Stravinsky Le Sacre du printemps Esa-Pekka Salonen Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra

Igor Stravinsky: Le Sacre du printemps
I L'adoration de la terre
II Le sacrifice
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Musiikkitalo, Helsinki, Finland
Recorded on 16.9.2016.
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[@richardwilliams473]

Salonen is a SUPERB conductor!!!

[@ecoRfan]

He’s probably the world’s foremost Stravinsky master.

[@staffanolofsson8201]

I remember the first time we heard this alive, me and my brothers. It was in Tivoli, Copenhagen, and afterwards I saw a young woman sitting and crying in her bench, helplessly. Just a reminder of how strong this music is. I still remember that moment, 50 years ago.

[@SergejRazinkov]

Maestro Esa- Pekka Salonen ist einer der größten Interpreten der Musik des 20 Jahrhunderts! Es ist besondere große Freude diese Konzertauffürung "La Sacré du Printemps " von Igor Stravinsky mit dem Finnischen Radio Symphony Orchester unter seiner Leitung zu hören. Vielleicht wehre es gut für jungen Dirigenten über einigen Schwierigkeiten in " La Sacré " zu wissen bevor sie dieses Meisterwerk dirigieren wollen. Für vielen Dirigenten dieses Meisterwerk zählt nicht zu oft gespielte Musik in ihren Konzerten. Man kann nur vermuten, warum? Es ist schon bekannt das auf Grund dieses " revolutionären Meisterwerk klare harmonische Logik liegt. Diese Logik besteht sehr oft aus einfachen Akkorden. Zum Beispiel: 1Part " RITUAL of ABDUCTION " .2PART "Sacrificial DANCE " Ziefer 186 - bis zum Schluss. Ein Dirigent der diese Logik nicht kennt und nur die Struktur lernt, wird immer mit diesem Meisterwerk verschiedene Schwierigkeiten haben. Vor allem er wird nicht vollkommen von Orchester gespielte Musik richtig hören!! Vielleicht noch was interessantes: "Part 2."INTRODUCTION .Ziffer 82-83. Es könnte sein dass Stravinsky schon in dieser Zeit (1913) eine musikalische "Vorbote " für " Zukunftsmusik " geschrieben hat. Nicht nur für später entstandene Musik der "Wiener Schule "sondern auch für "Jazz " der zu dieser Zeit noch nicht als Teil der ernsten Musik war!Es gibt noch andere Musik Episode in" La Sacré " die dafür sprächen. Recht herzlichen Dank für bewundernswerte Konzertauffürung "La Sacré du Printemps". Ich würde allen wünschen solchen bewundernswerten Finnischen Radio Symphony Orchester öfter bei Gastspiele in mehreren Ländern Europas live zu hören!

[@staffanolofsson8201]

Esa-Pekka Salonen: today the winner of Polar Music Price! Congrats for a lifelong obsession of classical music!

[@staffanolofsson8201]

2024

[@LucienMarine]

It's a late nomination for this great conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen for his contribution to classical music. He became known in 1983 by conducting Mahler's Symphony No. 3. And as a composer, Esa-Pekka shares many similarities with Gustav Mahler: they were both equally brilliant as conductors and composers, and demonstrate the same artistic curiosity. Salonen is interested in technological innovations, not only for the pleasure of experimenting, but also to help the public discover great music and its developments. Esa-Pekka Salonen sculpts sound with his soul and his heart. Salonen will receive the prize on May 21. It seems to me that everything is said otherwise it is also the victory of Music ! *Lucien*

[@charlescornner]

Love the guy with the "MAKE SOME NOISE" t-shirt!

[@filizdener6052]

Great concert!!! Stravinsky's magical composition!!! Great orchestra and great conductor!!! Wonderful!!!

[@Mezzotenor]

Excellent, and I'm struck by how many details I'm hearing for the first time in a live performance.

[@AndreyRubtsovRU]

four bassoninsts in hip glasses are an amazing sight :-)

[@soothingsouls2133]

time stamp?

[@donlakakwaaijazz5220]

Intense! Great performance.

