I got married 2 years ago tomorrow, and shortly after I had proposed to my then girlfriend I asked her what she wanted to walk down the aisle to. She immediately said Philip Glass Mishima. I hadn’t heard it at that point, so I go on youtube and this is the first video that pops up. Within 20 seconds I’m crying. Hearing this as the doors to the chapel opened and my wife started to walk down the aisle is one of the most incredible moments of my life, and I continuously come back to your recording. Thank you for a beautiful performance, and I hope one day I get to perform this incredible piece.
Beautiful.. I've got a partner who plays violin and three kids learning. I've told my 9 y.o. that I want this played at my 50th (we can draft in a cellist and mum can switch to the viola) She's got seven years.
I know right?! Even the slight changes when someones playing a lot of the same notes and then changes to a slightly different note is somehow SO beautiful!
@@thethikboy It definitely works! Because the piece is so repetitive, a slight change in something that is repeating is very noticeable, and in this case, very pretty
We only have the capacity to Love because God loved us first. His grace is actual love working intimately in our lives everyday, this songs makes me picture Him dying on the cross for us.
The music of Philip Glass transcends time and space. It captures the essence of the universe. It moves me deeply and completely. The world would have suffered a great loss had it never been composed. Be well and Peace Out.
@@alison2649 I've heard pieces of it used in several documentaries and movies but most recently, and my favorite, in the new Netflix show The Staircase with Colin Firth and Toni Collette. It's a beautiful scene in Episode 2 @ 45 minutes in when Michael and Kathleen are watching a live ballet together.
Recently I was struck by the thought that some of the greatest artists of the past fifty years are still alive and very close in age; the painter David Hockney, the sculptor Richard Serra, the photographer Lee Friedlander, the architect Frenk Gehry, and the musician Philip Glass.
I usually listen to random playlists of instrumental music while reading. This was the piece that was playing when I was finishing "Jane Eyre" and I'll never forget about it or the book. It felt so perfect at that moment. There is something so sweet in the strings and now I can't listen to it without picturing two people rushing to embrace one another after a long time apart.
@@jerkchickenblog I was imagining a wedding while the music was playing. Then I read your comment and am now imagining someone signing divorce papers. I think both interpretations work!
Have you listened to the Kronos Quartet's version? They are the original performers whose recording was used in Mishima. In my opinion, their rendition is far more controlled and "precise" not to mention that they bring out a very important nuance that this quarter fails to deliver. When the violins start playing the sixteenth notes, the main theme is echoed within that. Unfortunately, I can't really hear that with this quartet, and it's just a deal-breaker for me
@@Eorzat I love the Kronos quartet version, and the specifics you mention, but the tone of this one is different and very pleasing to my ear. I like both really, but its also nice to see a well recorded live performance with video.
I studied Music and Composition at University. I listened to Glass avidly throughout those years. It was a both happy and fun time, but also one full of pain and personal growth. His music brings me great nostalgia for those times. I think for me it captures the essence of what I realised in that time, that life has no absolute truths. It is so easy all the time to think each and every moment is one leading up to some greater event, as we can’t quite touch the beauty present in those moments.
I've heard many versions of this, but this is by far my favorite. I've been going through a lot lately. It feels like life has just been stepping on me for a while, but this brings me peace. It keeps me hopeful and helps me to push back against any negativity in my life. The therapeutic value of this video absolutely cannot be denied. Thank you so much. I look forward to enjoying more of your music.
Am a painter this is perfect for being in the zone at 4am and painting something wonderful...it reminds me of a resurrection, like spring,something growing and coming back to life.
This music makes me cry. It feels like an end. A bittersweet, vibrant departure from everything that life has to offer. Never to be seen, heard, or felt again.
@@Noah-zq8cb Yeah. I keep on returning to this piece time and time again. I stumbled upon "Mishima: life in Four Chapters" during the most turbulent time of my life. My country wages war, I left my home and abandoned my former life. I live completely alone and all my internal problems spilled out into the open since two of the pillars - company of the people that are close to you, and belief in humanity are no longer there to support the weight. I am trying to rebuild myself, to find myself anew. It's hard. This music is perfect for the situation where you're sitting in the ruins of yourself, you see the beautiful sun, but you're not quite sure if it's dawn or dusk. Life is tragic. And sometimes, beautiful.
@@Shushpo I fully understand what you mean bro. Hope everything goes well for you my man. Don’t ever stop listening to Philip Glass or reading Mishima, as they are a daily reminder of the duality of tragic and beauty, and a good companion in lonely times as well.
