Brahms: 2. Sinfonie ∙ hr-Sinfonieorchester ∙ Marin Alsop 

Yeah!..take a hike Falletta and de La Parra! 🙄

Just like her mentor, Leonard Bernstein...the structure falls apart if you don't.

I like the brisk pace of the first movement. I wonder if conductors just got too lugubrious or self-indulgent over time. The repeat makes more sense in this context and once your into the second ending and walk through a portal into F Major (in first inversion using A common to both home key and this)...you take in a whole new world.

I've performed it 4 times and taken the repeat twice

Should try Dvorak, the protégé of Brahms for a long time.

Agreed. The quality of her Barber is probably due to her having been a pupil of Leonard Bernstein

What do you mean with easy-going? Which romantic piece is easy for the listener to understand its structure ? Frankly, I don’t think you can find an easy one in this repertoire)).

Lorsqu'on sait que Mme Alsop a suivi les masterclasses de Bernstein... Bonne soirée

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Langweiliger und redundanter Kommentar mit ewig gleichen doch sich endlos wiederholenden Worthülsen, die die wichtigtuerische Seite von notaire2 repräsentiert, mit inhaltsleeren und entsprechend klischeehaften Vokabeln in allen Teilen. Alle Sätze klingen besonders überflüssig und echt obsolet. Der nichtssagende und unoriginelle Kommentator langweilt den geneigten Leser mit irrelevanten Phrasen und mit unkontrolliertem Gelaber im ewig gleichen Schema. Unerträglich und lächerlich zugleich!

Gähn gähn.

@@rosshart9514 Eben! Bundestagspoet...

😂😂😂😂

Bach

Bantock Bartok Bax Berlioz Bliss Borodin Britten Braunfels Bridge Soll ich weiter machen? ;)

@@Quotenwagnerianer ja bitte

@@antonindvorak1655 Mir fällt noch ein: Balakirew Bellini Benda (auch so einer Musikerfamilie wie die Bachs) Berwald Benjamin Berio Bernstein Bizet Blacher Bloch Boito Buxtehude Das sind die, von denen ich Werke kenne. Es gibt bestimmt noch hunderte weitere, von denen ich noch keine Werke gehört habe.

@@Quotenwagnerianer super danke

In den beiden Videos gab es leider einen Fehler. Daher werden wir die Videos noch einmal neu ausspielen und sie dann auf RU-vid neu publizieren.

@@hrSinfonieorchester Thank you!

He's Matthew Higham & as far as I'm aware is the only British member of the orchestra!

@@jenlw8974 he isn’t a member of the orchestra. He has just completed the orchestral training academy.

Idiotic comment.

I'm a retired professional classical musician with ~60 years experience playing in orchestras, and I can't agree with you. I really don't see much wasted motion on her part. Even though this is standard repertoire, the music is complex, and from a musical standpoint, rather difficult if you care about clarity and balance. She seems consistent and reliable in the ways that make players much more secure with the risks that we constantly have to take. I would even praise her for not doing what her teacher (Bernstein) did so often: She doesn't "steal the show" by acting out the surface "mood" of the music; she keeps a straight face and doesn't "mime" (something which the players only have to ignore, and generally despise conductors for doing). All in all I find this a dignified and well-thought-out performance on her part.

You're hearing something I'm not; maybe you should give details or explanations for your dislike or objections. And I've heard many of the great conductors perform this work.

@@ronaldbwoodall2628 Horrendous entirely because of the lack of male genitalia I suppose. That's probably what Ruh Still is getting at.

@@entertainedeclectus5140 You need to put the snotty statement in its context. It comes from a person whose playlists are dominated by videos of sweaty men wrestling on the floor. Context! ☺

Nit-picking, or just sour grapes? It seems so; and me a Republican, too! Maybe you just wanted to make a statement.

@@ronaldbwoodall2628 Are you sure you're a Republican or maybe just a RINO, maybe you should change the party. I have no intention to make a statement at all, why should I? The concert venues was in Frankfurt, the audiences are European. Alsop was so rude and disrespectful in front of all musicians on stage. Her behavior reminded of me all double standard hypocritical Democrats politicians whenever they face the cameras, so they can put on a MASK show, from president Potato all the way to the Newsom, mayors of SF and DC. You know so well what I'm talking about it, so disgusting!

Please keep that crap for yourself. In Germany it is mandatory to wear a mask during performances when you move around, nothing disrespectful about it and almost everybody is intelligent enough to play by the rules in order to protect the musicians and the audience. Your comment though is very disrespectful because this is a performance of a musical high point of humanity, not a political circus where you may spread your propaganda.

@@jamestaylor6053 To be charitable, may I suggest that you are overthinking the situation? And in case you hadn't noticed, you have not only made a statement, you have made several statements, not all of which seem valid, knowledgeable, or even lucid.

Alsop is 65. She is in the vulnerable age group for COVID. Looking at the sequences after the concert, it is so clear that whenever she walked through the orchestra where people were densely positioned, she was masking up. AND, she clearly took it OFF when she got on the podium where she had good-enough distance from people. She was simply looking out for herself. Even if it was a political statement, which I do not believe it is, it is HER FREEDOM to express it. One of the foremost American values Republicans flaunt. And she did it without impinging on other people's without any hypocrisy. To top it all, the mostly-unmasked European audience's applause deafeningly disagrees with your position. These days words like "Disrespectful" and "Hypocritical" are thrown without much forethought from both sides of the political spectrum.