Casablanca suite performed live by the John Wilson Orchestra - BBC Proms 2013
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- The 'suite' from the 1942 movie Casablanca by composer Max Steiner. Performed by the John Wilson Orchestra at the 2013 BBC Proms in the Royal Albert Hall in London.
- Hudba
TAKES ME BACK TO WHEN I WAS ON THE BACK ROW WITH MY WIFE AT THE PICTURES AGE 18, AM NOW 87
I'm 80, Roy. The war was raging in my early childhood. My parents returned from the theater raving about this incredible film. I've watched it a hundred times since and it's never failed to hit the spot.
You are right,they were great movie days and best music from USA,and now we have John Wilson to keep our memorys alive
May you live in good health for as long as you want.
@@royholland8184 ]*&€-“%ZD,
The Hollywood of old. Perhaps gone forever. They once knew how to instill a sense of nobility in the human experience. They understood it. Kudos to John Wilson for knowing how to pick it out in his music selections.
It is not gone, my dear friend at heart, it is still there...temporarily suppressed and waiting to revive. Today's trash culture is not helping mankind and, hence, we have so many depressed and miserable people in the world but when they hear great music such as that composed by dear Steiner and more contemporary composers such as Williams that magic starts to shine again...to give them that sense of wonder that you and I knew when we were children watching the images...light captured by grains of silver halide...and sounds recorded magnetically....transporting us to other times and worlds. When Hollywood reawakens from its sleep of trash culture then, perhaps, the greatness will revive once more and truly great composers will create wonder for us on the screen again. I live for that day and I hope you do too.
"They once knew how to instill a sense of nobility in the human experience" - profound to the extreme. The spirit still exists and thrives, it is just trying to elbow its way through a crowded space now.
These comments were so upifting to me. I came of age in the 70's; I did my best to embrace the music and films of the time. There was much to enjoy and appreciate, but this old soul found a "better fit" with the films of yesteryear. Would set my alarm to awaken me in the middle of the night to watch old movies like "The Heiress," "It Happened One Night," and of course, "Casablanca." As Frank Capra said, "I make films that perhaps don't show who we are, but who we could be."
@@lnl3237 The best ones were always on at 1am or 2am That's how I first saw "All About Eve."
@@hudsony777 Great movie. Script. Actors. My favorite Bette Davis movie is "Now Voyager." As romantic as they come.
I have never heard the entire score to this classic film performed by a contemporary orchestra. What a treat! The legendary Max Steiner, conducted by the powerfully emotional baton of John Wilson... a tough combination to beat.
I NEVER tire of this fabulous orchestra’s stunning music, I am a very health young
80yrs old🙏🏻
Casablanca the greatest film of all time. Ingrid Bergman still the most beautiful woman that ever lived.
I would say the Third Man was better but it is an "Anti-Casablanca"
I agree that CASABLANCA is the greatest movie ever made it makes the spine tingle and the heart take a leap. BOGIE AND BERGMAN ROCK!!!
To me it’s Audrey Hepburn
In all the Royal Albert Halls in all the World, John had to play in this one . . . . thank Heaven!
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Bawling just knowing the piano was about to play. Absolutely splendid.
I played it every night for a ten year residency in a Dublin restaurant . I adore the movie.
Bravo John Wilson. A British man of endless talent who keeps American soundtracks and musicals alive in his performances. He’s a star. Max Steiner would have been so pleased.
Bullshit.
John Wilson and co.. SHEER CLASS.. 🙏🏼❤️. Here’s looking at you Kid..
Play it Sam.
again a movie filled with the most romantic music it must burn its way into ones brain,movies of this quality are so important to me,so many happy memories ,,thank you ,you tube.
John Wilson is a genius to transcribe all this music such a huge task.
John Wilson still the best in the world,keep taking me back to my youth John. uk
3:10 is where the magic happens. Sentimentality is my drug....
7:51 as well...
Douglas Crawford yes im crying 😭
Yes, of course this is how the world will always remember the music of Casablanca
A very communicative conductor
Max Steiner , another great composer of early Hollywood cinema history.
The greatest!
Beautiful John is Magic.
John Wilson has it all. Streets ahead of any other item in the Proms..............Bravo Sir.
Extra credit to John Wilson for including th famous Warner Bros. fanfare to start the piece!
Yes, yes, yes. You can tell John Wilson has a passion for Old Hollywood. I've judt started seeing all of Wilson's orchestral tribute. Has there been any instance where Wilson has brought in Alfred Newman's 20th Century-Fox fanfare with CinemaScope extension?
