Stravinsky The Rite of Spring // London Symphony Orchestra/Sir Simon Rattle

Sir Simon Rattle conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, recorded live at the Barbican Centre on Sunday 24 September 2017.
Programme notes: lso.co.uk/images/pdf/21-Sep-1...
Concert generously supported by Reignwood
Recommended by Classic FM
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[@LondonSymphonyOrchestra]

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[@maddieteddie553]

Vivaldi obviously experienced a very different spring from Stravinsky.

[@SwirlOfColors]

Haha. I'm stealing this quote. Way too funny.

[@TurboBinch]

well, one was telling stories about barking dogs, and the other was about making preteens dancing to... you know.

[@pepetapiaman]

The work of Vivaldi hsce reference to the 4 states of drunkenness, is not literal about the 4 climatic seasons.

[@TurboBinch]

​@@pepetapiaman I mean, the accompanying sonnet for the first movement of Autumn references drinking, but the concerti are not each a different state of drunkenness?

[@unbornify1185]

@@TurboBinch idk I picture “Winter” being a drunk guy dancing lol

[@lucpraslan]

Give that 1st bassoonist a medal.

[@carlang4793]

omg ikrrrrr

[@skatardrummer1]

Right? That was beautiful

[@gdw3]

Circular breathing!

[@mathildewesendonck7225]

A gold medal!!

[@mathildewesendonck7225]

Richard Kamwezi she 😉

[@TheFIoridaMan]

Stravinsky- "I guess you guys aren't ready for that, yet. But your kids are gonna love it. "

[@cappadinoceo]

back to the future amirite ;)

[@takemetoyonk]

and then came One Winged Angel haha

[@jmanbearpig5067]

let’s just appreciate Stravinsky for scoring every John Williams movie before he was even born

[@rhythmythicles]

Hahahaha I was just thinking that you could take some many little musical bites/ideas from this work and create entire other works from them easily. Maybe that's what JW set out to do!

[@Ainnem]

And also Nobuo Uematsu´s "One Winged Angel"

[@nightnotes3122]

😂

[@TheOneAndOnlyZeno1889]

let’s just appreciate Gustav Holst for scoring every John Williams movie before he was even born* fixed

[@seewaage]

That is exactly what I think too! I've thought that for years. I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed it! haha :-)

[@patlayanseker561]

“I like classical music,its so calm and relaxing” -Stravinsky : Let me introduce myself

[@shimmereyes8984]

Allow me to introduce you Atonal Classical Music

[@mycroftholmes7379]

Stravinsky was not a part of the Classical Era, lols....he was with the Era with Debussy

[@angeliquemuhavani1221]

@@mycroftholmes7379 OP said classical music, as in the genre, not the era

[@indrawanjunaidi5356]

How about Schoenberg

[@culbycove4963]

@@indrawanjunaidi5356 Schoenberg was the Sonic Youth of composers

[@drystroke7896]

what time signature do u want this piece in? stravinsky: yes

[@morgainegamergirl6703]

Best comment ever!

[@GUILLOM]

Not even a song.

[@jackmarentette1302]

Not funny.

[@ChrisTheHero65]

You mean piece?

[@morgainegamergirl6703]

@@ChrisTheHero65 You mean piece?

[@letsrock6452]

Stravinsky: “I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.” A true artist.

[@duartevader2709]

​@@user-pn5mn6mv3ccontext pls

[@ZoiBox]

Firebird, Petrushka and Rite of Spring - ALL IN THE SAME NIGHT?! As a percussionist that is my worst nightmare! Well done to all the performers, splendid playing as always!

[@DieFlabbergast]

Well, at least they didn't do Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition!

[@nicktheclarinet6718]

@@DieFlabbergast that’s songs way easier then those 3 -clarinet player lol

[@cheetahman515]

I was like, how many ambulances did they have to call because of the heart attacks they would have given people

[@patrickedwards5804]

It certainly beats those evenings being dressed up to the nines but with nowhere to go, with biblical rest counting until the penultimate tinkle on the triangle.. 🤔

[@OligoST]

Best comment. Waiting, waiting, waiting and CRASH, BOOM, SMASH

[@steventran2120]

imagine rioting to this back in the day

[@turdferguson2982]

Imagine rioting to this today!

[@SaxandRelax]

who said we can’t

[@photo161]

The premiere was at what was essentially a Diaghilev produced classical dance event, the crowd was largely balletomanes and the "riot" was a reaction more to the choreography than to the music...althogh the two were in reality, inextricably linked.

[@findlayhamilton-jones3863]

world's first moshpit

[@kayceewhite]

Steven Tran Lmao it’s lit

[@yuenccheung1586]

During the original premier, Camille Saint-Saens, Ravel and Debussy were in attendance. At one point, Saint-Saens makes a sarcastic joke and leaves. One man is slapped in the face by another while he boos. Someone yelled that the music was a fraud. An Austrian ambassador laughed aloud. Two factions of the audience began to yell at each other while Ravel was yelling "Genius!" and Debussy was pleading for silence. One person spat in the face of another and no one really heard the orchestra after that. -Summary of 'Classical Music: Igor Stravinsky'

[@kirsteni.russell5903]

Thanks for the detail! All I knew was that there was a riot of sorts at the premier of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. I can imagine that Saint-Saens just wasn't ready for this, But Ravel and Debussy were. (BTW, I enjoy Ravel and Debussy too!)

