Tchaikovsky - Francesca da Rimini, Op. 32
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- čas přidán 11. 04. 2012
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's symphonic poem Francesca da Rimini: Symphonic Fantasy after Dante, Op. 32, was composed in less than three weeks during his visit to Bayreuth in the autumn of 1876. It is dedicated to his friend and former pupil Sergei Taneyev.
In this fantasia, Tchaikovsky presents a symphonic interpretation of the tragic tale of Francesca da Rimini, a beauty who was immortalized in Dante's Divine Comedy. In the fifth canto of Inferno, Dante the narrator meets the shade of Francesca da Rimini, a noblewoman who fell in love with the brother of her ugly husband. After the lovers were discovered and killed in revenge by the husband, they were condemned to Hell for their adulterous passions. In their damnation, the lovers are trapped together in a violent storm, whirled through the air around the second circle of Hell, never to touch the ground again. They are tormented most of all by the ineradicable memory of the joys and pleasures of the embraces they shared in life.
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This is so amazing wth why is not everyone talking about this??!!
Best moments and their meanings (imo):
1:23 - before hell's entrance
7:00 - the wind of luxury's circle
10:45 - "theme" of Francesca's and Paolo's love (also heard at 20:04)
11:46 - Francesca and Paolo meeting each other and falling in love
12:45 - "Lancelot's reading" and the consumption of their love
13:55 - Their happiness before their horrible fate
16:25 - Paolo's brother discovering their affair
18:00 - Francesca and Paolo being killed by Paolo's brother
23:32 - Dante being overwhelmed by emotion and fainting
16:44
Almost perfect except in my opinion, 1:23 is a little too soon to be before hell's entrance and 18:00 is way too soon to be Giovanni killing Francesca and Paolo.
24:07 Dante cries and faints
0:00 Dante in the dark forest
0:26 the leopard
0:47 the lion
1:11 the she-wolf
1:23 Virgil shows up
1:43 the gates of hell
2:05 neutral humans and angels trapped in the Vestibule
2:36 Charon ferries the souls across the River Acheron, Dante faints and then the scene immediately transitions to him and Virgil in Limbo
3:33 Virgil convinces King Minos to let him and Dante enter Lust
4:13 Dante and Virgil enter Lust
7:20 Virgil points out some of the sinners in Lust he recognizes to Dante, such as Cleopatra and Paris
8:11 Dante calls out to talk to some souls, Francesca and Paolo appear
8:56 Francesca tells her story
20:28 Giovanni walks into Francesca and Paolo in the bedroom, killing them both
21:10 Francesca is done telling her story, she and Paolo return to their eternal punishments
23:32 Dante overwhelmed with emotion for Francesca and Paolo, then he cries and faints
That’s the reason why i fell in love with this man 💚
Tchaikovsky is always considered a romantic composer. But i.m.o. his music is the catharsis of all symphonic creations before him. Outrageous, melodious, wild, unpredictable, divine.
Never pretentious, like Wagner. About his own work he was always worrying, touchy, vulnerable.
He must have been a sympathetic person, with lots of empathy.
It seems he was a very sensitive man.
Heard it was customary for him on his travels to wake up in the mornings in tears. His orchestral poems were definitely influenced by Liszt like Wagner and so many others were. To say that his music is the catharsis of symphonic writing? is a high claim when you have other great composers but like other great composers, he has attained that catharsis in his own very special niche. Imo ;-)
@@aachoocrony5754 Nice to read your kind approach to my intuitive, non- historically driven little comment. Btw: You've got definitely the strangest first name i've ever read or heard of. Have you made that up yourself?
@@gabchaim8232 Yes, I did make that up myself.
@@gabchaim8232 Nice to see you reacted so well to my non-historical response to your historical assumption. Are you a historian? Something along those lines? Music is better than words. Less bullsh1t
11:38 Tara starts dancing
23:32 the music after the Sammy vision
I'm here for Dance Academy too 🥺💙
This is the third of Tchaikovsky's great trilogy of symphonic poems (or fantasy overtures), the other two being Romeo & Juliet and The Tempest. Such great master works!
You forgot Hamlet.
I think that 'Manfred' should to be include in that cycle
And Fatum!
Tchaikovsky was very good at making dramatic conflict beautiful and compelling. Desire is mixed with fear and regret and the results produce a hybrid of emotion. At the 2:50 mark we hear this clearly. The lovers want to be together, but they're kept forever apart by the whirlwinds of Hell.
Excellent analysis. The composer a genius at drama.
