I'm really addicted to the choral melody of the waltz of the snowflakes, I've first listened now to this part but its so freaking beautiful, I'm drunk af, I dont know english, probably I'm writing everyting wrong, but I couldnt help myself to comment about that passage
Very happy you like it. Tchaikovsky had such a skill for beautiful melodies. Even in a piece like this where his heart wasn't really in it, he couldn't help but make something amazing.
@@SynchroScore Oh, but his heart was in it. What was a rather uninspiring commission for Tchaikovsky became personal when he lost his sister. That loss prompted him to write a requiem for her, calling back to their shared childhood memories of Christmas. This is exactly the type of piece I find the Waltz of the Snowflakes to be. In fact, my personal opinion is that Tchaikovsky didn't include certain more than brilliant pieces like this waltz and the pas de deux in the suite because they were an expression of something very personal and terribly sad for him.
28:54 The scene where the Christmas tree grows has always been one of my favorite moments from the ballet. Tchaikovsky captures the feeling of the tree growing to dizzy heights so damn well, I'm suprised it's not mentioned more often. And it's just typical Tchaikovsky, a slow but truly orgasmic build up. The orchestration becomes more and more rich over a whole minute of music, and those signature repeated notes played by winds and horns just get your pulse racing. Absolutely amazing.
It's interesting that you mention this particular passage. As part of the channel (and perhaps more for my own amusement than anything else, given the viewership numbers) I have produced the SelectaScore videos, compilations that take a selection of each piece on the channel, in the order than they were published, and run them together with titles and other information. This piece is included on SelectaScore #3, and guess how I excerpted that? ua-cam.com/video/VSzqSuuMASs/v-deo.html
Yes, and I was almost thinking I should have used a different recording, because the harp doesn't come through that clearly in this concert recording. But it really is impressive what Tchaikovsky managed to write here, considering he was doing it strictly for a paycheck, and still managed to create such memorable melodies and beautiful structure.
The music for "A Pine Forest in Winter" is some of the most gorgeous music I've ever encountered! It undoubtedly has been used as a template for many film composers. (John Williams comes to mind.) The alternation between tonic and the other chord throughout is so filmic. It also reminds me a bit of something Maurice Jarre would do.
I had to think for a moment, and then I realized exactly which part of the piece you're referring to. He really was a genius for creating memorable melodies.
If it's the part I'm thinking about, the use of the celli in possibly their most cantabile register only makes that simple scale really rich and luscious. (If you're referring to another passage with possibly different orchestration, then do forgive me!)
@@SynchroScore Thanks very much for letting me know! It's been a long time since I've listened to/watched the ballet, but that pas de deux is so memorable.
I've been thinking about putting some of the other ballets up here in the future, and I'm always open to requests for my next projects. In the meantime, I have some other Tchaikovsky for you to enjoy, if you'd like.
I'm glad you enjoy it. I have other pieces of Tchaikovsky, both already finished and others under construction, so check out the catalog and watch this space for more in the future.
I love how the Waltz on the Snowflakes 39:05 is the reflection of a snowstorm. Starts calmly and builds. Great imagery. It's too bad the trumpet figure at 55:02 is not reprised. It is one of the few times that instrument is highlighted - and in such a dramatic way! My two favorite parts!
I don't quite understand it myself. Perhaps he thought that showing off how he could write a beautiful piece based on a simple descending G-major scale was too much of a flex?
@@SynchroScore I've read he included the first eight parts for which he had completed the orchestration. Otherwise, the Pas de Deux (along with the Christmas Tree growing scene and the Waltz of the Snowflakes) should have never been left out.
@@RobertFBeers That sounds plausible. I do know that Tchaikovsky's heart wasn't in this piece, that it was pretty much done just for the commission. Which says something that either he was enough of a professional to put out a magnificent piece even if he wasn't all that interested in, or just so talented and creative that even his half-assed work is amazing.
Thank you so much for posting the full score! The recording you've chosen is first-rate! I truly appreciate that. The recording the person chooses to go along with the score isn't always this good. It's a real treat to listen to such a great performance!
I was going to put up a video of the concert suite, but figured it wouldn't be that much more difficult to put up the entire ballet. Suppose it was a bit more difficult, having the most slides of any video I've posted so far. And I do try to get good recordings, although the harps get lost in this one. Suppose that's the downside of a concert recording, the balance often isn't tweaked to bring out every little detail, but in other ways it feels more authentic.
I figured that I should just do the entire ballet, once I found it was available. Glad you enjoyed it! I've often been interested in seeing how these pieces come together, and this is a great way for me to learn, and for others to learn. Always happy to take requests, too.
