I cannot imagine music more appropriate than this for 'leave all hope behind all who enter here'. Liszt is genius combining story-telling, mood setting in a work symphonic in scale and structure and yet at times operatic and at times like any of his poems. It is one of the most impressionable works in the romantic repertoire
This is the first time I am hearing Liszt’s Dante symphony, and can I just say… from the opening measures I am enthralled. It is his grandiose orchestration and his clever modulations that bring my mind to Tchaikovsky; although Tchaikovsky didn’t like Liszt very much, especially this specific work, I can hear very much of this in, say, his Hamlet overture, whether he was influenced by him directly or not. This is a beautiful work… so chilling and powerful!!!
I've always smirked reading about the disliking from Tchaikovsky onto Liszt, i don't take it seriously lol because there is much of the Lisztian style in his oeuvre, the chromatism, thematic management and even some of the atmosphere just speaks for itself. There is a anecdote that says that Tchaikovsky sung a theme of Liszt 1st concerto while walking with a friend, i just don't remember who it was (also Tchaikovsky didn't liked that Liszt "forced himself" to like any kind of music lol; i imagine a young Tchaikovsky looking at Liszt while trying to understand him, and getting internally frustrated because he just couldn't.)
In this regard, Tchaikovsky was either baffled by Liszt or was disingenuous about his remarks, because not only is the majority of his music influenced by Liszt, but his Hamlet tone poem directly quotes Liszt's Hamlet, and he treated Francesca da Remini as did Liszt, and his piano concerto is blatantly Lisztianesque in Romantic bravura, among many of his other works, regardless of his saying that he loved Mozart above all others. Liszt's influence was paramount to Tchaikovsky's very soul & voice.
This was Tchaikovsky's review: "Liszt's symphonic fantasy to Dante's Inferno, which was the most interesting work on the programme in terms of novelty and its subject [9], turned out not to belong to the renowned pianist and composer's finest works. In the first movement, which illustrates all the horrors of hell, there is a lot of imagination, a lot of sombre colouring in accordance with the subject, and it is also abundant in loud and powerful external effects, but it all betrays a lack of inventiveness, of novelty in the principal motifs and organic cohesion in the way these are combined together. The central episode of this movement, which depicts the tormented love of Francesca and Paolo, is not devoid of warmth and passion, but it is far too much like the many other similar episodes in Liszt's works, especially the middle section of his Waltz to Lenau's Faust [10]. As for the second movement, which presents listeners with a tone-painting of the Catholic purgatory, it must be said that, in spite of the felicitously devised effect of a female chorus suddenly resounding in the middle of a symphonic work, it is poor in content, long-winded, and terribly boring." (T 305, 1875) Here's the link: en.tchaikovsky-research.net/pages/The_Third_Week_of_the_Concert_Season
I didn't know this symphony. I used to think of Liszt as a minor composer, way below his friends Chopin and Wagner. This symphony has changed completely my mind. It's certainly a peak in the history of music.
@larbaud Without doubt, Liszt was monumental in his era and as an influence upon future composers. Check out the TH-cam video -- FRANZ LISZT: Enigmatic Genius
Well, Chopin is definitely more popular and accessible to the general public. Liszt, in my opinion, is far superior than Chopin. Everything Chopin did for piano, Liszt did. Now when it came to orchestral music, Liszt blows Chopin out the water it's not even close. Not saying Chopin is a bad composer. Listen to the second movement "Gretchen" from Liszt's Faust Symphony. Just the first 3 minutes is enough.
Well Liszt was also the father in law of Wagner, and also exchanged music together at some time. Wagner was definitely inspired by Liszt and also implemented some of Liszt's genius ideas into his orchestral works..
Encore un chef qui dirige sans baguette une oeuvre de Liszt assez méconnue car très rarement jouée, mais avec une formation orchestrale déjà futuriste, anticipant les orchestres mahlériens...
I'm after hearing this piece in an other world, Fabulous performed, conducted and registrated! The final sequence strated from 46:15 till the end is pure bliss!
