R.Gliere. Concerto for Harp and Orchestra in E flat major

Moscow City Symphony "Russian Philharmonic"
Conductor -- Sergey Tararin
Soloist -- Elizaveta Bushueva (harp)
Moscow International House of Music, Svetlanov Hall
February 3, 2011
R.Gliere. Concerto for Harp and Orchestra in E flat major
Симфонический оркестр Москвы «Русская филармония»
Дирижер -- Сергей Тарарин
Солистка -- Елизавета Бушуева (арфа)
Московский Международный Дом Музыки, Светлановский зал
03.02.2011
Р.Глиэр. Концерт для арфы с оркестром

[@johnstone8259]

Арфа звучит божественно ! Шикарный инструмент !

[@Hobert-x3i]

They do GOOD WORK!!! Naturally born musicians!!! Nothing like them very priceless talent!!! Bravo!!!

[@MrPitt1970]

This is one of top 5 Harp concertos. Its a lovely flowing score that allows the harp to shine both with its ethereal and complex execution. Elizaveta Bushueva is one of the best! She allows the harp to bring the rich text of movement to life with effortlessness and precise interpretation.

[@jonnieinbangkok]

Aren't there only like five harp concertos 😂 😂 😂

[@TheGamingBuddies222]

@@jonnieinbangkok It sure is rare to see, but I can name more than 5 great harp concertos. You may see Hovhaness, Philip Martin, Dussek (in E flat major), Rota, Ginastera, Mathias, Krumpholtz No. 6. I could go on.

[@jonnieinbangkok]

@@TheGamingBuddies222 Thx 😊

[@ИринаПолитова-ю9у]

Бесподобный концерт! Редко исполняемый, а жаль. Он написан в лучших традициях русской классики. Истинно русские Гусельникова напевы, лечебная музыка! Браво!

[@rodrigogarces2254]

Sweet & heavenly sounds, great joy for Heart & Soul !

[@jonnieinbangkok]

Cheers from America for a wonderful performance 👏👏👏

[@kerryrider-kuhn]

What a wonderful masterpiece, wonderfully performed !

[@silviobadolato4668]

Recently discovered this piece, it's definitely one of my favourites!

[@johnfenner347]

Absolutely wonderful !. Beautifully played. A masterpiece. Such sounds !. Thank you From Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 x x .

[@jesusslushies2192]

So beautiful!! I heard this today on KUSC Riverside amd I was absolutely enthralled! ♥️

[@cordeliav3055]

Wonderful performance from a great orchestra. Have always loved this piece, especially the second and third movements. KZbinrs get the best seats in the house! Thanks for posting.

[@josejuanru]

Da, eto Прекрасно! Beautiful pure music, and this concert hall: Moscow International House of Music, Svetlanov Hall, is incredible! I have been many times, from the opening of this hall, when it still did not had, the beautiful organ that now is there!

[@Reinhard_G.1965]

[# 5050] So often I wonder why some compositions, which are as beautiful as the well-known others, were and are performed so rarely only… This precious masterpiece would truly deserve it to be played much more frequently, on stage as well on the radio! But thank goodness we are now able, thanks to the amazing Internet technology, to listen as often we want, and this worldwide! Music always was and is connecting the nations and cultures, and now even more easily - who would have thought that just a couple of years ago?!

[@itsjoanna299]

it's so hard to find a harp concerto on youtube now, thanks for posting it~

[@anthonyhk]

Gliere is gold! People should try his 3rd symphony. Mindblown and overwhelming

[@Hobert-v4s]

In those blind radio years before television music like this was sufficient for entertainment!!

[@francescolimasters4256]

Un pur ravissement. Les mouvements sont une splendeur.

[@Rx-mn5fv]

The most ambitious piece of music for Harp and Orchestra I have ever heard. Thank you for the exposure.

[@joeboyle5864]

you might also be impressed by Gabriel Pierne's harp concerto - he comes close (but this IS the champ !)

[@cristianbiscayart9632]

Though creative and very poetic this great concerto is, I wouldn’t call it as “ambitious”…it is very conservative in its language for a 20th century composer. For a really ambitious, original piece due to the constant contrast between a delicate instrument and a very rhythmic, wild and propulsive orchestration, Ginastera’s harp concerto is second to none. Xavier De Master’s account on KZbin is incredible!

