An Alpine Symphony / Richard Strauss / Vasily Petrenko / Oslo Philharmonic

The Oslo Philharmonic with conductor Vasily Petrenko perform Richard Strauss' An Alpine Symphony in Oslo Concert Hall on 4th April 2019.
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[@ArtisticElegance]

Very very good. Very good.

[@user-wl4ig9bv1u]

verygood

[@nedcrouch3202]

you think it's good?

[@user-kj4pr2jx4g]

goooooooooooood

[@Jrjfkfjrkfbxkgjgkfkckgktkgkfjt]

@@nedcrouch3202 8ème wx88w8xfwwwwましもすむまみまむ

[@Dylonely42]

Very, very very good !

[@sess5206]

I had the good fortune to play this piece once, only once. It was with Bergen in 1998, I think. The years run together now. It was a Russian conductor, can't even remember who. The orchestra played like it was on fire. I'll never forget it. A true honor to be there. I played horn and Wagner tuba. A real treat! Going to hear it in Stockholm with the Radio Orchestra and Daniel Harding in February of this year (2023). Can't wait!

[@polocathmhaoil9141]

Personally I love to sit in a darkend room listening to this masterpiece. The piece is so atmospheric you can allow your imagination to run wild. It helps immensely that the orchestra put their hearts and souls into the performance. Bravo

[@davidwheeler8435]

The horn top Bb at 28:19 might be one of the most perfect notes I’ve ever heard in a live performance, just surreal

[@bobareebop]

Oh, yes! Yes!

[@faustolemos3917]

It's a D! Even more impressive

[@hannahskahandiozzi1333]

I just came home from hearing this piece done by the Boston Symphony, and here I am playing it all over again.

[@communicateMYway]

I too just had the priviledge of watching the Mississauga symphony orchestra play it last night, now I find it here too. So glad I can experience it again!

[@una4all1]

This is one of the best recordings of this insanely difficult piece. The brass are very strong throughout. Most recordings will have them fatigued as the piece progresses. The utterly stratospheric range of the horns and trumpets is consistent throughout. There are very few recordings that have this and to me it is required for me to consider it a good recording. The lower brass and percussion as well as low strings flood your ears with a wall of sound at the crescendos, even unabashedly histrionic where appropriate. I love the clarity of the woodwinds who do not allow themselves to be drowned out, their stylization is remarkable as well, being percussive and aggressive where necessary. So much passion, I just love it.

[@will_of_europa]

I can honestly say, listening to this has been more enjoyable than watching a movie. I didn't realize music could illicit emotions like this. Fantastic. I hear a lot of similarities in modern film score as well. I see where modern composers get their inspiration.

[@javiermedina5313]

Imagine a time without today's technology. People had to do/hear some pretty soulful works to not get bored

[@nigelthebriton54]

The going down of the Sun after the Storm never, ever, fails to bring tears to the eyes...

[@shin-i-chikozima]

The overwhelming mental comfort of this performance is off the charts

[@sasamijatov3021]

One of the best symphonie ever written! Just great! Hello from Serbia❤❤❤

[@janinahajduk3838]

Hello from Detroit

[@knutverland7703]

Outstanding performance! Proud to have such an excellent orchestra in little Norway!

[@jelenatakeapicture]

Norway is far from little, but this is truly amazing!

[@carrerau7138]

Norway punching above its weight, as so often!

[@IceOfPhoenix88]

I listened to this recording while I was reading the chapter of the Lord of the Rings called 'Mount Doom'. The timing was perfect because as the book's climax came, so did the symphony's and the adventurous nature of the two blended so well together. Like twoset said, you can hear LOTR in it.

[@PosauneundPapier]

The overtones in the brass at full volume starting at 30:08 are so vivid

[@coryhardwick7308]

My goodness the crescendo in Nacht is enough to bring a tear to my eye.

[@Mask-pb3ly]

I did not know that there is such a Symphony. I really enjoyed listening it.

[@hornkix]

The TEMPO is PERFECT ....I HEARD EVERY NOTES !!! BRAVO BRAVO BRAVO

[@ipekdogan211]

here thanks to twoset, absolutely loving it!

