This work is very important to me. For many years, contemporary music had become inaccessible, cold, experimental, and only played in small ensembles. The music was too focused on being different for the sake of being different. With Harmonielehre, a full circle has been closed. Take the experimental aspects of minimalism, but merge them with all what we have learned in hundreds of years of music. Finally, a contemporary work that moves us emotionally as well as intellectually, and is played boldly and virtuosistically by a big ensemble. I hated contemporary classical, until I found John Adams, and now I can't have enough of it.

@alanmishael3405

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly!

@annandmartintravers5281

2 жыл бұрын

Charles. You are absolutely right. It is the combination of novelty with old structure.

@alihardie

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely!!🙌👏

@KinkyLettuce

2 жыл бұрын

Hey! that is the same story for A LOT of people in the academic environment The academic focuses too much on the exact kind of music you describe. Try Jennifer Higdon, Thomas Ades, Andrew Norman. These are phenomenal composers

@Scriabinfan593

2 жыл бұрын

@@KinkyLettuce i came here to recommend those composers, also add John Luther Adams, James MacMillan, Steve Reich, Philip Glass, and Guillaume Conesson to that list.

loved this music in CIV 4 in the modern era; thanks Sid Meier, you greatly influenced my taste in music and did it through Civilization.

This piece of music is a dream come to life. Magical, mysterious, scary, and at the end, victorious.

Sir Simon really gets with it if it's GENIUS!

👏👏 I swear this piece of music is alive! 👏👏

holy shit, when the bassline was added i got huge shivers.

It's like drifting through the cosmos.

Having flashbacks to this music from when I was an early teen, plotting my friend's nuclear annihilation while playing Civ 4. Great music and it fit the game masterfully. It perfectly captured the sense of high stakes, mystery, and suspense of the "modern" era of the game.

Rythm Is It! Rattle/Adams. It's kind of metaphysics and I can't explain it. Overwhelming feelings. Highly explosive. Take care ❤ 🎼 🥁 🌈

Even though this piece was written decades ago, Rattle, in the 90s, helped to bring it to the fore, at least in the US. His recording was the first I heard of this marvelous work.

@AlecSievern

Жыл бұрын

And still the ultimate recording of the work

This is the greatest performance I have heard of one of the 20th Century's greatest compositions, a magnificent journey through starfields, nebulae and beyond. I'm in tears.

Love Harmonielehre and this is a stunning performance. I feel like I have heard stuff in it that I had missed before.

That last 1/2 a second - that is how you play French horn. Damn!

This music is from outer space !

Harmonielehre is my favorite piece of music ever. This rendition is fabulous. Impossible to hold the tears with that ending.

One of the best and most accessable composers of our time. Rattle+Adams= omg so good!

Hervorragend! Höre ich mir immer wieder an!

A masterwork and a wonderful rendition of it, what else can we desire more from music?

That last note. Chills. Every time.

This music is so beautiful, why is so hard to find this kind of music?

@Mikhael_bureau

3 ай бұрын

Because the while the orchestration sound very modern, it still has the harmonic (chords progression) stability of neo-classic music. Classic music do not have evolved orchestration like this and a lot of modern music tent to be very academic and dissonant (contemporary music). So, you gonna find this kind of tone mostly in film music, (Harry-Potter 3 for exemple, or the work of Alexandre Desplat, etc).

Adams does it for me, every time, I'm tearing up, again!

@jelanisurpriscomposer

4 жыл бұрын

Omg same here 😭

@sallyhayes9881

3 жыл бұрын

P

@dimitardodovski9949

2 жыл бұрын

YES

@SoaringTrumpet

2 жыл бұрын

Same!

This piece is absolutely stunning-and an incredible performance.

Wow. Gorgeous!

A work of art where form combines,with an eloquence of expression. I can't get my fingers aroubdx this

Bravo! This movement starts so delicate and ends so triumphant! Thank you, thank you, thank you for this beautiful performance of one of my favorite compositions by Adams.

If one follows the score, there is, at measures 244, 254, and 345, a marking that says "conductor will give a gesture to align all players"....the textures get so thick and rhythmically complex in those sections that even the most seasoned pros need a bit of help! ;)

absolute perfection

So so good. No one performs this piece as well as Sir Simon Rattle!

Yes, it amazing. What structure and what lyricism.

Magnificent!

New, different, yet so familiar. I really like this. 👍

Gracias LSO, Rattle, Adams

Malheureusement pas assez connu et joue en France . Un des plus brillants auteurs contemporains

Love it!

magnificent

The title of this work is actually an ironic nose-thumb at Arnold Schoenberg’s book on the theory of harmony ‘Harmonielehre’, after reading the book Adams writes a piece that directly contrasts Schoenberg’s school of thought on atonalism and embraces tonality completely

@scottr.looney1774

2 жыл бұрын

well, that's not quite right - although the English version of Harmonielehre was published in 1922 when he was fully into atonality, the book was actually written in 1910 and published in German in 1911. and the book itself is focused almost entirely on tonal harmony from Palestrina on up to Wagner/Brahms and Mahler, which Schoenberg was a complete master of (check out Gurrelieder (1901) or Pelleas und Melisande (1902/03)) before he abandoned it. it is true though that his music in 1910-1911 was just teetering on the cusp of atonality. but unlike his popular reputation as bomb-thrower to tonal harmony, he did not arrive at that position overnight.

