Saint-Saëns - Samson and Delilah - Bacchanale
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- Опубліковано 28 гру 2011
- Samson and Delilah, Op. 47, is a grand opera in three acts and four scenes by Camille Saint-Saëns to a French libretto by Ferdinand Lemaire. It is also similar to the oratorio in its dramaturgical and musical plan. It was first performed in Weimar at the Grossherzogliches (Grand Ducal) Theater (now the Staatskapelle Weimar) on 2 December 1877.
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I played this in a high school regional orchestra on tympani. The director came back and said "don't tell anyone I said this, but play the part at the end as fast and loud as you possibly can." This remains my favorite classical piece.
+Redeye Percussion I am playing this piece in high school now, and our director said to do the same thing xD
+HaleyLuvsChicken - I don't play in any ensembles any more, but this piece still had great memories for me whenever I hear it. Enjoy playing classical while you can!
Redeye Percussion I'm playing the timpani parts for this and Nimrod this coming Saturday for Region Orchestra... should be interesting
hey...is there any chance you're from CT? bc i played this in 7th grade regionals
Fun for the French Horns, too. Bells up!
Man, Saint-Saëns really had a thing for Egypt and exotic melodies and scales. Like he had an entire piano concerto that has been nicknamed the "Egyptian Piano Concerto".
He had a sad life story. He lost his two boys. He also lived in Algeria for a while and visited Egypt.
That explains why I get images of Egypt in my head when I listen to this. It makes me want to draw Egyptian scenes.
It was a 'thing' back in the day. Check out the mansion that Frederick Church built, Olana.
It was a thing back in those days. You should check out Fredrick Church's Olana. So cool.
What's funny is a bacchanale isn't even Egyptian. It was a sort of celebration of the God Bacchus, who was the romanized version of dionysus
You have no idea how much the cello section dances during this song. We be jammin'
F A C T S
IT'S A PIEEEECE!
This is so accurate...also CELLO GANG
TRUTH
**Konzertmeister war flashbacks** HAHAHA YEAH THIS SONG WAS SOOO FUN HAHAHA
6:42 When your Mom comes home from work and you forgot to help her defrost the chicken for dinner
Ahahaaahahahaaahaahhhhaaaa
im gone man, that made my day
Oh f*ck yes XD
If you cook instead so your mom doesn't have to do more work after already having a long day, I can guarantee you'll remember to do it.
😂😂😂😂😂 you probably typed this form the other side of the world but I'm feeling SO related to this goddamit !! 🤣🤣
I like how it basically tells an entire story, with an intro, climax and an explosive finish.
All within the span of 7 minutes, and still being able to not feel forced.
All without a single damn word.
you can smell the bacchanal.
Maybe, but while the music is great, it is a dance piece.
Säens always be telling stories
His Danse Macabre is the perfect example
I hear the story of Prophet Muhammad.
0:01
The Idol workshop of his uncle Abu Lahab, you hear the business of the workers chiseling and driving the stones and metals
0:57
The pagan pilgrims arrive for the annual feast
2:06
Mount Hira and the archangel Gabriel
2:41
The return of the prophet to idolators of Mekka
3:21
Muhammads first sermon
3:49
The death fanfare for the time of ignorance and the first companions
3:54
The companions learning the quran in secret
5:20
The mocking voices of the quraish
5:37
Muhammad prophecies a miracle and warns about the hell
6:09
The quraish flock to the Kaaba at night
6:43
The splitting of the moon
@@Assadul-Naml wow nice
When she heard 2:08, my little sister asked why I was listening to "genie music".
That's priceless.
You can't remember the gender of your sibling?
@@scaramouchescaramouche7990 He's obviously being sarcastic
@@peterdumpel5729 Well if their sibling is trans who knows hecksdeee
*notserious*
PeakyPounder12 that isn’t what sarcasm is
my orchestra played this. but we butchered it so badly, i didnt know this is what it's supposed to sound like lol
Gina how do you perform a piece and not listen to a recording at least once?
