Borodin - In the Steppes of Central Asia (1880), played on period instruments

[@Mountmanager]

How could you not love this music! So emotive; it is so easy to picture vast open spaces of land and a group of people that feel at one with their surroundings

[@ivanoech]

+Les Wright I am agreed completely. It is beautiful, isnt?

[@armandoacevedo6978]

Agreed! This always reminds me of my drives from Abilene TX to Santa Fe NM

[@macrobbair]

this is the first work that I conducted

[@thomas_staeheli]

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[@doeevennormaalman]

Very well played. This is a good performance

[@pumi63]

thank you god for giving us these wonderful souls who have left us mere mortals the chance to enjoy their greatness , as they now play in your presence

[@laszloportik-dobos5543]

Fantastic!

[@tiffanyviolin82]

I am reading an article right now that mentions this work by Ralph Locke. He doesn't mention the use of actual folk melodies for this particular work, though he seems to think the composer intended to evoke certain exoticisms in homage to central asia. It would be interesting to look for further evidence...

[@peaceric]

what a beautiful piece. i wonder if he used any folk tunes, or if all the themes are original?

[@oagsus]

enchanting music to say the least

[@linobonnici8362]

Perfetto

[@TenorCantusFirmus]

Pianist Leon Fleisher once in an interview said you can play Romantic Music like you'd play Baroque Music, but not otherwise round, because while Baroque Music is integral in the history of Romantic one, the reverse isn't true. Some people might find Immerseel's approach too "extremist", but I on the contrary find it to be absolutely revealing (I own both this CD dedicated to Borodin and Rimsky, as well as his complete performance of Beethoven's Symphonies). I also like, i.e., Boulez's performance of Wagner's Ring, and the reason is the same: he too "dried up" a bit the approach, revealing the driving role of the counterpointal textures and resetting the balance right with strings and winds not trying to drown (and, in case of Wagner, both drowning the voices too) but complementing each other instead.

[@kwuntingwoo3972]

my little objection to all the versions on youtube now is that in my opinion, the trumpet should feel no abashment to play confidently or obliged to play a little "thicker" in sound

[@dudeforcaster8630]

Easily fixed, all you have to do is become a conductor, form your own orchestra, obtain a recording contract, and direct the trumpets to play as unabashedly with the thickest sound as you wish. Win, win.

[@dlevi67]

Thanks for sharing. FWIW, I like the "faster" tempo (re: the discussion below). The steppes are alive... ;) A question: what is the painting you used?

[@alexandermenzies9954]

A pity no one had an answer to the question above.

[@doeevennormaalman]

I tottaly agree on hellomate639. This should NOT played to slow, otherwise all the wonderful musical lines will be lost.

[@moamen27]

Does anybody think the main theme of the 1977 movie "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" is based on this outstanding piece?

[@deadmatripoly]

It makes me think of Land Before Time a bit.

[@silverbullet1759]

What's the picture called?

[@Mountmanager]

+britishbulldog5505 Carlo Bossoli 1815 - 1884: Steppes between Perekop and Simferopol 1856

[@MedievalRichard]

Thank you so much for the information regarding the identity of the painting. Myself and a friend have been after this information for many years!

[@alexandermenzies9954]

@@Mountmanager Many thanks.

[@francescocappie5543]

russky classical music genial and spacial in width

[@kwuntingwoo3972]

not too much arbitrary interpretations, affected quietness or sudden noise... just think about pigs and beautiful vast rich thick landscape I think

[@dudeforcaster8630]

See my other comment.

[@bradjacobson649]

My favorite classical piece. I consider the German classical music more perfect but the Russian classical more spirited.

[@GoatMee]

A bit too fast, the "peaceful Russian song" loses its peacefulness, steppes are described by Borodin as silent and monotonous, not as vibrant and alive.

[@xingsheng1]

I so totally connected with this music and this scenery......maybe one of my past lives? I am always convinced that I had been a Russian once..........

[@yvelinec3557]

Je ne vous parle que d' 1 persônne !! Qui a été Re j' t'? Par l' en tout rage????? Parce qu' ÊLLE ÊTAITT !!>>>D'OÛ !! Elle venait?????? C'est stupide ?????? en plus d'être CUPIDE???? SANS FAMILLE?

[@kwuntingwoo3972]

the sound should be as thick as a pig... you think about the portrait of Peter the great? yes, as thick as his looks!

[@dudeforcaster8630]

You really are an idiot, NO ONE CARES WHAT YOU THINK.