Part I: A Kiss of the Earth
Introduction 0:40
The Augurs of Spring 4:05
Ritual of Abduction 7:14
Spring Rounds 8:30
Ritual of the Two Rival Tribes 12:03
Procession of the Oldest and Wisest One 13:57
A Kiss of the Earth 14:39
The Dance of the Earth 15:03

Part II: The Exalted Sacrifice
Introduction 16:36
Mystic Circle of the Young Girls 21:11
The Naming and Honoring of the Chosen One 24:02
Evocation of the Ancestors 25:46
Ritual Action of the Ancestors 26:28
Sacrificial Dance 30:05

@milad.nikzad

19w↑18

Underrated moments 🔥
9:52 the piccolo part on top is so beautiful
10:31 feels like the sky cracking open
14:15 is insane
17:11 THAT CHORD THO
22:06 BEAUTIFUL
23:59 my all-time favorite part
24:50 is so much fun
28:55 feels like a mad king’s procession
29:42 all the trills, leading into the final movement

@Yeonwoo63

46w↑16

1부: 대지에 대한 찬양

00:40 : 서주
04:05 : 봄의 태동
07:14 : 유괴 의식
08:30 : 봄의 윤무
12:03 : 적대하는 두 부족의 의식
13:57 : 현자의 행렬
14:39 : 대지에 대한 찬양
15:03 : 대지의 춤

2부: 희생재

16:36 : 서주
21:11 : 젊은 여자들의 신비한 모임
24:02 : 선택받은 여자에 대한 찬미
25:46 : 조상에 대한 초혼
26:28 : 조상에 대한 의식
30:05 : 신성한 춤

All comments from YouTube:

@LondonSymphonyOrchestra

1y↑236

We hope you have enjoyed this performance!🤗

Don't forget to subscribe to our channel to never miss the music!🎶

@amarillo1525

1y↑5

@adelagonzalezlinares9540

1y↑3

Iuuuuiyuyyju

@adelagonzalezlinares9540

1y↑1

@Amarillo

@adelagonzalezlinares9540

@jaikonen

1y↑8

Incredible perfomance, but I was very disappointed about the directing of the cameras. There are so many legendary percussion and timpani solos, why they were hidden? Some of the timpani solos are truly epic and classic; they are very meaningful for the musicians too - whey did you decide to pan and zoom at the conductor during them? The longest time and pretty much the only zooming at the percussion section was the washing board. Why?

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@maddieteddie553

2y↑3K

Vivaldi obviously experienced a very different spring from Stravinsky.

@SwirlOfColors

1y↑131

Haha. I'm stealing this quote. Way too funny.

@TurboBinch

1y↑64

well, one was telling stories about barking dogs, and the other was about making preteens dancing to... you know.

@pepetapiaman

1y↑25

The work of Vivaldi hsce reference to the 4 states of drunkenness, is not literal about the 4 climatic seasons.

@TurboBinch

1y↑24

@rafael perez I mean, the accompanying sonnet for the first movement of Autumn references drinking, but the concerti are not each a different state of drunkenness?

@unbornify1185

@Turbo Bitch idk I picture “Winter” being a drunk guy dancing lol

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@letsrock6452

2y↑829

Stravinsky: “I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.”
A true artist.

@user-pn5mn6mv3c

25w↑12

i still feel bad for the Stegosaurus

@duartevader2709

24w

@@user-pn5mn6mv3ccontext pls

@jmanbearpig5067

2y↑2.7K

let’s just appreciate Stravinsky for scoring every John Williams movie before he was even born

@rhythmythicles

2y↑68

Hahahaha

I was just thinking that you could take some many little musical bites/ideas from this work and create entire other works from them easily. Maybe that's what JW set out to do!

@Ainnem

2y↑49

And also Nobuo Uematsu´s "One Winged Angel"

@nightnotes3122

😂

@TheOneAndOnlyZeno1889

2y↑118

let’s just appreciate Gustav Holst for scoring every John Williams movie before he was even born* fixed

@seewaage

2y↑7

That is exactly what I think too! I've thought that for years. I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed it! haha :-)

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@isemustaphe

3y↑770

The last chord literally be spelling "D.E.A.D"!

I got chills!

@SCruz-wi3wd

2y↑4

wdym?

@VincentSpongefulvids

2y↑19

The notes

@achille-claudedebussy7122

2y↑115

@S. Cruz the chord at the very end spells out “DEAD” as in the notes because that’s when the virgin snaps her neck and dies

@byattwurns1553

2y↑56

@S. Cruz Notes are assigned an alphabet identifier (ABCDEFG)
A Chord is two or more notes played together (AD/ ABC)
The last chord is DEAD

@flaxenRdn

2y↑2

@Byatt Wurns 😯

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@domicdom2483

3y↑2.2K

When Rite of spring was played for the very first time in 1913, it caused a RIOT in the audience due to it being so extremely advanced, angry, abstract, edgy, stormy, doomy and very modern with alot of pounding. I think Stravinsky approached a time in his life where he got old and wanted the rights of spring again.

