YouTube: the thread for interesting video links

[seabright]

Yuri Temirkanov has just died at the age of 88 and the Guardian obituary of 19th November refers to his "idiosyncratic baton-less conducting style" and his "astonishing repertory of gestures." You get the full gamut of those in this encore from his St. Petersburg Philharmonic Prom in 1992, when he gave the Prommers a reading of Elgar's "Nimrod" in which he barely took his eyes off the score. The camera didn't cut away once and I think we can safely say that you've never seen conducting like it! ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qW6B15gURu0

[smittims]

I wonder what Sir Adrian would have said! I can't help thinking they'd have played it just the same if he'd merely beaten time with one hand.

It reminded me of a Prom two or three years ago when a chappie conducted a Mozart Symphony (543 I think) prancing about like a marionette. I wonder how helpful the orchestra find this sort of thing. Maybe they would say, as WH Reed said to RVW, 'my dear fellow, we shan't be looking at you'.

[seabright]

And here's another Russian maestro conducting English music ... Vasily Petrenko with RVW's "Wasps" Overture splendidly played by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmgW0pi84qA

[smittims]

I've admired Petrenko's Elgar symphonies on Onyx CDs , and he has conducted the Delius violin concerto (at the Proms I think) with Tasmin Little. His interpretations may rank with those of his English contemporaries. Vasily Sinaisky and Juanjo Mena have also given fine Elgar performances.

[Serial_Apologist]

I've admired Petrenko's Elgar symphonies on Onyx CDs , and he has conducted the Delius violin concerto (at the Proms I think) with Tasmin Little. His interpretations may rank with those of his English contemporaries. Vasily Sinaisky and Juanjo Mena have also given fine Elgar performances.

Any link?

[seabright]

If you'd like to see Petrenko conducting Elgar 2 at the 2014 Proms, click the link below. I've not heard all that many performances of the work but this one must be up there with the best of them. Clearly the ending moved him and he certainly deserved the comments under the video ... "I doubt if you could ever hear a finer performance" ... "Absolutely beautiful" ... "A reading full of warmth, dignity and humanity" ... "A very fine performance indeed" ... and more besides ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8cUFZ2T0X0&t=2708s

[smittims]

It was the detail I most apprecated in that Prom performance: every woodwind solo carefullly and lovingly crafted, for instance. The dear old Liverpool Phil were at their best that evening. I've just watched the scherzo again on my DVD-R. Utterly superb and thrilling.

[Serial_Apologist]

If you'd like to see Petrenko conducting Elgar 2 at the 2014 Proms, click the link below. I've not heard all that many performances of the work but this one must be up there with the best of them. Clearly the ending moved him and he certainly deserved the comments under the video ... "I doubt if you could ever hear a finer performance" ... "Absolutely beautiful" ... "A reading full of warmth, dignity and humanity" ... "A very fine performance indeed" ... and more besides ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8cUFZ2T0X0&t=2708s

Thanks!

[seabright]

Here's another encore from the Temirkanov / St. Petersburg 1992 Prom and a real curiosity it is too. It's the 'Pas de deux' from Tchaikovsky's "Nutcracker" but for some inscrutable reason, the BBC TV director decided to turn it into a Harp Concerto! ... Not only do you get close-ups of the lady harpist and her instrument, you also hear its audio level being magnified concerto-style throughout. All very strange, just like Yuri's astonishing conducting mannerisms! ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qz4DqUI8E0Q

[smittims]

Ralph Vaughan Williams used to complain that BBC balance engineers tried to turn everything into a harp conccerto (or was it a xylophone concerto?), but this was after his hearing deteriorated.

[seabright]

Could this well-known Christmas ditty also be called "The Figgy Pudding Song"? ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tL4Le3AIBQ

[Nick Armstrong]

What a delight this performance of the Schubert D.929 piano trio is:

https://youtu.be/yFyv7c1XyYU?si=iFh-aBr7mGf9fWJ6

[AuntDaisy]

What a delight this performance of the Schubert D.929 piano trio is:
https://youtu.be/yFyv7c1XyYU?si=iFh-aBr7mGf9fWJ6

Thanks Nick, very enjoyable and fascinating to watch the performers.

[seabright]

For any Fritz Reiner admirers, here he is conducting the "Arrival of the Queen of Sheba" in 1954 with the Chicago Symphony ...

[smittims]

Thanks for that. Dear old Fritz; how I treasure that anecdote of Richard Mohr, having asked him to do a retakeof some pasage to 'schmalz it up a bit?

Reiner: No.