Einojuhani Rautavaara: Concerto for Birds and Orchestra “Cantus Arcticus”, Op. 61

[@ThePaulHealy]

I'm sat in the peat shed of my grans house in Ireland seventy years ago, I am four years old. Silence can produce strangeness. I hear this and am transported back there.

[@jipej9810]

Idée géniale d'associer des cris d'oiseaux à cette musique orchestrale ......

[@edwarddeevy1650]

BIRDS AND HAWKESTRA ! !! HEAVENLY DOVES.! IT CROWS ON MY MIND MUSICAL WINGS 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗

[@harryarmitage6056]

I first heard this piece three years ago in a live concert I attended in the UK, and was blown away by it. Some months later I then recognised some of the same bird sounds whilst standing on the top deck of a cruise ship quietly moored at the head of a Norwegian fjord and was taken straight back mentally to the performance I heard.

[@crwdfwtx]

The chosen art for this piece is perfect

[@KaliYug.]

I love this music. Always puts me in mind of the estuary at Fremington Quay on a cold and still Sunday afternoon in autumn. The blackberries gone, the leaves beginning to fall, the call of the curlew, the thought of school the next day (30 years ago), the barren mud flats...I used to sit on my bike looking out upon the scene and wallow in a sense of melancholy. I was a strange and often solitary child...

[@TK42138]

I can totally visualise that.

[@zo_55]

lovely imagery. your words remind me of my childhood! 💙

[@Deanguilberry]

I was a monster as a child. But here I am now. But I drew a lot. Now I play music.

[@birgitnj]

What magical music!

[@miljakaunisto7962]

Rest in melodies, Maestro. Fly with songbirds.

[@psychickitty1]

he's being remembered this weekend on my local classical music station and this is on the program! kusc

[@jethrotull1962]

I love listening to this concerto while our local birds are having their morning chat. A beautiful concept, beautiful music.

[@nilla38f]

Rautavaara is a true genius, this piece is fantastic but also his vocal pieces, he is a master of his craft...

[@garysoucie5145]

His opera, RASPUTIN, is another overlooked masterpiece. So many lesser talents are better known. It's a shame!

[@user-nb6zu3rk4f]

@@garysoucie5145 It's subjective

[@andreas7748]

Ich komme gerade aus dem Sinfonie Konzert des LOH Orchesters im Achteckhaus Sondershausen, wo dieses Stück gespielt wurde. Ich bin immer noch "von den Socken" ob dieses phantastischen Zusammenspiels zwischen Naturklängen feat. Klassik. Es passt einfach perfekt, verzaubert und lässt mich gedanklich abtauchen und wegdriften. ☺️🕊️🦩🦜🦤

[@AmadoDom]

very very beautiful work, congrats for the composer (R.I.P) and the orchestra

[@user-nb6zu3rk4f]

And the birds

[@spalingerevgeniya8835]

Pure magic!

[@davebournemouth]

Why is this wonderful Composer not more well known.?

[@konosxatz1]

He is well known,mainly to musicians though.Check out his "Autumn Gardens",Percussion Concerto "Incarnations",Symphony No.7 "Angel of Light" and his Flute Concerto.Then to his piano concertos.Unfortunately he passed away last year.

[@davebournemouth]

Thank you for your reply.

[@looney1023]

I also love his first and third piano concertos and symphony 8. Such a unique and inventive composer. Such a shame we lost him so recently.

[@agilbosco]

he is very well known

[@patrickcrosby3824]

To put it simply and bluntly: a record company can make far more money producing CDs with titles such as "Mozart's Greatest Hits" than they can producing CDs of Rautavaara's music. For a far more complete answer, take a look at "Aesthetic Theory" by Theodore W Adorno. Not at all an easy book, however. As a middle ground, ask your local school officials what their students are offered in music education. My wager would be they they don't spend 1% on music education of what they do on athletics. What is more, the parents want it that way.