Glass is accessible yet artistic to the nth degree. Raga provides rhythm in his work. His techniques are top shelf. He's of the momemt - Symphony 1, based on music by David Bowie and Brian Eno, was great art and brilliant promotion. He's historic - without him the western art music tradition might had died with E. Carter.
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I do think this is a original version of closing mishima. Philips Glass introduced his musical style in this electronic world, he is the first minamalist of all times.
This song is life. So many rotating scenes, one over the next and several under and beside. Tragic beauty and the hideous joy. Mania and a sweeping low. Its wings and the breaking of them. Its liberty and imprisonment. It's a crucifixion on the tree of enlightenment. And it makes me gladly cry every single time.
Yukio Mishima wrote Spring Snow, the first of the Sea of Fertility tetralogy. Beautiful books about the transition of ancient Japan to the Post War Japan. I listened to the entire Philip Glass composition throughout reading the series and it added so much beauty and sensitivity to the novels. Highly recommended. Mishima committed ritual suicide, seppuku which he planned for a year. I think Phillip Glass beautifully captured the complex emotions of the novels in his composition. Timeless.
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Cette interprétation est simplement la plus ressenti que j'ai entendue, pour moi ces musiciens/musiciennes jouent de leur âme et ensemble. Merci Karla Donehew Perez & Jessie Montgomery, Paul Laraia and Karlos Rodriguez.
Wow, just found this song by accident and im hooked! Easily one of my favourite "soundtracks" besides Max Richters 'November' and 'Never Goodbye'. Also it was masterfully interpreted here, thank you for that great experience!
I'm just now discovering this wonderful piece, it reminds me of my favourite composer; Max Richter. Any other recommondations? This version of Philip Glass 'Mishima/closing' is by far the greatest.
Max Richter is my favorite as well, they have a lot in common! You should definitely check out Kerry Muzzey - The Architect (especially The Secret History), others you might like: Nicholas Britell - The middle of the world Keaton Henson - The Falling and Initium Peter Gregson - Sequence (Four) other Philipp Glass work like the Running from the loop or The Truman Show scores Joep Beving - Hanging D Alexandre Desplat - De battre mon coeure s'est arrêté Daft Punk - Adagio Arvo Pärt: Tabula Rasa: II. Silentium And of course Max Richters November, Sarajevo, the Invasion Theme, Leftovers, etc. but I don’t need to tell you about that I guess!
I got married 2 years ago tomorrow, and shortly after I had proposed to my then girlfriend I asked her what she wanted to walk down the aisle to. She immediately said Philip Glass Mishima. I hadn’t heard it at that point, so I go on youtube and this is the first video that pops up. Within 20 seconds I’m crying. Hearing this as the doors to the chapel opened and my wife started to walk down the aisle is one of the most incredible moments of my life, and I continuously come back to your recording. Thank you for a beautiful performance, and I hope one day I get to perform this incredible piece.
You are so lucky to have a life in the arts. I was in medicine, but misplaced there. May this piece and all of Mr. Glass's music be with you.
✨
Трогательно,мило, волшебно
Avoir une femme qui propose en premier choix cette musique, vous avez trouvé la perle rare
Beautiful.. I've got a partner who plays violin and three kids learning. I've told my 9 y.o. that I want this played at my 50th (we can draft in a cellist and mum can switch to the viola) She's got seven years.
This piece is so beautiful that it hurts.
try getting your nuts kicked; THAT HURTS.
I agree! Which is actually very fitting for Mishima. The pain of beauty...
This piece is so boring that it hurts.
The pain is exquisite..
@@MithridatesOfficial it is indeed.
The minimalist repetition works in this piece - when the slight changes come they are intensely beautiful
This is 3 hours long? I better pack a lunch.
I know right?! Even the slight changes when someones playing a lot of the same notes and then changes to a slightly different note is somehow SO beautiful!
@@ShadowDragon_616 I think it works in this case. There's actually a melody singing over the sawing.
@@thethikboy It definitely works! Because the piece is so repetitive, a slight change in something that is repeating is very noticeable, and in this case, very pretty
Yeah like music for 18 musicians.
"Human life is limited but I would like to live forever." Yukio Mishima.
Life is Precious Because it is FINITE,I don't think you really like to live for Ever you would Go mad,
He didn't 'alf talk some bollocks.
@@karlfeuerstake916 lol not at all.
We only have the capacity to Love because God loved us first. His grace is actual love working intimately in our lives everyday, this songs makes me picture Him dying on the cross for us.
