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Paul Hindemith was a frikken genius. No one is better at anything writing orchestra music than him. He had it all. Selecting/creating material. Working it out. Genius counterpoint. Unparalleled orchestration and instrumentation. Melody, harmony, rhythm. Building tension. Always commanding the listener. Taking them for a ride. Never a dull moment. And not a copy cat. God, I can't believe it. He's right up there with Bach, Mozart, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev...Elgar is another. I don't know how humans could do that sort of thing.
I first heard music when I was a 7-month-old foetus. Now I'm 3 years old and I can confidently say this is one of the most beautiful pieces ever written.
I remember hearing this while mother was pregnant with me at a concert. I'm now literally entering my own wife and it's still just as beautiful. Bravissimo!
I first heard this music when I was18. I"m now 82 and I still find it an amazing piece. This performance is absolutely stellar! Bravo to the orchestra and it's conductor.
I heard Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra perform this, along with Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe and Respighi's Pines of Rome at the Fox Theater in Atlanta in the late 1970s or early 80s. What a memorable performance that was!
Long ago, Herbert Blomstedt conducted our youth orchestra in Mathis der Maler. It was an honor to play for him, and we appreciated the way he worked with us. In the video, the young musicians and the conductor clearly enjoy working together!
15:25-15:35, YES!!! This is the only video I've found where we actually get to see the flautist playing ALL THREE notes -- D, F and A. This solo should always be highlighted, since it creates one of the most haunting and enigmatic "conversations" (with the full orchestra juggernaut suspended in mid air) in the history of western music. (In other videos I've seen, the focus tends to be on the conductor as he or she grimaces, heaves the shoulders up and down, cranes the neck, and fixes a laser stare on the bass drummer at the back, as if to "help" the guy produce the boomiest possible booming that he can boom -- just as if the flute solo didn't exist. Here, the videographer is smart enough to show both the flute and the bass drum in alternation, rather than ten seconds filled with conductor grimace-face. Yay!)
I first heard this performed while in college and at 63 remain in awe. This recording and camera work is wonderful. What Hindemith was communicating is as timely in 2020 as it was when it was premiered.
Magnificent piece, played by a wonderful orchestra, with my favourite conductor. The icing on the cake is that it’s in RAH at the Proms. My spiritual home ( I nearly lived in that hall as a student) Paul Hindemith is a seriously underrated composer and Mathis is his masterpiece. The final choral is one of my favourite passages in all music.
First heard this piece at 19 while at a rehearsal of the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington, DC - Antal Doráti was conducting. I was sketching members of the orchestra for a caricature I was doing - and I had to stop. Never having heard the piece before I was transfixed. Great themes, tremendously rich in its colorful orchestration. To this day it's one of my favorites. And Blomstedt is a terrific interpreter, this is a first rate performance with these talented young musicians. And his recording with the SF Symphony is sensational I think.
One of my favorite orchestral works is Paul Hindemith's Mathis der Maler (Mathis the Painter). Notice how much it mirrors a painting, balancing color and form. An orchestra of younger players wonderfully performs it!
When a contemporary composer achives to join "strange harmomy" and "music for the people" you get a Masterpiece. Stravinsky always achieved that. Hindemith got it here. Harmony can be just meritorious maths.... or art: here we have art.
hindemith simply put was a WIZARD who takes one into different dimensions, ecstacies,he is a god of music, people have been '''casting their pearls'' before the musical swine,who guzzle mozartium chamberpot over and over ,and leave genius's like him off the '''so called'' classical radio,concerts, but their days are numbered, i believe with my soul some 50 yrs from now he will be everywhere!!!
The opening bars of this symphony are, for me, some of the most beautiful moments to be found in concert music composed in the first third of the 20th century. Here, Mr. Blomstedt, gave the massive string chords no time to bloom (ironic, considering) and show their relationship, close or distant, whence comes the beauty, to the sustained notes of the melody. Such a shame. To rush through such ravishing episodes is to fail to allow the listeners time to ascertain for themselves the beauty of the musical moment. However, having criticized him for going too fast, better that than too slow, as the composer himself did in the Deutsche Gramophone boxed collection of Hindemith conducting a selection of his own works for orchestra. His tempi were, at times, so slow I can’t bear to listen to much of the expensive collection. Which composer replied, when asked by the conductor what tempo he should use, said, if the orchestra is bad, as fast as possible?
Ja Ja, I heard this when I was a humble cobbler in Der Mutterland. I died in an Allied bombing raid. In my current carnation I always thought I’d heard this before.
