This orchestra just gets better and better: so recognisable as a German orchestra.... I love it. Wonderful confidence, wonderful playing, wonderful skill by all players.

Bignamini, now music director of the Detroit Symphony is fast becoming my favorite conductor.

What a wonderful concert played by the orchestra under the baton of the conductor.

Wonderful performance and absolutely gorgeous oboe solos! Just when I think the playing of your wind section can't get any better, it does! Thank you for posting this exquisite little gem!

Again as always such a beautiful performance by conductor and orchestra, hr-Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt: TOP

All I can is, just wonderful. Played by an outstanding orchestra. Thank you so much for uploading this and all you upload.

Fantastisches Oboensolo! 😍🎶

Wunderschöne und lebhafte Aufführung dieser spätromantischen und perfekt komponierten Tondichtung mit farbenprächtigen doch perfekt entsprechenden Tönen aller Instrumente. Die Virtuosität aller Einzelspieler ist wahrhaft eindrucksvoll. Der intelligente und geniale Dirgent leitet das ausgezeichnete Orchester im veränderlichen Tempo und mit möglichst effektiver Dynamik. Einfach wunderbar!

What a touching piece of music!

I've found my favorite triangle player.

Listening for the first time. The opening is really busy. The 2nd song 3 minutes in or so is very beautiful. Reminds me of a romance scene in a Hollywood movie. The 3rd section is when the bad guy shows up. Pretty crazy how you can imagine a movie or a play over the music. It's all very modern sounding in that sense. The 4th section is mysterious, like they're walking through a cave until they get back out into the sun again with that oboe solo around 7 minutes or so. The French horns are nice with how they compliment the oboe during this part. That's halfway through the thing now. The 2nd half has that cool brass theme to kick things off. Very modern sounding use of the orchestra to create these intense build ups and releases of tension. I guess composers were extremely influenced by Strauss because it's so familiar sounding. Another oboe solo happens at 13 minutes creating a very suspenseful vibe. I like that part a lot. Things pop off at 14 minutes with big string and horn swells accented with harp and glockenspiel parts. The strings and horns oscillate between triumph and disaster until nearly 17 minutes in when triumph emerges only to be dashed moments later with melancholy horns and timpani. It's a big emotional range. It ends with a few beeps from the doublebasses. I'm impressed by the ferocity of the music, especially coming from the guy that wrote the Blue Danube. I think this piece is a flex because it's obviously tremendously difficult but sounds effortless when performed by great musicians and conductors. A great piece and exciting to experience.

This horns are so good

Belle interprétation du poème symphonique certainement le plus frais et le moins grandiloquent de son auteur.

감동적인 연주 잘봤습니다❤

Amazing

Thank you, one of my favourite pieces by Strauss! Is that Michael Israelievitch on the timpani?

Strauss war einmalig!

Bravo Mariano!!!

Wahnsinn! Ich hoffe, bei meinem nächsten Aufenthalt in Frankfurt ist es mir möglich, eine Vorführung zu besuchen. Ich bin zwar in München gut versorgt mit guten Orchester wie der Philharmoniker, JCOM etc., allerdings scheint dies hier auch sehr besonders zu sein!

I adore this orchestra and all those people involved in the presentations. I do wonder, though, where all the older players go. I keep seeing new young faces, which is very nice, but do the others retire at age 40? Is there no tenure?

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6:34 I watched the livestream performance of this piece. I remember there was an unfortunate crack in one of the horns (perhaps it was the first horn as he had a slightly annoyed expression after playing.) they must have cleaned it up in post editing.

Can someone please tell me who this oboist is? They are not part of the regular roster but boy are they special!

It’s wonderful that this great orchestra makes these live performances available on You Tube without paying a subscription. Too bad the B.P.O. don’t follow suit, however it’s no big deal because the Frankfurt Orchestra is probably in reality just as fine an orchestra. 😄

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Don Juan es mi primo tío 😂

who is the first trumpeter?

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what an amazing performance but the crowd applaud was really not it 🙁

Baby 1st trumpet and baby 3rd horn, baby 1st bassoon.... I think Germany is creating orchestral musicians in a lab.

Well,about the oboesolo….I have heard that one mutch better..sorry. And also a better orchestra.. Brynjar Hoff

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