Warner fanfarre composed by Max Steiner.
6:15 "Now, now.... Here's looking at you, kid."
Please please tour again soon , this Man and His Orchestra are sublime.This wonderful glorious film brought to life
Perfect intonation in those strings and for a live performance, that is a very big deal! JW is at the top of his game when it comes to these movie suites!
"As Time Goes By" was a popular song that predated the movie ... perfect for the flashback scenes to use a real song from the earlier era. Of course, the song would never have gained immortality without the picture.
Casablanca is a "return-to" film for me. Several times a year, I'm drawn to watch it. The musical show-down between French patriots and Nazi occupiers never fails to assure me that the Allies and the Resistance will win the war.
Tout est excellent: le chef, l'orchestre, le programme, la prise de son ainsi que les prises de vues. Que demander de mieux ?
Really beautiful ❤️! After so many years, (1942), it is still very powerful and romantic! The orchestra carried out a magnificent performance!
Me encantó la obertura de "Casablanca", resumiendo algunas de las escenas de la famosa película con Ingrid Bergman y Humphrey Bogart. Para mí el momento emotivo llega en el minuto 3:10 con el tema emblema de la película: "As Time Goes By", y no hay que olvidar "La Marsellesa" que fue magistralmente interpretada por esta orquesta. Felicidades a quien subió esta obertura. Saludos desde Perú...
Wonderful film! Wonderful music to make it even better. Thank you Max.
The piano just made me wish Dooley Wilson were still here to sing the song. Beautifully done!
I’ve always adored the music of Max Steiner! It’s so awesome to hear Steiner’s music played by the finest orchestra in the world (in my opinion). Thank you for sharing!
This s GLORIOUS, but dare I ask when we shall hear Mr. Wilson's transcription of Bernard Herrmann's exquisitely beautiful score for The Ghost and Mrs. Muir - one of the loveliest background scores ever written? It would make wonderful orchestral suite. Mr. Hermann's haunting, evocative music MAKES the movie the poignnt, memorably lovely thing it is.
8:15 "Louis? I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."
Never heard a rendition be so close to the original. This is truly special even if most don't know if.
Great performance! I will always love "Casablanca"-and the score is wonderful! I love how the Marseillaise comes in and out..tres magnifique!
The precision it takes to perform this. EXTRAORDINARY! Thank you John Wilson.
I had no idea a transcription of Max Steiner's score was available! This makes me so happy!
I expect John Wilson put the score together himself from audio recordings?
@@williamgardiner2010 I researched it and turns out, Steiner's original hollywood score can be found online completely preserved in his original handwriting. Such acts of preservation are rare!
The intro is so familiar-- siting in a darkened movie theater with a bag of popcorn waiting for the start of the double feature to begin.. That isn't now, when few remember double features allowing kids to spend an afternoon entranced by the films. Listening to these tracks, memories come flooding back of the films they were part of.
Fondest memory double feature 633 squadron & seventh voyage of Sinbad Cinderella theatre, Detroit. Me and my friends weren't allowed in balcony cause older brother and his buds were with girls...hahaha. I'll guess 1964. Maybe.
Mine is a bit earlier, but the "balcony" was where teen age girls met boys, and made out as we once called it.
John Clark Were they "watching" the movie?
:)
Funnily enough, Casablanca was just another run-of-the-mill movie designed to get bums on seats in local cinemas. It only became a cult hit much later. And iconic much later still. My favourites in the film are Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre. The world (of cinema) hasn't been the same without them. Anyway, they sure don't make 'em like they used to.
William MacKenzie , that’s true. It was just another movie made in the movie machine in Hollywood. A lot of movies were made that way and in time as you say, became classic. Key largo also, another simple movie with a good plot and now has a great following. Many ate like that now. Just simply were good written movies.
@@Michaelbos I asked my late mother about Casablanca some years ago about the film. She did not recall it being a big hit at the time. Not like Gone With The Wind in the 1930s; or Mrs Minniver let's say. It in fact did not run that long in the cinemas in Sydney; where she lived during the war. So she missed it. It was only years later and especially when screened on late night TV in the US that it became a cult hit.
It certainly couldn't have hurt it any as it won the 1942 Oscars® for Best Picture, Director and Screenplay.
Sidney's career was *way* too short.
Here's looking at you kid......so many great lines.......PEACE
I quote though not exactly: "I'm shocked, simply shocked that gambling is going on"..."Your winnings sir"..."Thank you very much." Rains has always been my favorite.