[@whoopsala2589]

In fact saint saence never been to the performance :-)

[@donaldneill4419]

Barbara Tuchman recounts the impact of the premiere on 28 May, 1913, saying of the piece, "It was the Twentieth Century incarnate. It reached at one stride a peak of modern music that was to dominate later generations. It was to the Twentieth Century what Beethoven's Eroica was to the Nineteenth, and like it, never surpassed....With the performance of the Sacre, filling out a decade of innovation in the arts, all the major tendencies of the next half-century had been stated." From 'The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914', Chapter 6.

[@Flautistotle]

Ooooh, I wish I'd been there! Slapping and spitting at a concert, it was fun back then! Love this performance. I couldn't play alto flute without a curved headjoint, but I'm a wimp. Beautiful bassoon; hello to Sarah Willis; I wanna play washboard when I grow up.

[@alcyonae]

Source?

[@MusicDiscoveryLab]

This is the piece that let's the whole orchestra live out its heavy metal dreams.

[@dctrbrass]

lol it's funny how many metal/rock fans I've met while playing in orchestras. My personal favorite is Dream Theater. Great playing in that group. Most classical musicians love great playing in other genres too. But yeah the counting is pretty nasty in this chart.

[@vilelilman4252]

That and Danny Elfman’s pieces and his new chamber orchestra album He loves Stravinsky’s work a godly amount though

[@jmha2428]

Progressive Thrash Metal legends, Voivod quoted a sequence from Rites Of Spring in their track Pre ignition. Its what has encouraged me to dig into his compositions

[@mirandazannos336]

@@directorhferreira445 YES !!!! That's what I was just thinking. That piece is incredible.

[@mirandazannos336]

Fun to read all the comments responding to what you said. I'm here watching this out of curiosity because I saw an interview of Martha Davis of "The Motels", and she said this Stravinsky piece is one of the first pieces that got her so interested in music, when she was just 5 years old ! I love her strange and kinda haunting songs and I can see why she loved Stravinsky.

[@albertosamaniego2476]

the heavy metal of classic music

[@Raku-Maru]

Besides Shostakovich ;-) I recommend the 11th Symphony, especially the part II (Allegro) respectively part IV (Allergro non Troppo) with the drums and timpani💪💪💪

[@canigetuhkiss579]

thanks brother, that was amazing.@@Raku-Maru

[@andreluistauferlopes7040]

That's it!!

[@emmanuelchristian5411]

more like avant-garde

[@fe2661]

Plot twist: Those coughs are actually on the score. Stravinsky wrote them.

[@carolh5501]

Lmao really tho?

[@simonkawasaki4229]

I traveled back in time and asked him; he said without the coughs, you might as well not perform the piece at all.

[@deliusmyth5063]

Started the virus.

[@carolh5501]

@@rhomaios298 *bruh*

[@hellNo116]

The music is so effective he forcing ppl in specific locations in the room to cough on specific points. You don't even have a choice. That is the law of the universe.

[@nn6404]

100 years later and this piece is still weird as fuck. I love it!

[@segmentsAndCurves]

Probably 100 more years, the world will love them even more!

[@ethandegroat4471]

I first listened to this and I was wtf, and then listened to the rest and I was like "man this is good" and now I love it.

[@gabrielemarcelli4530]

When i was 3/4 years old i discovered "Fantasia" by Disney. This piece was the 3rd piece in the movie and as soon as my 4years old ass listened to that beauty for the first time there was no space for any other cartoon in my heart. Hearing this piece at such a young age shaped my musical taste in a delightful way and this will forever be an importante part of my heart

[@jorgeruiz5405]

I love the fact that at 23:53, the creators of Disney' Fantasia thought this moment in particular matched with the arrival of a nightmarish T-Rex into the scene. Now I cannot not picture it without it.

[@spmoran4703]

Yes that T Rex put the fear of God in me.

[@wildguy4773]

Funny enough rite of spring is based on evolution of early humans in early cenozoic period, but disney rejected the idea of humans Durning their development of fantasia and made new idea, instead of humans, it would be evolution of earth

[@isemustaphe]

The last chord literally be spelling "D.E.A.D"! I got chills!

[@SCruz-wi3wd]

wdym?

[@VincentSpongefulvids]

The notes

[@achille-claudedebussy7122]

@@SCruz-wi3wd the chord at the very end spells out “DEAD” as in the notes because that’s when the virgin snaps her neck and dies

[@byattwurns1553]

@@SCruz-wi3wd Notes are assigned an alphabet identifier (ABCDEFG) A Chord is two or more notes played together (AD/ ABC) The last chord is DEAD

[@flaxenRdn]

@@byattwurns1553 😯

[@domicdom2483]

When Rite of spring was played for the very first time in 1913, it caused a RIOT in the audience due to it being so extremely advanced, angry, abstract, edgy, stormy, doomy and very modern with alot of pounding. I think Stravinsky approached a time in his life where he got old and wanted the rights of spring again.

[@alkanista]

The riot was over the choreography, not the music.

[@meggisamachine]

@@alkanista This isn't true. By Stravinsky's own accounts it was the "dissonance in the score" as well as the "jerky" movements of the dancers. It was a mix of many things, including the anti-Russian and anti-Nijinsky factions in Paris at the time. The dancers certainly played a part, but it was the score, and politics, too.

