Georges Bizet - Symphony in C (1855) [Haitink Concertgebouw]
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- Georges Bizet (25 October 1838 - 3 June 1875), registered at birth as Alexandre César Léopold Bizet, was a French composer of the romantic era. Best known for his operas in a career cut short by his early death, Bizet achieved few successes before his final work, Carmen, which has become one of the most popular and frequently performed works in the entire opera repertoire.
Symphony in C Major (1855)
1. Allegro vivo
2. Andante. Adagio (10:52)
3. Allegro vivace (20:26)
4. Finale. Allegro vivace (25:55)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra conducted by Bernhard Haitink
The Symphony in C is an early work by the French composer Georges Bizet. According to Grove's Dictionary, the symphony "reveals an extraordinarily accomplished talent for a 17-year-old student, in melodic invention, thematic handling and orchestration." Bizet started work on the symphony on 29 October 1855, four days after turning 17, and finished it roughly a month later. It was written while he was studying at the Paris Conservatoire under the composer Charles Gounod, and was evidently a student assignment. Bizet showed no apparent interest in having it performed or published, and the piece was never played in his lifetime. He used certain material from the symphony in later works, however. There is no mention of the work in Bizet's letters, and it was unknown to his earlier biographers. His widow, Geneviève Halévy (1849-1926), gave the manuscript to Reynaldo Hahn, who left it along with other papers to the archives of the conservatory library, where it was found in 1933 by Jean Chantavoine. Soon thereafter, Bizet's first British biographer Douglas Charles Parker (1885-1970) showed the manuscript to the conductor Felix Weingartner, who led the first performance in Basel, Switzerland, on 26 February 1935.
The symphony was immediately hailed as a youthful masterpiece on a par with Felix Mendelssohn's overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream, written at about the same age, and quickly became part of the standard Romantic repertoire. It received its first recording on 26 November 1937, by the London Philharmonic Orchestra under Walter Goehr. - เพลง
A 30 minute eargasm.
32*
This is an underplayed piece. Beautifully balanced French perfection.
Certainly it. It has lots of vitality!
The slow movement has to be one of the most beautiful moments in all classical music...
@buddy smith It's delightful...as is so much of Mozart. But just love this Bizet movement, reminds me of a nineteenth century Mozart...
@buddy smith amazing. As is the final movements of symphony 25, 27, 29, 34, 35, 36, 38, 39, 40 & 41. Glad you enjoy quality music bro..
And in ballet (George Balanchine) as well!!!
The entire symphony is one of the most beautiful in all classical music. George Balanchine's choreography setting of this music makes Symphony in C one of the most beautiful in all ballet.
th-cam.com/video/iN12Gj9Ac0s/w-d-xo.html as well the first
This is a very enjoyable and beautifully composed symphony. It is a shame that Bizet hid it away. I guess that he was anxious because the symphony was not sufficiently innovative for the times in which he lived. The influences of Beethoven, Mozart and Haydn are quite obvious, but yet, there is much in the way of originality and beauty in this symphony. So, it's not a ground-breaking moment in the history of music, but all the same, it is worthy to be described as a "masterpiece".
The oboe figures just melt you.
Absolutely fantastic. He also had a way of making the oboe just shine. Great orchestration!
as a classical oboe player I 100% agree. and the fingerings fit perfectly with modern instruments.
Sinfonia dall'indubbio sapore neoclassico, di scuola.
Anche se Bizet,come Gounod, non si cimentò nella produzione di musica strettamente strumentale,questa composizione è piacevole e ottimamente orchestrata.
Ottima la direzione di Haitink e la prestazione dei Concertgebouw.
Un encomio a Bartje per lo splendido post.
Não seria por conta de um foco maior em compositores alemães/austríacos e franceses, enquanto que aqueles de outras nacionalidades tendem a ser ignoradas. Ópera é outra história, mas em se tratando de música instrumental, vejo um foco enorme nos dois aqui no Brasil
I was 15 years old when I first played this symphony. I was still in high school, but invited to play with the local university orchestra. I played 4th horn. To this day, I vividly recall playing the brief 4th horn solo in the Andante-Adagio movement (at 12:44).