[@IgnatSolovey]

@@cristianbiscayart9632 This concert was written and first performed in 1938 in Moscow. Note the year and the place. By the way, the performance in this exact video is exemplary, and I heard many different versions of this concert recently, being a video engineer who set up streaming of a major classical music contest... Reinhold Glière was unique in many regards, but one of the most peculiar was that not that he was supremely talented and extremely prolific (although in the ex-USSR his fame is mostly an ill-fame because countless thousands of music students were and are taughtured, - pun intended, I was one of them, - by his pieces for elementary and intermediate students for well over a century), but that he managed to survive several different political regimes and highly tumultuous eras unscathed. He could die in the First World War or Russian Civil War, vanish in the Great Purges, suffer to death in the Second World War... He could be imprisoned and executed many times (he was an ethnic German after all, and that alone could lead too many people to wrong conclusions several times over in the 20th century Russia). Yet not only he survived but he was acclaimed under ALL Russian and Soviet governments during his lifetime. Triple times Glinka Prize winner in Imperial times, the first one at the age of 30. Distinguished Artist and then People's Artist several times over (of Russia, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, USSR - all before the WW2), Triple First Stalin's Prize (post-WW2), Triple times Order of Lenin (post-WW2), Order of the Red Banner of Labour, Sign of Distinction and many other less prominent awards. He got higher recognition that Alexander Alexandrov, the author of the USSR and Putin's Russia anthem. Also, in addition to being a composer and a teacher he was an official, and, all things considered, the one who probably took part, maybe unwillingly, in campaigns against “formalist” composers (Shostakovitch, Khachaturian, Prokofiev, Muradeli, etc.), because technically he was a subbordinate of Tikhon Khrennikov who was quite vocal in supporting that campaign at some point (although Khrennikov's own stance in that story was quite controversial, i.e. he wasn't “pure evil”). . All that pretty much explains why Glière's 1938 concert sounds “conservative” in comparison to Ginastera's 1956 concert. Glière was born in 1875, he is, like, two full generations older than Ginastera, to whom he, even without a stretch, could be a grandfather by age (Glière's own five children, including two sets of twins, were born in 1905, 1906 and 1913 though). By the time of the Op. 74 he was sixty three and about as distinguished as a composer could be, apart from gold and brass on his chest (he just got his title of People's Performer of the USSR, everything else would come later). He wasn't a composer of the 20th century, he was the last great composer of the 19th century who, for some odd reason, made it well into the 20th. Actually, Glière would have been well remembered even if he would die twice younger because he was already fully accomplished by the age of 30. Ginastera was born in 1916 and was 40 when he wrote his harp concert. He was Argentinean, he wasn't under as much political pressure, he didn't have Glière's public prominence and accolades, he lived in rather different social, political and even meteorological climate. Probably even more important was that he did not have Joseph Stalin as his supreme critic - and probably even Juan Peron didn't take that role yet, at least in 1956 (later he did though, and Ginastera had to flee to Switzerland as a result). I don't have a full formal musical education (just lessons of piano at the age between 4 and 12, and I didn't really touch the instrument since). Also, I very much prefer more recent genres and arrangements than classical and academic. Yet, I have a certain outlook. I can say: Glière's Op. 74 is a concert for harp and orchestra. Ginastera's Op. 25 is a concert for orchestra and harp. Ginastera was an avant-garde composer all his life, Glière was a part of the establishment since his early 20s and until death in 1956 in the age of 81. At this scale there's probably more in common between Aaron Copland and Keith Emerson (of ELP), or Carl Orff and Ray Manzarek (of The Doors).

[@IgnatSolovey]

@@cristianbiscayart9632 Gliere wasn't a 20th century composer. He was a 19th century composer who by sheer luck and various talents lived and created for a half of the 20th century. For some reason my other, very long, comment got hidden or removed, so I'll repeat the key part of it. Comparing Gliere to Ginastera is not quite correct. Ginastera was an avant-garde composer all the way, he wrote his concert for orchestra and harp (as I would put it) when he was 40 and, well, more or less a beginner as a prominent composer. Also, that happened in 1956 and in Argentina, in totally different social, political and meteorological climate. Gliere was a part of the establishment musically and socially since he was a graduate back in the late 19th century under a very different regime, his creations were not ever prohibited and most of them aren't actually forgotten. His concert for harp and orchestra, Op. 74, is a product of a 63-year old acclaimed celebrity - and that was in 1938, at the peak of the Great Purges, and his supreme critic was Stalin himself. One “dislike” and it would have been quickly remembered that this composer was ethnically German, and so on, and so forth...

