Dvořák - Symphony No. 9 "From the New World" (Maazel, New York Philharmonic) |Pyongyang Concert(5/9)

From East Pyongyang Grand Theatre in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea:
The New York Philharmonic, under the baton of Lorin Maazel (March 6, 1930-July 13, 2014), performs "The Pyongyang Concert".
Antonín Dvořák - Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95 "From the New World"
00:00 Introduction
01:57 I. Adagio: Allegro Molto
11:19 II. Largo
23:29 III. Scherzo: Molto vivace
30:56 IV. Finale: Allegro con fuoco
New York Philharmonic
Lorin Maazel - conductor
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In 2008, a historic event took place: The New York Philharmonic, under the baton of acclaimed conductor Lorin Maazel (1930-2014) traveled to Pyongyang, North Korea to perform a concert at East Pyongyang Grand Theatre. It was the first time since the Korean War that significant US-American cultural representatives were permitted to visit the secluded country. This event captures a historic moment in which music found itself navigating sensitive political realities, and revealed its unique power - the power to awaken human minds and to push for change by creating moments of communication, unity, and hope.
The New York Philharmonic began the concert by performing the national anthems of North Korea and the United States, followed by a program that introduced the audience to European and US-American classics (such as Richard Wagner, George Bizet or Leonard Bernstein), and created moments of symbolic meaning: After performing pieces such as Antonín Dvořák's Symphony "From the New World" and George Gershwin's "An American in Paris", the orchestra closed the concert with the famous Korean folk song "Arirang", which is beloved in both, South and North Korea.
Directed by Michael Beyer
Produced by Paul Smaczny
2008, EuroArts Music, in coproduction with Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation, ARTE France, Thirteen/WNET New York, in association with New York Philharmonic

[@Dylonely42]

This was performed in North Korea by the New York Philharmonic. It’s a historic event indeed !

[@staffanolofsson8201]

As I said! It will never come back.

[@flaviobento3563]

What a performance as always. I can't comprehend how they couldn't smile listening to this live.. Markey and Alessi ❤🫡

[@wagnerdaniel3569]

Heheheha

[@stanislavjanickovic8227]

​@@staffanolofsson8201AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAÁ

[@staffanolofsson8201]

This is unique! An American Orchestra in Pyongyang, North Corea 2008. Never before, and perhaps never after will this take place again. It is said that music has the ability to unite people from different parts of this world. I still hope it is true.

[@staffanolofsson8201]

They are playing "From the New World", a world that we are still waiting for.

[@makyhsmakyhs6766]

​@@staffanolofsson8201 the world that will never come !

[@vecernicek2]

@@staffanolofsson8201 'New world' is America as opposed to 'Old world', being Europe. Dvořák wrote it when serving as a director of the National conservatory of music in New York in the 1890s.

[@YitzchakHornik]

One of the most beautiful performances of Dvojek's 9th symphony. Excellent photography - including a close-up of the orchestra players, the conductor and the audience. Not to mention the great sound. just wonderful !!

[@spotilakis]

Terrific performance, really, one of the best I ever heard in my life... What an amazing orchestra and an excellent Maazel (Rest in peace Maestro...)

[@JuergenOlafSteiniger]

Lorin Maazel beim Dirigieren zuzusehen ist eine große Freude…Danke für diese außergewöhnliche Aufnahme.

[@christopherwilson2332]

music is the most universal language in the world & one of the most complicated to create - understood in every country.

[@matmm75006]

One of the best interpretation of this symphony.

[@earth2jennyl]

Gorgeous. Thank you!!

[@Euroarts]

Our pleasure. Thank you for watching!

[@MrRickschott]

Terrific performance and beautiful sound.

[@LoriF7759]

4:52 🥰 5:17 This increasing 🥰 14:15 This man ❤️ 25:02 to 25:36 Cute melody 30:57 Sharks coming 🦈 31:11 to 32:32 🔥 33:33 🥰 34:34 and 34:47 Little birds🐦

[@danielwilkins6302]

Maazel was a legend and truly understood the power of brass. It shines beautifully here with this symphony. And what a bizarre scenario playing music in a walled off society. I bet the orchestra and the audience won't forget this concert. Fascinating to watch the audience as well. I wonder what is going through their heads having just a small peek at the outside world.

[@staffanolofsson8201]

Yes, an adequate question. What is going on in the publics heads listening to this? I believe they think this is heroic music from the other side, we have our own heroic music. And our heroic music is better than this "Dvorak". But I still hope that this music and this occasion will stay in their memory.

[@AndreyRubtsovRU]

Maazel was overhyped and borderline mediocre

[@danielwilkins6302]

@@AndreyRubtsovRU Tell me you were dropped on your head as a child without telling me...

