on the contrary, i would LOVE to have him as a conductor. he's pouring all of his energy and emotion into the music, he feels this music better than most other conductors i have seen
i wish i could sound that calm when i play high notes on my bassoon...but i love this piece because it is so whimical, something that you would hear if you were thinking about a fairytale.
I saw this live yesterday! :D It's simply beautiful and I think Stravinksy really knew what he was doing when he wrote for the Bassoon. And the Contra takes a solo just after the Bassoon which I didn't know before
Eti, you can have whatever opinion you wish to have about it, and that's fine. All I'm saying is that, from personal experience and from being with other musicians over many years, it's "part of the game". I have never met any musician who could (or wanted to) eliminate those movements.
Hey if your looking for that bassoon solo i have it in a book called Solos for the Bassoon Player and its selected and edited by Sol Schoenbach. It comes with piano accompaniment if that makes a difference.
that's a bassoon, hasn't anyone ever seen an oboe before?? oboes are shaped like a cone and are blown through one end, looking to the front. Basoons are played through that small tube on the side
@Orpehus458 I played just last week with him! :-) and it was very interesting! a little bit difficult to follow the beat for me, however, perhaps because I was that concentrated in playing my voice... but very musical, expressive and with a lot of commitment (can you say so?).
@cj1lorenz In spite of all complexity of notation there are still things that are not on the sheet. And what a good conductor must do is awaken those extra impulses in musicians that make their particular work awesome compared to another orchestra. So yeah, he's into it, definitely. He must be.
@DavidTeeee I share your rabid passion for Stravinsky. On a personal note Stravinsky as a person is very meticulous. His work table is obsessively neat.
@etiterum I studied with a pretty renowned teacher who gave me training in a sort of performance coreography that has exactly to do with the musical phrasing. It was one of the most important things I learned about music in my live! It helps you to get out of yourself and enjoy what you're doing! :-) I could recommend you to read "Der musikalische Körper" of bassoonist W. Rüdiger...it's about almost the same. Now I`m playing in BPhil! :-) This is German style, school and tradition :-)
That conductor conducts a little freaky. He seems like a cool conductor to have though. Amazing control on those high notes by that bassoonist. I don't have that much control up there.
if u play a bassoon then u should say u play a bassoon(my opinion)otherwise i think that means u dont care for letting more ppl knowing about it. It's just a nice instrument just explain to them what it is...
No, and it's a crying shame. Still, modern music is beginning to utilise us to our full potential :) I'm an orchestral bassoonist and I assure you, our kind is on the rise.
I think you spend too much time criticizing the music, and too little time enjoying the music! :) I used to be a professional musician, and the gestures are NOT unrelated. It is how the musician relates to his/her instrument...it is PART of playing the instrument. Musicians, thankfully, are about as far removed from robots as I can imagine. Whether it's opera, rap, performance art, concertos, country, or whatever, gestures and motions are part of it. My two cents, anyway... :)
I love this piece of music and i'm of the opinion that this is the most beautiful bassoon solo in the symphonic repetoire that i know. I hate Gergiev with a passion though. He's so arrogant he does things with the music which composers don't ask for. this isn't overly-bad but I saw him do tchiak 6 and it was horribly interpretated.
very nice performance, but Stravinsky would turn in his grave to see this conductor (it is rather a fashion these days for conductors to play showmen without a reason). Stravinsky himself hated necessary & grotesque gestures of conductors. He said : IT IS ALL WRITTEN IN THE SCORE, there is no need for all this!... Stravinsky was a minimalist in his conducting. And it sounded as good!
bassoonists need more recognition
but gorgeous solo.
on the contrary, i would LOVE to have him as a conductor. he's pouring all of his energy and emotion into the music, he feels this music better than most other conductors i have seen
i wish i could sound that calm when i play high notes on my bassoon...but i love this piece because it is so whimical, something that you would hear if you were thinking about a fairytale.
Igor always sends shivers up and down my spine!
This solo sounds also incredibly well on French bassoon. Unfortunately we can't hear this instrument that often anymore.
It's the Lullaby of the Firebird Suite, you should check out the whole thing though. Beautiful and majestic.
I saw this live yesterday! :D It's simply beautiful and I think Stravinksy really knew what he was doing when he wrote for the Bassoon. And the Contra takes a solo just after the Bassoon which I didn't know before
@Ndv2134
that's vienna oboe, very rare! it hasn`t changed since the 19th century and is being played now only in Austria
This is beautiful.
Oh I just performed this last week :) I love this!
Oh shit! I played this last year on my orchestra I love this piece
apparently they are called the Viennese oboe. They have a reedy sound and blends in well in orchestra.
@phantompanda14 If you mean during a performance, the amount of lights put out some intense heat. And they are also in a suit.
exquisite music!
Eti, you can have whatever opinion you wish to have about it, and that's fine. All I'm saying is that, from personal experience and from being with other musicians over many years, it's "part of the game". I have never met any musician who could (or wanted to) eliminate those movements.
viva la bassoon!
It is the Firebird, a Ballet by Stravinsky.
There is also a suite of it which is very famous.
ok, you finished fighting,
now, can we listen to this beautiful piece?
Hey if your looking for that bassoon solo i have it in a book called Solos for the Bassoon Player and its selected and edited by Sol Schoenbach. It comes with piano accompaniment if that makes a difference.
how do conductors sweat that much? my conductor last year was sweating so much he looked like he came from a gatorade commercial o.o
that's a bassoon, hasn't anyone ever seen an oboe before??
oboes are shaped like a cone and are blown through one end, looking to the front. Basoons are played through that small tube on the side
Mejor música que esta no hay :)
> It's a viennese oboe.
