What a time to be alive, when we can simply click and listen to this at-will. In all other generations you might hear this two or three times in a lifetime.
@joelkoslosky81182 жыл бұрын
Or never. Most concerts were for the elite and rarely affordable.
@janvanc71906 жыл бұрын
I love Russian composers. Their music embodies the Russian spirit and love that Russians have for their country. First time I hear this wonderful symphony. Thanks for posting and wish for many more people to discover this beautiful music.
@sovietclassic53014 жыл бұрын
Jan Abovitt, for more Russian composers look up video "TOP 30 Russian composers"
@keithp533 жыл бұрын
This symphony which took 31 years to finish (not until 1897) has been my favourite "hidden gem" for years - and I was very lucky to actually play it as a violinist in a UK amateur orchestra in the late 1990s. A lovely recording here. The first movement Allegro vivo after 2:25 is just... bonkers but brilliantly original, and Golovschin takes it at a nice tempo of quarter-note [crotchet] = 112, too (I find the rival performance on YT by Svetlanov too fast). Golovschin's tempo for the Rimsky-like Finale at 34:15 is also really good so that you hear all the different folk-melodies; the episode from about 39:46 onwards has some stunning harmonies in fifths, very 'Oriental folky', very original to Western ears. I always used to say to my orchestra colleagues when rehearsing the 1st movement "now you'll see where the inspiration for some 20th-century Russian music comes from". There's been lots of debate as to whether Rachmaninov knew when planning his 2nd symphony's slow movement and was inspired by Balakirev's exquisite Andante 3rd movement here, 20:27 on. I'm sure he did know it (the prominent solo melody for the clarinet is a bit of a give-away), but anyway - I'd like both Balakirev's and Rachmaninov's melodies in my Desert Island Discs please!
@albrechtgaub28822 жыл бұрын
I agree with "bonkers" regarding the first movement, but I think things don't really go awry before 6:18, when a deceptive cadence occurs instead of the well-prepared "double return", i.e. recapitulation of the main theme in the tonic. Rimsky-Korsakov aptly characterized the music that follows as a "sequence of concluding phrases [or "codettas"] without a conclusion." (I think that's from the diary of his friend Vasiliy Yastrebtsev.)
@VOLKHVORONOVICH4 жыл бұрын
The story behind Repin's painting is hilarious. From Wikipedia" Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks depicts a supposedly historical tableau, set in 1676, and based on the legend of Cossacks sending a reply to an ultimatum of the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Mehmed IV. The original reply, if it ever existed, has not survived; however, in the 1870s an amateur ethnographer from Yekaterinoslav (today Dnipro), Ya. Novitsky, found a copy made in the 18th century. He gave it to historian Dmytro Yavornytsky (1855-1940), who by chance read it to his guests, among whom was the painter Ilya Repin. Repin became curious about the story and in 1880 started the first of his studies.[citation needed] According to the story, the Zaporozhian Cossacks (from "beyond the rapids", Ukrainian: za porohamy), inhabiting the lands around the lower Dnieper River in Ukraine, had defeated Ottoman Empire forces in battle. However, Mehmed demanded that the Cossacks submit to Ottoman rule. The Cossacks, led by Ivan Sirko, replied in an uncharacteristic manner: they wrote a letter, replete with insults and profanities. The painting exhibits the Cossacks' pleasure at striving to come up with ever more base vulgarities. During Repin's time, the Cossacks enjoyed great popular sympathy. Repin also admired them: "All that Gogol wrote about them is true! A holy people! No one in the world held so deeply freedom, equality, and fraternity." Mehmed IV, Ottoman Sultan 1648-1687 Sultan Mehmed IV to the Zaporozhian Cossacks: As the Sultan; son of Muhammad; brother of the sun and moon; grandson and viceroy of God; ruler of the kingdoms of Macedonia, Babylon, Jerusalem, Upper and Lower Egypt; emperor of emperors; sovereign of sovereigns; extraordinary knight, never defeated; steadfast guardian of the tomb of Jesus Christ; trustee chosen by God Himself; the hope and comfort of Muslims; confounder and great defender of Christians - I command you, the Zaporogian