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.
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.
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".
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 :)
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>
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 flew China Southern from Beijing to Manchester in 2010 and we had no such restrictions, I have a vivid memory of so many of the rooftops of Ulaanbaatar being bright blue
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
I took a travel in Kyrgyzstan this summer. We drove for about 1800 km, mostly on gravel roads. When I think about this wonderful travel this is the soundtrack playing in my head.
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 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
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.
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.
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!
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!
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.
Such incredible music that can carry you along on a journey wherever that may be. For me, a young man driving from the Georgia coast to Texas in the late 70s. My journey was a good one, and Borodin supplied the inspiration that guided me in those momentous personal times. As I said, "...wherever that journey may be!" 😊 This musical piece is so powerful that for some it would be an appropriate piece to play while receiving Last Rites. ...including me.
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 🇯🇵
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.
Borodin is vastly under appreciated in both the East and the West. One of the fathers of organic chemistry, he once commented that the ability to make love and compose music are two of God's greatest gift to man, but neither is suited to be one's greatest vocation. Also, a medical physician, he founded a great medical clinic.
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.
Extraordinario, Borodin cuanta paz sabe trasmitir con su música, y cuánta belleza y delicadeza en sus composiciones, un verdadero Genio de la música Rusa, y las vistas cautivan por su grandeza inmensa, a pesar de ser estepas desérticas y calcinadas, Felicidades 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
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
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
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!
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.
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 !!
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!
Thank you so much for this exotic video and the magical music of Borodin. The oboe haunting and melancholy with transitions to adventurous plucking traveling strings, and the deeper bassoon, crescendos and the handsome Asian rider coincide nicely. The central melody is romantic and lovely as the traditionally dressed Asian girl we get a glimpse of; the French Horn and oboe so warm and haunting. 💔❤️ a recorder at the end? Wonderful. Thank you so much for your posting this incomparable video and music!
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!!
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I traveled across Russia on the trans Siberian railway and as you look out the window you see what motivated Borodin to write this! This music is shot full of this vast country! It brings back memories! Wonderful! Mongolia is vast grasslands and distant forests! A fabled land!
First, I want to respectfully send my greeting to my Mongolian brothers. Much respect to your bravery and intelligence. Because of the Mongols, Russia and China became united and large. The Mongol Empire among the greatest in the world. Mongolia shares a prominent seat in the history of humanity. Ignore hypocrites who cast stones on the great Mongolian people.
Mongolia did have an influence on China for a short while - but China absorbed the Mongols - China is after all China. The Mongolian Empire was large but it's influence cannot be compared to that of the Egyptian:Persian:Greek: Roman: China - under it's first Emperor Chin; who unified the ten states of China and of course the British Empire - which later became the Commonwealth. Of the magnificent Empires of India, the far East and the Americas I am aware but have insignificant knowledge to comment in a manner which would do them justice - except to say; all these Empires were built on the backs of the bones of the ordinary men who were it's soldiers and the misery of the peoples they conquered. The UK has been enriched greatly by people from our former colonies who have settled here - as can be seen by the 2012 Olympic Games:)
Tahuan Tinsuyo You got it Tahuan. Saw Dust is little more than a mindless troll with a two digit IQ. His sole purpose is to spread misery on this planet. Pay it no mind.
A world bereft of technology and a simpler life far from want , hate , politics , faith . A world that once was but will never be again and this haunting piece weeps for those lost times never to return just memories and regrets
At 3:18 when the camera pans out to show the steppes in theirvastness the music erupts to a magnificent theme which echos those wide plains and the people that live there. Perfect blending of music and image, one of the best I've seen/heard on TH-cam.
Princes come, princes go, an hour of pomp and show. They go. Lovers come, lovers go, and all that there is to know, lovers know, only lovers know. Wright and Forrest fashioned dreamy lyrics to match this heavenly music.
Native people living and practicing their native culture and customs. Their own myths and rites, tradition in one word. Untainted by outside interference and multiculturalism implemented against their own will. An example to the world and raises awareness about how a pure state is still attained when nations souls are being destroyed and people losing their own identity and race.
