Strauss Don Quixote - Haitink/Hornung/BRSO

Richard Strauss - Don Quixote op. 35

Maximilian Hornung, Violoncello
Hermann Menninghaus, Viola
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Bernard Haitink, Dirigent

München, Philharmonie im Gasteig, Dezember 2012

[Uwaznosc]

Poor camera man, missing important solo viola.
Great performance everyone.

[j.s.]

0:42 Introduction
7:25 Don Quixote, der Ritter von der traurigen Gestalt
27:20 Variation VI
28:30 Variation VII

These are just for me, if you have more I can add them

[danielottokellett]

Love it. Goes to the depths of the soul. Such an adventure to play. Congrats - a mesmerising, sincere performance!

[christianbrodiez]

Belle prestation du violoncelliste mais l'altiste est trop longtemps oublié lors des prises de vue ; dommage !

[MrViola]

Und jetzt geben wir der Regie auch einmal die Partitur...damit Relevantes auch im Bild ist.

[bernibar]

Das ist wohl ein Privatvideo für den Solocellisten.

[davidjared]

Beautiful; could someone add the time stamps for the movements? Thx

[spectator]

Bad picture director missing the first action of sancho pansa (viola) ...

[grauerkaiser]

Warum zeigt die Kamera die ganze Zeit auf den Cellisten? Wenn andere Musiker etwas Wichtiges spielen, möchte ich sie auch sehen.

[Benjaminpeee]

Camera man: the music is not in the face of the cellist until the oboe entrance...

[paullewis]

Beautifully played but you can’t record a concert with one camera, consistently miss the soloist, and expect this to be a satisfying experience

[Zauberbratsche]

Excellent playing by soloists and orchestra. But for me, many of the tempos were a little too sluggish. Also the mic'ing was fairly terrible. The cello solo was way under-mic'ed. I can see a mic in front of him, but it almost sounds like it wasn't on. He sounds very distant compared to the orchestra. As for the camera work, well, there are already plenty of comments here about that...

[violinhunter]

The wind machine has a tough part in this thing but the rest is not so hard. Seriously, the playing is fine but, ...the cinematography and the acoustics of the hall are horrible.

[etxakilarena]

La realización es penosa, enfocan al cello cuando no toca, mientras suena viola o violin 1

[luiscarlosbenedictopaquera]

Si alguien es capaz de asociar esta música con "Don Quijote" le agradecería que me lo explicara. Hasta donde alcanza mi entendimiento debo suponer que el nuevo lenguaje musical de la época, -modernidad, vanguardia, Freud- y la personalísima impresión que al autor le causara la novela de Cervantes, o incluso conociendo a Strauss esconde el significado en una nota, un pasaje, o en toda la obra, o simplemente porque le da la gana, o para burlarse de todo el mundo. No obstante me gusta. Un saludo.

[robertwilson]

Wonderful performance but yikes, what horrible camera work. The director should be fired.

[jorgenunes]

Provavelmente é uma das obras mais estéreis que já ouvi. Arremedos de temas apresentados atabalhoadamente dentro de um contexto de peça concertante na qual o violoncelo solista não passa de um mero dobrador de linhas melódicas de outros instrumentos. Para mim que sou cellista é constrangedor ver um colega tão ocioso ocupando um pódio de solista quando poderia, com seus colegas d'abraccio' estar sentado como primeiro do seu naipe. Aconselharia a Strauss, se fosse possível, ter a humildade de acrescentar um narrador ao corpo sinfônico para, ao menos, tentar explicar um pouco desse caos orquestral que mais me parece uma trilha sonora de filme rebuscada e confusa.

[ofcmofcm]

Horrible video editing. So many shots of the solo cellist sitting there doing nothing.

[dvimus]

Excellent performance by all concerned. 10/10 Most enjoyable, but...

Abysmal camerawork by whoever was in charge of that. In fact, it is so bad, I would expect better from a ten year old child who at least might be inquisitive enough to point the camera to what is actually happening rather than showing a cello soloist doing nothing and yes, the cello soloist does have some quite lengthy rests during this piece. The problems include the Viola soloist all but ignored, orchestral soloists totally ignored; no attempt to show the truly remarkable things the orchestra has to do in this piece, no attempt to show even once the usual features of the orchestration such as the wind machine or the tenor tuba solo, or the perhaps worst of all, closing in on the conductors back - for what reason? Camera 0/10.

[yaroslavkargin]

What a stupid video cameraman: the viola solo started and he was holding cam on the cellist who did nothing! Then finally he moved camera on the viola soloist! Jesus Christ... How in the world did he get that job??