Actually they are not separated from each other. They are embracing each other for eternity. You were thinking of the video game adaptation, which changed a lot.
Another melodic dramatic masterpiece the composer had a cornerstone on--- then and now. One gets feeling he identified so much with his tortured mu sical characters.- yet like so many great artists had another side and could write the Waltz of the flowers. Quite a dynamic difference here isn't it. The nature of genius how does one explain? Just enjoy.
His absolute geniality in music based on inmortal master pieces of literature, like here in Dante's Inferno and others like Shakespeare Romeo and Giuliette and Manfred, is in outstanding performances like this Francesca da Rimini. Chaikovsky grandeur from Russia!!!!
Tchaikovsky must be my all time favorite. I also like Sibelius and Wagner, Tchaikovsky, Mahler, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, ...did I mention Tchaikovsky.
You must give Rachmaninov a listen…
Tchaikovsky drew inspiration from Wagner when composing this piece.
@@CaptainYoshi1978 And then, both Rachmaninov and Holst drew inspiration from that finale...
Have you tried Tchaikovsky? He's pretty great! I also find myself really enjoying Dvorak. A gem CZcams autoplay found for me is Kalinnikov Symphony in Gm. He was a contemporary of Tchaikovsky's and that symphony has become my all-time favorite symphony.
good taste. add dimitri shostakovitch
I remember some years ago I went to sleep with the radio on, and when I woke up in the middle of the night it was playing the last few moments of this piece. Pretty scary really!
seadog365 ohhh my gosh, I probably would think that I was dying lol
You must've thought the apocalypse was afoot
No conocía esta obra. Una muestra más del genio y la brillantez de Tchaikovsky
One of the best pieces of music ever written, period.
El mejor melodista de toda la Historia de la Música Clásica. Aunque perduran hoy día algunos intelectualoides y críticos amargados, quienes lo califican como un compositor "menor" sensiblero y "demasiado romántico". Además fue un excelente orquestador. Y por favor, no interrumpan las bellas obras musicales con esa serie repugnante de comerciales publicitarios. Estamos hartos de tanta mercadotecnia por todos lados y a todo momento. Saludos desde México.
Desde que CZcams se extendió y Google quiere hacerlo rentable, es casi imposible evitar las interrupciones. Pero le comento que muchas veces si se pone un vídeo con música académica, ya sea sinfónica o de cámara, y se escucha de inmediato por segunda vez, ya no hay promociones que lo interrumpan.
Um dos Poemas Sinfonicos de Tchaikovsky que mais ADORO. ORQUESTRAÇÃO PERFEITA.
When you start to explore the wealth of the body of work this "household" composer has left us, you realise how much is prophetic of the twentieth century. His combination of dark, turbulent sounds and just otherworldly tunes piercing that darkness, is magical...
Tchaikovsky is incomparable. There was never and will never be any composer as awesome as he was.
And his entire career was bare survival.
an amazing piece: dark, explosive, passionate, powerful...tragic...brilliant...absolutely brilliant!!
En efecto, una pieza asombrosa: oscura, explosiva, apasionada, poderosa ... trágica ... brillante ... ¡absolutamente brillante! Tchaikovsky en su más puro e intenso dramatismo musical.
Marvellously melodic also.😀
IMO, after the 6th symphony it's probably his finest work.
You know...that kind of sounds like Tchaikovsky.
@@paullewis2413 I agree
If you ever get a chance to see a symphony performance of this make sure you go!!! I've seen this performed by the Denver Symphony Orchestra. It's written in a way so that the orchestra plays in rounds from left to right creating this amazing counter clockwise rotation of sound that fills the baffles above and completely engulfs you. I think the point was to create a surround sound sensation mimicking the constant winds and subsequent din, confusion and chaos of the Second Tier of Hell. It made my every goose bump stand at attention.
23:32-24:05 if I die during a battle,I would like to hear that part while I'm fighting.
That part represents the descent into hell
You can actually hear the very winds of Hell in the string section.
@@epictacowizard5778 or the fall in the passion, Francesa's lust
@@epictacowizard5778this part is Dante fainting. The descent into hell is approximately at the 1 minute mark (the very beginning is the dark wood).
Pure madness! I love Tchaikovsky!
Saw this piece live in Rejkjavik Iceland in 1987 or so, an all-Tchakovsky night with the Piano Concerto #1, Rococo Variations, and Francesca. The President of Iceland was in attendance. Francesca is an immensely exciting piece live, especially the symbal clashes during the whirlwind segments - - they should be LOUD, and scare the crap out of everyone in the concert hall - - and they were. :-)
got in the car the radio turned on. caught the last few minutes of this truly an amazing piece.
