Copland: Appalachian Spring
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 มิ.ย. 2024
- Enjoy this extract from Appalachian Spring, by American composer Aaron Copland. In this part of the ballet, a hopeful young Pioneer couple prepare for their wedding day. It's conducted by Santtu-Matias Rouvali, the Philharmonia's Principal Conductor. In our 2021/22 season, he presented Human / Nature: music for a precious planet, a series exploring how composers have addressed humanity's relationship with the natural world.
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Has the rare and illogical quality of making you nostalgic for a time you never knew...
Exactly
What a beautiful observation
@davidpanton3192 Your comment is very poetic and I love it!
So much of Copland’s work makes me feel this way.
Heartbreak and longing and sadness for no reason at all, but maybe for the best reasons there are
Having been born and raised in Western Pennsylvania, and knowing its mountains, forests, streams, and rivers, I marveled as a young man how perfectly Copland captured the spirit of springtime in Appalachia in this marvelous work. Only later did I learn that the Copland called the piece Ballet for Martha, and Martha Graham gave it the title Appalachian Spring, after a line in a poem by Hart Crane. But to me, it still takes me back to the forests and hollows of my youth and touches something deep in my soul.
This Music always makes me think of The Waltons....
A Finnish conductor, an English Orchestra playing a quintessential American work, by the son of immigrants who left Russia early last century.
If this isn’t a metaphor for how music making can traverse the man-made boundaries and shows what we can achieve as a species in these benighted times when we put our differences aside, then I don’t know what is.
The codas beauty and tranquillity is much needed balm for a world seemingly on the edge of a precipice.
Phil that is a terrific view. As the saying goes I couldn't have said it better myself. This piece has always moved me. You just gave an excellent explanation of what is behind that inspiration.
Thank you for your lovely thoughts, and for engaging with us.
Beautifully put!
The coda...so beautiful
Sometimes we use all the time available to listen to renowned authors and their magnificent works, but when we dare to look for other sounds and styles with contemporary authors and we discover real surprises... Five years ago I discovered Copland's works and became a self-confessed admirer of his work. We can close our eyes and find ourselves on a prairie galloping on an imposing and spirited stallion and then find ourselves flying over the tops of the highest mountain peaks like a hawk standing out in the blue sky!
And Apalache Spring is simply Divine with its variations of tones and sounds providing us with a complete journey!
My 2 year old son loves sitting and listening to this performance, along others by your group. He said very sweetly, "Momma, I like this song". Thank you for providing beautiful films like these for my young boy to love. We listen to everything on your feed :)! He also loves learning about the different instruments you use.
Wow he must have been very musical in a past life
A beautiful beginning for your son. This song makes me feel so grateful to be an America...cheers from San Francisco, ca
This is the piece that got me into music. I can remember my grandpa having the CD in his car around the same age as your son. To this day it’s still one of my favorites
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I was that boy, to my lovely mother, only 50 years ago.
This piece of music is why I have been a Fan fir 50 years!
Wow! Nice interpretation, excellent conductor and musicians, congrats!
The whole piece is wonderful, but the opening three minutes are some of the most awe-inspiring, achingly beautiful sounds I've ever heard.
It can bring me to tears with it's beauty, much like a lovely spring day.
Such a wonderful version by a European orchestra of an American classic. The best performance I've ever heard... this piece of music really lifts your spirit. Absolutely impeccable ...
My favorite piece from Aaron Copland for over 30 years. So soothing and beautiful to me...Copland, a genius...what a stunning performance...
My dad used to play this record when we were kids. It still brings awe in me each time; so, so beautiful.
Same. One of the few solid memories from my childhood, and my first memory of music (which became a life-long love). It took me around 30 years to finally find out what this composition was called. What a great performance.
Beautiful & stunning performance.
I long for the day when we aren’t all spread out though.
Possibly my all time favourite piece of classical music. One of the first I ever heard, as a young teenage boy. Still fills me with peace and joy all these years later. Lovely performance.
What a stunning performance. Spot on camera editing and amazing audio. The works of Aaron Copeland are so easy to listen to. Like 'Fanfare for the Common man' all of Copeland's music can be enjoyed by the most common of men. This piece reminds me so much of my youth and summers spent in Schuylkill County, PA. I was so awed by the rolling countryside which was so different from my town on Long Island, NY. Again, thank you for this wonderful performance.
Thank you! So pleased you enjoyed this performance.
Divine and inspired performance ⭐️
Thank you for the boisterousness, the dance, the magic and the absolute beauty 🙏
So very beautiful that it hurts
One. Of. My. FAVORITE. WORKS. OF. ANY. MUSIC. TYPE...LOVE. JAZZ...BUT. THIS TRANSCENDS. ALL.........SOUNDS. LIKE. HEAVEN. TO. ME.....!!!!....ILC
Just beautiful, absolutely exquisite.
Music that fills the spirit with air.
without question, one of most favoured pieces. it's so distinctly american (i'm not american), but evocative, playful and shot through with optimism and opportunity. reminiscent of an era rapidly disappearing ...
