I'm so grateful for this video which makes such a treasure accessible in its entirety, since I have attended only one life performance in this great opera house. 🎉🎉🎉
Am I the only who hears a parallel between the passage at 35'45"-36'12" with the theme music of Star Wars Return of the Sith, the soundtrack of duel between Anakin and Obi-Wan??
Holst singlehandedly wrote the score for every movie ever made with this composition. This music has been copied by so many modern film composers it is pointless to list them.
im so fucking happy that someone finally put the full score. I have this exact cd and its fantastic, my fav bit is the solo of her in 16:08 its just so ✨magical✨, thank you again
50:25 I feel like I'm drifting through an endless chasm in space, spotted with stars and smathered with dashes of stardust and painted with large clusters of nebulas and streaked with bright, potent cosmic colors
Oh wow! I remember singing this when I was in the LAMC. I think it's been over 25 years. They used about a third of the choir for this recording. I always liked it better with the full complement.
Music should always sound this delightful. Everything, from the musical ideas; the realization and development of those ideas, to the colors of the orchestration and the sonic textures is so pleasing to the ears. Holst's brilliant mind and imagination not only arched in the sound of modern Cinema, it is the sound of films. This is fine music. Splendid! 😎
Thanks for posting this; it identified passages I couldn't quite place. Just sublime!! Maazel must have been hard put to choose what to include and what to leave out. The video of him conducting the Philharmonic in this work is fascinating. This is the essence of The Ring and I was surprised I didn't miss the voices and stage action.
Thank you for making this magnificent version of the work available to all of us. At 1 hour 41 minutes it is significantly faster (in places) than the more familiar Lenard and Brabbins versions yet it never actually sounds rushed or hurried. Adrian Boult generally favoured fairly brisk tempi. Oddly, the opening minute is taken at a significantly slower tempo than the Lenard recording although the orchestral section clocks in at 34 minutes while the Lenard requires 39. The children's choirs are not so prominent on this recording which is a shame but this is a minor caveat. What impresses me is the quality of the recording, despite being taken from a live concert way back in 1966 (when I was 10 years old). Note: compare this to his equally splendid but radically different Symphony No.22...all 9 minutes of it!
They play as loudly as they can but are still hardly hearable at all when everyone plays together. I've sang this piece twice with about five years in between in which I kept listening to many different recordings of it. The rehearsals for the second concert were the first time I noticed them, and I only did because they were explicitly mentioned by the conductor. The piece ist just so freaking loud during these moments.
I believe the timestamp for Fortune plango vulnera is wrong; you have it in the description as 3:40, whereas the first iteration starts at 2:45. Great video though; I've been waiting for a full score video of O Fortuna for some time so I'm happy it finally has one