I agree with the amount of second - lets say third rate music; senseless, meaningless, loveless, unnecessary compositions. Sorry for my old music teacher, who had known Hindemith personally and tried to put his music into our mind. But invain...
I was going to say that if all these pretty folk are from UK, it would grieve me that there were no youth of color in the orchestra.....but indeed it is the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra (AKA Jugendorchrestra) based in Vienna but the kids are a juried lot from all over Europe, so maybe harder to bring in other-than-white-white. Anyway, a very enthusiastic and skill bunch, and one hopes that in the decade wince concert they have all gone on to beautiful careers. Bravo PROMS! and Bravo Bloomstedt!
Why do some people have to bring race into *everything.* In its own topsy-turvy way this is as bad as 1930s Germany, when race *also* was brought into everything. The ideal used to be that no one would be *excluded* from an orchestra because of race. Now we have quota systems and their busybody monitors and trolls. Tiresome.
Boiy I t think that this is the very first time that I have actually seen Mr. Herber t Blomstedt. Is he still alive right now or not? Does anyone know?
Too majestic work for the general public, Mathis is the pinnacle of the historic soundtrack. It is a pity that there is a lack of a more elaborate transition between the segments of this true suite of a metaphysical epic. It has been my favorite work for over thirty years.
It was hardly difficult to play that at the age hardly 20 years old, specially some fast high positions strings fragments and I didn't like the piece too much in the very beginning... Later, in the end of his period in the Schleswig'95 I've got completely in love with this music, but seriously! 😁
They have practiced is so much that the conductor has lost the joy and passion and he is just not into the music as one would expect. This is one of the greatest pieces written and the musicians are going on their own. They did not lose their passion.
Completely disagree. The conductor is doing exactly what he needs to do and not overdoing it just for show. I've been playing under conductors for 57 years and would be honored to work under Blomstedt.
How come that the violin and cello sections are almost entirely women? Not so the winds. I used to teach at an American Conservatory and we indeed had many women students, but I don't recall anything like this imbalance. Is it different in Europe? Anyway, they are all terrific!
It was wartime and people had nothing. So Hindemith said: Lets take some uncertainty in rhythm and key and some poor soulless sounds- what do we need more according to the time...
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I was 17 when I first heard it and now I'm 98 and still love it.
Paul Hindemith was a frikken genius. No one is better at anything writing orchestra music than him. He had it all. Selecting/creating material. Working it out. Genius counterpoint. Unparalleled orchestration and instrumentation. Melody, harmony, rhythm. Building tension. Always commanding the listener. Taking them for a ride. Never a dull moment. And not a copy cat. God, I can't believe it. He's right up there with Bach, Mozart, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev...Elgar is another. I don't know how humans could do that sort of thing.
i am two billion three hundred and fifty four million one years old. i first heard this performance when i was 2 seconds old. still my favourite
So glad you‘re still this young.
Seeing these kids reminds me of playing in a youth orchestra in the early 1970's- one of the best experiences of my life.
I first heard music when I was a 7-month-old foetus. Now I'm 3 years old and I can confidently say this is one of the most beautiful pieces ever written.
I first heard this music about 3 minutes ago, and it's the best piece I have heard in the past 3 minutes, 34 seconds.
I'm not yet born and I adore it.
I pay my monkey maid in fruits and nuts.
I too first heard it as a teenager. I'm now 78 and it's still one of my most favorites. Great performance from those kids.
I remember hearing this while mother was pregnant with me at a concert. I'm now literally entering my own wife and it's still just as beautiful. Bravissimo!
Hold up 😂
@@disamis6873 what an absolute jewel! 😂
I first heard this music when I was18. I"m now 82 and I still find it an amazing piece. This performance is absolutely stellar! Bravo to the orchestra and it's conductor.
Similarly, age 15, age 76...
I heard Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra perform this, along with Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe and Respighi's Pines of Rome at the Fox Theater in Atlanta in the late 1970s or early 80s. What a memorable performance that was!
Long ago, Herbert Blomstedt conducted our youth orchestra in Mathis der Maler. It was an honor to play for him, and we appreciated the way he worked with us. In the video, the young musicians and the conductor clearly enjoy working together!
1995, Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival? 😃😉
Just sit back and enjoy this music from Germany's last greatest composer. Hindemith will NEVER be surpassed. A 20th century musical genius.
He should be played more often, much more.
Why is he so under appreciated? Such an amazing composition.
