The last two days I was at two perfomances of my favorite symphonies ever - Mahler 2 and 4 and I'm really grateful that my chair wasn't in the first row at Mahler 2... today I was in the second row with Mahler 4 and that was great because Klaus Mäkelä conducted it and I'm a huge fan of him!
These are the best videos about classical music on TH-cam. Your content has reinvigorated my interest in classical music. I love your commentary and your vids are entertaining and make me laugh and smile while relearning all things I had forgotten! TY🙏
Sibelius 2 has PP entries on high notes for trumpet. I know because I was playing it last night. Not all brass parts are loud. In classical works we mainly double the timpani.
The statement that Mozart and Haydn used brass instruments sparingly is actually not entirely true. Indeed they use trumpets sparingly but they use horn almost all the time in their symphonies. In his early symphonies Haydn uses only strings in the slow movements but he uses horns in every other movements. Actually the basic sonority of Mozart and Haydn early and middle symphonies is "strings with horns and oboes". Conductor's fault if the performance puts horns to the background.
My favorite brass instrument apart from the horn is another version of the tuba called….well, the Wagner Tuba (I guess it’s named after Richard Wagner himself)
4:14 Actually, Mahler did write in the conductor’s score to have the horns stand for that moment. That being said, completely agree. You wouldn’t notice them if they didn’t stand.
Nice video and also entertaining :) I was trying to figure out the instrument they used later in the song "GODS" (League of Legends, after like 2:00 minutes) and I think after watching this video I heard trumpets :)
The horns sound especially sharp and aggressive in tone when playing hand stopped notes fortissimo (or as close to that as you can play hand stopped), as they do in parts of Mahler Symphony 2.
For the record, modern horns can actually play lower than trombones (sans triggers), they just don't sound good in that register. They have the same technical range as an F tuba, but are pitched higher because of how they were played historically. See Jagdhorns, Alphorns, or natural horns for more detail
The trumpets, trombones and tubas may be too loud, but never the horns! I am looking forward to playing that very stand-up section (well the whole of Mahler 1) in a "play day" near Malvern on Saturday.
Actually, the recording that you’re using doesn’t just show how loud the brass can play, because in the whole Mahler 1st Symphony recording (1990 Chicago Symphony-Tennstedt) there are amazing soft lines… I don’t find this video educative, actually the opposite, it seems that you’re blaming the brass for playing loud (and that’s what most of the average orchestras do, because they do not use the extremes) but! The CSO uses the extremes both ways, and that defines one simple thing: excitement! I hooe you get to listen to music in a better way, don’t forget that humans are always reponsible for the next generation of humans, and everything can be interpreted wrong if you do not say it clearly… Besides that, you chose a great recording, one of a kind and something that marked my life for ever and inspired me, so, thank.
Me: “How many brass sections do you need?”
Romantic composers: “Yes.”
Brass is not always loud. Think...New World Symphony. The brass can actually can be the most harmonic section.
Mahler 2 Brass corale 🎉
The last two days I was at two perfomances of my favorite symphonies ever - Mahler 2 and 4 and I'm really grateful that my chair wasn't in the first row at Mahler 2... today I was in the second row with Mahler 4 and that was great because Klaus Mäkelä conducted it and I'm a huge fan of him!
The next video in this series will hopefully mention sleigh bells.
@@martineyles I'm also hoping for the hammer😂
These are the best videos about classical music on TH-cam. Your content has reinvigorated my interest in classical music. I love your commentary and your vids are entertaining and make me laugh and smile while relearning all things I had forgotten! TY🙏
The horn is the best instrument ever!
I completely agree!
The great love of my life.
@@martineylesI agree as well!
Liar
How do you guys get a good tone from such a tiny mouthpiece? Like I’m genuinely jealous
Sibelius 2 has PP entries on high notes for trumpet. I know because I was playing it last night. Not all brass parts are loud. In classical works we mainly double the timpani.
no euphoniums :(
It is not a "tradition" for the horns to stand in the finale of Mahler 1. It is printed in the parts: aufstehen
The statement that Mozart and Haydn used brass instruments sparingly is actually not entirely true. Indeed they use trumpets sparingly but they use horn almost all the time in their symphonies. In his early symphonies Haydn uses only strings in the slow movements but he uses horns in every other movements. Actually the basic sonority of Mozart and Haydn early and middle symphonies is "strings with horns and oboes". Conductor's fault if the performance puts horns to the background.
5:26 spot on!
My favorite brass instrument apart from the horn is another version of the tuba called….well, the Wagner Tuba (I guess it’s named after Richard Wagner himself)
And played by horn players with horn mouthpieces.
Wagner tuba is a type of horn
4:14 Actually, Mahler did write in the conductor’s score to have the horns stand for that moment.
That being said, completely agree. You wouldn’t notice them if they didn’t stand.
thank you
Nice video and also entertaining :)
I was trying to figure out the instrument they used later in the song "GODS" (League of Legends, after like 2:00 minutes) and I think after watching this video I heard trumpets :)
3:13 oh, is that Bowden soloing on Trumpet?!
Decibal-wise, isn't the tuba the loudest?
legend!
They forgot about euphoniums. Again.😭
Whats a euphonium
They are not typical in an orchestra. It’s similar to a saxophone, in some orchestra’s, but most forgo them.
how does one discern the difference between trombone and horn in sound
Trombones sound sharp, like trumpets, while horns sound more round, like bassoons or flutes.
@@GlaceonStudios ah thats thething, when somewhat louder horns can sound sharp too 😓
The horns sound especially sharp and aggressive in tone when playing hand stopped notes fortissimo (or as close to that as you can play hand stopped), as they do in parts of Mahler Symphony 2.
Right, and trombones can mellowish as well 😅 that’s just brass instruments I guess, being able to sound like each other for no reason @@martineyles
For the record, modern horns can actually play lower than trombones (sans triggers), they just don't sound good in that register. They have the same technical range as an F tuba, but are pitched higher because of how they were played historically. See Jagdhorns, Alphorns, or natural horns for more detail
Modern trombonists can play just as low, minus the low B unless we pull every slide lol
The trumpets, trombones and tubas may be too loud, but never the horns! I am looking forward to playing that very stand-up section (well the whole of Mahler 1) in a "play day" near Malvern on Saturday.
Brass + Woodwind = Saxaphone
Brass clarinet
Or ophecleid
What about the Cimbasso? 🥴
Actually, the recording that you’re using doesn’t just show how loud the brass can play, because in the whole Mahler 1st Symphony recording (1990 Chicago Symphony-Tennstedt) there are amazing soft lines…
I don’t find this video educative, actually the opposite, it seems that you’re blaming the brass for playing loud (and that’s what most of the average orchestras do, because they do not use the extremes) but! The CSO uses the extremes both ways, and that defines one simple thing: excitement!
I hooe you get to listen to music in a better way, don’t forget that humans are always reponsible for the next generation of humans, and everything can be interpreted wrong if you do not say it clearly…
Besides that, you chose a great recording, one of a kind and something that marked my life for ever and inspired me, so, thank.
Brass isn't just loud smh