@@sterlingteall3462 you do realize Mishima was a Shintoist right?
The music of Philip Glass transcends time and space. It captures the essence of the universe. It moves me deeply and completely. The world would have suffered a great loss had it never been composed. Be well and Peace Out.
Yes, indeed. But it was composed. There is no if.
@@AugDer And I am thankful for it.
Was this ever played in any movies? It’s so familiar
@@alison2649 I've heard pieces of it used in several documentaries and movies but most recently, and my favorite, in the new Netflix show The Staircase with Colin Firth and Toni Collette. It's a beautiful scene in Episode 2 @ 45 minutes in when Michael and Kathleen are watching a live ballet together.
Agreed. His music describes humanity in sound and time.
Recently I was struck by the thought that some of the greatest artists of the past fifty years are still alive and very close in age; the painter David Hockney, the sculptor Richard Serra, the photographer Lee Friedlander, the architect Frenk Gehry, and the musician Philip Glass.
I usually listen to random playlists of instrumental music while reading. This was the piece that was playing when I was finishing "Jane Eyre" and I'll never forget about it or the book. It felt so perfect at that moment. There is something so sweet in the strings and now I can't listen to it without picturing two people rushing to embrace one another after a long time apart.
I'm tearing up...
I love art❤️
That's so great, good timings happens ❤❤
We played this at our wedding. So perfect.
You played at your own wedding?
more like a song for divorce lol
@@jerkchickenblog I was imagining a wedding while the music was playing. Then I read your comment and am now imagining someone signing divorce papers. I think both interpretations work!
@@codascheuer8426 😂😂😂
Wholesome
Bob’s Burgers, right in the damn feels.
Words cannot describe how beautiful this is. I cannot keep myself from crying every time I hear it.
Yes, of course, Phillip is a true romantic.
I don't know what it is but the instant I hear this I start crying. Beyond perfection.
Never have I ever heard something so beautiful. Simply auditory perfection.
I think it's has something to do with Philip Glass iv head it before
Its sounds like this I'm fortunate to have the ability to hear.
GodKing804 just what I was thinking
GodKing804
It's sounds like these that I'm fortunate to have the ability to hear.
Praise the Lord who gives us these gifts out of love
Bob's Burger brought me here. I had to search for this, just pure art at it's finest 🙌🏾.
This might be the best holiday episode yet ! #BobsBurgers
Best episode period IMO😃
Best episode of the series. So well done.
Loved it ❤️
I haven't found a better version anywhere else. This is the best.
Have you listened to the Kronos Quartet's version? They are the original performers whose recording was used in Mishima. In my opinion, their rendition is far more controlled and "precise" not to mention that they bring out a very important nuance that this quarter fails to deliver. When the violins start playing the sixteenth notes, the main theme is echoed within that. Unfortunately, I can't really hear that with this quartet, and it's just a deal-breaker for me
Kronos Quartet is hard to beat that's for sure
@@Eorzat absolutely agree with you.
@@Eorzat I love the Kronos quartet version, and the specifics you mention, but the tone of this one is different and very pleasing to my ear. I like both really, but its also nice to see a well recorded live performance with video.
The Smith Quartet also has a nice rendition on Signum Classics
Remarkably beautiful. What a wonderful time to be able to experience this music at the drop of a keystroke.
Yukio Mishima: The Greatest Author Of The 20th Century.
Yes, he is.
I keep coming back to this over and over for the past many years, and it never changes; it is as if I am listening to it for the first time, always.
I grieve for the 129 poor souls that were not touched by this music.
This song makes me picture Jesus dying on the cross for us...PURE LOVE
This is so beautiful. I already cried listening to this.
so did I
This is an excellent rendition of this piece and the recording quality is also excellent!! Wow!!
Me too
waaaaaaaaaaa
I studied Music and Composition at University. I listened to Glass avidly throughout those years. It was a both happy and fun time, but also one full of pain and personal growth. His music brings me great nostalgia for those times. I think for me it captures the essence of what I realised in that time, that life has no absolute truths. It is so easy all the time to think each and every moment is one leading up to some greater event, as we can’t quite touch the beauty present in those moments.
The Bob’s Burgers episode “The Plight Before Christmas” brought me here, and I’m glad it did.
I've heard many versions of this, but this is by far my favorite. I've been going through a lot lately. It feels like life has just been stepping on me for a while, but this brings me peace. It keeps me hopeful and helps me to push back against any negativity in my life. The therapeutic value of this video absolutely cannot be denied. Thank you so much. I look forward to enjoying more of your music.