If you ever have the chance to hear it live, it's an amazing experience!
A great composer, standing alongside with others with different gifts to impart. He had Melodies, instrumentation and soul searching longings in abundance. Just an honest and decent composer for us all....
Sometimes derided by music snobs but who cares, Peter Tchaikovsky was a giant among composers. Yes he did write some trivia but when you hear a work such as "Francesca" you cannot, if you're honest with yourself, deny his particular genius.
"Ed ella a me: 'Nessun maggior dolore
Che ricordarsi del tempo felice
Nella miseria; e ciò sa il tuo dottore.'"
Será la composición más hermosa jamás creada? Magnífica, extraordinaria, majestuosa, genial,hermosa!!!!!!
THAT is how you end a composition!
11:46
17:57
one of the best melodies by tchaikovsky
It is my favorite one of all symphonic poems ever composed !!!!
Q. Der heavy metal man of classical music. Ohh...der clarinet telling Francesca's tragic story of love, etc....OHH!!! Darker more effectually than OZZY!
Modestamente creo que este tipo de música debe ser de obligatoria enseñanza en los colegios y universidades, no solo por cultura, sino y fundamentalmente por su aporte formativo al desarrollo espiritual. La magia de seguir la historia, la evolución de la trama y lograr que los instrumentos musicales puedan articularse expresando el conflicto de sentimientos, la siempre vigente actualidad del drama amoroso, tratemos que este mensaje y legado de pensamiento y arte no se pierda y pueda llegar a los niños de nuestros países.Grande abrazo. Alberto.
Estoy completamente de acuerdo con Valdivia, pero la estulticia humana no permite que la nata aflore a la superficie. Como siempre, es privativo de algunos pocos el poder disfrutar de estas bellezas...!
Bueno tampoco es que a los que tienen el poder les interese mucho aprenderlo por sí mismos...
De hecho a mí me dejaron escucharla de tarea, y me parece una obra maestra.
Totalmente verdad
Alberto Valdivia, lo es! Cualquier colegio respetable requerirá leer “La Divina Comedia”. Ahí está la historia de esta pieza. De parte nuestra está atar los cabos...
This is one of Tchaikovsky's major orchestral works yet it gets few performances (at least outside Russia) compared to Romeo & Juliet which, as wonderful as that might be, is IMO not quite up to the standard of Francesa de Rimini.
I do so agree!
Bravo !
I found this piece on IMSLP to do for a trombone audition for university. I've never heard of it until now and I am absolutely in love with this piece. Its powerful, and delicate. It reminds me of some of the Nutcracker and the Manfred somehow
what a masterpiece!!
Agreed. Yours sounds like Greek name
Excellent.
This music is part of onegin ballet. You don't know how time i was looking for. Thank you a lot!!
Thank you for uploading this! I'm enjoying it right now. I've never heard this music piece from Tchaikovsky. Now, thanks to you, my musical culture grew. :)
First time I've heard this composition...very emotional; I like it a lot!
OMG!!! Thanks a lot!!! I appreciate this!!!!
1) 0-0:52
2:20-3:10
5:35
2) 9:15
11:45
3) 22:34
What makes it even more beautiful is that this piece was dedicated to Sergey Taneyev, supposedly his lover (as they were very close and both secretly gay)
Omg that's so sweet, I didn't know about it
@@im.claire и лучше бы не знали, так как это глупая выдумка.
@@jakelucas5944 I don’t speak Russian sorry 🥲
@@im.claire I wanted to say that it would be better if you didn't know, since this is a stupid fiction. Tchaikovsky was not gay. He was asexual.
@@jakelucas5944 it’s obvious that he likes man though, have you read all of the letters he wrote about them?? And I already knew that he was gay just didn’t know that he dedicated this piece to his lover
One of my Italian professors introduced me to this piece; we were reading the Inferno part of Dante's masterpiece LA commedia (The Divine Comedy in English). I fell in love with this music on first hearing! Need I day more?
Thank you ! 감사해요 !
As Romantic & Russian as it can possibly be.
I love yooou, Tchaicovsky!! 💛
Thank you, Trombones. 😊
Thrilling as usual.
Just amazing
Intense and Amazing
I'm from Rimini... :D
Thanks Tchaikovsky. Indeed.
splendida
Yes, it's very good.. The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
I thought you were Tchaikovsky 😂
This piece was used as the creepy background music in a children’s narrative of Hansel and Gretel we had on LP. Growing up, we used to listen to the album and it scared the crap out of me.