[@alkanista]

@@meggisamachine Yes, it was apparently over many things, and not even a real riot as much as a rowdy and noisy audience. But one of the dancers at that performance said the uproar began before a note was even played, which tells me the music was probably not the primary factor. Plus, it was a ballet audience, not a concert audience. I'd think their main interest would be what was happening on stage, rather than in the pit.

[@meggisamachine]

@@alkanista I do agree that the choreography was a huge factor, because when Stravinsky debuted the music only a year later as just an orchestral performance, it went over extremely well. The dancing is incredibly jarring.

[@josephmiller1224]

19th century Romanticism, yes. Stravinsky's modernism, no.

[@aldoringo439]

The piece seems crazy but every time you listen to it it gets simpler and better and better.

[@v_munu]

Once you get to the point where you memorize the pattern of the single, double, triple & quadruple hits in the quiet parts of the Sacrifical Dance, you know you've listened to it too much.

[@pnl4660]

@@v_munu One have to practice in listening for years to memorize and accept all patterns and melodies of this music. But finally your brain will thanks you for the pleasure of clear and easy following to this energetic powerful masterpiece.

[@toprak3479]

The time signatures, beats etc. seem pretty random at first but repeated listens reveal strange reappearing rhythmic patterns that are actually not that hard to memorize. It's a puzzle. The more pieces you fit together, the easier it gets until the whole thing becomes almost crystal clear. Sacrifical Dance might be an exception to this though.

[@dez87]

It's bad

[@toprak3479]

@@dez87 trash tier take

[@nickyg7726]

*Bass clarinet solo* zooms in on alto flute...

[@xxwood_windxx-bb4413]

nickyg what time stamp is it

[@nickyg7726]

2:14

[@xxwood_windxx-bb4413]

nickyg oh I get it I wanted to see it

[@ethanpetersen845]

Literally one of the most well know bass clarinet excerpts of all time haha

[@joeyburgos_]

I’m salty

[@dominicstorella1903]

Part I: A Kiss of the Earth Introduction 0:40 The Augurs of Spring 4:05 Ritual of Abduction 7:14 Spring Rounds 8:30 Ritual of the Two Rival Tribes 12:03 Procession of the Oldest and Wisest One 13:57 A Kiss of the Earth 14:39 The Dance of the Earth 15:03 Part II: The Exalted Sacrifice Introduction 16:36 Mystic Circle of the Young Girls 21:11 The Naming and Honoring of the Chosen One 24:02 Evocation of the Ancestors 25:46 Ritual Action of the Ancestors 26:28 Sacrificial Dance 30:05

[@willmorris8198]

This should be the top comment and pinned. Thank you so much!

[@Quim141]

Thanks!

[@v_munu]

13:50 has to be the most nasty, brutal trumpet excerpt ever and hearing it played so clean is so satisfying.

[@BrianBisetti]

Indeed! If [Patrick Bateman pursing his lips in American Psycho] made a noise, this would be it. 😙

[@gonzalohiguain2589]

went directly from Beatles Strawberry Fields to this; what a time to be alive, man

[@brysontang4083]

Go listen to 1000 gecs by 100 gecs

[@nedisahonkey]

100 Gecs could make the white album but The Beatles could never make 1000 Gecs.

[@Calvin1985]

"It's just a prank bro." -Igor Stravinsky, May 29 1913

[@djmotise]

Kick ass bassoonist. One of the best openings I've ever heard.

[@remyjones9146]

darren motise Kickass Bassoonist is my new band name

[@billding7073]

Rachel Gough.

[@santosateos1452]

No, the tempo was to slow (I know that it is written "solo at lib") and that give to much importance to the bassoon solo, that was not the intention of the composer, the Introduction should be more like water flowing in a creek, so the public gets in the piece in a very sutil way. Giving to much importance to the bassoon solo damages what comes next. Just check the 1929 version, conducted by Stravinsky himself.

[@Ana.Garcia.]

@@santosateos1452 Interpretation change through time. And honestly, if it's good enough for Sir Simon, it's good enough for anyone

[@santosateos1452]

@@Ana.Garcia. everyone knows (well, everyone in music) that they need to attract new public, the numbers are not good, that is why there are many film scores being performed, that is why they do those things, is like shiny things... "You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons." (quoting Gene Wilder in Mel Brooks's "Blazing Saddles")

[@patrickedwards5804]

Fucking amazing that Rattle conducts this without a score. The Dance of the Chosen one is a thicket of varying time signatures and syncopation. To consign all of this movement alone to memory is staggering in itself. Always admired Rattle's ear for 20th century music. He is at his best in this period I believe.

[@user-dj9jw9uz9p]

Shortest 35 minutes of my life. Amazing performance.

[@wyattwahlgren8883]

I love the double bass player they keep showing. You can tell he's really into it.

[@CleverMetaphor]

dude looks like King Leonidas

[@johnpointon4462]

If he's not a rugby player he should be!

[@TienTran-nm6ms]

Love his head banging at the end!

[@excuseyou7198]

@@TienTran-nm6ms lol I’m pretty sure he’s just doing that to keep time.

[@dedede5586]

i live for his aggressive plucking during spring rounds

[@sserene.]

"I feel calmed and relaxed whenever I listen to classical music." Rite of Spring: Am I a joke to you?

