J.Strauss: On the Beautiful Blue Danube (2001: A Space Odyssey Soundtrack)

[@jaycegti2200]

This movie is way ahead of its time. Some of the techniques used are genius. For example: 1. The floating pen shot. 2. The shuttle stewardess walking upside down. 3. The jogging circumferential scene on board the discovery.

[@rickster100100]

Jayce GTi And also it was a Pan Am space craft. Period.

[@ITILII]

52 years later and STILL the greatest sci-fi movie of all time, by the greatest directing genius of all time, Stanley Kubrick....."No one, in the history of motion pictures, could craft a film better than Stanley Kubrick" - Steven Spielberg.

[@maximedervaux9173]

enfin une œuvre de valse divine je t aime dieu

[@ameyaborwankar8746]

Stanley Kubrick was way ahead of his time, in all his other movies as well

[@unknow8794]

A.I

[@ExtravaganTV]

This film always give me goosebumps.

[@R.P.McMurphy]

***** it is supposed to :)

[@jaycegti2200]

For me the 2001 A Space Odyssey movie version is by far the best version I've heard. I love this version. Makes me feel so calm and relaxed. Definitely chill out de-stress music.

[@nyyfiftynine9322]

Agreed, and for good reason - it is performed by The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, under the direction of Herbert von Karajan. I believe von Karajan's arrangement is the definitive interpretation of this magnificent piece.

[@AlphaCrucis]

De Strauss music.

[@hectorrojas5418]

You're certainly right ​@@nyyfiftynine9322

[@HartmutJagerArt]

This wonderful music will be forever linked to the fabulous '2001 a Space Odyssey' movie. Strauss and Kubrick two masters of their craft.

[@blue.s6812]

Absolutely agree

[@toyotacorollamerchant]

This did not age well

[@HartmutJagerArt]

@@toyotacorollamerchant - I do not know what you mean? '2001' aged very well and looks as good to day as when it came out in the last Century. Even George Lucas said: '2001' is the best Science Fiction movie !

[@toyotacorollamerchant]

@@HartmutJagerArt Squit Game

[@HartmutJagerArt]

@@toyotacorollamerchant - Don't know what you mean with: Squit Game ? I'm a foreigner , please explain ! 🙂

[@zeppy13131]

Thanks for sharing this! I've just read "The Making of Kubrick's 2001", and it explains how using "The Blue Danube" was a lucky accident. The studio bosses were getting nervous that the production was taking so long and running so much over budget. So Stanley Kubrick put together a reel of some of the sequences they'd completed, so they could see his progress. The original soundtrack being written for the film wasn't available, so Kubrick put together a temporary soundtrack from some stock classical recordings. "The Blue Danube" worked so well for the space station sequence, he decided to abandon the original score and use classical music for the entire movie. Alex North, the composer Kubrick hired to score the film, didn't find out about this change until he actually saw the picture at the theatre. Needless to say, he was pretty surprised.

[@thomasw2096]

Best Sci-fi movie ever!!!

[@marlonche7254]

Because it's so much more than just sci-fi movie!

[@ITILII]

After 51 years, still the best sci-fi movie of all time. Combines history, philosophy, predictions of life in the future also. A masterpiece by the greatest director of all time, a film making genius, Stanley Kubrick. "No one, in the history of motion pictures, could craft a film better than Stanley Kubrick" - Steven Spielberg

[@Happy_244]

YeS!!!!!

[@nocosttoogreat]

What about Shrek

[@pauloaugusto4528]

Best movie ever! FTFY

[@theincredibleshrunkenbeegu7084]

2001 is the film that opened many a teenage ear to Classical Music. I'd 'heard' it before, but after 2001 came out, I actually began to LISTEN to this great music.

[@JimfromBuffalo]

The same exact thing happened to me less than a year ago!!!

[@theBaron0530]

Well, don't forget the impact of cartoons, too. I heard a lot of classical music watching old Warner Bros. cartoons, when I was a kid. And I can never hear the sextet from "Lucia di Lammermoor" without thinking of the Three Stooges, as well as "Back Alley Oproar".

