Music about my homeland, expressed in European. It is really interesting and strange. I can understand the feelings of Western people about Mongolian land.
Arslan, so true your appreciation! Although, Central Asia includes more countries and regions than Mongolia, to the west all turkic peoples and other ethnicities! The beauty is the wide spaces and majestic sceneries of a vast land where people and animals interact strongly as to become one. My spirit is happy when I see riders on their small celestial horses running through the tundras. Do not pay attention to unworthy commentaries!!!
Borodin's father was Georgian actually, though he was born out of wedlock and never legally claimed by his father and was raised in St Petersburg by his Russian mother, who also didn't claim him. But he wrote a lot about Central Asia in his music and showed influence of central Asian music in his work, e.g. this piece and his opera Prince Igor. He may have felt some kind of connection to it because of his Georgian blood, tough to say but neat to think about
My wife and I travelled from Beijing on the Trans Mongolian Railway through Mongolia to join the Trans Siberian Railway four days by train from Moscow! This music is shot full of the vast country that we saw!! Marvellous!
@@fazertace6837 It was a stroke of luck! We went to a presentation with a friend of ours just to keep her company! There we got the urge to go! It is the highlight of our travelling life! We will always be thankful that we went!
We Asians usually think that "Central Asia" refers to the region where the five Stan countries are located, and the region you past on the K3 line of Beijing-Ulaanbaatar-Moscow railway is precisely not Central Asia, but North Asia and Siberia. If you take K9797/9795 from Beijing to Almaty, you will pass through Central Asia... welcome to asia
@@slavish_superiority And you would be correct. Central Asia is most certainly made up of the five Stan countries of the Former Soviet Union, AND Afghanistan, at a minimum, but also Pakistan, depending on the viewpoint. Having worked in Central Asia extensively, this is also the view of most of the western world. Russians, however, view things somewhat differently.
@@padgit8r486 I should be right. We East Asians such as China, Japan, Korea, Mongolia, Turks, Persian，etc., divide geography based on thousands of years of traditions such as way of life, inter-ethnic exchanges, folk traditions, beliefs, language, writing, natural law, tribes, states, and international alliances. Westerners are not qualified enough to judge our culture. The Russian concept of Asia, derived from the last 300 years of colonial expansion, is even less convincing.
Borodin was one of those composers who could paint pictures with music. He could create space and appear to slow time, invoke contemplation and suggest tranquility
Borodin really soothes my soul. I play his music many,many times! Ijust cannot get enough of his beautiful melodies. They calm me, rest me ,and inspire me. What more can I say>
I once loved a guy from Kazakhstan when I was 20, and this music always reminds me of him and it's a lovely bittersweet feeling. Especially 4:39 .... wow, what a beautiful chapter of my life it was! I'm so glad to have the music to remember it by :)
J Joe Townley We must remember, Borodin died way too young. He completed this piece, but he left his third symphony unfinished, as well as Prince Igor (I've heard that he wrote as much music for Igor as Wagner did for The Ring). His students and friends did what they could with the incomplete scores, but could not match his vision!
5610winston You know your music history pretty well. Rimski-Korsakoff describes in his autobio how after Borodin died suddenly of a heart attack RK and Glazunov went into his flat which was occupied by half-dozen or so cats (Borodin loved cats) and found hundreds of scraps of music scores, hand-drawn staffs w/ music notes on the backs of napkins, menus, and just about anything Borodin could lay his hands on. They had to make sense out this chaotic mess and they did an admirable job. RK assigned G the job of arranging and orchestrating the overture so most of what you hear is G's handiwork, while RK set about to organize and orchestrate the scraps he found. It's a fascinating tale and the results, of course, are phenomenal.
I had not seen this reply before tonight. Thank you. His achievements are especially remarkable when you consider that in addition to the cats, his flat was infested with a parade of family members (sometimes sleeping on top of the piano) and professional acquaintances from the Chemistry department, including Mendeleev, and that his flat was bisected by the access hall to a student dormitory. Most of my music history comes from liner notes from old LP's and CD's.
Totally agree! I was sitting at my pc one day and put this version on. About 6 repeats later I thought I should listen to something else. It held me captive for 6 listens!! What a piece of music!!!!!!
That is a fair critic actually. If the listener feels starving for more then the composer did not exploit the material fully. Incidentally this is how commercial pop songs work with the masses, a few seconds of musical idea floating in the middle of nothing, and not developed or contrasted with another theme, then ends abruptly or in a downramping volume loop. The listeners is frustrated and repeats the piece over and over. Exactly as you did, you are a true product of the consumer society.