[@snuppssynthchannel]

One period this was my go-to sleep music, I only stopped with it because it worked too well , and the piece deserves attentive listening. I guess Bitonal harmony and constant time changes feels very natural to me after heavy exposure of music of similar nature.

[@londoncalling1984]

This isn't classical music. It is early modern music. The classical period ended in around 1820 and the Romantic period ended around 1900.

[@Dzifii]

1812 Overture, Can Can, William Tell Overture, Radetzky March, In the Hall of the Mountain King, Ride of the Valkyries, Psycho: are we a joke to you?

[@Dzifii]

@@londoncalling1984 Based on Wikipedia: Classical music most commonly refers to the formal musical tradition of the Western world, considered to be distinct from Western folk music or popular music traditions. In a more general sense, the term may also refer to music evidencing similar formal qualities in non-Western cultures. Originating in Western Europe with the music of the early Christian Church, modern musicologists often classify it into eras: the Medieval (500-1400), Renaissance (1400-1600), Baroque (1600-1750), Classical (1750-1820), Romantic (1800-1910), Modernist (1890-1975) and Postmodern/Contemporary (1950-present) eras. These periods and their dates are all approximate generalizations and represent gradual stylistic shifts that varied in intensity and prominence throughout the Western world.

[@fredericchopin6445]

@@londoncalling1984 it is still classical music, although not in classical era

[@cjames0723]

That double bass guy is the main character of this story.

[@aldoringo439]

6:12 how can a musical moment sound so good but yet be so musically perfect at the same time? Stravinsky was the most audacious genius in musical history.

[@Saunaman188]

What does that even mean? Why would one thing exclude the other?

[@efmusic04]

Still waiting for The Rite of Summer.

[@joaoguerreiro52]

Midsommar

[@undefinedd1147]

The Wrong of Summer? 😁

[@Dmichoacan]

The Riot(s) of Summer

[@pauloamaral6069]

He will compose that in the after-life.

[@KariIzumi1]

Top ten anticipated sequels

[@bb5bucks]

Never listen to this while driving

[@nateofnathan8297]

BB 5 Bucks especially when you’re a conductor and have some of memorized cause you’ll be conducting it the whole time.

[@teomanersar9759]

its just dynamic range problem of digital dont listen to notebook or ... same question

[@vengoheim7810]

Talking from experience?

[@wyattwahlgren8883]

Too late...

[@rr7firefly]

At 28:56 you will swerve into the bus in the next lane.

[@johnhowardmorgan]

I've listened to many, many performances of RoS during my 83 years on the planet. This is certainly one of the very best.

[@JohnJApanovitch]

One of the most complex and most insane pieces of classical music ever composed. Igor Stravinsky was insane, but he really knows what he was doing. This orchestra pulled it off so well, and the audience just roars into applause after everything is over with. As the one man at the end shouted: "BRAVO!!!"

[@aaronlebos]

8:55 the darkest emotion that can't be described in mere words

[@presleyvelvet618]

Brooding

[@alumi9818]

it's called 'sulking'

[@m0ck0wl]

anguish

[@joeyuzwa891]

the passionless desire for murder

[@jftierdor4605]

that's probably not saying something good about me but this is my favourite moment

[@nonatomusic]

Maestro: "Bass strings section on FFFF. Can you manage it?" Bassist at 11:00 : Almost breaks strings with fury rock slapping pizzicato. Awesome performance.

[@paulmartin9275]

I was driving home from working after midnight and this just started on the radio. I sat in the car in the dark when I got home spellbound to this, and could not leave before I knew who it was. The anouncer informed me after it ended, I wrote that down and ordered it. At about 24 minutes it is so mental! It makes wild rock-music sound tame!

[@youinspiremyinnerserialkiller]

Holy fucking shit. This is epic!! I remember hearing this as a child in disneys fantasia. But hearing it as an adult with a full orchestra.... mind blown.

[@fevzudinasaracevic1229]

Tried listening to it while studying. Couldn't. Ended up watching the video till the very end. And on repeat again. Too perfect to ignore!

[@huntergati4477]

I’m not the only one

[@insectgenesis]

just something about spring and human sacrifice just go so well together

[@CatLover69420]

Harvest season?

[@SoulCore413]

@@CatLover69420 There’s a difference between the harvest and THE HARVEST.

[@victorarmandoneis]

2 things come to mind with this: volcanoes and dinosaurs. Excellent work.

[@kittycatmeowmeow963]

You remember them too; don't you? I love that movie!😊

[@dianalee3059]

Best version of one of my favorite works. Many thanks to all involved

[@heatherferreira4225]

Hollywood owes Stravinsky a world of debt. He really reset the musical paradigm with this entire symphony but you really feel it between 11:17 and 11:33. Today we're used to horror film trailer scores that sound like that but one has to remember until Igor NOTHING EVER WRITTEN HAD SOUNDED THAT WAY. Our entire industry ripped that off from him and has been trying to catch up since.

[@Balfour.]

Not only Hollywood owes Stravinsky, but entire generations of musicians and composers after him. The Rite of Spring is to the 20th century what Beethoven's Eroica was to the 19th - a brand new starting point in western music history.

[@georgemorley1029]

Completely agree with every single word you’ve written. Even someone such as Herrmann was in debt.

[@originaltommy]

You are spot on, Heather, spot on.

[@toprak3479]

Agreed. But isn't this a suite?

