Video analyses of classical music with an emphasis on counterpoint and craftsmanship. Richard Atkinson lives/works in Boston, Massachusetts as a medical doctor and has a BA in music from Stony Brook University and an MD from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.
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What are the forms of the sections?
This is an illuminating analysis of the Grosse Fuge. I have a blockage when it comes to Beethoven, although his place in musical history is well assured, if only for his transitional anticipation of Romanticism. My reservations on much of his music remain and for a variety of reasons too numerous to state here but I have to marvel not just at the intellectual heft of Opus 133 but at your lucid and compelling forensics on it. Gratefully yours!
Please do bach's little fugue!!!
It was written in 1826. It sounds like it could have been released last year.
Not an obsession, just a favourite in his toolbox. We just heard the 6th in Taipei with the ever youthful 88 year old Eliahu Inbal. A wonderful performance. It wasn't a slow geriatric plod but a lively and powerful reading (a little faster than this recording here). By the way, the dynamics in the lead up to the recapitulation don't actually specify a "subito ff" at the appearance of the main theme in Eb major although 99% of conductors treat it as "subito". There is just an absence of crescendo markings over the previous twelve bars. It may have been an oversight by Bruckner - maybe he even assumed that conductors would crescendo the final four bars. Some conductors actually diminuendo the last bars before the Eb outburst.
Play the Symphony #1 by Rued Langgaard (1911), over an hour, composed before he was 18, a massive post romantic work with very intense first and finale movements and 3 intermezzos in between (like Mahler 7); It will sound familiar the first time you play it; Stylistically it ranges from Tchaikowsky (the Manfred) to Richard Strauss, and early Schoenberg (the fugal development section in the finale), before the gigantic Brucknerian coda at the end.. It sounds so familiar that Hollywood must be stealing from it. What do you think of the work?
Richard, this fascinated me. Please do the same with my favorite part, the 2nd movement!
hi richard! you probably dont remember me but ive been watching your channel for a couple years but ive been gone. i had moved on from common era music and went to rock but now im back! i missed your channel tbh 🥲
You should be used as a new instrument in the orchestra lol
I’m relatively new to Mahler and obsessed with Symphony No. 2. This is significantly helpful as I go forward and listen more deeply. Thank-you.
Dear Mr. Atkinson, Although I lack formal musical knowledge, I deeply resonate with your explanations of Mozart's music. I experience the same emotional nuances and profound moments that you describe, much like when conductor J.E. Gardiner speaks of certain parts of Figaro being tear-jerkers. This profound connection can only be explained by the idea that "The Spirit breathes where He will, and you hear His voice, but you do not know from where He comes and where He goes." Thank you for bringing such depth and understanding to Mozart's masterpieces. Greetings from Serbia
In the years 1822 - 25 shortly before writing the Great Fugue Beethoven was writing several sketches for an overture on the notes B-A-C-H which inspired me to write my own overture on these fascinating 4 notes and making use of Beethoven's sketches (which I marked in my score in yellow colour). I find it interesting that in these sketches there is a motif of 8 quarter notes which (see at 1:55 and other instances in my video) - I think - anticipates the main motif of the Great Fugue. Would you also see it that way? kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZJ56k6WHo7vQZ8Y.htmlsi=pOuTpnBspp4Xoac4
Awesome channel!
0:50 also reminds me of Beethoven's 6th symphony
Have you ever considered analysing Rued Langgaard? For instance his first movement of his first symphony
Crazy to think that this came out of a real persons mind. Feels like Beethoven was fighting for his life in this piece. Given that he was completely deaf at this point it's even more insane. Great work on the video!
what piece of music was that in the outro?
Could you please do a video on Beethoven's incredible Diabelli Variations?
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great analysis with the live green and red blocks, very helpful!!!!
You three are the BEST ! Kudos to you . .. . you made many smile ;-)
Incredibly beautiful music makes you feel like your flying
My favorite symphony. My parents only had classical music records and baby sitter put the same records on every day, over and over. I started humming this whole symphony-still can do it-when I was 4-5. True story
Im Coda entweicht der Meister den “Große Entschluss” scherzando, mit einem Lachen. Am Ende gibt er nach: Ordnung, wie sich es gehört. Und ja, alles hat einen Schluss.
Who else is bummed that this part is so short?
Mozart slays Bach!
and I thought you were going to whistle all the parts at once:)
an anecdote: Beetoven came across one of his students playing the C minor variations. Beethoven: "What is that rubbish you're playing?" Student: "Why, maestro, you wrote it." Beethoven: "Did I? Well, I shouldn't have." Hence WoO.:
I have just realized that this Mozart theme from the Piano quartet in G minor, that you have showed here 1:47 , is almost exactly the same as a theme that appears in the middle of the third movement of Mozarts Clarinet Trio K.498 (Kegelstatt)
3 minutes in and you’ve already gone on 3 tangents talking about just 1 quartet. Classic Richard Atkinson
Is stretto a kind of canon?
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Nice. Mother, daughter, son trio?
Beauty is inspiring and overwhelming, yet we, as a society, are mired dismal pursuits. Thank you Mr Atkinson for your insights.
Seemingly random picture of shosty holding a piglet is pure comedy gold
Thanks for giving a heart, by the way is it possible for you to make a video on mozarts fugue for two pianos in the future.
I’ve watched the whole video 4 times. Fascinating stuff.
Thanks - I was working on a roots reggae thing and needed to go from Gmaj to Emaj
Mozart's 20th Piano Concerto is, imo, the greatest piece of music I have ever heard. I think I listened to only this piece for an entire summer.
UGH there is NOTHING "demonic" about the Dies irae! Theorists...feh!!
I was just playing through this fugue and noticed 3 more disguised fugal entries than I had previously marked in my music. It is amazing how dense the stretti are in this fugue.
What is that quarter note silence that looks like a comma?
Music composers were the "code writers" of their day.
GREAT😊😊😊😊😊!
Sorry but This is the video with the most ads I’ve ever seen on KZread.
That was so interesting, thank you for the analysis of this incredible piece of music!❤
Thanks, love your videos! How about Beethoven Op. 61a (the cadenza in the first movement)?
Saw it last season for the first time with Noseda and the NSO at the Kennedy Center. I hadn’t heard it before, even in recordings, and it made a HUGE impression on me. Especially the second theme of the Adagio. The swelling sound and ELEGANCE. Absolutely outstanding.
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