I am 91, and first heard this in ( age 16) 1950 on kFI AM radio. This piece and other classical music infected me forever. As a barrio boy, classical music and library books transported me to magical worlds.... interestingly, I did not realize, many other spin-off benefits classical music provides. P.S. my peers made good natured fun of me for being a " nerd" ... I didn't care.... they had no clue. Thanks
I appreciate your comment. I am 65 years young and have attended several symphonic and operatic overtures at The Hartford Stage Theater, Connecticut, USA. It is peaceful music. It calms me me after a day of stressful classes. Best Regards and Blessings, If you will.
@@neiltobin3733 I’ll take your blessings & give you a hug. I’ve been to Hartford but too long ago for me to remember much. You know. When we were young, thin & invincible. These days if I knew about the Theatre I’d be there front row! My travelling days are behind me I’m afraid but when my old house rocks this at full volume, I’ll think of you. I’m 71 but lord have I led an incredible life which is taking a new turn with friends I’ve made since my husband’s passing. So until I catch up with him I’ve still got a bit of the devil in me!! Best wishes. Della McGowan, Queensland Australia
I am 68. When I was growing up, my dad gave "concerts" to us in the basement. This entire collection was a my favorite. I think he had a set of six large records that came in a beautiful box.
02/29/24: I agree with your sentiment , but the link you've created between one person's "achievement" and "skill of [plural] orchestras" is a non-sequitur. Re-write.
@@donreedThe verbage used in prior statement gives off the feeling that you're typing in particular to be a show off, using big words amounts to nothing. I would highly consider rewording in a particular way that doesn't paint you in bad light.
When I started becoming interested in classical music, I somehow gravitated to this piece. No idea why but it spoke to me. It is such a wonderful piece! One day my mother was visiting from Arizona, and I had this playing in the background. She started humming to the music and I stopped and asked how she knew this music. She said that your father (whom I lost to cancer when he was 36 and I was 9) listened to it constantly. Actually, wearing out the LP and purchasing new records. I would sit on his knee while he read the paper in the evening, and this was playing in the background on one of those old "timey" square turntables with small speakers. Now when I hear this, I think of the man that was my dad and how he accidentally got me interested in Russian classical music.
When i was a young boy my grandfather used to read `one thousand and one nights` to me before i went to sleep and one day he told me about this piece of music and said it was inspired by the storyteller in one thousand and one nights, he borrowed his moms ceramic 78 version of it and played it on an old grammar phone, i had never heard anything like it before, i cried every time i heard the violin solo, they ended up getting me a little record player for my bedroom and a copy of Scheherazade on vinyl and i`d listen to it falling asleep every night, well apart from Christmas when i always listened to the nutcracker.
I lived in New York City. Our city taxes went for supporting many things the city provided for their citizens. One perk was the New York Philharmonic Orchestra performing in Central Park in the Summer. One free Summer concert included "Scheherazade" and laying on our blanket, looking up at the night sky, and listening to this music, was magical.
This is in just about a daily rotation as far as Playlist go for me. Not sure how many people have actually listened to this; I'm sure about a million of those views are mine.
I first heard this masterpiece when I was about 10 years old and that was 77 years ago. And I will never tire of listening to this magnificent piece of music from this master Al Russian composer, a chemist and a naval sailor from St.Petersburg. And this rendition, conduc
I am left speechless at the musical ability of these young musicians. 50 years ago, I listened to the masters perform this timeless classic and this young orchestra has captured the feeling and sound perfectly. Bravo...
How is it possible that nearly 1,000 viewers can dislike this performance. I have listened to and seen very many performances of this Russian masterpiece and I have watched this video through many times. Very many professional orchestras would have been proud of such a performance and seeing as this is essentially a youth orchestra this rendition is outstanding. Whenever I am working from home I have this playing in the background and such is the magic of this performance that I have to switch back to watching it to remind myself of the talent and accomplishment of this group of young musicians.