@@SexuallyRepressedMegalodon Sorry; I was talking about the painter Francis Bacon; not the philosopher. I must say, I like your user name very much.....
@@SexuallyRepressedMegalodon Thank you for your response. It is at the closing of the first movement of the Liszt Dante Symphony at 22.30 to 22.40 - which is similar o the sound in Francis Bacon's dark-ovid-disk paint punctuations found in his early the 1960s paintings; Bacon is an aural painter rather than a visual painter; just like Martin Heidegger is a composer of visual sounds and not a thinker or a writer of words at all; they all totally misunderstand Heidegger who was an orchestral compose of sound-scape sensations and not a thinker at all; for Heidegger was not a 'thinker' but a poet of sounds in images like Bacon. Bacon and Heidegger were steadfastly against 'meaning' and 'story-telling' and 'representation' and 'interpretation' and so were only concerned with speechless voiceless (silent) primordial being and absolutely alien to the myth of 'the human condition' of nebulous opaque The They that have no Dasein. Bacon and Heidegger were necessarily anti-intellectual and non-intellectual which academics simply cannot cope with. For us today, Dasein is something past. Only art and music can save us now.
This isn't one of my favorite Liszt works, but I'm somehow drawn to return to it once in a while, and this performance is quite enjoyable. The greatness of the music I believe lies mainly in the 'Purgatorio', which can be quite moving, as it is here. The 'Inferno' is effective also, but I can lose some patience with it; it does have the ability to inspire lack of concentration.
Y bueno... el solsticio de verano y la luna llena han sido propicios: logré terminar de leer la Divina Comedia. Como premio ya me merezco escuchar esta obra. #Dante700 #DanteAlighieri
"Magnificat anima mea Dominum": Meine Seele preist den Herrn... A minh'alma proclama a grandeza do Senhor... My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord... Proclama mi alma la grandeza del Señor... Mon âme exalte le Seigneur... L'anima mia magnifica il Signore... Uwielbiaj, duszo moja, sławę Pana mego... . SHEMÁ, ISRAEL: ADONAI ELOHENU, ADONAI EHAD.
In Mexico there is a proverb that says "The meat to the devil and the skin to God" and Liszt is a clear example of this transition that only maturity gives you.
Endlich kommt das richtige Programm. Aber es ist sehr schwierig, diese großartige Sinfonie ohne Langweile zu spielen. Diese Aufführung ist leider nicht eine Ausnahme davon.
Concordo. Música sublime. Mas exige uma dedicação desde seu princípio, o que torna cansativo e às vezes enfadonho ouvir a totalidade da execução. Mas tentei... .
It needs more thunder, more INFERNO.. Too tame. It should really blaze and take off. Extremely hard to do. All the musicians have to be in their toes. It needs a Toscanini or a Stokowski to pull it off.
Eötvös does a 'fairly good' job, but many moments are way too slow, which kills the momentum and hellfire in the Inferno and the beauty of the sonic line in the tender moments.
Kedves @ ro❤gernortman aki írtad a bejegyzést!te tudod hogy miről szól Faust története? Melyik zenei téma nem tetszett Liszt szimfóniájában?Margit témája?Mefisto tánca?ha a művelt nyugat vagy állítólag akkor mondjuk nézd és hallgasd Bernsteintől és megtapasztalod hogy milyen érzés amikor egy pillanatra megnyitja Liszt mester a lábad alatt a pokol bejáratát ha gyenge idegzetű vagy vegyél fel pelust !üdv😂
sometimes the nerves that control blinking and jaw movement are tangled, in which case blinking can cause your jaw to jump, so i'm guessing he has that and his eyes are irritated for some reason
It is at the closing of the first movement of the Liszt Dante Symphony at 22.30 to 22.40 - which is similar to the sound in Francis Bacon's dark-ovid-disk paint punctuations found in his early the 1960s paintings; Bacon is an aural painter rather than a visual painter; just like Martin Heidegger is a composer of visual sounds and not a thinker or a writer of words at all; they all totally misunderstand Heidegger who was an orchestral compose of sound-scape sensations and not a thinker at all; for Heidegger was not a 'thinker' but a poet of sounds in images like Bacon. Bacon and Heidegger were steadfastly against 'meaning' and 'story-telling' and 'representation' and 'interpretation' and so were only concerned with speechless voiceless (silent) primordial being and absolutely alien to the myth of 'the human condition' of nebulous opaque The They that have no Dasein. Bacon and Heidegger were necessarily anti-intellectual and non-intellectual which academics simply cannot cope with. For us today, Dasein is something past. Only art and music can save us now.
