This Is How Christmas Sounds

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0:00 Introduction with Loki
0:12 Liszt’s Christmas Tree Suite
0:30 Not the sexy Liszt or the grand Liszt
0:58 An old man, struggling with alcoholism, depression and a nomadic life
1:52 Christmas 1881 in Rome
2:21 Liszt’s upright piano
3:00 Debussy’s visit and Liszt’s pedal
3:17 The soap opera
3:39 Cosima
3:43 Hans von Bulow
4:09 (similarity to Stockhausen)
4:36 Rehearsals of Tristan and Isolde
5:12 Wagner’s affair with Cosima
5:31 The kids and their stepfather
6:00 Wagner’s wide brimmed hat
6:14 Daniela’s career
6:24 Liszt or Daniela?
6:44 Reaction against virtuosity
6:55 The late style at its most charming
7:16 In Dulci Jubilo
7:45 The pastoral atmosphere and the siciliano rhythm
8:09 Greensleeves
8:29 Liszt invents Christmas harmony
9:50 A sign of genius
10:10 Gregorian chant and bells
10:47 The middle of the piece: E major - a shift of colour
12:28 Liszt’s arrangement for two pianists
12:57 A beautiful Lisztian coda reconciles the two keys
14:02 The final chord
14:30 Liszt’s ’Shepherds at the Manger’ (with animated commentary)
‘Weihnachtsbaum' (Christmas Tree) is a suite of 12 pieces for solo piano by Franz Liszt which he dedicated to his granddaughter Daniela. The first performance took place in Daniela’s hotel room in Rome, in December 1881. This video is about the third piece in the cycle, which represents the shepherds at the manger, and uses the melody of an ancient Christmas carol called 'In Dulce Jubilo’ with a rocking siciliano accompaniment, halfway between Gregorian chant and a lullaby. Its wonderfully simple and unpretentious style is so effective that it almost single-handedly defines how Christmas music is meant to sound!
Die Hirten an Der Krippe (from Weihnachtsbaum) by Liszt. Pianist Matthew King.
Stephanie McCallum’s recording of Liszt’s Weihnachtsbaum can be heard here: • Liszt : Weihnachtsbaum...
You can see Marta Argerich and Daniel Barenboim play Liszt’s duet version of the first piece of the cycle here: • Martha Argerich & Dani...
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Edited by Ian Coulter ( www.iancoultermusic.com )
Produced and directed by Ian Coulter & Matthew King

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28 июн 2024

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@yango8778 6 месяцев назад

Thank you for sharing this! Liszt was a very modernist composer who pushed harmony in all kinds of ways.

@anthonydecarvalho652 6 месяцев назад

Thank you for sharing the wonderful information of Liszt. I have always felt that Liszt was the greatest complete musician in history. The love and appreciation of Liszt has been with me all my life. My 96 year old mother as a child studied piano with one of Liszt last students.

@Iceland874 6 месяцев назад

I’m sorry he suffered in his older age. He is a wonderful composer Thank for the history and for the music. He was modern beyond his era. Shepherds of the Manager is different and interesting. It may grow on me. I’ll see if I can purchase a download. Thank you.

@torgenxblazterzoid 6 месяцев назад

Hans von Bulow, of course, had Tchaikowsky’s Piano Concerto dedicated to him after Anton Rubinstein had criticised it as being “unplayable.” Wonderful analysis and playing by the way 😊

@nigelhaywood9753 6 месяцев назад

I remember Mr Oldfield's Christmas single with In Dulce Jubilo on the B side but I had no idea that Liszt had used it or even that he'd done his own Christmas album 🙂 Thanks for another interesting video.

@loganm2924 6 месяцев назад

I played the Adeste Fideles arrangement from Weihnachtsbaum for Christmas, the suite is hugely underrated, always good to see more about it!

@AtomizedSound 6 месяцев назад

Liszt always fascinates me in all of his compositions and his virtuosity. One of my top favorite composers of all time and I wish I had a sliver of his talent on the piano.