[@adesojiadebisi3477]

​@@danielwilkins6302: Oh dear 😅

[@adesojiadebisi3477]

​@AndreyRubtsovRU : According to WHO exactly please 🤔? The video was shared without any caveat and you dared go off on such a rant? It is indeed a world of intrigues and wonders... hmmmmmmmmmmm....

[@lls1776]

Perfect performance ！

[@Rose-rk9ln]

I saw this on PBS. Seeing how it moves people is so amazing.

[@stefanlowenherz4558]

Weltklasse habs live auf ARTE gesehen vor 10 Jahren!!!

[@jirimoravec9017]

Jsem hrdy clovek z male zeme s velkym srdcem❤

[@ludiabooth7718]

So true! So very very true! Malá země, velké srdce. I love it. Thank you for saying that!

[@AguinaldoVieira-jo4mq]

Linda interpretação

[@colinlambert882]

Heard a live opening NYPO season concert in Maazel's time, ending with this piece. He mucked it about with his own personal quirks, so that we felt it was more Maazel's than Dvořâk's 9th.

[@AndiManalili]

15:50 i was here Saving this for timeskip

[@angryyordle4640]

One of the best orchestras in the world is playing my favorite symphony in one of the most interesting countries in the world? Oh! My! God! This type of cultural exchange is amazing!

[@Artariastein]

Ein Großereignis!

[@ctorrev]

Thomas Stacy English Horn ❤

[@quaver1239]

Wonderful. Marvellous! A lovely concert hall too; wonder what it is used for nowadays? For me, the greatest performance I’ve ever heard. What a shame that NK has isolated itself. South Korea is alive with music, while North Korea hates. Loved Lorin Maazel; great musician and conductor.

[@angryyordle4640]

South Korea treats their musicians like slaves. Not the best comparison to make.

[@mrman5066]

I've always thought that both phrases of the opening give a beauitful depiction of a rainstick. A steady melodic decline accompanied by comparatively wave-like bursts, still slow and elegant though.

[@LoriF7759]

It's kind of sad because we can see the majority didn't enjoy the performance they wanted to sleep. I don't know the duration of the concert but I can bet it was more than 2 hours.

[@wendychen5779]

For those who are not familiar with the actual on-site audio recording of this historic N.Y. Phil concert in North Korea in 2008 (it was broadcast live back in the States at the time), may I be so bold (and honest) as to point out that this is an edited and "fixed" copy of the concert, not the one the audience actually heard. During the actual concert, for a glaring example, the solo horn failed to reach the high note near the end of the 4th movement (at about 39:07-ish). Of course, probably not many in the audience noticed the failed but critical note. But I am sure those familiar with this beloved symphony, including the musicians and Maazel himself, must have all noticed the shocking failure. It's one of those stunning "oh, no" moments. This is not the first time I heard the N.Y. Phil horn section (principal?) failing to deliver. It also shows the risks musicians have to take when giving a live concert. That said, I remembered that I enjoyed the (original) concert for its historical significance. I am still grateful for this video upload, but I am disappointed and felt cheated that the audio portion has been edited ("voiced over") to hide the blemishes. The audio you heard here is a fake.

[@loekmulder6300]

Wow, some statement! Can you prove this?

[@wendychen5779]

​@@loekmulder6300 Very simple. Get a copy (if available to you) of the original broadcast video or audio (I also listened to an FM audio broadcast at the time: exactly the same false note from the horn player). Another way, if feasible, is to ask the NY Phil players (any one of them who took part in the historic concert). After that (i.e., that no such recording ever existed and all NY Phil musicians (including the horn player himself, if he is still with the NY Phil) denied of such failure, then, just consider what I said another of those "disinformation" campaigns, perhaps to soil the NY Phil's reputation (BTW, I am a great NY Phil fan) and you would be happy to continue to believe that this upload "is" the authentic version the audience at the historic concert actually heard.

[@AndreyRubtsovRU]

yeah. this is such a high note. nothing shocking here. it's shocking that we still put some value on that. would a symphony be a lesser one if the note were one octave lower? no. so why? why to we treat music as an olympic sport? childish and stupid.