There are people who are hollow of feeling. I wonder if this is why the world is the way it is. Their balance in life is off so they want others to feel the same.
They dont know anything about music because the orquestra is playing perfectly. The music is one of the greatest from Rimski-Korsakov. He was a great instrumentalists. Maybe the better of his time.
@@josellorca4799 Oh yeah, they know their own type of noise, you know, rap, screaming, and silly crud. But to me, this is a treat, a wonderful performance. Did you notice, they are all young. I don't see any old codgers like myself.
Likewise I cut my teeth on classical music, thanks to my mom, and I was hearing and thrilling to it before I even emerged from the womb 82 years ago. Praise Yahuah (KJV: "the LORD") for such a blessing, in the Name of our Master Yahusha ("Lord Jesus"), amein & amein!
Dear Nadja, I am 71 years old and I am like you ; almost blind in left eye. The moment I saw you , I knew you have a good reason. Those negative comments should be treated as water on the ducks back. Please care about nice people only. With lots of love and respect from North California.
I'm in my 72nd year and have macular degeneration in my left eye... shall we start a club? 😉 In all seriousness, I agree with you 100%. A few years ago, when I first discovered this amazing orchestra, and this particular piece, I was struck by Nadja's elegant response to those who had mocked her. I've been a fan of hers, and this orchestra, ever since. Her soloist performance of the Mozart Clarinet Concerto is thrilling. Perhaps we should start a Nadja Drakslar Fan Club, instead. All the best to you.
Today is the fourth anniversary of my father's passing at 80 years old. Over fifty years ago he taught me to love classical music. Scheherazade was one of his favorite pieces. Every November 19th I pour myself a large single malt (we are Scottish) and seek out this marvelous performance by these young musicians. They have moved on now, but this performance does not age. Thank you Gimnazija Kranj and Zevnikov.
Beautiful it's the first time I listened to beautiful music I have been watching and listening to lots music It's was a great comfort during the lockdown thank you so much Alice Morley UK
@@benxdybarto Thank you benxdybarto. Your father had good taste. I am enjoying a small glass of The Balvenie as I write this on a Thursday evening. If it was a Friday it would be larger. My father's name was Patrick. I am drinking to his memory and to your father. Slange Var!
Dear Steve. Thank you for you nice words. Greetings from concert director and orchestra. Enjoy also our other gems of classical music at @zevnikov channel.
I see lots of critics on meyself, my behaviour and also my playing-moving in the orchestra. After 4 years of reading such destructive comments, I have to post an explanation. If all of you, who can not get the point of this rediculous moving, consider that in medical sense I am diagnosed as "almost blind" and that I have only 10% of my eyesight left, you would maybe get it that for me is impossible to sit more then half a meter away from my music and play it, because I am simply unable to see and read it, that is why I always move forward and back, so I can read the music and see the conductor. People like me with so damaged eyesight usually don't sit in the orchestra, because it is way to stressful, specialy because of people like yourself, people who can not see wider and understand certain things that are for majority maybe pointless and rediculous, but exist with a meaning! My destractive moving to myself is not a silly coreography but helps me to perform and to do my job! However, regardless to my medical situation, I am a professional musician and clarinetist! Thank you for reading this. Nadja Drakslar
Nadja , I am crying while I read your post. I obviously noticed your movements thought it was that you were very nervous. I never realised that it was due to your sight problems. You are a very beautiful girl and a very talented clarinetist. I love this video I must have watched it a 100 times . I have loved the music for over 40 years but for me this is the best version I have ever heard. Seeing the joy on the faces of the players and their wonderful talent. Getting back to you , I hope that one day something can be done to improve your eyesight, medicine is advancing all the time. I will pray for you and that soon something can be done to help you. I can only apologise for the idiots who criticised you. It is a very valuable lesson , that we shouldn´t criticise anyone if we do not know the full story. I wish you all the best and thank you for your wonderful playing in this video. I also wish you a very long and successful career.
