Best moments and their meanings (imo): 1:23 - before hell's entrance 7:00 - the wind of luxury's circle 10:45 - "theme" of Francesca's and Paolo's love (also heard at 20:04) 11:46 - Francesca and Paolo meeting each other and falling in love 12:45 - "Lancelot's reading" and the consumption of their love 13:55 - Their happiness before their horrible fate 16:25 - Paolo's brother discovering their affair 18:00 - Francesca and Paolo being killed by Paolo's brother 23:32 - Dante being overwhelmed by emotion and fainting

This is so amazing wth why is not everyone talking about this??!!

Tchaikovsky is always considered a romantic composer. But i.m.o. his music is the catharsis of all symphonic creations before him. Outrageous, melodious, wild, unpredictable, divine. Never pretentious, like Wagner. About his own work he was always worrying, touchy, vulnerable. He must have been a sympathetic person, with lots of empathy.

11:38 Tara starts dancing 23:32 the music after the Sammy vision

This is the third of Tchaikovsky's great trilogy of symphonic poems (or fantasy overtures), the other two being Romeo & Juliet and The Tempest. Such great master works!

Tchaikovsky was very good at making dramatic conflict beautiful and compelling. Desire is mixed with fear and regret and the results produce a hybrid of emotion. At the 2:50 mark we hear this clearly. The lovers want to be together, but they're kept forever apart by the whirlwinds of Hell.

That’s the reason why i fell in love with this man 💚

I remember some years ago I went to sleep with the radio on, and when I woke up in the middle of the night it was playing the last few moments of this piece. Pretty scary really!

Tchaikovsky is incomparable. There was never and will never be any composer as awesome as he was.

Another melodic dramatic masterpiece the composer had a cornerstone on--- then and now. One gets feeling he identified so much with his tortured mu sical characters.- yet like so many great artists had another side and could write the Waltz of the flowers. Quite a dynamic difference here isn't it. The nature of genius how does one explain? Just enjoy.

His absolute geniality in music based on inmortal master pieces of literature, like here in Dante's Inferno and others like Shakespeare Romeo and Giuliette and Manfred, is in outstanding performances like this Francesca da Rimini. Chaikovsky grandeur from Russia!!!!

23:32-24:05 if I die during a battle,I would like to hear that part while I'm fighting.

an amazing piece: dark, explosive, passionate, powerful...tragic...brilliant...absolutely brilliant!!

Tchaikovsky must be my all time favorite. I also like Sibelius and Wagner, Tchaikovsky, Mahler, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, ...did I mention Tchaikovsky.

No conocía esta obra. Una muestra más del genio y la brillantez de Tchaikovsky

When you start to explore the wealth of the body of work this "household" composer has left us, you realise how much is prophetic of the twentieth century. His combination of dark, turbulent sounds and just otherworldly tunes piercing that darkness, is magical...

Um dos Poemas Sinfonicos de Tchaikovsky que mais ADORO. ORQUESTRAÇÃO PERFEITA.

THAT is how you end a composition!

One of the best pieces of music ever written, period.

El mejor melodista de toda la Historia de la Música Clásica. Aunque perduran hoy día algunos intelectualoides y críticos amargados, quienes lo califican como un compositor "menor" sensiblero y "demasiado romántico". Además fue un excelente orquestador. Y por favor, no interrumpan las bellas obras musicales con esa serie repugnante de comerciales publicitarios. Estamos hartos de tanta mercadotecnia por todos lados y a todo momento. Saludos desde México.

Saw this piece live in Rejkjavik Iceland in 1987 or so, an all-Tchakovsky night with the Piano Concerto #1, Rococo Variations, and Francesca. The President of Iceland was in attendance. Francesca is an immensely exciting piece live, especially the symbal clashes during the whirlwind segments - - they should be LOUD, and scare the crap out of everyone in the concert hall - - and they were. :-)

Pure madness! I love Tchaikovsky!

got in the car the radio turned on. caught the last few minutes of this truly an amazing piece.

"Ed ella a me: 'Nessun maggior dolore Che ricordarsi del tempo felice Nella miseria; e ciò sa il tuo dottore.'"

If you ever get a chance to see a symphony performance of this make sure you go!!! I've seen this performed by the Denver Symphony Orchestra. It's written in a way so that the orchestra plays in rounds from left to right creating this amazing counter clockwise rotation of sound that fills the baffles above and completely engulfs you. I think the point was to create a surround sound sensation mimicking the constant winds and subsequent din, confusion and chaos of the Second Tier of Hell. It made my every goose bump stand at attention.

Excellent.

Bravo !

It is my favorite one of all symphonic poems ever composed !!!!

A great composer, standing alongside with others with different gifts to impart. He had Melodies, instrumentation and soul searching longings in abundance. Just an honest and decent composer for us all....

11:46 17:57 one of the best melodies by tchaikovsky

Q. Der heavy metal man of classical music. Ohh...der clarinet telling Francesca's tragic story of love, etc....OHH!!! Darker more effectually than OZZY!

This is one of Tchaikovsky's major orchestral works yet it gets few performances (at least outside Russia) compared to Romeo & Juliet which, as wonderful as that might be, is IMO not quite up to the standard of Francesa de Rimini.

Será la composición más hermosa jamás creada? Magnífica, extraordinaria, majestuosa, genial,hermosa!!!!!!

what a masterpiece!!

This music is part of onegin ballet. You don't know how time i was looking for. Thank you a lot!!