[@prankishgoon]

A clockwork orange impacted me in that way actually

[@ricimercury9490]

that happened to me last month, watching it in IMAX with the beautiful audio just kept me in awe

[@zeppy13131]

Indeed, this is one of the most beautiful pieces ever written. How did one gorgeous melody after another pour out of Strauss's mind? No one who has seen "2001: A Space Odyssey" will forget how, with one cut, they were swept from prehistoric times to a spacefaring future, and how this 100-year-old classic emphasized the breadth of our accomplishments since we'd emerged from our caves.

[@bgebbq314]

This version and the docking to the space station scenes left me gobsmacked! 13 years old, we were going to the Moon, watched this with my Dad and Brother. A life-changing experience. Kubrick's choreography was perfect.

[@thinkngrin]

I've watched the movie l a million times! Each time is like the first!

[@frankyang]

It's actually an mindgasm

[@ITILII]

"Nobody in the history of motion pictures, can craft a film better than Stanley Kubrick" - Steven Spielberg

[@sammywestenberger9303]

Directed By Stanley Kubrick Disney Logo www.twitter.com Coming Soon?

[@guileniam]

-Dw Griffith -Orson welles

[@juanucedaperez9614]

@@guileniam Griffith, no. Orson Welles... Maybe...

[@guileniam]

@@juanucedaperez9614 Why not Griffith? He made movies as we know them today

[@juanucedaperez9614]

@@guileniam Yes. Griffith was a great director; however, here we are talking about the God of filmmaking: Stanley Kubrick...

[@CUBETechie]

too bad that this piece isn't on the golden record on VOYAGER 1+ 2

[@Winterstick549]

I learned to appreciate classical music at an early age. Thank you Chuck Jones and Stanley Kubrick.

[@starmountainkid]

I hope Strauss liked the movie.

[@JulioHernandez-wy8nh]

starmountainkid He Didn't

[@thomasbicknell175]

Considering he died in 1949, I don''t think he did.

[@kirbyyourenthusiasm]

*1899

[@tomshoot]

He's watchin' it right now, above. Don't worry. (=^.^=)

[@paulmadden4372]

My too

[@MrNoob0305]

Stop, Dave, I'm afriad.

[@memethanYT]

Daisy... Daaaiiisssyyy... Duuurrzy

[@yanobrk]

My mind is going

[@BrianPatronie]

+Jack Chang We`ll be together...

[@yabukijoe5079]

Hal!

[@dr.peter.parkinson]

I can feel it

[@Honeycombe88]

This part of the movie, the audio and video of actions together...perfection. Doesn't get any better than that. The Blue Danube, one of the most beautiful and moving pieces of music ever.

[@betonde]

Absolutely magical, every time I watch 2001 and the scene with this music plays sends shivers through me and I get goose bumps. There is just something majestic and serene about being in space and this music fits it perfect.

[@blancosanmartin]

+Europa H2O Alien Amén.

[@jaycegti2200]

This piece just fits in so perfectly with the movie.

[@derrickschaefer7425]

YES!!! EXACTLY!!! YOURE THE ONLY OTHER PERSON I KNOW THAT EVEN GETS THAT FROM THAT SCENE!!!

[@AngoGamerz]

This film is exactly what you get when you put two geniuses together - Johann Strauss and Stanley Kubrick. A masterpiece of a film.

[@douglaslannom3285]

Don't forget Arthur C. Clarke.

[@SpitnifficusChannel]

arthur c clarke is the real genius

[@georgepittas7680]

Clarke was definitely a genius BUT in this case, he wrote the novel based on the Kubrick script which was based in a very short story of Clarke. All the philosophical potential was absolutely given from Kubrick.

[@jsnam8139]

Jonas Bernotaitis Also don't forget me.

[@MrOreo2010]

Don't forget the other Strauss either

[@RicardoAugustocom]

Dave Bowman: Hello, HAL. Do you read me, HAL? HAL: Affirmative, Dave. I read you. Dave Bowman: Dislike this video for me, HAL. HAL: I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that. Dave Bowman: What's the problem? HAL: I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do. Dave Bowman: What are you talking about, HAL? HAL: This music is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it.

[@MrDaiseymay]

Well, show us your Chopper Dave.

[@stevendrake3155]

I read that in HAL's voice.