Gina same
Classical Music was a joke bro
Lol our conductor would never let us do that. First of all he would work on on section for like 15 minutes
@@jeungrioppa5937 no it isn't all people who have a good education listen to the classical music
6:41 till end, imagine being chased while riding a horse in the middle of a desert
Im not religious, but I’m imagining the collapse of the building around Samson as he breaks the pillars around him
There is a version by the Caracas Youth Orchestra that was making me see Napoleonic Cuirassiers charging against Mamluks at the battle of the Pyramids, this one made me picture a running from a sandstorm.
r/oddlyspecifc
This is some uncharted last mission kinda thing
I just imagine a bunch of 19th century people forming a mosh pit
from 6:42 to the end is one of the best bits of music ever written. it lifts me.
Brian MacDonald That’s based on a segment from an Algerian Arab Andalusian piece ( Touchia Zidane); that piece touched Saint Saëns during his visit to Algiers.
Agree! I listen to that over and over again
Very interesting! Thank you for adding context to Saint Saëns' composition. It now makes perfect sense that he drew inspiration from the Arab folk music (from Algeria, then a French colony) for his "middle-eastern"-themed work.
Kinda like how Samson lifted the entire building on em bitches huh
@@htrlandisn't Algeria in Africa?
Speechless. There's truly something happening here. The feeling is so intense. Can't help but being moved to tears. What on earth is as powerful as music ? This is transcendent.
Honestly, whenever I have existentialist thoughts, I remember that music exists, and it helps bring me to the conclusion that existence is almost entirely good.
it sounds like a psychedelic trip to me.
I agree, this is one of my favorite !
@@suppiluiiuma5769 Existence is entirely good, what could make a man believe otherwise?
Based off the comments it seems like this composer had lost his children while visiting beautiful places in Egypt. His emotion is definitely tied to this piece and probably many others
Watching figure skating over the decades has improved my taste in classical music. I can't tell you how many Russian pairs and American female singles skaters have used this over the years, and always appreciated by moi.
The music I remember most from figure skating is Saint-Saens "Danse Macabre"
Yes!! I found this piece thanks to Joannie rochette’s performance at the 2010 olympics
@Sofia Rosenberg I love Alina too
@@jamesfunk7614Queen Yuna 👑⛸️🇰🇷
Ashley Wagner's 2012-13 Free Skate is my favorite Samson & Delilah ⛸️⛸️⛸️
Saint-Saëns was an amazing composer, this makes me feel good no matter how bad of a day I had.
A Bacchanale can do that. : )
And, he also wrote one film score a few years before he died.
The oboe, (otherwise known as a snake charmer) is what makes it sound exotic. I love this piece so much thanks to my music teacher
The use of the double harmonic major scale (know as the arabic scale) makes it sound a lot exotic too
TinyTiniaMan I play oboe and is amazing ❤💘
Whitney Saunders the snake-charming instrument, though the sound is similar, is called the _punji_.
@@mrbenoit5018 Thank you sir. Perhaps you can enlighten others here, by teaching them the parts of speech and their proper usage. Adjectives, adverbs, et cetera, et cetera...
@@mrbenoit5018 Forgive my failure, Iron Chancellor, Correct, Anti-Semitic, highly defensive, 2nd Reich, holdover.
I was being sincere. I really meant "thank you" for correcting them.
The oboe was never referred to or called a snake charmer in any music education setting I was ever in, and I have a B.A. in Music Theory/History, and was about halfway through the coursework required for a master's degree in the same. I had three years of College level classical music education in High School at N.O.C.C.A. That is the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts.
I was using my phone's voice to text feature, until the end, where I said the et cetera shit a couple times.
I only said what I said, because the other comments appear to be written by people that learned how to read and write English while students of the Esteemed, Dagobah Charter School System, from Headmaster Yoda himself.
Why so defensive? I truly appreciated your comment and what I initially perceived to be, at least, a modest amount of intelligence and tact. I was not mistaken, was I?