[@edwardhoward5525]

Awesome piece of music. Can't believe it is so little known.

[@sovietclassic5301]

Edward Howard, there were hundreds of good Russian composers. check "Top 30 Russian composers", I am sure you have never heard about 4/5 of them

[@joeboyle5864]

Perhaps better-known than you think. I first heard it many, many yrs ago on a now defunct radio station in Phila. I was "transported". Have shared it with many others since - it's magnificent !

[@elidafrankel2699]

What a piece of music and fantastic soloist!!! Thank you so much.

[@remixuereb]

Avec Glière dans ce concerto pour Harpe , lâchez vous et laissez vous portez par la beauté à l'état pur . Vous avez tout , la beauté des notes et des harmonies , la couleur , et un vrai sourire de la vie , c'est profondément rassérénant , vous êtes d'emblée avec le lâcher prise avec cette superbe composition faite d'exigence et offerte pour donner de l'optimisme dont l'être humain a le plus besoin aujourd'hui face à ces vagues déferlantes de l'horreur , du bruit , de l'agressivité anxiogène et pathogène . Ce concerto pour harpe de Glière est un petit paradis pour amoureux du beau , du joli , et de ce qui est directement capté dans les sources vives de ce qui donne vie .

[@CtsseChrisGrillet]

Belle interprétation agréable et fluide au centre d'un orchestre de qualité.

[@artetnaturevideos6997]

Hello, Thank you very much for this beautifull music ! Best wishes ! Jean-Charles Bourquin, in France

[@angelc.gonzalez5058]

El concierto de Gliere es lo más bello que he escuchado en la voz celestial del arpa gracias a las mágicas manos de Elizaveta Bushueva.

[@quaver1239]

Simply lovely. Thank you. The harpist is phenomenal.

[@paulheffron4836]

What could be more elegant than a beautiful lady like this playing heavenly music like this on a harp?

[@Lara77007]

Imádom Kacsóh Pongrácz : János vitéz zenéjét! Gyönyörűen játszották! 🫶

[@whatzause]

This has always been one of my favorites.

[@АлександрЯрков-ш2з]

Bravo bravo bravo brilliance music concerto super

[@yunchungdu9545]

苐一次聽到如此優雅美麗的豎琴協奏曲，竪琴奏出的水晶般晶瑩透明之聲深深嵌入我心中，優美的旋律帶有獨特的東方風咪使人迷魂。向藝術家們致敬！

[@Жизньпрекрасна-к2ш]

Потрясающе! 😍👍

[@ludmilaefimova7861]

Очень красиво.. солнечно....Душа дышит свободно и радостно- в этом вся музыка...

[@ОльгаПавлова-ю8ф]

Чудесный концерт! Прекрасное исполнение!

[@juanpabloapariciorodriguez6130]

Truly beautiful, i loved it. Hello from Guadalajara, Mexico. Next June 20, 2019 the OFJ will play it in Degollado Theater, i will be there.

[@elrico1364]

this music revealed a place in my heart that I never knew was there

[@Lara77007]

I love the music of Kacsóh Pongrác: John the valiant! It was played beautifully 🫶

[@rodrigogarces2254]

Super concierto, de calidad cautivadora. Hermosísimo. Agradable hasta el paladar !

[@hansheinen9629]

A very good harp concert. I streamed vom German classical radio.

[@UKISOCIETY]

Beautiful!

[@francescolimasters4256]

Ce morceau est un pur ravissement, joint à une remarquable interprétation de Mme Bushueva et de l'orchestre symphonique de la ville de Moscou.

[@Nilo4778]

musica meravigliosa, opera di un gran maestro, purtroppo, sconosciuto!

[@ramonmidence2050]

I have the first longplay recorded of this Gliere's harp concerto,bought it in New York 1968 ,absolutely amazing ,as I remember N. Zabaletta was the performer,anyway it's majestic and extensively armonious ,as all Gliere's thanks!