I believe it is. Is this the Vienna Philharmonic?
i think that they are talking about the oboe that is shown around 1:04, becuase it's different than what most people know an oboe to look like.
Sorry, talented fabulous composers of greatness.
That sounded almost unlike sarcasm.
i started crying.
i love gergiev for stuff like at 1:17
Bravo!!!
This comment has earned you all of my love.
@bassoon334 I don't think this is the version of Firebird that has contrabassoon...
@Orpehus458
I played just last week with him! :-)
and it was very interesting! a little bit difficult to follow the beat for me, however, perhaps because I was that concentrated in playing my voice... but very musical, expressive and with a lot of commitment (can you say so?).
This is whimsical to you?
What happened to the guys oboe?
you should listen to his earlier early works like his symphony no.1 and 'fireworks,' his genius is already apparent.
@cj1lorenz
In spite of all complexity of notation there are still things that are not on the sheet. And what a good conductor must do is awaken those extra impulses in musicians that make their particular work awesome compared to another orchestra. So yeah, he's into it, definitely. He must be.
@DavidTeeee I share your rabid passion for Stravinsky. On a personal note Stravinsky as a person is very meticulous. His work table is obsessively neat.
@etiterum
I studied with a pretty renowned teacher who gave me training in a sort of performance coreography that has exactly to do with the musical phrasing. It was one of the most important things I learned about music in my live! It helps you to get out of yourself and enjoy what you're doing! :-)
I could recommend you to read "Der musikalische Körper" of bassoonist W. Rüdiger...it's about almost the same.
Now I`m playing in BPhil! :-)
This is German style, school and tradition :-)
His name is Michael Werba
I'm going to be playing this solo for my orchestra. Does anyone have any helpful tips?
Practice
cry while performing
look for Solos for the Bassoon Player selected and edited by Sol Shoenbach
@YourExposer
Vienna philarmony, conductor Valeriy Gergiev. Just look at the information ;-)
What isn't wrong with neck straps?
I think this is the full ballet rather than the Suite.
OOOHHH! we're playing this in school XD
1:17 Magic!
does sb know the name of this bassoonist?
Michael Werba
I played this solo in high school for basson one of my favprite songs I've played
That's the sweatiest man I've ever seen. It's just dripping. I plar bassoooooooooooon. Yeah
I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE
Hehe, I was going to say he looked like Joe Cocker out there... ;)
totally agree. I don't know who would be able to read him, but I would be so confused. Hes not even conducting, hes just... dancing maybe?
It's an oboe d'amore
Nein
Should be a D-FLAT at 2:13, not D-NATURAL. When asked, Stravinsky himself said it should be so.
Oh i see...i think that's an oboe d'amore, though i'm not sure because one can't see the whole instrument there
That conductor conducts a little freaky. He seems like a cool conductor to have though. Amazing control on those high notes by that bassoonist. I don't have that much control up there.
2:28 hair priorities
2:24 and 3:01 it looks like the conductor just took a bath
Omg the conductor is sweating!!!!
he looks like he is going through withdrawls. "just one more hit man, please, just one"
if u play a bassoon then u should say u play a bassoon(my opinion)otherwise i think that means u dont care for letting more ppl knowing about it. It's just a nice instrument just explain to them what it is...
No, and it's a crying shame. Still, modern music is beginning to utilise us to our full potential :)
I'm an orchestral bassoonist and I assure you, our kind is on the rise.
@ZacPB189
hear at 3:07
so this is what happened to Louis Anderson....
@Halomaster1211 Fah got pronounce the o like ah its german so yeah :P
it could be worse. i am a bassoonist and was given oboe music in my band once.
Your director is an idiot than...
@goopysoupmonkey
Google Images will give you the solo for free.
creepy ass conductor but sweet jammin
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I think you spend too much time criticizing the music, and too little time enjoying the music! :)
I used to be a professional musician, and the gestures are NOT unrelated. It is how the musician relates to his/her instrument...it is PART of playing the instrument. Musicians, thankfully, are about as far removed from robots as I can imagine. Whether it's opera, rap, performance art, concertos, country, or whatever, gestures and motions are part of it. My two cents, anyway... :)
because it's at the end of a long piece.... fuck people consider things. i mean yea the conductor looks scary, but they sound good!
I love this piece of music and i'm of the opinion that this is the most beautiful bassoon solo in the symphonic repetoire that i know. I hate Gergiev with a passion though. He's so arrogant he does things with the music which composers don't ask for. this isn't overly-bad but I saw him do tchiak 6 and it was horribly interpretated.
you...hate the bassoon? It makes me incredibly sad that people even HAVE those thougths.....
I'd want to play this song in band, but I'm afraid that we may not do it justice . . . and that I'd ruin the solo from nerves DX
thats a weirdly shaped oboe
Sorry, but I would break out in laughter if any of my conductors were like that... whats with all the finger twitching?
Played a D natural instead of a D flat
very nice performance, but Stravinsky would turn in his grave to see this conductor (it is rather a fashion these days for conductors to play showmen without a reason). Stravinsky himself hated necessary & grotesque gestures of conductors. He said : IT IS ALL WRITTEN IN THE SCORE, there is no need for all this!... Stravinsky was a minimalist in his conducting. And it sounded as good!
yes, this clip should be banned!
absolute disgrace to stravinsky ;)
ummm...wow...hes really into it isnt her? the conductor getting all sweaty....
oopppss sooo boring!!!!