@@hudsony777 very good Claudio 👍
We'll always have paris
@@thetrickster4526 so 👍 true 👍
Great performance by the orchestra. This video is also a good way to introduce kids to how an orchestra functions, the various instruments etc.
Perfection
I first saw CASABLANCA (that i remember) after a long and exhausting battle over my draft status, at the darkest point in the Vietnam War. I'd been to Canada, and was encouraged by friends to 'go underground'. It was no answer and I knew it----besides, I was in love with a girl back here. I returned, to face whatever was to come----Max Steiner's superb score brings that all back.
I understand
Sounds like it's own movie.
My god whoever composed this is trying to kill us halfway through with the overload of strings piercing ur heart so heard that u want to die on the spot in a puddle of tears and dopamine. Harmonically brilliant.
This is brilliant. The score fot the flashback montage. Some of Steiner's finest composition, married with this more-than-ca[able orchestra. Sumptious beyond description.
Que linda musica, felicidades a John Wilson .
Oh my God. Before this is even 2/3 done I can clearly see that tear on Ingrid Bergman's cheek as she looks up at Bogart.
Steiner's score was orchestrated by the great Hugo Friedhofer, who in 1947 won an Oscar® for his magnificent music for "The Best Years of Our Lives".
and What a groundbreaking score it was!
One of my favorite film scores, as all great scores it can live its one live despite the years, decades...especially I like as The Marseillaise is incorporated into the score, it sounds so naturally here
It's still the same old story, a fight for love and glory....The world will always welcome lovers as time goes by.
A bit old fashioned but wonderfully sentimental to the music of the 1930 and 1940s, but I love it. The musicians play so well, and are very talented. I bet they enjoy playing this great music out of the past.
It’s old fashioned because it was written in 1943
As long as the music falls on new ears, it will never be regarded as old fashioned. It will actually sound novel because its different from what the average listener is exposed to.
So what if its old-fashioned? Why is that a negative? The orchestration and harmonies are incredibly well written, it makes your heart soar. No modern music that I have heard comes close to the feeling this gives you.
The best orchestra I have ever heard.
+joy reeve I must agree. I've been priveleged to hear many of the finest in the world, but this group of musicians rises far above the rest. John Wilson has selected a perfect blend pf tone and talent, and under his baton unheard of magic is brought forth.
There are 13 major Orchestra Leaders (Concertmasters) playing in the violins here, Many of the others are section Principals in their Orchestras. Plus at least a dozen Professors
Just great many thank's
I should note that the great Hugo Friedhofer, who received an Oscar® for his original score for "The Best Years of Our Lives", orchestrated Max Steiner's score for "Casablanca."
Sorry it was Bernard Herman that scored TBYOL.
No,"Johnb," it wasn't. As much as my favorite Hollywood composer IS Bernard Herrmann, he did not score The Best Years of Our Lives. It was, indeed, Hugo Friedhofer.
Yes, it was Friedhofer.
Yes I forgot that! Incredible composer himself!!!
@@MrDanamp You're absolutely correct on Friedhofer. As the story goes the way I read it, Sam Goldwyn wanted Alfred Newman to score "The Best Years of Our Lives," but Newman was too busy not only scoring at Fox, but runnning Fox's musical department. However, Friedhofer had joined Fox after "Casablanca," because Newman was giving him chances to write scores ("Lifeboat," for instances). So, Newman begged off scoring TBYOOL, but he suggested Friedhofer. If you listen to that score, listen for the homage to Aaron Copland in some of the music. Friedhofer said it was intentional.
Casablanca was cinematic perfection. One of John F.Kennedy's favorite films.
Muito emocionante! Eu sou nostálgico de natureza acho. Nunca vivi aquele tempo, mas sinto uma saudade!
Casablanca is a blossom of beauty from the soils of war.
I just listened to this suite and I just love it! It reunites all that is best in classical music: piano (romance), flute (mystery/ calm), harp (calm, delicacy, ) , violin (hope), percussion (order, reverence, victory), and many others instruments whose names I don't know... That suite is marvelous. :)
Great concert 👌. The orchestra plays beautifully ❤️🎶🎻🎹🎵❤️ under the baton of a professional conductor ❤️
Thirty of Major Strasser's relatives dislike this because his "phone call" was interrupted.
