I love how it just starts out with the conductor looking like this calm old man and then he immediately violently starts conducting as if he's beating the shit out of some guy. It's fucking awesome.
My mother sang in the choir in her university days while studying vocal performance. She said the boy playing the drum was told put his whole body weight into smacking that drum. She could feel her teeth shaking.
Also look up 'Seed of Perdition'. I imagine to hear it in a catastrophe and think it would murder my hopes right away but then I would gain renewed strengths. Careful though, because is a bit... 'heavy'
My heart is heavy with sorrow for the passing of one of the greatest contemporary conductors worldwide: Claudio Abbado (1933-2014). Rest in peace, Maestro. Your work lives on.
Mozart's one is more impressive in terms of counterpoint. And he couldn't even finish it and it was mainly orchested by his pupils. This is really well composed and orchested. Also different eras. Mozart era orchestas were smaller and with less variety of instruments.
well posted axissia, mozart's requiem is badly written,mainly focused on counterpoint harmonies having no soul spirit and being easy listening due to the taste of the time he lived in ( which is mozart's music is all about , a massive production of nice jingles and the reason why critics until XX cent didn't rank him so high). Verdi's requiem is the most powerful,solemn,spiritual and beautiful ever written and no comparison with anyone else's work can be made.
I am very sad for the passing of the Great Claudio Abbado. The Music lost one of its most respected and refined men. Claudio Abbado is Genius and his art is eternal. Many Thanks MAESTRO.
Claudio Abado has joined the stars in the sky, with his extraordinary talent, conducting each member of any orchestras, moving every fingers so that no one can ignore what he wishes as much from the orchestras than from the choir. Enjoy Verdi'' Requiem... RIP great Master
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Mancherà a tutto il mondo musicale la grande, serena, luminosa figura di Abbado, musicista di razza, uomo di cultura senza barriere, interprete straordinario del più fulgido periodo scaligero e universale interlocutore della grande musica. Grazie Maestro Claudio.
Abbado really murdered this piece, so awesome. A long life did he lead, and one filled with the music he loved. A lucky man. His time here is over, but he rests in peace having brought such joy to generation after generation of concert goers (and people listening to his recordings on CD and RU-vid ;D). Adieu, old master! You will be missed.
There’s no words to express the emotion I feel watching this video with the amazing maestro Abbado with a phenomenal orchestra and the superlative chorus
I'm french and when I hear this symphony of doom and terror I can't contain myself, thinking about the Revolution. It will be a great soundtrack for a movie about that bloody age
It would be the most appropriate background music for video of the Nazi invasion of Poland, a profoundly Catholic country about to endure the worst horrors that any country endured before Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge. It is telling that the Nazis really hated this piece of music even if it wasn't a "Jewish" work.
'to endure the worst horrors that any country endured before Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge' A very bold claim. To imply the Nazi's committed the worst atrocities in all history combined before Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, is ignorance at best and an acceptance of propaganda at worst. Reminder that the Mongols alone killed 40,000,000 as a result of their conquests. Stalin killed upwards of 23,000,000. Genocide was a frequent occurrence in the world, albeit not with much efficiency which made the Holocaust so abrupt and horrific. Regardless, before the 19th - 20th Century, Genocide was virtually commonplace amongst all peoples of the world; Africans, Europeans, Asians & Americans. It was the indirect result of tribalism. The Nazis were not unique in this matter. They were the only ones punished for it.
Lo sguardo iniziale d' attacco è una cosa sublime ...l' essenza stessa della musica viene trasmessa attraverso lo sguardo magnetico dei suoi occhi....le sue braccia il suo corpo sono comandati da una forza misteriosa ed affascinante.... Signori semplicemente fantastico ...Lui è il più grande di tutti .... Grazie Maestro Abbado ...Lei ci rende orgogliosi di essere italiani. Roberto da Mantova.
While this version sounds more like the requiem of the humanity, like apocaliptic, the Mozart version is the requiem of the human persona, inside apocalipse
who knows why 200+ people disliked this video. Abbado, one of the greatest conductors of all times and the Berlin Philarmonic. Strange people, strange times...
No,era la risposta a chi vorrebbe far passare le opere eccelse dell'ingegno umano come derivanti da inesistenti fonti divine, mentre invece sono proprio i sostenitori della divinità a causare il più delle volte le nefandezze maggiori.
@@filippomazzoli607 ma quando mai? La chiesa, cattolica soprattutto venne sempre attaccata dal partito nazista tanto che spesso Ciano dovette mediare con le autorità tedesche. Dimentichi le centinaia di sacerdoti nei lager? San Kolbe per dirne uno. Il got mit uns era retaggio delle armate prussiane
+Mr. Anthrax I agree, the tempo put's me in mind of "Ace of Spades". Perhaps it's the thought of Lemmy being dragged down into hell, Jack Daniels in hand, laughing in the face of Satan!
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