This reminds me of a trip I wanted to take about 50 years ago. I was 19 I had a boring job as a switchboard operator making just above minimum wage for a big insurance company, downtown. There was a travel agency downstairs. It had a brochure for the Marco Polo tour. It started in Venice then it took you to places with names likeTehran, Samarkand, Tashkent, Ulan Bator, Badakshan, Beijing and finally back to the US. There were other names, but I cant remember now. All I remember was the silks, Oriental rugs, spices, Beautifultreasures I would see if I went. Sadly, it would be 3,000 which I did not have
And so, it’s in the evening of today when I hear this piece of beautiful music, and what apt and concurrent timing, the finishing passage painted the failing sunset that marks the end of my day here … ❤
This has always been my favourite piece of Classical Music. It is beautiful beyond comparison. In December 2019 I flew AIR CHINA from London Heathrow to Beijing. The Flight was up to Scandanavis, then over Moscow and The Russian Central Federation, Siberia, Khasakstan, Mongolia, & China. Sadly the Cabin Crew would not allow the window blinds to be raised to enable us to view this vast landscape (but I did get a glimpse). This piece of Borodin's music was constantly in my head
That's some wonderful even if frustrating memory. For those of us who will never visit that region, this piece is all we'll ever have. Conversely, we'll just have to always imagine we're flying over. We'll Just have to pull down the window shutters and imagine we're over those steppes. So my friend you'll never be alone in your imaginings. Blessings 🎼🎶🛫😊🤝🏼😄 ❤🌍🖤
I fear I may have commented here before..who cares. What an absolutely beautiful piece of music. Really need to pay my respects, to Borodin, Dostoevsky, Stravinsky, Mussorgsky(!!), Tchaikovsky et al. one day. St. Petersburg here I come!
My soul would have crossed the Japan Sea to reach the steppes of Central Asia , and I would have been sensitized to this masterpiece and footage . I'm just intoxicated with this specutacular performance and wonderful footage From Tokyo of the Land of the Rising Sun 🇯🇵
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As a therapist, I like my patients to listen to GOOD music. This is one of my all-time favorite musical selections. I love the quote:" music sloths the savage beast".
Solo una sublime obra puede dar origen a este magnífico video , que me emociona profundamente como si fuese de mi país, a pesar de la enorme lejanía geográfica y cultural. Desde Córdoba ,Argentina. INFINITAS GRACIAS POR COMPARTIR l
I love Tchaikovsky but there's something about the more traditional Russian composers, such as Borodin and Rimsky-Korsakov that exemplifies Old Mother Russia. Tchaikovsky's more European-oriented.
Gary Judkins, formally of Hallwalls? Tchaikovsky was influenced by the German composers. That he lived in Petersburg and the others in Moscow is telling.
I also agree totally......Also, I've always also been a fan of film soundtracks and one in particular composed by the French composer Maurice Jarre....the soundtrack from Dr. Zhivago.....splendid!!
Beautiful music and an excellent clip. I loved the Bakhtiari camels and the rider carrying the hunting eagle. The moon-faced girl and the young "bogatyr" too. Don´t worry about the reindeer; it is surely a pet-present from the Yukagir of Northern Siberia. From these steppes wandered many peoples towards the west and the east and even the south. Guess what an "urga" is. A man is holding it!
When.my Dad first shared the LP with this on it, almost 40 years ago, I Never DREAMED something like this would be available online to see. This video, to me, strikes a heavy blow against the argument The Internet Is Evil
Beautiful piece of music. For me it sounds like the landscape is playing this music, the wind blowing through the steppes and the animals crossing it and finally the wonderful dusk and the sun hiding behind the horizon.
This beautiful music captures the wide open spaces of the endless Steppes. Borodin understood the land, sky and the people who lived in this land hardly touched by modern life.
There are people that live this way! No cars, no cell phones, no laptops! And quiet. None of the background noise we don't even notice until the rare occasions we get away from it. All the way around beautiful video.
Ah Mongolia, so peaceful, so tranquil, and majestic. The fresh air, the endless deep blue skies, the endless sea of green grasses. Look at this group of Mongol herders galloping ever so gallantly down the valley, the shimmering orange-red sunset shining upon them - Wait! That's not the sunset - They're burning our crop fields to the ground! Oh fuck, now they're littering the peasants with arrows! Oh fuck, now they're besieging the city gates, killing everyone, run for your lives!
I live in the middle of a huge city. All I ever see are buildings, houses, cars and freeways, shopping centers, 3 million people everywhere. This beautiful music is like a vacation for my sanity every time I hear it. Someday...I'll go there.