[@warrenny]

"Spot on..." "completely agree..." Wow, is everyone in the comment section just spineless agree-ers? Sounds nothing like a "a horror film trailer score" SMH 11:17 to 11:33 might resemble one of the action scene scores of a Star Wars movie. Not even close to being a horror film score.....unless you've never actually watched horror movies, then you would probably say so. btw an inexperienced person would use the phrase ripped off. In the real world, those who learn from the previous creators of art like to do something we call "working in the genre". It is how one builds upon the greatness of those who came before.

[@alexmuso1943]

Only the greatest conduct this without a score, but Sir Simon conducts almost everything without a score - phenomenal memory and musicianship.

[@itamarbar9580]

The greatest conductor.... Ever?

[@paulbrower4265]

@@itamarbar9580 Toscanini? Furtwaengler? Szell? C. Davis?

[@mycroftholmes7379]

Kleiber conducted in memory also

[@Altonahh10]

Conducting from memory is not a sign of quality. Why not have the score in front of you to look at in case of doubt? That doesn't detract from the matter.

[@ettoreulivelli9250]

I agree. To conduct such an incredibly rhythmic piece, with cliff-hangers changes in tempo requires both an exceptional mind & musicianship. My deepest admration for Simon Rattle.

[@cobravoadora]

This 1913 song is a milestone in the entire history of music, putting an end to romanticism once and for all! Stravinsky nailed it!

[@theplaneshift]

The string work at 15:30: without video, you can't grasp the intensity of the crescendo to 16:07. Outstanding - one of the greatest pieces of music in human history.

[@iaf4454]

That passage is really hard, i played this and i can assure you it takes a lot of hours and hard work to play it well... ufff it is great but you need a lot of practice

[@jesscac]

I thought the video was sped up at first... this is crazy. a violin riff

[@studiostudentstars1795]

Even the conductor has to wipe the sweat off his face after that section. 🤣🤣

[@pavlekocbek]

Certainly! Must be! Look here, I think they are ever so majestic ...this sad rivers, strange shadows, remote gloomy valleys. Fog, windless lands, murky bogs, heavily spirit saturated still earth smells of mossy peat, Vast and mysterious marshlands, lakes, wretched pools of sorrow and euphoria . And very deep in the spring at the enchanted glimmering ponds is almost certainly, I'm 100% sure of it, a planetary intergalactic portal to other worlds

[@RiceWitch-dingus-400]

@@iaf4454 The end of part one looks kind of easy but it is not it's very repetitive and difficult!

[@Balfour.]

15:30 I've always found absolutely fascinating and unparalleled what Stravinsky achieves with the orchestra in those few final seconds of the first part. Sounds like a freight train coming full speed directly at you.

[@LadyJoolree]

Balfour I’m playing this in a few weeks, and it feels like that too. At this point and at the end. Especially if you get lost or chicken out of your entry, it’s nigh impossible to jump back on the train! 😂

[@pentaxel3905]

Its also very impressive on how Stravinsky could make repetitive music sound unnerving and scary, like the shrieking and screaming horns alternating D and A above an Eb7 chord and the repeating stomping of the Augurs of Spring

[@dedede5586]

i never thought of it like that!! that's an amazing description

[@debug8377]

someone also once said this part sounds like cats fighting in a dust bin

[@classicalmusic1175]

I imagine to a 1913 audience this work was as revolutionary as Beethoven's 5th was to a 1808 audience.

[@daniellbondad6670]

+Classical Music11 To the bit larger majority of them,it was garbage.Only a minority of them praised it for what it was.

[@buffpowerlifter97]

it was rejected at first sadly

[@SauvikBiswas]

"The performance was accompanied by shouts, catcalls, derisory comments, angered ripostes and even fistfights." -- program notes for this performance

[@ooflespoofle3691]

Top 10 high school rap battles

[@milkyu_ix]

Jay Preis Are you seriously arguing about whether or not a simple comma was to die for? Get a life

[@midianpoet]

Unbeliavable. Thanks to Sir Rattle and London Symhony Orchestra for pure art experience.

[@aldoringo439]

That melody around 9:00 is pure genius. So villainous.

[@capn_l]

And I eat it up everytime its soo mesmerising to hear

[@ArmoredGriffon]

The instant I heard it I recognized it used for the intro to Dr. Steel's "The Singularity"

[@toprak3479]

It sounds full of solace to me

[@DoctorWu23]

Its so fucking good. It literally pulls you with it.

[@buddhaburrito]

It sounds like a sad yet strong father to me

[@solfidelic]

I play percussion, I listen to a lot of genres. I have never delved into classical ever in my life. Before watching this video I was educating myself on conductors and orchestra with placements, ambience, sound etc.. after watching this I cannot believe the extraordinary power of classical and will continue to educate myself the on art. Kudos to Simon and the orchestra. Love from Australia ❤

[@jalenwashington6468]

That would be because Rite of Spring isn't from the Classical period of music (1730-1820), it's from the Modern period (1890-1945), being first performed in 1913. www.libertyparkmusic.com/the-modern-period/ Basically, the modern period took what the last period (Romantic, 1820-1890) developed, managing to tell a story with nothing except for the music itself, and expanded upon it by shaking up certain conventions of music (the time signature, the harmony, etc.). It's pretty fascinating stuff.

[@Ana.Garcia.]

