Have you ever wondered what makes a great composition tick? In “The Architects of Music”, Lawrence Rapchak takes you inside the minds of the world’s greatest composers to reveal some of the techniques and devices these geniuses used to construct their masterpieces.
Hey what happened to all the Beethoven Symphony videos??? Dave Hurwitz just did a video talking up the 'step children' of Beethoven's mature symphonies, the 4th and the 8th and I was going to comment that LR at the Architects of Music channel has an amazing video that breaks down the 4th in a most compelling way...then I checked back here for the link, and it's gone!!!
This man is alike brilliant and eloquent! Thanks for posting. I wonder whether he has plodded through the recondite writings of Doktor Faustus by Thomas Mann? Music, undoubtedly, can grant us the Pegasus’ pinions to writing and speaking with equal afflatus and puissance, viz., inspiration, which, much to our surprise may still defy our understanding on the power of the brain to producing such music. I thought that by this time, we would have the prodigies and geniuses by the scores. Tonal music already had its harvest, and it is quite difficult to surpass the Old Masters. The same could be said of the ancient Greeks, it is quite unimaginable that today we could produce better sculptors and playwrights. The ethos and zeitgeist of every epoch may produce a harvest of geniuses…but I think that human creative and cognitive activities (epistemology) are limited, and at some point, there are very few stones unturned in the Temple of Music. The same is true of philosophy: with Arthur Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, philosophy has reached its highest point and eventual decline. Latter philosophers have had a hard time trying bring anything new, because, there is nothing new under the sun. The idea that we are all evolving may be one of the greatest lies ever told to Homo sapiens. With due respect to my friends, I can’t wait to see the new Mozart by the scores, and the new Da Vinci-geniuses for another Renaissance in the 21st Century.
Another case of country kid outclassing everyone else SchubertBrahms andBonn childBeethoven. Bruckner too but i dont know if there is elegance or brilliance and highstyle in Bruckner. Many composers didnt come from the city or the university!
This chsnnel!!!. I dudnt know these variations existed. Are they ever programned. 27variations!!! I love the C/G double personality of the theme :wonderful austere sustained brass opening is DISTINCTIVE. Iwant to use it.
I dont believe it could ever get any better than 34-41. The l ast operas mighty joy that also has himan folly in its sound. Not Beeth, not Mahler, not the great Messiaen nor our American symphonists RogerSessions not Petterson. They tske us beautiful, ugly human places but Mozart kept glory that human trait that often spells our undoing. Im glad we hsve all t he Henze symphonies but i really believe all that the himan imagination can say is in Mozart#41.
02:00 the reason the opening four notes of the finale of the Jupiter Symphony sound liturgical is because they originate from one of Mozart's masses, K. 257, which is known as the "Credo Mass" because the Credo is the most famous part of it.
@@frederickthegreat4801 Let's not forget Strauss' Zarathustra ("Of Great Longing"), played by the organ. And on and on. My first draft of these scripts always contains tons of interesting "side" info such as this, which I inevitably have to eliminate to keep things moving. But it's good to have viewers contribute these historical facts, so that we can still benefit from them. LR
This same basic 4 note theme was also manipulated by both of the Haydn Brothers...Michael in a choral work, and Joseph in an early symphony...having said that, neither comes close to the miracle that Mozart makes of it here
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A very interesting perspective on this frequently controversial movement. I first heard the 7th in 1970 when I was in college and first discovering Mahler. (I was, and still am, thoroughly captivated by the 2nd movement.) In reading up on the compositional history of the 7th, I discovered that Mahler had completed the interior movements before getting to the opening and closing ones. The progression through night depicted in movements 2,3 and 4 required the bookends that Mahler provided. In particular, the hectic pastiche of the final movement has to me always represented a joyous and welcome sunrise after an uneasy night, dispelling any lingering phantoms and revelling in the daylight. Whether Mahler actually intended any social and/or historical commentary, or was simply incorporating brief tributes to his antecedents, is always open to debate. Personally, I just enjoy the energy of it, whatever it means, if anything.
I'm no musician but i really enjoyed your delivery, the helpfil graphics and see why you love this melody. I came here to find out about the opera aabout the Oresteia. I'm a classicist by training and loved hearing about it as I've read the plays in Greek. Thank you for this. I'll be back.
