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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 พ.ย. 2014
- One of my all-time favorite pieces of orchestral music that focuses the brass instruments is the music by composer Gustav Holst, "Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity," the Fourth Movement of the Suite of The Planets.
This music - and not only Jupiter, but the whole monumental suite of the 'Planets,' - was incredibly popular, and still is today, one of the most performed pieces by symphonies and musicians around the world. Ralph Vaughan Williams, Holst's best friend and fellow composer, once said that The Planets was "the perfect equilibrium" of Holst's nature--the melodic, precise, and structured, combined with the mystic and unexplainable. Ironically, this success was a bane to Holst himself, feeling that it was very atypical of his composition style, and even to his dying day he had a distaste for this piece due to it's great success.
The inspiration for the pieces was based on astrology, rather than astronomy, and this explains the lack of a movement for Earth. When Holst started this composition, he told us where this inspiration was coming from: "As a rule I only study things that suggest music to me...Recently the character of each planet suggested lots to me." ~Holst
To understand the music deeply, please allow me to explain a little about this beautiful piece. The Jupiter planet has the fastest planetary rotation of any in our system of worlds, and Holst exhibited that idea in the first notes. The violin strings were asked to play a tiny 3 note figure in 2/4 time over and over. Listen carefully. Over top of this, you will hear the main theme, syncopated, with 6 horns, and all of the viola and cello sections.
In this piece, Holst orchestrates a completely virtuosic use of the timpani, with two sets of timpani arranged in the composition. You can hear them clearly, each one sharing all the notes for this instrument. The piece explodes with different sections throughout, and just as you get used to one, he changes to another completely different time signature.
There is the most popular section by most people, which was also used in the hymn, "I Vow to Thee My Country," which emphasizes the violin, the pizzicato playing the cello in the background, the harp, and the brass.
I could say for me, it is one of the most exquisite pieces of music ever composed, deeply moving every single time, even if I listen to it over and over and over.
This musical suite was completed in 1916, but the orchestral premiere was not conducted until 1918, during the last weeks of World War I, in the Queen's Hall, in Langham Place, London, which was England's premiere concert venue. It was hastily rehearsed; the musicians of the Queen's Hall Orchestra first saw the complicated music only two hours before the performance with the financial support of Holst's friend and fellow composer H. Balfour Gardiner.
At the request of Gustav Holst, it was conducted by Adrian Boult: "Just before the Armistice, Gustav Holst burst into my office: 'Adrian, the YMCA are sending me to Salonika quite soon and Balfour Gardiner, bless his heart, has given me a parting present consisting of the Queen's Hall, full of the Queen's Hall Orchestra for the whole of a Sunday morning. So we're going to do The Planets, and you've got to conduct.' " ~ Adrian Boult. For the picture for this link, I am showing you the written note of the musical score given to Boult from Gustav Holst himself.
This performance took place at the BBC Prom Festival, which was first created and performed at the same Queen's Hall. Holst's Suite was performed here to commemorate the 75th anniversary of his transition. It features the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conducted by David Atherton. Watch carefully and you will see the many different instruments playing their part in this magnificent piece of music. - บันเทิง
3:00 exquisite, uplifting, soaring beauty
This is what an orchestra is made for.
Yes. This piece is majestic and glorious
I VOW TO THEE MY COUNTRY!! ;)
Exactly, you know your British music and patriotism, my friend!
James Ernst what? The theme was taken FROM Holst.
So one more comment at 3:00. The violins will play on their G string and D string. their two lowest strings, to make this melody rich and full, joining with the violas and cellos. When you play high up on the lower strings, specifically the G & D strings, you produce a rich powerful tone. Believe me, being a violinist myself, and having played this, it is a spectacular experience! It is my belief that this is what led England to adopt this as one of their National songs.
Thank you,Daniel. Have come to love this work and input from those who are versed in the art helps me to fully appreciate it. Our Toronto Symphony regularly performs this,now a must see!
Why is 3:00 so liked? I don't know much about orchestra and I am only here because of my music teacher but now I'm curious...
@@lisagavigan6758 it's beautifully melodic, a slow and emotional part that gets you in the feels. First time i heard this, i didn't expect it to hit me that hard
@@rickleblanc8900 it also has a certain resonance because of the hymn ‘I Vow to Thee My Country’ which is usually sung during Remembrance services commemorating the dead. And, imo, it’s also very moving since it’s sort of a pledge to your country to do your duty and serve it to your best.
@@SuperTinman2009 I saw it performed by the Victoria Symphony Orchestra at Bouchart Gardens one summer. It is out of this world. Literally it feels like you are carried somewhere else.
Came to this work late,came to love it. Magnificent! Thank you for your synopsis. Our Toronto Symphony regularly features this work. Ignorant,I always dismissed it. Will not make that mistake again...now a must see!