:)
Love hearing this 'live' and I like Wilson especially his Tallis Fantasia with the Phil players and other 'live' stuff, but since the 70s the RCA series with Gerhardt is my gold standard, no disrespect intended. Keep up the inspiring work, like Beecham and his orchestra.
ESTA E UMA MUJSICA QUE TEM QUE FAZER PARTE DE TODA DISCOTECA QUE SE PRESA. TRATA-SE DA SUITE,; AQUI INBERPRETADA PELA ORQUESTRA DE JOHN WILSOM DE AUTORIA DE MAX STEINER COMPOSTA EM 1942 E USADA NO NAO MENOS FAMOSO FILME " CASABLANCA " ESTRELADO POR HUNFREY BOGART. OUÇA CURTA E GUARDE-A COM TODO CARINHO. E MARAVILHOZA. QUEM NAO ASISTIU A ESTE FILME
Concordo plenamente!
This film was one of the routine Warner productions designed to keep bums on seats during the war years. The film marked Bogart's transition from bad guy to hero -- and he pulls it off very well. In addition there are those wonderful "bad guys" Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre. Not to mention the luminous Ingrid Bergman. It only became "iconic" long after the war. It must rank as one of the most most romantic films of all time. Although I'm still mystified about what Ilsa (Ingrid) saw in Rick (Bogart). Vive l'amour!
It won an Oscar
It could have been routine but it didn't turn out that way. SWEETHEART.
¡Hermoso!
Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon ....😢
Very good!
Weltklasse !!!
"Kiss me. Kiss me as if it were the last time."
Max Steiner wasn't particularly fond of "As Time Goes By" but you would never know it from the brilliant way he adapted it.
Actually you can. It doesn't let it settle throughout the score
BEST ORCHESTRA IN THE WORLD !
Steiner was the John Williams of the golden age of Hollywood. He was nominated for an Oscar for this music but lost out, mainly because he did not write As Time Goes By, nor, of course the Marsellies. He won the Academy Award for Gone With the Wind, and Now Voyager, two other iconic classical films from the said golden age, maybe never to be equalled.
Actually, Steiner did not win the Oscar for "Gone With the Wind." The Oscar was won by Richard Hageman and two or three other composers for "Stagecoach." Steiner certainly was the godfather of Hollywood music, but Alfred Newman won more Oscars and had more Oscar nominaions. He also get the career of John Williams started by giving him a job as a pianist in the 20th Century-Fox orchestra. Later, Williams set a new record for Oscar wins.
Thank goodness that the music dept's @ certain film organizations, as well as through the wise and courteous decisions of the corporate heads thereof (e.g. Warner Bros Pictures and 20th Century Studios), had the shred of common decency to maintain their original orchestration scores and kept safe in those respective libraries as opposed to consigning the collection to the city dump as several other conglomerates have already done or destroyed through flames.
At 7:00 Or so Major Strasser is shot.
"Round up the usual suspects"
:)
And featuring As Time Goes By Theme, by Herman Hupfeld.
ESTA SUITE, PODE-SE DIZER AQUE FOI A TRILHA SONORA DO FAMOSO FILME ESTRELADO POR BOGART 'CASABLANCA',. MUSICA QUE ATE OS DIAS DE HOJE E MUITO INTERPRETADA POR DIVERSAS ORQUESTRAS DE RENOME MUNDIAL. O FILME E DE 1942 E A TRILHA SONORA DO MESMO SE DEVE AO FAMOSO COMPOSITOR MAX STEINER
Bellissimo! (so to speak)
Very appropriately "Hollywood"-style expression from the strings. I'm not sure what subtelties go into it, but is a different feel to pure classical/romantic playing.
Lots of vibrato, downbowing, and jazz harmonies to go with the phrasing definately make it sound different from romantic/classical string playing
Yes. I absolutely adore hollywood golden age music. I think the composers of that era were absolute master of orchestration. Such richness of sound. It is indeeed different from the standard repertoire.
Touche! Darling
Fantastic thank you .Howabout the Big sleep.
Beautifully done. My only complaint is that for whatever reason, the song "Perfidia" that played during the classic dance sequence with Bogie and Ingrid is missing. DAMN! That's one of the most beloved moments in the film. I thought maybe it was because the song was not one of Max Steiner's own compositions, but neither was "As Time Goes By," which definitely was included. Go figure.
DivineSimplyexcellent. Superb pianist.
Not included because of copyright restrictions.
Come on...nothing a little money could not have solved!!
@@justinodiaz6501 Actually John Wilson does include a segment from Perfida when playing the Now Voyager score where it also appears.