Beautiful. My heart sings. Thank you Aaron Copeland.❤
Lovely performance...and thank you to these musicians.🌹💐
The minimalist staging is electrifying. It clarifies the voices like I've only heard in my head. Stunning!!!
Thank you. This was filmed during the height of COVID-19 and we had to space the players out for safety.
I want this played at my funeral! I have loved it all my life!!!❤
TH-cam comments about really good music are what give me life. I'm a British immigrant to foreign countries twice (soon three times) over and my belief that music is what unites us is as strong as it was 35 years ago.
The Greatest Piece of Music Ever Written!!!! I have listen all my life an never get tired of it!!!❤❤❤
Aaron Copland fantastico compositore,evocativo,
struggente,trascinante.
Splendida esecuzione.
Such a lovely piec . . . full of hope and fun . . . sunlight bursting through the shadows.
Absolutely stunning. And my favourite piece of music. I could listen to that over and over again. Fantastic musicianship as well.
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It is evocative and irreverent at the same time! It makes me want to walk the Appalachian Trail!
This is so beautiful. I've been in love with Copland's work for 8 years now. Hopefully Appalachian Spring is engrained in my DNA.
I remember this piece from school days in art class. It's atmospheric and stirring. The Appalachia region is the most deprived in all of the USA - yet this talks to the soul of the appalachians. A russian composer knows all about soul. Using folk songs/hymns - Lord of the Dance / Simple Gifts in a beautiful evocation of the land and its people.
Beautiful performance of Copland's music
That was so beautiful it took my breath away!
This was a stunningly beautiful performance, thank you!
Thank you so much for posting this great work! I love the facial expression of the conductor who was obviously quite satisfied at the end! I felt it also - Magnificent!
My God - the video work is almost as good as the music.
BRAVO! A Empty House, No Audience, Spectacular Pandemic Performance to Remind Us of What Was This Tragic Place In Time! ❤
No coughs!!! Oh my goodness
That was sublime. The winds: outstanding! This might be my favorite version of A.S. now.
Beautiful! It brings so many wonderful feelings to my heart.
It’s a glorious piece of music and my favourite version.
I am continually inspired by this gem of music….John Clapp
A very emotional piece of music 🎵
Gorgeous performance and beautifully engineered and filmed too… thank you.
Thank you!
Bravi! That was a stunningly beautiful performance.
Thank you so much.
Lovely performance! Such gorgeous sound and wonderful musical interpretation! Bravo to the orchestra members and maestro Santtu-Matias Rouvali
Thank you!
Did any of you know that Aaron Copeland wrote the piece for Martha Graham? He originally named it “Ballet for Martha”.
Beauty music,...
a perfect performance of a perfect piece of music, I loved everything about it
Lovely lovely, great to every artists .
Beautiful performance.
Beautiful!
Beautiful music by a great American composer, and in this video not only so well-played (no surprise), but great acoustics as well. I also send music links to friends and relatives, and surely will this time too.
I had no idea that Malcolm Gladwell was so talented! I didn't know that he was a conductor too! 😊
But seriously, Matias Rouvali and the Philharmonia have presented a fantastic performance of Copland. When the music is right, I can absolutely see those mountains and the mist in the valley in the opening movement.
Oh my goodness- who is that amazing conductor?!
It is our wonderful Principal Conductor, Santtu-Matias Rouvali.
Beautiful Thankyou
Incredible rendition
Love this piece. Love this rendition. Thank you.
18:58 Simple Gifts (the part most everyone comes to hear)
This is one of my most favorite compositions and I really like this particular performance as it runs just a bit more slowly than the version I hold in my memory from many years ago.
Fantastic.😊
Appalachian Spring, a composition of the legendary Aaron Copland
Superb 🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂
beautiful
Never heard it before.
nice
It’s like the melody is aimless until it abruptly hits the I chord
At 17 : 10 we see the timpanist playing his timpani drums in the proper American configuration
I knew Appalachia of Western North Carolina.
Just googling a fav piece, of course lovely as always, but I don't understand the sluggish tempo through the faster sections of the piece. It sounds like a practice tempo if anything
Hopefully
...I usually Prefer the original "Ballet for Martha" scoring for a 12- (or 13-) piece 'theater-pit orchestra' vs. the better-known full orchestra scoring (though this conductor does a Fine job maintaining the 'spare intimacy' with at least 50% extra instruments.
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The 'orchestra pit' version also provides fuller development of a couple themes, as well as some charming details in several transitions .
The 'spareness' of the original form requires (and Allows) each instrument to speak for itself...like between 20:00--22:26 -- as they 'frame' in the"Simple Gifts" theme
Who else is here for their high school music appreciation elective
6:21 No. 2 Moderato
Dive!
Appalachian Springs a composition of the legendary composer Aaron Gopland. Goplant is a great composer. Love this piece. Love this redition...
Does anyone else get "The Waltons" Vine when they hear Coplands Masterpiece ????
why is this the audition piece 😭😭
my poor hands
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16:50
This would be the perfect music for the 2026 World Cup. Shame FIFA already went with generic music with 0 connection to any host.
Sorry, but to slow... Even for Bernstein.
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