Nadja, your playing, expression, and virtuosity speak for themselves. You did a masterful magnificent performance. Critics die, but the masters live on! Wonderful, lovely performance. Thank you.
This orchestra and its fine conductor deserve all the accolades they receive for this performance. They’re young musicians, but they play with a maturity and passion that can take years to achieve. The soloists were nothing short of excellent. A glorious, emotional evening with one of the most beautiful compositions ever written. Bravo/brava to all!
Slovenia, a small country, about 2 million inhabitants. Gymnasium Kranj was founded in 1810 and is one of the oldest and most respected schools in Slovenia. Maestro Nejc Bečan did a great job. So many young and brilliant musicians .... it was not easy to find and raise young musicians. I hope the orchestra will last a long time and become famous ...
I went skiing in Kranjska Gora in 1985 and I loved it there. My 2 female friends said the men were beautiful but not the women however I disagree I think the women in Slovenia are beautiful as well!♥️
Sometimes it's classical, and sometimes rock, but this is one of those times I just got goosebumps. The soloists are pure magic, the conductor pure dedication. This is why I love music.
I AM 87 YEAR OLD WIDOW AND MY FATHER INTRODUCED ME TO THIS MUSIC IN tHE 1950s I REALLY LOVE ..IT SO MUCH NOW AND THE.YOUNG MUSICIANS ALLARE WONDERFUL thanks
I'm 69. Found this on my own when I was a kid - and still listening decades later and still get moved by the beauty of this music and the talented people who labor to bring it to us. I think Rimsky-Korsikov and Borodin are my favorite Russian composers but that doesn't mean I don't listen to or enjoy the others. What a rich culture the Russian people are part of!
There is a spirit in this orchestra that is indescribable. I can't stop watching and listening to you with tears in my eyes. I am very grateful for what you do. Please know you are amazing artists, all of you, and very appreciated and admired. Thank you SO much!
And they are so young. I have heard Scheherazade many times, but this performance is masterful, fresh and so alive. PS: Nadja, for years I taught visually-impaired children. Because of my experience, I recognized what you were doing and why. I loved seeing you adapt and overcome.
This is one of the most spectacular performances of Scheherazade I've ever heard. The youthfulness of the orchestra and its polished execution (especially by soloists) makes this performance one for the record books. Mega-bravos especially to the First Violinist, Clarinet, Flute, Oboe and the entire Double Bass section. No exaggeration here: I think this performance sets a new standard of virtuosity that will be difficult to match. Chip Hartman, USA
- I appreciate the youth of the performers. However, the very finest performance of this piece was by the Orchestre symphonique de Montreal, Charles Dutoit conducting, London Digital Recording ca 1980. Check it out if you get a chance.
Agreed. This is the rendition I always come back to. "Youth" orchestra or not, this is the best, for all the reasons you give. The conductor deserves an enormous amount of praise for bringing this group of young musicians together in such a unified and powerful expression of their music. Many thanks!
"His best-known orchestral compositions-Capriccio Espagnol, the Russian Easter Festival Overture, and the symphonic suite Scheherazade-are staples of the classical music repertoire" This is a quote from Wikipedia about Rimsky-Korsakov - he is far from being an underrated composer I can assure you about that.
I agree Hussein! Rimsky-Korsakov's Sheherazade was one of my first exposures to classical music when I was a young teenager around 1960. For my 13th birthday, my Mother bought the LP album with Maestro Leopold Stokowski conducting (I believe) The London Symphony Orchestra. I cherished that vinyl record for many years. Mr. Stokowski had re-arranged the score, as he had done many times with other great Romantic works. I grew to love both the Romantic era as well as the 20th century orchestral works of these great Russian composers, Dmitri Shostakovitch being my all time favorite. The Russian people have an amazingly violent, yet fascinating history and much of it is reflected in their music.