@alkanista

3y↑68

The riot was over the choreography, not the music.

@meggisamachine

3y↑209

@alkanista This isn't true. By Stravinsky's own accounts it was the "dissonance in the score" as well as the "jerky" movements of the dancers. It was a mix of many things, including the anti-Russian and anti-Nijinsky factions in Paris at the time. The dancers certainly played a part, but it was the score, and politics, too.

@alkanista

3y↑92

@Meagan Koenning Yes, it was apparently over many things, and not even a real riot as much as a rowdy and noisy audience. But one of the dancers at that performance said the uproar began before a note was even played, which tells me the music was probably not the primary factor.

Plus, it was a ballet audience, not a concert audience. I'd think their main interest would be what was happening on stage, rather than in the pit.

@meggisamachine

3y↑41

@alkanista I do agree that the choreography was a huge factor, because when Stravinsky debuted the music only a year later as just an orchestral performance, it went over extremely well. The dancing is incredibly jarring.

@josephmiller1224

3y↑4

19th century Romanticism, yes. Stravinsky's modernism, no.

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@ZoiBox

2y↑507

Firebird, Petrushka and Rite of Spring - ALL IN THE SAME NIGHT?! As a percussionist that is my worst nightmare! Well done to all the performers, splendid playing as always!

@DieFlabbergast

1y↑13

Well, at least they didn't do Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition!

@nicktheclarinet6718

1y↑4

@DieFlabbergast that’s songs way easier then those 3 -clarinet player lol

@cheetahman515

28w↑2

I was like, how many ambulances did they have to call because of the heart attacks they would have given people

@patrickedwards5804

26w↑2

It certainly beats those evenings being dressed up to the nines but with nowhere to go, with biblical rest counting until the penultimate tinkle on the triangle.. 🤔

@patlayanseker561

4y↑4.1K

“I like classical music,its so calm and relaxing”
-Stravinsky : Let me introduce myself

@shimmereyes8984

3y↑77

Allow me to introduce you Atonal Classical Music

@mycroftholmes7379

3y↑28

Stravinsky was not a part of the Classical Era, lols....he was with the Era with Debussy

@angeliquemuhavani1221

3y↑136

@Franz Ballet OP said classical music, as in the genre, not the era

@indrawanjunaidi5356

3y↑23

How about Schoenberg

@culbycove4963

3y↑18

@Indrawan Junaidi Schoenberg was the Sonic Youth of composers

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@dominicstorella1903

3y↑423

@willmorris8198

19w↑4

This should be the top comment and pinned. Thank you so much!

@sserene.

3y↑789

"I feel calmed and relaxed whenever I listen to classical music."

Rite of Spring: Am I a joke to you?

@snuppssynthchannel

3y↑16

One period this was my go-to sleep music, I only stopped with it because it worked too well , and the piece deserves attentive listening. I guess Bitonal harmony and constant time changes feels very natural to me after heavy exposure of music of similar nature.

@londoncalling1984

2y↑16

This isn't classical music. It is early modern music. The classical period ended in around 1820 and the Romantic period ended around 1900.

@Dzifii

2y↑10

1812 Overture, Can Can, William Tell Overture, Radetzky March, In the Hall of the Mountain King, Ride of the Valkyries, Psycho: are we a joke to you?

@Dzifii

2y↑12

@londoncalling1984 Based on Wikipedia:

Classical music most commonly refers to the formal musical tradition of the Western world, considered to be distinct from Western folk music or popular music traditions. In a more general sense, the term may also refer to music evidencing similar formal qualities in non-Western cultures. Originating in Western Europe with the music of the early Christian Church, modern musicologists often classify it into eras: the Medieval (500–1400), Renaissance (1400–1600), Baroque (1600–1750), Classical (1750–1820), Romantic (1800–1910), Modernist (1890–1975) and Postmodern/Contemporary (1950–present) eras. These periods and their dates are all approximate generalizations and represent gradual stylistic shifts that varied in intensity and prominence throughout the Western world.

@fredericchopin6445

2y↑4

@londoncalling1984 it is still classical music, although not in classical era

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@TheFIoridaMan

1y↑17

Stravinsky- "I guess you guys aren't ready for that, yet. But your kids are gonna love it. "

@nonatomusic

3y↑150

Maestro: "Bass strings section on FFFF. Can you manage it?"
Bassist at 11:00 : Almost breaks strings with fury rock slapping pizzicato.

Awesome performance.

@MusicDiscoveryLab

1y↑287

This is the piece that let's the whole orchestra live out its heavy metal dreams.

@dctrbrass

1y↑16

lol it's funny how many metal/rock fans I've met while playing in orchestras. My personal favorite is Dream Theater. Great playing in that group. Most classical musicians love great playing in other genres too.
But yeah the counting is pretty nasty in this chart.

