Main Character Energy from this Piece - Stravinsky The Rite of Spring | Reaction 2
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If there's one piece where you *don't* want to have main character energy, it's this one
Especially because the main character of this piece is a Virgin girl who gets sacrificed by bears
@@Alice-gr1kb What is the context?
@@fatitankeris6327 This is only the symphonic part of The Rite of Spring. The whole arrangement is a ballet accompanied by the orchestra. At the end of the ballet, tribal people sacrifice a girl by making her dance herself to death.
@@fatitankeris6327 This was originally a ballet. That is literally what the story is about.
The annoying thing with Rite of Spring is that you wanna move your head with the music but you CAN'T cause the rhythm keeps CHANGING EVERY COUPLE BARS ASAFTFADTF
Facts!!! I kept looking stupid hahah
The thing in the trumpet is a mute, it doesn't really make it sounded less loud but it changes the colors of the sound
Got it!
Makes it sound like a person talking while having a cold/stuffy nose.
Great effect, was used A LOT in jazz especially in the early Big Band era and to some extent Bop.
And it's not only a trumpet, but a Bass trumpet
It muffles the sound but indeed also changes its colour
Stravinsky liked to stretch the limits of instruments to get unique sounds. For instance, the bassoon solo in the beginning is extremely high for the bassoon, which yields that strange primitive sounding tone.
At 14:23 is a bass trumpet with a straight mute. It changes the color of the sound. It makes the instrument sound thinner and more nasal.
This work is also a favorite among orchestra musicians. Sitting and playing in that massive body of sound is pretty epic. Thanks again for being a diligent and curious listener!
Yeah, aside from it being really fucking hard to play as well
@@ICanPickLocks Nothing worth doing is easy, more so in art
Trumpets and other brass instuments sometimes use mutes, which are inserted in the bell, to achieve a different less bright and loud sound.
Oh ok.. I thought I was tripping because they suddenly appeared lol
Though what it means for a sound to be bright is subjective, I think most people would describe the kind of brass mute used in this piece as making the sound *more* bright; they suppress the lower partials so the timbre is biased toward the upper ones.
Steing players also use mutes at times which clamp onto the bridges.
The long-ass flute is called an alto flute :)
Simon Rattle is a true brilliant conductor !
Meh
Keep on listening to it, it just gets more and more impressive and immersive. Bernstein/NY, Ozawa/Chicago, Boulez/Cleveland either one of these is AMAZING for your personal listening. Now that you’re on Stravinskys ground, PETROUCHKA - I really recommend Ozawa with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. It is charming and bright, also an absolute masterpiece!!!
Ozawa/Chicago is madness. Ancerl/Czech Philharmonic and Karajan/Berlin(no. 2) are also classics.
@@NecronomThe4th Ozawa/Chicago is a brilliant combo, I would also like their Bartok's Miraculous Mandarine recording, best I ever heard.
if you haven't heard them yet, you're gonna LOVE Bartok's The Miraculous Mandarin and Stravinsky's Les Noces :) especially the Miraculous Mandarin.
My thought exactly, he'd love the miraculous mandarin
I guess I'm a fake fan of Bartók because I love his piano music-he's my favorite piano composer by far-but haven't listened to much of his other stuff. Maybe I should give that one a try!
@@NF30 his orchestral music is how I learned about him, but then my aunt gave me book 6 of mikrokosmos for christmas one year :O
@@vrixphillips I learned about him through the Romanian Folk Dances, and as soon as I heard them I knew he was my favorite composer! I couldn't wait to listen to all his piano music and I still love it 7 years later!
Vareses L'Amerique is totally bonkers, like Sacre off the chain.
It's the Maestro's birthday today so i went looking for something interesting - you're it. I wish someone suggested Valery Gergiev so here is a the moment in the ballet that explodes in the "Ritual Action". She stands for 10 minutes through this!. The dancers who have taken on this role say they always jump at this point. czcams.com/video/L0AYF4vgTyo/video.html
I beg him to watch the ballet ,hehe
@@random_user_hmm composition students have to watch the ballet when they take The Rite of Spring course...so..