Also , Parlez moi d' amour ?
Being tinkled by Sam as Rick & Ilsa first enter R ick's Cafe.?
💕
1:06 mins the best dramatic part in this suite.!! So beautyfull dramatic strings. Remember me on the indiana jones and the temple of doom theme
The future for classical music seems to be in good hands still in Europe mostly - think John Wilson is British, playing a lot of favourite American repertoire.
Fan inconditionnel du film, le titre « Casablanca » contient presque à lui seul toute l’essence de Bergman et de Bogart : intelligence de l’époque, exotisme, recherche de l’héroïsme et….de propagande romantique et romancée. C’est sans compter sur ces « quelques » notes, brillamment interprétées, chantre du charisme et de l’élégance, qui mystifient l’atmosphère inégalable de la toile de fond que constitue l’aventure d’un des plus grand duo cinématographique. En musique comme à la guerre, c’est toujours la même histoire, « a fight for love and glory »
obrigado HANS VAN DEN BERG,pelo presente, recordo grandes musicais da MGM- desculpe, ainda mais ao receber uma mensagem de um NOME ALEMÃO, adora europeu, tenho sangue de italiano com japonez.- obrigado HANS- RECORDAR É VIVER.- abraço
W o o o o OO O O O O W! Top!
I love the Merv Hughes mustache on one of the harpists.
Great on Chromecast !
The top studios, especially MGM, hired first rate composers. MGM spent the money and the results were onscreen.
And in the late 60s they then basically threw all the orchestrations away. Shame.
At 1:05 ".......in Casablanca they wait....and wait and wait..."
Now I can see it with the Kitchener Waterloo Symphony.
PLAY IT AGAIN SAM !
Bogart never said "Play it again Sam" although the line has become synonymous with the movie. Bogart said to Sam the pianist "if you can play it for her you can play it for me" having banned Sam from ever playing that song again
Ingrid Bergman (Ilsa Lund) said it to Sam. "Play it Sam. Play it for old times sake. Play As Time goes by"
*spoiler alert: she gets on the plane with Victor Laszlo*
Marcel Audubon laughing hilariously
Oh blast, now I don't even want to see the movie now (even though I've already viewed it numerous times).
I love that pretty flaxen hair violinist who always seems to be smiling when she plays.
C R E E P Y
Her name is Ruth Rogers
@@quackin9 Thanks!!
Das ist Musik!!!!!! Und nicht dieser Pop Scheiss LatinoMist der jedentag in jedem bescheuerten Laden, in jedem bescheuerten Restaurant läuft!!!!! Diese Musik sollte heute wieder alles moderne Verdrängen
Obra maestra. Con poco dinero y mucho talento.
La película!
What classical piece is the part 3:48 from
La marseillaise :)
Suddenly I want letters of transit.
IT SEEMS LIKE THE STANLEY BLACK VERSION , SUPERB INDEED¡¡¡
You are wrong. This suite was compiled by the late Christopher Palmer for the Charles Gerhardt recording 'The Classic Film Scores of Max Steiner'. As it is published any orchestra, including Mr Black's, may hire the parts for performance.
+J S R Lasher Just in case you didn't know who Stanley Black was - "Stanley Black OBE (14 June 1913 - 27 November 2002) was an English bandleader, composer, conductor, arranger and pianist. He wrote and arranged many film scores and recorded prolifically for the Decca label (including London and Phase 4). Beginning with jazz collaborations with American musicians such as Coleman Hawkins and Benny Carter during the 1930s, he moved into arranging and recording in the Latin American music style and also won awards for his classical conducting."
+J S R Lasher
Thank you. This is a beautiful performance but the Gerhardt recording is more powerful. Wilson doesn't get the opening "Moroccan" rhythms to sound as exotic as the Gerhardt recording. Max Steiner. Marvelous composer. Charles Gerhardt. Marvelous musician/conductor.
EXCELLENT--YOU MUST BE A BIG FAN--LIKE ME.
It sounds very much like the Stanley Black's arrangement, who opened the suite with the Warner Bros signature theme. It would not surprise me that Mr. Wilson used Black's arrangement, since he admired Stanley's works very much.
4:43 omg, so beautiful :o sounds like john williams's composition
I don't think anyone knows who played the piano in the original soundtrack, but I I've never heard it equalled.
Most likely the studio pianist, Jean Vincent Plummer.
I m almost sure that this arrangement was written by Stanley Black. Anybody knows better?