You are on the wrong side of history. Culture is dynamic and ever changing. Do you possibly think that every "pure" culture sprung out of nothing? Every culture is influenced and adapts. The pendulum is swinging to your backwards ways of late, but there will be a swing back soon enough as the world sees that isolation is a losing proposition. If I pegged you incorrectly, feel free to ignore my comment. I get the impression you are upset about Islam and similar affronts. I very much understand your consternation and wish our cultural clashes could be wished away so easily and every culture could extirpate it's worst values, but that's not realistic. I don't have the answers for our battle against fanatics, but we are losing our humanity at every turn. Please, be careful in what you are wishing for and feel comfortable embracing. Sometimes you have to just take the bad for the overall good. Wishing you the best.
Rather Notsay You appear from your writing to be thoughtful. Would love to pick your brain more. Sadly, TH-cam is awful for that. If you are open to explaining your world view to me and listening to my points in a more specific and nuanced way I would look forward to that. More often than not, as you allude to, people are pompous and perhaps I'm guilty of that in this case. I am loathe to respond to your rebuttal here if it turns out you don't end up responding. Hope to hear from you one way or another so I can clarify my comments and learn your perspective and thus the perspective of those similar to you. Cheers
Rather Notsay Very fair assessment! While the phrase is rather glib, I used it out of expediency and feel that it is still close to the truth. The recent swing to more right-wing thought is too far of a swing from balance and moderation and will do more harm than good with the power of 10 to 20 years of hindsight. In any case, I look forward to your discourse and I can figure out a way we can exchange email or some other way to communicate. Best wishes and enjoy your travels!
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...
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.
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.
Can't even begin to imagine how beautiful the nighttime sky is there so wide open no pollution
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.
As suggested by the painting in the opening and closing, this Borodin composition captures the spirit in many of the paintings by Nicholas Roerich.
They play these songs on the radio a lot. I'm not complaining because they're a really beautiful.
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.
Love the camels stepping in time with the beautiful music. Great editing for great composition, thankyou.
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?
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 :)
Borodin's beautiful haunting music with stunning scenery. Perfect.
I feel the same! Music by Borodin is addictive! Thank you.
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>
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?
I flew China Southern from Beijing to Manchester in 2010 and we had no such restrictions, I have a vivid memory of so many of the rooftops of Ulaanbaatar being bright blue
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
I took a travel in Kyrgyzstan this summer. We drove for about 1800 km, mostly on gravel roads. When I think about this wonderful travel this is the soundtrack playing in my head.
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 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
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.❤
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.
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.
There was a time, not long ago, that this music kept me alive. I'm sure there are others who feel the same.
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 piece always reminds me of the intermezzo from Carmen. Mountainous nomads. 💢
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!
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
I just love this piece..even without these beautiful visuals it's easy to imagine the way this place looks and feels.
WHAT a wonderful trek Borodin takes us on to the heart of central Asia...
Every so often I come back to this hauntingly beautiful and tranquil piece. Thanks Gilda!
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!
His compositions have so many similar chords that make it easy to identify his work. Love "Prince Igor".
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
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!
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?
Such incredible music that can carry you along on a journey wherever that may be. For me, a young man driving from the Georgia coast to Texas in the late 70s. My journey was a good one, and Borodin supplied the inspiration that guided me in those momentous personal times. As I said, "...wherever that journey may be!" 😊
This musical piece is so powerful that for some it would be an appropriate piece to play while receiving Last Rites.
...including me.
Listening to this music, suddenly, everything become so beautiful.
Une des plus belles œuvres jamais composées. Magnifique, émouvante...
Fantasía, ensoñación,....
No se puede describir mejor un paisaje así, duro, eterno,....
Gracias Borodin!!!!.
magnifique voyage musical dans les steppes immenses et rudes, j'aime ce sentiment d'éternité qu'il procure.
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 🇯🇵
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.
Balsam für die Seele. Hat uns auch während des Studiums oft geholfen...
