Rimsky-Korsakov Russian Easter Festival Overture, Op. 36 Gergiev

[@jgesselberty]

I like the tempo. So often it is done so fast that it should be called the Rushing Easter Overture.

[@stuartstuartson7030]

Best comment of the thread

[@davidkuder4356]

Hahaha 😆

[@shin-i-chikozima]

The comfort of this melody is far superior splendor This captivating performance soothes my grumpy soul

[@oeiras99]

Gergiev has been fired for his association with Putin so it is good to know that he is still available on KZbin conducting this wonderful piece of Russian music.

[@regisgouloudubois5285]

If you are looking for freedom dont go in Putin s paradise

[@angelak1lopez894]

shame on them. умом Россию не понять, в Россию можно только верить.

[@finosuilleabhain7781]

@@angelak1lopez894 No. Shame on him.

[@angelak1lopez894]

​​@@finosuilleabhain7781 shame on those that do not respect differences. Russia has its own specificity and they can feel good w it. Your anglo model is not "the good and only one" even though you put all ur fiat money, efforts and academy intervention to make others believe it.

[@finosuilleabhain7781]

@@angelak1lopez894 Shame on the war criminals who do not respect peace or international boundaries --- and on those who support them.

[@EdgarFGirtainIV]

So cool hearing this with no reverb...every detail is crystal clear, nothing hidden. The orchestra sounds great.

[@bitupangogoi8343]

Great

[@robertburns576]

I feel like I am hearing this piece anew after hearing it many many times. It is truly one of the great works of Russian music, and Gergiev is one of the top conductors of Russian music.

[@titicoqui]

French music, german music , italian music do not ever change my nationality when hearing them. Not so when i hear russian music , i become russian through and through, walking through cherry orchards or through forests beaming with birches... and when listen to this piece in particular i even say as all sinners should Gospody Pomylooy!!!!! God Have Mercy. OH blessed be the name of Jesus Christ, the name that is above all other names!!!!

[@best_pilot]

Haaa ??? Wake up man ! This Jesus was nothing but a carpenter that was nailed to a cross - PERIOD !

[@AugustasKunc]

@@best_pilot Silence, heretic!

[@10Ronaldinho80best]

​@@best_pilot, I think the only man here who needs to wake up is you. Wake up bro, it's time

[@angelmendez6638]

Y la música española?

[@iriswhite6296]

I would never consider myself as a music expert. I just love to listen to beautiful, music. I particularly love Rimsky-Korsakov.

[@c.c.c.c27]

real romantic

[@costai306]

Absolutely best conductor with large margin to the rest. Lucide, passionate, patriotic, genial. One and only. Wealth of humanity

[@BanquetNZ]

everyone's a critic, it seems. sometimes just enjoy the good in each performance. move on if you don't enjoy it. don't hang around here. enjoy the heart of the music. blessings on you.

[@b_r_thomas]

BanquetNZ ironic you say blessings seeing as Rimsky Korsakov was an athiest

[@BanquetNZ]

@@b_r_thomas ... You mean atheists can't bless another person :(

[@mr.shepherdspie7958]

@@b_r_thomas so you're saying because he was an atheist means he was a bad person?

[@marylowther8495]

Good rendition. Best I ever heard was an old Angel record with a Yugoslavian orchestra, the other side had Prince Igor and Night on Bare Mountain. My Grandmother gave it to me when I was about six because I loved this piece. I still do. Rimsky Korsakov remains my favourite composer and arranger for the last sixty five years.

[@ivanoech]

I like very much Gergiev's style as the style of Svetlanov. I believed they follow the composer Rimsky-Korsakov's musical composition. He is one of the best orchestra director today.

[@cleocatra871]

Such a privelage seeing the maestro and musicians ...I love this

[@jrdscrgn]

Maestro Gergiev has been conducting this orchestra, the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, for 34 years now. He started conducting them in 1978, at the age of 25. I doubt you've ever been associated with any conductor for that long, let's face it, not many of us get to have such a wonderful opportunity. This is one of Russia's finest orchestras and when you've conducted an ensemble for so long, the ensemble can read you easily! They know exactly what he wants and he knows EXACTLY how to get it across.

[@nyafeinstein]

Russia will forever be known for amazing music, amazing composers, and amazing conductors... A musicians highest pinnacle of achievement would be performing under Gergiev.

[@onehipdad]

And what's so amazing about this music, as well as the literature written during the same time frame, is that it was produced during one of the darkest and most forboding periods and areas of human history.

[@rmzkip]

Love the energy! Gergiev doesn't miss a beat. The trombones are so alive.