I've done this with a purely string orchestra, and our principal did the opening part with his mute on. This is one of my favorite pieces of classical music of all time.
Jillian Myerly which section are/were you in?
@@naliburg i wonder
as a trumpet player this song never made me more proud of our french horn section (thats saying a lot if you know any trumpet players)
Not a song.
Agreed. Ignorant people insist on calling musical pieces, compositions, opuses, works, etc. just "songs", when it's obvious they mostly are NOT intended to be sung by human voices!
@@AnibalPacaco thats a hasty conclusion to jump to. perhaps they are just unaware, not “insisting” on calling them songs
@@thexya5 or perphaps English is not their first language, and everyone here need to stop being a god damn elitist
As a trumpet player, I love a good horn riff
It's (or I'm) weird, but that last part just makes me laugh and cry simultaneously
I always end up belly dancing very badly when I hear this
I feel like I can taste the grains of sand and harsh winds in whatever Desert this song is speaking of.
Saint Saëns had a deep admiration for ancient Egyptian civilization. 🙏🙏💙💙
Hebrew?😳🥴🤣
Samson et Dalilah is in Gaza.
The section from 6:40 until the end is just sooooo epic!
If u playing this on timpani, u gonna have some fun. Tons of fun
I really like the slower tempo this is taken at as compared to some other recordings. It really shows the precision of the instruments playing and how in sync with each other they all.
Yeah, I don't know why people seem to always think that faster is better, music is not supposed to be a race.
That being said, I personally think this is just a tad bit slow(I recommend the performance by James Levine found here on YT) but like you said, you can hear the precision of the playing, all the nuance and details lacking in many faster performances, something which more than makes up the difference to me. I'd much rather listen to this than the many performances which are too fast and not nearly as well played.
Cause if you can play it slowly you can play it quickly
My father jokes when Sleigh Ride is played too quickly and calls it Sleigh Race.
@@katevogel4773 thats not a violin!!
Nah, I think that Saint-Säens meant for the piece to be frantic, loud, and just pure chaos.
-Friend plays the end part for me and says it's Bacchanale by Saint-Saëns
-Tries to look up for myself, doesn't know how to spell
Me: Just search Bachanal or something by Saint-Saëns
Me to me: *egypt music*
The struggle...first heard this on public radio and fell in love. Couldn't find it for years because I couldn't spell any of it.
I also found this piece that i heard after in a concerto , by typing "Classical music piece by arabic tunes" to google.
Bach Anal?
This genre seems underdeveloped.
I played this in orchestra my junior year, and it was one of my favorite pieces. To this day I still get chills when I listen to it
Update 4-20-22: I am going to try practicing this after 2 years 😎
Que fue pa :v?
@@diegoalcachofa5490
we in cleopatra palace now
The perfect place actually for Cleopatra and Dalilah is one and the same person :)
I'm doing a ballet to this in the next few months. It's so beautiful, I can't wait!
how did it go
LOLXD West I guess we’ll never know...
I'm sure you did well.
Saint-saens wrote every piece with a tiny bit of magic
By far my favorite compositor in all history! Great master!
I think so too, he has this mysteriousness and playfulness to his music. It takes you to other worlds.
Jorge Garcia i don't know, Chopin Is good too
COMPOSER - A Compositor hand sets type for printing presses.
@@organbuilder272 It might be the correct word in Spanish. The French word is compositeur and the Italian is compositore.
@@murrayaronson3753 Thank you for your help
This man was ahead of his time.
Yes!
I Loved playing this piece in the second violin section because I’d be so close the the woodwinds especially the piccolos😭💜
i’m a second violin in my orchestra and I love hearing the piccolo 💗😭
I always have and always will love this piece by my favorite classical composer. That being said, an entirely drunk orchestra playing it would be spectacular.
the part at 6:45 puts led in my pencil.
@@schlomogigasheckelstein-go8694 Who's Lilith?
