could have witnessed!
Wonderful performance and a great orchestra!
Pure genius.. especially finale allegro
the cadence at 37:27 is amazing!! Yea HORNS!!
Shit gets Bach-ic!
They are everything.
Yes, that is one of the most gripping moments in al classical music. An ending to end all other endings 😃
I love them too, but in the score, they dont play the d c# c progression, just the woods and second violin. But its sounds so much better with the horns. Just wondering if Oundjjan just added it.
His best symphony.
One of the finest 19th c. symphonies without a doubt and certainly Dvorak's masterpiece.
Everything about that was excellent - even the photography!
It is really good sound and nice tempo!!
Thanks for you guys :)
4:30- 5:05. Such a incredibly glorious build up to a wonderful sequence, Powerful and passionate, and then back down to gentle contemplation. Dvorak was far more of a genius than he ever thought, and his modesty is forever one of his virtues. He wrote a lot of mediocre music, and that’s OK, but his masterpieces will last as long as humanity lasts.
Antonín Dvořák - Mastering film music since 1880
honestly all of his symphonies are like great for movies😂
GREAT horn solo between 2:00 and 2:05 🤣
Such a virtuoso solo! It could not played by a human, so it was tape recorded ;)
Замечательная симфония, превосходное исполнение! Bravo!
Чудова симфонія.Дворжак-великий композитор,великий життєлюб!
I'm addicted to Dvorak
Wonderful performance of one of the greatest symphonies ever (well, it helps being a Dvorak aficionado). Nothing this orchestra does is ever less than excellent and this channel is one of the best on UA-cam - at least for the lover of symphonic music.
And once again, at the end there is that one person bellowing his BRAVO before anyone else gets their hands together. I wonder what it takes to do this... Does it mean you are an attention-seeking oaf or an enthusiastic music lover ? Perhaps both, as these traits are probably not mutually exclusive ? Or is it just the revival of a centuries long tradition which has rather waned in the last few decennia ?
CB: That "oaf" would be me!
Going to see this performed by the Colorado Symphony this Friday the 18th...
Beautiful oboe there at the conclusion of the Adagio.
We know the performance is good when the 18:24 to 18:42 is played in a majestic way
Wahnsinn!!!!! (Ich meine: wahnsinnig geil!)
Excellent! Everyone in top form...
Dvorák foi e é um mestre!
¡Maravilloso! gracias por compartir.
Oh, this fella is quite unique with his symphonies. They sound great. I dunno about any being better than the last, but his are up there with some I prefer, ay this point.
Thanks for the impressive music. This is my favorite piece.
BRAVO BRAVO GREAT FANTASTICLY DONE. BRAVO
21:15 when you are at a feast, dancing with your long-time wife and both of you are thinking of all the past years full of suffering and love and that you both will go on and on and on, indulging in the rhythm of life
Best performance of the Seventh I have ever heard !
Dvořak has a magic about his works, his orchestration can only be comparable to Wagner and Stravinsky for his intimate appreciation of each instrument's colour and applies the notation as precisely as Seurat. It maybe a symphony but to my ear/mind has a symphonic poetry which shows how ahead of his contemporaries he was, similarly Janacěk. Ace ❤
La mejor sinfonìa de Antonin. Sin duda.
Just watched this at Bridgewater Hall in UK paired with Brahms’ second piano concerto. Interesting to hear how much Brahmsian thematic material appears in the Dvorak work of which the composer himself explained he made a deliberate effort to avoid national folk themes in pursuit of a more germanic (and ultimately more popular at the time of its composition) character.
I myself can hear there only slavic melodies, no Brahms.
As for me, Brahmsian music is a little bit artificial, synthetic. When compared with music of Dvorak, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff....
Wunderschöne Leistung dieser relativ unbekannten Sinfonie von Dvořák im angemessenen Tempo und ohne unnötige Agogik. Der Dirigent ist genial!
Peter Oundjian was, of course, one of the leading first violinists in the string quartet world. If I recollect rightly he was with Tokyo and left when he was injured. I reviewed one of his first outings as a conductor. He has grown considerably since then, which is natural, for he was always a fine musician. So I'm glad to hear this very convincing performance with one if the world's great orchestras.
Thanks for your informative reply, which helps me understand the outline of this awesome conductor.
זה ממש אדיר אוהב מאוד את דבוזק ואת הלולאות במוזיקה שלו
@@AsianTheDomination gentile
EXTRAORDINARIO ME GUSTA MUCHO ESTA SINFONIA
Nice shot of a horn not being played while someone else is indeed playing a horn at 2:00 .
Klingt gut!
Wonderful -- Thanks
Something about this performance seems more graceful and balanced and full than the other one, perhaps the addition of an audience and denser seating affects the orchestra somehow.
Auditie placuta.
Толи играют так хорошо Толи Дворжак гений, Толи гении и те и другие. Фантастика!
I can hear in the oboe (19:00 to 21:00) the prototype of the famous tune in the ninth. I used to think it was based on a Black Gospel song.
Bravo au réalisateur, filmer le cor qui ne joue pas......
wonderful
Wonderful!
Inspired by Brahms 3...and the best of Dvorak's symphonies.
And Brahms' best :)
Such a shame Brahms never managed anything so good.
오늘 서귀포에서 체코 야나첵 오케스트라 교항악단 연주로 첨 들었다.
드볼작 9번 외 그의 교항곡으로선 낮설었지만 신선했다.
love the third movement
좋습니다.
It's amazing how Brahms-like this symphony is!
Brahms was a good friend of Dvorak. Brahms helped Dvorak at beginning quite much with some recommendations etc.
He wrote it after hearing Brahms 3
@@agapanthus1953 interesting
@@Philosotox also pretty sure he wrote 6th after hearing Brahms 2.....in that case the influence is clear
Better than Brahms. And Brahms would have agreed. He knew the truth.
Respect of Italia
7th, his best!!! Inspired by Brahms 3....
pretty sure his 6th was likewise inspired by Brahms 2
After Symphony 4, he found his own style, so this music is inspired by Dvorak and no one else.
If anything, it was more the other way around. Specifically, Brahms' Symphony No. 3 in F was very clearly inspired by Dvorak's No. 5 in F, which was written 8 years prior.
Bravo!
That part... 14:28
Agreed! Another favorite passage is 4:45. The whole thing is a masterpiece - except for about 2.5 seconds at 37:10 ...
That has to have been used in some movie sometime...!
21:15 is what you probably played in orchestra
Fantástico 👏👏👏👏
Bravo! 👏 👏 👏
I didn't find this symphony as interesting as I did other works by Dvorak, but I enjoyed listening to it.