Borodin is vastly under appreciated in both the East and the West. One of the fathers of organic chemistry, he once commented that the ability to make love and compose music are two of God's greatest gift to man, but neither is suited to be one's greatest vocation. Also, a medical physician, he founded a great medical clinic.
なんで日本語のコメントが無いの？
この景色は日本では見られない。壮大なイメージが膨らんで気持ちがおおらかになる！イイネ、ボロディンは！
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.
Extraordinario, Borodin cuanta paz sabe trasmitir con su música, y cuánta belleza y delicadeza en sus composiciones, un verdadero Genio de la música Rusa, y las vistas cautivan por su grandeza inmensa, a pesar de ser estepas desérticas y calcinadas, Felicidades 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
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
Otherworldly beautiful scenery, unearthly beautiful music!
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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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!
Dear Gilda,
This video suits the music perfectly. The images alone are classical. Thank you so much for creating it. I love Borodin.
Giving this a listen after hearing he was one of the chemists who discovered the Aldol reaction in Organic Chemistry. Amazing.
absolutely beautiful song.
5:43 always gives me chills when i hear it. truly magnificent
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 only go here through music and imagination...what a beautiful composite of music and images.
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.
You Tube at its best - well done great music along with fantastic scenes!
Bucolic asia of the19th century alive for all who listen...
What a glorious piece of music--and the images from Mongolia suit it beautifully.
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.
merci infiniment pour ce morceau d'une indiscible pureté musicale.
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 !!
Beautiful. Peaceful. 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.
Thank you for the Borodin music and the beauty of the video!
When I wakened this morning I switched on the radio and this is what I heard. What a lovely way to start the day.
Très beau voyage et très très belle musique, merci pour ces beaux instants💕🧡❤💛💚💙😍
Maravilloso Alexander Borodin y Mongolia!!!
Thank you so much for this exotic video and the magical music of Borodin. The oboe haunting and melancholy with transitions to adventurous plucking traveling strings, and the deeper bassoon, crescendos and the handsome Asian rider coincide nicely. The central melody is romantic and lovely as the traditionally dressed Asian girl we get a glimpse of; the French Horn and oboe so warm and haunting. 💔❤️ a recorder at the end? Wonderful.
Thank you so much for your posting this incomparable video and music!
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!!
The combination of music and video done here is so beautiful, it's crazy.
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Thank you, Gilda. Exquisite blend of video and music. Very moving. There is still beauty in this sin-stained world.
I love this,
JML
I traveled across Russia on the trans Siberian railway and as you look out the window you see what motivated Borodin to write this! This music is shot full of this vast country! It brings back memories! Wonderful! Mongolia is vast grasslands and distant forests! A fabled land!
Exactly so.
First, I want to respectfully send my greeting to my Mongolian brothers. Much respect to your bravery and intelligence. Because of the Mongols, Russia and China became united and large. The Mongol Empire among the greatest in the world. Mongolia shares a prominent seat in the history of humanity. Ignore hypocrites who cast stones on the great Mongolian people.
Mongolia did have an influence on China for a short while - but China absorbed the Mongols - China is after all China. The Mongolian Empire was large but it's influence cannot be compared to that of the Egyptian:Persian:Greek: Roman: China - under it's first Emperor Chin; who unified the ten states of China and of course the British Empire - which later became the Commonwealth. Of the magnificent Empires of India, the far East and the Americas I am aware but have insignificant knowledge to comment in a manner which would do them justice - except to say; all these Empires were built on the backs of the bones of the ordinary men who were it's soldiers and the misery of the peoples they conquered. The UK has been enriched greatly by people from our former colonies who have settled here - as can be seen by the 2012 Olympic Games:)
***** You are wrong. The Mongols did conquer Persia.
Of course the Mongols conquered Persia; but they had entered the period which heralded the end of their time as a great power - as do all conquerors.
***** You are a first-class imbecile. Congratulations.
Tahuan Tinsuyo
You got it Tahuan. Saw Dust is little more than a mindless troll with a two digit IQ. His sole purpose is to spread misery on this planet. Pay it no mind.