You are so right that this should be in your top 10. Now, if you haven't already, you should hear Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra.
Or the miraculous mandarin by Bartol too😅
I'd go with Mandarin. @@minasmigkosgymnastics8742
@@minasmigkosgymnastics8742 Or the music for strings,percussion and celesta (also used in Kubrick's The Shining if I recall correctly) but only in the Istvan Kertesz recording with the London Symphony (lated 60's recording I believe)
Always keep in mind that this is DANCE music! Written for Dhiagilev's Ballets Russe in Paris in the years immediately before WW One. It caused riots and fist fights in the theatre. Now that's music with IMPACT!!
I'm so glad you enjoyed "The Rite of Spring." It truly is loud and chaotic, yet we can't help but love every moment of this work. I love how the music for the ballet starts off with the bassoon played solo in a slow, quiet, and hypnotic way, only for the ballet to end in a very loud and abrupt way, as if the conductor's telling the entire orchestra: "all together now" and then BAM! Show is over and the sacrifice is complete.
Also, I read somewhere that the final notes literally spell out d-e-a-d, so yeah, what a way to end a controversial piece of work.
Stravinsky sure grew on me over the years, and this piece is one of my top favourites! Happy to see a reaction on it :D
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Ah i really hoped for this part of The Rite of Spring.
I really love the Sacrificial Dance of it, and I try to compose a orchestral piece like that one day.
Greetings from Bavaria :)
I'm late to the party, but so glad you enjoyed this! People either love the piece or absolutely hate it. I am the same as you when I first heard this piece I just couldn't wrap my head around what I was hearing. There were sounds I had never heard before. I just kept asking myself how could someone control an orchestra to do things like that? How powerful can an orchestra really be? It's part of what made me want to become a composer and work with orchestras! Such an inspiring piece, glad it blew your mind too!
Wow that was a really amazing performance
I think it's wonderfully lucky your introduction to his is the Simon Rattle video. It makes the impossible music possible. Metal used atonal music and later strange time signatures to not only portray darkness, (like Black Sabbath) but also the challenge of the hardest dance, from high speed mid 80s thrash mosh pit dances like Battery by Metallica in '85-' 86 to Dillenger Escape Plan. There's a reason they call it "math core": the ability to listen to The Rite of Spring helps.
This is in the top 10 of all of us I think xD
lol 100%
@@GIDIREACTS You should watch the entire ballet, choreography and all, to get the full effect that was originally intended. The choreography was just as revolutionary as the music. The Joffrey Ballet reconstructed the original version as best they could. Here is pt. 1 of 3: czcams.com/video/jF1OQkHybEQ/video.html
Sometimes perilous but what a masterpiece that Stravinsky gets us through..Hail Stravinsky.
That's a mute for the bass trumpet. It gives it a thinner sound. He uses different mutes in this piece. The bass trumpet is a pretty unusual one. This piece uses a lot of unusual sizes of instruments and combinations for unique sounds. That's why it seems like sounds you never heard before, it really is.
11:51 Alto flute. Off the top of my head, I don't think you've covered another piece that uses it.
Probably you had heard most of the sounds the individual instruments make in this piece before, but the contexts they're used in and the ways they're combined are especially creative. For example, at 3:03, there is a solo violin playing artificial harmonics, which you've heard before in the Sibelius violin concerto, but what makes it special is that it's doubled two octaves lower by the alto flute. This is one of the great things about the orchestra; the possible combinations are endless.
Gustav Holst's "The Planets" also uses an alto flute, however it isn't quite as highlighted as it is here.
Another Stravinsky piece I really love that I think is a bit underrated, as much as anything Stravinsky wrote can be underrated, is L'Histoire Du Soldat
May I recommend firebird and petrushka for your next Stravinsky listen!
Just found your site. Enjoyed it and your reaction. Perchance, have you done Orff's Carmina Burana? Also My favorite is Richard Wagner.