Cossacks, to submit to me voluntarily and without any resistance, and to desist from troubling me with your attacks. - Turkish Sultan Mehmed IV The Cossacks' reply came as a stream of invective and vulgar rhymes: Zaporozhian Cossacks to the Turkish Sultan! O sultan, Turkish devil and damned devil's kith and kin, secretary to Lucifer himself. What the devil kind of knight are thou, that canst not slay a hedgehog with your naked arse? The devil shits, and your army eats. Thou shalt not, thou son of a whore, make subjects of Christian sons; we have no fear of your army, by land and by sea we will battle with thee, fuck thy mother. Thou Babylonian scullion, Macedonian wheelwright, brewer of Jerusalem, goat-fucker of Alexandria, swineherd of Greater and Lesser Egypt, pig of Armenia, Podolian thief, catamite of Tartary, hangman of Kamyanets, and fool of all the world and underworld, an idiot before God, grandson of the Serpent, and the crick in our dick. Pig's snout, mare's arse, slaughterhouse cur, unchristened brow, screw thine own mother! So the Zaporozhians declare, you lowlife. You won't even be herding pigs for the Christians. Now we'll conclude, for we don't know the date and don't own a calendar; the moon's in the sky, the year with the Lord, the day's the same over here as it is over there; for this kiss our arse! - Koshovyi otaman Ivan Sirko, with the whole Zaporozhian Host
@IK-so2bm3 жыл бұрын
Absolutely wonderful, perfectly fitting the free rebellious nature of the Cossacks. If Gogol knew this story he would have told it, as only he could.
@cellosean Жыл бұрын
Yes, and there are some musical compositions using this story as their basis. One is a movement from Shostakovich's Fourteenth Symphony (poetry by Guillaume Apollinaire). Another is a piece, Op. 64 by Reinhold Glière, that I played (cello) with my orchestra not too long ago. Fun stuff.
@Elitist20 Жыл бұрын
Here are Adrian Edmondson (Sultan) and Olivia Colman (Cossacks) reading the letters: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qmWci4Ghq6ypnsk
@OffThePickettFence7 жыл бұрын
Quick correction on the date... according to the Oxford Dictionary of Music, although Balakirev had begun to compose this work in 1864, he did not finish it until 1897. It was premiered in April of 1898 conducted by Balakirev himself, his final appearance as a conductor.
@mashapetoddlethata30562 жыл бұрын
Beautiful traditional russian classical jewel...legendary !!!
@johannsebastianbach34116 жыл бұрын
Painting: Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks Painter: Ilya Repin, 1891
@sebastianflores47155 жыл бұрын
Thanks Bach
@mrhobbes105 жыл бұрын
Which is also a great tone poem by Gliere.
@eduardorios94095 жыл бұрын
What? No middle fingers?
@daniel32319954 жыл бұрын
related to vadim?
@vanhouten644 жыл бұрын
Repin also did the famous portrait of Mussorgsky that one often sees.
@genevievebauer3239 жыл бұрын
Un nom qu'on ne voit pas souvent sur les programmes. Merci de le tirer un peu de cet oubli immérité.
@tomp71419 жыл бұрын
Wow! I haven't heard this symphony in 30 years. Years ago, when I was in love, I wrote words to the tune of the 3rd movement. "Can a rose feel the cold when the wind blows and the leaves have all gone from the trees? Does it long for the season of sunlight when it swayed in the warm summer breeze?" etc
@paulprocopolis9 жыл бұрын
That's touching - I hope your love worked out!
@hansplougolsen95686 жыл бұрын
Roses dont have trees, You Dumbhead, Mr H.
@aceunknown38695 жыл бұрын
I think you are actually the dumb one here, read that again
@rrozoff13 жыл бұрын
More please
@tomp71413 жыл бұрын
My poem/song also made use of Borodin's Sym 2, 3rd movement. "Once a rose grew tall, encouraged by the sun, blooming bright in the end of summer, life renewed again as the season darkened." "Born too late to fully live its life in sun, all too soon autumn winds were blowing, just like hopes and dreams all the leaves were falling." "Cry for the rose, now dead, abandoned by the sun, frozen fast in the snows of winter. All that bloomed is gone, only thorns still linger."
@user-fg9xr1yj4l4 күн бұрын
BALAKIREV'SYMPHONY is wonderful.
@ricardogallardo74674 жыл бұрын
Me encanta el andante del 3° movimiento, me hace imaginar esas interminables praderas, y ese ambiente tan particular, Muchas gracias , Ricardo desde Argentina
@yowzephyr3 жыл бұрын
0:00 is a good place to start.