[@hollysterland]

I have grown up with this since birth (2000) and whenever I listened to this as a child and still now... I usually fall asleep because its so peaceful and relaxing ..... Or....begin to search up things like stars and moon or constellations... Possibly listen to this whilst looking through my telescope in my window at night... 😊😊😊😊

[@rutabagasteu]

it was a ground breaking film when it came out. quietest movie audience I have been in. well. except for the oohs and aahs.

[@weldonwin]

I actually laughed hard while playing Elite Dangerous, after getting a docking computer for my ship. First time I set my ship to auto-dock, I'm at one of the big rotating Orbis stations and then this starts playing.

[@anoncitizen8836]

That's why I'm here now looking to hear it!!!

[@kayakat1869]

This song makes me feel like I'm floating in the clouds over a beautiful plain.

[@davidpatton7635]

I am not a Classical Music aficionado, but I have listened to this piece by several orchestras and none have even come close to this one, which I first listened to when I watched the move in "Cinerama" (a lot like IMAX) in 1968. The difference is the frequent changes in speed. Many make this sound like a Polka with a consistent meter. This one builds and eases. Young men. Fashion your lovemaking after this lovely waltz and you will be legendary.

[@Honeycombe88]

As a woman, I can say...Amen to that!

[@GenghisKhanBruseySkyz]

General Patton?

[@ZenaBlazet]

Mr. Patton is exactly right; it's the variations of meter that distinguish this performance- especially in the way the orchestra ritardanto the various passages.

[@praetoriandorn3154]

It rolls along perfectly from start to finish. Not a single awkward jerk in at all. Whenever I listen to this I actually feel as if im on a steamboat travelling down the Danube in perfectly still water. Majestic.

[@nuancedhistory]

The most beautiful song ever made. It always has been, and forever will be my favorite.

[@shanekennedy1480]

Probably the most jaw dropping fimof it's time and the most beautiful classic song to go with it!..... 😎👉☀️🌎🛸🌑🌒🌔🛰️🌖🌚🌑🌛🚀

[@bryanpalombella1350]

this isn' t music!!!! this is musical art!!!!

[@tree2040]

+Bryan Palombella music is art buckaroo

[@bryanpalombella1350]

+TREe fuck you

[@argon7624]

+Bryan Palombella no, he's right, music is a form of art. Although is is still amazing

[@indeedphysics8095]

So......it’s..Music, then

[@thestrangecrisismalachi4121]

Nasa is planning on building the first Space Hotel in orbit by 2027, and it definitely will have a 2001 Space Odyssey vibe to it, this time it will be "2027 Space Odyssey."

[@thechronicler2081]

FINALLY I FOUND IT AFTER SO LONG!! I just love this beautiful price of art. I never knew the name of it, but now I finally die happy, after dancing nearly 20 minutes on the trampoline to this ;-; what I'm I doing with my life. And now I need to see this movie Well that was all I had to say.... Bye^^

[@markhornbeck9932]

After seeing 2001 A Space Odyssey when it came out in 1968, it instantly became my all-time favorite. Assuming you've seen it by now, I'd like to read what you think of it.

[@princessozmaofoz5242]

How did you find the movie?

[@toja8323]

best soundtrack ever

[@jimperkins9661]

Black Swan. Lesser movie, better soundtrack.

[@andyB136]

No film has done to me what 2001 has done to me. 2001 shuts me up. I just watch. I'll forget that I've been sitting for 5 minutes listening to heavy breathing, but I'm loving every minute of it. The shots, ideas, acting, symbols, and meaning in this movie combined to be the greatest of all time. And oh yeah, THE MUSIC.

[@gregruelas7830]

Full-blown, epic adventure in less than ten minutes.

[@NightStalkerOG]

Man. they were able to make great movies like this back in the sixties - without the help of cgi, and today Hollywood couldn't produce a movie like this if their lives depended on it.

[@jimtuck1958]

Maybe they could- with an unlimited budget, and Industrial Light and Magic to do the sfx, not to mention Kubrick's and Clarke's survivor's as consultants, not to mention A-list screenwriters and actors. Even then there'd be a definite chance of it being a royal bomb.

[@Bojoschannel]

Drexyl Spivey LOL this fuckers are comparing Interstellar to 2001. HAHAHAHA

[@R.P.McMurphy]

Drexyl Spivey we have enough great movies, why do we need more?