Love this whole suite, always have done. Tchaikovsky really understood ballet, and wrote beautifully for it. "Music is an incomparably more powerful means and is a subtler language for expressing the thousand different moments of the soul's moods."
The calmness at the beginning of the "Pine Forest in Winter" reminds me a bit of the opening of Ravel's "Enchanted Garden" from Mother Goose. I realize the harmonies are very different, but the mood for me is similar.
Does anyone else hear a striking similarity between the melody/rhythm in the violas/cellos/clarinet/flute at 17:31 and the melody/rhythm in Stravinsky's "Infernal Dance of King Katschei" from Firebird? I can't help but think that Stravinsky may have had this part of Nutcracker in mind when he wrote Firebird.
I always hear obvious influences on Stravinsky and often Prokofiev too in the music of Tchaikovsky -- which makes sense, of course, as certain styles and formulae are distinctively "Russian", and these great composers never lost their Russian sense. The movement involving the "polichinelles" contains passages that strike me as almost right out of Petrushka, 1:05:02 to the end of the movement.
@@legendschant1194 Well, I’ve found that making these videos shows a good bit of the structure, just how these pieces are put together. Of course, I have neither the training nor the talent to actually write music, but it is still interesting to see how it is done.
@@SynchroScore Yes it's incredibly helpful! Thank you btw. I use to buy scores but when I can't find them or they are too expensive I rely on such videos. I've also tried to compose something myself based on what I've learn: you can check the channel if you want!
So we’re just gonna NOT talk about the maestro screaming in absolute ECSTASY at the climax of the Pas de Deux…. Love it. ❤🎼 Tchaikovsky reserved his true passion for his ballet scores, not his symphonies.
I hadn't noticed that, I shall have to take another listen, and check that against the source video. He wouldn't be the only one. It can be heard on some Toscanini recordings, Glenn Gould would hum along with his music sometimes, and Leonard Bernstein can be seen singing along with Mahler, or at least lip-synching. As for Tchaikovsky's passion, I'm not quite as sure. I admit I'm not as familiar with his other ballets as I am with his symphonies (4 and 5 are already on the channel, and 1 and 6 are planned) but remember that he wrote _The Nutcracker_ simply because he was paid to write it. That he nonetheless created such an enduring masterpiece is thus even more impressive.
And as somebody else already pointed out here, few apart from Tchaikovsky could say "I'm going to take a descending eight-note scale and make the most beautiful thing out of it.@
@@SynchroScore His last sentence may only come from someone who isn’t aware enough about Tchaikovsky’s oeuvre. The most ingenious works of his are the symphonies and operas. The ballets are more famous for their accessibility, but I don’t find them as coherent (although they remains masterpieces of music).
@@Dylonely_9274 For me, Tchaikovsky is the biggest name in the romantic period of music. No one has managed to put so much passion, so much drama, so much emotion into so many different works. Only Tchaikovsky would be capable of writing a joyful ballet like this and a year later giving us a Sixth Symphony complete with sadness and affliction, as if it were (according to researchers) his own farewell. That's why I'm not afraid to say that he is indeed the great name of the romantic period.
@@guilhermesilvadecamargo8553 I agree with you, not just for this point but also because he composed in many different genres : ballets, concertos, string quartets, operas, symphonies and few others. He had a huge inspiration to compose melodies (a true master) and his orchestration is priceless. I genuinely believe that Liszt, Verdi, Saint-Saëns, Brahms and Chopin are the only ones of their time (19th century) to come close to Tchaïkovski’s genius.
That's a good question. I looked back at the source video, which is a live concert broadcast, and the violins and violas at that point seem to have their index fingers extended, but it does sound like bowed notes. Curious.
Octaves are funny like that. So are variants in published music. For instance, my recording of _Les Preludes_ by Franz Liszt has the trombones playing some notes that, in the score, are only given to the bassoons. Threw me for a loop when I was putting the video together, made me think that I'd gotten the pages out of order or something.
@@SynchroScoreSonically there's no difference at all, but visually it's strange. Is it a writing error and they forgot to add another flat there in the key?
I'm really addicted to the choral melody of the waltz of the snowflakes, I've first listened now to this part but its so freaking beautiful, I'm drunk af, I dont know english, probably I'm writing everyting wrong, but I couldnt help myself to comment about that passage
Very happy you like it. Tchaikovsky had such a skill for beautiful melodies. Even in a piece like this where his heart wasn't really in it, he couldn't help but make something amazing.