@Killerbee47123 жыл бұрын
No no no, I prefer 0:00
@rrozoff13 жыл бұрын
Bravo!
@darrylschultz93956 ай бұрын
It's only helpful to say where the music starts when it's somewhere after 0:00.
@re1ntyes10 жыл бұрын
for who wants to know about the painting: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reply_of_the_Zaporozhian_Cossacks
@pannonianbrute10 жыл бұрын
Thanks...well worth reading, one heck of a tale :)
@jefferyhammond14217 жыл бұрын
Good story! Thanks.
@steveegallo33847 жыл бұрын
Glière "painted" it best!
@steveegallo33844 жыл бұрын
Fascinating! Gracias from San Agustinillo, Oaxaca!
@nikolaicoco333 Жыл бұрын
Danke schön!!! Bamberg
@ceciliasosa6207 жыл бұрын
ILove this symphony
@ppppppppppppppppp99910 жыл бұрын
Great work!
@eleipswanaya29775 ай бұрын
Hermosa música de este autor No lo conocía
@bugatti1033 жыл бұрын
another underplayed work... excellent
@williametheridge17645 жыл бұрын
This was recommended today, after I swooned over Valinnikov’s 1st Sym. He did not jest, it’s a pearler.
@maitreyeeye47375 жыл бұрын
sorry, but Kalinnikov instead of Valinnikov
@williametheridge17645 жыл бұрын
@@maitreyeeye4737 haha, yes i saw that. Someone pays attention.
@ob41615 жыл бұрын
this was published on my birthday! A nice surprise.
@hectorbarrionuevo60344 жыл бұрын
Lovely mid-Romantic, Russian Symphony; especially enjoyed Movements II and IV for energy and color !
@MyMauveSky Жыл бұрын
That second movement, my God!
@rrozoff13 жыл бұрын
What a glorious, majestic work.
@kellykane106210 жыл бұрын
Hey! That was real nice. Thanks. I liked this a lot. Never heard it before. Don't recognize the name. But it's very good. Someone could do a ballet to this I think.
@StanislavOvchinnikov6 жыл бұрын
It's a father of Russian classical music - Balakirev made a great influence on Musorgskii, Rimski-Korsakov, and later, Stravinsky
@giirving4 жыл бұрын
Starting at around 20:00 is pure heaven.
@armgarci11 жыл бұрын
I´ve just heard the masterpiece and it took my breath away this Symophony; especially the "Andante". It is really moving. Thank you for sharing this.
@EyalRonen114 жыл бұрын
stunning
@williametheridge17645 жыл бұрын
thankyou matthew... the andante est incroyable
@yvanern35242 жыл бұрын
The intellectual treatment does the heart justice
@allasteinberger79845 ай бұрын
Ein Juwel! Блестяще!
@rozb5545 ай бұрын
I wish they'd play stuff like this on Classic Fm - it's brilliant.
@Kowjja8 ай бұрын
Crazy it took him 42 years to compose another one
@321abcable10 жыл бұрын
This symphony is a pleasant surprise-more exciting than Korsakov opus.
@abbalillie63828 жыл бұрын
Damn near perfect.
@luisfarfan5252 Жыл бұрын
Excellent obra musical
@bizza10007 жыл бұрын
WOW
@MegaCirse7 жыл бұрын
Listen this it’s abolish the surge of noises and images of everyday life in order to open the space of a place where contingency and representation give way to the immateriality of the sensible. Once the door is closed on the agitation of the world, an underlying silence is established, a slowness grasps, preludes to a dilation of perception and consciousness. In the stream of the notes that pass through us, the expressive power of the sound architecture breaks with any form of transcription of the real to attach itself to the expression of an impalpable universe. Colors, composition, rhythm, constitute a language that truly gives voice to exaltation!
@user-mp5dq8xe4i3 жыл бұрын
Настоящий мастер . Всё -таки правильно он со Стасовым сделали .
@wedgestone62047 жыл бұрын
since 21:04 is the true russian spirit, so marvellous
@eduardorios94095 жыл бұрын
I differ. The marvelous Andante has a lot of "Orientalism", heavily espoused by the Five (especially Rimsky, Borodin and Balakirev).