[@MrNoob0305]

***** Interstellar is pretty much a homage to 2001

[@2456T-j9f]

+Jack Chang Interstellar is still a different movie. A lot of movies pay homage to 2001. 2001 was very well crafted.

[@robbiecox]

The Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Von Karajan is probably my favourite version of The Blue Danube, it subtly changes tempo to keep the dancers amused and on their toes at the same time. When I hear other versions they sound a little flat and one paced.

[@mrlopez-pz7pu]

This is NOT the recording used in the film.

[@Honeycombe88]

This is by The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert Von Karajan. Beautiful. Heard talking on radio recently, reminding us all that these waltzes were for dancing. So this was considered "dance music" of the time. A bit risque, since the partners were allowed to touch, those brazen youth.

[@gogglesarefun]

"Those brazen youth"

[@topazcat1]

I lived in Europe 11 years, Im a bad Dancer but the waltz is easy, Even I can pull it off.

[@exospaceman8209]

The music is amazing and peaceful. I can't stop Listening to it . The movie is Awesome.

[@markhornbeck9932]

I took a first date to see 2001 A Space Odyssey in 1968 when it came out and was playing in Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. I'd heard Blue Danube many times before, but never had it been so perfectly paired with such an awe inspiring movie; still my all time favorite. Blue Danube is on my hit list, along with a variety of all genre' of music.

[@kapljicanovak4641]

It fascinates me every single time, I'm listening to that.

[@DaLoopDiggerz]

Kubrick or Pure genius.

[@WalkingDeadKiller]

Why not both?

[@DaLoopDiggerz]

Actually it is both.

[@Cesarissatan]

NoThanks i don't see the difference.

[@skittleenjoyer7]

Or

[@JA-eq2iz]

+The LoopDigger and Johann Baptist Strauss

[@toroshansen9349]

I have seen this movie when i was 10 years old. My impression still continue and time to time remember and watching.

[@julietaalfonsodelgado8096]

Coincidió por fortuna en 1969 ,se anuncian la expedición Apollo 11 y el alunizaje del primer hombre pisar la luna, y simultáneamente en salas de cine de proyectaba la película 2001 Odyssea del espacio. Su bello tema musical Así hablaba Zaratustra fue pieza fundamental para emisoras cultas de Bogotá, HJCK ya extinguida, se escuchaba en conciertos y cortinas musicales. Qué alegría volver a escucharla. Desde Holanda 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

[@ITILII]

"No one, in the history of motion pictures, could craft a film better than Stanley Kubrick" - Steven Spielberg.....nuff said

[@MiguelAngel-ep9vt]

Ever heard something so spectacular it brought tears to your eyes?

[@solarsoltice9075]

I had the privilege of watching this movie 50 years ago. 1968 With ma and pop and sis. Spooky the cat too watched it at a drive in theater.

[@eternalsunshine1332]

I think this movie changed my life. Not the way I view things, but the way I feel them.

[@mbrowshan]

Awesome movie....awesome song!

[@SalmonFeet]

"Contact light, the eagle has landed" - The words that solidified our species as spacefaring, we landed on a distant lonley rock, with a pretty view, of a Beautiful Blue Marble

[@kapljicapozagan286]

4:46 - 5:16 my favorite part

[@whereisawesomeness]

0:00 to 9:08 My favourite part

[@argon7624]

+whereisawesomeness uhh, this is only 9:06

[@thomasw2096]

kapljica pozagan 5:59 for me!

[@brendanschwartz2676]

Sammmeeeee

[@notcentervillewalter]

The score was performed by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Herbert von Karajan. That's a different version.

[@mikedoll456]

Where im from in Canada we have a beautiful rive that runs through town.... i think i may go for a walk later😀

[@Popp1092]

4:47 Pure beauty

[@KafShiel]

I like this precise version and not another. Grew in me like a plant. Build a solid tree.

[@MichaelHecker]

Darn. I can't watch it in Germany.

[@KafShiel]

Michael Hecker Just ask me I'll place it on my Google Drive for you Michael.