Divina Comedia. Fui interesado
BRAVO
Tchaik chegou no ápice das suas capacidades formais e estruturais. O clima sinistro jamais alcançado soa numa melodia arrebatadora que arranca da orquestra toda a sua pujança. A seção central quase bucólica e angelical se contrapõe num crescente galgar até desvendar o destino, o qual cinge ambas as partes e termina num clima Infernal onde bem e mal se aniquilam. Simplesmente, o máximo!!!!!!!
Tchaikovsky ti amo tantissimo!!😚😚🙄
Nessun maggior dolore
che ricordarsi del tempo felice
nella miseria; e ciò sa 'l tuo dottore.
anybody else notice the music from dance academy at the end? lol
+Ethan Baker Yes! While she's dancing the red shoes. The music from 11:43 in this piece is also in it.
Yess! I love that show.
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YASS, I am here because I already finished the show and can't get that song outta my head. Tchaikowsky definetely should make the soundtrack of my life.
That’s why I came here 😂
gets realy good around 18:00 mark
The intensity of the central love theme is *fucking breathtaking* (I mean, literally though, that was the point, wasn't it) and the tragic crescendo just makes it more so.
Some of his best known tunes seem winsome, but when he let passion dominate his writing, Tchaikovsky was a god among men.
9:21 dance academy
Hello! What do you mean with dance academy? Maybe is it a folk song that Tchaikovsky got inspired?)
Agreed.
Francesca will give herself or won't??? What an intensity!!
Peter Tchaikovsky at the height of his powers! There used to be a recording of Francesca on Y.T. with Gergiev /LPO (though I think it should have been LSO) now deleted. It had a bit more drive and drama than this performance, though I still enjoyed Haitink's recording very much.
He was a wizard.
lol
Esta obra es sobre la Divina Comedia de Dante, trata de la historia de Francesca y Paolo, que enamoraron pero Francesca estaba casada con el hermano de Paolo. El los encontró juntos y los asesinó a ambos.
Y cuando murieron, llegaron al 2ndo círculo del infierno, que castiga a los lujuriosos. Dante los encontró allí y se compadeció de ellos, aunque estuvieran bajo el castigo divino.
That last part is 2020 in a nutshell. Lol.
Ikr
Fabulous composer. Listen to the first ominous fluttering of the fatal wind that eternally drives the lovers apart first stirring at 4:20. Genius
Appeals to all musical,listeners from novices to conosseurs.
They're not separated from each other. They're embracing each other for all eternity.
This is an excellent rendition of this piece... shame that the conductor/group is not mentioned in the description. Truly an amazing recording.
The uploader has stated that it's Bernard Haitink/RCO. Obviously a good performance but overall I probably prefer Gergiev/LPO (which used to be on YT) - just a bit more dramatic and a better recording.
cameronpaul as far as favorites, this version is by far mine czcams.com/video/q1EzKMoOkd4/video.html
Youre very welcome..
Danke.
nice photo of the man...
..heard a story about Tchaikovsky being invited to Cambridge, uk to receive an honorary doctorate..
was supposed to perform (conduct..) a piece of his own and he wanted his first piano concerto..
but Grieg who was also recieving, had got in there before him with his lovely concerto..
didn't want two piano concertos
so Tchaikovsky chose this piece to play for the academic bigwigs at the university...
Onegin ballet ❤❤
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
I was brought here from a Black Sabbath video/thread. Yes, there is a correllation.
BEWARE! This is what happens to illicit lovers. Beeee goooood!
Roger Wilco Forbidden love, the most intense and destructive.
And WONDERFUL! I've had several. The memories of it all makes my life worth living.
Roger Wilco They can install some intense memories I agree, but to make your life worth living ? Their far to exhausting to keep doing and not without danger's either, and what do you leave in your wake, hurt , deceit, selfishness? Life is to short for such ephemeral pursuits one learns over time.
Roger Wilco How little you know, run along now little boy.
All passion is adulterous. To be passionate is to be opposed to good society.
Loved it, not quite as good as the Romeo and Juliet but a bit better than The Tempest. All three fabulous.Now I can go to bed thoroughly happy
I think your opinion is possibly because you are more familiar with R & J? Francesca da Rimini is a far more complex work and in time I think you will agree it is the greater.
i'll say this as a composer myself: he doesnt care about complexity. he cares about how the music makes him feel
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It`s actually not bad at all! Dear theWickedNorth-thanks a lot.But could you also add a few details as to who`s playing and when this recording was made?-merci
Esplêndido.