[@wendychen5779]

@@AndreyRubtsovRU When Dvořák penned that high note for the solo horn as he composed the symphony in New York City between January 10 and May 24, 1893, he did not mark his score there saying this high note is challenging to play and may be lowered one octave if you find it too difficult. No, he put it right there for the horn player, and we should honor Dvořák’s artistic vision there as well and try our best to do his music justice. Indeed, if you lower the note by one octave, you are violating Dvořák’s artistic integrity, diminishing its value and, yes, making it a “lesser one” as you so accurately put it. So far as I am aware of, no interpreters (musicians and conductors etc.) ever since the symphony’s premiere at Carnegie Hall on December 16, 1893, have ever considered performing this symphony an “Olympic” sport. At least the producers of this composite video/audio realized the importance of this high note, took it more seriously than your flippant view of it, and tried to “cover up” the disappointing “flaw” (however insignificant you consider it to be). By the way, I have personally heard at least two live performances of this symphony by two youth orchestras where the horn players failed to deliver in quite a few passages but, to my amazement, delivered this crucial high note. So, it can be done. I’m sure the N.Y. Phil horn player must have successfully played the note during rehearsals and other live performances. He just had an unlucky day at this historical concert in North Korea.

[@AndreyRubtsovRU]

@@wendychen5779 goodness me you seem to have a lot of free time

[@jeanphillip4]

3:50 5:52

[@iniohos2]

Where is Kim J-U?

[@seb_the_rat]

8:39 ❤

[@floppagamingxd8710]

Gomu gomu no stormu.

[@debralim5141]

Why not?

[@makyhsmakyhs6766]

At what year the concert was ?

[@Euroarts]

It was in 2008. :)

[@makyhsmakyhs6766]

@@Euroarts thanks 🌹

[@hardcharging]

2008, specifically February. I was in South Korea at the time this concert took place.

[@makyhsmakyhs6766]

@@hardcharging this concert was in north Korea as described and written !

[@hardcharging]

@@makyhsmakyhs6766 I am well aware this took place in Pyongyang, but the question wasn't where, but when. If I could remember the exact date I'd give that in addition to the month and year.

[@matveysulimov5650]

First time i hear Largo in first episode of Little Einsteins

[@makyhsmakyhs6766]

I thought the concert was in Japan !

[@haoyangjin4610]

obviously in North Korea or South Korea.

[@makyhsmakyhs6766]

@@haoyangjin4610 north

[@tcguerrero5476]

Why would you think that.

[@makyhsmakyhs6766]

@@tcguerrero5476 because japan usually contract with the big Phil. orchestras because they taste and like the classic music, but north Korea is not as I think , but in South Korea they are fond of the classic music over the year as the Japanese do !

[@deanwilliams-kr4qy]

Proof of God.

[@LauraMartin-eu1wy]

🤭

[@mishibird]

If the objective was to show the superior creativity of artists living in a free western society, one could have done better than to have this tour led be the most unspontaneous, obsessive control freak martinet among all conductors alive at the time. That said, the musicians of the NY did a really fine job.

[@AndreyRubtsovRU]

I agree with your assesment of a conductor. Commenters here though claimed that horn missed the high note in a solo which has been edited later, so you cant probably call this a "a really fine job"

[@christopherwilson2332]

it's a pity that most of the audience are so serious - this is supposed to be an entertaining work.

[@paultaylor6821]

And enlightening but they are all totally inscrutable. Are they afraid any emotion might get them in trouble?

[@christopherwilson2332]

@@paultaylor6821 if that's the case - I truly pity them living in fear - music should be enjoyed by all.

[@angryyordle4640]

It's likely they're selected high ranking citizens of Pyongyang that were allowed to attend. For them it's just as special as for the people in the orchestra. This is not a normal audience. It's an audience that came to not just listen to music but represent their country in an act of diplomacy. Forget the scary fairy tales some people here tell. There's always more reasonable explanations.

[@christopherwilson2332]

to listen to music should not be class related - It should be for all people - for a low wage audience - it should be free - the sponsors should pay the bill, people should not be turned away from music and other Entertaiment - also it should be for all ages - - should some music and other forms be classified as unsuitable for certain people unless they are warned prior - for instance - Stravinski's Rite of Spring caused an uproar, I myself have composed music which is only suited for a particular audience. @@angryyordle4640

[@russellenberg1985]

For the most part, the North Koreans seem to be very stolid

[@makyhsmakyhs6766]

The audiences faces are gloomy relapsed and desperate , I think they came by obligatory orders and fear just to fill the hall, and they don't understand or enjoy the music it is clear that both of the orchestra and the conductor are not pleased and convinced , the performance is pale and dry !

[@makyhsmakyhs6766]

Gloomy faces , no shadow of smile on the faces , a lot of them tend to sleep and feeling bored , unhappy community , state of fear .. too bad ! 🤐

[@paultaylor6821]

Very sad to live in a prison but hear from the outside world.

[@makyhsmakyhs6766]

@@paultaylor6821 good luck

[@Jack_Simpson1]

Playing western music in NK?