Rest in peace Maestro Eotvos... A great modern composer and conductor!
I cannot imagine music more appropriate than this for 'leave all hope behind all who enter here'. Liszt is genius combining story-telling, mood setting in a work symphonic in scale and structure and yet at times operatic and at times like any of his poems. It is one of the most impressionable works in the romantic repertoire
Its “Abandon Hope All Ye Who Enter Here”
@@thegameranch5935 lasciate ogni speranza. The verb lasciare is 'to leave'. Which in this case means 'drop it, abandon, leave behind'
A master piece by Liszt! Super orchestra, choir and conducted very well by Peter Eotvos!
Magnificent..... Now I found my favourite composer (and conductor and musicians)
This is the first time I am hearing Liszt’s Dante symphony, and can I just say… from the opening measures I am enthralled. It is his grandiose orchestration and his clever modulations that bring my mind to Tchaikovsky; although Tchaikovsky didn’t like Liszt very much, especially this specific work, I can hear very much of this in, say, his Hamlet overture, whether he was influenced by him directly or not.
This is a beautiful work… so chilling and powerful!!!
I've always smirked reading about the disliking from Tchaikovsky onto Liszt, i don't take it seriously lol because there is much of the Lisztian style in his oeuvre, the chromatism, thematic management and even some of the atmosphere just speaks for itself. There is a anecdote that says that Tchaikovsky sung a theme of Liszt 1st concerto while walking with a friend, i just don't remember who it was (also Tchaikovsky didn't liked that Liszt "forced himself" to like any kind of music lol; i imagine a young Tchaikovsky looking at Liszt while trying to understand him, and getting internally frustrated because he just couldn't.)
@@guii8993 You make excellent points. The motivic treatment in works like The Sleeping Beauty could not be done if not for Liszt and Wagner.
In this regard, Tchaikovsky was either baffled by Liszt or was disingenuous about his remarks, because not only is the majority of his music influenced by Liszt, but his Hamlet tone poem directly quotes Liszt's Hamlet, and he treated Francesca da Remini as did Liszt, and his piano concerto is blatantly Lisztianesque in Romantic bravura, among many of his other works, regardless of his saying that he loved Mozart above all others. Liszt's influence was paramount to Tchaikovsky's very soul & voice.
This was Tchaikovsky's review: "Liszt's symphonic fantasy to Dante's Inferno, which was the most interesting work on the programme in terms of novelty and its subject [9], turned out not to belong to the renowned pianist and composer's finest works. In the first movement, which illustrates all the horrors of hell, there is a lot of imagination, a lot of sombre colouring in accordance with the subject, and it is also abundant in loud and powerful external effects, but it all betrays a lack of inventiveness, of novelty in the principal motifs and organic cohesion in the way these are combined together. The central episode of this movement, which depicts the tormented love of Francesca and Paolo, is not devoid of warmth and passion, but it is far too much like the many other similar episodes in Liszt's works, especially the middle section of his Waltz to Lenau's Faust [10]. As for the second movement, which presents listeners with a tone-painting of the Catholic purgatory, it must be said that, in spite of the felicitously devised effect of a female chorus suddenly resounding in the middle of a symphonic work, it is poor in content, long-winded, and terribly boring." (T 305, 1875)
Here's the link: en.tchaikovsky-research.net/pages/The_Third_Week_of_the_Concert_Season
The most original and innovative symphony of the Romantic era.... a demonically brutal and sublime Masterpiece!
Yet rarely performed just like his Faust Symphony.🤔
One of my favorite symphonies of all time especially the opening, so spooky and dramatic it could easily be put in any horror film!