[@EnoVarma]

Requiescat in pace, Einojuhani Rautavaara (1928-2016).

[@EyeSeeThruYou]

:(

[@andreaskrenmayr77]

And thank you for giving us this intriguingly beautiful music.

[@nadastojanovic9585]

Celestial music! Thank you for sharing.

[@Warp75]

That it is. It’s almost psychedelic at times.

[@VictorAlexanderFiltenborg]

Remember this one. This is still so good

[@gerardbegni2806]

His interpretation is significantly slower than usual. It is extremely poetic. The musical language in itself is quite simple: it turns around melodic modal fragmants, but cretaes strange and oniric feelings

[@jondelosarcos5983]

The way the orchestra all moves together blending the timbres makes it sound like synths sometimes. I think “Melancholy” moves, musically, the same way a large flock of birds does: it's a shape that none of the birds individually has.

[@todd3386]

Just discovered this wonderful composer. I keep making pleasant discoveries of his creative genius

[@garysoucie5145]

Have you listened to RASPUTIN? It is/was on KZbin, and it's a great opera.

[@steveegallo3384]

@@garysoucie5145 -- What about that Great Whales symphony of Hovhaness? Also, Vaughan-Williams...or no?

[@garysoucie5145]

Although I like both Hovhaness and especially Vaughan-Williams, I think Rautavaara tops them both in sheer creativity. His work--so little of it known outside Finland--is quite extensive and varied. Yet, you can hear him in everything he wrote. Fortunately, there's a lot of his work available for exploring on KZbin.

[@homerthephilosopher7852]

Amazing!

[@도토오리-n4h]

why is this so good???????????? it's amazing

[@theslovanka6094]

6:45 So in love with it! :)

[@michelebeartGIBBONGASCON]

merci

[@astrophytumvero1102]

Super beau !! on ressent la Finlande :)

[@reidwhitton6248]

Just got the 12 Concertos box on the Ondine label. I'm looking forward to all of them.

[@Warp75]

I’m thinking about buying that box. How did you get on with it ?

[@reidwhitton6248]

@@Warp75 The music is enjoyable. I particularly liked the harp concerto. But overall I view Rautavaara as a good but not great composer.

[@Warp75]

@@reidwhitton6248 Thanks for that Reid

[@despinakaladami9200]

This is divine indeed!

[@amapolabilis4663]

RAVING ABOUT RAUTAVAARA!

[@TulliverS]

This sounds like a bbc planet earth documentary. All it needs is Sir David Attenborough

[@olhardesperto6346]

beyond wonderful

[@yowzephyr]

0:00 is a good place to start.

[@potrelviewer9536]

The closest thing to an "Ode to biodiversity". Period.

[@vitorrua]

Who are the 10 stupid people that put the thumb down on this marvelous composition???... Deafs?...

[@swftwlly]

There's no accounting for taste.

[@davidrehak3539]

Einojuhani Rautavaara:Cantus Articus Op.61 1.A mocsár 00:00 2.Melankólia 06:54 3.Hattyúk vándorolnak 11:12 Helsinki Filharmonikus Zenekar Vezényel:Leif Segerstam

[@Deanguilberry]

This doesn't have 100 million views. It can't be good. Fu%k that Sh%t. This is it folks! Let your brain live. P.S. tweet

[@belialah]

After some research this is what fits the most my taste for reading Moby Dick.

[@christianbalan3247]

This is true Nature !

[@christianvanpuyvelde5257]

Belle idée d'associer les oiseaux,( maîtres chanteurs ?) à une composition musicale

[@iianneill6013]

Holst would have loved this ...

[@jacquesferland1746]

I really don't know why he did not pursue this environmentally sensitive approach to creative music composition. It's the work he is most remembered for, along with Angels of Light.

[@francesmetcalfe545]

Brush strokes of Sibelius and Nielson have been daubed onto Rautavaara's Autumn Gardens, depicting the endless.

[@Edward245100]

Very strange music, but that is OK since birds are very strange creatures.