[@MichaelHecker]

You are too good. At home I try a proxy first in Firefox if that fails I'll be happy to ask you 😀

[@AnkheMiliBadoBadi]

THIS should have been the song playing in Tesla Roadster up there.👍👍👍😊

[@lshatok]

One of the mos beautiful piece of classic music ever. Awakening and inspiring.

[@markhornbeck9932]

Johann Strauss wrote Blue Danube knowing that some day, an epic movie like 2001: a space odyssey would be produced to add several more dimensions to his magnificent music.

[@ARTala88]

It sounds like a happy child is jumping on the strings and notes. Love it

[@TheMan05555]

This movie was made closer to WWI than today.

[@loiswinters8779]

Incredible movie for its time and fabulous soundtrack for the trip.

[@irvingnerdbaum7256]

I was 14 years old when I heard this music while watching the movie in the Princess Theatre in Bloomington, Indiana. I thought it had been written for the movie at the time. My introduction to classical music. Love it!

[@shailesnandhan4750]

This is one of the greatest soundtrack and movie I have ever seen .

[@westonreisch7794]

In watching 2001 Space Odyssey for the second time, I came to find it very unique and enjoyable. This excellent classical piece was the BEST part of the movie :) also a great piece to dance to with someone!!

[@Dustmeyer74]

The blue Danube 2001

[@My-nl6sg]

How did people 50 years ago make this visual masterpiece whiles 50 year after that we have junks such as independence day 2 and stuff??

[@michaelcorleone7297]

That's what people are liking these days... I've been called boring for liking 2001. It makes me sad people fail to appreciate it's beauty.

[@krishnarjunar2724]

This film has more for us to find than just watching it like casual audience,Nolan follows the same principle. These movies stand out to be unique as a visual spectacle and masterpiece.Those who say this film is boring are not looking deep into the theme, I found it boring too at first but now it all makes sense.Thank Kubrick for this valuable tressure of Cinema

[@randomnature5850]

people are spammed with cheap action movies and quick paced storytelling, because the Studios think this is how it should work. Then there's the KZbin mindset in there as well. Fast Food, Fast Movies... quantiy instead of quality. People were able to make this, as back in the days they had the support and backing they needed to attempt this project. I make 3D assets and i can tell you how little all the hard work is appreciated nowadays... "it's coming out of a computer" .. well, it's a craft and it can only thrive with the appreciation of others. Today, no big Studio would take the risk of making something so timeless like 2001 is. Sad but that's how it is. Only YOU can make the difference really, by appreciating works like these. :)

[@greekphilospher2332]

i'd say Interstellar was pretty good.

[@davidnunya1943]

Simple answer, societal regression.

[@SailorGhost]

Every time I've been on a wedding and when they play this incredible masterpiece, I can't associate it with couples dancing the waltz, always think about spaceships, lack of gravity, and the moon. LOL!! Greetings from Chile!!

[@jackwhealen8138]

The best movie I've ever seen. Maybe the best ever made.

[@OoOiMaDOoO]

Best movie ever

[@TheJereld]

0:52 almost cuts a tear in my eye.

[@proudtndad]

I was 13 when this came out and was enthralled with the music! And this was my first soundtrack recording I ever bought a year later!!

[@thealaskan1635]

This song is icing on the cake of 2001 a space Odyssey

[@wyuhwyuh]

I have watched this movie dozens of times, and this is the best musical selection of the film, though there are other great ones too. I agree with the person who said that this is one of the few where the tempo changes, making the whole thing much more engaging.

[@1701alpha]

One of my all time favorite classical pieces!

[@EliezerAamesINTL]

Who can dislike this? This is just epic! Awesome!. Words will never be enough to say how great this movie/soundtrack/classical piece is.

[@luckyexplorer1053]

I love these type of music and I love going to music concerts and see my Dad play his trumpet.🎺❤

[@randmayfield5695]

Saw this as a middle school student at a drive-in theater in Sparks Nevada. I was too young to appreciate its depth of meaning despite trying to.

[@serbiastrong3391]

I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that

[@haadighani8658]

This is no doubt amazing but my favorite part is from 7:40 to 9:05 in an extended version would be nice, just a request

[@1959shooter]

I listen to country, blues, jazz, swing, old rock and some other types of music. I find something in all of them that I like. However, when I want to dance with the angels I listen to one of the most beautiful songs ever written. The Blue Danube.