I didn't know this symphony. I used to think of Liszt as a minor composer, way below his friends Chopin and Wagner. This symphony has changed completely my mind. It's certainly a peak in the history of music.
@larbaud Without doubt, Liszt was monumental in his era and as an influence upon future composers. Check out the TH-cam video -- FRANZ LISZT: Enigmatic Genius
Well, Chopin is definitely more popular and accessible to the general public. Liszt, in my opinion, is far superior than Chopin. Everything Chopin did for piano, Liszt did. Now when it came to orchestral music, Liszt blows Chopin out the water it's not even close. Not saying Chopin is a bad composer. Listen to the second movement "Gretchen" from Liszt's Faust Symphony. Just the first 3 minutes is enough.
Well Liszt was also the father in law of Wagner, and also exchanged music together at some time. Wagner was definitely inspired by Liszt and also implemented some of Liszt's genius ideas into his orchestral works..
Influenced and inspired*
Encore un chef qui dirige sans baguette une oeuvre de Liszt assez méconnue car très rarement jouée, mais avec une formation orchestrale déjà futuriste, anticipant les orchestres mahlériens...
unbelievably magnificent and chord-touching piece, as LISZT always does. He is such impressive and incredible, hard to express in a few words.
I - Inferno = 0:46
II - Purgatorio = 23:20
Don't forget the Magnificat!
The massive long dark reverberation character of the Alte Oper Frankfurt is just perfect for this piece.
Sublime y hermosa como misteriosa. Magnífica direccion, orquesta y coros
I had forgotten how so beautiful that work was and the performance is absolutely fantastic. The orchestra is always stupendous.
Wonderful! Never heard this before; this was so well done. 😀 Bravo to all!!!
🙏🙏🙏Most Amazing Liszt.Thank You And God Bless All Of You.🙏🙏🙏
very nice performance. this symphony has 950 super beautiful melodies, plus a lot of other technical wonders.
Amazingly beautiful piece played magnificently.
This is indeed a great orchestra - how Mark Gruber took over so seamlessly from Sam Seidenberg is incredible!
Finally a proper tempo for the opening part!
You can sense the heat, horror and terror when Dante entered the Inferno from this symphony...
I'm after hearing this piece in an other world, Fabulous performed, conducted and registrated! The final sequence strated from 46:15 till the end is pure bliss!
Beautiful Music, thanks very much for GREAT rendition!!!
maravillosa obra injustamente relegada
Almost unbelievably beautiful!!
Grandísima obra y maravillosa orquesta. Felicidades !!!
BRAVO. I Hear IT AND AT TIMES IT VERY QUIET BUT THE SOFTNESS OF IT MAKES THE GRANDUR EOF IT SPECTACULAR
Kocham Waszą ORKIESTRĘ, Wspaniałe interpretacje. Wspaniali dyrygenci, WSPANIALI MUZYCY. Dziękuję.
Truly excellent performance. Eotvos more than delivered in a most personalized manner thru out . Also loved the harp solo at 17.25 .
Suave, conmovedora. Inspira paz y seguridad. Desde Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, México, en cuatentena
What an utterly beautiful and perfect performance!
Incredible! Great! Awesome musicians.
Goes so well with Francis Bacon's painting...especially those closing nailing-thudding cords in the first movement....
@@SexuallyRepressedMegalodon Sorry; I was talking about the painter Francis Bacon; not the philosopher. I must say, I like your user name very much.....
@@SexuallyRepressedMegalodon Thank you for your response. It is at the closing of the first movement of the Liszt Dante Symphony at 22.30 to 22.40 - which is similar o the sound in Francis Bacon's dark-ovid-disk paint punctuations found in his early the 1960s paintings; Bacon is an aural painter rather than a visual painter; just like Martin Heidegger is a composer of visual sounds and not a thinker or a writer of words at all; they all totally misunderstand Heidegger who was an orchestral compose of sound-scape sensations and not a thinker at all; for Heidegger was not a 'thinker' but a poet of sounds in images like Bacon. Bacon and Heidegger were steadfastly against 'meaning' and 'story-telling' and 'representation' and 'interpretation' and so were only concerned with speechless voiceless (silent) primordial being and absolutely alien to the myth of 'the human condition' of nebulous opaque The They that have no Dasein. Bacon and Heidegger were necessarily anti-intellectual and non-intellectual which academics simply cannot cope with. For us today, Dasein is something past. Only art and music can save us now.