Saw my local Philharmonia perform this last night. Indescribable hearing it live.
Although I must question why the male performers in this orchestra are all dressed as colonel sanders 😂
@@c0ronariu5 4:55 Because Bernie Sanders is conducting them.
3:00 It is too beautiful , none of the existed word could described the beautiful of this part
I have sung to it at the top of my inadequate lungs many times, my sensitive and appreciative friend!!
Beautiful doesn't begin to describe. It touches my soul, really. It has this untouchable emotion that just hits me.
@@rickleblanc8900 I agree 💯
Love it 💯
perfection. one of my late mothers favourite compositions.
Thank you, it's one of my favorite classical pieces too. I'm glad you got a good feeling from it, thinking about your mother. :-)
This masterpiece is a lullaby of Universe , and a cradle of Cosmos
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Tokyo of the Land of the Rising Sun 🇯🇵
Brilliant thanks for posting excellent notes to appreciated
+David Pye Thank you. It feels great to have the time and effort so appreciated :)
I VOW TO THEE MY COUNTRY!
My grandfather was full British. I love that country and it's amazing people with every ounce of my heart!!!! I love you, my brothers, sisters, and special, talented brother. Gustav!!
Muito obrigadas pelas lindas músicas enviadas.
I seem to have wandered into the universe full of comfort , pleasure and impression
あらゆる動物の中で音楽というものを
もっている動物でいれてよかった
Wonderful
Part of the way through this I can hear Star Trek and also The Lonesome Dove
The overwhelming power of this performance will bring about the dawn of this confused world
simply wonderful!!! I love the music!!! why not the english anthem in great britain in future ???
Amazing and glorious
It is !
Such a good song I love it
listening in school
lol I'm doing mm #10
Ya
I love this
Anyone else love it
It's glorious and that slow middle part moves my soul. No joke
Jupiter is my luxury and magnificent tranqulizer
In this performance,
all is far superior splendor
Saint Germain advised us to invoke the Causal Body of Jupiter with us, it's joviality.
Amazing
Music is the foundation of civilisation. Harmonic.
Amazing how no one clapped
It's a suite, so you should applaude after the last piece
Six French horns!
1:40 And 6:32 is a banger.
This is the BBC Phil :) and not, as stated, the BBC Welsh.
ZEUS THE MIND OF THE KOSMOS. HE RETURNS TO HEAL A DEPRAVED WORLD.
❤😂🎉🎉😢😮😮😅😊😀😁😂🤣😃😄😅😆😉😊😋😍😎😘🤩😗😙😚🙂🤗🤩🤔🤨😐😑😶🙄😏😣😥😮🤐😯😪😯😪🤤😝😜😛😌😴😫😒😔😓😕🙃🤑😲😬😤😟😞😖🙁☹😭😦😧😨😩🤯😬😱😰🥵🥶😳🤪😵🤢🤕🤒😷🤬😠😡🤮😇🤧🤠🥳🥴🥺👻☻🤓🧐🧐🤭🤭🤭🤧😇🤧🤮🤥🤫🤭🤓🤓🧐☻😈👻☠💀👺👹🤡👿😹😹😺💩🤖👾👽💩💩💩💩😎😎😎😎
Holst holds an unchallenged position as an interpreter of the universe
Even above Einstein??
3:00 - When you're playing as England in Civilization V and find truffles.
How did 12 people dislike this?
Hip hop/rap idiots
Interesting juxtaposition of three tunes. I love the "I Vow to Thee My Country segment the best. I have no idea how it relates to the rest of the piece.
The score was a piece reflecting the astrology of the planet jupiter, the “I vow to thee my country” part was extracted from this piece not the other way around
@@chinogabesv650 , I knew that. It was part of the funeral music for Winston Churchill.
Hi
7:27
My secular dirt and troublesomes and worries Ìs washed away and disappear
🔥🔥🔥🔥
This is a wonderful movie
1:25 💛🔥
👇👇👇
3:00 Audience wants to get up and sing!!! (Understand? If not, do your research!)
Why do teachers assign this??
(No hate just wondering)
I think it's because it's memorable, the things we enjoy are usually memorable
Conan the barbarian
Uh, no.
1:05 seemed rushed. Isn’t It a molto pesante?
Emily L nah b
That’s the normal speed I think.
I think it's rushed too. Saw this piece two times, heared it a thousend times. Can't get enough of it.
I’m not sure but even if it is, this is the conductors interpretation of the piece.
Cesar Herrera I am very sure this is played too fast. Not for the better.
Earrape
浮世の悩みが消えて行きます。
I love the piece, but I don't love the performance. It's too one-dimensional, string-dominated and for me the tempo is all wrong.
It does seem a bit fast and rushed. I have a cd of The Planets and the tempo is noticeably slower and the instruments have a bit more room to "breathe".