In fact there is a kind of magic in this music. I have felt it for the firs time when I first heard Borodin's Price Igor... and later on Korsakov's Sheherazade! I'm from Portugal (Europe) but I feel kind of homesick when I hear this.. funny isn't it?
Carol: there's no there, there. It's ... eerie, beautiful, strange and empty and full, all at once. I can never listen to this without remembering it, the music is so perfectly evocative
Gilda, I am a contra-bassist in two orchestras here in Arkansas, and have played this piece several times. You have done a wonderful job of post-production on this video. Thank you!
This piece possibly is possibly the best example of fusion music (European Classical and Eastern (Central asian, not far eastern)) that has been adapted to western classical music . Going by this piece, Borodin possibly represents the essence of Russian Music in that it is a blend of themes from western classical and melodies from central; which makes sense geographically too !!
Borodin was a very interesting man. He was not just a chemist, but a leading organic chemist and researcher of his age. Music was more or less a hobby for him. The general public (at least in the US) may best remember him today for his connection to the Broadway musical and film “Kismet”. Some of his beautiful melodies were adapted by Robert Wright and George Forrest, notably the songs "Stranger in Paradise", "And This Is My Beloved" and "Baubles, Bangles, & Beads". Borodin received a Tony Award for this show in 1954 despite having died in Russia in 1887.
He died relatively young, the illegitimate son of the local great lord, who did not marry his mother but who gave him a first class education. He was a kind man with a loving family and many friends.
Hauntingly beautiful music. I love the way the eastern and western melodies intertwine throughout. I listen to this piece often as it makes my scalp tingle.
What a beautiful piece- music and visuals. I spent time in Mongolia and can recall the chill of the April air when coming out of the smoky yert and seeing the lone horseman in the distance. The pace that Sanderling takes it at is just right.
My dear poster, What wonderful memories you give me! This piece was on the very first classical recording I ever bought for myself (back in the stoned age of the '60's!). I have always loved it, and love it even more tied to your beautiful presentation. Thank you!
This is one of the most beautiful and enchanting pieces of music ever written. If I could afford a vanity plate on my little vintage Nissan Sentra....BORODIN it would say.
Some of my favorite composers are russian. I started reading books about world War 2 in the 3rd grade, by the time I was in my twenties I was listening to both German and Russian composers and felt real compassion for both peoples who have suffered over the years from dictators and bad forms of socialism. I have read over a hundred books on both world wars, books from generals and common soldiers. There are bad organizations in the world who have planned and carried out these wars against Europe and the world. The world still can be much better, more prosperous and peaceful than its ever been. The world is not over, there is still time for changes and better ways of living. I know how it is possible. I understand economics and spirits and why the world is like it is. There are good reasons for hope. There are good reasons to be strong and not give up. There are good reasons to do what is right and not be afraid. The world must be brave and resist the urge to war. These problems can be solved, life will be better and more stable. LLXIIX77
@@hansproebsting7391 . It's a particular caste who infest politics and banking that's been the problem for centuries and an Egyptian pharaoh who could have solved the problem thousands of years ago.
A beauty, both music and landscapes. Thak you. Everything is political, life is politics, it depends on the side you look at it: art is revolucionary, nature it is too. Mankind can be or not. Still believing in a Brave New World for Europe and Asia!
Una hermosa visión musical de vida en plenitud de libertad, llena de colorido, digna de tener presente, llena de añoranza de una tierra lejana, misteriosa, con caracteres humanos de gran belleza, pureza palpitante y sencillez amorosa... Cuantas veces escucho esta obra me transporta a un mundo del que no quisiera regresar...
Only 8 minutes of music, but it feels like an eternity, an "excellent" eternity! The way I picture it, is a camel caravan slowly appearing on the horizon in glistening sunlight, with some remaining mornings mists. It moves over the immense steppe, passes closer to the observer,. then gradually disappears, towards the other horizon, to be suffused with the impending sunset. The night ensues.
The UNESCO History of the Civilizations of Central Asia, published in 1992, defines the region as "Afghanistan, northeastern Iran, northern and central Pakistan, northern India, western China, Mongolia and the former Soviet Central Asian republics."
My favorite Opera. I own an original edition in both full score and in Rimsky's orchestration as published by Beliaff with hand-painted gold0leaf.... the music literally LOOKs beautiful on the page. There's nothing else like it.
Dresden Staatskapelle conducted by Kurt Sanderling. Thanks... I haven't heard a better version than this one. Many versions are played too fast. Not this one. Sanderling takes his time for us to dream... However your video doesn't show the merchandises caravan protected by soldiers as suggested in the symphonic poem at 3:17. This is a story about the Silk road with trade between Europe and Asia. Many caravans have been attacked by pirates, but not in this symphonic poem. All is smooth.
