Copland: Symphony No. 3 | Alan Gilbert | NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra

[@drdougjue]

I first listened to Copland's symphony in the late 60's and fell in love with it. I then became a Copland fan for all of his music... I was hooked. I love this performance.

[@NDRKlassik]

Thank you very much! :)))

[@rodneybland3616]

One of my favorite Copland pieces and perhaps favorite symphony in general. Great to see it done in this venue.

[@vastylebbq5203]

Very clean execution and awesome sound. NYS with Lenny at the helm is good. But sound was 1970s. Thanks for this.

[@NDRKlassik]

We're glad you liked our video! Thank you very much. ⭐

[@ctfamily40]

Gilbert is exquisite here (as is the orchestra, as usual). I've always thought he was great, but this performance is just spectacular. And as an American, it makes me proud to see our music being played with such passion by one of the best orchestras in the world. It seems like they really love the piece!

[@NDRKlassik]

We certainly do!! Thank you so much for your kind words! Happy to have you with us!

[@jeanlouisbaron5351]

I ran into Carl Nielsen's 3rd symphony played by a young Taiwanese Orchestra . What do I mean ? If I were a music conductor like Barenboim I would try to gather Ukrainian and Russian musicians to perform . I guess that quite a few of them would be agreed .Music has no frontiers when you're in the thick of it .

[@herbertho6481]

Another Copeland masterpiece wonderfully performed! Thanks for putting this on KZbin for all to see and hear!

[@NDRKlassik]

Thank you for watching and appreciating our recording 😊

[@martincaracoche4657]

Wow thanks to Elbphilarmonie Orchester and Alan Gilbert for this excellent rendition of Copland 3rd Symphony! I was in love with this Symphony since I first heard it at the Colon Theatre in Buenos Aires, with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Ricardo Muti! It was the year 1988!

[@martincaracoche4657]

I am Argentinean, but live in Mexico. I have a group a people that I teach musical appreciation via ZOOM, in different countries of Latin America. I use many of your performances to teach. I all want to visit the new Elbphilarmonie!

[@NDRKlassik]

Yay!! Happy to hear that! Please come and visit one day! :)

[@JellyBean-jb7em]

Truly a spectacular performance! For me, this will stand alongside the very best performances of Copland's 3rd Symphony. The spontaneous applause after the 2nd movement was totally warranted. The expanded brass and woodwind forces sound glorious in your concert hall. Well done!

[@NDRKlassik]

Happy to hear this! Thank you so much for joining us! :)

[@klassischekirchenlieder8909]

Ich Liebe das Lied Wunderschön Gott segne uns alle

[@galinakrivulin6767]

Great pleasure listening to Aaron Copland : Symphony No.3 performed by NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra under the baton of the impeccable conductor Alan Gilbert.Delightful!

[@NDRKlassik]

Thank you! Much appreciated. :)

[@markemanuele1929]

BRAVO !!!!!!! One of the best performances of this great work of Aaron Copland. I am glad to hear the ending that my conducting mentor, Maestro Leonard Bernstein, suggested to Copland when premiering the symphony. To my ears the original ending is a letdown. It makes the coda just float when it sounds like it wants to climax. It sounds like it just wants to drag on and on before it finally ends. This ending is much more powerful. Auf Deutsch: BRAVO!!!!!! Eine der besten Aufführungen dieses großartigen Werks von Aaron Copland. Ich bin froh, den Schluss zu hören, den mein Dirigiermentor, Maestro Leonard Bernstein, Copland bei der Uraufführung der Symphonie vorgeschlagen hat. Für meine Ohren ist das ursprüngliche Ende eine Enttäuschung. Es lässt die Coda einfach schweben, wenn sie so klingt, als wollte sie ihren Höhepunkt erreichen. Es hört sich so an, als würde es sich immer weiter hinziehen wollen, bevor es endlich endet. Dieses Ende ist viel mächtiger.

