William Walton - Symphony No. 1 | Semyon Bychkov | WDR Symphony Orchestra
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- William Walton's Symphony No. 1 in B-flat minor, performed by the WDR Sinfonieorchester under the baton of its then principal conductor Semyon Bychkov. Recorded live at the Cologne Philharmonie in October 2009. Historical recording from the WDR Klassik archive.
00:00:00 I. Allegro Assai
00:14:42 II. Presto con Malizia
00:21:21 III. andante con malinconia
00:32:36 IV. Maestoso - Allegro, Brioso Ed Ardentemente - Vivacissimo - Maestoso
WDR Symphony Orchestra
Semyon Bychkov, conductor
The first symphony by the British composer Sir William Walton is a complex work with a distinctive harmonic and contrapuntal structure. Its premiere in 1935 was eagerly awaited and hailed by the British public as a "historic evening for British music." The symphony became one of the most performed works in English music.
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Hell of a good performance! Haven't heard the piece live since I lived in London in the early 1970s and rarely thought British performances, however 'idiomatic' or well-meant, lived up to its potential. This restored my faith in the work.....
Thank you very much!
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I really enjoy how the performers suddenly crack a smile despite their focused demeanors.
As someone who adores this blockbuster of a symphony, the first thing that strikes me is how much Bychkov "gets" this symphony. A really fantastic performance, especially movements 2,3,4 (it seemed to me the orchestra had warmed up after a not quite so convincing first movement). A small detail but those final "Sibelian" stabbing chords are fantastic. Also wonderful to hear a bravo at the end of this performance - well deserved.
Don't quite agree about the first movement - he seems to decidedly influenced by Haitink's recording here, which I think is quite fantastic (although most would disagree here)
Walton one of the greatest composer s of all time
He's up there with the best of em
This is an amazing performance; superbly conducted but wonderfully played by an orchestra with a feeling both for the idiom but also for the ambiguity of this very British masterpiece.
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A special pleasure to listen to this masterpiece. 🎼
I wish you all the best!
Fantastic music and great interpretation.
An excellent upload. The sound is forward and has good impact. The important percussion is caught well but the vital tam tam player seemed a little reluctant to hit the damn thing (I am/was a percussionist, so I have a vested interest). Seriously, this is a valuable addition to TH-cam and Many thanks for it.
Wow, was für ein beeindruckendes Werk. Ich finde Walton sollte öfter gespielt werden. Massiv underrated; gerade in Deutschland :D
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Beautiful
When I first heard this as a teenager, the section at 27:42 left me with my jaw on the floor, and 40-odd years later, it's still one of the most beautiful few bars of music I've ever heard.
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Siempre Maravilloso💎
Gracias! 🤗
This is THE BEST recording I know. Not even Previn+LSO, this. Bravo Maestro Bychkov, bravo WDR!
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Thanks so much!
That's a tall order to beat Previn's recording.
Holy Cow. That is astonishing. And they nailed it.
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Great performance just love it however I wish the videographers would study the score and when there’s a string solo, they seem to ignore the entire section(s)
A distinguished performance！
我已經聽好幾次，平衡好的第一樂章，極佳的法國號，強弱到位的弦樂，充滿期待又美麗的結局。
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I am fan of Bagatelles with Julian Bream. I didnt know other musics from Walton. What a surprise for me ! Now i am fan of Walton music...
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Great performance
Thank you!
It must be quite a challenge for an orchestra to play 'with malice'? (2nd movements)
a great work Walton should be better known
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14:42 2nd movement |
upload is in mono sound :(
Thanks for the note, we reuploaded the video with the corrected stereo sound. We hope you enjoy it!
@@WDRKlassik Thank you so much for letting me know. Looking forward to watching and listening. Not sure why I've been finding so many mono music videos all over youtube these days. Maybe they made mono the default setting for uploads. Really appreciate all the great music you post.
Thanks for the info, we have corrected the sound, you can enjoy it in stereo now :)
@@WDRKlassik Thank you so much for letting me know. Very much appreciated.
