I have been listening to this piece since I was a young boy. I am now 80. By now I think I know how death comes to you. I have yet to experience the Transfiguration, if it ever comes. Excellent interpretation with conductor Franck.

@jcQ1a2z3W4s5x6

4 ай бұрын

The spiritual Rebirth and Resurrection

@sergiocontreras8372

4 ай бұрын

Very well said, my dear sir.@@jcQ1a2z3W4s5x6

@sergiocontreras8372

4 ай бұрын

I agree completely. You hit the nail in the head. Thanks!@@jcQ1a2z3W4s5x6

@livafridrihsone6683

Күн бұрын

❤

I played this at BGSU with Maestro Emil Raab conducting.1975, Bowling Green, OH. Mr. Raab took off his glasses, and conducted from memory. Sharpest conducting I have ever experienced in 43 years of professional Trumpet 🎺 playing. Last 16 bars, Maestro Raab was sobbing - as was the entire BGSU Symphony. I will never forget this. Michael McClary, retired Professor of Trumpet 🎺. Georgia Perimeter College & Georgia State University

@natga8943

Ай бұрын

any trumpet tips? always learning

There is something special and unique about that French orchestra sound. Dynamic but always tasteful. Simply marvelous.

@masterofallthelakesintown2472

9 ай бұрын

It should be German. As intended.

Amazing. I never thought I could feel a piece so deeply. Many people get brought to tears during beautiful works of art in pure musical form and I never understood it. Put the headphones in, laid back and took it all in. By the end I had tears rolling down my face. Magnificently deep, so amazing how music with no words can tell such a story! I truly hope everyone can take these wonderful chords for what they are. Bravo

@masterofallthelakesintown2472

9 ай бұрын

If you cry you definitely didn’t understand it.

@attackdog6824

9 ай бұрын

@@masterofallthelakesintown2472what an absurd load of nonsense.

@backyardastronomer

8 ай бұрын

​@@masterofallthelakesintown2472 don't you know it is about someone dying?

I give my loudest applause to all the honorable people who took part in this performance! Bravissimmo! 😊

0:00 Largo (The sick man, near death) 05:24 Allegro molto agitato (The battle between life and death offers no respite to the man) 09:09 Meno mosso (The dying man's life passes before him) 17:09 Moderato (The sought-after transfiguration)

@koji2551

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks pal

@caesargreco7115

Жыл бұрын

1

@caesargreco7115

Жыл бұрын

1

An ensemble and a conductor completely unknown to me, but this was absolutely the clearest, most powerful, and even luminous presentation of this piece I have ever heard. The conductor, cool as the proverbial cucumber, sometimes seated, sometimes standing, sometimes in a multitude of positions - with perfect authority on his calm face - really, what more can someone ask for? Bravissimo.

@francemusiqueconcerts

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your comment.

one of the absolute best performances I've ever hear of this great work....the intonation and blending of sound in the winds is phenomenal!

Sublime playing: the strings produce a rich and warm sound, the brass players are superb and the woodwinds, in a typical French style, are just extraordinary, led by the marvelous Magali Mosnier.

Richard Strauss The greatest Composer of the 20. Century......what a genius , about when he was 25 to create a masterpiece like this one:-)) fantastic Orchestra.. ....gratulations:-))ohhh i should not forget Gustav Mahler....the other greatest Composer of the 20th century:-)

@jonnieinbangkok

3 ай бұрын

You need to listen to more music 😜

When I die I want this played in my funeral

@douglasyiuchinglok307

4 жыл бұрын

SO DO I

@ronaldbeield7946

3 жыл бұрын

Would be kind of lengthy. Better to have Strauss's 3rd last song, Beim Schlafhegen

@bobhunter3086

3 жыл бұрын

As it is written...Let it be done.

@javiermedina5313

2 ай бұрын

me too

Simply beautiful! 👏👏👏🥹

Une oeuvre magnifiquement jouée et un orchestre joliment filmé. J'aime regarder les musiciens aux prises avec leur instrument. Ce spectacle rehausse encore la beauté de la musique. Quoi de mieux qu'une mer d'archets s'agitant pour illustrer une envolée passionnée ?

@francemusiqueconcerts

3 жыл бұрын

Merci infiniment

I find it hard to like Strauss, but this hit the right spots for me

@maxgregorycompositions6216

Жыл бұрын

I find it hard to not like Strauss.

@ciupenhauer

Жыл бұрын

@@maxgregorycompositions6216 yeah, I've since changed my mind too

Inspired and transcribed by the hand of God....no mere mortal could produce something so Divine...I have listened to this piece countless times since my youth....it never fails to become profoundly moving...frequently to the point of tears..especially the crescendo at the end...and like others, I want it used at my funeral...indescribably exquisite!!...one 'glitch' did they HAVE TO place a jarring cat grooming aid 'commercial' abruptly in the MIDDLE!!!

@ronaldbeield7946

3 жыл бұрын

It was God. Strauss was merely taking dictation.

@horsthornung2424

2 жыл бұрын

Did you die in the meantime?

@Kazzerp

Жыл бұрын

@@ronaldbeield7946wrong

@Steve-in-the-uk

11 ай бұрын

​​@@ronaldbeield7946no god needed, Strauss on his own.

@timotheuspeter734

9 ай бұрын

Puccini also said that with respect to Madama Butterfly.. totally different, but both in their own Right unbelievably beautiful music.

Wunderschöne und spannende Aufführung dieses spätromantischen Meisterwerks mit farbenreichen und perfekt balancierten Töne aller Instrumente. Die Solovioline klingt besonders schön. Der geniale Maestro dirigiert das ausgezeichnete Orchester im gut phrasierten Tempo mit völlig effektiver Dynamik. Echt großartig!