Just saw this in 2021. Nadja... playing in a professional orchestra? Win. Doing it against adversity? Double-win. No explanation necessary. We see you. We know what you're doing. It's f**king awesome. There are fully-sighted people praying they could land the opportunity to do what you do. Bravo! And to all the others in this amazing ensemble... violin... cello... flute... and all others... simply wonderful!
I think people who have never sat in an orchestra and performed, and who criticized any musician in the orchestra, you people need some education. All musicians move! Do you not see that? The moving helps the musician achieve musical expression, which makes the music all the more beautiful. Achieving beautiful musical expression is a part of the musician's job! Leave the clarinetist alone.
52 years ago aged 9, i was walking across my school hall and heard the opening movement being played. I stopped and asked my headmaster who was lost in the moment with his eyes shut. “ Sir, what is this music called” I said, as it immediately struck me as a thing of beauty. “ This my boy is Scheherazade by Rimsky Korsakov”, and from that day to this I have listened to the music and imagined the amazing adventure it tells of. I can imagine myself in the school Hall now, even the smell, as if it were yesterday. Mankind has done many dreadful things but one of his most inspirational achievements has been music, - music like this. Thank you for posting.
J’adore aussi la musique Russe , j’ai ce disque à la maison depuis si longtemps… Mais j’aime aussi la littérature russe qui est extraordinaire, mon premier livre : l’idiot ,de Dostojevski fut une révélation alors que j’avais 19 ans… Tout est magnifique en Russie 🇷🇺, et maintenant je suis un fervent soutien à la Russie de Poutine qui est sans aucun doute le plus grand président des temps modernes ! I love Russie
To Najda and all the others playing here: You are all beautiful. Thank you for recording this and years later, brightening my day and uplifting my soul.
A wonderful musical experience for millions of us who really benefit from the talent of the composer and of every member of this orchestra and the conductor. I play this every day. Thank you for this recording.
To Najda: You play beautifully. . None of the asinine comments that derogate you have any validity. This an amazing performance that I have watched repeatedly. I played this work many years ago and I just love this young extraordinary orchestra which you are a key part of. Please keep up your fine work.
Well said, sir. There is always someone to denigrate someone else, but I don't see them in the orchestra performing, especially in such a wonderfully gifted orchestra. I wish many years of fantastic performance to Nadja.
Even though this is ten years old, I would just like to say Thank you one and all, after a really long hard day, this has lifted me right up and got me smiling again, what talented people, you really do make a difference.
I have been a music listener for about 70 years, beginning with little yellow children's records on an old 78 rpm phonograph my parents bought. This piece was one that drew me to concert music as a young person. Some of those early-like pieces got old in a hurry but Scheherazade never did. NPR's music guide described it as "forty minutes of incandescent orchestral writing." This performance makes it glow even more brightly.
I listen to classical music all the time. This orchestra of young musicians in Slovenia is the equal of any big-name orchestra I have ever heard. Congratulations on a job well done to all.
My husband and I first heard this played by the Toledo Symphony Orchestra and we both cried because the music was so wonderful and beautiful. Everyone here has done a magnificent job. The conductor and first chairs were superb! 👏🏽
I have loved this music since the age of twelve or thirteen when I would hear it on the radio, (I didn’t have a record player then). I am now 82 years old. This is a great orchestra of very talented young musicians. It’s a joy to hear this beautiful music so we’ll played. Thank you for posting.
Maintenant 60 ans que j'écoute cette sublime oeuvre de Rimski Korsakov, et cette prestation est admirable, la nouvelle génération est garante de la pérennité de ces humanités. Merci à eux.
Nadja, I have learned your name by reading the comments from others. You need to acknowledge within yourself that you have brought Korsakov alive again by your musical skill. We all appreciate this. You have made this world a better place and all who hear what you create.
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For me this is the best possible interpretation and presentation of Scheherazade in the world. The direction is sympathetic to the nuances of the music and the soloists are simply amazing. I find myself holding my breath during the solos--they are so exquisite. Many, many thanks.
Amazing what well played classical music can do for PTSD, intrusive thought patterns, flashbacks, and other psychic disturbances. My gratitude to all those who make this possible.