[@sifridbassoon]

I simply LOVE this symphony! That statement of the "Common Man" theme that comes in at 40:07 chokes me up every time. My favorite recording is a Bernstein from the 80s (I think). Perfect tempi throughout and judicious use of tiny breaks to keep sections of the orchestra from stepping on each other. Playing this symphony is on my bucket list.

[@NDRKlassik]

Happy to hear this! Thank you for joining us!

[@robertburns576]

I'm with you on your reaction to hearing the "Fanfare". It moves me and makes me shout "America!" Now I know how Czechs feel when they hear Smetana's "Ma Vlast".

[@sifridbassoon]

@@robertburns576 My orchestra played Moldau on a concert a couple of weeks ago. It's a wonderful piece, but I wish the entire suite were played more often.

[@charlestittsworth2433]

Such inventive fresh music, carefully constructed, yet it still surprises. Hats off to the woodwinds for beautifully shaped solos, especially in the second movement. Careful attention to rhythmic and tuning accuracy make this an extraordinary performance. Bravi to all!

[@NDRKlassik]

Thank you, so happy to hear this! 😊😊😊

[@thomask1424]

I just listened to the Tilson-Thomas right before this. Sound was great but it felt empty, lifeless. This performance is brimming with life.

[@NDRKlassik]

Thank you very much for listening to our interpretation - we are very pleased.

[@erb07032]

Wonderful performance of a great symphony. Thank you all!

[@NDRKlassik]

Much appreciated, thank you!

[@yondertz]

As always, great great Alan Gilbert + NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra!!! And here also, as a bonus, you can see and hear Sir Harrison Ford playing the clarinet. Hahaha.

[@kelvinsmallwood6315]

Brilliant performance. Not heard this before but know the "fanfare" piece. have subscribed.

[@thomasstenger7978]

Erinnert mich sehr an seine bekannte Suite "Appalachian Spring", die in den gleichen Jahren entstand (Mitte 40er-Jahre) und die seit Jahren zu meinen Lieblingsstücken gehört. Coplands Werke sollten hierzulande eindeutig öfter aufgeführt werden. Danke für diese sehr gelungene Einspielung!

[@NDRKlassik]

Vielen Dank, freut uns, dass es Ihnen gefällt :)

[@NDRKlassik]

Und hier kommt der "Appalachian Spring" mit Alan Gilbert - kennen Sie den Mitschnitt bereits? kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z3XPh5tvh6uZrdU

[@basssinger47]

Ganz Ihrer Meinung. Copland ist großartig.

[@kelsocampbell1301]

Ja....genau...an solchen Stellen ist die harmonische Strucktur sehr aehnlich wie Appalachian Spring. It's good to see Germans liking Copland!

[@pnocella]

Thank you! A beautiful performance of Copland's 20th century masterwork by the wonderful musicians of the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra and Maestro Gilbert! Even the "pompous" finale shone forth brilliantly!

[@NDRKlassik]

You are very welcome! We are happy you enjoyed it!

[@pnocella]

@@NDRKlassik Also love your new vineyard-style "Elphi" concert hall in Hamburg--very interesting to see and hear. It seems refreshing/relaxing to perform there or to be in the audience. Though I understand that there was some controversy re the acoustics--your recording sounded excellent!

[@NDRKlassik]

It is an absolutely beautiful hall indeed! I don't know, if I would consider it relaxing (neither for the musicians nor for the audience ;)) as you can hear absolutely everything, but it is a truly exciting and thrilling experience. Please come and visit some day! And thank you for your kind words!

[@harryarmitage6056]

Thankyou for a great performance.

[@NDRKlassik]

Our pleasure! :)

[@ManuelCerquera-bh7sb]

Magnifica sinfonia suena a querer a tu pais

[@steveegallo3384]

.....y BRAVI desde ACAPULCO tambien!

[@pundit8291]

Absolutely stunningly powerful and beautiful!

[@NDRKlassik]

Thank you, much appreciated!

[@pawdaw]

Amazing brass playing!

