London Symphony Orchestra (Gergiev) - 'Bolero' 🎵

Valery Gergiev dirigiert hier - mit einem Zahnstocher - das Orchester zum bekannten Musikstück von Maurice Ravel.

[ruteniorutenio]

The day youtube interrupted Ravel's Bolero with an ad I quitted using youtube to hear music. End of an era. Farewell fellow youtubers.

[maryhalverson]

This masterpiece should never be interrupted by ads. It's inexcusable and speaks poorly of the products, as well as YouTube's crass ineptitude.

[dederomm]

Dieser Mann, Valerie Gergiev, lenkt mit nur einem kurzem Blich, das gesammte Londoner Orchester. Und sein angeblicher "Zahnstocher" dürfte auf einer Auktion mehrere Tausend Pfund einbringen. Ein Mann mit einem unwahrscheinlichem Charisma. Selbstherrlich, aber Genial.

[andrewperkovich]

I would be terrified playing that snare, the amount of skill to keep that going perfectly is absolutely astounding.

[tonyambrose]

Everything about this is Premier League. The musicians are all world class, but the sound engineering and the visual editing all bring together an absolutely superb musical experience.

[bethwitrogen]

This version, this cinematography, saved my life in hospital a couple years ago. Transported me to a better place.

[garyirvine]

Thanks to youtube's greed, I got to watch 7 commercials in the middle of this beautiful music. Bad form, youtube, bad form.

[pythonanywhere]

I have chills. This conductor is menacingly brilliant. Jack Nicholson's long lost cousin is amazing!

[stephentom]

Can we all take moment to pay respects to our Bass players who have to play the same two notes over and over for 15 minutes.

[douglashackett]

It is unconscionable that youtube would place a comercial in the middle of this!

[autonerecords]

this is the best version of Bolero on YT hands down(IMO). This conductor is a genius. The percussion guys would have been melting down, easily hardest thing to play on drums, like the rubbing head and stomach thing for 15 minutes straight..other versions a bit too quick(or too slow) for my taste, this has tension like its just about to fall over but never does..like great jazz.

[charactercomedy]

Bolero is one of the most dynamic music I have ever heard. The London Symphony Orchestra is superb. The conductor is amazing. I can't stop playing this song. Ravel was a genius. The ending blows me away. I agree with Neil. I never get tired of it.

[Xcalator]

An ad in the middle of Ravel's Bolero?! Really Youtube?! It felt like a cold shower in a winter's morning!...

[neilliebenberg]

This is an incredible piece of music, masterfully played. Those who think it is repetitive are sadly mistaken. It changes and gradually escalates all the time. Extremely demanding on each orchestra member. How the violins play the rhythm in the early stages for example. How Ravel wrote each instrument blows the mind. Never get tired of it.

[stefanvane.]

Best of Bolero !! Thank you Mr. Gergijew & Orchestra !!!

[ofthedarknessthemoonlight]

Every time I listen to this piece, I think Ravel must have been a terrific lover.

[yaled]

France and Russia met in London for a brief moment to show how amazing this world could be.
I'll never forget this experience.

[samsdaughterdehaven]

how can you not burst into tears over this magnificent piece of music?!

[norronlee]

Unshaven, later sweating; and conducting with a toothpick. Marvelous eye contact.

[ericfischer]

Also for those asking... he is using a toothpick as a “FU” to certain critics who said the baton he HAD been using was too small