I love this music. I also love Borodin's two symphonies and Prince Igor as well. But this is not what I imagine when I think of my steppes. This is what I imagine when I think of Russia, although I've never been there.
+Achbold Battogtokh Well said: This is what "we westerners" (!) imagine when we think of the vast lands of the steppe. Very idyllic, and lightyears from reality. But that imagination helped to give birth to this insanely beautiful music.
Two-and-a-half symphonies, actually. And give his String Quartet no. 1 a listen. It is almost a symphony in itself, with way too much music to be played by a bigger ensemble. And the Scherzo for Borodin's third symphony was originally sketched for string quartet. Look for the Scherzo in D Major.
Just love this version by the berlin Orchestra. Weird how there are like 1000s of different versions of each piece of Classical music yet you can just spot the versions you like. I think i like the speed of this one. Can't put it into words but it just has a playful feel. Steady but not rushed. Like they are in no big hurry to get where ever they are going. Just enjoying the journey.
@kyalangelamink Thank you for your post. You're absolutely right about the pizzicato -- darn, I should have noticed that before I selected this version, but glad you enjoyed it just the same. Wishing you continued success with your music....
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Music about my homeland, expressed in European. It is really interesting and strange. I can understand the feelings of Western people about Mongolian land.
Arslan, so true your appreciation! Although, Central Asia includes more countries and regions than Mongolia, to the west all turkic peoples and other ethnicities! The beauty is the wide spaces and majestic sceneries of a vast land where people and animals interact strongly as to become one. My spirit is happy when I see riders on their small celestial horses running through the tundras. Do not pay attention to unworthy commentaries!!!
Borodin's father was Georgian actually, though he was born out of wedlock and never legally claimed by his father and was raised in St Petersburg by his Russian mother, who also didn't claim him. But he wrote a lot about Central Asia in his music and showed influence of central Asian music in his work, e.g. this piece and his opera Prince Igor. He may have felt some kind of connection to it because of his Georgian blood, tough to say but neat to think about
My wife and I travelled from Beijing on the Trans Mongolian Railway through Mongolia to join the Trans Siberian Railway four days by train from Moscow! This music is shot full of the vast country that we saw!! Marvellous!
I've done a lot of travelling around the world but I've ALWAYS wanted to do what you did. Lucky beggar.
@@fazertace6837 It was a stroke of luck! We went to a presentation with a friend of ours just to keep her company! There we got the urge to go! It is the highlight of our travelling life! We will always be thankful that we went!
We Asians usually think that "Central Asia" refers to the region where the five Stan countries are located, and the region you past on the K3 line of Beijing-Ulaanbaatar-Moscow railway is precisely not Central Asia, but North Asia and Siberia. If you take K9797/9795 from Beijing to Almaty, you will pass through Central Asia... welcome to asia
@@slavish_superiority And you would be correct. Central Asia is most certainly made up of the five Stan countries of the Former Soviet Union, AND Afghanistan, at a minimum, but also Pakistan, depending on the viewpoint. Having worked in Central Asia extensively, this is also the view of most of the western world. Russians, however, view things somewhat differently.
@@padgit8r486 I should be right. We East Asians such as China, Japan, Korea, Mongolia, Turks, Persian，etc., divide geography based on thousands of years of traditions such as way of life, inter-ethnic exchanges, folk traditions, beliefs, language, writing, natural law, tribes, states, and international alliances. Westerners are not qualified enough to judge our culture. The Russian concept of Asia, derived from the last 300 years of colonial expansion, is even less convincing.
Borodin was one of those composers who could paint pictures with music. He could create space and appear to slow time, invoke contemplation and suggest tranquility
Also he was khemistrist and surgion
A very perceptive comment. Many thanks!
Exactly. You nailed it my friend!
Borodin really soothes my soul. I play his music many,many times! Ijust cannot get enough of his beautiful melodies. They calm me, rest me ,and inspire me. What more can I say>
I once loved a guy from Kazakhstan when I was 20, and this music always reminds me of him and it's a lovely bittersweet feeling. Especially 4:39 .... wow, what a beautiful chapter of my life it was! I'm so glad to have the music to remember it by :)
The problem with Borodin in general and this piece in particular is that his music is so damn beautiful it leaves the listener starving for more.
J Joe Townley We must remember, Borodin died way too young.
He completed this piece, but he left his third symphony unfinished, as well as Prince Igor (I've heard that he wrote as much music for Igor as Wagner did for The Ring). His students and friends did what they could with the incomplete scores, but could not match his vision!
