00:00 - Movimento 1 - Andante Sostenuto-Moderado con anima 19:18 - Movimento 2 - Andantino in modo di canzona 29:14 - Movimento 3 - Scherzo. Pizzicato ostinato (Allegro) Movimento 4 - Finale. Alegro con fuoco
Just saw this symphony last night at the Kimmel theater. Music never brought tears to my eyes until then. Beautiful and emotional simply does not say enough to how I felt during the show. It was incredible.
Tremendous performance! Von Karajan was such an intense, controlled conductor that results in this very emotional Tchaikovsky symphony are explosive! Beautiful, powerful playing from the Vienna Philharmonic.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a composer who is able to combine in equal measure a pension for sophisticated compositional techniques with, at the same time, crowd-pleasing techniques. It’s almost as though the music was designed to send music lovers like us into states of rapture while, at the same time, render itself lovable and almost approachable to those maybe first stepping foot into the world of classical music! And I love that! I think that’s exactly what turns so many away from our world. It’s this preconceived notion that we are somehow aloof and pretentious and that the only way to enjoy it is to be “cultured”. That’s such a sad notion to behold. Classical music should be for the world to enjoy, and composers like Tchaikovsky are making that happen, and making it easier for people to then go deeper and step foot into the more complex music. He’s just amazing🤩
@@Tennisisreallyfun Tchaikovsky was the type of composer who takes pity on the audience and doesn't abuse their attention span. This is manifested, for example, in the fact that in his symphonies ,concertos and chamber music the first movement is usually the most complex and important and that there are always relaxation movements after more complex movements. It also happens with the endings, which are often the clearest and simplest movements without looking for a complexity similar to that of the first movements, which would be what a principle of symmetry would require. Only in some works, such as the Manfred symphony, Tchaikovsky departs from this general principle of consideration for the listener's attention span.
@@manueljoseblancamolinos8582 Well that’s rather harsh, don’t you think? I mean, I agree that Tchaikovsky follows the fast-slow-scherzo-fast, etc type format for his symphonic works with lots of your standard sonata form writing throughout. So yes, all very “standard”. Look, like any great composer, even Tchaikovsky has his average, throw-away pieces, but then that is the case with most people. But then again, so does Beethoven. And so does Mozart and I can argue so does Dvorak and so do many other “great composers”. But it’s his melodies that attract me the most. For every throw-away piece, there are twenty godly ones. They are so beautiful!!!!!! And they are so breathtakingly original that one almost stands back in astonishment at the ease with which he creates these godly melodies. You may say he takes pity on an uncultured audience, that is your right, but as a violinist I choose to recognize his sophistication and look at him through a lens of a composer whose melodies are rarely so contemplative and deeply emotional that your “standard” audience fails to appreciate them (I’d use the “Pathetique” as an exception here). And I really do think that’s good because I think that our world of classical music is starting to decline in prominence. Without composers like Tchaikovsky, the amount of people who’d bother to listen and dwindling as quickly if not more quickly than the cultured people out there like you and I who still maintain the fire within that represents our love for our great art.
Очень русское, певучее звучание, и бережно к авторским нюансам и темпам. Не каждому дирижеру, даже великим, удается это передать в музыке Чайковского. Поэтому Караян и велик!
Try Artur Rodzinski's live performance with the New York Philharmonic: I've never heard anything quite like it. It's on RU-vid coupled with an outstanding 5th.
So true, it makes me so emotional as a violinist who hasn't preformed in a long while now, this was a piece I played in my very brief time in college and I would give anything to have that moment again.
Malgré d'évidentes souffrances masquées et dignes, Karajan dirige ses troupes dans une interprétation flamboyante et riche de l'esprit Russe ! RESPECT MAESTRO.
Karajan el mejor director de orquerta que haya dado el mundo dirigiendo la curta sinfonia de tscaykovsky la ma hemosa escrta por el compositor Alfonso Ariza Niño( Bogota D.C. Colombia)
Ce 1er mouvement...ce fatum qui vous prend à la gorge et qui ne vous lâche plus de la première à la dernière note...et qui reviens dans le final...cette musique est définitivement un immense chef d œuvre
L’entièreté de la symphonie est un chef d’œuvre authentique de la musique comme il en existe peu, un premier mouvement remarquable et spectaculaire jusqu’aux dramatiques derniers accords.
No other compositor creates the emotions and the energy Tchaikovsky brings out in me. A true Master.. And this masterpiece executed by Karajan is beyond any doubt the best.
Herbert von Karajans Darbietung beeindruckt durch sein phänomenales musikalisches Gedächtnis, Emotionalität und Ausdruck, Schönheit und Geschmeidigkeit der Handbewegungen des Dirigenten. Was Tschaikowsky betrifft, so sind seine 4. und 6. Symphonie mein Favorit. Ich glaube, sie waren auch Karajans Lieblinge. Das Finale der 4. Symphonie ist die Schönheit der russischen Natur. Dort erklingen die bekannten Motive russischer Volkslieder über die Heimat.
