A we finally have somebody who is helpful 🙏 Thank you😊

@@takashimasuda382 no problem! 👍

thank you so much!

Thanks

Hey Fernando, you're not alone to say that! This remained one of my favourites throughout the years too!

Qué divertido encontrarse con un comentario tuyo en este video. Saludos, Fernando.

@@janvanc7190 Jan, you speak the truth. This beautiful and enchanting piece of music is as fresh and touching as when I first heard it over 70 years ago.

@@janvanc7190 "Powerful, beautiful, majestic." Jan you are so right. This lovely music still has the power to move me that it had 70 years ago.

@@jirafachina Por ahí lei, Gonzalo, que ademas de su genio Borodin era tipo encantadoramente hospitalario y tolerante. Su mesa, los domingos, era de no menos de 30 personas y gatos y perros se paseaban por doquier.

SO TRUE, marcusdolby ! !

And, most amazingly, was at the same level in his first activity, chemistry!

So very true!

He was a great chemist too The discoverer of the gas Boron which is named after him

Hate to bring it up, but boron was discovered 25 years before he was born, and it is a metal. He did, however, research the benzene fluorides in depth and his paper on the subject is still the definitive word on that group of compounds. He discovered many useful reactions, including a method of synthesizing nitrogen-based agricultural fertilizers. He was also an early champion of training women to be Medical Doctors.

Wow. I've never listened. To Borodin. This sounds very modern. Its kinda like a film score!

And an important organic chemist too. He published many papers on the subject in his time that are still relevant today.

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As I remembered, only Kosakov was the full-time professional musician among the Mighty Five. :)

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Remember that Borodin has a fascination with Central Asia; as witnessed to by In the Steppes of Central Asia and his opera Prince Igor, amongst others. One should not seek pictorial explanations for music as a rule, but it is impossible to avoid the image of Tatar horsemen charging across the steppes in the first movement.

@PolishViking, it is quite an opera. Very long. Borodin took so long over it that one night, Rimsky and (I think) Balakirev sat and orchestrated it while he treated the completed pages with a chemical solution of his own invention! I do not know if it is the case today, but for many years the only monument to him in Russia/the USSR was as a scientist. You probably know the Polovtsian dances; they are available on KZfaq in an operatic performance. Igor is also the only opera I know of to feature a musical setting of a solar eclipse.

Science-is-god

Riley Parker Yes he did indeed. A true marvel of the left and right brain.

He was an organic chemist.

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I was in an elementary school concert band, fifth, sixth, and seventh graders (a composite of musicians from eleven schools in north Atlanta) in the late 1960s, an we played the first movement of this piece, transcribed to C-minor and arranged for band. We competed in regionals and got a 'SUPERIOR' rating. We also traveled to Pittsburg, PA for a festival at Duquesne University. Happy memories. I still love this piece, Borodin is still my favorite composer.

We are all pleased! We would not want you to suffer too much! Travel through Siberia! Then you might understand???

I agree! 🎻

Exactly!

"Superb" is the the closest I can come to describe this work .

I agree, too many whiz-kid conductors now who are more interested in themselves than the music, but based on this performance Karel M Chichon knows quite a lot about intelligent interpretation - helped it might be said, by the magnificent C.O. A. and of course the incomparable acoustics of the hall..

You are indeed fortunate .

@@TheVaughan5 thanks einstein for the info.

I love Borodin's music, but I think you're being a bit too kind...Don't forget Tchaikovsky regarded him as a not-so-good composer, although he said his fantastic piece ''in the steppes of central Asia'' is almost great.

@@mousikopaigmonas23 Don't remember too that Ravel loved his music very much wrete a "pasticcio" for piano, and rhat his gtoup of friends "les apaches" whistled a theme of a Borodin quartet as a signal to meet together.

@@gerardbegni2806 That's pretty awesome. And I love his quartet No.2.

Russian and Asiatic music were huge influences on turn-of-the -last- century European composers. One of Ravel's compositions for the Academie was rejected as being "overworked Rimski-Korsakov". But that didn't stop him, thank goodness

@@stynway59 I fully agree with you.

i agree.

