Don Quixote, Op. 35 - Richard Strauss (Score)

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Score of Richard Strauss' tone poem Don Quixote (subtitled "Phantastische Variationen über ein Thema ritterlichen Charakters", translated as "Fantastic Variations on a Theme of Knightly Character"), op. 35, inspired in Miguel de Cervantes' work. It's an orchestral piece in the form of a theme with variations, in which the main two motifs (representing Don Quixote and his squire Sancho Panza, the former in charge of the cello soloist and the latter played by the viola soloist) are presented in the introduction and later developed in each variation, narrating partially Cervantes' story.
0:00 - (Introduction)
0:21 - Introduction: "Don Quixote loses his sanity after reading novels about knights, and decides to become a knight-errant"
6:29 - Don Quixote's theme: "Don Quixote, knight of the sorrowful countenance"
7:33 - Sancho Panza's theme - Maggiore
8:43 - Variation I "Adventure at the Windmills"
11:23 - Variation II: "The victorious struggle against the army of the great emperor Alifanfaron"
13:01 - Variation III: "Dialogue between Knight and Squire"
20:57 - Variation IV: "Unhappy adventure with a procession of pilgrims"
22:45 - Variation V: "The knight's vigil"
26:55 - Variation VI: "The Meeting with Dulcinea"
28:12 - Variation VII: "The Ride through the Air"
29:16 - Variation VIII: "The unhappy voyage in the enchanted boat"
31:04 - Variation IX: "Battle with the magicians"
32:05 - Variation X: "Duel with the knight of the bright moon"
36:22 - Finale: "Coming to his senses again"
Performers: Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, G. Pehlivanian (conductor).

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@classicalmusicanalysis 6 жыл бұрын

Be sure to check the description! It may help you when listening to this amazing piece, because the two main motifs keep appearing again and again, and it's interesting to be able to recognize them. Enjoy!

@figarofeegarrooooo2782 4 жыл бұрын

Amazing piece, description helps thankyou!

@zachhoulton8793 Ай бұрын

thank you for the description!

@xcruxifiedx3477 4 жыл бұрын

28:12 I swear I could hear a choir, this is by far the best musical interpretation of pure imagination and the feeling of actually flying.

@tiellochridge 3 жыл бұрын

or maybe the horns? but yeah, there's a lot going on here so that makes sense haha

@FreakieFan 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, definitely the Wind Machine. I thought the same. It sounded like a choir.

@AndreyRubtsovRU 3 ай бұрын

yeah. nothing spectacular here. go consult a doctor :-)

@amdhuntmc 3 ай бұрын

@@AndreyRubtsovRU shouldn't you be digging a trench right now?

@bckm54 Жыл бұрын

Many years ago I played the solo viola part, and I fell MADLY in love with this piece. Nice to see the sheet music again.

@lyricsronen 6 жыл бұрын

Possibly one of the most complex pieces of music ever written. This score is an absolute marvel

@classicalmusicanalysis 6 жыл бұрын

Agreed!

@lyricsronen 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for uploading!

@alejandrom.4680 3 жыл бұрын

Liri Ronen Really far away from being the most complex piece of music ever written hahahaha. But yeah, the most complex piece of music from the Romanticism for sure.

@lyricsronen 3 жыл бұрын

I’m sure that you can find some serialist who’s made it their life mission to create the most “complex” music possible. But when I’m talking about complexity, I’m talking about the amount of coherent and intentional detail that is so masterfully assembled in this score. I highly doubt that anybody before or after 1898 had ever given this much thought to the setting of a text, and the way in which each musical idea comes together and corresponds to an event/character/emotion from the book.