5610winston You know your music history pretty well. Rimski-Korsakoff describes in his autobio how after Borodin died suddenly of a heart attack RK and Glazunov went into his flat which was occupied by half-dozen or so cats (Borodin loved cats) and found hundreds of scraps of music scores, hand-drawn staffs w/ music notes on the backs of napkins, menus, and just about anything Borodin could lay his hands on. They had to make sense out this chaotic mess and they did an admirable job. RK assigned G the job of arranging and orchestrating the overture so most of what you hear is G's handiwork, while RK set about to organize and orchestrate the scraps he found. It's a fascinating tale and the results, of course, are phenomenal.
I had not seen this reply before tonight. Thank you. His achievements are especially remarkable when you consider that in addition to the cats, his flat was infested with a parade of family members (sometimes sleeping on top of the piano) and professional acquaintances from the Chemistry department, including Mendeleev, and that his flat was bisected by the access hall to a student dormitory. Most of my music history comes from liner notes from old LP's and CD's.
Totally agree! I was sitting at my pc one day and put this version on. About 6 repeats later I thought I should listen to something else. It held me captive for 6 listens!! What a piece of music!!!!!!
That is a fair critic actually. If the listener feels starving for more then the composer did not exploit the material fully. Incidentally this is how commercial pop songs work with the masses, a few seconds of musical idea floating in the middle of nothing, and not developed or contrasted with another theme, then ends abruptly or in a downramping volume loop. The listeners is frustrated and repeats the piece over and over. Exactly as you did, you are a true product of the consumer society.
Can't even begin to imagine how beautiful the nighttime sky is there so wide open no pollution
The combination of this music and the footage you've put with it is absolutely brilliant and moving to the very soul. Thank you so much, Gilda.
This reminds me of a trip I wanted to take about 50 years ago. I was 19 I had a boring job as a switchboard operator making just above minimum wage for a big insurance company, downtown. There was a travel agency downstairs. It had a brochure for the Marco Polo tour. It started in Venice then it took you to places with names likeTehran, Samarkand, Tashkent, Ulan Bator, Badakshan, Beijing and finally back to the US. There were other names, but I cant remember now. All I remember was the silks, Oriental rugs, spices, Beautifultreasures I would see if I went. Sadly, it would be 3,000 which I did not have
One of the most picturesque composition of Russian Music literature. Vivid, lively and powerful .
Thanks for the upload
Borodin's beautiful haunting music with stunning scenery. Perfect.
I feel the same! Music by Borodin is addictive! Thank you.
If I'm struggling to sleep with the problems of everyday life weighing heavy on my mind I play this, problems solved.
Agree. Peace within the soul comes from this passionate moment in music.
Musical Ed
Borodin's music as therapy. It has always worked for me. Glad to hear that it works for you too. Thanks for letting me know!
And so, it’s in the evening of today when I hear this piece of beautiful music, and what apt and concurrent timing, the finishing passage painted the failing sunset that marks the end of my day here … ❤
This has always been my favourite piece of Classical Music. It is beautiful beyond comparison. In December 2019 I flew AIR CHINA from London Heathrow to Beijing. The Flight was up to Scandanavis, then over Moscow and The Russian Central Federation, Siberia, Khasakstan, Mongolia, & China. Sadly the Cabin Crew would not allow the window blinds to be raised to enable us to view this vast landscape (but I did get a glimpse). This piece of Borodin's music was constantly in my head
That's some wonderful even if frustrating memory.
For those of us who will never visit that region, this piece is all we'll ever have.
Conversely, we'll just have to always imagine we're flying over. We'll Just have to pull down the window shutters and imagine we're over those steppes.
So my friend you'll never be alone in your imaginings. Blessings
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Why couldn't the window blinds be raised?
One of my favorite classical pieces of all-times. Russian composers are masters of earth and spirit. Uemani for the soul!
You have to suffer to create beauty.
I'm not quite sure.
Charles Moorman has to work to make a big one
I fear I may have commented here before..who cares.
What an absolutely beautiful piece of music.
Really need to pay my respects, to Borodin, Dostoevsky, Stravinsky, Mussorgsky(!!), Tchaikovsky et al. one day. St. Petersburg here I come!
Listening to this music, suddenly, everything become so beautiful.
My soul would have crossed the Japan Sea to reach the steppes of Central Asia , and I would have been sensitized to this masterpiece and footage .
I'm just intoxicated with this specutacular performance and wonderful footage
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As a therapist, I like my patients to listen to GOOD music. This is one of my all-time favorite musical selections. I love the quote:" music sloths the savage beast".
"sooths" surely?
