Magnifique symphonie. Superbe interprétation de Leonard Bernstein. Wonderful Symphony like Leonard Bernstein performance
@Twentythousandlps4 жыл бұрын
Bernstein said in prepared remarks at this concert: "the Third Symphony of Ned Rorem is a frankly romantic work, appealing, tender, lyrical; and spiced with jazz elements in its 2nd and final movements. Actually Rorem is best known for his songs; he is a marvelous composer for the voice; his lyricism is true and deep inside him; and it shows up in his longer works as well. Perhaps we could call this a song-symphony, with a few dance movements for relief. Listen particularly hard to the two short movements in the middle, one after the other; they are the key to the whole work."
@alexkije2 жыл бұрын
Very well said!
@JohnPennello10 жыл бұрын
The third and forth movements are super beautiful! Such delicate sensitivity.
@jimstokes67427 жыл бұрын
I like the first and the last.
@pavelbezukhov11 жыл бұрын
This has been a favorite work of mine since I was a child. I'm so glad to finally get to hear the Bernstein recording. Thank you so much for posting this lesser known gem.
@billyoumans1784 Жыл бұрын
Sorry to hear of Ned’s passing. I knew him a little. Rip.
@jimstokes67428 жыл бұрын
I like the painting, too. Thanks for the explanation of the score.
@jacklaw793210 жыл бұрын
This give me bittersweet memories of New York City.
@vladislovkyzinski34308 жыл бұрын
WOW! Am revisiting this delightful symphony. There are so many diverse motifs in this bittersweet sounding work. I hear music quite like Leonard Bernstein used in West Side Story around 7:04. Show biz motifs. Snatches of 1950s TV show underscore. It is tragic that music like this is not more widely played. But Thank God for KZbin. But no thanks to the rather snide remarks of the queens. God may forgive the evil in their hearts.
@Obaysch7 жыл бұрын
Vladislov Kyzinski snide remarks from queens are quite apropos with Rorem, who has specialized in that. Love this master dearly anyway.
@alexkije2 жыл бұрын
It's the music. Don't knock the composer, per se.
@7karlheinz24 күн бұрын
I love Bernstein, but Abravenel’s recording on Turnabout (conducting the Utah Symphony Orchestra) is still my favorite version of this symphony.
@jimstokes67427 жыл бұрын
I like the 1st and the last movements. And I very much like the painting Summer Night by George Bellows.
@vladislovkyzinski343010 жыл бұрын
Sounds like music for a gritty NYC b&w movie of the 50s. The bell at about :45 sounds like the bell to start fight in a ring.
@vladislovkyzinski343010 жыл бұрын
8:12 sounds like "Another opening, another show" quote. :)
@Glinkaism18 жыл бұрын
+Vladislov Kyzinski Indeed! Very astute.
@Glinkaism18 жыл бұрын
+Roger Wilco By golly, I think you may be right, Vlad.
@jacklaw79328 жыл бұрын
+Vladislov Kyzinski My gosh, yes!!! Like music for a 1950s film.
@jacklaw793210 жыл бұрын
I hear a West Side Story motif here. Most likely coincidence or inadvertent use of Rorem's theme by Bernstein. Danged if I know or anyone else does. The beginnings of WSS go waaaay back to 1947. Fascinating how the storyine evolved! But listen to the last movement of Sym #3 here, and you'll hear the Jet's theme from WSS. But then Rorem also has what sounds like the opening phrase to Another Opening, Another Show, too.
@jerryhagen59265 жыл бұрын
Most likely synchronicity. Birds of a feather. After all, Ned and Lenny were both homosexual, which I don't hold against them.
@jdoggtn74 жыл бұрын
Check out the prelude to the first act of Blitzstein's Regina. Bernstein plagiarized it note for note to make "Maria" in West Side Story. Of course he and Blitzstein had a "thing" going at one time.
@alexkije2 жыл бұрын
@@jerryhagen5926 hahah. They held each other. Everybody needs somebody, sometime. I'll take a redhead, brunette, or blond lass or lady.