[@christopherallen487]

I love any performance of this, I love Copland so much ... I like the intensity of the sadness ... But I can't help hearing Copland say, as he did in a rehearsal of AS, "Too much on the Tchaikovsky side" ... Great orchestra! Thank you!

[@NDRKlassik]

Happy you enjoyed it!

[@sidpheasant7585]

I would once have agreed with you about the beauty being almost overwhelmed by the melancholy. I do not know of a piece of music that starts more sure of itself ... and with what is indeed divine beauty. But now I get some real joy out of this perfection too. I think that comes from seeing a person's immaculate recognition and reflection of the truth. If it is sad truth or even bad truth, it is still truth - a Godly thing to be loved, brought to us through the Holy Spirit's inspiration of human strivings in art... [The same may strangely be found in the transcending Jim Carrey movie "The Majestic" - a must-watch if you have not seen it] I have no room for nostalgia in my life, and see the wonder in the here and now. Same music, different me. In the meantime, I was Born Again having been brought low and begged for help. I see the influence of the Holy Spirit in Copland's music - whether he knew it or not... And there can never be anything bad, negative, wrong or harmful about that.

[@kelsocampbell1301]

...ich liebe dieses Orchester und besonders die "neue" Konzerthalle. As an American, I must admit that I like hearing a good German orchestra play Copland...they tend to approach Copland a little more like Mahler or Bruckner rather than like Stravinsky, but it still sounds great. Always like hearing Alan Gilbert with this orchestra!

[@NDRKlassik]

Thank you very much for listening to our recording - warm greetings to the States!

[@shin-i-chikozima]

This has the scent and aesthetics of USA This world is full of wonderful performances It's up to you whether you realize it or not

[@NDRKlassik]

The wonder always lies in the eyes of the beholder - so true, my friend! Greetings to Tokyo!

[@shin-i-chikozima]

@@NDRKlassik Thankyou I hope you are well

[@jgesselberty]

Just, freaking, WOW.

[@NDRKlassik]

🤩

[@sidpheasant7585]

Writing in The Guardian in 2014, Tom Service put it in this (beautiful) way: "...what could have less to say to today’s world of doubt, ambiguity and creeping tragedies than a piece that sets out to appeal to the widest possible audience, to be appreciated on the most immediate level as a grandiloquently emotional public work, and which has all the marmoreal quality of the grandest architectural paeans to the American dream? But what makes Copland’s symphony such a vital contribution to the genre in the 20th century, in the US or anywhere else, is that this really is a “Symphony for the Common Man”, in the best possible sense. The piece never once panders to populist taste for the sake of self-conscious “communication” but instead reconfigures symphonic discourse - the craft and graft of abstract musical argument - as a site of communal meditation, reflection and transcendence. On one hand, Copland’s Third works as an emotional journey from the uneasy tranquility of the opening movement to the heroic gestures of optimism of its finale; on the other, it functions as an abstract musical discourse in which its moments of expressive transcendence are prepared with the fastidious subtlety of a composer for whom the most important task was making sure “the right note [was] in the right place”. Just as it had been flawed in the Civil War and with the emergence of the Robber Barons (American business funded the Russian Revolution, hoping for disarray), America was likewise flawed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries - see Gen. Smedley Butler's most witty and awful comment in his 1935 work "War is a Racket": "I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer; a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents". Butler did NOT want the US to get into World War II, which was something the old - genuine - hero was wrong about, but we can still understand him. And he was loved by his men, who would have done a lot for him, had he asked. But winning the Second World War was something special, and something noble. Yes really. So at some level, this music is NOT fake. We feel it. And the Holy Spirit is with it. Because, as Jesus Himself might have said, the common man deserves a fanfare, and much more besides. For further proof of that, and for more of the same mood, see the magnificent Jim Carrey movie, rightly named "The Majestic". The War hurt and wounded small-town America (as in that movie), but it still allowed Desmond Doss to do his beautiful and wondrous things - as featured in the marvellous movie "Hacksaw Ridge". Not all there was tainted. Not even by the Bomb as almost unforgivable act... So let the trumpets sound! The Common Man did what he could, and more...