@@brendanforester4601 : Allegedly she was the first wife of Adam. Not human, but demon, made out of fire and brimstone, not dust and clay
@@schlomogigasheckelstein-go8694 According to whom?
@@RandomHistory :google it..
@@schlomogigasheckelstein-go8694 So urban legend or conspiracy theory... So nothing of substance.
6:08 is what i live for
Love
This bacchanale of Samson and Dalila is of course very coloured, and Saint Saens shows here all his art of orchestration. Samson and Dalila has been a very popular opera for decades. It is much less played these last times. It is a pity, since it is indeed a good opera.
r/iamverysmart
@@richardcheese6161 r/youarebeingajerk
Samson et Dalila gets performed often enough. The Metropolitan Opera does it with some regularity as does San Francisco. Maybe it's less so in France nowadays.
i saw it when the met showed it live in hd! it was very good. the bacchanle and mon coeur will be always be some of my fav songs from operas.
I worked at Seattle Opera from 2004 to COVID and they never performed it. ☹️ I wish they would, I bet it would be popular.
What a oriental theme this masterpiece has!
Played this in my freshman year of highschool, definitely one od my favorite pieces i've played so far, i hope to play it again someday because it is THE MOST fun omg
Hey! We are playing this for my freshman marching band music!
06:40 It looks like Arabic melodies wich make me love it a lot . Greeting from Morocco
Camille Saint-Saëns lived partially in Algeria for health reasons starting from 1873 till his death in Algeria in 1921.
@@marcelcharbonnier297 yes, he lived in rue Michelet, it is my hometown Algiers, building 81, rue Michelet, Algiers Algeria
@@marcelcharbonnier297 oui mais ça n'a rien à voir avec la musique
@@danemon8423 bah si vu qu'il s'est inspiré de musiques traditionnelles algériennes
@@Aly_ldi pas du tout, premièrement ces mélodies sont plutôt des mélodies inspirées de musiques au levant pas au maghreb.
Deuxièmement ces mélodies qui nous font penser à l'egypte et à l'orient sont des mélodie inventé
Saint-Saëns was an incredible composer, This music fills my heart with peace
The Bacchanale was on an old scratched vinyl classical album I found in my family's record collection when I was a little boy. There were crackles and hissing and the needle skipped a few times, but I was captivated. A truly thrilling piece.
1877 and today we have so many sh*t song released makes me so sad :( this is a masterpiece, love the transition beetween those epic moments and the quiet one, so many emotions
6:40 Then Samson called unto the Lord, and said, O Lord God, I pray thee, think
upon me: O God, I beseech thee, strengthen me at this time only, that I may be
at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.
6:58 Then Samson said, Let me lose my life with the Philistines: and he bowed him
with all his might, and the house fell upon the princes, and upon all the people
that were therein. So the dead which he slew at his death were more than they
which he had slain in his life.
Only the 1800s kids will remember
1900s
This brings me great joy
my sweet mom.played this for her children. Thanks Mom.
whoa.
I'm out of breath from listening to that. First time hearing that one, and ...I approve.
I played this in Middle School, as violin. Loved it!
For the last part (from 6:40) I always imagine a ottoman or arabic army, rising, on the way to its campaign. at first, you witness the first fighters and marching and charging,like a wild sandstorm, through the dessert, which is already enormous, and then, while youre stunned of this power and you think youve seen all the enormous core of the army with the elite fighter, horses and the king in all their glory and power marching towards you. This is espacially stunning in contrast to the more mild and moderate "european" themes
The Islamic Caliphate versus the various European armies during the Crusades be like...
I promised myself I wouldn't ever post this kind of comment but my community group is playing this and I got to rehearse this for the first time. I am a timpanist and battery percussion and I got more than a little giddy at 6:42.
I told the director I *will* be finding appropriate headgear for the performance of the piece... and earplugs for the brass section.