@vilelilman4252

40w↑3

That and Danny Elfman’s pieces and his new chamber orchestra album
He loves Stravinsky’s work a godly amount though

@jmha2428

37w↑5

Progressive Thrash Metal legends, Voivod quoted a sequence from Rites Of Spring in their track Pre ignition. Its what has encouraged me to dig into his compositions

@mirandazannos336

32w↑1

@@directorhferreira445 YES !!!! That's what I was just thinking. That piece is incredible.

@mirandazannos336

32w↑3

Fun to read all the comments responding to what you said. I'm here watching this out of curiosity because I saw an interview of Martha Davis of "The Motels", and she said this Stravinsky piece is one of the first pieces that got her so interested in music, when she was just 5 years old ! I love her strange and kinda haunting songs and I can see why she loved Stravinsky.

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@lucpraslan

5y↑4.8K

Give that 1st bassoonist a medal.

@carlang4793

5y↑55

omg ikrrrrr

@hunterrees

5y↑66

That was so amazing!

@skatardrummer1

5y↑59

Right? That was beautiful

@gdw3

5y↑85

Circular breathing!

@mathildewesendonck7225

5y↑22

A gold medal!!

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@aumosapparel

3y↑412

I play percussion, I listen to a lot of genres. I have never delved into classical ever in my life. Before watching this video I was educating myself on conductors and orchestra with placements, ambience, sound etc.. after watching this I cannot believe the extraordinary power of classical and will continue to educate myself the on art. Kudos to Simon and the orchestra. Love from Australia ❤

@jalenwashington6468

3y↑3

That would be because Rite of Spring isn't from the Classical period of music (1730-1820), it's from the Modern period (1890-1945), being first performed in 1913. https://www.libertyparkmusic.com/the-modern-period/

Basically, the modern period took what the last period (Romantic, 1820-1890) developed, managing to tell a story with nothing except for the music itself, and expanded upon it by shaking up certain conventions of music (the time signature, the harmony, etc.). It's pretty fascinating stuff.

@Ana.Garcia.

3y↑5

@Jalen Washington Probably he wrote classical music as a style, not an era

@whichcache2517

3y↑1

@Ana Cláudia Garcia Considering the fact that Rite of Spring is considered one of the first modernist compositions, I highly doubt that.

@Ana.Garcia.

3y↑1

@SuperStachey eightnineeightnine As a genre dumbass

@whichcache2517

3y↑5

@Ana Cláudia Garcia Okay. So I've no idea why you decided to be rude, but regardless, Igor Stravinksy's Neo-Classical period doesn't change the fact that Rite of Spring doesn't fit into being "classical" at all, whether you consider it to be a style, genre, or as part of an era. It's a ballet that was so shocking at the time, whether it was the music or the dancing itself, that it started a riot in its first performance.
It's a song that popularized the idea of bitonality (playing two keys at once). It constantly changes the number of beats per meter, from 5, to 9, 5, 7, 3, 4 in quick succession. The way in which it challenges the conventions of music, yet still maintains listenability is sacrosanct to what modernism stands for.

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@albertosamaniego2476

2y↑82

the heavy metal of classic music

@Raku-Maru

12w

Besides Shostakovich ;-) I recommend the 11th Symphony, especially the part II (Allegro) respectively part IV (Allergro non Troppo) with the drums and timpani💪💪💪

@insectgenesis

3y↑70

just something about spring and human sacrifice just go so well together

@CatLover69420

3y↑2

Harvest season?

@CliffPasty

@Professional retard
There’s a difference between the harvest and THE HARVEST.

@aldoringo439

2y↑181

The piece seems crazy but every time you listen to it it gets simpler and better and better.

@waveflunktion

2y↑21

Once you get to the point where you memorize the pattern of the single, double, triple & quadruple hits in the quiet parts of the Sacrifical Dance, you know you've listened to it too much.

@pnl4660

@Point2Kelvin One have to practice in listening for years to memorize and accept all patterns and melodies of this music. But finally your brain will thanks you for the pleasure of clear and easy following to this energetic powerful masterpiece.

@toprak3479

1y↑1

The time signatures, beats etc. seem pretty random at first but repeated listens reveal strange reappearing rhythmic patterns that are actually not that hard to memorize. It's a puzzle. The more pieces you fit together, the easier it gets until the whole thing becomes almost crystal clear. Sacrifical Dance might be an exception to this though.

@dez87

It's bad

@toprak3479

@Dez trash tier take

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@jorgeruiz5405

3y↑40

I love the fact that at 23:53, the creators of Disney' Fantasia thought this moment in particular matched with the arrival of a nightmarish T-Rex into the scene. Now I cannot not picture it without it.

@spmoran4703

1y↑4

Yes that T Rex put the fear of God in me.

@drystroke7896

4y↑2.3K

what time signature do u want this piece in?
stravinsky: yes

@morgainegamergirl6703

4y↑15

Best comment ever!

@GUILLOM

4y↑24

Not even a song.

@jackmarentette1302

4y↑4

Not funny.

@ChrisTheHero65

4y↑22

You mean piece?

@morgainegamergirl6703

4y↑9

@ChrisTheHero You mean piece?