[@staffanolofsson8201]

As I understand it, Esa-Pekka Salonen is one of this worlds finest conductors. I have followed him through years, and of course I also like this version of Våroffer ( Le Sacre du printemps) played at his homeground in Helsinki, Finland. All the best to him and this music!

[@annazeman8521]

I have never heard of him. Now I am curious.

[@annazeman8521]

Do you live in Finland? I have read that the climate is not as cold as one would expect for an area so far north.

[@staffanolofsson8201]

@@annazeman8521 I live in Sweden, next to Finland. Esa-Pekka is one of Finlands great conductors ( they have quite a lot of them) and he has directed orchestras all over Europe and certainly also in USA. Thank you for your comment❤

[@staffanolofsson8201]

@@annazeman8521 kzbin.info/www/bejne/iYa6on2neJeVqLc

[@ecoRfan]

Salonen and Tilson Thomas are certainly “Stravinsky master” conductors.

[@malxmusician212]

absolute banger

[@ecoRfan]

The Rite and other Stravinsky material definitely could be an inspiration for heavy metal and other hard rock. This piece is totally a banger in the same fashion.

[@hakunaseitata2880]

For a live performance this realy is as good as it gets, the orchestra is fantastic I enjoy the interpretation and it also is beautifull to see so many young faces in the audience.

[@woomichen1378]

Love this! Thank you FRSO for the free streaming service.

[@robotypist]

Brilliant piece of music conducted by the most brilliant conduct in the world!

[@Iluminacion32]

OMG! what else may I say? beautiful! great ! Astonishing!

[@edbuller4435]

Such a piece!...I Love to think of Stravinsky and Debussy bashing away on and old upright in Igor's flat in Clarens as Diaghilev sat and listened for the first time!

[@kevycanavan]

Salonen is my favourite Rite interpreter

[@bernie57]

Salonen is the right conductor for the Rite!

[@ecoRfan]

I love how he holds the last note of the first movement long. Only Stravinsky and Gergiev direct like that. Salonen might be best Rite renditions overall, certainly among living directors.

[@kevycanavan]

@@ecoRfan his Ritual Action of the Ancestors is the most primal, folk horror creepy I’ve ever heard

[@XanAxDdu]

i would like to remember with this Spring chris squire and alan white be your cosmic voyage heavenly

[@bass-player]

👏👏👏

[@LucienMarine]

The Rite of Spring is a ballet and orchestral work by Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. A masterpiece of musical energy, the composition shows an absolutely prodigious network of inventiveness. From the synthesis of all the musical elements operated by Stravinsky is born an aesthetic multiplicity which intensely privileges the acoustic effects and the dramatic force. « The sacral dance » (Allegro moderato), Act 2, Scene 6, is the culmination of the piece, the moment that illustrates the original idea of its composition, this dance where the brutal force of a symphony orchestra explodes, treated in a style revolutionary. The work which has exacerbated the chromaticism to the highest point, the harsh harmonies, the raw sonorities, are born from the creation of powerful instrumental blocks, that clash or complement each other, the richness of timbres of an enlarged orchestra as well as the use of playing modes that push the sounds to the extreme, emancipating the rhythmic and releasing the tonal harmony from its classico-romantic pivots. Stravinsky juxtaposes and accumulates his musical ideas in contrasting flows, which interact with each other and create a perpetual increase in the energy released, which will crystallize an innovative approach essential to the modernity of 20th century music. The celebrity of the work does not hesitate to make it one of the pillars of musical modernism. Phenomenal beauty! *Lucien*

[@staffanolofsson8201]

Well said! Thank you.

[@LucienMarine]

@@staffanolofsson8201 Thank you, friend.

[@scuunjieng]

I hope Salonen and Vanska take time to continue Pamula's work teaching conducting so this unprecedented and unparalleled with Finnish conductors continues.

[@XanAxDdu]

i admit i prefer the spring in a raw rude way i mean this is more smooth i like it a lot the same anyway

[@angusmackay1]

Yes! Too genteel - like a Sunday picnic in places. Loses the raw power.

[@larbaud]

I knew Nakamura was a computer, now I know he's a microcomputer.

