Igor Stravinsky - Symphonies of Wind instruments [With score]

[@christophermacintyre5890]

The Rite of Spring: The Day After.

[@msans0494]

The Day After: If the 1913s had twitter replying to Stravinsky's stream of Rite of Spring

[@rloomis3]

The last chord gives me chills every time. It's like an arrival at a place we didn't know we were looking for.

[@licoricestic]

Surely Poulenc was inspired by this piece's ending for the end of his sextet. Also same major 9th chord at end of his first nocturne.

[@larryheth8023]

The last chord seems to take so achingly long to come...and then you are finally home...or,your new place,wherever and whatever it is

[@mikesimpson3207]

One of Stravinsky's very best, what a gorgeous piece. The dry texture of winds without any strings lends itself so well to Stravinsky's style.

[@DeflatingAtheism]

The “un-Romantic” instrumentation brings to mind what Varese was doing at the same time.

[@WelshHomo87]

@@DeflatingAtheism it really does

[@stravinsky1300]

I wish I could write to Stravinsky and tell him how much I like this composition and how much I support what he said about it. No, it doesn't stir up the romantic emotions in me or bring tears to my eyes, but it does stir the part of me that loves inventiveness and the discovery of the new and unusual. Because frankly, this is one of the most bizarre pieces of music I've heard - and I love and appreciate it for that!

[@Mezzotenor]

This is an uncommonly beautiful performance - nothing forced, phrases intelligently shaped, perfect ensemble. Many thanks!

[@tuxguys]

I had no idea, until I read the excellent program notes up above, that this hauntingly, presciently modern piece was written "in memoriam" to Claude Debussy... ...but, after all these years, I think I get it now. (Thanks for posting the score... a road map to Genius is always welcome.)

[@mattburketthehimhis4750]

soon after debussy's death stravinsky published a chorale for piano which would become the lament which is interspersed through the piece, and which it ends with. interestingly, from a global perspective, the piece becomes proportionally more and more of the lament as it goes on- like a nagging thought he was trying to push aside, but was forced to accept and see through to it's end.

[@prckrevofficialchannel1911]

Stravinsky’s masterpiece in my humble opinion Beautiful! Thank you for sharing with the score!!

[@urbanviii6557]

I have loved this score since my undergraduate days. And then, in 1989 or 1990, I heard The Cleveland Orch. winds play it with Simon Rattle on the podium (I was living there 30 blocks from the hall). God, what an incredible wind choir that orchestra had/has. John Mack, oboe, Franklin Cohen, clarinet, etc. Stunning playing of that score!

[@TempodiPiano]

Why do you consider this is his masterpiece?

[@licoricestic]

@@TempodiPiano I can see why in that it's a microcosm of all Stravinsky's output in one piece.

[@signodeinterrogacion8361]

@@licoricestic For me that'd be Agon, way later though. I do think this is a great summarization of his first period before moving to neo classicism.

[@philipthomas7918]

Sublime. One of the greatest, most haunting scores of the 20th century.

[@lyricsronen]

The sound we get here out of the dark cylindrical brass is mesmerizing. That is of course, due to the fantastic performance and blending from this incredible ensemble - but Stravinsky's ability to pick notes as utility of color is just brilliant in this piece.

[@larryheth8023]

I played the baritone horn in grade school into high school and college..never came across "cylindrical brass" I agree with all you say..thanks for the new term..cylindrical brass..hhmmm

[@lyricsronen]

@@larryheth8023 Trumpets and trombones = cylindrical. Horn and tuba = conical. Cylindrical instrument have consistent tube width throughout (other than the mouth piece and the bell) while the tube in conical instruments gradually expands in width throughout from mouth piece to bell.

[@sinisterbotanist]

this piece has come and planted numerous dreams within me

[@truBador2]

Very nicely performed. It is a blessing for us that at key points in history inspired composers like Stravinsky show up to keep music from going to shit, like great saints and mystics who introduce something Real into peoples lives.

[@josephsummer777]

Beautifully said.

[@Qazwdx111]

Define shit

[@primuspilum]

I love how he kept reinventing himself musically

[@eleodynneli9068]

Oooh thank you so much I've been searching this one for so long ! I love that piece !

[@samandrewsdailypractice]

Wow, masterpiece.

[@simonmoore7454]

Oh, this gives me the mega-tingles. especially at no. 74 just at the end; I saw Rattle conducting this at a prom and he just closed his eyes in bliss at this point. The complexity of the music to produce such a wonderful mix is just amazing!

[@rogerberoyandreu6917]

Antífona I 0:55 Troparion 1:55 Antífona II 4:18 Kanone 4:33 CORALE 6:30

[@johntabacco]

Damn. It's a piece that takes us from birth to death. What a gifted composer.

[@tvndvne]

01:54 Rhythm practice (flute part)

[@EASYTIGER10]

Played this 30 years ago! Where have the years gone??