@tiellochridge 3 жыл бұрын

If this is one of the most complex, the rest are probably Strauss' other works haha. Rosenkavalier, Ein Heldenleben, Alpensinfonie, etc... I've heard they can all be quite a challenge

@eliascorrinth168 3 жыл бұрын

Man, those final two chords are SO challenging to play in tune and pianissimo. I bet the old fox did that on purpose

@PentameronSV 5 жыл бұрын

Also in description: 0:22 - Introduction: "Don Quixote loses his sanity after reading novels about knights, and decides to become a knight-errant" 6:29 - Don Quixote's theme: "Don Quixote, knight of the sorrowful countenance" 7:33 - Sancho Panza's theme - Maggiore [8:43 - Variation I: "Adventure at the Windmills" ] [11:23 - Variation II: "The victorious struggle against the army of the great emperor Alifanfaron" ] [13:01 - Variation III: "Dialogue between Knight and Squire" ] [20:57 - Variation IV: "Unhappy adventure with a procession of pilgrims" ] [22:45 - Variation V: "The knight's vigil" ] [26:55 - Variation VI: "The Meeting with Dulcinea" ] [28:12 - Variation VII: "The Ride through the Air" ] [29:16 - Variations VIII: "The unhappy voyage in the enchanted boat" ] [31:04 - Variation IX: "Battle with the magicians" ] [32:05 - Variation X: "Duel with the knight of the bright moon" ] 36:22 - Finale: "Coming to his senses again"

@JJ-eo9kw 5 жыл бұрын

Pentameron 31:04 thats very intense!

@nyancs7098 2 жыл бұрын

5:23 probably the most epic euphonium and bassoon part in orchestra ever

@stepheniansavage 2 жыл бұрын

The "Oh, sh..." moment at 25:01 is hilarious.

@AndreyRubtsovRU 3 ай бұрын

bad standup

@davidzorror. 22 күн бұрын

Genial la forma de personificar a través de la música. A medida que pasan las variaciones se pueden imaginar las aventuras y desventuras de los mismos con el ritmo, la orquestación, la melodía etc. Los lentos son expresivos y los rápidos con energía y carácter, me gustó un montón la versión. Gracias por el trabajo de edición, la descripción etc. ¡Maravilloso!

@MrMichaelvier 3 жыл бұрын

.. sooo brillant......so sublime.... fragile ... sooooo powerful intelligent composed music....Strauss is a genius...my all time favorite composer....followed by Gustav Mahler.......thx for posting:-))

@thejils1669 Жыл бұрын

The neatest thing about this piece to me is the ending. After all the trials, troubles, and tribulations encountered by the knight and his squire...so magnificently captured musically by Strauss's brilliant composing...Don Quixote is ready to call it a day...or a life...and he just slumps to his rest...beautifully evoked by the solo cello glissando from D3 to D2...genius composing for sure!

@33Jeanjazzman 5 жыл бұрын

Amazing piece, thank you by score!

@adamblah123 4 жыл бұрын

21:58 I could’ve sworn i heard glass breaking

@nadiazayman1820 3 жыл бұрын

It was a suspended cymbal struck, then immediately choked.

@VanessaHolguin Жыл бұрын

@@nadiazayman1820 Not just that, but the FFF tambourine hit.

@Richard.Atkinson 3 ай бұрын

That’s the moment he gets knocked off his horse by the pilgrims 😂

@deadstar4955 2 ай бұрын

music with story embedded into it is always fire, and the bigger the story, the more emotions it invokes,

@conchetaful 3 жыл бұрын

Agradeceremos a Richard Strauss haberse acordado de nuestro Quijote y así dar valor a las palabras ...'muestrate agradecido que la ingratitud es hija de la soberbia y uno de los mayores pecados que se sabe'

@katiavonaltrock1584 Жыл бұрын

thanks for the score, very helpful, intelligent !

@violinhunter2 2 жыл бұрын

At 2:54, the harmonization is reminiscent of that used by Berlioz in the first (?) movement in his Symphonie ..... the dream sequence....

@conchetaful 3 жыл бұрын

Precioso.