Thank you! Wonderful.
Прекрасный концерт! Большое спасибо Франкфуртскому оркестру!
Fantastic, wow the choir is amazing,
it's so amazing
Obrigado amigos e amigas musicistas!
This isn't one of my favorite Liszt works, but I'm somehow drawn to return to it once in a while, and this performance is quite enjoyable. The greatness of the music I believe lies mainly in the 'Purgatorio', which can be quite moving, as it is here. The 'Inferno' is effective also, but I can lose some patience with it; it does have the ability to inspire lack of concentration.
매우 휼륭한 명연주였습니다. Wonderful ! Classicjoa.
Una Gran Orquesta para una Gran Sinfonía.
Lindíssima!
Beleza de música e de canto coral...Parabéns !
The book inferno got me here I'm so shook! Omgg
In contrast to the Faust Symphony, this is damned good! Powerful and exciting! WOW!
I always thought differently. I vastly prefer the Faust Symphony over this.
Outstanding.
Geniale Komposition und phantastische Interpretation 😌 😍 😘
Sensacional!
Y bueno... el solsticio de verano y la luna llena han sido propicios: logré terminar de leer la Divina Comedia. Como premio ya me merezco escuchar esta obra.
#Dante700
#DanteAlighieri
Sublime ! Wonderful ! Tank you all !!!
Thank, not tank!
@@russellthompson9271 Oh ! yes ! Scuse me ...it was a typo !
It was originally to have a 3rd Movement Paradiso but Wagner said it was impossible to write such a movement so Liszt just did a abbreviated end
c'est magnifique ! Cette symphonie est la voix de Dieu
17:58 so epic!
Id love to see this live...to feel and hear the power of desolation
00:46 - Inferno
23:20 - Purgatorio
41:10 - Magnificat
Sublime.
Дуже приємно слухати таку музику і особливо жіночий хор. Тому так багато і оплесків. Дякую всім виконавцям. Привіт з Києва.
Почему такая редкость украинские комментарии?
12:50 18:40 32:00 41:00
Lecture prodigieuse et sublime.
Celebrazione del sommo intellettuale poeta attraverso tramite la musica Symphony
10:22 Bass Clarinet excerpt
Genial.
lmao i didn't even know that liszt had a symphony, btw i love this
"Magnificat anima mea Dominum": Meine Seele preist den Herrn... A minh'alma proclama a grandeza do Senhor... My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord... Proclama mi alma la grandeza del Señor... Mon âme exalte le Seigneur... L'anima mia magnifica il Signore... Uwielbiaj, duszo moja, sławę Pana mego... . SHEMÁ, ISRAEL: ADONAI ELOHENU, ADONAI EHAD.
3:11 The end is Nigh- The Hollows
Did anyone notice the fact that the tamtam wasn't played in the first few minutes, in the drum roll motifs?
In Mexico there is a proverb that says "The meat to the devil and the skin to God" and Liszt is a clear example of this transition that only maturity gives you.
44.42 Espectacular la solista
Impressive.
❤❤❤
Cantei no Coral Gama Filho!
41:28
5:52 📖
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Viva #DanteAlighieri
È possibile avere il testo del coro ?
Endlich kommt das richtige Programm. Aber es ist sehr schwierig, diese großartige Sinfonie ohne Langweile zu spielen. Diese Aufführung ist leider nicht eine Ausnahme davon.
Concordo. Música sublime. Mas exige uma dedicação desde seu princípio, o que torna cansativo e às vezes enfadonho ouvir a totalidade da execução. Mas tentei... .
Gracias.