Everyone is fighting their own battle. You'd be suprised how hard people have it. Hang in there.
que tu es belle Jessie Montgomery sans parler de ton talent musical, je t'aime
Hypnotic, calming, restful, gorgeous.
Am a painter this is perfect for being in the zone at 4am and painting something wonderful...it reminds me of a resurrection, like spring,something growing and coming back to life.
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@@moclark eat it
This music makes me imagine a world where "The river flows ceaselessly, and yet the water is never the same."
Go view a river.
@@ethanhill9460 Yes, I view a river with my ears.
this is so beautifully haunting! great rendition of a great piece guys!
This is the best recording I've heard so far. Amazing work.
+Emily B listen to the one made by Angèle Dubeau & La Pietà! Pretty beautiful too!
Listen to the one made by (Sonic Art) , a saxophone quartet. It’s really nice and in my opinion, sounds even better than this one. But that’s just me.
listen to it on Spotify it sounds like your there live
This is my favorite cords version. It has soul. Technique is never enough to give this piece justice. Bravo!
Glass, Einaudi and Tiersen are amazing! this kind of muisic is so beautiful.
It's amazing how many people hate those three composers :(
This music makes me cry. It feels like an end. A bittersweet, vibrant departure from everything that life has to offer. Never to be seen, heard, or felt again.
Bro you perfectly captured what I feel when I hear this song by your words. Philip Glass and Mishima are the best artists of all time.
@@Noah-zq8cb Yeah. I keep on returning to this piece time and time again. I stumbled upon "Mishima: life in Four Chapters" during the most turbulent time of my life.
My country wages war, I left my home and abandoned my former life. I live completely alone and all my internal problems spilled out into the open since two of the pillars - company of the people that are close to you, and belief in humanity are no longer there to support the weight. I am trying to rebuild myself, to find myself anew. It's hard.
This music is perfect for the situation where you're sitting in the ruins of yourself, you see the beautiful sun, but you're not quite sure if it's dawn or dusk.
Life is tragic. And sometimes, beautiful.
@@Shushpo I fully understand what you mean bro. Hope everything goes well for you my man. Don’t ever stop listening to Philip Glass or reading Mishima, as they are a daily reminder of the duality of tragic and beauty, and a good companion in lonely times as well.
@@Noah-zq8cb Thanks, man. I wish you well too, wherever you are.
i love this beautiful music. long live MISHIMA.
It's amazing such a beautiful piece, and I got here because of Bob's Burgers! Never question the reason why a journey brings you a beautiful place!
Glass is accessible yet artistic to the nth degree. Raga provides rhythm in his work. His techniques are top shelf. He's of
the momemt - Symphony 1, based on music by David Bowie and Brian Eno, was great art and brilliant promotion. He's historic - without him the western art music tradition might had died with E. Carter.
Un des meilleurs moments des quatuors de Glass. Le type de musique que tu n'oublies jamais de toute ta vie. Merci pour ce partage magnifique !
This is so beautiful. Makes me thankful to be alive and to be able to appreciate it
Belo, pungente, assisti ao filme em 1985, e até hoje não vi outra trilha sonora tão marcante.
Philip glass never fails to impress
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Where are you from dear 🌹
Philipe glass has great music!!!
it's insane to me how detaché the cello plays without making the piece sound heavy at all, it sounds (and it should!) super light
I have watched this so many times now in the past few years; thank you for posting it.
This is my favorite recording of this piece!!!!
Слава Богу за чудесных исполнителей
i really, really want this piece at my wedding. simply the greatest piece of music i’ve ever heard.
Glass and Steve Reich have added a ton of value to my life like this is super cool guys
écouté des centaines de fois, merçi Jessie et les autres
What a moving piece! Perfect and as well performed in a sensitive way
Thank god I have ears!
Amen
Precioso!! La música definitivamente lo es todo. Fantástico sonido dulce y enigmático. Gracias!!!
A great inspiration to hear and watch the master.
I do think this is a original version of closing mishima. Philips Glass introduced his musical style in this electronic world, he is the first minamalist of all times.
Too good for words. Too evocative. Too epic. Greatness. Thank you.
Great performance of an already classic! Thanks for sharing.
You Feel the cellist’s passion at 2:28-2:38
Jessie, already i love you and your music
this piece is so amazingly beautiful that I cried tears tainted with blood admiring it .
I love this piece, and I love this recording.
Excellent performance and camera work. It's so nice to be able to watch each instrument separately as it gives its contribution.
this is absolutely breathtaking
this was the first movement in my marching band show. it was one of my favorite songs and was really fun to perform. im gonna miss it a lot.