[@nicholaskoulianos6156]

Yes, I remember a ballet choreographed to this ravishing work from that time.

[@hannesvaneysendeyk1643]

Studying this piece now and I'm gathering all the recordings I can find, this one's very nice!

[@ricex2]

this is THE best harp piece for me. this performance is probably the best i will ever experience in my life.

[@herveherve6305]

Beaucoup de beaux commentaires de ce concerto. Mais je préfère celui de Boieldieu et celui de Krumpholz

[@joeboyle5864]

@@herveherve6305 A different time, a different world. Who knows what life showed these very different composers ?

[@torstivuorma2905]

Awesome, so fine and amazing! Thank you!

[@dorabaret]

Bravo!

[@jorgegarzaelli6238]

Dios para mi esta en toda la mùsica pero este concierto muestra una vez mas su amor por la Humanidad- El alma de Gliere esta presente eternamente.Gracias desde Argentina

[@cherrychung3579]

0:00 first movement 11:27 second movement 23:03 third movement

[@theopaopa1]

magnifico concierto y magnifica interpretacion. muchas gracias

[@justinwolz4932]

They smashed that tune!

[@carloshumphrey1]

I have to admit that I was not familiar with R.Gliere. Concerto for Harp. I is a great concerto and as always Elizaveta Bushueva does a superb job at performing as the soloist in it.

[@jahyunyyy]

0:05 1st 11:26 2nd 23:00 3rd

[@marinapicard4714]

Beautiful!!!!

[@Protonixum]

Excellent ! Je connaissais cette œuvre sans connaître le compositeur ! Maintenant , c'est fait :-))))

[@sandrastevens8500]

First heard on Cleveland's Classical Music Channel, WCLV 104.9 FM. Absolutely exquisite!

[@ryanwolff1749]

Movement I 00:04 Movement 2 11:26 Movement 3 23:00

[@katherinephillips435]

Awesome 👍

[@shin-i-chikozima]

Her graceful harp will heal troubles and annoyances in the chaotic world situation

[@dennisschwartzentruber3204]

Right up there with Handel !

[@christophwuth2928]

He quedado sorprendido por su belleza tan pura. Nunca antes lo había escuchado. ¡Saludos desde Ecuador!

[@boudewijnvanmotman9811]

BRILLIANT! WITH COMPLIMENTS.

[@ACNikolayev]

Прекрасно!)

[@aurearamirez9797]

Bellisimo concierto. I like ie very much

[@elbnerelizabeth464]

Lindas musicas parabéns!!

[@dayan5402]

So nice! So delighted to hear this the first time. Fantastic piece! I wonder whether her finger hurts playing this :)

[@anastasiarowland811]

Yes, it does.I am telling you! Have you seen harpists' fingers?🤣

[@dayan5402]

Yes, in this video :D. She has to be Cyborg if it does not hurt!

[@InstrumentManiac]

Lol who was the camera operator for this? It’s like whiplash central Beautiful performance

[@9Naethy]

Las lastimeras gotas que salpica el harpa ,maravillan mi alma...

[@ritamartins_soprano]

❤️❤️😍👏👏👏

[@mizuqatsi]

Magnifique interprétation même s'il n'y a pas une grande cadence dans le 1er mouvement, et très grande complicité entre le chef et la harpiste, car elle ne le regarde jamais ! et à 25:45 le cor n'a pas fait de fausses notes :-)

[@remixuereb]

Laissez les , ces russes à respirer vis à vis de l'emprise exercée sur eux par des chefs autocrates depuis plus de cent ans ! En tout cas , cela m'a fait plaisir de rencontrer , même virtuellement , un francophone qui aime la belle musique française et vous invite à lire mes appréciations dans "Musiques du bien être " et "Florilège " sur ma chaîne KZbin à ce même prénom et nom ...

[@hlaltimus]

KBAQ claims this magnificent work to be Gliere's only harp concerto. He certainly didn't need a second one to win him fame.

[@Benjamin.W]

23:49 I don't understand why the woodwind players look a bit sour when playing this part...it's such a tranquil section, who wouldn't feel happy and relaxed when listening to this not mentioning playing it? But still this is the best version I've listened to :)

[@TheDemonicPenguin]

I think they're just Russian ;)

[@tserkoslavjanskij]

I suggest there's a difference between looking sour and looking serious. To me the players look serious, which doesn't mean they're not enjoying what they're doing. I suspect there are other works they enjoy performing more; as long as they turn in a first-rate performance in the Glière, I further suspect they're happy.