@@jalenwashington6468 Probably he wrote classical music as a style, not an era

[@whichcache2517]

@@Ana.Garcia. Considering the fact that Rite of Spring is considered one of the first modernist compositions, I highly doubt that.

[@Ana.Garcia.]

@@whichcache2517 As a genre dumbass

[@whichcache2517]

​@@Ana.Garcia. Okay. So I've no idea why you decided to be rude, but regardless, Igor Stravinksy's Neo-Classical period doesn't change the fact that Rite of Spring doesn't fit into being "classical" at all, whether you consider it to be a style, genre, or as part of an era. It's a ballet that was so shocking at the time, whether it was the music or the dancing itself, that it started a riot in its first performance. It's a song that popularized the idea of bitonality (playing two keys at once). It constantly changes the number of beats per meter, from 5, to 9, 5, 7, 3, 4 in quick succession. The way in which it challenges the conventions of music, yet still maintains listenability is sacrosanct to what modernism stands for.

[@thesilvershining]

28:56-29:17 is by far the scariest music ever written... the brass of course but also the strings with the flutes and piccolo, oh my GOD.

[@pentaxel3905]

All the cinematic horror composers stole it, the high eerie and creepy trills and screaming horns together are why the cinematic composers steal (Stravinsky quoted: "Great artists steal")

[@apothecurio]

Seriously. I hate to recommend this. But if you really enjoy that kind of repeated dissonant thing. You should check out a band called swans.

[@adriancarlomanlangit1296]

Don't forget the percussion department :)

[@ambrosia3907]

@@apothecurio Also Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, they are very Stravinsky-inspired and make fairly similar music to Swans

[@brownie3454]

@@ambrosia3907 they hold themselves back with the name for sure

[@user-74652]

French horns are normally given softer, more mellow parts, but The Rite of Spring basically reminds us that they are brass instruments and hence can be every bit as loud as a trumpet or trombone.

[@SMCwasTaken]

French Horns are the most beautiful sounding instrument

[@SamirAbadeer]

Stravinsky said : "I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received." Revolutionary Master Piece . Very smart

[@jorgeramirez7434]

Does anybody else hear the entire orchestra take a breath at 33:19 right before the world collapses around them or is that just me?

[@Checkmate1138]

I love that so much.

[@uhoh8829]

I love it

[@me_is_hobo]

Wow!

[@jamsey77]

😮😮😮😮

[@Ana.Garcia.]

It must be SO tiring to play this piece

[@monibambo1]

There is so much drama, such excitement, terror and violence in this piece! It is magical. I would love to have been at its first public performance.

[@itamarbar9580]

You wouldn't. There was a riot in the audience 15 minutes after the first note. So if you want to stay safe, don't be in the premier. Also, it was a ballet.

[@meggisamachine]

@@itamarbar9580 Also, someone was slapped in the face according to Stravinsky's own account, so there was a lot going on. 🤣

[@NoTraceOfSense]

@@itamarbar9580 There’s a reason why the first performance was specified.

[@srt4b]

@@itamarbar9580 Sounds like a blast

[@tygavin04]

That was intense, I'm rattled. The camera work revealed the personality of the Maestro and the orchestra, the pride, skill and dedication of the orchestra. London Symphony Orchestra is glorious. My heart is still pounding.

[@davidtodd536]

Fascinating, eerie, mesmerizing, and highly emotional. Chaos coming into order, then back to chaos; Different threads of sound harmonizing and then in conflict and back again. Wild to see so many artists playing their instruments with so much motion, intensity, and focus. Fabulous!

[@shmakiemandrake4667]

What a shock for the audience in 1913!

[@alankirkby465]

I agree, must have been.

[@Danlovar]

There were thrown tomatoes or something like that. There was a reaction from the audience back then, like Wagner's germanization of his operas.

[@georgemorley1029]

It still shocks me every time I remember how ahead of its time it was, and in many ways still is. I can’t think of many better contemporary classical pieces.

[@segmentsAndCurves]

@@georgemorley1029 Charle Ives? Scriabin? God forbid, Schoenberg?

[@antonwebern6128]

Heard it for the first time when I was 15, took me 2 years to digest it and understand it. This is still my no 1 of all the music. Went to Budapest to experience it in Feb 2019. Amazing. Greetings from a random boy, from some brutalist Polish neighbourhood.

[@masterchieftheconqueror2631]

Salutations from random American boy from 100 year old farm house. That is so cool. Good to see I'm not the only one who appreciates classical music

[@lucave15]

@@masterchieftheconqueror2631 you definetly aren't alone

[@oscargill423]

This is, in my opinion, the greatest music of the entire 20th century across genres, styles, cultures and nations. So intense, but also so beautiful. I love this piece.

[@laurentco]

Such a brilliant composition! What a thing it must have been to hear this when it was new! No wonder they rioted!

[@vandertop2]

I absolutely love the expression on the face of the Concertmaster at the 14:01 mark. It's like he's saying "OK, Sir Simon. I guess you know what you're doing. I will let you conduct my orchestra."

[@rluna2381]

Ah yes, the soundtrack of 2020

[@joeschembrie9450]

Now that's ominous.

[@someguythatsucksatdrumstan1510]

The worst part is I love this piece.

[@borritoguy2286]

this has been slowly playing in the background since 2016

[@pnl4660]

And now Shostakovich's 7 with famous episode of the fascist invasion is the soundtrack for 2022.