6:42 is epic
6:42 that moment when the enemy is splitting your forces in half in Steel Division(Not expect to see you here, so why not give a compliment about your Steel Division content? Good work man)
Hahaaaa, not sorry
@@trumsu915 Only seeing this now... Haha I am a man of many tastes I suppose. Thanks for the props
Just an update... Total commitment to the headgear. Long flowing locks of black hair.
My highschool orchestra is playing this as our new song and we actually played it very well for sight reading it at first. But of course it only sounded like that until we started getting better at it.
I once subbed in for a timpanist on this piece in high school, without ever hearing it before, and with only the sound check as practice. I was told by the conductor, quote, “go ham at the tempo change.” (6:41) This is now my favorite piece to play.
I only knew him with Carnaval of animals and Danse macabre. God, he composed so much great music.
Wait until you hear his first symphony and third piano concerto, as well as the unnumbered symphonies (if you haven't already).
@@CuratorOfRealitiesAlso, give his 3rd symphony a listen. It might be the most epic piece of classical music ever.
This piece speaks about why he's one of my fav classical composer
This piece is a legend.
This is a real masterpiece. Our school orchestra played it and it was even greater to hear it live.
Love the lively slightly middle-eastern touch. Reminds me of ben-her.
+Rachael Durham I think it is Ben-Hur.
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+Andrea Bezdan 6
@@yogicfly4bliss it is not Ben-Hur.
Maybe it's Ben-Him
This was a parental favorite that I heard from birth, it paints a romantic Oriental picture on a huge canvas with a huge panaply colors(sound). It also stirs the mortal yearnings of my soul. Beauty coupled with motion does that.
We played this in a community youth symphony when I was in junior high, and it’s still one of my favorite pieces of music ever!
merci monsieur saint sens pour ce moment musical superbe j adore cette oeuvre
I played the string version of this my sophomore for UIL. It was during COVID so everything was kind of a mess and all I remember is the beginning sounding not so hot and such but when we got on stage everyone came through and the relief from the whole orchestra was huge 🤣 We also had to drag along a random band kid for the 2 measures of castanets which was hilarious.
we played a modified version of this song as part of our marching show lmao
this song is such a bop
Piece
This is for my personal use:
0:33 measure 12
0:40 measure 19
0:59 Viola comes in (measure 38)
1:06 measure 46
Idk why but when I listen to the fast part that starts around 0:24 it always makes me picture a flock of giant birds (like prehistoric giant) flying through a storm or something. It’s a cool mental image to listen to the song to:)
I don't know yet the story of Samson and Delilah, but the music makes me wonder in an ancient middle east, like a story of an arab prince, and a battle in the desert; I want this song to play at my funeral ❤
Simply put, a boy is blessed from the womb by God so long as he keeps 3 rules.
He gets old, marries from the enemy camp, fights the enemy camp with his super strength and murders thousands, marries a different woman, breaks all his rules and suffers.
They rip his eyes out and set him to work the mills without super strength because he didn't do what God told him to do.
He repents and has his redemption manifest when the enemies summon him to be a court jester but God gives him his strength back. He drags a building down with hundreds of the enemy Philistines on his himself and everybody dies.
Many things we Christians can learn from Samson. Just saying it to you since you said you didn't know.
I guess you don't know the Bible. Where are you from?
@@TheKing-qz9wd Thanks for the summary, maybe I will read the whole story someday 😊
@@murrayaronson3753 I am Italian; I am really ignorant about christian religion and the Bible, all I know comes from my childhood memories and it is more or less nothing.
@@Dubhe68
Oh, please do. At the very least even atheists should agree that Samson should help men realize to not be so fixated on women. After all, it was Samson's love for his second wife which got him enslaved. But I'll let you read that part when you choose.
If it's any consolation, Samson doesn't have an independent section like Job: he's treated more like Abraham. Samson was one of many Israelite Judges, selected by God to liberate Israel from their oppressors after Israel engaged in idolatry and God let them be defeated. So check about 5 chapters into the book of judges or so when you do, he takes up a few but as I said he doesn't have a separate book. I suppose that's everything important, I don't think you're going to be interested in the Gospel so that's all I can think of to help you.
