Strauss: Don Quixote / Rostropovich · Karajan · Berliner Philharmoniker

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Richard Strauss: Don Quixote (Finale) / Mstislav Rostropovich, cello · Ulrich Koch, viola · Herbert von Karajan, conductor · Berliner Philharmoniker / Recorded at the Berlin Philharmonie, January 1975
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[@PUCCINIMUSICK]

This IS DON QUIXOTE. This is another example of the greatness of an enlightened mind. Slava at his best, an orchestra which remains a paradigm, supernatural conducting and visual rendering of conducting art. No words to describe all this. "I cannot teach you to conduct but I can teach how to rehearse so that you will not need to conduct at all". Well, here is the "ganzen Unterschied".

[@luizamsalgado]

Bravo ! That's it ! I felt like Karajan with closed eyes was conducting my heart ! As for the others, divine too

[@greatmomentsofopera7170]

Nice strauss/Marschallin (Hofmannsthal!) quote!

[@janeanastasiamak7512]

Appreciate twoset and oppa for sending me here

[@youzhilim230]

It's a simple equation. Strauss + Rostropovich + Karajan = Beautiful :)

[@stefanrogers9091]

You Zhi Lim you mean Rostropovich + Karajan = War

[@ZaddyGohan]

The part at 1:07 where all the upper strings are in unison with the cello is one of the most magical moments in all of music, gives me goosebumps every time

[@ElliFong]

Is it fine that I never heard of him before and my eyes just started to water from listening to this?

[@darkestdarker3726]

+EricPaz Yes, it is.

[@nicholasmathias8590]

Yes!

[@jeffreychan6357]

Yes, it is. Now you know who the God of cello is :) (or one of the two gods, together with Danil Shafran!

[@ipalf95]

No, its not fine that you've never heard of him before. Crying, in other hand; it's totally appropriate.

[@AeolianMusica]

Jeffrey Chan you cannot overlook du Pré also

[@AY-ue8lj]

whoa the shots are framed so tight and they intensify the emotions

[@jugglerjim01]

This is incredible (in the true sense of the word - also, TwoSet sent me here as well 😎)

[@dilaamalia7981]

Where?

[@Eric-gb9ty]

I remember seeing Rostropovich in my early teens at the Palace of the Kings of Majorca in southern France in the Pyrenees along the Mediterranean coast.

[@PUCCINIMUSICK]

after 4 years, I come back to this recording. I remeber that on 25th April 1989 I was watching tv and the RAI announced , with this music, with this movie, that Karajan had left the Berlin Philharmonic. And equally so, on 16th July the same year, they told us Karajan had left us for ever. This always reminds me of those sad moments. And this Music will always mean to me the "death of Don Quixote", the death of the Hero who leaves us to a superior, transcendent reality. Karajan was all this: he was ART itself. Two weeks ago, visiting once again Karajan's tomb in Anif and bringing a lonely rose to his graveyard, I imagined this music. And I still think and keep on thinking the Maestro is still with us, more powerful and alive as ever. Not dead, still alive. Still among us. The only one who was able to defeat death through the power and energy of His Art.

[@DanielCardenas23]

i was born 3 days later on April 28th 1989.

[@timperalta9430]

This comment made me cry. I felt overwhelming emotions from the writer of this comment. Thank you for sharing a stellar story.

[@emilequimper-bouchard501]

Best music of all time to me best part of the best tune with the best cellist and the best orchestra and possibly the best conductor of all time. This is the first piece that made me cry! An absolute work of art.

[@theMad_Artist]

So heart-wrenching. Thank you, Richard Strauss, Rostropovich, Karajan, and Berlin Phil for gifting us this beauty!

[@kevinchan7538]

so true abhik

[@theMad_Artist]

@@kevinchan7538 hahahaha hi kevin!

[@gabrielpssoa]

Here because of Rostropovich

[@carlsong6438]

A Gabriel who plays the cello? I must support. I subscribed lol

[@AntonBruns]

@@carlsong6438heard of Gabriel Schwabe?😬

[@AdamCzarnowski]

I don't think there is anyone around today who can produce playing as exalted as this from an orchestra. Or a cellist who can play so with such compelling intensity and phrase so magically. Luckily, all of these performances were conscientiously preserved in fabulous recorded sound for those who appreciate them to discover in centuries to come.

[@Stevenewfan]

Divine... Karajan and Rostropovich... I can't believe I found this jewel!!!!

[@raedonias4721]

i love how twoset showing beautiful clips like that always lead to te community raiding the video i guess bringing amaaAAAaazing pieces like that to more people is their job now

[@trivia3108]

"Cello, there" -Eddy Chen, May 2020-

They didnt created the meme

[@lj3600]

What a high resolution!!!