@barbarasmith6005

2 жыл бұрын

Poor old Schoenberg. He gets dumped on so much. I learned and played his Op. 19 Six Little Pieces. Very mysterious and, dare I say, minimalist. Pre 12-tone system.

@scottr.looney1774

2 жыл бұрын

@@barbarasmith6005 i played them in college too - lovely pieces and quite forward thinking.

Gdy jestes szczęśliwy słyszysz muzykę....... gdy jestes smutny rozumiesz tekst..... Wspaniały charyzmatyczny maestro Simon Rattle. Kunszt-energia-poezja 👌❤❤👌👌❤❤🎶🎼🎵🎵

Superbe!

Прекрасно!

This is just brilliant.

Agradecido LSO.

Can this guy read my mind?

Wow.

Thanks! Eskerrik asko!

Wonderful performance! Adam’s orchestration exposes the Barbican’s acoustical inadequacy. Instead of hearing the marimbas above the orchestra, they are unfortunately drowned out. Compare this to the acoustics of Berlin Phil with Adams conducting.

изяшное волшебство

gut

Musicians should have a click track for whenever they play this piece!

1:32 assistant principal cellist face for out of pitch cellos 😂😂

This was considered bizarre and radical new music in the 80s. I went to a performance of it in Louisville in the late' 80s and the conductor felt it necessary to explain it to us first so we weren't too freaked out. This is like Shostakovich calling his Symphony #11 "The Year 1905" and then mocking the current Russian Dictators for an hour.

Augen zu und durch....

gurrelieder-like opening probably intentional

Mit Orgasmusgarantie!

F###* Adorno and Frankfurt school. This guy is a genius.

Beautiful....Many thanks! (Is there no way to BLOCK "Ted" (the bot) below?

Yes, I think I met you there but my memory is,going so perhaps it was,you or someone else. Quit said. Wer Weiss.

I always feel a bit conflicted when hearing this music. On one hand, it's really beautiful and deeply suggestive (the lyrical parts, at least), and I should be thankful it exists. On the other hand, I can't help noticing that the best parts are little more than a clever exploitation of musical tricks invented by Wagner 170 years ago. So while I'm happy to see a modern composer who dares turn his back on the atonal BS, I still wish we could hear something more personal from him.

Schoenberg did this 120 years ago in Guerre Lieder

@toddlevin

5 ай бұрын

and not nearly as well

@gopher7691

5 ай бұрын

@@toddlevin what! Guerrero Linder is a master piece

@gopher7691

5 ай бұрын

Guerre lieder

Steven Pinker?

Sounds like mininalism

John Adams wrote beautiful music that destroys trumpet players. No understanding of how their instrument works.

@KinkyLettuce

4 жыл бұрын

at least he aint one of those composers that write with extended tecniques

@JamesSmithYoutube

3 жыл бұрын

Adams understands the instrument perfectly. He demands the trumpet do things that tax the player because the music intrinsically demands it compositionally and there is no other more efficient way to get the specific effect that he imagines. It's more about the player and instrument stepping up and not whinging.

@loudlong

3 жыл бұрын

@@JamesSmithKZread Any trumpet player would tell you that the music suffers when the musician has to pinch and squeeze and conserve volume and compromise quality in order to get through his poorly written parts. Ignorant writing for the instrument that does a disservice to those who play it.

@JamesSmithYoutube

3 жыл бұрын

@@loudlong I think the truth here is that you're a pretty crappy trumpet player, as the brass players I've performed Adams' compositions with (multiple times in my career) have never - ever - not once - voiced such a complaint. The only thing I've heard from brass players (trumpet players specifically) are that his compositions are great fun to perform - challenging, yes - but challenging in a way they enjoy. Perhaps you should stick to performing advanced high school/moderate community college level music that makes far less demands on your limited technical abilities, and allow the big boys and girls to voice their own professional opinions on Adam's music - they who actually perform(ed) it.

@loudlong

3 жыл бұрын

@@JamesSmithKZread I have actually performed Harmonium, along with other Adams pieces. I don't know what instrument you play, and I wouldn't presume to insult your playing without hearing you merely because I didn't like your opinion, because that would be rude. I'll just say that trumpet playing friends of mine in major U.S. orchestras have shared my sentiment about Adams' writing for the instrument. What orchestra do you play in? And what instrument? Based on your bitchy little mentality, I'm guessing clarinet or viola.

It's such a beautiful composition, that it's just not respectfully that there are advertises through the video.. 🥲

@WEEBLLOM

Жыл бұрын

You are watching this for free, you should be thankful that there are advertisements

@Rovingrich555

5 ай бұрын

I think you can choose whether to have adverts in the middle of your upload or not. I'm offered the option when I upload videos at any rate. It would be better to have them at the beginning and end.