[@robertomontezi2939]

Todas músicas russas são excelentes! O.hino da Rússia é emocionante, carrega em si uma vibração muita poderosa. Parabéns à grande nação!

[@bb1006]

The way the performance is miked takes away from the true orchestral scale and sweep of this glorious piece.

[@burkelong4376]

I agree! It's very uneven front to back. Also, just one poor camera operator to try and cover the entire orchestra. A fools errand.

[@suzannenoel3610]

I agree. I missed the full, rich sound. It could also be due to the venue, however.

[@cleocatra871]

Beautiful beautiful piece of music!!!

[@IB-pt5qm]

Классно сыграно! Тромбонист молодец, слышно школу профессора Сумеркина.

[@Neldidellavittoria]

Loved this performance. So rich and full of nuances.

[@vassiliosipov8889]

this is correct tempo. Rimsky-Korsakov was inspired to compose this when he was lying in a meadow and listening to the bells of a nearby Church. too slow? perhaps for non Russians. this is Russian and is played as Rimsky-Korsakov would have directed, very dynamic, not passive. perhaps "foreign" orchestras play "Flight of the Bumblebee" as "Crawl of the Snail".

[@welthawood]

I like it - as you said, very dynamic. I'm not Russian but always wished I were.

[@mr.shepherdspie7958]

It didn't sound slow to me

[@marcolagana5342]

I am not Russian, i am Italian. I love this way of playing. No violence, only exultance

[@DariusSarrafi]

Russian music sounds best when performed by Russians!

[@davidfmaas]

This is the best rendition I have ever heard.

[@aceofspades8634]

Yes, this is perhaps the best rendition on KZbin. Personally though, I prefer Yuri Temirkanov’s interpretation of this piece better, with the New York Philharmonic (this can be found in Apple Music).

[@spikespa5208]

Wish there had been more than one camera.

[@robertburns576]

@@aceofspades8634 Oooh thanks for the tip. Temirkanov's work with Shostakovich is second to none. I'm sure he does this piece well too. I'll check it out.

[@beamoorefrank5194]

Great performance. I like this conductor.

[@alfredoechevarrieta7512]

Muchas gracias !!

[@inxj5915]

Sounds awesome. I’m playing this as flute

[@AetherUtopia]

A favourite of one Carl Sagan, or so I've heard.

[@arizzo1939]

Playing this in 6th grade, well I'm a sixth grader but most of the people in my band are older. CLARINET FOR THE WIN

[@nicholasz2510]

Yeahhh!!!! I'm in 6th grade playing clarinet too, but I'm in this symphony where everyone else is in high school, oh well. Love the solos in this piece, they're awesome!

[@andrewnix6480]

I feel bad for how terrible you guys must sound :p

[@glengustafson6959]

The fine musicians playing this piece were also in the 6th grade once.

[@calebseifert5742]

Andrew Nix jeez dude

[@taylorp865]

Played this in marching band back in high school back in 03

[@margaret7198]

Please, no commercials during the performance!!

[@YThome7]

The is a moment in the overture when your heart stops and then starts beating again with renewed hope and strength: Russian spirit, faith is alive! There is hope for the world kind! Христóсъ воскрéсе!

[@OliverIkuto]

My Youth Symphony Orchestra is playing this!

[@nicholasz2510]

Mine too!

[@emilyhoward7059]

Mine too!!

[@Kimberlee_Lindstrom]

Same(four years later 😅)

[@musicgenius1948]

@@Kimberlee_Lindstrom same! Another two years later

[@paderuski1]

What a beautifully composed piece, perfectly conducted by Maestro Gergiev. Gergiev has earned his credentials throughout his career in so many ways; to criticize the way he translates this composition shows a lack of knowledge of the man and his craft.

[@3bonvivant]

nice transparant. Bravo !!!

[@lwantyourshoes]

As a conductor I can tell you now that the placement of the baton is not primarily to indicate beat; musicians can count for themselves. The baton is rather used to add expressionism, dynamic contrast, and articulation to a piece. Professional musicians respond far better to this.

[@spikespa5208]

But I kinda miss the toothpick.

[@ediccartman7252]

Very true.

[@3bonvivant]

As a music consumer I think the conductor did his job already before the concert by forming the orchester to play the piece in the way the conductor finds it is the correct way, (or a new way or wathever) As we see the conductor during the performance he is just there for decoration. sounds not very respectful but if he would be really needed during the concert that would be poverty.

[@hfc1968tube]

@@3bonvivant I've seen Daniel Barenboim standing, not using his baton, listening to his orchestra, with his back half way to them, looking at the audience, for minutes at a stretch

[@luciamateos6950]

2024 - SEPTIEMBRE RECORDANDO LO QUE YA NO ME RESULTA FACIL DISFRUTAR EN MADRID: LA MÚSICA - LOS CONCIERTOS.

