tchaikovsky's iconic horn solo 

It never gets old for any classical music lover…

I have my issues with the symphony (particularly the ending) but damn is this movement beautiful.

How you listened to “And the Mountains Rising Nowhere” by Joe Schwanter? As a fellow Horn player, the horn feature at around the 6:00 minute mark is one of the best ever written.

It never does get old. You can sense a form of remembrance in this excerpt. The 2nd theme of the 6th's final movement also looks back at memories. But while the 5th's has this beautiful serene reverence the 6th's is bitter-sweet and full of longing. Strings.

With all due respect. I am not a horn player but fascinated about how some musical artists are able to have their instruments create waves of harmonic sounds that make you forget that there is someone playing 'an instrument". It is that moment that makes me listening to music played by real artists - not the fact that music never gets old. Since it can get old really instantly - if played by somebody who is not able to play an instrument with the same level of professional competency, it was created at by its composer.

Well done! The whole of the second movement is absolutely gorgeous and usually reduces me to tears, or at the very least raises the hairs on my arms.

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Tchaikovsky is technical composer. Harmony of Mussorgsky, Korsakov and Stravinsky is better

@@cinemagraphymahivara2000 not for me.

@@cinemagraphymahivara2000 Harmonies are subjective like all things in music, love ❤. If you mean in terms of complexity, complexity ≠ quality. That's one primary reason why composers like Mozart who were known for simple harmonies are praised, but praised equally as highly are composers like Ravel, Ellington and Herbie Hancock just to name a few. Furthermore, harmonies also change based on what emotion the composer wants to express, evoke, or create within the listener. 🌸Sincerely, an eye-protector on the internet🌸

@@spobicity I agree--harmony, like melody, isn't better or worse. Entire compositional skills may be measured superior--like Bach's- or merely competent--sorry Prokofiev--but preferences are not quantifiable.

I wish it did - it is supposed to - but it did not. Don't blame the composer.

Exactly, and to me Rachmaninoff (my favorite and one of the two best composers imo) is one of the best because all his music is as good as that string opening. After the horn solo starts, it starts to get a little goofy (like some other works of Tchaikovsky - not to say bad, just a bit goofy/noodly)

If you haven't heard of Rach's The Isle of the Dead, then do now. For me it's the darkest, the loneliest, the creepiest and yet the most beautiful piece ever written.

@@alanpotter8680 Have indeed. Great piece

Absolutely agree - with the emphasis on "written" and not played.

im a horn and clarinet player too :D

Just a little recomendation: Suite for orchestra nº3, 1st movement: elegie

@@SantiagoGonzalez-sl5lj Whoaa gonna listen to it. Thanks for the recommendation!

His 4th and 6th symphonies will just blow your mind............................

His violin concerto is his best for me

your comment is very kind, thank you so much!

Here it is: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-07Lj7nWOQMY.html

thats what i was thinking !! as i read the score i thought, isnt this the melody of moon love ? and then the horn played it

You confirm what I said above. These masters have influenced almost anybody who is involved in creating and composing music.

Sibelius 7 is about the closest we have.

And I hope you learned the lesson. This is not how Tchaikovsky composed it - this is how a "musician" plays it.

I have a small video on Manfred if you're interested

Thank you very much! I found it while perusing your other videos. It, too, is superbly done, as are all your videos. I'm sorry I didn't explore your material sooner! @@skylarlimex

Tchaikovsky - together with Beethoven and Mozart and most certainly Bach were the ones who in one way or another influenced almost all the others who were creating music during those times.

never noticed that before!

​@@skylarlimex "Annie's Song" was my first thought when I heard that passage as well! And apparently we're not wrong. Look for an article titled "how Tchaikovsky filled up John Denver's senses." In other words, Annie's Song was, in fact, inspired by (ripped off?) this piece!

annies song is literally based on this piece.

ah yes thank you!

Annie's Song. I heard that too.

Good luck and go easy on your neighbors.

i'll think about doing that!

exactly!

Brahms 1 piano concerto 2nd movement or Grieg 1 piano concerto 2nd movement 😍 All 3 exquisite!!

You must have mistaken the bass clef with a treble one

Disagree. They were different men and Tchaikovsky's music tells the tale of his life exquisitely. Not all sadness is redeemed.

​@@ihaveacoolnickname I agree with you, and it 'is', as you say, iconic with regards to Tchaikovsky. That's one of the things that tempers my appetite for too great an allowance of it. Not being of a depressive countenance myself, I don't resonate with Tchaikovsky's almost welcoming resignation, and the indulgence necessary to it. To fight so bravely, as Tchaikovsky elsewhere does, and to concede failure is, for me...a musically disappointing result. It is true that misery loves company, but I broach no purchase for it even recreationally.

That's why some prefer Brahms to Tchaikovsky. This has nothing to do with either of these great musical geniuses, but everything with people having different opinions. Which is not limited to music.

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