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@fevzudinasaracevic1229

3y↑196

Tried listening to it while studying. Couldn't. Ended up watching the video till the very end. And on repeat again. Too perfect to ignore!

@huntergati4477

1y↑1

I’m not the only one

@antonwebern6128

3y↑45

Heard it for the first time when I was 15, took me 2 years to digest it and understand it. This is still my no 1 of all the music. Went to Budapest to experience it in Feb 2019. Amazing. Greetings from a random boy, from some brutalist Polish neighbourhood.

@masterchieftheconqueror2631

3y↑4

Salutations from random American boy from 100 year old farm house. That is so cool. Good to see I'm not the only one who appreciates classical music

@lucave15

1y↑1

@Masterchief the Conqueror you definetly aren't alone

@aldoringo439

2y↑49

6:12 how can a musical moment sound so good but yet be so musically perfect at the same time? Stravinsky was the most audacious genius in musical history.

@thesilvershining

3y↑156

28:56-29:17 is by far the scariest music ever written... the brass of course but also the strings with the flutes and piccolo, oh my GOD.

@pentaxel3905

3y↑31

All the cinematic horror composers stole it, the high eerie and creepy trills and screaming horns together are why the cinematic composers steal (Stravinsky quoted: "Great artists steal")

@apothecurio

2y↑14

Seriously. I hate to recommend this. But if you really enjoy that kind of repeated dissonant thing. You should check out a band called swans.

@adriancarlomanlangit1296

2y↑5

Don't forget the percussion department :)

@ambrosia3907

2y↑3

@Apothecurio Also Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, they are very Stravinsky-inspired and make fairly similar music to Swans

@brownie3454

2y↑4

@Ambrosia they hold themselves back with the name for sure

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@johnhowardmorgan

3y↑107

I've listened to many, many performances of RoS during my 83 years on the planet. This is certainly one of the very best.

@yuenccheung1586

5y↑2.9K

During the original premier, Camille Saint-Saens, Ravel and Debussy were in attendance. At one point, Saint-Saens makes a sarcastic joke and leaves. One man is slapped in the face by another while he boos. Someone yelled that the music was a fraud. An Austrian ambassador laughed aloud. Two factions of the audience began to yell at each other while Ravel was yelling "Genius!" and Debussy was pleading for silence. One person spat in the face of another and no one really heard the orchestra after that.

-Summary of 'Classical Music: Igor Stravinsky'

@kirsteni.russell5903

5y↑270

Thanks for the detail! All I knew was that there was a riot of sorts at the premier of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. I can imagine that Saint-Saens just wasn't ready for this, But Ravel and Debussy were. (BTW, I enjoy Ravel and Debussy too!)

@whoopsala2589

5y↑42

In fact saint saence never been to the performance :-)

@donaldneill4419

5y↑88

Barbara Tuchman recounts the impact of the premiere on 28 May, 1913, saying of the piece, "It was the Twentieth Century incarnate. It reached at one stride a peak of modern music that was to dominate later generations. It was to the Twentieth Century what Beethoven's Eroica was to the Nineteenth, and like it, never surpassed....With the performance of the Sacre, filling out a decade of innovation in the arts, all the major tendencies of the next half-century had been stated."
From 'The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914', Chapter 6.

@Flautistotle

4y↑56

Ooooh, I wish I'd been there! Slapping and spitting at a concert, it was fun back then!
Love this performance. I couldn't play alto flute without a curved headjoint, but I'm a wimp. Beautiful bassoon; hello to Sarah Willis; I wanna play washboard when I grow up.

@alcyonae

4y↑8

Source?

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@vanivashisht7305

3y↑54

Can't believe I can listen to this masterpiece for free!!😇💖

@LuisSandoval1138

3y↑17

Aggressive, archaic, visceral, colorful, ominous ... in all this lies the beauty of this fantastic work.

@flavio136

3y↑18

Thanks Igor, you left physically this world 50 years ago a day like today, but your spirit and genius are ageless and timeless.

@waveflunktion

2y↑35

13:50 has to be the most nasty, brutal trumpet excerpt ever and hearing it played so clean is so satisfying.

@BrianBisetti

1y↑1

Indeed! If [Patrick Bateman pursing his lips in American Psycho] made a noise, this would be it. 😙

@milad.nikzad

19w↑18

@sid5537

17w

Yes!

@matte88rossi17

14w

a lot of tollerance

@steventran2120

5y↑3.9K

imagine rioting to this back in the day

@turdferguson2982

4y↑220

Imagine rioting to this today!

@SaxandRelax

4y↑139

who said we can’t

@photo161

4y↑165

The premiere was at what was essentially a Diaghilev produced classical dance event, the crowd was largely balletomanes and the "riot" was a reaction more to the choreography than to the music...althogh the two were in reality, inextricably linked.

@findlayhamilton-jones3863

4y↑164

world's first moshpit

@kayceewhite

4y↑8

Steven Tran
Lmao it’s lit

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@theplaneshift

1y↑53

The string work at 15:30: without video, you can't grasp the intensity of the crescendo to 16:07. Outstanding - one of the greatest pieces of music in human history.