@@bubbaebert I think people overlook the Romanticism lurking beneath the surface with Hindemith. Especially this piece - it has an optimistic feel.
15:25-15:35, YES!!! This is the only video I've found where we actually get to see the flautist playing ALL THREE notes -- D, F and A. This solo should always be highlighted, since it creates one of the most haunting and enigmatic "conversations" (with the full orchestra juggernaut suspended in mid air) in the history of western music.
(In other videos I've seen, the focus tends to be on the conductor as he or she grimaces, heaves the shoulders up and down, cranes the neck, and fixes a laser stare on the bass drummer at the back, as if to "help" the guy produce the boomiest possible booming that he can boom -- just as if the flute solo didn't exist. Here, the videographer is smart enough to show both the flute and the bass drum in alternation, rather than ten seconds filled with conductor grimace-face. Yay!)
I first heard this performed while in college and at 63 remain in awe. This recording and camera work is wonderful. What Hindemith was communicating is as timely in 2020 as it was when it was premiered.
This is a huge orchestra and full of young musicians. it was spectacular.
Magnificent piece, played by a wonderful orchestra, with my favourite conductor. The icing on the cake is that it’s in RAH at the Proms. My spiritual home ( I nearly lived in that hall as a student) Paul Hindemith is a seriously underrated composer and Mathis is his masterpiece. The final choral is one of my favourite passages in all music.
The Gloria brass fanfare may be the greatest moment in 20th century music. I love it so.
First heard this piece at 19 while at a rehearsal of the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington, DC - Antal Doráti was conducting. I was sketching members of the orchestra for a caricature I was doing - and I had to stop. Never having heard the piece before I was transfixed. Great themes, tremendously rich in its colorful orchestration. To this day it's one of my favorites. And Blomstedt is a terrific interpreter, this is a first rate performance with these talented young musicians. And his recording with the SF Symphony is sensational I think.
im 15 and this is amazing. i hope i can hear it when im 80 or wtv lol.
wait no im 16
@@marcellovillalon1655 that made me laugh
One of my favorite orchestral works is Paul Hindemith's Mathis der Maler (Mathis the Painter). Notice how much it mirrors a painting, balancing color and form. An orchestra of younger players wonderfully performs it!
Wonderful performance in every respect.
What a wonderful performance of this glorious music!
8:38 - Grablegung
12:33 - Versuchung des heiligen Antonius
Excellent conductor, especially when it comes to modern music.
Great music, great performance, pure pleasure.
In English: 1 Angelic Concert; 2. Entombment; 3. Temptation of St. Anthony. Blomstedt is a master of this music.
My favorite piece in late college.
Hindemith ...................fantastic . Often forgotten , often overlooked always brilliant .
Beautiful and expressive! Well done :)
When a contemporary composer achives to join "strange harmomy" and "music for the people" you get a Masterpiece. Stravinsky always achieved that. Hindemith got it here.
Harmony can be just meritorious maths.... or art: here we have art.
I'm always surprised by the young orchestras style feeling... Omg, it's unbelievable! The wood solos in the 2 mvt sound GREAT!
Hindemith could have been a great film composer. Alex North must have known this symphony when he composed the score for Spartacus.
hindemith simply put was a WIZARD who takes one into different dimensions, ecstacies,he is a god of music, people have been '''casting their pearls'' before the musical swine,who guzzle mozartium chamberpot over and over ,and leave genius's like him off the '''so called'' classical radio,concerts, but their days are numbered, i believe with my soul some 50 yrs from now he will be everywhere!!!
Excellent.
I heard this at the age of 17 and still love it dearly. Hindemith was a very talented composer but discontinuous.
...bravissimo...
The opening bars of this symphony are, for me, some of the most beautiful moments to be found in concert music composed in the first third of the 20th century. Here, Mr. Blomstedt, gave the massive string chords no time to bloom (ironic, considering) and show their relationship, close or distant, whence comes the beauty, to the sustained notes of the melody. Such a shame. To rush through such ravishing episodes is to fail to allow the listeners time to ascertain for themselves the beauty of the musical moment. However, having criticized him for going too fast, better that than too slow, as the composer himself did in the Deutsche Gramophone boxed collection of Hindemith conducting a selection of his own works for orchestra. His tempi were, at times, so slow I can’t bear to listen to much of the expensive collection. Which composer replied, when asked by the conductor what tempo he should use, said, if the orchestra is bad, as fast as possible?