@@SynchroScore Oh, but his heart was in it. What was a rather uninspiring commission for Tchaikovsky became personal when he lost his sister. That loss prompted him to write a requiem for her, calling back to their shared childhood memories of Christmas. This is exactly the type of piece I find the Waltz of the Snowflakes to be. In fact, my personal opinion is that Tchaikovsky didn't include certain more than brilliant pieces like this waltz and the pas de deux in the suite because they were an expression of something very personal and terribly sad for him.
@@AlexCholakov-w9w I have never heard this story before.
@@SynchroScore Watch Listening In's video called "The dark side of The Nutcracker", that's where I heard that story.
28:54 The scene where the Christmas tree grows has always been one of my favorite moments from the ballet. Tchaikovsky captures the feeling of the tree growing to dizzy heights so damn well, I'm suprised it's not mentioned more often.
And it's just typical Tchaikovsky, a slow but truly orgasmic build up. The orchestration becomes more and more rich over a whole minute of music, and those signature repeated notes played by winds and horns just get your pulse racing. Absolutely amazing.
It's interesting that you mention this particular passage. As part of the channel (and perhaps more for my own amusement than anything else, given the viewership numbers) I have produced the SelectaScore videos, compilations that take a selection of each piece on the channel, in the order than they were published, and run them together with titles and other information. This piece is included on SelectaScore #3, and guess how I excerpted that? ua-cam.com/video/VSzqSuuMASs/v-deo.html
What???? Orgasmic build up is crazy 💀💀☠️☠️
@@krysztof6917 Isn't it orgasmic, though?
Thanks for this. I hadn't realized how much detail Tchaikovsky had put into this music. The harpist really earns their money.
Yes, and I was almost thinking I should have used a different recording, because the harp doesn't come through that clearly in this concert recording. But it really is impressive what Tchaikovsky managed to write here, considering he was doing it strictly for a paycheck, and still managed to create such memorable melodies and beautiful structure.
I think both harpists work their socks off!
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as a harpist, yes we do work our butts off 😭😭
Tchaikovsky's inexhaustible supply of melody
The music for "A Pine Forest in Winter" is some of the most gorgeous music I've ever encountered! It undoubtedly has been used as a template for many film composers. (John Williams comes to mind.) The alternation between tonic and the other chord throughout is so filmic. It also reminds me a bit of something Maurice Jarre would do.
best one in the whole ballet no question
Agreed! Truly hoping to be able to play this particular piece in my school orchestra very very soon… (Harp part! ♥)
1:14:13 Tchaikovsky literally took a g major scale and made it sound so beautiful
I had to think for a moment, and then I realized exactly which part of the piece you're referring to. He really was a genius for creating memorable melodies.
If it's the part I'm thinking about, the use of the celli in possibly their most cantabile register only makes that simple scale really rich and luscious. (If you're referring to another passage with possibly different orchestration, then do forgive me!)
@@littlemarmoset Yes, the pas de deux near the end, with melody on the cello and harmonic chords on the harp.
@@SynchroScore Thanks very much for letting me know! It's been a long time since I've listened to/watched the ballet, but that pas de deux is so memorable.
The Pas des Deux! I never realized until just a few years ago that it was just a scale with great orchestration and appropriate rhythm.
Having adored this and all of Tchaikovsky's other ballets from childhood, I am very glad to be able to view the score along with his ingenious music.
I've been thinking about putting some of the other ballets up here in the future, and I'm always open to requests for my next projects. In the meantime, I have some other Tchaikovsky for you to enjoy, if you'd like.
@@SynchroScore Thank you! I'll definitely explore more of your content.
Hey Luddy, didn't know you were still alive!!
@@skunkygrogan6956 The grave is not very difficult to escape!
Are you a time traveler or something, Herr Beethoven?
I can not thank you enough for allowing us to listen to Tchaikovsky's beautiful music, while also seeing the score! Thank you, thank you, thank you! 🤩
I'm glad you enjoy it. I have other pieces of Tchaikovsky, both already finished and others under construction, so check out the catalog and watch this space for more in the future.
Sergei sweetheart, you're so old by now you must be decomposing.....
1:17:59 -- conductor getting a bit excited here??!😆...amazing he still had enough energy for a yell after nearly an hour and a half of hard work!
It looks like he just couldn't resist making that sound. :) :) :)
I love how the Waltz on the Snowflakes 39:05 is the reflection of a snowstorm. Starts calmly and builds. Great imagery. It's too bad the trumpet figure at 55:02 is not reprised. It is one of the few times that instrument is highlighted - and in such a dramatic way! My two favorite parts!