So Peaceful so beautiful, Amazing, Thank you.
This I'd like to hear when leaving life and entering the unknown
This song is life. So many rotating scenes, one over the next and several under and beside. Tragic beauty and the hideous joy. Mania and a sweeping low. Its wings and the breaking of them. Its liberty and imprisonment. It's a crucifixion on the tree of enlightenment. And it makes me gladly cry every single time.
So beautiful it made my shed a tear
Such simplicity, but so beautiful, i'm so lucky to be able to enjoy music today.
Awesome performance thanks a lot,
Yukio Mishima - 'The instant that the blade tore open his flesh, the bright disk of the sun soared up and exploded behind his eyelids.'
Amazing! Bravo to this Quartet!!
Phillip Glass music gives me goosebumps everytime I discover a new work of ART💜
Tears to the eyes stuff
Really Emotional and beautiful performance..
This work is very rare recorded but satisfied because Catalyst Quartet.
Thanks for sharing.
Sincerely.
Really moving. Those strings can really thrill you.
The beauty is also in the performers interpretation of a combination of patterns that at first looks simple but is layered in a clever way.
oh yuh, this is our opener for my 2019 marching band show
Just beautiful.... evokes love and pain all at the same time
Mishima, a life in four chapters. Great book, great movie, great music.
Highly recommended: Mishima: A Vision of the Void, by Marguerite Yourcenar
Heard this the other morning while driving to work. Could not stop driving. It felt so free and beautiful.....perfect moment.
Yukio Mishima wrote Spring Snow, the first of the Sea of Fertility tetralogy. Beautiful books about the transition of ancient Japan to the Post War Japan. I listened to the entire Philip Glass composition throughout reading the series and it added so much beauty and sensitivity to the novels. Highly recommended. Mishima committed ritual suicide, seppuku which he planned for a year. I think Phillip Glass beautifully captured the complex emotions of the novels in his composition. Timeless.
Thank you for sharing your love and genius with us.
Слава Богу за Philipa Glass💖
Great balance and beautiful sound!
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Where are you from dear 🌹🌹
When I hear this song, it reminds me of fire and the wheel dancing together under the innovation of human history.
Cette interprétation est simplement la plus ressenti que j'ai entendue, pour moi ces musiciens/musiciennes jouent de leur âme et ensemble.
Merci Karla Donehew Perez & Jessie Montgomery, Paul Laraia and Karlos Rodriguez.
Wow, just found this song by accident and im hooked! Easily one of my favourite "soundtracks" besides Max Richters 'November' and 'Never Goodbye'. Also it was masterfully interpreted here, thank you for that great experience!
These types of arrangements make your life meaningful
Love this colors !!!
such depth and beautiful in Glasses works. Great performance. I love his string quartets
Yes. And if you're hurting from a lost love when you first hear it is unendurable....
This must be one of the most amazing things I've ever heard!
sublime. thanks. great performance too
Amazing interpretation
Battlestar Galactica really leaned in hard to this guy's sound.
It's like being in Central Park and seeing the Autumn leaves fall.
Oh my god it’s Jessie Montgomery! She’s an amazing composer in her own right
Hermosa interpretación!!!
I'm just now discovering this wonderful piece, it reminds me of my favourite composer; Max Richter. Any other recommondations?
This version of Philip Glass 'Mishima/closing' is by far the greatest.
I'm going to check him out now!
@@heiner5945 Be sure to check out; 'On The Nature Of Daylight', 'November', 'Written On The Sky', 'A Blessing'. Enjoy!
Max Richter is my favorite as well, they have a lot in common! You should definitely check out Kerry Muzzey - The Architect (especially The Secret History), others you might like:
Nicholas Britell - The middle of the world
Keaton Henson - The Falling and Initium
Peter Gregson - Sequence (Four)
other Philipp Glass work like the Running from the loop or The Truman Show scores
Joep Beving - Hanging D
Alexandre Desplat - De battre mon coeure s'est arrêté
Daft Punk - Adagio
Arvo Pärt: Tabula Rasa: II. Silentium
And of course Max Richters November, Sarajevo, the Invasion Theme, Leftovers, etc. but I don’t need to tell you about that I guess!
@@lorralu Arvo Part is a favorite of mine.
@@lorralu These are great recommendations, thank you for that!
One of my favorites.
I love you Brian ❤️He sent me this and now I love it
Very well balanced parts. You can distinguish nuances not found in other recordings of this piece. Bravo. A pleasure to hear.