[@gerthenriksen8818]

AMAZING PERFORMANCE OF COPLAND'S THIRD. IT DOES'NT GET BIGGER THAN THIS.

[@NDRKlassik]

Thank you so much! It is our pleasure!

[@notaire2]

Wunderschöne und detaillierte Aufführung dieser neoklassischen und fein komponierten Sinfonie mit seidigen Tönen aller Streicher, milden Tönen aller Holzbläser und vor allem brillanten Tönen aller Blechbläser. Der zweite Satz klingt echt lebhaft und auch erfreulich. Im Kontrast klingt der dritte Satz echt beruhigend und auch mysteriös. Endlich kommt der überzeugende letzte Satz mit der populären Fanfare for the Common Man. Der intelligente und geniale US-amerikanische Chefdirigent leitet das ausgezeichnete deutsche Orchester im veränderlichen Tempo und mit möglichst effektiver Dynamik. Faszinierend vom Anfang bis zum Ende!

[@bolemirnoc604]

Ich finde den Dynamikumfang der Aufnahmen in diesem Kanal sehr limitiert. Alles klingt in diesem Klangformat einigermaßen auf gleicher Ebene. Ich habe den Eindruck, als ob ein "dynamic audio normalizer" betätigt worden wäre. :D

[@notaire2]

@@bolemirnoc604 Vielleicht so.

[@NDRKlassik]

Lieber notaire, wir danken für die Blumen!

[@bobsimon8377]

Wow! Such a brilliant performance of Copeland's symphony. Someday I would like to here a live performance by your orchestra. Thank You All. Bravo...

[@NDRKlassik]

Yes, please! Come visit! We'd love to have you at the Elbphilharmonie!

[@jslasher1]

There is NO 'e' in Copland. Thank you.

[@alexisdaniellemcgowan8948]

34:10 sounds so magical

[@NDRKlassik]

We are pleased that you like the work!

[@gerthenriksen8818]

So many views! Congratulation! 😀. More Copland, please.

[@NDRKlassik]

We'll see what we can do! :)

[@whatafreakinusername]

Definite props to Maestro Gilbert for performing American composers with his German orchestra. I hope, though unfortunately it's quite unlikely, that he performs music written before 1900, though! Chadwick, Beach, Paine, etc.

[@geraldharvey8979]

Edward MacDowell.

[@NDRKlassik]

Hm, we'll see!

[@vastylebbq5203]

16:55. Phattest brass!

[@unomagi]

40:41

[@fluegelnelke5168]

👍👍👍

[@jslasher1]

The fanfare is hardly pompous, given that at the time it was composed it reflected the euphoric state of the USA following the end of WW II.

[@Twentythousandlps]

To some extent the symphony was marred by the inclusion of the super-popular Fanfare for the Common Man. The thing was, it was new and unknown when Copland put it in the symphony. But he found a good place for it here, and the audience always perks up hearing something they've heard in football stadiums.

[@NDRKlassik]

It might also serve as a brilliant entry point for people not very familiar with a piece (or classical music in general).

[@jabber12345]

How is the symphony marred by the fanfare? The entire symphony is based on it from the opening to the transition to the 4th movement, like a theme and variations where the them isn't heard until after the variations.

[@Twentythousandlps]

Because it has a known, separate identity, the fanfare seems less an organic part of the symphony, as if Beethoven had put the Egmont Overture in the Fifth Symphony.

[@jslasher1]

Thumbs down, if only because the 8-bars cut be Bernstein in 1947 have not been restored, particularly given the fact that many conductors are including them in recent performances.

[@Rickriquinho]

This "symphony" has many sounds but very little musical substance.

[@kelvinsmallwood6315]

Brilliant performance. Not heard this before but know the "fanfare" piece. have subscribed.

[@NDRKlassik]

Yay!! Happy to hear that - welcome! :)