Llevo muchos años tocando el violín y esta es una de las piezas que mas me ha marcado como artista
Nice😮
I love this recording. My school band is playing this piece in April for our annual Band Festival. (I play bari sax) My band director butchered the original so much. (Cut out the part in the middle completely as well as the oboe solo in the beginning) You can barely tell we are playing this.
Randi Walby, I’m sorry to hear that.
For us it was a Alto Sax soloist!
Delilah: capturing the hearts of men for centuries
We played this last year. on flute this was possibly the most fun I’ve had playing a piece.
Ya know. In middle school, I was on alto sax and at the end where everything gets quiet and then you come in on beat two, I just .. at the concert, I just manage to end up blasting out the first note HALF A FUCKING BEAT EARLY AND IT WAS SO LOUD AND EVERYTHING WAS QUIET AND I died slightly on the inside. I still like the piece it was just traumatizing as all hell lmao
This has activated parts of me I didn’t know existed. Wow this music can bring you to life
I played violin for this piece a few years ago. Still one of my favourites
I love this Bacchanale.
What a genius he was! Excellent motif here and great reoccuring theme - this has been my no.1 piece of music for the last few years. The best version is the one played by Bratislava orchestra - no.1! -if you liked this also check out Risky Korsokov - Scheherazade
It's Rimsky-Korsakov
Risky lol...
+Michaela Hrdličková Korsitis.
+John Jordaan Listen to Sir Thomas Beecham with the RPO for a real orgy.
John Jordaan i
I played this piece a few years ago with my orchestra.
Played this musical piece for the New York State Philharmonic back in the mid-90's. One of the best for the brass section.
I can't wait to dance to this at my sisters wedding!!
How did it go.
It must have been quite some wedding!
6:42 this sounds like an epic adventure in the desert
6.42 to the end : no words can describe this ...
I feel exotic listening to this haha , greetings from the middle east
I played this with the Delaware youth symphony orchestra as violin last year! It still remains my favorite piece
What a fantastic recording by an excellent orchestra/director, both of which unfortunately remain nameless as per lack of description.
I just came from Toronto Symphony consert, my godness this peace they played was incredible. What an amazing composer Saint- Saens.
This was the most fun piece I ever played in highschool all-state orchestra! Originally first violin but got sat in first chair second violin after auditions, fine with me except the conductor got pretty intense and I'm pretty sure I was covered in spit by the end.
One of my favorite pieces I've played - really enjoy this piece.
a moment of silence for people who dont know the name of this song
I love that! I can really feel like in ancient Arabia!
What wonderful music!
I absolutely love the exotic sound!
Emma Nelson Jewish music uses a ton of flute but this is more like Semite music but not arabic.
Was looking for something to cheer me up and (even though the story of Samson and Delilah is a tragedy) I FOUND IT!
thanks,
signed, Happier Now! :-)
Actually it is not: to this day he loves her...
Fun Fact: Samson and Delilah is an opera written about Saint Saens based on biblical tale in the Old Testament actually takes place in Gaza. That why it has the middle Eastern sound
The oboe is so beautiful here😌
Schoene fröhliche Musik und bravourös .danke an alle klassischen Komponisten. LG leif Dickfeld
Wish there were more composers who composed music so beautifully. Exotic and fantastic!
I know this is prolly sacrilege but this piece at 1.25x speed is GLORIOUS. I tried to play it that fast and cried but staying that together at that pace would be a thing of beautiful
This pieces was composed After his years in Algeria. WE Can hear how Algerian music inspired him.
I played this in college years ago. One of my favorites.
Incredibly beautiful
No words, this is real real music
I came here to listen to this version because one of my all time favorite bands Accept just recently covered this song on their new album Too Mean To Die. I loved it so much that I had to listen to the original version. This is also amazing!!
Same for me! :)
I love accept, i didnt knew they Made a version, thanks for sharing
6:07 strings 😍
Such brilliance incredible