Very brilliant, very apt and frighteningly disturbing performance, of a symphony created aidst and expressive of the gathering storm and insanity of Nazism and militarism and genocide, in a soon to commence "total-world-conflict", and the already apparent psychotic entrancement of whole nations.
Played most fittingly by the marvellous WDR Symphony Orchestra, in the Cologne Philharmonic Hall of all places! Under a Russian baton. Amazing celebration of the power of music to harmonise peoples across cultures! A technique to reveal to our hearts that tour greatest power is to offer the hand of love and the lips and caresses of mutual adoration, to celebrate our universal sacred status as moral and beautiful beings.
This music, however, embodies the opposite perspective. A very agitato world horribly well-drawn by Walton where, let it be stated plainly, great cities were pounded to disgusting rubble by men in bombers in the skies; where 100,000's of people intentionally murdered in firestorms perpetrated by men; where in two atomic flashes 250,000 innocent people are incinerated by men; where millions were gassed and burned in ovens by men (apart from the odd clearly deranged female guard), and billions written off as Untermenschen by men.
Where millions of Russians were systematically starved to death in sieges conducted by so-called civilised male officers and conscripts in the Wehrmacht.
An age, in fact, where the very existence of morality and political virtue, and the trajectory of humanity, albeit haltingly, towards greater enlightenment rather than hellish degeneration ..... seemed exceedingly doubtful. A world where there was no Goethe, or Thomas Mann, or Rilke, or Beethoven, or Mozart, or Bach. Only kitsch musik and deranged rhetoric nightly from the mouth of Dr Goebbels on the Volksradio.
An age which Mr Churchill understood came within but one paper-thin time period, whereby the highest flights of European scientific and technical and industrial power would have been deployed in rockets of nuclear decimation across the globe. Where oh-so-civilised SS Colonel Werner von Braun (whitewashed "hero of NASA") and his "deeply educated" male German scientific collaborators (via their 10,000s of enslaved and whipped workers) were determined to produce intercontinental ballistic missiles.
Where, in fact, the RAF and USAAF had to play "find and destroy", night by night, against the V2 production and launch facilities. No amount of high explosives, no unpressed rickety bomber, no utterly exhausted aircrews, no distastefully large civilian casualties - none of these was more important than this ceaselessly probing and aerial "hand of death", in breathless mortal search of vastly more monstrous dreams - deranged "sick fancies" of completely insane diabolical extermination.
Even the veterans and politicians (all men) of the terrible carnage of the Western Front in the Great War would have pronounced this to be some infernal and perverse nightmare, the work of Dante and Hieronymus Bosch at their darkest and most malcontented misanthropy.
All this, in retrospect, can be heard in this storm-clouded and (in one sense) hugely brilliant work - "a hymn to malevolence".
But for the grace and beneficence of the intervening goddesses ..... who with moments to spare restrained the blood soaked hands and twisted minds of bestial men.
Music from an English genius (who loved the Italian Mediterranean world) and expressing that almost imperishable English pragmatism and empirical common-sense, happily too grounded to be susceptible to ideological fanaticism (ignore the Civil War and the distasteful excesses of Imperial arrogance). A people with a very robust 19th Century Liberal confidence in civilisation and the rule of law and the kindness of English hearts. The England of JS Mill and Lord John Russell, and William Beveridge, and Victoria and Albert, and John Lewis, and Hyde Park.... and the BBC. The English in India, in fact, to put it rather satirically.
Music is that most dynamic and ever evolving and incorporative of arts, sucking into the score the faiths and anxieties of players and audiences and even tuppenny critics! The very idea that music is a purely formal notation of mathematical detachment and cleanliness .... is juvenile rubbish.
Love andrea
wow.Schon wieder und wieder WDR und KÖLNER PHILHARMONIE. Was ist los mit Euch? Wie ist das möglich das Klang von KÖLNER PHILHARMONIE ist einmalig in EU und kann man nach ein paar Sekunden glücklich sein? Grüsse von mir Marek Maria Lipski aus Cottbus Alles Gute.Von mir und viel Spaß mit meine Kompositionen th-cam.com/video/Vdb4_CEyyIA/w-d-xo.html
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