I don't know if it's just because I was so young when I learned this piece (and keenly aware of that fact, being surrounded by people who were years older than me). But what stands out to me about this symphony is how perfectly it captures the innocent and youthfully exuberant outlook on life we all have at that age. I'm a bit older now. But whenever I want to recapture that feeling, I turn to this piece (especially the slow movement).
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Its interesting that it appears to be written for valveless horn in 1855
I was also 15. I was so excited about this piece.
How beautiful. Thank you for sharing your experience.
And Bizet was only 17 when he wrote it.
Had the pleasure of playing this on trumpet in concert with the Riverside Orchestra in NYC. My favorite part is the second movement Adaggio particularly the oboe solo and listening to the strings at 13:48 forward. I love the sound of a full symphony orchestra. What's remarkable is that Bizet wrote this as an assignment as a 17-year old student. Amazing!
Awwww, that second movement... melts my heart.
Owes a lot to Schubert. I think Schubert would have loved this. A prodigy’s work!
Amazing that he just wrote it for the heck of it as a compositional student exercise - and it only took a month...
Just one word: genius.
Wow, this work is unbelievable! Bizet was just oozing with talent. The trio at 23:14 reminds me so much of something "Scottish" that Mendelssohn could have written, only it is not Mendelssohn but clearly Bizet. Both composers were genius tunesmiths and wrote such wonderful uplifting music. And unfortunately died very young...
Georges Bizet:1.C-dúr Szimfónia
1.Allegro vivo 00:00
2.Andante - Adagio 10:52
3.Allegro vivace 20:26
4.Finálé:Allegro vivace 25:55
Amszterdami Királyi Concertgebouw Zenekar
Vezényel:Bernard Haitink
why i love bizet: he gives the oboe the role to deliver the vibes
I just heard this on the classical radio station for the first time today, and the host said that this was never played publicly during his lifetime..... That is sad, considering this is an underrated masterpiece such incredible music!
Thank goodness it was discovered when it was.
Tragic he didn't live to gain recognition.
Found in a dresser Drawer
1920s?
Many people believe the 3d movement is better than Mozart and than Beethoven symphonys
It's only an opinion.
Ballerina use this for exercises.
I wrote it.
John 3 Bible is textbook Reincarnation.
Jesus Christ
My Second Coming
Happy Easter Sunday. 🎉🎉🎉
thank you for going through the trouble of writing a summary of the composer and the symphony
Beautiful....and with luscious notes of Schubert & Mendelssohn !
Fantastic piece of Romantic repertory. I'm amazed anew every time I hear this young boy's phenomenal richesse of melody and orchestration.
The lightest,. most delicate performance I have heard of this amazingly precocious symphony.
"music to relieve depression, fear and grief" 💙❤️💗 yes it does! Thank you-
Fenomenalne wykonanie , tej pięknej symfonii, słucham nawet 2 krotnie w ciągu dnia!!!!
A perfect gem. Wish he had written more instrumental music, but having only lived 37 years will curtail one's output.
ho vissuto 47 anni senza aver potuto godere di questo spettacolo supremo solo per colpa della mia ignoranza e del mondo moderno che dimentica i grandi compositori. Grazie Georges!
Bartje, you are providing a great service to the world.
11:40 oboe solo Is beautiful
Very probably Werner Herbers.
Flutes aren't too bad either!
Wonderful!
The final movement is very busy and bustling. But it is a fine symphony, and it deserves more performances than it often gets.....
Omg I love the Trio section of the 3rd movement
Incredible for a seventeen years old boy. Imagine.
Isn't it, just. I seem to remember when I played it with the ABS Sinfonia in the 1980s, our conductor said Bizet nearly relegated it to the fire. It was saved and rediscovered well after his death. I've not had the real inclination to research this, though I'm happy to be proven wrong.