The great musical piece of Tchaikovsky and humanity’s work of art!
According to me, this is heaven
For me, heaven sounds like the end of Mahler's 2nd.
I don't get why didn't Tchaikovsky put the Pas de Deux in the suite. It's soooo beautiful.
I don't quite understand it myself. Perhaps he thought that showing off how he could write a beautiful piece based on a simple descending G-major scale was too much of a flex?
@@SynchroScore I've read he included the first eight parts for which he had completed the orchestration. Otherwise, the Pas de Deux (along with the Christmas Tree growing scene and the Waltz of the Snowflakes) should have never been left out.
@@RobertFBeers That sounds plausible. I do know that Tchaikovsky's heart wasn't in this piece, that it was pretty much done just for the commission. Which says something that either he was enough of a professional to put out a magnificent piece even if he wasn't all that interested in, or just so talented and creative that even his half-assed work is amazing.
Thank you so much for posting the full score! The recording you've chosen is first-rate! I truly appreciate that. The recording the person chooses to go along with the score isn't always this good. It's a real treat to listen to such a great performance!
I was going to put up a video of the concert suite, but figured it wouldn't be that much more difficult to put up the entire ballet. Suppose it was a bit more difficult, having the most slides of any video I've posted so far. And I do try to get good recordings, although the harps get lost in this one. Suppose that's the downside of a concert recording, the balance often isn't tweaked to bring out every little detail, but in other ways it feels more authentic.
This is my favorite rendition of The Nutcracker, and getting to follow along with the score is wonderful. Thanks for editing it!
I figured that I should just do the entire ballet, once I found it was available. Glad you enjoyed it! I've often been interested in seeing how these pieces come together, and this is a great way for me to learn, and for others to learn. Always happy to take requests, too.
Love this whole suite, always have done. Tchaikovsky really understood ballet, and wrote beautifully for it. "Music is an incomparably more powerful means and is a subtler language for expressing the thousand different moments of the soul's moods."
Thank you, and I'm glad you enjoyed it. I'll have more Tchaikovsky on the channel in the future, quite a lot to choose from.
The calmness at the beginning of the "Pine Forest in Winter" reminds me a bit of the opening of Ravel's "Enchanted Garden" from Mother Goose. I realize the harmonies are very different, but the mood for me is similar.
I HAVE JUST CAME FROM WATCHING THE ENTIRE BALLET IT'S LOVELY 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩😍😍😍😍😍😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Very glad to hear that.
But tell us how you REALLY feel 😊🎄!!!🙂
Does anyone else hear a striking similarity between the melody/rhythm in the violas/cellos/clarinet/flute at 17:31 and the melody/rhythm in Stravinsky's "Infernal Dance of King Katschei" from Firebird? I can't help but think that Stravinsky may have had this part of Nutcracker in mind when he wrote Firebird.
I always hear obvious influences on Stravinsky and often Prokofiev too in the music of Tchaikovsky -- which makes sense, of course, as certain styles and formulae are distinctively "Russian", and these great composers never lost their Russian sense. The movement involving the "polichinelles" contains passages that strike me as almost right out of Petrushka, 1:05:02 to the end of the movement.
Adorei! Muito bem executada toda suíte. Parabéns!
Thank you very much for this useful video, I love this video as many other people and we are grateful for your work.
15:20 Happy Birthday 15:45 Happy Birthday to you
Notes for myself:
8:45 pizz
17:51 dance infernal Firebird
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25:57 low strings
26:34 trama, harp
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Playing cello, or bass?
@@SynchroScore trying to learn orchestration lol
@@legendschant1194 Well, I’ve found that making these videos shows a good bit of the structure, just how these pieces are put together. Of course, I have neither the training nor the talent to actually write music, but it is still interesting to see how it is done.
@@SynchroScore Yes it's incredibly helpful! Thank you btw. I use to buy scores but when I can't find them or they are too expensive I rely on such videos. I've also tried to compose something myself based on what I've learn: you can check the channel if you want!
This is a rather advanced score to analyze. I would be careful about how you write for harp.
Merry Christmas, and a Happy holidays to everybody for this year
45:51 One of my favorite melodies by Tchaïkovski.
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@@chocox2367blud has great taste
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Its great!! Thank you!!
so grateful for this
Well, that's why I make these, so others may enjoy them. I certainly don't make any money off this.
Thank you! I need this for research :3
Always happy to help, and always accepting requests for future videos.
Bravo bravo bravo fantastic grandiose genial music wow super
Thank you kindly.
35:00 😭😭😭❤️❤️❤️
I second the motion.