@futterkulcha5 жыл бұрын
Why the hell would you have advertisements in the middle of a symphony?!
@TahseenNakavi5 жыл бұрын
As a reminder that this world is a small hell hole and there are plenty of arseholes here who think of nothing but money whole day!
@albrechtgaub28822 жыл бұрын
Because this is KZbin and KZbin is based in the United States.
@handledav Жыл бұрын
mily
@andrewpetersen52723 жыл бұрын
Much better than the 2nd I thknk.
@gregoriourriola86963 жыл бұрын
Simplemente una gran sinfonia de un autor con escasa presencia en los conciertos, pero superior al primer Chaikovski, digo, antes de la cuarta de este ultimo autor. Bellisimo andante.
@manueljoseblancamolinos8582 Жыл бұрын
La segunda sinfonia de Chaikovski, en su versión original de 1872 , es una obra imponente, muy influida por el estilo de Balakirev de modulación constante. Esta segunda sinfonia la simplífico mucho Chaikovski en 1879 (sobre todo el primer movimiento).
@JAMESLEVEE11 жыл бұрын
Had a little typo in the finale, there. Should be "moderato".
@jeanstrubjucker78855 жыл бұрын
Publicidad entre movimientos me parece bien. Publicidad dentro de un movimiento me parece una indecencia
@steveegallo33844 жыл бұрын
Pagase la multa! Nada es de Balde.....Pague los 100 pesos, pinche Tacaño! Saludos desde San Agustinillo!
@robertcohn88586 жыл бұрын
A full, rich, wonderful performance evoking nostalgic Russian themes. It would be nice to know the artist and title of the fascinating painting above.
@hansplougolsen95686 жыл бұрын
Are you American and born Dumb ?
@sridevdevotional8 жыл бұрын
hello , the painting is called "tarars answering the sultans decree", or something to that effect. painting is by Russian historical painter, I seen a copy of this painting, {there are more than one version{, in the Cincinnati art museum a year ago, it was on loan from another museum. this artists creations can be viewed on line , under Russian historical painter , 19th, 20th century, via many websights. good luck in your research
@MegaCirse7 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this brief precision but essential information. The picture is indeed, very nuanced and strong in sensations!
@ordinarypablo6 жыл бұрын
Nope, it’s called reply of the zaporozhian Cossacks
@hansplougolsen95686 жыл бұрын
Go Fuck, yourself,, Or on..
@synolosquartettodiflauti638510 жыл бұрын
a phone is ringing @26:36! or is a duet with the flute? LOL
@2ears1mouth7869 жыл бұрын
that must be a phone in the audience
@dreamer_49378 жыл бұрын
+Synolos Quartetto di Flauti Indeed :DDD
@karelpartouns69749 жыл бұрын
@ Ignace Erauw, Dear Sir, could you explane the relevance of your remark. please ?
@pipestud3corncobpuffer7856 жыл бұрын
Please place commercials between movements or before the piece. Not during movements. Thank you.
@KuhlauDilfeng26 жыл бұрын
That is youtube's fault, not mine. I advise you to get some sort of adblock.
@pipestud3corncobpuffer7856 жыл бұрын
KuhlauDilfeng2. Thanks. Didn't know they had an adblock option. Thank you for posting all these great musical gems.
@apolloskyfacer58425 жыл бұрын
@@pipestud3corncobpuffer785 I think you have to pay for it in Premium Utube
@Felipe_Vitar6 жыл бұрын
Alguien sabe como se llama la pintura de la imagen que sigue la música?
@eduardorios94095 жыл бұрын
Respuesta al Sultán de los Cosacos de Zaporozhie. El Sultán les había exigido que se proclamaran sus súbditos, a pesar de que los Cosacos lo habían derrotado en el campo de batalla.
@brucemiller53562 жыл бұрын
who did this painting? thanks
@brucemiller53562 жыл бұрын
repin i see
@piotr99147 жыл бұрын
6 people dislike this? they must love sleeping at boring cheesy Brahms concert!
@DrKub0076 жыл бұрын
i don t get how you could like this music and not brahms one ?!!!! no sense as brahms is by far the western composer the closer to slavonic ones .....
@StanislavOvchinnikov6 жыл бұрын
I suppose mr pong just made parody on very typical comment about anyone in pop or rock classic compared with Justin Bieber.
@classicalmusic11756 жыл бұрын
Why pick on Brahms? His music is far from boring.