[@alessandrogerlo]

Bassdrum excerpt: 15:10

[@Queenkirlia]

shoutout to the guy wearing "make come" in the audience anyways great recording tho everyone seemed rlly together

[@aka.Mr.French]

actually, I think his shirt says "make some noise." So very appropriate for this piece. :)

[@FRyuu566]

30:18

[@PuffyOne1898]

14:04 Hell yeah, Wagner tuba!

[@staffanolofsson8201]

Now Finland and Sweden have together decided to join NATO, because of a certain person and a certain war. But we still love Russian Music, Russian Authors and the Russian People. As here, with Esa-Pekka and Finnish Radio Symphony Orcherstra, in this fantastic performance.

[@staffanolofsson8201]

And I will never neglect a person totally because of her/his political opinion, I hope. The rest of this person is also interesting.

[@inception1695]

@@staffanolofsson8201 "And I will never neglect a person totally because of her/his political opinion" You should though, it's more fun.

[@staffanolofsson8201]

@@inception1695 Perhaps you are right, but "fun"? These days I have it hard with Valery Gergiev, this Putin supporter who also support his war in Ucraine. Anyhow he is an exellent conductor...

[@inception1695]

@@staffanolofsson8201 stop talking like a nerd. It’s more fun to strawman people and make logical fallacies.

[@staffanolofsson8201]

@@inception1695 Just stop writing to me, perhaps you have better things to do?

[@ab-zg8pt]

18:32 - 18:45 Camerawork gets an F

[@diegoflorez-saavedra816]

25:16

[@platonos86]

By far not Salonen's best version.

[@ecoRfan]

Agree. This one feels all over the place.

[@mikeklimczak9600]

@@ecoRfanespecially at 34:26 with that percussion error

[@classicalperformances8777]

this needs better sonics..

[@jeanpaulgilleron3766]

la trompette piccolo c'était limite tres tres loin d'Alexandre baty et bien sur maurice andré qui l'a joué avec une facilité déconcertante

[@user-tn3tn8bd1p]

タ

[@mauritsdienske6850]

Don’t trust Google translations. 夕 (pinyin xi, pronounced see) means sunset or evening.

[@jeanpaulgilleron3766]

bon je suis sévère car c'est bien dans l'ensemble mais il manque des répétitions ça se sent .Il faut au moins 5 répétitions pour arriver à un résultat correct

[@staffanolofsson8201]

With my bad french, the swede I am, I have understood you are not content at all. More repetitions you suggest. On the contrary, for me this is the perhaps best performance of this on KZbin.

[@thesoundofcontemporarymusi3196]

@@staffanolofsson8201I am also French. In this version, the dynamics are excellent. I consider it even superior to the interpretation of Pierre Boulez. Yes, E-P. Salonen is a very great conductor. Congratulations to the musicians too.

[@LucienMarine]

The mistake is you and not Esa-Pekka Salonen who is part of the orchestral elite. To understand music, you must first feel it. A méditer ! *LM*

[@şiirokumayıveyazmayısever]

Hangi saz müziğe ne zaman gireceğini nasıl şaşırmıyor? Basit değil, karmaşık bir müzik çünkü. Bir saz çalarken, diğeri çalınan müziği duyunca niye şaşırmıyor?

[@JuliaGrigorian123]

Hi Love, I really like your conducting style, so if you like my music, you can play it and get a contract with my dad maybe! Angel Jagger.

[@mikeklimczak9600]

34:26 percussion error

[@jeanpaulgilleron3766]

c'est pas mal mais on est loin de l'orchestre de radio france avec les trompettistes comme alexandre baty à la piccolo entre autres qui est actuellement ce qu'il y a de mieux dans le monde meme au dessus de berlin

[@FERRETTI51]

Bien sur, faut pas oublier la grandeur de la France.

[@staffanolofsson8201]

@@FERRETTI51 :-)

[@BucurEST1989]

The worst conductor of my time.

[@pepijnstreng4643]

You haven't seen me yet.

[@stevenj9970]

Way too many women in that band.

[@jakenowell5211]

grow up

[@inception1695]

XD

[@thegameranch5935]

Lol what

[@nelsonleduc8833]

I hope that was sarcasm, Steven