@ccfliege 6 месяцев назад

What might be of interest to you is that one relative of Hans von Bülow (nobility obviously) was a man called "Bernhard-Viktor von Bülow" with the artist name "Loriot" who became one of the greatest german comedy writers in mid 20th century, with very funny and sophisticated sketches. But you probably don't understand german sadly.

@themusicprofessor 6 месяцев назад

Interesting. They're an influential family

@gunterangel 6 месяцев назад

With Bernhard Heinrich Martin Karl von Bülow ( 1849 -1929 ) the Von Bülow family even provided a chancellor of Germany. He hold that office from 1900 until 1909.

@tselyakov 6 месяцев назад

Holy baby Jesus, thank you for researching this and making a video on this! I absolutely adore the attention to silence and open spaces that Liszt has in this work. It's far more contemplative than what I am used to hearing in Liszt.

@johnchessant3012 6 месяцев назад

This is great! Also, while not Christmas-y per se, the lack of non-diatonic notes combined with a deceptively simple (though obviously skillful) harmonization has an amazing effect; it reminds me of several Chopin pieces: the intro of the 2nd Ballade, the chorale sections from the op. 15, no. 3 and op. 37, no. 1 Nocturnes.

@serenabhandari7992 6 месяцев назад

I love Christmas!!

@jonathanbeeson8614 6 месяцев назад

While I greatly enjoyed the background and musical analysis, the performance itself touched my old heart and made me cry. Thank you, and Merry Christmas.

@themusicprofessor 6 месяцев назад

What a lovely comment. Thank you and merry Christmas to you too

@siegfriedfaust6195 20 дней назад

Franz Liszt made very good use of an old melody.

@PaulGTerry 6 месяцев назад

Really gorgeous piece, and loved the background intro!

@khaledshokry5070 6 месяцев назад

Thank you!

@averyj3247 6 месяцев назад

Thank you for such a timely video.

@cameronlaird894 6 месяцев назад

"After all, he was a rather good pianist." I'm glad we're approaching this opera with ... reserve. "... spelled as F-flat major ...": comic genius.

@averyj3247 6 месяцев назад

Excellent video.

@timothy4664 6 месяцев назад

Merry Christmas Professor. I hope you and your family have a wonderful Christmas and New Years.

@susanfleming3128 6 месяцев назад

So interesting! What a carry on!

@VivianLund 6 месяцев назад

Fantastic! Thank you for the lesson and the beautiful Christmas music!

@remorrey 6 месяцев назад

A very Merry Christmas to you. Really enjoyed this presentation. Thank you.

@melissaraven3164 6 месяцев назад

This is superb! A gorgeous piece of music, with a fascinating explanation of its context as well as its content. And even links to related videos. Thank you!

@OctopusContrapunctus 6 месяцев назад

Awesome video❤ i heard the collection and I am happy to know more about, given its quite unusual nature ❤ Thank you

@RobertVHarrison 6 месяцев назад

Absolutely stunning! Thank you for sharing! I tend to shy away from Liszt's more virtuosic works, but this is quite a different side of him for me given my limited exposure to his repertoire. I'm now inspired to compose a somewhat jazzier reinterpretation of this, so thanks again!

@profsjp 6 месяцев назад

Wow! What a wonderful festive gift: words and music creating perfect harmony. Thank you - Merry Christmas! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

@swiggsoclock 6 месяцев назад

Beautifully described

@retrokeyed 6 месяцев назад

Great contribution! Thank you for sharing this knowledge with us in such a pleasant and entertaining manner.

@babeksaber2702 6 месяцев назад

Thank You

@ivanfowler5842 4 месяца назад

Thanks, I had no idea these pieces existed, how lovely! Is it just me or is there foreshadowing of Bartok's folk song arrangements in that final section? Perhaps it's a Hungarian harmonic taste?

@forest_green 6 месяцев назад

Beautiful. Thank you for explaining this to me. I don't have any education in music - I learned to play music on the clarinet by memorizing what my classmates did, and I still don't know notes, but I really appreciate learning so much about the music I love.

@user-md3nf5hk6l 6 месяцев назад

Thank you. Lovely playing and interesting commentary

@themusicprofessor 6 месяцев назад

Thank you!