[@samanthamedina9112]

U to 😂

[@gandalfgrey91]

We all are

[@cadentrombone5345]

@@gandalfgrey91 im not

[@gandalfgrey91]

@@cadentrombone5345 yes you are

[@cadentrombone5345]

@@gandalfgrey91cant tell if ur being sarcastic but no im not. I searched up the alpine symphony because as a trombone player its one of my favorite symphonies

[@dmeachy]

My heart swelled as I listened to this piece...for the very first time. I wondered if Norway did standing O's but after clapping for 3 minutes, people began to stand. Yes, it was very, very good.

[@timmellin2815]

Glad you discovered it. An awesome work that the great Strauss used to say so many things musically. I first saw it live years ago w/ San Francisco Symphony, sitting right behind the orchestra.....what a sound !

[@volkar8422]

i keep on visiting this recording, it’s really quite the best i’ve heard. the trumpet section is super dominant and flawless throughout the entire piece and it’s such a pleasure to listen to

[@user-wg1if7we4o]

オスロフィル、初めて聴きました。緊張感のあるエネルギッシュなシュトラウス。ブラボー！🎉

[@MrMichaelvier]

love the orchestra. fantastic musicians......fantastic performance....looooove Richard Strauss:-) thx for posting:-)

[@juancarloscasella925]

Magnífico!!! 👏👏👏

[@elizabethdruee]

WOW!! This is my absolute favorite performance of this piece! I come back to this video pretty much everyday. Thank you for this and inspiring me to practice! :)

[@mariobozzoni2438]

Non avevo mai ascoltato un'esecuzione di Vasily Petrenko della sinfonia di R. Strauss e debbo convenire che è notevole, veramente bella in esecuzione ed interpretazione. Bravo, veramente bravo. Complimenti.

[@amotkram99]

Absolutely stunning performance! Oh my!

[@disamis6873]

This performance was absolutely incredible, the conductor and the musicians putting so much passion into this! The orchestra is incredibly well balanced too!

[@markhunter1241]

This is most remarkable piece of music, brought alive by this conductor with this orchestra. I enjoyed it so much I have used the beginning as an underscoring of my reading of a favoured poem. .They were both written for each other.'

[@Ziad3195]

what poem is that if i may ask!

[@markhunter1241]

@@Ziad3195 hi. Is called The Tarn. I can send it to you if you want

[@gerardbooth40]

Utterly exceptional from start to finish. A sublime performance of the highest order. Bravo!

[@KenDoc]

Extraordinary symphony and extraordinary musicians. I love you all

[@MD-md4th]

This is such a magnificent, virtuosic work where the entire orchestra is required to make important contributions. There are just so many moments and passages that are incredibly exciting and powerful. And yet for all of its grandeur, it is the vulnerability of the music at key places that moves me the deepest - most of all the horns. Like at 24:44 and 25:09, where - even though we are on top of the world with nothing but the Sun above - they sing not just in witness of the majesty of nature, but also with a deep and resplendent longing. And a bit later as we descend in the sunset those same horns with their glorious voice, both golden and elegiac as the shadows lengthen, a radiant melancholy that only Strauss could conceive. This whole work is shivers from start to finish.

[@timmellin2815]

Very well said !

[@denisbousquet9942]

A fine, well articulated performance expressing the climb, mood, alp air and views, a vision of the experience. That of Richard Strauss' own experience. I've climbed, spent much time in high mountains. This is the truest interpretation of the being, being in the heights and all that one encounters.

[@IceOfPhoenix88]

37:44 perfect example of the wind machine And ± 39:15 with the thunder sheet as well

[@adventuresinpainting]

I'm picky about my classical music and this makes the list... Eerily to resoundingly beautiful at times, quiet as crickets chirping at others. A masterpiece in my opinion

[@christhornley1664]

A most excellent rendition of this magnificent work. It is a masterpiece of orchestration depicting a days hiking trip deep into the high Alpine mountains, and the different mountain features encountered. One of my firm favourites from the very first listening.

[@aleksandarjankovski6542]

Sumptuous! Thank you to the Oslo Philharmonic for this gem of a performance.

[@timmellin2815]

First time I heard this live was at Davies Hall w/ San Fran. Orchestra. I had previewed it/ memorized / most of it prior to attending, but sitting right behind the orchestra so close at Davies, really it blows you away. When you're that close, the sound actually takes on a semi-fluid force that you can more than feel in your system. Not just loud, but w/ a fluid like substance that's hard to describe unless you experience it.