Yes ! Try the Mendelssohn 1st, 17 yo and it's really a clever piece
@@rossini9mozart10 If you're going to talk about Mendelssohn, arguably the greatest musical prodigy to ever live(considering how his early music is still widely played and known today, unlike Mozart's early works), you should mention his String Symphonies, he wrote his first in C major when he was only 12. And his last string symphony, number twelve, was completed when he was just 14.
And his Rondo Capriccioso for piano, Opus 14, still a very popular piece, was written when he was just 15. Shortly after that he composed the Octet in Eb major when he was only sixteen years old, then the Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream when he was just 17, all of which were very novel works. Finally, his Hebrides Overture, a piece which even Wagner praised, was written when he was the ripe old age of 22.
mydogskips2 shocking that Wagner would praise any music of Mendelssohn, considering the former's antisemitism
Ab Broer it is a sign of the times. Bizet had no smartphones, tablets, iPods or social media. Or the other distractions of today. Disclaimer: the opinions voiced here are mine and mine alone, they do not represent any of my colleagues. Boom shakkalaka done. So, It is my personal belief that smartphones are a killer of imagination. But that is only my personal idea. Other people will disagree with me. I make a point daily of spending some time morning and night without my phone. Every night before I eat and I'm at home, I look at my phone one last time and then I do the unthinkable: I turn my phone off and spend the whole of the rest of the evening without my phone and all of its dings, pings and things. Then, the morning after, I wait one hour before turning it back on the following morning unless having reason to be out of the house in that time. What does this have to do with the subject at hand? Well, I see a link in that it gives me time for my brain for it to breath and get some air out of the blockade of phones and social media that we seem to live in in these days. The link that I think that that has to music making and my own music making (I am a baroque violinist btw) is that it gives my brain room too breath and therefore be used for its greatest purpose: imagination, which helps my music making. And I have found that my routine with my phone does directly help that. Being a musician does not just depend on how or how much you study or practice, while those two are undoubtedly crucial, but also the environment to which you subject yourself to and what you fill your head with. That is why I believe Bizet was able to write this creation of genius when he was 17. Again, the opinions voiced here are mine and mine alone. They do not represent any of my colleagues.
Fantastica sinfonia ! Grazie Bizet e grazie Haitink e orchestra. grazie anche della pubblicazione. ❤
Punaise l’adagio est d’une finesse ! C’est très agréable à l’écoute :)
Haitink conducting marvellously this fabulous score!!!
Love That Piece!!!!!!
Great little symphony and you can tell it’s by an opera composer..
And how is that?
@Odin Watts Still waiting for an answer from Mrs Neaky.
I adore the descending notes towards the end of the 2nd movement, before the allegro : at about 20 minutes 'in'.
Perfect !
Sounds like an early Beethoven symphony, I've always liked this piece
It's too light and--well--French for Beethoven
ps will I'll give you too french.. .but not too light
There is also a great influence of Haydn, but the influence of Beethoven is obvious.
Cough. Bizet literally said that Mozart and Beethoven made him feel to deeply so I wouldnt be surprised if ps was right
It's really delightful, but very Classical and Haydnesque in style. It's as if Beethoven never even existed.
Nevertheless it's full of engaging melodies and joie de vivre. It's Gallic Classicism in full form, and I love it!
einfach genial, Dank für die Noten!!!
I just noticed you were exceedingly clever in editing back in the repeat, which the original recording seems to have omitted...
C'est la musique d'un tempérament et d'une belle âme
To me, if Saint-Seans was the French Beethoven(as was once said by Charles Gounod I believe), then Bizet was surely the French Mozart. It's too bad he died at such a young age, I enjoy most of his music.
Gounod didn't live long enough to witness the emergence of Debussy and Ravel, so we can forgive him for trying to find France's 'Beethoven' among his contemporaries.