Wagner is not listened enough
I know what you mean by that bearded bass player having "main character energy". A lot of times when I watch a video of some piece there is someone in the orchestra who catches my eye because of their distinctive appearance or the way they nail a certain solo. Whenever they show up again in the video I always smile and kinda cheer them on with a "go, man!" or something. A great example is in this performance of the Martinu sym #4: czcams.com/video/laI5pnq5X7g/video.htmlsi=s3mwAD7PwraHNYWv&t=483. The piccolo player always catches my eye cuz he's a big guy with this tiny instrument that cuts through all the other instruments. BTW, I highly recommend that Martinu 4th Symphony, and that performance in particular. Super exciting music. I enjoy your reactions! Keep listening and carry on!
14:16 is a Bass Trumpet (it's an octave lower than a normal trumpet) with a Mute in the bell (makes it sound a bit buzzy and harsh).
It's primal.
So glad you can appreciate what an amazing piece this is. Did you know that at its first performance in Paris, people shot at each other with pistols in the streets after, so shocked, appalled, loving it they were? The only other thing to touch it is Messiaen's Turangalila symphony, but really you should hear that live (actually the Rite is best heard live too.)I would travel anywhere here in the UK to hear the Turangalila. Massive, extraordinary, bizarre and wonderful. Thanks for doing this.
Did you know that someone also invented the atomic bomb real quick and dropped it on the theater?..
Stop with the rumors! By most accounts, the room was dead quiet when the final dance came on.
Don't know about the shots with pistols, do know about fist fights among the audience, and lots of groceries thrown at both dancers as well as orchestra.
I've heard the Turangalila live twice now and each time was so special, especially the second time when Yvonne Loriod, the composer's wife, played the Ondes Martenot, and Messiaen himself attended. It was glorious and a very good performance. Audience had to clap for minutes to seduce Messiaen to get to the stage and be lauded, he didn't care much for the attention but it was a highlight in the performances I've visited in my life.
Sacrifice, death, sate the gods of spring with the clean soul unsullied by blood and you shall be spared!!!!
Request : composer Claus Ogermann . Piece of music 'Two Concertos'.
Stravinsky is like the similarity of the historical Edgar Allan Poe gothic author and poet but would be very fitting as well to put Stravinskys music to Poes writings
Can you react to Liszts Totentanz and tchaikovskys dance of the reed flutes?
The entire Nutcracker Suite! Lol
Bass trumpet
musicAeterna's version directed by Teodor Currentzis is the best version of the rite of spring imo
Have you heard the Boulez/Cleveland recording?
Where was the Tam-Tam?
Alto flute, a deeper and longer one.
That's what she said 🤭🤭🤭 sorry I had to 😅😂
@@frankjuggaloheathen1035 Yes, it's why I somewhat prefer it to the normal size flute.
PAUSE
bro there is no way you're not high asf in this
Alto flute
Plz listen Petrushka!
People think Black People don’t listen to that type of Music, SHOW THEM Uncle G 🔥
UNCLE GIDI ❤
Great reaction for stravinsky,Before that, I want to say sorry for saying this,but seriously when is Mozart Symphony no 41,sorry if this sounds like a coercion and rude,but i keep requested this for like 6 months or so,and there even no Mozart piece.Just tell me that you don't like Mozart so I don't requested almost the same Piece in every video.or it's because i'm not buy your membership so it takes a long time for you to even got it in your list?
And yes, you should react to The Miraculous Mandarin by Bartok, because it is even better than this imo!
Please Check out the composer Gustav Hoist, and the Orchestral moment "The Planets"
Regards my Friend.
First
I like that 👀
@@GIDIREACTS ok I will try to be the first at your videos
Vivaldi spring: 🌺🥰☀️🐝 Stravinsky Spring: 🙇♂️😫☠️😵💫👊💥🦁⚔️🙇♂️🔥
@@anthropocentrus accurate
Congrats
Bro you should react to Soundings by John Williams!
The first performance of this piece caused a riot in the audience. The noise was so bad that the dancers (it's a ballet) could not hear the orchestra, so Nijinsky, ballet dancer/choreographer, had to stand on a chair in the wings and call out numbers to the dancers. There's a great 1.5-hour docudrama called RIOT AT THE RITE - czcams.com/video/JcZ7lfdhVQw/video.html