[@Roescoe]

1975 surprising huh?

[@anthonyflanders1347]

@@Roescoe it may have been shot on film so they can make the resolution as high as they want but I don’t really know anything about film and video.

[@Roescoe]

@@anthonyflanders1347 Yup film is crazy like that. My grandpa is into it and so he transferred a bunch of film onto the computer and zoomed way in for high resolution.

[@rupertvega-rice4724]

The Berlin Philharmoniker - Karajan sound with the Rostropovich sound really works!

[@SGTBizarro]

Wait... recorded in 1975?! This is extraordinary quality, film quality... wow. WOW.

[@engineya6234]

Hands down the best recording. They completely nailed it.

[@msimom27]

THE STARS NEVER DIE. NEVER.ROSTROVITCH AND KARAJAN THE BEST OF THE MUSIC WORLD HISTORY.

[@uchihaangel]

Here because of TwoSet :) lovely lovely music. So soulful.

[@sophiansimamora6225]

Thanks two set, this is so wonderful music

[@gerardoneill5556]

I love the intensity of this.

[@marychernyshenko9512]

Such gentle sorrow. Just before the end, it's like there's a white feather gliding on air. So light.

[@antfaz]

Gotta appreciate not only the composer, conductor and musicians, but the camera direction, lighting and sound techs. What a magical 2.55 minutes! I actually held back tears! Such a beautiful moment.

[@brucekuehn4031]

The divine light!

[@eliasgreen3483]

i always found this peace to be sublime… the staccato notes from the violins around the 2:00 mark always sounded to me like a man breathing his last breaths… truly a beautiful composition that captures the feeling of a death bed like none else… bravo!

[@IvanLuza]

Wow, absolutely stunning;

[@anastasiaf.3913]

I am crying 😍😭 this is so stunning beautiful 🔥 just in Love with this piece and this orchestra and ofcourse with this incredible soloist ❤️ so moving!! Thank you!!

[@greatmomentsofopera7170]

A giant of the cello. I also adore DuPre's live recording of this magical piece. This is beautifully filmed as well as played.

[@luizamsalgado]

Divine Slava ! Divine Ulrich Koch. Divine Karaajan, divine Philarmonic of Berlin. Last but not least: Divine Richard Strauss !!!

[@esterbalbi4558]

Stunning!!!

[@MrMichaelvier]

unbelievable beautiful...Karajan and Rostropovich :-) Strauss the greatest Music- Genius of the 20 th. century...thx for posting:-)

[@BBK551]

so intensely beautiful !

[@fina381]

Maravillosa interpretación

[@maryschvoice]

goosebumps! This is so beautiful!

[@MrMisterbie]

Class is always class, Karajan was a legend and will be.

[@yashbspianoandcompositions1042]

Karajan is THE Legend. The best there is the best there was and the best there ever will be......

[@luizamsalgado]

Geniuses (and a sublime orchestra!) playing a poignant moment of the wonderful D. Quixote tone poem by the genius of Richard Strauss !

[@diegomusic199]

Rostropovich e seu sublime som que toca a alma ❤️

[@kyung-wonlim273]

So beautiful ! Bravo !!!

[@terifischer6488]

I love the book and now the piece too, both are absolute masterpieces

[@far9827]

Que suerte tienes Carlitos de saber captar esas expresiones con tanta sensibilidad.unabrazo

[@ritchinf1576]

thank you for playing this piece

[@ruevo1]

Ganz ganz fantastisch!!! Alle Daumen hoch!!!!!

[@chavayasharahla343]

This makes me so emotional! I love it so much. Couldn’t find it for the longest time and I just found it in my watch later folder! 🙌🏾 thank u thank u for uploading

[@annaannaof716]

Amazing music ♥♫♪♥

[@DavidMa1992]

BRAVO!

[@madairesmusicaclasica8080]

Perfecta. Una excelente obra de juventud interpretada por excelentes artistas adultos. Memorable. Buen escaneo de la partitura en IMSLP. Una versión para disfrutar partitura en mano.

[@tonyping3678]

Gorgeous music!!!

[@Guus274]

tears, its won of these moments

[@deciopetrillo3584]

Per me la più grande interpretazione

[@mayonueve]

Sublime . . .

[@clemenstiburtius3605]

Großartiger Moment der Musikgeschichte!

[@charlesmaigne8519]

Magique. Avec une couleur de jubilation pas loin de la jouissance

[@Twistedriver]

Maestrissimo! Greatest of all times - Slava forever!

