W. A. Mozart - KV 617 - Adagio & Rondo for glass harmonica in C minor

[@Voivrenetwork]

Glass harmonica is one of my all time favourite sounding instruments. So dark and sorrowfully beautiful.

[@JenniferWolffJennyWeb]

Beautiful, thank you for sharing.

[@vanessasgram8]

Most radio stations play this using a harp instead of the glass harmonica because the sound is to hard to keep in range and the sound engineers say this goes off the charts so it's a great pleasure to hear it the right way! Bravo--love it.

[@matthewcarr2255]

Huh, that's interesting. I certainly did not know that. Thanks for sharing that interesting piece of information.

[@luizamsalgado]

Heaven by Sublime Mozart ! In times of war and hatred, we need Mozart more than ever...

[@mr.bob4630]

This is certainly one of the most beautiful works of music ever composed!

[@vigokovacic3488]

I don't know why but I have the feeling that from 1:42 The Glass Harmonica is as a baby trying to walk (because it was a new instrument back then) And the orchestra it like a parent helping it out and lifting it back and supporting it... This just came to me :D

[@alden9086]

Your comment is beautiful poetic.

[@vorufusan5787]

Awww this is so cuteee

[@philosphorus]

What a pathetic interpretation

[@cheeryboy05]

​@@philosphorus Let us hear yours too, for it need not be perfect; music whispers a different feeling to every ear.

[@vigokovacic3488]

@@philosphorus i disagree

[@nickpapworth72]

Quite extraordinary. Preferable to hear in deep grottoes with almost unreachable ceilings.

[@alhfgsp]

This piece was way ahead of its time. Sounds like the Romantic Era.

[@rosemcguinn5301]

Whenever it was released, it is very soothing and quiet and pleasant. Just right for sleep time.

[@JoseMariaKokubu]

Thank you for sharing this unique masterpiece

[@_PROCLUS]

Bruno Hoffmann 1913 - 1991 a German player of the glass harp. .. the son of a church music director. He was trained in piano and organ playing, but ... at age 16, his lifelong devotion to resurrecting this unearthly beauty was begun. He discovered and mastered the old repertoire for glass harp by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Friedrich Reichardt, Karl Leopold Röllig, Johann Abraham Peter Schulz, Johann Gottlieb Naumann and others ... He designed and built his own instrument beginning in 1929 (aged 16), consisting of a set of wine glasses mounted in a wooden box, whose rims were rubbed to produce the tone. ... WIKI

The sound of the glass harmonica is uniquely beautiful, excellent performance!

[@evelynb1325]

I'd also like to know when it was performed, because Bruno Hoffmann died around 25 years ago. I have vivid memories of him perfoming at my school in the UK - in the mid-60s, explaining how he had worked out how to build the instrument, and how to play it ... A magic moment that has stayed in my memory!

[@ComposersbyNumbers]

Unfortunately, I have no information on the venue and date of the recording.

[@ernent]

This recording is included in Philips' "Complete Mozart Edition" (vol. 14). The recording dates given there are 1/77 for k.617 and 1969 for the Adagio k. 617a

[@evelynb1325]

Thanks, Ehud

[@mach1chap]

I bought this performance on a DGG Arkiv e.p. around 1959. I don't think the piece works on any other combination of instruments. Edward C (él de los castillos).

[@iamstillthinking]

Wow so creative and beautiful !!

[@amedeomarra8398]

adagio MOZART divinita' celestiale.

[@_PROCLUS]

Thank you very much for the most beautiful upload

[@grms19]

Read Louise Marley's "The Glass Harmonica" while listening to this. It will certainly transport you to different places.

[@isaacandmary]

Of all of the performances of this piece I have heard, this is quite possibly the best. It is so beautiful. How could such harmonic, complex melodies come from the mind of a simple human being? God is truly amazing.

[@double0_kevin]

That is God's honest truth.

[@careyc12]

+Fred G. Sanford you're so sexy when you talk about the big G

[@kennethdower7425]

+Fred G. Sanford. This was composed by MOZART, and your imaginary "friend" had nothing to do with it. Idiot.

[@DaveDexterMusic]

A simple human being who liked fart jokes and dicking about when not - and sometimes during - writing his music. Mozart was amazing, God is fictional.

[@milferdjones2573]

@@DaveDexterMusic God is unprovable. As one cannot disprove of a God or Gods existing one cannot claim fictional. In particular the Deist God cannot be disproved in any way. You can attack successfully some concepts of a God but not all of them.

[@高村毅-j3s]

フルート、オーボエ、ビィオラにチェロが伴奏する。天才の作曲だなぁ。

[@janbonsema5888]

Benjamin franklin built a few of these glass organs and apparently was quite adept at playing them

[@Miguel-sn8ld]

I came here from the 39 clues the maze of bones😂

[@Percival-0707]

한국인 만났네요 ㅋㅋㅋ

[@sarahpikarski5456]

Same!

[@pupucandy1]

Same

[@Miguel-sn8ld]

@@Percival-0707 오우 반갑습니다

[@piercelindenberg6842]

Same. And One False Note, as well.