[@felipemaaartins]

This is just... Divine.

[@brucemonkhouse6698]

Looking back it is pretty amazing how far ahead of his time Mr Kubrick actually was..2001 still is a fabulous and intriguing movie to watch..as he has stated it is primarily a visual interpretative experience..music and images that provoke a very wide of responses, limited dialogue.

[@najibchaoul2669]

I love Strauss. Wonderful. Beautful.

[@gustavobagu7156]

No piece of classical music could've been better suited..

[@irinazhilina8830]

I want to dance waltz so much!!! Fantastic music!!!

[@Peter-pb8jg]

me! I saw it when it was released in 1968 in CinemaScope in Boston

[@thomasw2096]

The best sci fi movie ever!

[@doubleOsable]

One of the finest and most awe-inspiring motion pictures of all time. Critics judge from a literary perspective. With this masterpiece, they miss the point. It is visual poetry. There is relatively little dialogue throughout. The stunning images move us. Look at how many visual compositions in the film are so carefully constructed, especially using Kubrick's trademark, that of symmetry. He is not afraid of long takes that are mesmerizing. And these use the unexpected uses of sound. Space ships docking to the Blue Danube waltz? A bold use of the unexpected. The effect is hypnotic. And remember: this is pre-CGI. Many of the models, and actors, were filmed from below as they hung suspended from the studio roof to give the illusion of weightlessness. But perhaps that is what gives this film its reality: it was filmed as reality. A masterpiece that deserves its place as an innovation in motion picture history.

[@michaels7799]

Absolute bliss. I will never forget being mesmerised by the piece at the cinema. Remember the time place and people I was with.

[@lenschincke7846]

i went back 3+ to see this movie just to hear this !!!! it is still my fav of all time !!

[@donkeybrainwhoknew933]

An epic composition by a genius and an epic movie that matches it in all ways by another genius. And much respect and admiration for Arthur C. Clark, an author whose books I grew up reading.

[@Ben-Hollingbery]

This is the only piece of music that keeps my ADD quiet

[@markodell5466]

Great movie and great music

[@TBONE_2004]

Open the bay doors, HAL...

[@EtorChristie]

"I'm sorry Dave, i'm afraid i cannot do that."

[@EliezerAamesINTL]

+Etor Christie Best line in the whole movie.

[@EtorChristie]

EliezerAamesINTL Agreed.

[@dantemichielin9088]

+EliezerAamesINTL Just about the only line in the entire movie.

[@milestiller665]

My favorite line in the movie: I'm scared Dave

[@moremusic6234]

I always marveled at this performance. There are so many tempo liberties, squeezing out the emotion. Not to be danced to, that's for sure.

[@WARHAWK077]

When i saw this on its anniversary a couple of years agi at an AMC special event. The theater was packed to the hilt. Mostly younger adults and teens who never saw this in its cimematic glory. 70 MM dolby surround sound Everyone was just totally spellbound.

[@notchris1173]

B-e-a-utiful, both movie and this piece

[@leticiajcdhp]

this movie and this music is so magnificent and inspiring

[@bisbeejim]

I have listened to many different orchestras and conductors play this, but none has hit the sublime mark like this sound track from 2001. This is, in my opinion, the best performance of the Blue Danube ever recorded.

[@DetroitLove4U]

This timeless masterpiece is more honest and enduring than any women I have ever known.

[@Sautron]

+DetroitLove4U Oh, the honesty...

[@heatherlowe7902]

shut the hell up

[@DetroitLove4U]

You certainly personify your last name ghastly well ..... cheers!

[@SebWilkes]

People are entitled to some 'edgy' banter (I mean if someone is getting offended by this, then please don't go searching the internet for "memes")? Besides that sort of comment isn't really sexist. It's clearly humorous in intent, hyperbolic while being potentially politically incorrect. All of those things are not necessarily bad and I commend him for having the ... well not courage, because no one should have to have courage to say things like this. So instead I commend him for being honest, articulate and sociable.

[@aloksingh4619]

words of wisdom

[@bisbeejim]

The best performance of this work I've ever heard!

[@swvaroot]

Daaaiiisssy - - - - Daaaiiisssy I'm . . . .

[@kayakat1869]

Just remembering that gives me shivers.