Beethoven La Battaglia di Wellington - Scherchen

Rehearsal and performance (Stuttgart Symphony)

[@edricaldones9639]

Hermann Scherchen ist eine Legende!

[@ross2burr]

Absolutely PRECIOUS & ENJOYABLE ! We Need More Of These Videos To Show How Performs An Erudite Musician and Conductor Than Those "Belly Button" so-called Successful Directors.

[@lagunabird1]

Wowwww ! What a recording! It's great that such rehearsal recordings still exist. Many thanks for uploading!

[@rogermcnicoll6991]

A great, risk-taking conductor and an inspired eccentric; I think Beethoven would have got on well with him. A pleasure to see him taking this meretricious piece of occasional rubbish seriously and actually making it work. I shall treasure this.

[@elimaurer9491]

I love Wellington's Victory - It's like the key to a map of Beethoven's life, or his requiem.

[@brianwolfman5927]

.....ABSOLUTE INTERPRETATION!! ... Es muss eine Gnade sein, von Dirigent Hermann Scherchen noch ausgebildet und geführt worden zu sein! - Ein absolut beeindruckendes Dirigat! .. Dagegen erscheint H. v. Karajans Interpretation zwar handwerklich meisterhaft, aber bis hierher weit weniger virtuos. ... - Scherchen führt hier nicht nur mit klarer Hand das Orchester,- er hat auch -musikalisch gesehen- die "ganze Schlacht und die tonalen Regimenter in seinem Griff"...

[@gorankatic40000bc]

Beautiful. One of the best clips on you tube. We need more old conductors who perfected their craft and who are thoughtful and think about music.

[@ferraraenzo7]

Grande Maestro !❤ Possiedo da anni il suo prezioso volume sulla direzione d'orchestra

[@jimcrawford5039]

I have the Dorati cd with the LSO on Mercury, which I love. This Scherchen rehearsal is just magic!

[@juancarlosmontesgil4797]

No hay dudas que es un gran director y logra imponer su autoridad y maestría musical.

[@ernestogonzalezrubio6029]

Toda una leyenda no sujeto a ningún canon sino a su propia autoridad como músico, compositor e intérprete de su propia historia. Propio estilo!!!

[@maxwellkrem2779]

Fantastic!

[@Parvus63]

straordinario

[@maddalena1957]

INTERESSANTE personaggio considerando che si e' fatto la conoscenza musicale tutta da solo ,molto all'avanguardia musicalmente con le prime di Schoenberg,Berg,Webern,Roussel Dallapiccola ,Dessau ,di cui avendo musicalmente una conoscenza accademica non li apprezzo quanto meritano a parte qualche cosa di Schoenberg e Roussel ,molto bravo con le Sinfonie di Haydn,per il resto diventa e rimane una cosa personale Grazie e Saluti Gino

[@berlinzerberus]

Wie angenehm ist es, wenn ein Dirigent Ahnung von den Orchesterinstrumenten hat, in diesem Falle den Streichern, da er selbst Streicher ist. Sehr detailversessene Probe, eine Mischung aus Karl Böhm, und Carlos Kleiber, auch Aspekte von Ricardo Muti sind hörbar, ob sie alle von ihm gelernt haben: Der musikhistorische Ausflug in die Uraufführung des Werkes ist sehr erhellend, jedoch ist es gut, dass man die Gesichter der Musiker nicht sehen kann, denn sie möchten doch spielen. Amazing conductor!

[@AD-MAIORA]

Süddeutschen Rundfunks Stuttgart RSO | rec: 7 October 1962

[@RollaArtis]

Very entertaining! I seem to recall that Beethoven originally composed this piece for a mechanical orchestrion, so one can imagine it would have made a tremendous (but effective) racket.

[@christianus59]

Passionnant !

[@gaetanoliguori5211]

e bravo il mio amico , collega compagno Brescia

[@miamadojesus]

Una vez es muy lamentable que estos documentales tan interesantes NO estén subtitulados en ESPAÑOL. 🇪🇦😞😞😞😞🇪🇦

[@goodmanmusica]

infatti per questo rimangono orchestrali manovali e non direttori/compositori...le parole di Scherchen interessano ad altre menti...quindi perle ai porci!

[@lehmannudo7284]

Herrlich er probt wie Wand ,beide ließen immer wieder ganze Gruppen allein spielen dann bauten sie alles zusammen.

[@RollaArtis]

Yes he tells us it was Maelzels machine the "Panharmonican". The barrels must have had the pins in a helical arrangement given the length of this work.

[@garryhumphreys3054]

Well ... it's a preposterous piece; but hugely enjoyable, and taken absolutely seriously by the great Scherchen, making it sound a better piece than it actually is. The ratchets -'ratsche' (football rattles) - are intended to represent rifles, which is what was to be heard nearly every Sunday evening at the Royal Albert Hall London during the 1960s/70s, leaving the air smoky with cordite. (Groups of artillery men would fire at each other across the orchestra from each side of the platform.) The bass drums stand in for cannon. Written originally for the Panharmonicon, invented by Maelzel, who also invented the metronome (which is parodied in Beethoven's 8th Symphony). The orchestral version was first heard in 1813 at a concert in aid of soldiers who had fought at the battle of Hanau which also included the 7th Symphony and numbered several famous composers (Spohr, Moscheles, Hummel and Schuppanzigh) in the orchestra. Beethoven conducted, but said he would rather have played the bass drum! Quite an occasion. Note the minimal direction given by Scherchen in the performance - all the work has been done in the rehearsal!

[@patrickcrosby3824]

I believe this was Beethoven's most popular work during his lifetime. Can't imagine why it's not a standard part of Last Night at the Proms.

[@RodCorkin]

"making it sound a better piece than it actually is"... a preposterous statement

[@maddalena1957]

At 11.02 i started enjoying the talk how Beethoven came to write the BATTLE ,UNTILL 15.11 WHEN HE MENTION SALIERI AS MOZART MURDERER ! The players look fed up and tired at the way they look around,i suppose this is the way to use your position to make peoples listen ,regardless! Overall very enjoyable without any tantrums,and with respect for the Orchestra . Saluti Gino

[@vincentlombardo9797]

Oh yes.. they didn't 5 minutes to hear about something they did not know about.. plus, the chat does relate to the music, and the mechanical effects inherant ...also he said.."Salieri, of whom it is said that..." Pushkin wrote a play on the idea, copied by Scafer for his play-film Amadeus ... bravo Maestro!!! e grazie

[@paulmaierbamama5756]

8:53 "so wie's der Jazz macht [...], aber viel dümmer"

[@TheTympanist]

dommage que l' orchestre ne soit pas de son niveau et de loin !

[@TheTympanist]

ommage que scherchen n'ait jamais accepté le philarmonique de berlin

[@Saltan1908]

on lui donnait des orchestres de second plan, car il demeura au dehors du star system