@TheMotherOfBambi 6 месяцев назад

Merry Christmas to loki!

@johnlawrencegithens3524 6 месяцев назад

Thanks!

@themusicprofessor 6 месяцев назад

Thank you!!

@daymoonfarm2903 6 месяцев назад

Merry Christmas!

@SuperKripke 6 месяцев назад

I absolutely love Ehemals from this suite.

@berritandersen288 6 месяцев назад

🙏

@renatochacon289 6 месяцев назад

🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

@dann234 6 месяцев назад

I guess he's on Santa's nice *Liszt.*

@onceamusician5408 6 месяцев назад

Did Liszt move from D flat to E as a conscious technical manipulation of the relationship between relative majors and what have you ? or simply because it was the SOUND he wanted? I sometimes think the analysis misses the point. we can see what he did but does that get at what he INTENDED? don't get me wrong, i have a composition degree. I understand what you are saying, even though i have not composed in decades having lost al confidence in composing soon after graduating in 1980. so my question comes down to this: to what extent is composition the artisans craft if building a structure as opposed to an ecstatic prophetic utterance as when Maher said he was not composing he was "being composed"

@themusicprofessor 5 месяцев назад

I hope the discussion is reasonably clear about what Liszt intended. You raise an important question about the value of analytical observation: composers have a knack of doing something wonderful and some of that 'genius' is hard to pin down (that's why it's genius!) but sometimes its interesting to look at aspects of the craft to see why it words so well. My observations about the relative major probably seem overly dry, but it's really a question of, "why does this tertiary shift sound beautiful? Why does it feel as if a window has opened onto new vistas?" Some of the uplift we experience is connected to the way it subverts the traditional tonal relationship - that's all I'm trying to say here.

@donaldaxel 6 месяцев назад

I always wonder how bad out of tune the pianos of great composers might have been. Bach could and did tune "claviers", - that was a request for a keyboard player at that time. But it is said that Liszt traveled through Spain and played on the worst uprights out of tune, therefore I always wonder - how much off before Liszt would say NO - this will not do. I guess you can say that if the octaves sound like octaves and the top is in sync with the lower middle then it works. And "works" here I take to mean that you can hear what the musician is trying to paint, - you can hear what it represents, "tonic-dominant" etc. I have read that Chopin brought a tuning tool ("hammer") with him in the winter when he and George Sand (or Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin de Francueil) lived in a monastery apartment on Mallorca, and he had got a "cottage piano" with him, he wrote to the giver, piano maker Pleyel, that he tuned the piano into an acceptable "work-tuning", meaning it wasn't a concert tuning. I guess even talented piano technicians need 2 - 4 years of instruction in order to do a concert quality tuning. On Mallorca Chopin nevertheless composed - but we know that skilled composers can compose most of their music without actual instruments (based on Beethoven, Smetana, Tchaikovsky and more) since they at young age had got a vivid sound system in their mind/head/brain. (Spelling and typos corrected.)

@themusicprofessor 5 месяцев назад

Very interesting questions. Speaking as a composer, I would say that Chopin's description "work-tuning" is about right. As long as it functions OK, and 8ves and general harmony don't sound horrible, then maybe it's acceptable. Often older pianos have an individuality about the sound that can have a certain charm. You're right that pianos are very difficult to tune well and even professional musicians should be very cautious about attempting it!

@donaldaxel 5 месяцев назад

@@themusicprofessor :: If you read Hummel's advice to piano learners you will see that he insist that the amateur can be much better off even if he is not an expert tuner. He *must* learn to tune the instrument Hummel advices. He states that you can obtain better results learning to tune, instead of just letting the instrument be without a tuner. Sometimes people had the piano standing there for years because it was impossible to get a qualified tuner. Hummel describes two or three ways to lay a temperature, meaning the first 12 notes, an octave with all 12 tones. It is "sine qua non" that the piano is in some degree of tuning. In a booklet I got the author describes the situation in the Midwest of USA as an example of where you would be better off with an amateur tuning! ☻