[@dr.n3358]

Absolute pure class - nothing less

[@SergiiZamytskyi]

Bravo! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 Geniuses!!!!!

[@esterbalbi4558]

a masterpiece!!!

[@nboehm8410]

Hervorragend!!!

[@iCancrizans]

Magic!

[@clauderaymond7117]

Super super génial plus beau ce n'est pas possible

[@annaannaof716]

zauberisch ♥

[@sinasaeedi-zd1lg]

Thank you

[@renepallalever3657]

Una obra de arte , que pieza musical

[@Saikhnaaaaa]

TwoSet crew where you at?

[@jugglerjim01]

We're here lol working through them in order 😎

[@thengyiming6240]

Why did TwoSet not feature the conductor in their video on epic cello performances?

[@winstonllamas5163]

@@thengyiming6240 Because he is one of the greatest cellists in modern history. Rostropovich was truly a great artist.

[@winstonllamas5163]

@@dJb-oe9sy Oh, I thought he was talking about Rostropovich, who was also a conductor (longtime NSO musical director in DC).

[@niiwii406]

I didn't need TwoSetViolin to find and love this piece of music and especially rostropovich's interpretation 😍

[@siyili1940]

that single note at 0:19 makes me cry every time

[@jarrahtree5130]

Incredible camera work and editing!

[@walterworrall]

Perfect

[@ExxylcrothEagle]

this is like SO Straussian ! ❤

[@annaannaof716]

Great,great ♫♪♥

[@Tulsenus]

i love it

[@user-tk2uv5zp7w]

I believe that the final scenes of don quixote shows a philosophical contemplation of the tragic hero's"ein heldenleben".Remembering of hero's noble spirit.A kind of greta human spirit.

[@gordierye7590]

Two set sent me here, too! Love Slava, love/loathe Karajan, but this is ineffable! Go, Two set!

[@franciscojaviernuneznunez2973]

Encantado con la magia de KZbin...

[@carlosrevueltamarti7392]

Emocionante.

[@hosseinomidi5244]

death... just look at this music to comprehend how a tragedy form. from execution to falling the body of character on the ground. how the temperature of this music variate from warm living body to the cold ending of death? miraculous. wonderful.amazing. and then the spacial silence with memorable moment that doesn't allow revealed feeling to disparate. its wonderful. how to conclude this music is such a way that save our all of that we dreams touch though and feel and scenes. all of them collects with genius ending or more clear with genius conclusion. (1:58) i think its more upper on a novel tragedy.

[@jasnajovanovic5940]

Enchante`

[@gabrielestebansalamanca9274]

Twoset brought me here Truly beautiful

[@sasssssa6565]

Berlin phil concert are generally all trully beautiful

[@conchetaful]

Fantástica suite

[@Liviez43]

I feel like this would be something you would hear at the end of the old sleeping beauty movie. Or when they are at the ball.

[@giuseppecattaneo4369]

Rostropovich UNICO e ASSOLUTO

[@carlosrevueltamarti7392]

Maravilloso

[@seok84]

Best of best of best of best of best.....

[@user-ln1gy7ng5x]

Мощно❤

[@rie.k]

✨Divine......wow......

[@future_phonk]

This was filmed in the 70s!? Such amazing quality!

[@Emanuel-zr7du]

I think it is technically remastered or something. If you listen at which incredible sonority the cello is singing in the video. If this is somehow a none remastered original version i am very astounded.

[@odod992]

I assume this is re-mastered :)

[@screengraphy]

It was shot on 35mm film, with a right remastering method it can look extremely clean and clear.

[@drandrewtan]

Thanks Oppa and TwoSet!

[@appeltschmitten]

Woow!!

[@joshsmusic1]

-Yo Yo ma Yo Yo Ma Ma like this- Nice piece

[@bernabeangeler2918]

In the higher notes he played, he sound like a violin 😮😮😮

[@specialperson335]

Better

[@bernabeangeler2918]

@@specialperson335 na

[@user-sr6jq4le7v]

Солнечный Слава! Великий!

[@patana256]

It's all in the face

[@samivillatorrevillatorre7532]

El genio ruso siempre brillará nunca su luz morirá se quedará en la eternidad 🌵🇲🇽🌵

[@blackmuzik19850502]

泣ける…

[@esterbalbi4558]

he is the Lord!!

[@stefanoitaly1201]

Porco dio ❤️❤️❤️❤️😢😢😢

[@clemenstiburtius3605]

Ein Meilenstein interpretatorischen Könnens!

[@quotetoadjr2779]

Viva la Slava!!!

[@tinamacs79]

I will like this sheet!! Can everybody give a link please???

[@zaferteomete5284]

Rostropowitch rest in peace