@bitchslappedme Жыл бұрын

Took a bit to warm up to it but I really like it now

@33Jeanjazzman 5 жыл бұрын

hero job

@FreakieFan 3 жыл бұрын

24:55 that page is looking NUTS!

@FreakieFan 2 жыл бұрын

@@ashleythorpe7933 Are you blind?

@ashleythorpe7933 2 жыл бұрын

@@FreakieFan And some tremolandi and violin scales

@javiermedina5313 Жыл бұрын

and it sounds so normal and beautiful

@mason3845 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the score played along with the music, but at 5:30 the two pages are swapped.

@classicalmusicanalysis 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much for your feedback - I hadn't noticed it until now, I'm sorry. When editing, some .png are misplaced from time to time, and although I always double check before uploading, this one clearly was so small I couldn't see it.

@mason3845 6 жыл бұрын

Roc Vela No worries. I’m just glad i figured it out because I kept listening to that part a ton of times and being baffled looking at the score when it turns out the pages were just swapped. I’m glad I was able to catch it. lol

@davidpfistner5381 15 күн бұрын

6:29 Thema Don Quixote, 7:33 Sancho Pansa, 8:43 Kampf mit den Windmühlen, 11:23 Siegreicher Kampf gegen das Heer des großen Kaisers Alifanfaron 32:49 Kampf mit dem Ritter vom blanken Mond 36:23 Besinnung 39:42 Tod

@danialva7308 5 жыл бұрын

9:48 The lobster

@scroogemcduck4376 4 жыл бұрын

Das ist Gut

@gabrielkaz5250 6 ай бұрын

0:21 - Introduction: "Don Quixote loses his sanity after reading novels about knights, and decides to become a knight-errant" (theme de la lecture, cuivres et cymbales annoncent les combats à venir, th. de la dulcinée péd. sol) il lit tellement qu'il perd ne dort plus, ne chasse plus, perd le sens de la réalité. 6:29 - Don Quixote's theme: "Don Quixote, knight of the sorrowful countenance" presentation thème de D Q 7:33 - Sancho Panza's theme - Maggiore 8:43 - Variation I "Adventure at the Windmills" chap 7, DQ SP partent de nuit incognito, combattent les moulins ! 11:23 - Variation II: "The victorious struggle against the army of the great emperor Alifanfaron" chap 18 L'armée est un troupeau de mouton, 13:01 - Variation III: "Dialogue between Knight and Squire" sommet d'intensité, DQ expose sa vision d'un monde idéale, d'amour, l'amour à Dulcinée. cf th. 1:21 20:57 - Variation IV: "Unhappy adventure with a procession of pilgrims" 22:45 - Variation V: "The knight's vigil" chap 21 Veillée d'armes de DQ (repos), 12 epanchemts à la pensée de la lointaine dulcinée cf Ravel chanson romanesque 26:55 - Variation VI: "The Meeting with Dulcinea" 28:12 - Variation VII: "The Ride through the Air" voyage imaginaire ds les airs, les yeux bandés, DQ PS montent un cheval de bois bourré de pétards ds le jardin de la contesse trifaldi, l'assistance leur fait de l'air avc des gros soufflets. Ils s'imaginent atteignant les cieux, vers une zone de feu ! 29:16 - Variation VIII: "The unhappy voyage in the enchanted boat" 31:04 - Variation IX: "Battle with the magicians" 32:05 - Variation X: "Duel with the knight of the bright moon" Tragique au possible, joute grandiose, fin du rêve de DQ chap 64 livre 2, ce chevalier à la lune provoque DQ, sa femme serait plus belle que Dulcinée ! DQ implore le ciel puis le combat commence. Rocinante ne fait pas le poids, DQ perd. DQ doit rester ds son village un an entier. sans guerroyer. En musique : duel, le VCL a du mal à s'imposer, il est battu. La retraite de DQ ensuite. Grande douleur, 32:491 36:22 - Finale: "Coming to his senses again" "revenu à la sagesse, DQ vit ses derniers jours ds la contempla°" DQ espère redevenir chevalier, mais ap. 1 an, il repasse dev. l'endroit ou il a perdu le combat, il comprend alors. cf chap 68 livre 2, morale : il ne faut pas se laisser mourir, mais vivre ! vcl poignant, descendant. Métaphore de l'artiste qui rêve d'un nv. monde. La var III témoigne de la générosité du chevalier.