[@SuperMelvyn]

I am happy that others enjoy the wheezy sounds of the glass harmonica. For me it detracts from some otherwise pleasing music.

[@CountShredder]

Melvyn Elphee It doesn't sound like wheezing. You lack the vocabulary to effectively communicate your ideas. Your comment was pretentious.

[@simonkawasaki4229]

CountShredder He expressed his opinion, of which I agree with. You must learn how to handle them.

[@MartyMusic777]

I think "scratchy" may be the closer word. And I think the glass harmonica is actually best suited for long and complex sustains, instead of quick notes and changes Mozart demands here.

[@henrypadilla7973]

Due to the fact that the Glass Armonica is difficult to find or play, this is generally played using an organ or flute. It should be quite easy to find with other instruments as it's lead. I'm not quite convinced this isn't a violin. I can almost hear the strings at times.

[@premanadi]

This is more due to this particular player, and the fact that he is not using the instrument for which the piece was written (Benjamin Franklin's mechanized armonica) but the "glass harp," or simply a set of glasses tuned to different pitches. Hence the very slow tempi and disjointed, clunk performance.

[@Sinfoniadivetro]

What you hear in this recording is not a glass armonica, it is the "Glasharfe", how Hoffmann called his instrument, consisting out of glasses, made for music by Eisch glass company. With glasses you have to jump from glass to glass, so you are limited in performing all notes, that are written or in tempo or even both.

[@arglmann]

But he's trying. Very hard.

[@premanadi]

Yes, which is also why he struggles with the faster notes, they have to take a very slow tempo, and a lot of his playing is very disjointed. I don't find it musically very satisfying.

[@ervaburak]

I came from one false note and now going to look for the song where I was born. 'Der Ort, wo ich geboren war.'

[@elkaydoug8863]

The 39 Clues

[@Cypheria]

either the song is very obscure or was made up, i could not find it

[@ervaburak]

@@Cypheria me neither.

[@bryancalot9594]

I had found this video using the keyword: Benjamin Franklin plus music. pg. 223 of Maze of Bones, 1st book of 39 clues.

[@alexandroschatziiosif6228]

Me too, lol

[@r4v3n_random36]

Me too lol

[@WildsKratts]

Anyone comes from 39 Clues - One False Note??

[@Sestivaa]

*raises hand* Me

[@agentboy57triskeet23]

+Jota /POR/ Jota How did I know there would be a lot of us here? XD

[@robertdarcy6210]

Yes! I stopped reading the books after Into the Gauntlet though. I should catch up on the series.

[@GitanjaliMohan94]

+Jota /POR/ Jota yep yep

[@katerinayan4296]

oh my god how did you know

[@andreacatalanotto6506]

Al.punto 11.30 è fantastico

[@hiroyuki0224]

This music sounds like a xylophone.

[@Tizohip]

Beautyfull piece..

[@thegoalfather9922]

3:15

[@pmalone5767]

39Clues any body?

[@Henri-yy1py]

me!

[@Henri-yy1py]

me!

[@Henri-yy1py]

me!

[@Henri-yy1py]

me

[@50reds60]

P Malone me

[@gustavorizzi4402]

genial!!!!!!!!!!

[@weiweiluo4211]

39

[@williamwritepony9322]

Huh. I'm used to the Dennis James recording (Mont St. Guibert, 1989). The glass harmonica sounds way different between the two. Weird.

[@DerrickthePinecone]

Is there a recording of this particular one by James streaming anywhere?

[@williamwritepony9322]

Derrick Tyson I don't know if it's online. It's the recording on the Brilliant Classics complete edition (unless a later printing used a different recording).

[@williamwritepony9322]

Actually, yes, it is streaming on KZbin now - Dennis James Topic, like any others. Apparently he did an album of stuff written for glass harmonica, and that's where Brilliant Classics mined it from.

[@henrypadilla7973]

Could it be that this isn't an actual Glass Armonica? I keep hearing a bow on strings. Especially during the rapid parts.

[@williamwritepony9322]

@@henrypadilla7973 Well, I wouldn't know, but maybe.

[@saratoga4126]

So where's the ONE FALSE NOTE in this song?

[@stephenbryant7873]

allmusic.com gives the release date as 1987. I have no idea if that is accurate. www.allmusic.com/album/music-for-glass-harmonica-mw0001814781/releases

[@Elvagamundo1]

Thank you for this beautiful piece. Do you know when it has been performed?

[@christianmilojevic9567]

One of the craziest ideas if heard from Mozart, next to perhaps requiem. That Guy was a genius even if he was no comparison to the greatest JSB.

[@brianr.3085]

The greatest JSB? Are there many of them? I agree, Mozart doesn't compare to him, and he doesn't compare to Mozart.

[@rnhtube]

Anyone else keep hearing saxophone?

[@leadingbookkeeper74]

39 clues

[@grayelf387]

o dislikes is surprising

[@grayelf387]

il give the first one

[@mike8015]

lol

[@declandougan7243]

Why did you use o instead of 0?