[@timmellin2815]

This Oslo version is a bit too slow a pace.....seems to drag at said pace.

[@carlosgcouto]

Thanks for that gift! From Brazil 🇧🇷🖖

[@renepoitou7978]

holly cow, this music is so powerful

[@flyer_andy2023]

Amazing performance...the principal trumpeter's note at 25:29 (I think it's a concert E but i can't remember!) is soooo Herseth...I mean this as an extreme compliment!!! This is the best of the KZbin Alpine Symphony recordings I think. Just beautiful...thank you for posting this. Bravo to you all.

[@richardhyde5997]

Extraordinary symphony and performance.

[@FerdinandClaquin]

This is actually excellent. Magnificent orchestra ! Venue acoustics could be better, but whatever: we have here one of the best modern version of Strauss' Alpine Symphony ! ♪♫♪

[@eduardobaron]

Una vez que Beethoven fijó cómo debía componerse una sinfonía, compositores como Schubert, Schumann o Brahms desarrollaron musicalmente la sonoridad sinfónica por sus propios caminos. Sin embargo, había una puerta abierta con la combinación de las sexta, Pastoral, y novena, Coral, en la que ascenderíamos hacia una cumbre emocional marcada por una caminata en la naturaleza. Este camino fue desarrollado, sobre todo, por los austriacos Anton Bruckner y Gustav Mahler; aunque la cumbre de este camino sinfónico es, sin lugar a dudas, Una Sinfonía Alpina de Richard Strauss. @t

[@user-ou9yj9bq2z]

Прекрасно!

[@newkiehey3549]

this will have lots of views more and ling ling coments

[@samanthamedina9112]

Only ling ling worthy of playing dis piece

[@gandalfgrey91]

I’m sorry I don’t know who ling ling is, I’m too busy practicing to follow internet memes

[@mikhail3643]

Большие молодцы! 😃🙏😃

[@wilfriedfriedrich3730]

Fabulous music🙏❤️❤️

[@joaojacobberberineto4174]

Bravo!!! Bravo maestro Vasily Petrenko!

[@schu9217]

saw this one in hong kong and it was epic

[@user-ju4lf9hv7b]

ブラボー❗迫力満点の演奏、そして、アルプスの美しさを存分に表現されていて、感動しました。 素晴らしい映像ありがとうございました。

[@ewald.demeyere]

A stunning performance!

[@savannahgunter5353]

How beautiful

[@055_donisaputra6]

Get a huge box, get in the box, play this beautiful piece, use your imagination, imagine you're climb a huge snowy mountain.

[@AntonioGArriaga33]

Excelente. Gracias por compartir y muchas felicidades. Saludos desde México.

[@user-pi2tl8iu6z]

좋습니다.

[@SeanMcGown]

Holy cow that is a great performance.

[@williamphillips6247]

Extraordinary performance! Bravo!

[@timmellin2815]

L.A. Philharmonic did this work autumn of '23 and somehow it slipped through the cracks, and I missed it ! I guess I failed to check their schedule early in the season because the orchestra usually saves their major Strauss works until later in the season. Aargh ! So mad at myself for missing it.

[@user-pd9yn7px1g]

The bass voices and the strings sound very nice together. It sounds very suspenseful. I've noticed that there are some harps in this orchestra,unlike the others I've listened to.The woodwind feature at 7:54 really adds some mystery into the piece.12:22-12:57 reminded me of something that would be in beauty and the beast or lady and the tramp.

[@javiermedina5313]

Yes, specially flutes in that register (low, mid) give that misterious feeling in the minor modes. All romantic+ orchestral music have harps, except the camera ones. 2 harps, like here, it's better because harps have special problems with their instrument, they must change the scales with pedals, so modulation can be a nightmare.

[@IceOfPhoenix88]

When you listen to this, you can hear the snow falling even though snow is silent. You can see the wind beating you down until you fall over, even though wind is invisible. You can feel the silent night pass, even though you can't touch it. You can see the Alpine landscape, with frozen trees and icy mountains, even though they're not there.

[@adventuresinpainting]

This is a masterpiece and a masterful rendition.