Che melodia da sogno! Una carezza per l'anima! 🙏💓💓💓
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 :)
A world bereft of technology and a simpler life far from want , hate , politics , faith . A world that once was but will never be again and this haunting piece weeps for those lost times never to return just memories and regrets
Truly amazing. One of my favorite, thanks for sharing...cheers.
At 3:18 when the camera pans out to show the steppes in theirvastness the music erupts to a magnificent theme which echos those wide plains and the people that live there. Perfect blending of music and image, one of the best I've seen/heard on TH-cam.
This bland of music and image is exceptional My deepest thanks.
Makes me cry too, but not from sadness but beautifulness
Princes come, princes go, an hour of pomp and show. They go.
Lovers come, lovers go, and all that there is to know, lovers know, only lovers know.
Wright and Forrest fashioned dreamy lyrics to match this heavenly music.
Kismet.
@@tomkent4656 It was great to see your comment!
Kismet brought Borodin to many people who would never have heard of him. What a gift!
This is absolutely breath taking!
The classical piece and the scenery in the video!
Bravo!!! Thank you so much Gilda for putting this beautiful piece together.
Please let me add my thanks to his. You have created a marvelous blending of music and art.
Native people living and practicing their native culture and customs. Their own myths and rites, tradition in one word.
Untainted by outside interference and multiculturalism implemented against their own will. An example to the world and raises awareness about how a pure state is still attained when nations souls are being destroyed and people losing their own identity and race.
You are on the wrong side of history. Culture is dynamic and ever changing. Do you possibly think that every "pure" culture sprung out of nothing? Every culture is influenced and adapts.
The pendulum is swinging to your backwards ways of late, but there will be a swing back soon enough as the world sees that isolation is a losing proposition.
If I pegged you incorrectly, feel free to ignore my comment. I get the impression you are upset about Islam and similar affronts. I very much understand your consternation and wish our cultural clashes could be wished away so easily and every culture could extirpate it's worst values, but that's not realistic.
I don't have the answers for our battle against fanatics, but we are losing our humanity at every turn. Please, be careful in what you are wishing for and feel comfortable embracing. Sometimes you have to just take the bad for the overall good.
Wishing you the best.
Rather Notsay You appear from your writing to be thoughtful. Would love to pick your brain more. Sadly, TH-cam is awful for that. If you are open to explaining your world view to me and listening to my points in a more specific and nuanced way I would look forward to that.
More often than not, as you allude to, people are pompous and perhaps I'm guilty of that in this case.
I am loathe to respond to your rebuttal here if it turns out you don't end up responding. Hope to hear from you one way or another so I can clarify my comments and learn your perspective and thus the perspective of those similar to you.
Cheers
Rather Notsay Very fair assessment! While the phrase is rather glib, I used it out of expediency and feel that it is still close to the truth. The recent swing to more right-wing thought is too far of a swing from balance and moderation and will do more harm than good with the power of 10 to 20 years of hindsight.
In any case, I look forward to your discourse and I can figure out a way we can exchange email or some other way to communicate.
Best wishes and enjoy your travels!
Rather Notsay Sounds great. Looking forward to learning from you.
Take care.
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.. .
Isso sim… e uma música que soa muito bem a nossos ouvidos, a sonoridade instrumental e vocal, simplesmente incrível !
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
Beautyful and simply charming.
Creía escuchando las estepas del Asia central es la musica que mas amo en mi sepelio quiero compartirla gracias serge gouliaff gracias Borodi .
Lovely images for dreaming and perfect Borodin
This video is extraordinary. Thanks so much for your creativity and hard work.
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
This may well have been the most beautiful video I have ever seen.
Лучше поздно, чем никогда, но я для себя открыл эту музыку.
Beautifully done Gilda. I still want to travel on the Trans Siberian Railway. Perhaps one day when the war is over.
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.
Superb video, wonderful piece of music. The steppes are the most beautiful places on Earth
Wonderfully evocative music. Wide open spaces. What else?
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.
Molto bella la musica di Borodin e questo pezzo è davvero speciale. Amo questo brano. Guacomo