[@OdinLimaye]

Beautiful!

[@ladyblack613]

I'm suffering to learn how to play this music in violin

[@alexmx2443]

Símplemente Maravillosa

[@eldruidacosmico]

"This is Jonathan Pageau and welcome to the Symbolic World"

[@DavidLeist]

A fine performance of this beautiful music. The placement of the camera was awful. Would rather have seen shots from the back of the house so to see the whole orchestra, not so much focused on the conductor.

[@robertomontezi2939]

Excelente música, verdadeiro gênio korsakov

[@danielfong2941]

One of the best pieces from Russia。

[@brianxu9149]

We are playing this piece. It is much better when you are actually playing the piece.

[@WarofThoughts]

I first heard this piece on cassette tape last year.. Leopold Stokowski, Chicago Symphony Orchestra... I will say the early solos in the piece, the first violin, then flute, are slower than indicated.

[@plunmeister1093]

Try Telarc LP of Slatkin conducting the St Louis Sy in 1977.

[@seakay5705]

My absolute favorite timpani piece I've ever played

[@barryfletcher7136]

Fabulous!

[@Laroling]

it's called 'conductor' for a reason. He isn't a musician here, he KNOWS what the musician has to do, and he is there to keep order, keep the right rythm and all structures so everyone knows where they are and how they have to play each phrase. When it gets complicated, he actually HAS to make sure the overview is there for everyone. You can perhaps witness an open rehearsal btw. Some of their wonderful conductors can transform an orchestra in no time. You are deceived!

[@noemiserra3366]

Хорошо Parabéns מצויין Felicitats!!!

[@ediccartman7252]

Appreciated Hebrew :)))

[@heraldoborn]

Amazing

[@msgust1861]

My mistake. The entire tape is like that. What is verification of a second image is that occasionally a portion of audience seated at a lower level appears between Gergiev's hip and the solo violinist. Obviously improbable with a structure such as one they appear to be in. Most often what appears is a camera man wearing a boldly striped long sleeved shirt . I'd call this tape UNIQUE!

[@joansmith6092]

I'm watching this today, Oct.27, 2018, because this Overture was being played on the radio last night, and I thought it didn't quite sound right. And the announcer said at the end it was being played by the Baltimore orchestra...I thought WHAT!!! Either its done by a Russian orchestra, or Berlin Philamonic, or don't play it at all! Through the years I'm used to it being SMASHED, and CRASHED into the ground...

[@paullewis2413]

Great music is universal. What orchestra is playing is irrelevant (unless they are of course of a low standard) The conductor sets the pace and the structure. Why single out the B.P.O. there are plenty of orchestras just as fine.

[@EpicureanSwerve]

Bravo!

[@Laroling]

P.S. if you can read notes and hear the rythm and ways they play, you realize he isn't swaying randomly, you see in his hands every count, rythm...every phrase and the way it unfolds, and the musician sees where he is at in the music and reflects his hands in the playing.

[@12846835]

sencillamente, excelente.....

[@ernieb1317]

Awesome

[@SMECHOULAN]

The version by Slatkin, also available on KZbin, sounds more authentic and vibrant.

[@allenalstad9347]

Good photography but the rest of the brasses were not pictured. Great performance, however. I always wonder, when I hear this composition what the Easter Mass in late 19th century featured, but I know that we're I alive then, I would not missed it for anything! LTC ATA, U.S. Army, Retired

[@masteridiot123]

The tempo is slightly faster than expected on a lot of passages, but it is certainly an excellent performance.

[@tromuniapp]

I wisht the video showed better acoustics, but still, very nice performance, and I love Gergiev.

[@stevenheck4769]

Sounds fine. Strength movement and expression. Quite Russian I would think

[@peterburgess2197]

I will never have an Experion account!

[@scuunjieng]

thank you for posting

[@Claessens1]

Yes! But it is also about Passover, and a Cannanite winter wheat harvest, etc., etc. But it certainly quotes many chants from the Russian Orthodox church to let one know what the music "is about." I just wonder where the venue is. The acoustic is exceptionally dry.

[@scuunjieng]

excellent comment so witty and apropos

[@chuckcornelius194]

can't decide if he looks more like Joe Cocker or the doctor in Cannonball Run 2. anyway, not too slow, nice tempo. fiddles have a tough part; those syncopated figures always cause me trouble.