@Pedrooko6 жыл бұрын
Lol so true
@Adamov16 жыл бұрын
Especially not boring piece by Brahms is Hungarian Dance no 5 which he entirely ripped off Béla Kéler's - Bártfai Emlék Csárdás Op.31 !
@BKG201106279 жыл бұрын
Can you please tell me the name of the painting, as well as its author? Thank you.
@KuhlauDilfeng29 жыл бұрын
***** Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks by Ilya Repin.
@BKG201106279 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much!
@abdul75919 жыл бұрын
***** In English sometimes the title is given as "The Zaporozhye Cossacks write an Insulting Letter to the Sultan." I've seen it rendered like that in art history books.
@vangel14438 жыл бұрын
A scene worthy of Taras Bulba.
@darrylschultz64793 жыл бұрын
"Taras Bulba Has His Left Testicle Tickled By The Court Testicle-Tickler" by Y. B. Cozz.
@recreationofxse44176 жыл бұрын
What's the source of the painting?
@danielebicego5 жыл бұрын
a painting by ilja repin
@darrylschultz64793 жыл бұрын
I believe no sauce was added to the paint.
@illiadubrovin89952 жыл бұрын
Why always Ukraine in the background?
@robertlambeaux897 Жыл бұрын
Because UKR is the cradle of the russian "civilization "(the Rus of Kiev) . You don't know History? But many Russian composer has recognized this fact, looking more to the West than to the East . (lot of"polonaises", Prokofiev used often Ukrainien melodies , and , before 02/22/2022, they shared"brotherly"....
@illiadubrovin8995 Жыл бұрын
@@robertlambeaux897 We never shared brotherly. Russia is empire that assimilate all people inside it. Moscow has nothing in common with Rus history. In fact it even wasn't called Russia before Peter the first decided to trade with Europe. Culture appropriation is normall process in any empire that continues in russia today
@robertlambeaux897 Жыл бұрын
I dont know if You are Ukrainian or Russian, so, I didn't know if your question was admirative or depreciative ... Of course , my "brotherly" was ironic... Even if many conflicts , in past time, were between brothers, about heritage, for example... But I agree as you say that the imperial mentality of Russia hasn't changed.
@internetperiodista5 жыл бұрын
Taras Bulba, Andrei and Ostap, Kukubenko even the jew Yankel like this masterpiece of music
@user-mx3cv1zy8y2 жыл бұрын
+
@katjao.h.3212 жыл бұрын
18:20
@rodolfoklienwilmes1571 Жыл бұрын
Magnífica obra bella impresionante , gracias por poder disfrutarla
@user-em8et9nt4b2 жыл бұрын
Balakirev's symphonies are entirely painted with Ukrainian ornament, both the first symphony and the second by the first. and as a confirmation of this, they are illustrated here with pictures from the history of the Ukrainian people .. it's time to learn to distinguish Ukrainians from the conglomerate of ethnic groups of the Russian Empire, good gentlemen.
@user-wj2gs5tj4h Жыл бұрын
Probably, it is a right remark, but its vein, its slightly melancholy spirit at times and general lively optimism, inspiration is purely Russian!
@robertlambeaux897 Жыл бұрын
@@user-wj2gs5tj4h Even if they fight, today, they are still "brothers" . But history is full of tragedies where brothers compete.
@user-wj2gs5tj4h Жыл бұрын
@@robertlambeaux897 Mais la musique, les valeurs eternels reunissons tous les hommes, ils aident a resoudre tous les antagonismes, scismes, tous les malheures!
@robertlambeaux897 Жыл бұрын
@@user-wj2gs5tj4h J'aimerais vous approuver . Mais certaines personnes veulent"mettre au pas" même la "belle" musique . Tout le monde n'a pas la force de caractère de Chostakovitch . Mais bien d'accord , en Belgique , il n'y a pas un jour (depuis 02/22) que nous n'entendions de très belles musiques russes et/ou ukrainiennes.
@user-wj2gs5tj4h Жыл бұрын
@@robertlambeaux897 Merci bien, Robert! Ce vrai, que certains groupes de gens veulent mettre l ' art au pas de temps modernes, mais , je pense, que ces attentes echouons, ces tendances non vont pas se perpetualiser, ils vont s' emousser. L' art vrai va depasser tous cela!