Mozart: The Magic Flute - Overture (Benjamin Zander - Boston Philharmonic Orchestra)

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Benjamin Zander (conductor)
Boston Philharmonic Orchestra
Recorded live at Jordan Hall in October, 2019

[@smartmagis]

jeez. this is just the textbook definition of music. It's got everything "music" should have -- almost feels like every moment and transition is obvious and inevitable. If an alien were to come to earth and ask what is music --- I mean this is it. It's the most music of any music out there.

[@KeenBulldozer]

what a ridiculous comment

[@amielschotz4982]

A very competent performance. I love Zander but did you notice that despite his quoting the saying “The conductor should have the score in his head, not his head in the score” he virtually never raised his eyes from the page.

[@FranzFischerSDG]

There is a thing called "aged."

[@philipkuttner7945]

@@FranzFischerSDG I don't have good visual memory, so I rely on my score when I conduct opera. But I do look up as much as I can, especially to give cues. Every young musician knows this overture by heart, it is so often played--in fact the opening 1st violin passage in the Allegro is such a standard audition excerpt that even mediocre violinists play it perfectly. Z. knows nothing about opera.

[@philipkuttner7945]

Forgive me, I meant the opening 2nd violin passage in the Allegro.

[@juliejules7780]

@@philipkuttner7945 I wonder why second violin part is chosen in auditions as opposed to the first. I'm playing this with my orchestra now and thought I didn't need to practice. Boy, was I wrong.

[@philzmusic8098]

@@juliejules7780 It has more 8th notes. The same is true for the entire opera. Mozart was still learning effective string orchestration.

[@dazheath1]

I’ve heard this piece over a hundred times and studied it, and I can safely say that this is spot on. Mozart would be proud!

[@ElizabethDukes-gs1nl]

It's so beautiful 😍

[@marcellogenesi6390]

Rossini was nicknamed il Tedeschino because he loved the work of German ( Tedesco in Italian) composers, there are similarities in Rossini overture: The barber of Seville, and Mozart's overture: The Magic Flute

[@FranzFischerSDG]

Benjamin Zander is a nation treasure for music education.

[@joaorecital100]

A orquestra está maravilhosa em sua interpretação... maestro impecável

[@daviddemar8749]

Bravo maestro May you live as long as Moses- 120 years.🎼🎵🎶🎵🎶📯🎺🎻🥁❤

[@seciliakiptoo9539]

Nice song I play flute my self and I love planing magic flute

[@jkgou1]

Thank you very much for outstanding performance

[@joaorecital100]

Sempre venho aqui... e assisto a este concerto... me inspira a realizar esta obra magnifica de Mozart...

[@EvgeniiaDolinenko]

3:46 My favorite part ❤

[@federicozimerman8167]

If I remember correctly and for my taste, Bruno Wlater’s with the columbia symphony orchestra is the best version I ever listened.

[@shin-i-chikozima]

There are extraordinary skills and distinguished talents in their performance .

[@boriss.861]

Thank you Benjamin and the Elves: Things worthy of note the Trumpets being German style. ( Trombones?) The Concert Mistress trying her hardest to take the violins along with her and they were still being reticent ( probably they had not put in their Ling Ling quota) More thoughts below what has been forgotten?

[@margaritadaza1984]

Bravo Mr. Zander❤❤🎉

[@yolandalcheek462]

They sound great

[@tigerfeet2813]

Wow..their lead voliolinst, is very animated!😂 clearly loving it❤

[@margaritadaza1984]

Me encanta mozart❤🎹

[@vusumzisojada3454]

EXCELLENT PITCH BY THE ORCHESTRA

[@margaritadaza1984]

Bravo Maestro

[@ЕвгенийРашковский-ц2ъ]

...and magic performance...

[@gieripaucar9454]

Stunning performance, now I live joy!!!

[@saracarol4643]

Amazing!

[@ojomajo1]

Ein Metronom würde den gleichen Dienst wie dieser Dirigent leisten. Keine Impulse gestalterischer Art!