[@danielabisenius9858]

Just wonder how many people in that audience, know, how fortunate they are to hear this masterpiece life? How many people know how difficult, how tremendously difficult this piece is? How impeccably this is played?? What an accomplishment it is to conduct this piece without a score in front of you?! The moment I heard the bassoon playing I started to cry. And how one man only, can write such divinity??? I’m still in awe, after so many years….

[@louise_rose]

It was certainly not played as impeccably as here, at that premiere. Many of the phrases are *meant* to be difficult, to stretch the limits of the instruments - the opening fpr example. It must have sounded a good deal more rugged and choppy (or old-school "bluesy") on that first night - plus we can safely assume that the members of the orchestra were a bit disturbed by the loud rioting in the hall.

[@bigfatfrown]

The colour and instrumentation is so incredible: dual bass clarinets in parallel 5ths, TWO contrabassoons, trumpets with plastic bottle mutes, horns with their bells in the air, alto flute and Eb clarinet pulling overtime, the muted valve trumpet doubled with a regular trumpet and octave up - the list goes on. Just incredible

[@RiceWitch-dingus-400]

Yeah stravinsky used a lot of lesser known instruments for a exotic and mystical experience, it very much worked!

[@uralbob1]

My God that was the most powerful performance I’ve ever heard! Absolutely wonderful! Sincere thanks to every member of the orchestra and to whomever made this recording available to us!

[@wielkaaferanayt]

1. Introduction (0:38) 2. Auguries of Spring (4:05) 3. Game of Capture (7:14) 4. Round-Dances of Spring (8:30) 5. Games of Rival Tribes (12:04) 6. Procession of the Sage (13:55) 7. The Sage (14:38) 8. Dance of the Eatrh (15:05) 9. Introducion (16:37)

[@franceslowery5113]

Bless your soul.

[@helmme8751]

Thank you!

[@gregessential9352]

Good job, Mr Błażej, but that's 1st half of work only... ;-)

[@manswine7735]

not even close

[@Mur4dMusic]

@Chijioke Nwamara you know nothing

[@flavio136]

Thanks Igor, you left physically this world 50 years ago a day like today, but your spirit and genius are ageless and timeless.

[@usctrojan326]

WOW! Did a quick google search to find myself watching and listening to this whole performance...Was so amazed the whole time.

[@robertmagee3795]

Stravinsky's "Rite" is my favorite 20th century piece for orchestra. Although originally produced as a ballet, the work is better known today as a concert piece. This setting is the way I prefer to hear Stravinsky's masterwork, without the annoying distraction of the dancers. Quite frankly, ancient pagan rituals in Russia do not hold much interest for me. However, as with so many great opera and ballet composers before him, Stravinsky took mundane dramatic material and created an immortal musical masterpiece. The piece stands solidly on its own, especially in this superb recording by the LSO. Thank you, Sir Simon, for a wonderful listening experience!

[@michaelolmoz225]

That lead bass player is a beast. What a performance!

[@avakan5218]

19:05 for those that missed the trumpets using plastic bottles as mutes! Apparently they played a selection of mutes to Sir Simon Rattle (The conductor) to which he chose those. So cool!

[@theunknown6056]

I didn't notice. That's really weird , the sound too.

[@JoniJoschansberg-wf6uw]

❤ LOVE the duet between the 2 double reeds, basson and oboe!!🎉😂❤❤

[@amazingtoad7244]

I love how everyone just decided to cough at the same time at 16:13

[@gavinmitchell1328]

Gotta sneak it in during the break

[@vanivashisht7305]

Can't believe I can listen to this masterpiece for free!!😇💖

[@LuisSandoval1138]

Aggressive, archaic, visceral, colorful, ominous ... in all this lies the beauty of this fantastic work.

[@themindmaster3073]

As a bassoonist, i frequently go back and listen to that beginning solo, its one of my long term goals to learn that part myself

[@tennislibra]

The absolute raw psyche of this composition will forever be unrivaled.

[@jabrown1978]

I’m not sure if I’ve ever been more obsessed with a piece of music than I have been with this piece after hearing it for the first time as a ten-year old, while watching the animated film, Fantasia, as dinosaurs barreled through violent prehistoric landscapes. I could probably tell you if someone missed a note. I have the score. I have the sheet music for two pianos. I’ve listened to tons of recordings over the years of both, seen different ballets and documentaries, and as a clarinet player I would transpose the other instruments’ parts to play along with the recording lol. I’m 41 now and sadly I quit playing when I was 24 and never got a chance to perform it with an orchestra, although it had always been an ultimate dream of mine to do so, nor have I ever been able to catch it live (isn’t it funny how the dreams of our youth seem so much more uncomplicated and pure?). As a work of art it fascinates me endlessly in every way, and to think that Stravinsky composed it at the time which he did, during the era in which he did, boggles my mind. I believe he was a sort of divine vessel. It’s a big reason why he’s one of my all-time favorite composers to this day, as well as I’ve come to have a pug named Stravinsky 😂. And I have to say this was a splendid performance. Orchestral color and tempo are things I'm always on the alert for with this piece, and both felt deliciously apropos throughout. 🎶 ❤️

[@SmartWentCrazy.]

jabrown1978 beautifully eclectic story. You rock!