@torterrakart7249 6 жыл бұрын

This is awesome! I didn't know the existence of this channel Will you upload regularly?

@classicalmusicanalysis 6 жыл бұрын

Torterra kart Thank you so much! By today's evening or tomorrow I'll have my next video finished, so don't miss it! I try to upload whenever I can, without a regular schedule.

@dipizza5868 4 ай бұрын

Viola solo 7:42 sancho panza theme

@garrysmodsketches 7 ай бұрын

even with 1080 hd accidentals are hard to read on some pages. Huge score :)

@benclarke4075 4 жыл бұрын

2:24 AMEB Grade 8 excerpt

@liebesleid 6 жыл бұрын

Are there any composers like this one alive in our times?

@ernestoferreri 5 жыл бұрын

try David del Tredici Finale Alice

@timsherman7732 5 жыл бұрын

Strauss's predecessors were the ones who wrote film music in the 20th century. :)

@musik350 4 жыл бұрын

@GIAN ANDRE NUESCA segerstam...

@liebesleid 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the answers!

@finneganlindsay 2 жыл бұрын

All talented people currently are so incredibly terrified of the past and are so caught up in being avant garde that they rarely write something of real significance. Someone who does is gavin bryars, check out his double bass concerto.

@legendschant1194 Жыл бұрын

1:29 viole solo 2:26 mute fanfare 11:25 mena fendenti sulle pecore 11:45 pain

@armandogonella2770 6 жыл бұрын

" MORIR CUERDO Y VIVIR LOCO " ( A S T I , ITALIA )

@yrockerboy 4 жыл бұрын

12:19 flutter

@rldluz 3 жыл бұрын

Is this part where we hear the bleating of the sheep?

@kims0730 Жыл бұрын

Does anyone know why the soloist is doing a huge accelerando starting around @10.06? I checked both the solo part and the score but no marking is there….

@graceFireLord999 Жыл бұрын

Is his own interpretation of the piece.

@doveellis 4 жыл бұрын

7:33

@RobertOrgRobert Жыл бұрын

7:42 Any idea what that scratchy sound is ?

@saratei99 9 ай бұрын

I know I'm incredibly late, but when several bassoons are playing close intervals together in the tenor register, that "white noise" effect forms for whatever reason

@trantiencaophong 6 жыл бұрын

Who is the cellist (play solo cello)? Tell me please. Thanks.

@classicalmusicanalysis 6 жыл бұрын

The cellist is G. Geminiani.

@trantiencaophong 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much for your answer.

@tomatojuice12 2 жыл бұрын

@@classicalmusicanalysis This is the most important information and should be posted in the description! What is his full name? Thank you for sharing this video.

@kulawat Жыл бұрын

@@tomatojuice12 bruh

@giraddestra 8 ай бұрын

Gabriele Geminiani vcello, violin Roberto Gonzales Monjas , Viola Raffaele Mallozzi . First little cello solo mr Carlo Onori ....

@tyrunwilloughbyjr.8220 4 жыл бұрын

14:50

@samueljett7807 Жыл бұрын

(Notes for myself... audition) 4:02 11:23

@maxgregorycompositions6216 Жыл бұрын

Did it go OK?