Cantus 5, thanks very much for sharing. Could someone post the time stamps for the various movements?
Ja Ja, I heard this when I was a humble cobbler in Der Mutterland. I died in an Allied bombing raid. In my current carnation I always thought I’d heard this before.
Und mi mutter, I never could understand her because she was always muttering. Ja.
Die ganze Oper ist genauso toll wie diese Symphonie. Ich empfehle die Aufnahme von Rafael Kubelik.
Hindemith wrote a humongous amount of second rate music but this work is his best and will stand the test of time.
I agree with the amount of second - lets say third rate music; senseless, meaningless, loveless, unnecessary compositions. Sorry for my old music teacher, who had known Hindemith personally and tried to put his music into our mind. But invain...
I was going to say that if all these pretty folk are from UK, it would grieve me that there were no youth of color in the orchestra.....but indeed it is the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra (AKA Jugendorchrestra) based in Vienna but the kids are a juried lot from all over Europe, so maybe harder to bring in other-than-white-white. Anyway, a very enthusiastic and skill bunch, and one hopes that in the decade wince concert they have all gone on to beautiful careers. Bravo PROMS! and Bravo Bloomstedt!
Why do some people have to bring race into *everything.* In its own topsy-turvy way this is as bad as 1930s Germany, when race *also* was brought into everything. The ideal used to be that no one would be *excluded* from an orchestra because of race. Now we have quota systems and their busybody monitors and trolls. Tiresome.
BRAVI~!
Is this a youth orchestra? What name does it go by ? Again the young players are absolutely fabulous, as is the conductor!!
It's the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra.
この指揮者ほんまこの曲好きやね！！じっさい良い演奏に仕立てるけど！！
いろんな時間軸のフレーズが次々食い気味に入ってくるこの曲ですが、オーケストレーションはあくまで弦楽主体なのが上品で良いですね。
Does anyone know if the trombone melody starting at 5:31 is borrowed or original theme? If it's borrowed, from where?
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wonderful, but who is the orchestra??? they're fantastic!!!!!
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Boiy I t think that this is the very first time that I have actually seen Mr. Herber t Blomstedt. Is he still alive right now or not? Does anyone know?
He is alive and conducts!!
I've played with him this summer. It was great. He is so young in his brain.
Nice to know that he has a nice "young brain."
Too majestic work for the general public, Mathis is the pinnacle of the historic soundtrack. It is a pity that there is a lack of a more elaborate transition between the segments of this true suite of a metaphysical epic. It has been my favorite work for over thirty years.
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Wow
Wow,quoi?
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8:35
힌데미트 교향곡
화성적 변동, 신고전주의
Las tentaciones de san antonio
It was hardly difficult to play that at the age hardly 20 years old, specially some fast high positions strings fragments and I didn't like the piece too much in the very beginning... Later, in the end of his period in the Schleswig'95 I've got completely in love with this music, but seriously! 😁
They have practiced is so much that the conductor has lost the joy and passion and he is just not into the music as one would expect. This is one of the greatest pieces written and the musicians are going on their own. They did not lose their passion.
Completely disagree. The conductor is doing exactly what he needs to do and not overdoing it just for show. I've been playing under conductors for 57 years and would be honored to work under Blomstedt.
2 8:38
3 12:33
French horn glares at out-of-tune piccolo at 16:10
In 16:10 there are a flute. Maybe the horn almost a minute later (around 17:07).
0:56
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How come that the violin and cello sections are almost entirely women? Not so the winds. I used to teach at an American Conservatory and we indeed had many women students, but I don't recall anything like this imbalance. Is it different in Europe? Anyway, they are all terrific!
It's because of the "Engelkonzert" 😜😁
Na ja, 12 Kontrabässe
Them younger folk really gets into body English. Good thing they’re English. Body Russian could get brutal.
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Negative feces.
Ein bißchen zu schnell am Ende. Das ist deutsche Musik. Also, Hindemith ist der "moderne" Bach. Es ist ein 'Gebet' zum Schluß.
It was wartime and people had nothing. So Hindemith said: Lets take some uncertainty in rhythm and key and some poor soulless sounds- what do we need more according to the time...
God what a dull piece...
I was 15 when when I first heard it, now im 70 and still love it.
Similarly, I'm here at 76, reliving 15.
Similar to my experience.
Similar. It was one of the few symphonic records my father owned that I liked as a kid.
I heard this in my dream this morning for some odd reason.
me too!!!!!! now 77!!!! still love it!