Im not sure if Eötvös could have done a better job here
Eötvös is rather a composer than a condutor. His face expression is far less clesr than that of maestro Orozco-Estrada.
@@notaire2 He is a far better conductor than OE,who always conducts with the orchestra,not the orchestra
Eduardo Vassallo,from CBSO ,guest principal?
Not the most exciting performance, but Eötvös brings out the orchestral details well.
It needs more thunder, more INFERNO.. Too tame. It should really blaze and take off. Extremely hard to do. All the musicians have to be in their toes. It needs a Toscanini or a Stokowski to pull it off.
@@silviofernandez585 I recommend Lopez-Cobos on Decca.
Eötvös does a 'fairly good' job, but many moments are way too slow, which kills the momentum and hellfire in the Inferno and the beauty of the sonic line in the tender moments.
-- Épique. --
2nd mvt (23:10)
Bernard Herrmann's score for Psycho was heavily influenced by this masterpiece.
Interesting
Kedves @ ro❤gernortman aki írtad a bejegyzést!te tudod hogy miről szól Faust története? Melyik zenei téma nem tetszett Liszt szimfóniájában?Margit témája?Mefisto tánca?ha a művelt nyugat vagy állítólag akkor mondjuk nézd és hallgasd Bernsteintől és megtapasztalod hogy milyen érzés amikor egy pillanatra megnyitja Liszt mester a lábad alatt a pokol bejáratát ha gyenge idegzetű vagy vegyél fel pelust !üdv😂
👏🏻
Cóż można napisać - Dusza ku niebiosom ulatuje..
45:09 47:11
Didn't know Gregg popovich became a conductor
Η ΣΥΓΓΕΝΕΙΑ ΜΕ ΤΟΝ WAGNER ΕΙΝΑΙ ,,,ΜΕΓΑΛΗ....
5:17
31:40
14:14
Jesus is king. Repent and turn to him. For Tommorow is not promised 🙏🏻
I'm here from The Dairy of an Oxygen Thief lul
Wtf wrong with the man on 2:03
sometimes the nerves that control blinking and jaw movement are tangled, in which case blinking can cause your jaw to jump, so i'm guessing he has that and his eyes are irritated for some reason
Most likely Tourette syndrome, which is something uncontrollable and socially devastating. Be nice.
...he is merely demonstrating the Eötvös effect...;-)
Why weren't you concentrating on the music?
It is at the closing of the first movement of the Liszt Dante Symphony at 22.30 to 22.40 - which is similar to the sound in Francis Bacon's dark-ovid-disk paint punctuations found in his early the 1960s paintings; Bacon is an aural painter rather than a visual painter; just like Martin Heidegger is a composer of visual sounds and not a thinker or a writer of words at all; they all totally misunderstand Heidegger who was an orchestral compose of sound-scape sensations and not a thinker at all; for Heidegger was not a 'thinker' but a poet of sounds in images like Bacon. Bacon and Heidegger were steadfastly against 'meaning' and 'story-telling' and 'representation' and 'interpretation' and so were only concerned with speechless voiceless (silent) primordial being and absolutely alien to the myth of 'the human condition' of nebulous opaque The They that have no Dasein. Bacon and Heidegger were necessarily anti-intellectual and non-intellectual which academics simply cannot cope with. For us today, Dasein is something past. Only art and music can save us now.
Perhaps it's just me, but I find this dull and plodding.
Perhaps you can have a nap!
perhaps everyone has different opinions, or you don’t understand the beauty of the piece
Kann nicht helfen.
No
The "worship the conductor" culture should end.
A wonderful performance of music that is not worth the effort.
As always, Liszt has no substance, only effectism.
wdym
Define substance. Got it?
@@Vexalord Ok, Mom
Solcar, the pathetic. You have absolutely no musical knowledge. Are you quoting some idiot?
@@katalinrobin6222 "You have absolutely no musical knowledge".
Yeah, right, I'm just an orchestra conductor, a**hole.
👏🏻
41:42 마그니피카트
지옥 연옥 에서 영향
표제 교향곡,
지옥과 연옥의 2악장+어린이 합창단 '마그니피카트'