[@Sam-zj6mw]

Behind the bin at Tesco.

[@Verschlungen]

65 years ago...

[@henrygingercat]

An extraordinary piece just as innovative as The Rite and subtly influential: the opening bar alone surely kickstarted the very different Bernstein's Prelude Fugue and Riffs and Birtwistle's Tragoedia for starters whilst its non-developmental block structure influenced many more (not least those composers who were not very good with developing material such as Tippett).

[@rloomis3]

Yep - this is the archetype, the _sine qua non_ of block form.

[@wug6175]

Beautiful

[@Snardbafulator]

This reminds me so much of Mont Campbell's compositions in his bands Egg and National Health. Many bands in the prog and avant prog movements claimed a Stravinsky influence. This is the most direct lineage I think, deeper than Magma's and Univers Zero's acknowledged Stravinsky debt.

[@bonzey1171]

I love Egg. And National Health. Well spotted

[@georgebrown5601]

Brilliant recording

[@bfposner]

A masterpiece

[@dunctonhoney]

Love this piece, thanks so much for uploading

[@arteyotrasatrocidades7178]

So beautiful!

[@scottbiggs8894]

Thank you! Amazing performance!

[@pedrobarrosviolao4133]

I love it

[@simonmoore7454]

Also interesting that he used the ending of this to end his symphony in C later on and to wonderful effect with the strings just fading out the last chord!.

[@bonzey1171]

Those are some sweet stacks at about 8 and a half minutes

[@yrockerboy]

4:34

[@UtsyoChakraborty]

Thank you... :)

[@gepmrk]

At 0:32 at rehearsal mark 3 I swear there's a line that's not written in the score. Ignoring the semiquaver anticipation in the previous bar, I hear a trombone playing D4, G3, C4 in the 2/8 bar, D4, G3 in the 3/16 bar and C4, D4, G3 in the 5/16 bar. And yet I don't see that in the score. Am I on drugs? Later that day... Ah it's not a concert score.

[@gerardbegni2806]

These "symphonies" were compoed to the memory of Claude Debussy. We hav here a very clear rendering.But how far from Debussy are we ! ths is score seems to develop in an elusive way some fery tures drom "rge rite of the spring". - probably for thr last time before the so-called "neoclassical" period.

[@rr7firefly]

I revere Debussy and Stravinsky. In my youth I knew that "Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune" and "Le Sacre du Printemps" were revolutionary works of art, beyond the wildest expectations of their musical milieux. Here we are, more than a hundred years later (1894 and 1913) and we are still engrossed by their beauty.

[@thysvanzyl2782]

💚

[@jsaavedr1]

So much going on. Clarinets playing up in the stratosphere and most importantly, NO SAXOPHONES! Leave those shenanigans for Grainger, lol.

[@TempodiPiano]

true, he must have add saxophones, it would enrich the atmosphere

[@klop4228]

Hey lay off the saxophones! They do great work in Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances!

[@jalaeluawaterhousecomposer]

@@klop4228 I couldn't bear the idea of saxophones in the orchestra until I heard Symphonic Dances!

[@rloomis3]

@@klop4228 Just to be clear, there is one (1) saxophone in the Rachmaninoff - and it only plays for a short stretch in the first movement. But what a gorgeous solo!

[@mikhailastafyev9592]

Can you send me score of this piece? Thank you!

[@k.c.compositions3519]

1:55 rite of spring quote? lmao

[@川口健太郎-l1b]

メシアンのクロノクロミーは、これを参考にしていそう

[@NickSievers1]

why is it symphonies, rather than symphony?

[@licoricestic]

If we take symphony's literal definition "consonance of sounds" then this is many "consonances" of sounds made by wind instruments.

[@Verschlungen]

Answer: The way I make sense of the title is this: There are actually 4 or 5 distinct "choruses" (i.e., subsets or mini-ensembles) of instruments that recur and thus "talk to each other" throughout the piece. But I agree, the title is a bit weird, even off-putting. (The allusion to an old French meaning of 'symphony', mentioned in the Description, is of no help at all. It's just a dumb title, which has probably held the piece back a bit from being as widely known as it should be -- since it is sublime and unique. Best thing Stravinsky ever wrote!)

[@Sam-zj6mw]

A fine pudding indeed.

[@thysvanzyl2782]

🤣😅 Yes, excellent pudding !!

[@lotuschan55]

Du magst seine Musik

[@albertoocasio2331]

I see where Ticheli got some of his ideas

[@TempodiPiano]

Interesting. Still Russian but the composer begins to become too cosmopolit I guess.

[@hatephone]

This is bleachers

[@GDDubya]

As a percussionist that literally practices everyday, I hope my high school band doesn't do this song.

[@wislian]

Ok cheers

[@scruffysean3640]

You should hope they WOULD do it!

[@lebronjames635]

This one sucks so bad

[@luca-dimitriepop9792]

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