The Oslo Philharmonic is a symphony orchestra of international renown. It was formed in 1919 and today has 108 musicians in its ranks.
The Oslo Philharmonic plays between 60 and 70 concerts in Oslo each year, mostly at Oslo Concert Hall, but also at several other venues. The orchestra has a broad symphonic repertoire, plays with internationally acclaimed soloists and conductors and regularly tours in Norway and abroad.
And this is written during the worst of WW II. Keep calm and carry on, indeed. The Germans were never going to get that island. Not with this sort of spirit abroad in the land.
Very happy to find this video, I recently heard Klaus Mäkelä conducting the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Vienna, he created such a music that made me so moving, especially in the finale.
Ecouter Malher, c'est abolir le déferlement des bruits et des images du quotidien pour entrouvrir l'espace d'un ailleurs où la contingence et la représentation cèdent la place à l'immatérialité du sensible. La puissance expressive de l'architecture sonore rompt avec toute forme de transcription du réel pour s'attacher à l'expression d'un univers fabuleux où la couleur et le rythme constituent une respiration qui donne souffle à l'exaltation 🔥🕌✨
The light and the vastness of nature, the colors in the light of a late summer sunny early afternoon, and the intimate closeness to nature and everything that lives, yes, living and being alive, all this and much more that Brahms expresses in his music is brought to full expression by the fantastic musicians of the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra under the inspiration of an absolutely unique conductor like Klaus Mäkelä. The sound engineering is the pinnacle of this musical poetry without a pair in the entire history of music.
Pop up ads in a symphony! The people that own and program RU-vid (and us!) are very provincial and backwards. Even with a billion dollars, some folks can never leave the trailer behind. Someone should take them to the symphony. That is if they know how to behave...Rubes!
I think that Klaus Mäkelä simply enjoys making great music together. He is not just directing the orchestra. He becomes one of the instruments, creating a true bond with everybody.
Thanks for this brilliant music making! Korngold had unbelievable and stratospheric musical gifts, especially in: (a) heart-stopping melodic invention carrying the deepest emotional and sensuous and philosophical import (the level of Pucinni, Wagner, Brahms); (b) absolute confidence and constant exhibition of a delicious post-romantic and often daring modernistic orchestral technique (late Wagner, Mahler, Strauss, Rachmaninov, Respighi). By daring I don't mean such etiolate non-music as that vapid miniaturist Webern, or the tiresome academicism and sterility of rather too much of Boulez. Both darlings of a very typically Parisian and sneering elitist intellectualism that has zero in common with the universal and supremely human language of great orchestral writing. Actually, that isn't my more sober position, because Boulez's Notations is a hypnotic work approximating to genius. Listen to the Frankfurt RSO playing it under Manfred Honeck: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uIlfuf2wUok.htmlsi=NSBFAlFeU4wkLSkd I'm greatly admiring of Boulez as conductor and revolutionary opera impresario. His Marxist reworking in tandem with Patrice Chéreau of "The Ring" is a triumph of political and humanist and economic revolutionary and liberationist sentiments. Also deliciously provocative, in the social-political context of the late 1970s, of all those Nazi Colonels and apparatchiks and railway timetable planners who thought they had made good in the post war miracle of West Germany, with their legion fascist crimes and collaborations conveniently forgotten. "We were never in Germany between 1939 and 1945. We were staying with friends in Switzerland .... or sometimes Panama." Moreover, EK built much of this music at a stunning rate, and to the commercial timetable of Hollywood. That is class indeed .... like Handel. A Mozart of the early mid-20th Century. Love, andrea Actually, that isn't my more sober
Don't know the Oslo. But they have worked hard for that sound. And they must have worked hard to apply it RVW's to 5th Symphony. Flawless can be a low bar. Flawless with Soul is a high bar. They made it over. Let's hear a recording of the 5th forebear and mate the 3rd Symphony!
Klaus Mäkelä uses music as a vector of communication to give it meaning, even significance, as it is the case in this superb interpretation of Brahms' Symphony No.4. Touch by touch like a painter, he appropriates the score and creates, according to his temperament, his mood, a unique musical atmosphere. It is with his own network of sensory correspondences that he perceives an aggregate of syntheses, tensions and mental and emotional dynamics. It is my second favorite interpretation after Carlo Maria Giulini live concert with the Los Angeles. Thanks to the Oslo Phil Orch for this video !
Una ejecucion magnifica para una obra tambien magnífica. Creo, además, necesario celebrar la exelente filmacion, con buenos enfoques a la orquesta y coro en coordinacion con el desarrollo de la obra.
Introduced to Beethoven's 5th at age 7. My fave back then. Now at 80, his 9th is tying for same status. What a genius creating works that stir the soul to the point of tears & gratitude for just being alive and enjoying it over and over again! It's self-rejuvenating!
But why, Olso Philharmonic, why do you clip this consert in three diffenrent parts? Isn´t it time to set this consert together as a whole? I humbly suggest..
In all these three parts of the music there are references to music I know but maybe can not identify immediately, like a wonderful dream that is gone in a glimpse of a moment, the only thing that remains is the remembrance of something forgotten, if that is possible. So I have to thank Reinbert de Leeuw and all participants for this wonderful experience.