@iaf4454

45w↑1

That passage is really hard, i played this and i can assure you it takes a lot of hours and hard work to play it well... ufff it is great but you need a lot of practice

@jesscac

44w

I thought the video was sped up at first... this is crazy. a violin riff

@studiostudentstars1795

42w

Even the conductor has to wipe the sweat off his face after that section. 🤣🤣

@pavlekocbek

23w

Certainly! Must be! Look here, I think they are ever so majestic ...this sad rivers, strange shadows, remote gloomy valleys. Fog, windless lands, murky bogs, heavily spirit saturated still earth smells of mossy peat, Vast and mysterious marshlands, lakes, wretched pools of sorrow and euphoria . And very deep in the spring at the enchanted glimmering ponds is almost certainly, I'm 100% sure of it, a planetary intergalactic portal to other worlds

@avakan5218

3y↑52

19:05 for those that missed the trumpets using plastic bottles as mutes! Apparently they played a selection of mutes to Sir Simon Rattle (The conductor) to which he chose those. So cool!

@theunknown6056

2y↑6

I didn't notice.
That's really weird , the sound too.

@user-dj9jw9uz9p

2y↑11

Shortest 35 minutes of my life. Amazing performance.

@JohnJApanovitch

3y↑17

One of the most complex and most insane pieces of classical music ever composed. Igor Stravinsky was insane, but he really knows what he was doing. This orchestra pulled it off so well, and the audience just roars into applause after everything is over with. As the one man at the end shouted: "BRAVO!!!"

@aldoringo439

2y↑173

That melody around 9:00 is pure genius. So villainous.

@capn_l

1y↑6

And I eat it up everytime its soo mesmerising to hear

@ArmoredGriffon

1y↑1

The instant I heard it I recognized it used for the intro to Dr. Steel's "The Singularity"

@toprak3479

1y↑5

It sounds full of solace to me

@DoctorWu23

51w↑2

Its so fucking good. It literally pulls you with it.

@buddhaburrito

47w↑1

It sounds like a sad yet strong father to me

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@fe2661

4y↑2.3K

Plot twist: Those coughs are actually on the score. Stravinsky wrote them.

@carolh5501

4y↑16

Lmao really tho?

@simonkawasaki4229

4y↑225

I traveled back in time and asked him; he said without the coughs, you might as well not perform the piece at all.

@deliusmyth5063

4y↑84

Started the virus.

@carolh5501

4y↑5

@John S'Bastian Batch bruh

@hellNo116

4y↑81

The music is so effective he forcing ppl in specific locations in the room to cough on specific points.

You don't even have a choice. That is the law of the universe.

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@me_is_hobo

3y↑820

😞 You're bored in lockdown
😮 You realize you can act out a ballet
😀 You can act out The Rite of Spring
😈 You can sacrifice your siblings to the pagan gods

@user-ll4ro3uk9c

2y↑12

LOL

@twt6563

2y↑7

BRUH

@joelthegrim

2y↑13

that escalated quickly 😬

@zacharycahill3483

1y↑19

"liked by London Symphony Orchestra" lmao

@MaQuGo119

lml

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@SamirAbadeer

2y↑27

Stravinsky said : "I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received." Revolutionary Master Piece . Very smart

@p.terodactyl6848

3y↑20

teacher: "i'll put on some quiet and calming classical music while we do our independent work."
the classical music:

@quackgonjin168

4y↑28

Rite of Spring is, without a doubt, my favorite classical piece. It's amazing.

@alanasda7705

1y↑10

Stravinsky's compositions used to cause riots. He would make the audience angry with his experiments in tonality, metre, rhythm, stress and dissonance. When The Rite of Spring first premiered in Paris, the audience mercilessly greeted it with boos, jeers and hisses and it caused a near-riot.
But The Rite of Spring was one of the first examples of opening a portal of creativity where suddenly you didn’t follow the rules of music. You had to follow your heart.

@Calvin1985

4y↑321

"It's just a prank bro." -Igor Stravinsky, May 29 1913

@phildavies1411

3y↑83

I play the bassoon - that opening solo is really difficult, the most feared (& loved!) bassoon solo in the whole of the orchestral repertoire!! Rachel Gough played it superbly though!! The one and only time I’ve played ‘Rite of Spring’ I played the relatively ‘safe’ 3rd bassoon part!! 😂

@tygavin04

2y↑7

That was intense, I'm rattled. The camera work revealed the personality of the Maestro and the orchestra, the pride, skill and dedication of the orchestra. London Symphony Orchestra is glorious. My heart is still pounding.

@davidtodd536

40w↑10

Fascinating, eerie, mesmerizing, and highly emotional. Chaos coming into order, then back to chaos; Different threads of sound harmonizing and then in conflict and back again. Wild to see so many artists playing their instruments with so much motion, intensity, and focus. Fabulous!