[@tserkoslavjanskij]

From your surname I surmise you are the husband of the soloist. In the Glière she certainly holds her own compared to the men who've recorded the work, giving a most engaging performance.

[@joejolliffe]

I. Allegro moderato 0:02 II. Tema con variazioni 11:25 III. Allegro giocoso 23:00

[@paulparoma]

What beautiful, pure music. Typical Gliere. Russian harpists are the best, too.

[@andreagunadi04]

I agree. But why is that?

[@sovietclassic5301]

@@andreagunadi04 , Moscow conservatory and Saint Petersburg conservatory

[@Joe_Everett]

2:43 - 2nd Clarinet is all; "I could play that so much better" 🤣

[@annamakarova-harp1438]

😍

[@Procedentesinvictoria]

Gliere is one of my favorites. The harp concerto is excellent but the orchestra plays robotically and with little expression here. Still a nice performance.

[@jorgegarzaelli6238]

Este ademas de ser un hermoso concierto muestra a las claras el profundo sentimiento de la rusia de todos los tiempos.Incluyo la maravillosa interpretacion de la arpista y la orquesta. desde Argnetina gracias, por este presente.

[@masp441]

❤💚💛💜

[@DADO33566]

24:00-24:24 was awesome!!

[@shaerens]

Is it just me or does the theme of the third movement greatly resemble Händel's theme "Harmonious Blacksmith" variations?

[@BalletBabyBoy]

Elizaveta Bushueva is DIVINE

[@1968KWT]

Why hasn’t anyone created a ballet for this concerto? 😮

[@akperite]

This piece slaps 😩😂😩😩

[@Jghjkl829]

2:53 someone obviously wanted that solo.

[@馮清娟]

行雲流水般流畅

[@человек-ю7ъ6д]

Очень красивый концерт написал композитор советской эпохи!

[@IgnatSolovey]

Ну не то что бы совсем советской. Глиэру на момент написания было 63 года, а признание он получил ещё при Николае II, причём тогда, когда реально свергать этого последнего никто всерьёз не думал.

[@Lara77007]

The composer is Hungarian! His name is Pongrác Kacsóh, the title of the piece from which the excerpts are taken is: John the Valiant!

[@IgnatSolovey]

@@Lara77007 any proof? It's probably the first time someone accuses Gliére in plagiarism.

[@a_perverts_diary]

wtf the ad is in the middle of the first movement of concerto that ruins a classical music completely...

[@mipfpofkfkfk]

5:58

[@shin-i-chikozima]

ハープの音色は浮世の悩みを消してくれます。

[@CountryDave84]

What Opus is this? 74?

[@TheDazzRat]

21 people who fixate on Lady Gaga, Bruce Springsteen, or The 24 Caprices didn't like this refined concerto.

[@nicholaskoulianos6156]

I personally happen to dislike the sound that the performers you dismiss produce AND love this ravishing work. And the work of other composers and of operatic singers. You're far too doctrinaire. Get over it. Take them for what they are. They reflect the times in which we live. Personally, Lady Gaga and Springsteen are outspoken supporters of LBGTQ rights. And they donate. What have YOU done?

[@knownfact4905]

Are there any male harp players?

[@edenboyd726]

Yes :) although relatively less then compared to women!

[@정성찬-j5j]

11:26

[@hatoryhanzo20858]

40 dislikes?????? i wonder what kind of people does that.

[@hatoryhanzo20858]

@@harfe06 you sound like you know a lot about this kind of music and probably you are right but i never make dislikes i dont see the reason, i mean she will not get better musician with dislikes

[@fvni]

This is when Trump fell in love with Putin....

[@BalletBabyBoy]

Exquisite, divine...magnificent music! I wish I could choreograph it

[@BalletBabyBoy]

The sound of Old Russia...Imperial Days!

[@YoKeenVIII]

Actually, 1938...a peak of Stalin's genocide.

[@BalletBabyBoy]

@@YoKeenVIII Yes and yet Gliere was able to reflect the romance and beauty of Imperial Russia even through the terror of that filthy monster murderer may he ROT in hell

[@___________uwu__________8589]

5:58