I like this composer, i have quite few of his music on CD. His symphonies and most of his chamber music. However, to call this piece "the Most Beautiful Melody Ever Written?" makes me suspicious about the musical taste / Knowledge of this man
Eh, he's maybe being a bit hyperbolic. But I kinda suspect he's trying to drive interest in Taneyev, because he's obscure (at least outside of Russia), by picking a pretty and accessible melody (it's fairly diatonic). If you look at other videos on his channel, he seems pretty level-headed. He's got a couple on Richard Strauss, and some fairly musically acrobatic stuff, so I don't think he's a dullard.
@@someoldtech Neither do I. And speaking of hyperbole, impugning one's taste and knowledge for an admittedly hyperbolic opinion (which IS ACKNOWLEDGED in the narration) raises its own questions of taste..and judgement. Why do you think there's a ? at the end of the title?
I am so happy that, finally, I have a fellow ardent fan. I have known this piece for over 30 years and have loved it from the first hearing. A wonderful presentation of the work. If you have not yet heard them, please give a listen to what I consider Taneyev’s greatest works: his wonderful 4th piano quartet, and the sublime 4th symphony. An incredibly under-rated composer.
Actually, I first heard this work as the "filler "on Papa Jarvi's recording with the Philharmonia. I was called in to do a Chicago Symphony's pre-concert lecture (2008?) when the scheduled conductor cancelled and Jarvi stepped in on short notice. Jarvi insisted on conducting the Taneyev FOURTH Symphony (not scheduled), and the lecturer assigned to the concert didn't know it, so they called me in, confident that I knew the work and could do a decent talk. In preparing, I pulled out the Jarvi CD for the symphony, and decided to give the Oresteia a listen; once that great tuned began (at the 12-minute mark), I was hooked. LR
Utterly sublime music. Thank you for bringing this romantic marvel of a gem to my attention! This is what RU-vid & the internet is supposed to used for: the enlightenment of the masses.
@@HassoBenSoba I absolutely will! I’ve watched this video twice now, the way you smile from ear to ear and give us an introductory lecture on Taneyev with such passion is infectious. Just from this single video alone, this is one of my favorite RU-vid channels! Going to go through each video over time and really get into these great works.
I basically don't listen to classical music. Still, after that superb description, it was worth listening to. But what I liked much more was your playing the bits on the piano... much cleaner than a whole orchestra.
Now I need to clean up my piano playing. Seriously, I'm glad you enjoyed it. Check out some of our other offerings here, maybe the Strauss Til Eulenspiegel or Sinfonia Domestica. We try to keep them entertaining and informative. LR
@HassoBenSoba i suppose i really should've said i wish I'd been good at something musical, but tbh, i was bored in music class because i didn't understand it. It went over my head. My father introduced me to classical though and for that im grateful.
I've rated this superlative piece as a personal favourite ever since I heard it decades ago. Never heard anyone else rate it highly. Nice to know I'm not alone.
I’m so happy to have stumbled across this site - I know a lot about classical music, and it’s unusual for me to learn something completely new - but here I can 👍🏻
Could be. That is awesome. Grimethorpe Collier brass band playing Rodrigo's Concerto d' Aranjuez. Inspired by his wife miscarriage. I can relate. My wife in addition to raising 9 children also had 9 stillborn children. One morning she told me she dreamed of dying and how beautiful the Spirit World is. Colors more brilliant. She walked down a forest corridor to a small bridge over a small stream to a lawn in front of a bungalo. Many children were playing in front and looked up and said "Mommies home."
Read Paul Harvey's Hands down Rest of the Story about Van Cliburn playing a difficult concerto by ear at age 3 and telling his neighbor at that young age who thought she was barren that she would have 5 children and she did.
Thank you so much for your tutorial. My piano teacher traced her teacher to student gravity touch back to Liszt and my voice teacher taught in New York City for 55 years. She said Pavorotti was taught in New York not Italy by the same teacher who taught her.
Wow, Rachmaninoff came to my little town of Provo, Utah just before I was born. The man who convinced him to come had a son on the basketball team and another son who was my 6th grade teacher who in turn had a son an organist who was my boss as a graphic artist for 15 years while I raised my 9 children. My oldest was absolutely amazed after sending me all of Rachmaninoff's recordings. He could not believe it "Rachmaninoff played in Provo?" My mom said his audience begged him to play his Prelude in C# Major which composed at age 19 and hated, was in my song book. The great artist finally relented to the most thunderous applause of the concert. During a piece a train stopped and let off steam not 50 feet away. He held his hands still for 5 minutes, then resumed from where he had been interrupted.