For several decades, Scheherazade has been one of my most favorite pieces. I have enjoyed listening to it thruout the ages, again and again. But to see it played by professional musicians is the cherry on the whipped cream. I am so grateful to Zevnikov for uploading this masterpiece of music and talent. It is so moving to see the young people playing the instruments I have only heard. Thank you, a thousand times over.
+Zeke Abrams. You are welcome. And thank you for all of your wonderfull compliments. I send them all to our kids. Come and vist us in EU, Slovenia (Ljubljana) in our next Great Christmas Concert, december 18th. This year we will play best slavic music in Slavic Evening.
+zevnikov Thank you for your reply and the invitation. However wonderful it may be to stand in the presence of such musicians, I fear I will not make it in time. I am a retired American living in Brasil who absolutely adores classical music (not a popular genre in this country). But please, I would love to learn more about this amazing orchestra; the outstanding violin soloist, the 'almost-blind' clarinetist whom I have come to adore and other members of the ensemble, as well. And, do I simply address you as Zevnikov? Or do you have another name by which you are known? If you wish, you can reach me with a bit more privacy at: zekeabrams@yahoo.com I do hope to read from you, again. zeke
Stunning performance. Absolutely loved this. I am shocked to read the comment by Nadja. I am appalled that anyone would make personal comments about such an excellent musician. It would never have crossed my mind that the way she was playing was worthy of any form of negative comment. I thought her playing was top notch and she is also extremely beautiful to watch. The remaining performers are also an absolute joy to watch. Just excellent. Makes me want to go back to Ljubljana, they seem to be exceptionally talented!
Simply the best version I have ever heard. Full of emotion from the beginning to the end. Matjaz you have interpreted the violin solos with so passion that i have had to write these words. I'm very happy for this hurricane of wonderful talented musicians that are flowing through the Europe. I hope listen you in Italy as soon as the pandemic becomes just a bad memory.
I have just come across this beautiful performance and I noticed Nadja’s movements, she played BEAUTIFULLY as did the entire orchestra. Why would anyone make negative comments about her, shame on you. Nadja, ignore those horrible people, keep playing this wonderful music that brings such pleasure to us all. Best wishes.
I've always loved this piece by Rimsky-Korsakov. But this performance of it was absolutely breathtaking in every way. Wished I could have heard it in person.
The violin can arouse such emotion! Masterfully interpreted. I enjoyed all the solos, and when the same group of instruments shone on their own. The orchestra as a whole gave a very sensitive, moving performance! Excellent musicians! It was perfect to have bouquets of flowers here and there for such a lovely piece of music. Impressive performance!!
@@lightseeker7956 Allow me to quote from their website: "The secondary school was founded in 1810 by the Governor of the Illyrian Provinces under Napoleon. In 1897 the building was built and then expanded from year to year to be adapted the growing number of students. Today the school has 8 departments, 29 regular classes, two classes with the international high school diploma and a class for the graduation course, a total of more than 900 students. It is one of the largest general secondary schools in Slovenia." The term "international high school" makes me think these are teenagers.
A remarkable performance, so refreshing to see such a fine assembly of accomplish young musicians, even though this was twelve years ago, the verity of instrumental soloists makes listening to Scheherazade one of my favorite classics….
When music makes you cry something heavenly must be hapening. This is just an amazing performance... What a WONDERFULL Orchestra and what an amazing Conductor! BRAVOOOOO!!!
Hahaha. Crazy. Over 1.000.000 views. The best youtube version, ever recorded. Bravo Gimnazija Kranj Symphony Orchestra! You all rock!! Golden generation of 2010! Watch out Behind the Scene: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-X0wOL8TxMlM.html
Lubsus Seveda. Decembra 2015 bomo imeli slovanski večer. Takrat bomo igrali našo bratsko slovansko glasbo :) Lepo povabljen na koncert v Gallusovo dvorano Cankarjevega doma.