Wich orchestra is this? And who's the conductor?
Yes please
L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Silvio Varviso
*I NEED THE HELP OF FRANCESCA DA RIMINI FANS:*
There used to be a *series of 3 videos* of Tchaikovsky's _Francesca da Rimini_ by youtuber Callum Hackett. Those were the *best videos on the subject*, because they had these 3 lines of step by step annotation boxes throughout. The top box provided excerpts from Tchaikovsky's own program for the music; the middle one showed quoted verses from Dante's _Divine Comedy_; the lower one gave insights about Melody and Instrumentation. In the description was detailed the source of those insights. I _think_ that it was something like "Understanding the Great Masters" or "Classical Music Step by Step", and it might have been something published by Deutsche Grammophon, but that's all I can remember. I'm lucky enough for remembering the channel's name. The problem is that *those videos have been deleted*, so as Callum Hackett's channel and Google+ profile (I checked), and it's a real shame. I wanted to ask all of you fans of this piece if you ever saw those videos, and if you can point me out the source of those annotations. The thumbnail and video image was the oil portrait of Tchaikovsky by Kuznetsov.
Thanks in advance for any help,
Sérgio SC
i stumbled upon this piece after having read the inferno, and it is a truly phantasmal and moving sonic poem... i wish i could have seen the videos you are referring to, but i looked around a little bit and was able to find two things:
1. www. youtube. com/ watch?v=_7RfbJkOlCQ (remove the spaces)
this is an orchestral performance of the piece, with annotations from the original program, quotes from dante's poem, and a suggested interpretation of the music
2. www. atlantasymphony. org/ aso/Calendar/~/media/3f7593e9c0e54062bac46d83cb36d2ff.ashx (remove the spaces)
this is a series of notes by ken meltzer of atlanta's preforming arts publication on three of tchaikovsky's works, francesca da rimini being the first listed in the program. a little bit of history surrounding the composition is provided, as well as a summary of dante's encounter with the two lovers in the inferno, and a brief musical analysis. i hope you find these informative in conjunction with each other, and that they provide the same understanding you sought from callum hackett's videos.
take care
Thank you, David Pierce! I'll take a good look into these sources.
The annotations on your first link seem quite similar to the ones on the video I mentioned, though.
Thanks once again!
How not to fall in love with Russia after this?
This song supposed to be good if you're angry. It matches your anger and disposes of it
11:43
Anajose DelgadoSalazar DANCE ACADEMY
Music like this makes me want to watch Disney movies or old cartoons like Tom and Jerry.
Gumball Watterson HA the ole childhood days huh 😏
i've heard this in the cartoon, Ren and Stimpy..
together with other Tchaikovsky...
Ah yes, the tale of sinful, forbidden love dedicated to the composer's "good friend"
And it just happens to be one of the most expansive, thrilling and beautiful love themes ever written (beats the hell out of Romeo and Juliet and tops Kachaturian's love theme from 'Spartacus').
This masterpiece has largely been ignored by concert promoters because it's considered too 'Wagnerian' (as if that was a bad thing). Total idiocy.
23:30
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra & Bernard Haitink?
Why didn't you list the orchestra and conductor?
dat finale
IMHO that last reprise of the love theme before the coda was played too too slowly. I think it shd have been abt 10% faster. That is because that session has many crescendo notes on the strings between one utterance and another of the love theme, each building higher and higher tension after the preceding to culminate into an anti-climax. It was odd sounding by playing seemingly sustained notes during those gliding/scresendos, so that the tension building effect could be less noted.Recording is almost perfect save for the deepest octave.
Love is mercy, God too
And Mercy is Love. Amen to that.
this is one of the most beautiful things i have ever read
Cecilia Sosa Yeah, and because of that god, Tchaikovsky had a miserable life because he couldn’t live his homosexuality freely, and he was forced to kill himself because some influent men discovered his homosexuality...
Just came here because of the news that the bus which carries Ukrainian refugees was turned over on the highway to Rimini. The greatest composer which was happened to be a Russian.. Makes me think of histories, political things,,, relentlessly.. I am filled..
Fun fact: Tchaikovsky was 1/4 Ukrainian (paternal grandfather)
He was also 1/8 French and German each through his maternal grandfather's parents (French great-grandfather and German great-grandmother)
Who is playing?! Which orchestra & conductor? Ridiculous not to mention that....
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, conducted by Bernard Haitink
Francesca da Rimini used in Doritos commercial 2014 -
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I sometimes read Dante.
This piece may be the single most salient reason that the diminished seventh chord became such a cliche.