[@ishaangupta2873]

We played this in orchestra I’m in 7th grade

[@jasearon4532]

It says the magic flute but I didn’t see the flute as a main instrument in the orchestra, I kept waiting till end waiting for the flute to mesmerized my ears 😢

[@BostonPhilharmonic]

This is the overture to Mozart's opera The Magic Flute. The flute figures prominently as a plot element in the opera.

[@jayanthigunasekara8989]

Thats a banger

[@由美樋口-q1i]

モーツァルトの魔笛好きです。

[@tu.94]

Is that you

I got to play this piece conducted by Mozart himself!😅

Brooo😂

[@margaritadaza1984]

1:25 mi parte favorita❤❤❤

[@kingnothing5678]

I hear it, the voice of god.

[@ferdatekgul103]

Temiz, güzel!

[@replyhere590]

Boston Philharmonic not BSO....

[@clarencelee4325]

I have listened to this piece for >1 million times and I think the oboe has missed the ‘D’ at 04:11. However it’s still a good performance.

[@joaovidinha328]

true

[@mdrakic]

Don't know why but I just couldn't like this version, nevermind how much I adore Zander's Beethoven renditions. Cannot exactly put the finger on it, but I felt it being a bit flat and lacking dynamisms, energy and passion. When Zander conducts Beethoven you can see he is enjoying, that he's in heaven, contrary to this. Sorry Maestro 😔

[@philipkuttner7945]

I'l tell you why you couldn't like this version. 1. Adagio mm.5 and 7, he doesn't bring the wind sfp 's down to piano, so the 1st violin melody is drowned out. Mm.9 and 11, he ignores the 2nd violin crescendos to subito piano, which are the only interesting things happening in these measures. 3. The Allegro tempo is deathly slow. At this rate, the opera would last 5 hours.

[@juliejules7780]

@@philipkuttner7945 my conductor got mad at me because I studied this version and played it too slow. Ugh I didn't bother listening to any other recordings because I was lazy

[@MrKlemps]

​​@@philipkuttner7945 But Klemperer's allegro is roughly the same, yet it does not feel slow because there is more attention to detail and balance and, believe it or not, because there is more energy.. Maestro Zander is usually never wanting in energy and high spirits but that seems to be the case here.

[@hkomm1]

wow....what great sound....!!! sounds more like the boston synphony?? not the youth one?? but great!!!

[@daviddemar8749]

I think it's the Boston Phil not the BPYO.

[@boriswilsoncreations]

when it played the first note I thought it would play the ussr anthem lol it's, like, the same chord

[@toejam749]

1:32 (for personal reference)

[@SeanChay]

Yes! The semiquaver played it right! Many orchestras played it very long...

[@mangolegend5907]

1:31

[@mokshinghin8082]

Anyone here from two set?

[@SeanChay]

Did they react?

[@gieripaucar9454]

Two set are connecting our ways with new beautiful worlds, seem to be that now more and more people likes classical music.

[@fekixrudolfbischof]

Just boring

[@Varrik159]

TUNE

[@tikitak9132]

모차르트 마술피리 서곡 1:15

[@ThomasMuir-jf8co]

As so often the professionalism of the orchestra makes up for deficiencies in conducting decisions. Esp. true with the awkward pickups at the start and with the big chords in the middle - I would have had to guess my entry in that situation. Allegro lacks urgency: faster tempo needed. Muti with the Vienna Phil is much clearer as a conductor and the music has more drive. I would say the orchestra is a little too large. I prefer a leaner and cleaner sound. However the magisterial approach can be justified given the 'Masonic' ideas in the opera itself.

[@shimmeringreflection]

Riccardo Muti conducts this much better than Zander. Look it up on KZbin. Zander isn't projecting the right mood

[@beethovenlovedmozart]

Just a tad too slow

[@philzmusic8098]

Perhaps the worst performance of this piece I've ever heard.

[@vaughancello]

1:32