[@IceOfPhoenix88]

@@adventuresinpainting Strauss truly is a genius.

[@MD-md4th]

There are no falling snow or frozen trees in this landscape. There are flowery meadows, pasturing cows, waterfalls, and glaciers, though.

[@IceOfPhoenix88]

@@MD-md4th it was my interpretation before I knew the programme notes

[@timmellin2815]

At 16:-00 thru about 17:00, it seems like part of the first notes of Der Rosenkavalier. R.S. was great at mixing / sharing / motifs from his different works.

[@mmb96]

wonderful!

[@edsonsilva-oy1jj]

brave horns!!!!!!!!!! The angel´s song

[@stephaneragondet4268]

magnifique

[@yvonnemariarendonsalazar3570]

Ooooohhhhbbb1 divinooooo

[@user-cn5iq1kc3w]

Гениальная музыка, великолепные музыканты и ВАСИЛИЙ ПЕТРЕНКО! Ну, что еще нужно для счастья?!

[@Sol-Cutta]

Put it back on threads (1984/bbc)

[@johncarroll8146]

iTS LIKE BEING THERE

[@geogo136]

Top notch. Bravo!

[@SlayPlenty]

is the video quality a testament to the Norvegian goverment's respect towards classical culture and arts? or they just make big bucks regardless?

[@j.grimes4420]

Classical music does not make enough money on its own to afford such luxuries, with the occasional exception.

[@litoboy5]

GREAT

[@gjermundeliassen7580]

My favorite parts of the symphony (im a brass player ass you might notice); 6:00 (the offstage horn solo), 19:35 (trumpet excerpt), 23:40 (trombone excerpt).

[@timmellin2815]

Off stage horn solos you mention might mean the people already on the trail calling to the ones still inside the houses to come out and join them in the hike, and then the folks in the house answering (the violins' response.) So they eventually get together outside, discuss the options which trail to take to the top, and eventually agree......(the music says all those things......once you discover the meaning in your imagination.)

[@eduardobaron]

Las sinfonías de Mahler y Bruckner contienen mucho dolor, sufrimiento y melancolía. En cambio Una sinfonía alpina celebra la vida en un largo paseo por la montaña en la que el caminante encuentra de todo y cuyo éxtasis sonoro es una tormenta que nos deja empapados de agua y no de lágrimas brucknerianas o mahlerianas. Es la percepción de la felicidad de un burgués, pero no solo porque las sensación sea también la que sienten los deportistas o las personas después de haber hecho deporte, que libera tanta serotonina como felicidad. Si Bruckner se recrea en la melancolía, Mahler se recrea en el sufrimiento de la humanidad a través de los padecimientos del pueblo de Israel. Sin embargo, Richard Strauss se recrea en la alegría de vivir y de superar las precipitaciones intensas con fuertes vientos de componente este-sureste o este otro, porque después de la tempestad viene la calma como después de la vida viene el encuentro con Dios. Del panteísmo de Bruckner y del ateísmo de Mahler nos transfiguramos gracias a Richard Strauss, tan visionario en la música como Anton Bruckner y Gustav Mahler. Bruckner no acaba de resolver su melancolía por célibe y Mahler no acaba con el dolor hebreo por ateo. Strauss es el único que logra desatar el nudo, por casado y por creyente. eduardobaron.wordpress.com

[@sidecars]

First horn? Superb

[@lanemyers426]

Yes sir, this is a good one. Nice brass section! Those trumpets are on another level. What are their names?

[@OsloPhilharmonic]

Brynjar Kolbergsrud, Axel Sjöstedt, Jeppe Lindberg Nielsen and Jonas Haltia. Read more about our musicians here: oslophil.lnk.to/musiciansID

[@hangjunlee]

wow! best production ever not just music itself. (personally, I feel this much better than Christian Thielemann) thank you so much!

[@minmax8165]

Thank you for the quality video. One suggestion I have is to remove the letter box (blank black area) of the clip, so that ultrawide monitors can watch it in full-screen.

[@smokeyvolvo]

Some fixes you as a viewer with an ultrawide monitor can do: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mKOWgKavpd1mpw

[@timmellin2815]

42:42.....church organ here says Strauss considered an outdoor experience like this to be a form of religious experience.

