Prom 57: Wagner, Berg, R. Strauss & Ravel R. Strauss - Der Rosenkavalier -- suite Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester Daniele Gatti conductor Royal Albert Hall, 26 August 2012
Der Rosenkavalier was the first opera I ever saw. I was 20 years old, an American exchange student in Rome. My date Geri and I rented clothes that no student would have in his and her wardrobes. This Strauss opera more than completed the magic of that evening, especially the waltz that was firmly implanted in our heads. Such a wonderful thing one can never forget.
Splendid is a weak word to define this rendition. It is absolutely extraordinary. One of the most forceful and contrasted ever. Thank you for the upload.
15:23 - 19:46 is my favourite part for sure. Such an accurate description (to me) of being madly in love. This will be one of those passages that will be with me throughout my life. X
R Strauss will never let you down and this is a very good performance indeed! You might like to listen to his Alpine symphony and his four last songs then you will be in for a very good nights entertainment.
Richard Strauss - Der Rosenkavalier, Suite 00:06 - Ouverture (Overture, Act 1) 03:18 - Präsentation der Silbernen Rose (Presentation of the Silver Rose, Act 2) 10:06 - Walzer von Baron Ochs (Baron Ochs' Waltz, Act 2) 15:23 - Ist ein Traum (It's a dream, Act 3 ending) 21:19 - Schneller Walzer (Quick Waltz, Act 3) Listen to Andris Nelsons!
I do not know who arranged this suite but it was excellently done .Great for all the brass and wind instruments and played at a superb pace . especially the third act music .
I just performed this piece with the Idyllwild Chamber Festival under the baton of Larry Livingston in Walt Disney Concert Hall and at about 16:48 I was in tears in the midst of the performance, I was the assistant principal bassist at the festival. Truly a life changing experience.
I had to play this song in my college's symphony. I hated it until the person next to me said "just imagine in the beginning that a really dignified guy is really drunk but trying to stay dignified." now i love it!
How in the world could you ever hate this? The difficulty, I understand, but I hope not the music, because this some of the most beautiful music human ears will ever experience.
I had to play this at university too! I was on glockenspiel and my cue was the triangle. The triangle player got lost and I ALMOST missed my cue hahaha also the timpani part is haaaaaaard. X
I don't know know much about this type of music, though I love it, looking at the conductors of these performances, you can tell they really "feel" the music. Which is why this genre is so special.
That timp part in the ending waltz is sooooooo difficult but you can't even hear it. Pity I practiced it for so long but I don't care because I can sit back and listen to this heavenly piece of music!!!
+mizzothify mizzothifi I watched a lecture on Elektra in these pages recently that claimed "Ninety-nine out of a hundred instrumentalists" will tell us that Rosenkavalier is the most difficult piece they have to play; "the other one" will tell you it is Elektra. I recently glanced over the cello part of this Rosenkavalier Suite with a friend who is playing it in Buffalo this summer, and it gave me a headache just to view. Wonderfully, terribly difficult! And wonderful, of course.
Я здесь волею судеб персонажей "Убийства Командора". У-вы, не первый. Но в какой-то мере льстит даже такой расклад, будто бы сам являюсь автором данной книги :-)
Not this Strauss. It was Johann -- Some of his most famous works include "The Blue Danube", "Kaiser-Walzer" (Emperor Waltz), and "Tales from the Vienna Woods."
I wonder how many of those on the audience realise the the opening if this suite, also of the opera , depicts two lovers engaging in sexual intercourse.
The funny thing is, Der Rosenkavelier Suite was meant to be a comedy of a woman having an affair with a man that falls in love with a rude baron's fiancee then frames the baron and has him arrested so he can marry the ex-fiancee and leave the woman having an affair the the man because her husband went to war. So yep, although I second your notion :)
Love me some R Strauss! That said, the 2nd violins' (and some of the violas) position in this orchestra means their f holes are not facing out towards the audience....why? Don't we want to hear them? Plus, they play little duet stuff with the 1st violins quite a bit, but they're all the way on the other side....I just don't get this seating.
This is the traditional German orchestra arrangement (which I prefer over the American one, because the 1st/2nd violins don't drown in a mud of sound in recordings).
Sorry this performance is much too "muscular" and unthinking. That's not unusual at the Proms. There are so many versions of this music on RU-vid, why put up with this bombast?
No It is perfect pace and strength .. restrained where it has to be and bumptious where it has to be ..Remember that the Baron is a very masculine type .
Johannes Brahms was long dead by the time Richard Strauss composed this or most of his great works. Richard Strauss is a far superior composer to the waltz spinner Johann.