@vladislovkyzinski343010 жыл бұрын
AHA! This is LIVE. In the recording, there's is an added "cha-cha-cha" phrase at the very end! And the first movement is more uptempo!
@jerryhagen59265 жыл бұрын
Tis live and lively.
@sergejtikhonov4962 Жыл бұрын
The opening theme is "O Fortuna" reminiscence. Isn't it?.. R.I.P., mesmerizing Ned Rorem !
@fgldnglbs10 жыл бұрын
@Jack Law: Can't be. West Side Story opened in 1956, while this was written in 1958. Bernstein and Rorem apparently took a few dabs from the same palette.
@Glinkaism18 жыл бұрын
+fgldnglbs Aha! :)
@davidking6633 жыл бұрын
And they both loved Aaron Copland!
@alexkije2 жыл бұрын
Hey! There ya go. However, I bet Ned took several years to compose this.
@alexkije2 жыл бұрын
AHA! Starting at 7:00. It wounds like "Something's Coming" from West Side Story. Parts of this symphony would to well a s underscore to tough movie set in NYC.
@giovannismartini4796 жыл бұрын
The Largo reminds me the rautavaarian strings writing, even though it was two or three decades before !
@heterosectional10 жыл бұрын
What's the painting? I have a recording of this on cassette that I taped off the radio years ago. It starts at the crescendo at about 0:29. I thought that's how it started. And have got so used to it I rather like it upcut like that. :)
@kicsiobi6 жыл бұрын
The painting is George Wesley Bellows: Summer Night, Riverside Drive (1909)
@alexkije Жыл бұрын
@@kicsiobi Ah, I see it. Thanks for the whole title. It is utterly grand from a much better time. So intricate and for-real!
@marcelolasta66364 жыл бұрын
Muuuuy buena!!
@Twentythousandlps6 жыл бұрын
By 1958 most of the younger composers had a more chromatic, dissonant style, and Rorem himself went in that direction later.(Try his Piano Concerto no. 3, for example.) But a conductor today would be more apt to choose this for an audience to hear. Far more "relatable".
@jacklaw79328 жыл бұрын
VIVA NED ROREM. Another good Ameri/Norsky composer.
@Glinkaism18 жыл бұрын
+Jack Law WH00PY ludefiske!
@yowzephyr3 жыл бұрын
Alas I am allergic to mono. I think it's a headphones thing. If I had speakers maybe it wouldn't bother me so much.
@alexkije2 жыл бұрын
Get used to it, snowflake.
@written126 жыл бұрын
Great music and the perfect conductor for it. The nasty exchange between the painfully snobby, on the one hand, and the gay bashes, on the other, was quite unexpected and sickening. Oh, and there was some Latino bashing as well.
@MrInterestingthings8 жыл бұрын
My dear , that's because ring fights and 50's movies are all you 've ever been exposed to .Try expanding your horizons and you'll get more pleasured references when you listen to music . Ned Rorem is one of the greatest living American Masters .Of course you don't know how to listen so just be quiet . Why are the ignorant always making pronouncements in public ?
@ivanmanuellarcodegregori44818 жыл бұрын
My English is not so well, but I'm agree with you, Ignorance is audacious and insolent, that is the case of Mr. Vladislov Kyzinski. Ned Rorem is so high that he can't see and listen this marvelous music.
@ivanmanuellarcodegregori44818 жыл бұрын
+Roger Wilco ¿A qué le temes Roger Wilco (si ese es tu nombre) a tu homosexualidad o a tu ignorancia? What are you afraid of Roger Wilco (If that is your name) to your homosexuality or your ignorance?
@RichardASalisbury17 жыл бұрын
". . . where would should be spelled 'you've' That just for starters." Huh? Your grammar, syntax, etc. are worse than his, and your comments even snarkier and more juvenile. Grow up and just enjoy the music.
@heterosectional5 жыл бұрын
@@jimstokes6742 no shit. does a bear defecate in the woods? hahaha
@carloscuadrosoriundocarlos65235 жыл бұрын
@@heterosectional What are you afraid of Roger Regor (If that is your name) to your homosexuality or your ignorance?