@@craigresnianky6909 Someone asked Berlioz why Saint-Saens always sounded like someone else. Berlioz replied: "Because he lacks inexperience." But besides this early work, Carmen, the Arlesienne Suite and The Pearl Fishers, I can't think of anything else of Bizet's that has stuck.
@@gspaulsson Jeux d'enfants (piano duet); Petite Suite (orchestrated movements from Jeux d'enfants)
@@gspaulsson no way!! Saint Saens has a very unique voice.
The business end killed him. "A terrible way to make a living," he said.
Watching Aristocats. On the piano has a sheet of music. On the cover it has this gentleman’s last name. So here I am enjoying his music😀 I love classical music.
15:50 Spectacular fugue!
Beautiful performance ! Thanks for posting :)
Thank you for sharing. Great notes, too.
I read somewhere that this was a music school assignment and he really wasn't interested in doing it. Supposedly, he took one of his instructors symphonies, thought up a new theme and followed the variations that his instructor had used to complete his "homework". He got a passing grade and discarded the work because he thought it was uninteresting and uninspired.
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It kinda is... first movement is pretty boring so far.
@@karlpoppins I never saw it that way. It always lifts my mood. It just seems so positive start to finish.
I agree with Bizet on this one
@@tannhauser7584 It's very derivative, is all. It's like one of myriads of passable symphonies that Mozart wrote. It is a somewhat enjoyable listen for me, just not memorable. I guess I shouldn't have said "pretty boring"; Bizet said it best himself: "unintresting and uninspired".
I don't know why but at 4:46, this reminds some Dragon Quest music.
I find this moment so pure and so magic, Bizet has done a wonderful job with this piece!
11:45 Sublime
Absolutely amazing!👏👏💖✨
This is a VERY fine performance, panache, finesse and a ton of Dutch good taste.
Listen to Beecham's performance with the French National Radio Symphony Orchestra (go for the later one in stereo - it has never been surpassed).
I have both the last Beecham/ORTF and this recording on LP (French HMV and Philips respectively), both very good performances, but between 1959 and 1979 analog tape and record cutting really improved.
I'm thinking of Mozart Mannheimer Rakete … so mozartian, it reminds me of Ouverture Magic Flute and Symphony no. 41 mov. 1
Was considering doing it with my amateur orchestra until I remembered how exceptionally tricky the string parts are in the last movement...oh well!
Always loved this quaint little Symphony. A student's exercise no less! Just wonderful!
And, from the perspective of a professional orchestral musician (violin/viola) the last movement for the first violins is FIENDISHLY difficult.
Yes, like that other little ditty Beethoven’s 5th….
I saw the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra perform this at a Promenade Concert under Louis Fremaux. Undoubtedly one of the most enjoyable concerts that I have attended, as it also included some Ravel and Saint-Saens 3rd Symphony.
Geoffrey Thorne Ravel, Saint-Saens, and Bizet all on one stage...that must have been SOME concert!
the intro of the 4th movement made me smile out of nowhere lol
I love this young and beautiful symphony. I love this performance by Philips stars. One thing! I have both an LP record and a CD of this and know that they don't repeat the theme exposition part of the 1st movement. But this one does.
Bello ed energico
I had no idea he made symphonies! Very good
Awesome 🎼 ❤
Very beautiful...
This sounds surprisingly like Italian opera from the same time period.
David Galvin it really does. If Mozart had lived into the 19th century this is likely what his music would have sounded like. Clear and classical style, but with more of a sensuous, exotic style like Bizet.
Romantic Period. Similarities
Bizet was only just gone seventeen when he wrote this masterpiece
あらゆる作曲家が作った交響曲の中で１番好き
バランシンが生涯の最高傑作の振付をした
Too bad that this symphony has recently started to be neglected again. I never see it on programs these days. That was certainly different in the 80's.
in NY still alive and healthy
Depending on where you live I'm performing this with Surrey Hills Orchestra this Saturday, 5th of May
20:23-25:52
Sailing.
This is a youth symphony of Bizet, who saved it without great illusion, but he was wrong: we like his symphony, influenced fo course by haydn, Mozart (not so much), and the Beethoven of the first manner. The art of orchestration of Bizet begins to be sensitive here.