@Christoph_Forrey 4 жыл бұрын

pages at 5:35 are inverted

@user-qc4uj4zz3q 3 жыл бұрын

8:43

@gruporomanticoenfasis 2 жыл бұрын

1:50

@bibobabu8756 2 жыл бұрын

2:24

@xachlee-llacer7545 Жыл бұрын

7:42

@pauloverly4162 4 ай бұрын

Themes 6:26

@ShockzG5 Жыл бұрын

28:00

@jjaguirremusic 2 жыл бұрын

17:10

@user-eb1vi8pr6l Жыл бұрын

29:16

@rldluz 3 жыл бұрын

where do we hear the bleating of the sheep? is it here: 11:44 ?

@classicalmusicanalysis 3 жыл бұрын

Yes!

@javiermedina5313 Жыл бұрын

one of the most socking moments in classical music

@akshat-gh Жыл бұрын

34:05

@coritrenczer3349 Жыл бұрын

3:14 6:41

@joshuarubin171 Жыл бұрын

72 34:06

@Ysy85263 3 жыл бұрын

돈키호테 스트라우스 교향시 첼로 협주곡 같은 특징이 있음

@PM_ME_MESSIAEN_PICS 9 ай бұрын

does the score weigh 35 kg

@nandikamukherjee6578 3 жыл бұрын

I love variation VII!

@katiavonaltrock1584 Жыл бұрын

whereas i love II VII IX X most

@classicalspoilers9497 2 жыл бұрын

28:06

@lyricsronen 6 жыл бұрын

The last notes of don Quixote are d-- --d. Hmm, I wonder if there's a word related to "an end" that starts and ends with d.

@VasilBelezhkov 4 жыл бұрын

Like 'DeaD'?

@lyricsronen 2 жыл бұрын

The book was written in Spanish, so I think we're beyond language at this point haha. I know that Stravinsky spelled the word DEAD with the notes of the last chord in Rite of Spring (and he was a Russian living in Paris), so I thought maybe Strauss was thinking something similar. Nevertheless, that glissando is a brilliant idea for portraying Don Quixote's "last breath" in music.

@raheemgoring123 2 жыл бұрын

Donquixote Doflamingo 👍🏽

@giraddestra 8 ай бұрын

il signor Gabriele Geminiani , primo violoncello dell'orchestra di Santa Cecilia all'epoca.

@Jonnysclusive 2 жыл бұрын

@hanbeenlee3718 4 жыл бұрын

10:04 (340p)

@Jonnysclusive 2 жыл бұрын

did you guys know hens lay 250 eggs a year

@Jonnysclusive 2 жыл бұрын

im going to eat them all

@AndreyRubtsovRU 3 ай бұрын

I love Strauss but this one is... boring. Go on. Port your mean replies :-).

@markokassenaar4387 4 жыл бұрын

This is a rather poor performance. Everybody is audibly struggling through the score. Very often out of tune and not together.

@FreakieFan 3 жыл бұрын

It is unquestionably one of the most difficult pieces ever written for orchestra though.

@markokassenaar4387 3 жыл бұрын

@@FreakieFan Agreed, but many orchestras manage this piece. We are so spoilt in that respect.

@FreakieFan 3 жыл бұрын

@@markokassenaar4387 Very true. I quite like hearing less glamorous renditions of pieces though. It's an interesting experience.

@solcarzemog5232 3 жыл бұрын

It's too fucking complex to the point of NOT enjoyable

@pe-peron8441 3 жыл бұрын

I don't agree in the slightest, but I guess it has to do with the types of music you are most acquainted with. Just out of my personal curiosity, have you ever tried to listen to very heavy and undoubtedly mammoth piano works such as Liszt's sonata in B minor or Godowsky's passacaglia, atonal orchestral pieces, especially the late Scriabin, or other tonal but still decidedly powerful works, such as Bach's Mass in B minor, an opera by the late Mozart (who tends to disguise enormous structures in sections that are enjoyable in a light spirit) or the metamorphosen by Strauss himself? Best

@deadstar4955 2 ай бұрын

the complexity is part of the emotions, honestly I think most would agree it helps express don Quixote's insanity