@danielabisenius9858

23w↑2

Just wonder how many people in that audience, know, how fortunate they are to hear this masterpiece life? How many people know how difficult, how tremendously difficult this piece is? How impeccably this is played?? What an accomplishment it is to conduct this piece without a score in front of you?! The moment I heard the bassoon playing I started to cry. And how one man only, can write such divinity??? I’m still in awe, after so many years….

@uralbob1

1y↑13

My God that was the most powerful performance I’ve ever heard! Absolutely wonderful! Sincere thanks to every member of the orchestra and to whomever made this recording available to us!

@nn6404

5y↑622

100 years later and this piece is still weird as fuck. I love it!

@segmentsAndCurves

3y↑27

Probably 100 more years, the world will love them even more!

@ethandegroat4471

2y↑12

I first listened to this and I was wtf, and then listened to the rest and I was like "man this is good" and now I love it.

@oscargill423

2y↑12

This is, in my opinion, the greatest music of the entire 20th century across genres, styles, cultures and nations. So intense, but also so beautiful. I love this piece.

@V9incent

3y↑215

Sounds surprisingly cinematic. John Williams, Alan Sylvestri and James Horner were obviously inspired by this.

@robertperez2262

2y↑19

Take a listen to the Star Wars soundtrack and then listen to Gustav Holst’s Mars from The Planets :-)

@HalloSpaceboy

2y↑5

And Nobuo Uematsu wrote one of the most iconic video game track of all times with it

@mjsmcd

Horner? No

@davi37005

@J P Which one?

@dctrbrass

With such a rich history, it's hard to not be inspired by someone IMO. I'm typically inspired by Russian 20th century stuff.

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@Yeonwoo63

46w↑16

@joshuaworman4022

3y↑46

its so crazy how well this captures what it might acutally feel like to watch a ritualistic murder.

@amazingtoad7244

2y↑12

I love how everyone just decided to cough at the same time at 16:13

@nickyg7726

6y↑2.2K

Bass clarinet solo
zooms in on alto flute...

@xxwood_windxx-bb4413

6y↑7

nickyg what time stamp is it

@nickyg7726

6y↑58

2:14

@xxwood_windxx-bb4413

6y↑1

nickyg oh I get it I wanted to see it

@ethanpetersen845

5y↑70

Literally one of the most well know bass clarinet excerpts of all time haha

@joeyburgos_

5y↑25

I’m salty

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@user-74652

2y↑46

French horns are normally given softer, more mellow parts, but The Rite of Spring basically reminds us that they are brass instruments and hence can be every bit as loud as a trumpet or trombone.

@SMCwasTaken

12w

French Horns are the most beautiful sounding instrument

@srvector8248

2y↑7

It's the first time I've heard this piece and I'm absolutely obsessed; so chaotic and precious at the same time. Respect to the 1st bassoonist, the Bass they're showing with that tremendously loud pizzicato, the entire brass and percussion section, and the Eb clarinet

@midianpoet

15w↑2

Unbeliavable. Thanks to Sir Rattle and London Symhony Orchestra for pure art experience.

@themindmaster3073

2y↑13

As a bassoonist, i frequently go back and listen to that beginning solo, its one of my long term goals to learn that part myself

@pavlekocbek

23w↑2

there's something so majestic about stravinsky's composition. It's sending shivers all over my body, up and down. It brings tears to my eyes just by watching this fantastic visual structure rendering in my mind as I listen. This is very, very deep and mystical.

@djmotise

5y↑652

Kick ass bassoonist. One of the best openings I've ever heard.

@remyjones9146

4y↑17

darren motise Kickass Bassoonist is my new band name

@billding7073

4y↑7

Rachel Gough.

@santosateos1452

3y↑2

No, the tempo was to slow (I know that it is written "solo at lib") and that give to much importance to the bassoon solo, that was not the intention of the composer, the Introduction should be more like water flowing in a creek, so the public gets in the piece in a very sutil way. Giving to much importance to the bassoon solo damages what comes next. Just check the 1929 version, conducted by Stravinsky himself.

@Ana.Garcia.

2y↑17

@SANTOS ATEOS Interpretation change through time. And honestly, if it's good enough for Sir Simon, it's good enough for anyone

@santosateos1452

@Ana Cláudia Garcia everyone knows (well, everyone in music) that they need to attract new public, the numbers are not good, that is why there are many film scores being performed, that is why they do those things, is like shiny things... "You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons." (quoting Gene Wilder in Mel Brooks's "Blazing Saddles")

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@DoctorWu23

51w↑4

This is one of the most incredible pieces of music to see live. The insane tempo changes are electrifying. You usually can't describe a classical piece as keeping you at the edge of your seat but this does without a doubt.

@dianalee3059

50w↑3

Off the charts brilliant performance. Thank you Sir Rattle and the always glorious LSO

@augustineacevedo37

3y↑8

I couldn’t listen to this without constantly looking behind me

@furassicpark7642

3y↑35

At 26:54 that alto flute is sinister as hell, love it. I couldn't play that thing without a curved headjoint, my arthritic right shoulder would be screaming. Actually I probly couldn't play it with any kind of head joint come to think of it.