La genialidad de Tchawiskosy, el talento de van Karajan y el buen hacer de los componentes de la Sinfónica de Viena, hacen de esta Sinfonia una obra Karajan.gracias a todos.Un Saludo desde Málaga, España
Bobagem .Há regentes geniais hoje em dia, igualáveis ou superiores à Karajan. Anos atrás poderíamos imaginar tantos músicos orientais , melhores intérpretes da nossa música do que os próprios ocidentais?
이 영상을 거의 2년전까지 여러차례 봐왔는데, 어느날 갑자기 사라져서 저으기 당황하고 서운했었습니다. 그러다가 오늘 문득 4번 교향곡이 듣고싶어 유트뷰를 뒤지다가 카라얀의 모습을 보고 반가운 마음에 듣고있습니다. 그런데 한가지 유감인 것은 음량이 작게 설정되어 있다는 것입니다. 아뭏든 반가운 영상입니다~^^
I get tired of the stylized look of these videos. But the performance is magnificent. I had the audio recordings of these 4, 5, and 6th symphonies but the DG recordings were just so harsh and un pleasant. It seems like the trumpets especially are super dominating here. Karajan's last years with Vienna were some of his best.
Karajan reigned supreme in more ways than one. For instance, in commanding how this video and his others from this same era were filmed. Compared to how orchestral performances are filmed now, the style used here seems too constricted -- close-ups with "artistic" camera angles and the like. For me I find it actually detracts from the performance, so I'd rather listen with my eyes closed ... or just haul out my CD version. ☺
Statistically speaking among the recordings I know there is no final 'crash', I think it is not in the score anyway. Yet you can hear it in Karajan's 76 recording for DG. Seems he was not consistent about it.
Aquí Karajan está algo mayor y con la espalda operada en el año 1975 no gasta las energías que gasta con la orquesta de Berlín porque el cuerpo (aunque lo intenta) no le permite los lujos de antaño. Tiene siempre los ojos bien abiertos y es mucho más conciso con las entradas
Generous interpretation indeed with one of the most beautifull orchestra in terms of sound rendering! However, the 1957 Mravinsky/ Leningrad interpretation is unsurpassable
По моему грандиозное исполнение. Оркестр и дирижер великие мастера! Чтобы добавить русской теплоты в музыку Чайковского, нужно быть русским. Также говорят австрийцы, когда российские оркестры исполняют Штрауса, а немцы, когда исполняют Бетховена. Конечно, Караян противоречивая личность, но то, что он делал как дирижер - это убедительно, это ярко, это на века.
As much as I like Karajan, I understand that there is a criticism to be made of him, which I read in an authoritative biography (Roger Vaughan's). His orchestral conducting was like a car ride: it takes you smoothly along any road and you arrive at the end without much of a clue as to what has happened on the journey. There are no potholes, no switchbacks, no sharp curves. That's what happened to me with the interpretation of this work. Not to mention the mania for tuning to "bright A" (above 440 Hz), which also plays a role. In this sense, I was much more convinced by Barenboim's version with the Chicago Symphony. In my humble opinion, it has much more sense of the dramatic; and this symphony is very dramatic. I think Barenboim has captured it better.
@@ww-nx6hj I take no drugs. However, maybe I could be wrong about Tchaikovsky's version (if you don't like Barenboim you can choose another of your taste). But I think that the criticism on Karajan is still valid.
Maybe Karajan's interpretations are more subtle or restrained but I find them so "deep" somehow and not at all lacking in drama. And I have no objection to a "beautiful" sound, to me it enhances the emotional power of the music.
You put the conductor's name before the Master's name at the end? And before the great orchestra? I wish people would stop with this excessive conductor worshipping.
There are so many moments in this that have been ripped off (or lovingly quoted, not sure) in other classical composer's works, movie themes, and with almost the same scoring. We blame popular styles of music for dumbing down the complexity of from the soul true classical music to three pr four chords at the same time they are taking ideas from established works to simplify their process of composing...see what im getting at? No wonder IT HAS ALL gone to 💩🤡🌍
Origins of music unevidenced. Except it is gift to humanity from God the Creator. Music continues in heaven. Discontinues in hell. Jesus Christ came from heaven to earth for one purpose only - to die on cross for remissions of pre-existing sins of every single person and to resurrect. Jesus Christ providing forgiveness from pre-existing sins for every single person, salvation from eternity in hell and free entry to eternity in heaven for all who repent of sins in Jesus Christ. Other side of death is eternity. Eternity in hell. Or eternity in heaven through Jesus Christ. Penalty of pre-existing sins already paid by Jesus Christ on The Cross. Accept HIM. Be saved from eternal in hell. Enter heaven. Enjoy heavenly music. For free.
Daí a grande EXPRESSIVIDADE da interpretação. É o que diferencia as grandes leituras. Assim, os músicos devem estar extremamente seguros na hora do ataque as notas. BRAVO!!!!