[@user-zt8kk7xh2j]

영상을 어떻게 이렇게 영화같이 멋있게 찍으셨을까

[@timmellin2815]

Planned ahead of time.....the production people plan it ahead of time as to which cameras are featured w/ which sections, at which time.

[@ailtonfreire3351]

Muito bom.

[@timmellin2815]

Odd.....I've been sitting in my apartment listening to this and just as the storm is starting, for some reason, I feel a draft and chill coming in from I don't know where, since I haven't opened any windows or changed anything. Maybe it's my imagination, or maybe the music is actually transmitting that to my structure.

[@Killerbee4712]

Ah yes _the wind machine_

[@laurieedwards6205]

21:50 trumpet excerpt

[@IceOfPhoenix88]

47:21 if I were to take one thing away from this piece, it would be this theme. Perfection.

[@sophiaschlenoff523]

oh gosh yes. i got goosebumps

[@MD-md4th]

That theme repeats over and over throughout, from the literal first notes at 00:31 .

[@denisbousquet9942]

Oops: and I have heard the Oslo Phil perform, 1972 in the wonderful University Hall, Edvard Moncks vast artwork on the walls, the Great sunrise backing the stage.

[@timmellin2815]

34:14:and forward: calm before the storm. Time slowly ticking by as darkness grows, and finally a mountain goat bleating as it senses the approaching cloudburst.

[@vadimkrotik4530]

Horn❤👏👏👍👍👍

[@philthefox1948]

Quelle bonne idée de placer les seconds violons à droite (à la viennoise) et non les violoncelles (à l'Américaine). Je trouve le son bien plus riche. Et quel orchestre !! Et quel chef !! BRAVO !!!!

[@kermitthemutantlevitatingf7836]

Bone fire 🔥

[@brynjarhoff600]

Hello dere som lytter, I min laptop låter dette fenomenalt, lytt og gled dere. Brynjar Hoff

[@kirklandraab1999]

A slightly fast version. Why didn't Petrenko wear the uniform jacket and bowtie? Very expertly performed and loved every minute.

[@OsloPhilharmonic]

Thank you for you're comment, we're happy you liked the performance! Petrenko, like many conductors today, feels more comfortable wearing something other than tails.

[@jamesoliver6625]

Significant portions were not fast enough IMO. I prefer Previn's tempos with the Vienna.

[@IceOfPhoenix88]

Or all the other ones could be too slow you never know.

[@geofflindsey4006]

@@OsloPhilharmonic He couldn't be and look more in control. You're lucky to have him. Best wishes from Liverpool xxx

[@MD-md4th]

@@jamesoliver6625You really don’t have a clue.

[@J_Montagu]

51:41 "I am the night."

[@darrylone95]

As usual, very workman-like and he delivers a capable performance although I find the emotional highs and lows missing. You can tell he's studied the score by his choice of tempi, written and unwritten and has heard Strauss' recording.

[@lonestarstar]

19:37 Auf dem Gletscher (On the Glacier)

[@furkanipekoglu]

selamlar 👋🏼

[@disamis6873]

25:53 I LOVE that low brass feature

[@user-bf6pu3md4z]

WERA Ramonti❤️🎆❤️🎆❤️🎆❤️🎆

[@Dmichoacan]

Ling Ling Nation

[@timmellin2815]

46:35 motif statement = Senta's pleading motif from Wagner's Flying Dutchman. Strauss was a big Wagner fan.

[@duwir5959]

the sun rise is not good played .... but today there are not many good Strauss and Bruckner conductor or orchestras, ste strings playing all like soloist. Maybe Dresden, Vienna and Amsterdam are exceptions.

[@IceOfPhoenix88]

This is the recording that twoset watched btw

[@WetaMantis]

The audio recording is excellent and clear but their is sadly almost no dynamic range. It seams normalised. Sometimes in classical pieces the dynamic range is so strong you can barely hear the music then FULL BLAST! The piece is well played and the rhythm scrupulously respected but until the summit it lacks rubato, dynamic range, fieriness, passion: ROMANTICISM Anyway the video quality is top notch as usual and the musicians very talented.

[@WetaMantis]

Though it is a concert version so it's an outstanding job knowing the circumstances. Someone pointed out the piece is very long and played without pause so the conductor probably didn't want to destroy the orchestra's stamina.