Solo una sublime obra puede dar origen a este magnífico video , que me emociona profundamente como si fuese de mi país, a pesar de la enorme lejanía geográfica y cultural. Desde Córdoba ,Argentina. INFINITAS GRACIAS POR COMPARTIR
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I love Tchaikovsky but there's something about the more traditional Russian composers, such as Borodin and Rimsky-Korsakov that exemplifies Old Mother Russia. Tchaikovsky's more European-oriented.
yes it is true.
Borodin, Mussorsky, Cui, Rimsky Korskavov etc.... are different for Tchaikovsky, they wrote really Russian music
Gary Judkins, formally of Hallwalls? Tchaikovsky was influenced by the German composers. That he lived in Petersburg and the others in Moscow is telling.
@@GianPilz You missed Balakirev
Yes you're right
I also agree totally......Also, I've always also been a fan of film soundtracks and one in particular composed by the French composer Maurice Jarre....the soundtrack from Dr. Zhivago.....splendid!!
Beautiful music and an excellent clip. I loved the Bakhtiari camels and the rider carrying the hunting eagle. The moon-faced girl and the young "bogatyr" too. Don´t worry about the reindeer; it is surely a pet-present from the Yukagir of Northern Siberia. From these steppes wandered many peoples towards the west and the east and even the south. Guess what an "urga" is. A man is holding it!
When.my Dad first shared the LP with this on it, almost 40 years ago, I Never DREAMED something like this would be available online to see. This video, to me, strikes a heavy blow against the argument The Internet Is Evil
Beautiful piece of music. For me it sounds like the landscape is playing this music, the wind blowing through the steppes and the animals crossing it and finally the wonderful dusk and the sun hiding behind the horizon.
Some of the themes sound so mscuch like Mike Batt`s , Caravan on the move. Was he inspired by Borodin?
This beautiful music captures the wide open spaces of the endless Steppes. Borodin understood the land, sky and the people who lived in this land hardly touched by modern life.
They play these songs on the radio a lot. I'm not complaining because they're a really beautiful.
There are people that live this way! No cars, no cell phones, no laptops! And quiet. None of the background noise we don't even notice until the rare occasions we get away from it. All the way around beautiful video.
absolutely beautiful song.
5:43 always gives me chills when i hear it. truly magnificent
Ah Mongolia, so peaceful, so tranquil, and majestic. The fresh air, the endless deep blue skies, the endless sea of green grasses. Look at this group of Mongol herders galloping ever so gallantly down the valley, the shimmering orange-red sunset shining upon them - Wait! That's not the sunset - They're burning our crop fields to the ground! Oh fuck, now they're littering the peasants with arrows! Oh fuck, now they're besieging the city gates, killing everyone, run for your lives!
No, you have the wrong view. They just brought peace and democracy to their neighbors ... 800 years ago.
Dear Gilda,
This video suits the music perfectly. The images alone are classical. Thank you so much for creating it. I love Borodin.
You Tube at its best - well done great music along with fantastic scenes!
Bucolic asia of the19th century alive for all who listen...
I just love this piece..even without these beautiful visuals it's easy to imagine the way this place looks and feels.
I live in the middle of a huge city. All I ever see are buildings, houses, cars and freeways, shopping centers, 3 million people everywhere. This beautiful music is like a vacation for my sanity every time I hear it. Someday...I'll go there.
Beautiful words. Luckily I'm often in the nature, it's really inspiring and relaxing. But music already helps us achieve that.
I know exactly just how you feel! Music for the soul.
I feel the same :/ Best of luck when you commit to it.
In fact there is a kind of magic in this music. I have felt it for the firs time when I first heard Borodin's Price Igor... and later on Korsakov's Sheherazade! I'm from Portugal (Europe) but I feel kind of homesick when I hear this.. funny isn't it?
Carol: there's no there, there. It's ... eerie, beautiful, strange and empty and full, all at once. I can never listen to this without remembering it, the music is so perfectly evocative
Gilda, I am a contra-bassist in two orchestras here in Arkansas, and have played this piece several times. You have done a wonderful job of post-production on this video. Thank you!
I absolutely love this piece of music. It reminds me of being a child and I feel like my heart breaks every time I listen to it.❤
Giving this a listen after hearing he was one of the chemists who discovered the Aldol reaction in Organic Chemistry. Amazing.
this song has been stuck in my mind all week its so good honestly one of the most underrated short orchestral works id say, the melodies are beautiful
magnifique voyage musical dans les steppes immenses et rudes, j'aime ce sentiment d'éternité qu'il procure.
Breathtaking. Brought tears to my eyes, it's such wonder pairing of music and images. Thank you!