Borodin died at 50. He was dancing with his wife when he suffered a heart attack. Borodin was generous and hospitable to many. Borodin also supported women going into medicine. He was one of the greatest of Russians.

First of all, Borodin was a first-class chemist and doctor, and in fact his contribution to organic chemistry was so fruitful that his syntheses (esp. the aldol reaction) are still widely known. application in chemical engineering and pharmaceuticals.

+David Bloss so he didn't produce much symphonies?

+David Bloss I certainly thought the 4th movement sounded very "american" somehow

+Tiana Pi Tesr 3 !! Master pieces !!!

Listen to GOLOVANOV! He uncovers all the beauties of this score!

I thought I heard to gun shot. But I thought it was just my imagination running away with me.

I agree. This is the first time I have ever responded to a flower. Love it!

@@elizabethschaeffer9543 thanks einstein.

And...a fine pocket pool player...I'm told.

Hi David; you are right and he was very successful in the scientific field. I can only imagine becoming friends with Rimsky-Korsakov and Mussorgsky and being part of “The Five”!!. What a group!. I agree with you, an absolute joy to listen to the principal horn, the rest of the members as well. Excellent video, thanks.

La versión de Gergev es preciosa

Hold my beer

And founded a school for women to train in medicine. Absolute legend.

chris foster I gather he was a brilliant chemist and physician. Borodin was also a kind, generous, and hospitable man plus a devoted husband. I don't know if he had any children. Borodin was a feminist and supported women's higher education, especially their going into medicine as physicians. He died of a heart attack at age 50 while dancing with his wife at some kind of an event.

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Sounds more like that theme from Ep. 1 of Star Wars

If you enjoy the echos of classical composition in John William's scores, you must have heard it in Holst's suite, The Planets!

You can hear Borodin's influence in Hollywood film scores by the Eastern European refugee composers a generation or three later, especially in the western genre.

Yep

In high school we did the 1st movement in full orchestra. Cant imagine doing it in elementary school....

+Loseurillusions me too lol

No doubt. I think I have heard it maybe once live. I do get to perform it myself next Spring along with Rachmaninoff 2d Concerto.

@@craigkowald3055 You lucky dog!

I agree!! I am a 53 year old life long metal fan. But for the last 2 years, I listen almost exclusively to classical music. This one ROCKS!

I hate it when people compare classical to metal. Metal has no meaning, it is just loud musical-noise.

@@IsaacW. believe it or not, metal and classical are similar, music theory wise. depends on the subgenre though, I suppose. many classical pieces can make some pretty killer riffs. to each their own, though.

@@finnthewitch while classical music can be bastardized into metal, original metal cannot be used in classical. Have you noticed that?

@@IsaacW. i dunno, i’d beg to differ kzfaq.info/get/bejne/obJgbNqD1Z_Up5s.html

Thanks einstein.

Indeed. Ain't nothing perfect. Even the sun has spots.

Vladislov Kyzinski There is one perfect thing I have found-"Eugen Cicero-Exercise".A 3-and-a-half minute piece that has everything I want in a piece-variety,beauty thrills when it suddenly switches unexpectedly from classical to hard-swinging jazz without losing the beauty,and building to a great climax before returning to the original classical theme.

I have heard a recording of his first symphony in which an English horn substituted for the 'cello section in the statement of the main theme of the slow movement. I have also herd one where that theme is stated by a solo 'cello. A Siberian symphony? The opening movement of the third symphony certainly might have been headed that way. One of the visitors who heard Borodin play the slow movement of the third through in an impromptu recital described a set of variations, remarkable in that each variation was crescendo throughout, and that the theme was quite unlike anything Borodin had ever written before. One of his piano works was used as a basis for a section of a requiem. I have always considered Borodin's A-major Quartet to be essentially a symphony scored for string quartet. Too much music there to be heard clearly if it had been scored for full orchestra, rather like the Scherzo in D-major for string quartet which was the only portion of Borodin's third symphony that he got completed on paper (the first movement was recreated by Glazounov from memory, from one of the in-home recitals), and Glazounov orchestrated the scherzo based, in part, on Borodin's notes in the margin of the quartet score.

I love your comment! And I share your love for Borodin. Many thanks!