@cobravoadora

3y↑14

This 1913 song is a milestone in the entire history of music, putting an end to romanticism once and for all! Stravinsky nailed it!

@aaronlebos

5y↑396

8:55 the darkest emotion that can't be described in mere words

@presleyvelvet618

5y↑31

Brooding

@alumi9818

5y↑21

it's called 'sulking'

@m0ck0wl

4y↑24

anguish

@joeyuzwa891

4y↑23

the passionless desire for murder

@jftierdor4605

4y↑28

that's probably not saying something good about me but this is my favourite moment

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@Tamonduando

3y↑10

This is stuff is as refreshing and modern as the day it premiered more than a century ago.

@georgemorley1029

3y↑1

And no one has managed to top it since.

@cedricpicard297

1y↑5

This is such a stellar performance of of of the most daunting pieces of orchestral repertoire. Wow

@willreese420

3y↑2

The Daily Doug brought me here and now I am a fan of Stravinsky. Brilliant.

@tennislibra

2y↑6

The absolute raw psyche of this composition will forever be unrivaled.

@DerpDerp3001_plays

1y↑2

Me: Pass me the AUX
Friend: You better not play trash
Me:

@efmusic04

5y↑418

Still waiting for The Rite of Summer.

@joaoguerreiro52

4y↑44

Midsommar

@undefinedd1147

4y↑10

The Wrong of Summer? 😁

@Dmichoacan

4y↑22

The Riot(s) of Summer

@pauloamaral6069

3y↑4

He will compose that in the after-life.

@KariIzumi1

3y↑3

Top ten anticipated sequels

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@youinspiremyinnerserialkiller

2y↑8

Holy fucking shit. This is epic!! I remember hearing this as a child in disneys fantasia. But hearing it as an adult with a full orchestra.... mind blown.

@notaire2

4y↑3

Precise and at the same time exciting performance of this unique masterpiece with colorful sound of all the instruments. The virtuosity of all the soloists is without doubt admirable. The awesome maestro directs the highly functional orchestra in an inspiring tempo with fully effective dynamics. Simply wonderful!

@patrickedwards5804

28w↑7

Fucking amazing that Rattle conducts this without a score. The Dance of the Chosen one is a thicket of varying time signatures and syncopation. To consign all of this movement alone to memory is staggering in itself. Always admired Rattle's ear for 20th century music. He is at his best in this period I believe.

@petermendoza1170

50w↑4

Igor was just AMAZING! The music makes the themes SO VIVID on our thoughts. I first heard a 'segment ' of this as a child when my mother took me to see the animated film "FANTASIA" and have loved it for the next 60 Years! His "Firebird " is also another marvel.💖👏👏

@classicalmusic1175

6y↑2.9K

I imagine to a 1913 audience this work was as revolutionary as Beethoven's 5th was to a 1808 audience.

@daniellbondad6670

6y↑246

+Classical Music11 To the bit larger majority of them,it was garbage.Only a minority of them praised it for what it was.

@buffpowerlifter97

6y↑177

it was rejected at first sadly

@SauvikBiswas

6y↑287

"The performance was accompanied by shouts, catcalls,
derisory comments, angered ripostes and even fistfights." -- program notes for this performance

@ooflespoofle3691

6y↑98

Top 10 high school rap battles

@milkyu_ix

6y↑34

Jay Preis
Are you seriously arguing about whether or not a simple comma was to die for?
Get a life

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@carlosign7898

3y↑8

Aaah! yes Stravinsky the primal rockstar

@aldoringo439

2y↑3

Stravinsky was one of the most audacious, talented and ambitious musical geniuses of all time. Its music behind description, beyond understanding.

@cjames0723

1y↑9

That double bass guy is the main character of this story.

@dirkcampbell5847

3y↑4

Phenomenal memory to know the piece so well he can conduct it without a score! A perfect performance. The most original and influential orchestral music written in the 20th century and still unsurpassed 110 years later. Someone said 'Talent hits a target no-one else can hit. Genius hits a target no-one else can see.' or in this case, hear.

@fatcat1325

1y↑7

I first heard it on the radio when I was 8 or 9. I was new to classical music at the time , so it was really intriguing, and it has fascinated me ever since.

@sparklymop

What kind of radio are you listening to, and where can I get it?

@kittycatmeowmeow963

50w

I first heard it on "Fantasia" when I was 4.

@alexmuso1943

6y↑373

Only the greatest conduct this without a score, but Sir Simon conducts almost everything without a score - phenomenal memory and musicianship.

@itamarbar9580

5y↑7

The greatest conductor.... Ever?

@paulbrower4265

4y↑1

@itamar bar Toscanini? Furtwaengler? Szell? C. Davis?

@mycroftholmes7379

3y↑4

Kleiber conducted in memory also

@Altonahh10

3y↑11

Conducting from memory is not a sign of quality. Why not have the score in front of you to look at in case of doubt? That doesn't detract from the matter.