This piece possibly is possibly the best example of fusion music (European Classical and Eastern (Central asian, not far eastern)) that has been adapted to western classical music . Going by this piece, Borodin possibly represents the essence of Russian Music in that it is a blend of themes from western classical and melodies from central; which makes sense geographically too !!
As suggested by the painting in the opening and closing, this Borodin composition captures the spirit in many of the paintings by Nicholas Roerich.
So beautiful , i want to live in the steppes one day , as a nomad , having a dog a horse and just herding sheep , anyone else have that dream ?
Димитър Димитров yes my bulgarian brother, we have!
Димитър Димитров
yes and fly falcons too!
+Димитър Димитров wonderful romantic , and i would also love to .
Close my eyes and gaze upon the sky with this tune in my head !
Of course I've the same dream !
Chile, has (not so wide but) steppes too, so that is a dream of some chilean too :)
His compositions have so many similar chords that make it easy to identify his work. Love "Prince Igor".
Borodin was a very interesting man. He was not just a chemist, but a leading organic chemist and researcher of his age. Music was more or less a hobby for him.
The general public (at least in the US) may best remember him today for his connection to the Broadway musical and film “Kismet”. Some of his beautiful melodies were adapted by Robert Wright and George Forrest, notably the songs "Stranger in Paradise", "And This Is My Beloved" and "Baubles, Bangles, & Beads". Borodin received a Tony Award for this show in 1954 despite having died in Russia in 1887.
He died relatively young, the illegitimate son of the local great lord, who did not marry his mother but who gave him a first class education. He was a kind man with a loving family and many friends.
Hauntingly beautiful music. I love the way the eastern and western melodies intertwine throughout. I listen to this piece often as it makes my scalp tingle.
This one always makes me happy. So beautiful!xxxxx
Me too. I get the same feeling watching the sunrise across water on a brisk morning...Borodin was basically an amateur, genius though
What a beautiful piece- music and visuals. I spent time in Mongolia and can recall the chill of the April air when coming out of the smoky yert and seeing the lone horseman in the distance. The pace that Sanderling takes it at is just right.
Otherworldly beautiful scenery, unearthly beautiful music!
My dear poster,
What wonderful memories you give me! This piece was on the very first classical recording I ever bought for myself (back in the stoned age of the '60's!). I have always loved it, and love it even more tied to your beautiful presentation. Thank you!
Our favorite work by this composer...
This is one of the most beautiful and enchanting pieces of music ever written. If I could afford a vanity plate on my little vintage Nissan Sentra....BORODIN it would say.
Some of my favorite composers are russian. I started reading books about world War 2 in the 3rd grade, by the time I was in my twenties I was listening to both German and Russian composers and felt real compassion for both peoples who have suffered over the years from dictators and bad forms of socialism. I have read over a hundred books on both world wars, books from generals and common soldiers. There are bad organizations in the world who have planned and carried out these wars against Europe and the world. The world still can be much better, more prosperous and peaceful than its ever been. The world is not over, there is still time for changes and better ways of living. I know how it is possible. I understand economics and spirits and why the world is like it is. There are good reasons for hope. There are good reasons to be strong and not give up. There are good reasons to do what is right and not be afraid. The world must be brave and resist the urge to war. These problems can be solved, life will be better and more stable. LLXIIX77
Please keep politics out of this. We are talking about a great piece of music, composed by a marvellous man. Politics will ruin the world.
Politics is about man's greed and manipulation of the many---music is about the soul and spirit, the Higher.
There is so much beauty in the world, including in the talents of its people ... then some idiot had to come along and invent politicians. Grrrr.
@@hansproebsting7391 . It's a particular caste who infest politics and banking that's been the problem for centuries and an Egyptian pharaoh who could have solved the problem thousands of years ago.
A beauty, both music and landscapes. Thak you. Everything is political, life is politics, it depends on the side you look at it: art is revolucionary, nature it is too. Mankind can be or not. Still believing in a Brave New World for Europe and Asia!
Molto bella la musica di Borodin e questo pezzo è davvero speciale. Amo questo brano. Guacomo
Una hermosa visión musical de vida en plenitud de libertad, llena de colorido, digna de tener presente, llena de añoranza de una tierra lejana, misteriosa, con caracteres humanos de gran belleza, pureza palpitante y sencillez amorosa... Cuantas veces escucho esta obra me transporta a un mundo del que no quisiera regresar...
El mundo de la pachequez, de la felicidad ahi donde ya nada puede destruirse.
Qué bonito.. .
What a glorious piece of music--and the images from Mongolia suit it beautifully.