J'pense que Richard Wagner a également écrit une symphonie assez charmante et négligée dans la même tonalité, possible en même temps que Bizet (probablement plus tôt), de toute façon, avant qu'il ne soit pris dans toutes ces affectation merdique-nordique!. (pardon my school boy French).
J'en ai entendu parler en effet mais je ne l'ai jamais entendue.
Cela vaut la peine d'être entendu.
Je veux bien le croire !!!!
d'accord!
Yet another amazing talent tragically cut far too short...
My god, having never heard this before, and I've been involved in music all my life, 😕 this is a Beetzart composition.
Musica che penetra nell'anima
Mozart is present everywhere 🎼🎻🤩
Just wondering if Bizet took a theme from the first movement of Saint-Saens' symphony in A major or if the similarities are incidental?
考えすぎずに、17才の作曲家らしく、思い付くままに展開させた
見事な展開
really one of my favorite symphonies ! pretty underrated
Je m'attendais pas à ce que Bizet sonne autant allemand.
16:53 was an earworm that was bugging me for the better part of an hour before I remembered it was this.
Uno dei massimi capolavori della Musica francese... Bizet in stato di grazia, non da meno di Carmen... ❤
Шикарный отзыв,симфония действительно хороша...
Отличная симфония,завораживающая,одна из немногих,не утомляющая слух,хороша во всех частях
And in 1947, George Balanchine choreographed a ballet to this score for the Paris Opera Ballet titled "Le Palais de Cristal." Subsequently taken into the repertoire of the New York City Ballet and renamed "Symphony in C," it is one of Balanchine's masterpieces: th-cam.com/video/Fn1ZVGp0plc/w-d-xo.html
Volevo sapere il nome della casa editrice che ha pubblicato la partitura...grazie :-))))
ロイヤルコンセルトヘボーが1番よかった時期の演奏でハコの極上の響きに支えられた格調高い名演。
0:00 is a good place to start. ^
Another piece of neglected music
This is a wonderful performance with a great conductor and one of the world’s best orchestras
13:43 excerpts
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Love the energy. Bizet said something like music is a noble pursuit but a terrible way to make a living. Alas! He was subject to pitfalls making a living at it. But persisted. I think it killed him.
27:09 compare with Bernstein's Candide Overture. No coincidence I suspect.
von Reznick's Donna Diana Overture and Prokoviev's Classical Symphony also come to mind at times when hearing Bizet's symphony.
for sure, in overall flavour I agree.
I think the case of the Bernstein (who made a splendid recording of the Bizet) is a little more deliberate, which in no way diminishes how charismatic the 2nd subject of the Overture is!
Solo at 11:40
A mi-chemin entre Beethoven et Schubert !
Je n'y entends pas tellement de sonorités schubertiennes. Il y a une influence de Haydn qui est sensible.
Cette symphonie composée à 17 ans à peine est un chef d'oeuvre..., même s'il l'avait composée 30 ans plus tard. Ah quand les étudiants font des exercices de cours dont le résultat dépasse de loin le niveau de leur maître.
MozartのJupiterと同じくらいに、私が愛する交響曲
Carlos Kleiberに指揮して欲しかった
The third movement sounds like a Beethoven Scherzo
What instrument is the movement adagio ...a violin?
Wdym? It’s an orchestra.
@@Dylonely42 the very distinct slow part. Isolate it and there's not as many instruments
@@lindaclark9925 Oboe ?
The first movement makes
me want to be a ballerina 🎉
Au çharme mozartien qui demande beaucoup de légèreté, peut-être un orchestre français?
13:45
交響曲の最上の手本
ビゼーは偉大だ
10:52
So french ! ;-).
24:40
Fantastico. Questa Sinfonia mi è servita di ispirazione per il mio primo concerto di Haydn dove il tema del primo tempo...
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cool piece but the balance feels very heavy on the right ear...