@ettoreulivelli9250

2y↑1

I agree. To conduct such an incredibly rhythmic piece, with cliff-hangers changes in tempo requires both an exceptional mind & musicianship. My deepest admration for Simon Rattle.

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@angelicanogueirapoesias2327

3y↑1

BRAVO!!!! amazing coordination and complexity! LOVE

@paulmartin9275

1y↑2

I was driving home from working after midnight and this just started on the radio. I sat in the car in the dark when I got home spellbound to this, and could not leave before I knew who it was. The anouncer informed me after it ended, I wrote that down and ordered it. At about 24 minutes it is so mental! It makes wild rock-music sound tame!

@victorarmandoneis

3y↑6

2 things come to mind with this: volcanoes and dinosaurs. Excellent work.

@kittycatmeowmeow963

50w

You remember them too; don't you? I love that movie!😊

@LucienM_

35w↑6

Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring) is a ballet and orchestral work by Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. The Rite is a break with traditional ballet for Vaslav Nijinsky. A masterpiece of musical energy, the composition shows an absolutely prodigious network of inventiveness. From the synthesis of all the musical elements operated by Stravinsky is born an aesthetic multiplicity which intensely privileges the acoustic effects and the dramatic force. The original idea of its composition deploys the brutal force of a symphony orchestra treated in a revolutionary way. The composer wanted a provocative and iconoclastic musical work, going against tradition. The piece which has exacerbated the chromaticism to the highest point, the harsh harmonies, the raw sonorities, are born from the creation of powerful instrumental blocks, that clash or complement each other, the richness of timbres of an enlarged orchestra as well as the use of playing modes that push the sounds to the extreme, emancipating the rhythmic and releasing the tonal harmony from its classico-romantic pivots. Stravinsky juxtaposes and accumulates his musical ideas in contrasting flows, which interact with each other and create a perpetual increase in the energy released, which will crystallize an innovative approach essential to the modernity of 20th century music. The tormented notoriety of the work in its time no longer hesitates to make it one of the pillars of musical modernism today. A sincere work is that which is gifted with enough force to give reality to a dream from everything to each. Lucien

@bb5bucks

5y↑1.5K

Never listen to this while driving

@nateofnathan8297

5y↑113

BB 5 Bucks especially when you’re a conductor and have some of memorized cause you’ll be conducting it the whole time.

@teomanersar9759

5y↑13

its just dynamic range problem of digital dont listen to notebook or ... same question

@vengoheim7810

5y↑31

Talking from experience?

@wyattwahlgren8883

5y↑36

Too late...

@rr7firefly

5y↑52

At 28:56 you will swerve into the bus in the next lane.

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@DaveCorsello

2y↑1

Overwhelming. Absolutely INCREDIBLE performance!

@gall4dglory586

4y↑3

Precision,beauty, complexity, this is a work of art, my masterpiece can not be duplicated... well done still 👏 you have given us an outstanding performance none can follow. Your orchestra is perfect and precise in cue. Truly enjoyable 😄 ty

@gonzalohiguain2589

1y↑2

went directly from Beatles Strawberry Fields to this; what a time to be alive, man

@giobannearanmena5000

3y↑9

Magnífico Director, Magníficos Músicos. Todas esas voluntades, conocimientos y destrezas unidos en un único deseo: Hacer posible el milagro del sonido, el ritmo y la armonía

@quintaessentia2114

2y↑20

Нет никакого сомнения, что "Весна священная" - это самое главное произведение двадцатого века! Игорь Стравинский гений! Спасибо этому оркестру за столь прекрасное исполнение!

@wyattwahlgren8883

6y↑520

I love the double bass player they keep showing. You can tell he's really into it.

@CleverMetaphor

5y↑45

dude looks like King Leonidas

@johnpointon4462

4y↑12

If he's not a rugby player he should be!

@TienTran-nm6ms

4y↑27

Love his head banging at the end!

@excuseyou7198

3y↑6

@Tien Tran lol I’m pretty sure he’s just doing that to keep time.

@dedede5586

2y↑8

i live for his aggressive plucking during spring rounds

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@tecpatl2412

2y↑3

0:41 For me it has been the best beginning of the bassoon that I have heard in the best results on youtube, the pure and heartbreaking simplicity at the same time is transmitted very pleasantly.

@rossjohnstone4689

2y↑1

According to my friend, it's also one of the hardest parts to play on bassoon. Still sounds amazing as does the while song. Very flowing but with a very dark edge to it, especially if you know the story.

@pilarizquierdo3542

1y↑1

Nunca,nunca me cansaré de escucharlos. ¡ Esta música es de otro mundo interpretado por esta orquesta de otro mundo también! .
Gracias infinitas 🤍🤍🤍
Saludos cordiales desde Lima, Perú.

@creepycomputer

3y↑3

This beautiful performance of Stravinksy reminds me always of the genesis and evolution of our Planet Earth!

@quintynjohnstone2542

2y↑20

This piece evokes so many different emotions, it represents perfectly the uncontrollable chaos that can be life. The happiness and the sorrows. By far one of my favourites to listen too when I want to feel something