[@EyeSeeThruYou]

....says the primate, a mammal, and perhaps the weirdest and most sinister of all life forms on the planet....

[@psychickitty1]

+Eva Ries good one!

[@EyeSeeThruYou]

psychickitty1 Just sayin'. ;)

[@hans-detlevv.kirchbach2787]

Mr Hitchcock knew - "The Birds" will defeat & survive us

[@쁠버섯]

끼룩끼룩~

[@pegrueneis]

nature

[@lekoopafdp]

my teachers the music

[@mochdrew3364]

This somehow makes me connect to Messiaen.. And could it be possible to use piccolo or something else instead of tape?..

[@jondelosarcos5983]

The whole point is that the orchestra builds this beautiful accompaniment around actual bird calls by real animals. Even though they are on tape, the beauty of this is in knowing that non-human animals produced those calls at the center of the music.

[@jonathanc4347]

Can I say it? This concerto is for the birds. It is a cool piece, however.

[@Berlinchesmusic]

😶😶👌

[@jentyme]

it sounds like Take Five

[@bongaz3547]

I wonder, are the birds sounds sampled by Raut himself, or is it some kind bird live performance?

[@pedrohenriqueprata]

They are recordings of arctic bird songs, as I explained in the description. Since I have not heard other interpretations of this work, I do not know if recordings can change.

[@LParikian]

@@pedrohenriqueprata The recordings were (I think) made by Rautavaara himself, and they are provided with the printed music by the publisher, so will be the same in every performance/recording.

[@Deanguilberry]

What is this artwork?

[@felixmarques]

Where is the image from?

[@pedrohenriqueprata]

I'm not sure anymore, I think it's from an ice floe in the Arctic Ocean with birds circling around.

[@e-stah]

Played it for a poor PetSmart parrot

[@alvaroguzman3496]

To call "strange" a highly praised classical piece as well as to " a bird" not even knowing the species, can only depict how arrogant human are even in their absolute "intelligent" ignorance.

[@Edward245100]

+Alvaro Guzman Highly praised by whom? Not by me! What does the species of birds have to do with anything? The only thing stranger than this “music” is yourself and your screwy opinion of it, but if you like it then more power to you. The world is just chock full of sounds like this masquerading as music and I wish I was dumb enough like you to think it is a good “classical piece”, but it is just meaningless sound - like the chatter of birds. But maybe you are a bird brain and that is why you like it.

[@Itapirkanmaa2]

+Alvaro Guzman Let me insert some facts. The first part contains song of Common Blackbird (Turdus medula) and Trumpeter Swans (Cygnus buccinator) both real, and emulated by the trombone, the second part synthetic (slowed-down) bird song, the final part real swans, seems to originate from a very large flock. The official background sounds are now available on a CD for the prospective performers.

[@7777Scion]

+Alvaro Guzman That's one weird comment. Are you alright?

[@nefertuyo]

Álvaro Guzmán, tu comentario sí que resulta arrogante ( y estomagante). Ni siquiera tienes la mínima cortesía de citar el nick al que tan sañudamente criticas. Y Edward245100 dijo dos grandes verdades: las aves son criaturas extrañas, y esta música no es muy común. Menos mal que pasaste por aquí un año más tarde que Jonathan C, quien, haciendo un juego de palabras, afirmó que este concierto "is for the birds": como para tirar a la basura. Está en su pleno derecho para opinar así. La música, como tantas otras cosas, es una cuestión de gustos. Y todos los gustos son respetables, si no se expresan con insultante vehemencia. Me has fastidiado la audición del concierto. Tuve la mala idea de leer los comentarios antes de escuchar la música. Error que procuraré no repetir. Cuánta violencia hay en este mundo. No creo que estuviera en el ánimo del sr. Rautavaara suscitarla, cuando compuso su concierto.

[@artbugzrecords]

Nokia

[@QuickMadeUpName]

yawn