Beautiful sounds and beautiful pictures at the Steppes makes it so wonderful. Who cares if some areas were not authentic. Thanks for sharing.
A very nice presentation! Your choice of video clips matches the changing mood and tempo of the music very well. Best wishes.
This is just beautiful
Beautifully done Gilda. I still want to travel on the Trans Siberian Railway. Perhaps one day when the war is over.
can travel there through this mystical music
I keep coming back to this beautiful music video. It speaks to my soul. I don't care how "accurate" it is; it's art.
thank you for posting one of my favorite pieces.
No TV, no roads, no noise....
Fantasía, ensoñación,....
No se puede describir mejor un paisaje así, duro, eterno,....
Gracias Borodin!!!!.
Wonderfully evocative music. Wide open spaces. What else?
There was a time, not long ago, that this music kept me alive. I'm sure there are others who feel the same.
Extraordinary, in every way. Thank you.
Thank you for the Borodin music and the beauty of the video!
Only 8 minutes of music, but it feels like an eternity, an "excellent" eternity! The way I picture it, is a camel caravan slowly appearing on the horizon in glistening sunlight, with some remaining mornings mists. It moves over the immense steppe, passes closer to the observer,. then gradually disappears, towards the other horizon, to be suffused with the impending sunset. The night ensues.
I first heard this beautiful music when listening to a classical music station. I later googled the piece. Thank you to KUSC.
I just love this piece. I play it all the time; because it is so beautiful.
Imágenes y música de gran belleza . Gracias por compartirlo.¡¡
Just lovely, really lovely.
Thank you for posting; so moving to see animals and the beauty of natural life, accompanied by a gorgeous piece.
Maravilloso Alexander Borodin y Mongolia!!!
Beautyful and simply charming.
The UNESCO History of the Civilizations of Central Asia, published in 1992, defines the region as "Afghanistan, northeastern Iran, northern and central Pakistan, northern India, western China, Mongolia and the former Soviet Central Asian republics."
Beautiful music, beautiful pictures!
So beautiful
Such an ecstatic rendition. Bravissimi!
Wonderful Video! I travel imaginary!
What lovely music.
Thanks you!
Ms Tabarez... Bravissimo!
Lovely Country, Excellent Presentation,
Simply sublime.
My favorite Opera. I own an original edition in both full score and in Rimsky's orchestration as published by Beliaff with hand-painted gold0leaf.... the music literally LOOKs beautiful on the page. There's nothing else like it.
This music is... making my eyes wet somehow! Too beautiful...
you're not alone. Hauntingly beautiful and pure evokes something strong.
Dresden Staatskapelle conducted by Kurt Sanderling. Thanks... I haven't heard a better version than this one. Many versions are played too fast. Not this one. Sanderling takes his time for us to dream... However your video doesn't show the merchandises caravan protected by soldiers as suggested in the symphonic poem at 3:17. This is a story about the Silk road with trade between Europe and Asia. Many caravans have been attacked by pirates, but not in this symphonic poem. All is smooth.
Beautiful. Peaceful. Magnificent!
I love this music. I also love Borodin's two symphonies and Prince Igor as well. But this is not what I imagine when I think of my steppes. This is what I imagine when I think of Russia, although I've never been there.
+Achbold Battogtokh Well said: This is what "we westerners" (!) imagine when we think of the vast lands of the steppe. Very idyllic, and lightyears from reality. But that imagination helped to give birth to this insanely beautiful music.
+Achbold Battogtokh Russia not like this.
Two-and-a-half symphonies, actually. And give his String Quartet no. 1 a listen. It is almost a symphony in itself, with way too much music to be played by a bigger ensemble. And the Scherzo for Borodin's third symphony was originally sketched for string quartet. Look for the Scherzo in D Major.
The two string quartets are both very good as well. The Second is more famous, but the First is wonderful.
Just love this version by the berlin Orchestra. Weird how there are like 1000s of different versions of each piece of Classical music yet you can just spot the versions you like. I think i like the speed of this one.
Can't put it into words but it just has a playful feel. Steady but not rushed. Like they are in no big hurry to get where ever they are going. Just enjoying the journey.
@kyalangelamink Thank you for your post. You're absolutely right about the pizzicato -- darn, I should have noticed that before I selected this version, but glad you enjoyed it just the same. Wishing you continued success with your music....
Truly amazing. One of my favorite, thanks for sharing...cheers.
Such beautiful music
また来ました。私はこの作品が大好きです。
Yes, I do too. This landscape looks like home.はい、私もそうです。 この風景は家のように見えます。
Bellissimo video molto adatto alla musica. Complimenti. Grazie
Nice music and movie that heal my heart
Thanks a lot!