[@akshaygowrishankar7440]

Did you by chance watch the Bernstein documentary of the performance of Le Sacre in Schleswig-Holstein?

[@Checkmate1138]

I equally share your enthusiasm and love for this piece. Truly it is my all time favorite piece of classical music and it holds a place of importance for my own self growing up as a musician. Sad to hear that you no longer play though! I wish you blessings and fortune that you may one day again play music. Perhaps you may even get the chance to perform in an orchestra. Well, it is certainly a pleasure to meet a fellow Stravinsky fan. ~

[@alif8884]

The Fantasia dinosaurs and this music triggered a recurring and quite appalling nightmare for me as a child. It’s left me now for many years thank goodness but it always sends a chill down my spine in certain parts.

[@jabrown1978]

@@SmartWentCrazy. thank you, sir!

[@waleednajam6984]

I can’t believe I just got to enjoy that absolutely free.cant thank LSO enough for this🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@furassicpark7642]

At 26:54 that alto flute is sinister as hell, love it. I couldn't play that thing without a curved headjoint, my arthritic right shoulder would be screaming. Actually I probly couldn't play it with any kind of head joint come to think of it.

[@alanasda7705]

Stravinsky's compositions used to cause riots. He would make the audience angry with his experiments in tonality, metre, rhythm, stress and dissonance. When The Rite of Spring first premiered in Paris, the audience mercilessly greeted it with boos, jeers and hisses and it caused a near-riot. But The Rite of Spring was one of the first examples of opening a portal of creativity where suddenly you didn’t follow the rules of music. You had to follow your heart.

[@curiousnomad]

It’s clear that Simon Rattle knows this score like he knows his own house. Amazing. I guess why he has the gig. And what a amazingly virtuoso performance.

[@choojunwyng8028]

3:05 to 3:29 every band's woodwind section warmup

[@thomasinajones6684]

You are absolutely righr! Lol

[@V9incent]

Sounds surprisingly cinematic. John Williams, Alan Sylvestri and James Horner were obviously inspired by this.

[@robertperez2262]

Take a listen to the Star Wars soundtrack and then listen to Gustav Holst’s Mars from The Planets :-)

[@HalloSpaceboy]

And Nobuo Uematsu wrote one of the most iconic video game track of all times with it

[@mjsmcd]

Horner? No

[@davi37005]

@@HalloSpaceboy Which one?

[@dctrbrass]

With such a rich history, it's hard to not be inspired by someone IMO. I'm typically inspired by Russian 20th century stuff.

[@DoctorWu23]

This is one of the most incredible pieces of music to see live. The insane tempo changes are electrifying. You usually can't describe a classical piece as keeping you at the edge of your seat but this does without a doubt.

[@robertperez2262]

My response when Rattle was announced as director of LSO... FINALLY!

[@amydunne25]

Yes!! Mine too.

[@gianlucaminguzzi520]

one of the clearest version ever listened

[@petermendoza1170]

Igor was just AMAZING! The music makes the themes SO VIVID on our thoughts. I first heard a 'segment ' of this as a child when my mother took me to see the animated film "FANTASIA" and have loved it for the next 60 Years! His "Firebird " is also another marvel.💖👏👏

[@aldoringo439]

Stravinsky was one of the most audacious, talented and ambitious musical geniuses of all time. Its music behind description, beyond understanding.

[@johnmorrell3187]

My dad loves that intro to Auguries of Spring, he just plays that first section and looks around dramatically at people over and over.

[@hplovecraftmacncheese]

What instrument does he play?

[@MarkKramKarmVI]

Over and Over... dramatically

[@MarkKramKarmVI]

@@hplovecraftmacncheese A flute made of skin...

[@Papa-fv1rn]

Stravinski was light years ahead of his time.

[@SaxandRelax]

Papa oh ok

[@tradewins]

Light years are a measure of distance, not time.

[@Papa-fv1rn]

@@tradewins Lol. The one time I use a bit of modern slang, somebody picks me up on it.

[@kisaragiayami]

tradewins neither was this comment

[@SaxandRelax]

why was my reply so disapproving, this is my favorite ballet by far and arguably my favorite peice of music

[@srvector8248]

It's the first time I've heard this piece and I'm absolutely obsessed; so chaotic and precious at the same time. Respect to the 1st bassoonist, the Bass they're showing with that tremendously loud pizzicato, the entire brass and percussion section, and the Eb clarinet

[@cedricpicard297]

This is such a stellar performance of of of the most daunting pieces of orchestral repertoire. Wow

[@joshuaworman4022]

its so crazy how well this captures what it might acutally feel like to watch a ritualistic murder.

[@donbarile8916]

I first heard The Rite in 1967. I would play it every Saturday for years. This was a masterpiece performance. The piece never fails to produce a trancendental experience for me. Everytime I hear it, all the places described, all the characters, all the action.... exist in a hyperreality. A crowning achievement of man and proof that reality is more, much more. Thank you for letting us experience this.

[@milad.nikzad]

Underrated moments 🔥 9:52 the piccolo part on top is so beautiful 10:31 feels like the sky cracking open 14:15 is insane 17:11 THAT CHORD THO 22:06 BEAUTIFUL 23:59 my all-time favorite part 24:50 is so much fun 28:55 feels like a mad king’s procession 29:42 all the trills, leading into the final movement

[@sid5537]

Yes!

[@matte88rossi17]

a lot of tollerance