@jeancharlesrolland

2 жыл бұрын

violon solo : Hélène Collerette

17:07 We cross into completely new territory. Has there ever been a more beautiful picture of transcendence? As he lay on his deathbed in 1949 Strauss said to his daughter-in-law: "It's a funny thing, Alice, dying is just the way I composed it in Tod und Verklärung," which he had written some 60 years before.

Maybe THE MOST BEAUTIFUL piece of music EVER WRITTEN! MMC

Look. Within. Your " I" will evermore be your Guide... " THIS IS NOT OUR WORLD. WE ARE ALL BUT PASSING THROUGH"..PEACE.

Superb Mikko in Strauss!

This is one of the most wonderful encapsulations of orchestral music I've seen on video. The concentration on the faces, the co-leader's eyes glued on the leader's bow, the secret smiles between the players (especially the violas), the conductor's ridiculously shiny shirt. It shows all the humanity that goes into performing a piece of music that might, on an audio-only recording, simply seem like an effortless transcription of notes by skilled professionals. I led an amateur orchestra playing this in London a few years back and it makes me miss playing more than anything else I've experienced during lock-down. Thanks to all involved (I suppose Strauss deserves some credit too :)

Absolument dans l'esprit du Maitre. Romantique toutes en nuances OPRF au sommet sous la baguette ce M Franck. C'est très beau. Merci :)

Très beau!! I got goosebumps.

Great performance. Thank you for posting it.

On his death bed, he told his daughter, Alice. "It's funny , death is exactly as I composed in death and transfiguration "

Few composers can dramatically build up a massive bone-jarring climax like Strauss, with the exception of Anton Bruckner, master of ear-assaulting codas and climaxes. To me, the climax here is tame or tepid just a tad compared to one or two other versions I have heard over the years. This is not to take away anything from a fine performance here.

@ashleythorpe7933

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe Gustav Mahler?

por dios que sonido tiene esta orquesta, felicitaciones para todos. strauss es un maestro

Beautiful! Defies Description! Michael McClary

A masterpiece!

C'est magnifique...

Fine performance....one detects a "French nuance" in the delicate passages....BRAVI TUTTI!

My man Patton Oswalt is so talented. Actor, comedian, and now conducting!? GOAT fr

Thank you for posting thisb

Excellent.

Thank you for posting this

This is the greatest tone poem of all time. This is how I hope death will be.

@ulrichalbrecht9723

3 жыл бұрын

yes indeed, but I also recommend to listen to "eine alpensinfonie" by Strauss, especially the sunrise, on the summit the sunset and the conclusion are devine

@ronaldbeield7946

3 жыл бұрын

Richard Strauss on his deathbed 1947: "It's a funny thing, this is just how I imagined it in Tod und Verklarung"

Moderato belíssimo 👏👏👏

Magnífico

@mariawieck4265

3 жыл бұрын

Me deja ectaciada...

Gran obra sinfonica de R.Strauss...con excelente ejecucion se la dedico a las victimas del maldito VIRUS 2020

A story says that Strauss was on his deathbed and said to his wife, "It's a funny thing, this is just how I imagined it in Tod und Verklarung"

@leestamm3187

11 ай бұрын

He said it to his daughter-in-law Alice, with whom he was quite close. It was she who related it to the rest of the family.

WOW!

Doux et puissant !

BGSU SYMPHONY CONDUCTOR EMIL RAAB SOBBED FROM THE PODIUM IN 1976. THE BRASS & WINDS WERE CRYING TOO! Michael McClary

Divine

Quel bel orchestre ! Œuvre magnifiquement interprétée. A quand le retour dans les auditoriums pour se sentir "transfiguré " à nouveau ?

❤

When Strauss was dying he told his wife that dying felt just as he had felt when composing Death and Transfiguration. I do not know if this is history or just a story. However, I would like it to be true because it is fitting and even poetic.

Does anyone know why the director stands beside the podium?

@BianLee

4 жыл бұрын

Loris Gerber and also why is he sitting down 😂

@shaunkasparian3213

4 жыл бұрын

This was a Radio taping. Not so formal.

@TimothyReeves

3 жыл бұрын

@@shaunkasparian3213 the orchestra is wearing concert black and there are obviously several video cameras filming….also you can see the audience

@shaunkasparian3213

3 жыл бұрын

@@TimothyReeves Thank you for the clarification.

@Pacolencia

2 жыл бұрын

He conducts sitting down due to a back injury. When he gets excited he gets up and stands next to the podium. 😉

11:05

👌🙏

American trumpeters now need to have Rotary Valve as well as Bach/Schilke/Yamaha Piston Valve Orchestral quality trumpets. Michael McClary, retired Professor of Trumpet -Georgia Perimeter College

7:11

@jacobroy017

3 жыл бұрын

and 12:17 :)

Your description claims he was a Hungarian composer, which is wrong! He was German

@1brewski2

4 жыл бұрын

Was talking about Liszt.

Peter Lorre lives!

Looks like the guy didn't catch the fantastic trombone line from 23:13 figuring the theme twice as slow... :/

Does anyone get strong "Pines of Rome" vibes from this? Or I should say, did this inspire bits of the Pines of Rome?

@angelabender8132

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe 🤔

5:25 Allegro molto agitato

17: 14

5:24

Who’s the concertmaster

@jeancharlesrolland

2 жыл бұрын

Hélène Collerette

Didn't know Patton Oswalt was a conductor

6:15

@maxlun2649

4 күн бұрын

6:10