Amazing
So we’re just gonna NOT talk about the maestro screaming in absolute ECSTASY at the climax of the Pas de Deux….
Love it. ❤🎼
Tchaikovsky reserved his true passion for his ballet scores, not his symphonies.
I hadn't noticed that, I shall have to take another listen, and check that against the source video. He wouldn't be the only one. It can be heard on some Toscanini recordings, Glenn Gould would hum along with his music sometimes, and Leonard Bernstein can be seen singing along with Mahler, or at least lip-synching.
As for Tchaikovsky's passion, I'm not quite as sure. I admit I'm not as familiar with his other ballets as I am with his symphonies (4 and 5 are already on the channel, and 1 and 6 are planned) but remember that he wrote _The Nutcracker_ simply because he was paid to write it. That he nonetheless created such an enduring masterpiece is thus even more impressive.
And as somebody else already pointed out here, few apart from Tchaikovsky could say "I'm going to take a descending eight-note scale and make the most beautiful thing out of it.@
@@SynchroScore His last sentence may only come from someone who isn’t aware enough about Tchaikovsky’s oeuvre. The most ingenious works of his are the symphonies and operas. The ballets are more famous for their accessibility, but I don’t find them as coherent (although they remains masterpieces of music).
@@Dylonely_9274 For me, Tchaikovsky is the biggest name in the romantic period of music. No one has managed to put so much passion, so much drama, so much emotion into so many different works. Only Tchaikovsky would be capable of writing a joyful ballet like this and a year later giving us a Sixth Symphony complete with sadness and affliction, as if it were (according to researchers) his own farewell.
That's why I'm not afraid to say that he is indeed the great name of the romantic period.
@@guilhermesilvadecamargo8553 I agree with you, not just for this point but also because he composed in many different genres : ballets, concertos, string quartets, operas, symphonies and few others. He had a huge inspiration to compose melodies (a true master) and his orchestration is priceless. I genuinely believe that Liszt, Verdi, Saint-Saëns, Brahms and Chopin are the only ones of their time (19th century) to come close to Tchaïkovski’s genius.
Plenty of very fine melodies… Tchaikovsky’s music in its splendor.
Classical music is always my first choice!!
Music that has stood the test of time, yes.
40:36 the solo goes hard
We need to show the bass trombone some love.
@@SynchroScore agreed!!!
1:12:30 audition
Thankyou! A very useful feature is click on the time line to get the chapters!
You're welcome. That is the main purpose of this project, to make music more accessible to people.
Thanks!Great!
Always happy to help, and always open to suggestions for future videos.
@@SynchroScore Thanks
I love the celesta! 1:20:05
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@@TheSantiAcademy2024 Wrong timestamp, I guess.
acutally, I changed the timestamp so, Not anymore.@@Dylonely_9274
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The 'Pas de Deux' number in Act 2 is a gut-wrenchingly powerful and majestic piece that should have been titled 'The Agony of Christ on the Cross'.
随处可见天才的老柴~
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Is it just me, or do I hear arco strings at 1:05:03 where the score says pizz? If it's just me, then what might be causing that illusion?
That's a good question. I looked back at the source video, which is a live concert broadcast, and the violins and violas at that point seem to have their index fingers extended, but it does sound like bowed notes. Curious.
It's probably because they play double notes
@@SynchroScore I have noticed that. But the violas were playing arco, which might explain it.
I swear that at some points the piccolo is not playing 8va...
Octaves are funny like that. So are variants in published music. For instance, my recording of _Les Preludes_ by Franz Liszt has the trombones playing some notes that, in the score, are only given to the bassoons. Threw me for a loop when I was putting the video together, made me think that I'd gotten the pages out of order or something.
is there any way you could do prokofiev’s cinderella?? specifically no. 36 pas de deux of the prince and cinderella:)
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Krása, byl to opravdu výjimečný skladatel, hudba jako radost ze života
Měl skutečný dar vytvářet nezapomenutelné melodie.
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1:00:20 Is it normal for Violins I to be in F major out of nowhere?
I'm not sure what wouldn't be normal about it, since this section is in B-flat Major.
@@SynchroScoreSonically there's no difference at all, but visually it's strange. Is it a writing error and they forgot to add another flat there in the key?
I wonder what Tsaikovski himself thought about this work.
Whose recording is this? Orchestra and conductor?
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Yannick Nezet-Seguin. Are the titles not working?
@@SynchroScore whoops I missed the first few moments.... thanks :)
@@mrlopez-pz7pu You're welcome.
全体的に難くね...？
Producing the videos is not too difficult, just time consuming.
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