[@timcunningham722]

Very interesting orchestral balances. Heard a lot more mid and lower instruments than one usually hears. Very puzzled by the solo trombones breath placement in the last phrase of his solo. Anybody know whether the hymn text Rimsky took the line from has a break there? I know that no Canadian or US soloist would break that phrase in the middle of the bar like that - they usually breathe after the first C or before the long note.

[@brucemiller8860]

Tim Cunningham painful to watch and hear. a perfunctory performance sounds like a high school band. terrible

[@MScJorgePoveda]

"Tempo" is a discretion choose of the conductor.Even each conductor change the "tempo" in different performances This is a "constant" in music. Listen at different conductor :not any one is on accordance with the compositor indications on Tempo and others...

[@lestermatos9226]

I dont know if its the acustics of the place but I hear the orchestra somewhat weak in sound

[@ghostebk6x383]

1-yo lo vi 2-Nikolái Rimski-Kórsakov

[@MScJorgePoveda]

Take the entire universe of performances..and will encounter all the directors,as same the interpreters differs beetwen them in follow rules .People loves the differences ,not similitude's. Musicians are humans not robots.All differences build the reason conductor A is appreciated, conductor B is less appreciated, conductor C is ignored by the public.At the best of my knowledge Gergiev have high standards,not bad ones..

[@windstorm1000]

the conductor who ignores the composer's tempo is at variance with the latter's vision of his creation.

[@raphaelfournier8273]

Beau, oui, mais Stokowski conserve ma préférence ici même s'il retouche un peu çà et là.

[@roycezaro1998]

Mammy's little baby loves shortnin' bread

[@pablobrowne3906]

you can see how distressed Gergiev is. The orchestra was either not in the mood, or had not enough time to rehearse

[@msgust1861]

Who or what is that (most clearly seen) over the solo violinist's left shoulder at 4:54? The image starts behind the head of the first musician in the shot at 4:45, travels quickly behind Gergiev and exits far right. Was this a reused tape with a former image not fully erased? Also not very professional, but doesn't have any effect on the music.

[@BanquetNZ]

what a difference 10 years makes :)

[@johnnoe9682]

Good performance! Pro-tip: Go ahead and shave that front part. lol No idea why balding Conductors *insist* on growing that front bit long....constantly pushing it back, etc. Bro! We all see it lol

[@BillDeef]

Shots are a bit claustrophobic maybe because of the lack of cameras. Also the sound is closed and muffled.

[@Mr-Prasguerman]

11:54

[@vramirezconductor]

Se metió un cello en el 12:01

[@brucemiller8860]

Victor Daniel Ramírez Rodríguez .

[@mclelanda]

08:23 Who let the kids in?

[@BBazsi67]

Yes, too fast... for this band... Listen Wiener Philharmoniker with Ozawa! Hee, at 12:00 the horn comes too early. Gergiev pretty wrathful.

[@chatbud]

omg, why is the cam direction so bad?

[@이은신-q7q]

1:07 , 2:29

[@ananiacasale8798]

😊

[@paullewis2413]

Who the hell was responsible for the appalling camera work?

[@mariamantonio3612]

Migala.

[@pecm]

While this piece is one of my favorites, I find the sound of this recording flat, with zero dynamic, and in a way "uneventful", which means something considering this music. It's practically mono and it doesn't make this masterpiece justice, like it is played by a mini orchestra in a small living room (no majestic sound). And recorded in mono. And no I'm not a "critic", I just have normal hearing. Compare it to this version of what it should be, and tell me I'm wrong: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qIm1YaeipLKgpdE

[@CastleMr40]

This was taped/videod with only ONE camera. Not very professional.

[@icantgetridofthisusernamehelp]

It was taped in 2007.

[@bomcabedal]

Yes, but the performer needs to have some creative license, too. You should be loyal, never slavish (although being slaviC is fine ;-))

[@flybirdy12347]

great performance!! but maybe a little bit too fast... slow it down

[@nayuke]

7:44

[@029Mhelz]

@iamnuff1992 Google "Valery Gergiev" and educate yourself.

[@stairfall12345678900]

Weirdest conductor ever :O

[@jrdscrgn]

You must have no clue who Maestro Gergiev is do you?

[@remotecontrol2355]

how to fuk do u follow the conductor at the end poor crash cymbals

[@richardwagner1211]

Z forever

[@ytnelsongn]

Very poor recording technics, unfortunately. Otherwise, a nice interpretation of this classic.

[@kylethsc]

Trumpets having intonation problems at 12:56

[@richardwagner1211]

W Putin

[@Arthur-hg7ny]

Not too impressed with the trombonist.

[@linkhyrule6]

I'll go ahead and bet you're not in a professional orchestra, then...