First time I've heard this composition...very emotional; I like it a lot!

I found this piece on IMSLP to do for a trombone audition for university. I've never heard of it until now and I am absolutely in love with this piece. Its powerful, and delicate. It reminds me of some of the Nutcracker and the Manfred somehow

Thank you, Trombones. 😊

Thrilling as usual.

One of my Italian professors introduced me to this piece; we were reading the Inferno part of Dante's masterpiece LA commedia (The Divine Comedy in English). I fell in love with this music on first hearing! Need I day more?

1) 0-0:52 2:20-3:10 5:35 2) 9:15 11:45 3) 22:34

What makes it even more beautiful is that this piece was dedicated to Sergey Taneyev, supposedly his lover (as they were very close and both secretly gay)

I'm from Rimini... :D

I love yooou, Tchaicovsky!! 💛

Modestamente creo que este tipo de música debe ser de obligatoria enseñanza en los colegios y universidades, no solo por cultura, sino y fundamentalmente por su aporte formativo al desarrollo espiritual. La magia de seguir la historia, la evolución de la trama y lograr que los instrumentos musicales puedan articularse expresando el conflicto de sentimientos, la siempre vigente actualidad del drama amoroso, tratemos que este mensaje y legado de pensamiento y arte no se pierda y pueda llegar a los niños de nuestros países.Grande abrazo. Alberto.

Thanks Tchaikovsky. Indeed.

As Romantic & Russian as it can possibly be.

Thank you for uploading this! I'm enjoying it right now. I've never heard this music piece from Tchaikovsky. Now, thanks to you, my musical culture grew. :)

Yes, it's very good.. The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

OMG!!! Thanks a lot!!! I appreciate this!!!!

Thank you ! 감사해요 !

Just amazing

Intense and Amazing

anybody else notice the music from dance academy at the end? lol

He was a wizard.

splendida

Tchaik chegou no ápice das suas capacidades formais e estruturais. O clima sinistro jamais alcançado soa numa melodia arrebatadora que arranca da orquestra toda a sua pujança. A seção central quase bucólica e angelical se contrapõe num crescente galgar até desvendar o destino, o qual cinge ambas as partes e termina num clima Infernal onde bem e mal se aniquilam. Simplesmente, o máximo!!!!!!!

Divina Comedia. Fui interesado

gets realy good around 18:00 mark

9:21 dance academy

BRAVO

Tchaikovsky ti amo tantissimo!!😚😚🙄

..heard a story about Tchaikovsky being invited to Cambridge, uk to receive an honorary doctorate.. was supposed to perform (conduct..) a piece of his own and he wanted his first piano concerto.. but Grieg who was also recieving, had got in there before him with his lovely concerto.. didn't want two piano concertos so Tchaikovsky chose this piece to play for the academic bigwigs at the university...

BEWARE! This is what happens to illicit lovers. Beeee goooood!

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Wich orchestra is this? And who's the conductor?

This is an excellent rendition of this piece... shame that the conductor/group is not mentioned in the description. Truly an amazing recording.

I was brought here from a Black Sabbath video/thread. Yes, there is a correllation.

Nessun maggior dolore che ricordarsi del tempo felice nella miseria; e ciò sa 'l tuo dottore.

Francesca will give herself or won't??? What an intensity!!

Onegin ballet ❤❤

This song supposed to be good if you're angry. It matches your anger and disposes of it

Peter Tchaikovsky at the height of his powers! There used to be a recording of Francesca on Y.T. with Gergiev /LPO (though I think it should have been LSO) now deleted. It had a bit more drive and drama than this performance, though I still enjoyed Haitink's recording very much.

Youre very welcome..

11:43

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Esta obra es sobre la Divina Comedia de Dante, trata de la historia de Francesca y Paolo, que enamoraron pero Francesca estaba casada con el hermano de Paolo. El los encontró juntos y los asesinó a ambos.

*I NEED THE HELP OF FRANCESCA DA RIMINI FANS:* There used to be a *series of 3 videos* of Tchaikovsky's _Francesca da Rimini_ by youtuber Callum Hackett. Those were the *best videos on the subject*, because they had these 3 lines of step by step annotation boxes throughout. The top box provided excerpts from Tchaikovsky's own program for the music; the middle one showed quoted verses from Dante's _Divine Comedy_; the lower one gave insights about Melody and Instrumentation. In the description was detailed the source of those insights. I _think_ that it was something like "Understanding the Great Masters" or "Classical Music Step by Step", and it might have been something published by Deutsche Grammophon, but that's all I can remember. I'm lucky enough for remembering the channel's name. The problem is that *those videos have been deleted*, so as Callum Hackett's channel and Google+ profile (I checked), and it's a real shame. I wanted to ask all of you fans of this piece if you ever saw those videos, and if you can point me out the source of those annotations. The thumbnail and video image was the oil portrait of Tchaikovsky by Kuznetsov. Thanks in advance for any help, Sérgio SC

It`s actually not bad at all! Dear theWickedNorth-thanks a lot.But could you also add a few details as to who`s playing and when this recording was made?-merci

Who is playing?! Which orchestra & conductor? Ridiculous not to mention that....

Agreed.

How not to fall in love with Russia after this?

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra & Bernard Haitink?

Esplêndido.

Music like this makes me want to watch Disney movies or old cartoons like Tom and Jerry.

Fabulous composer. Listen to the first ominous fluttering of the fatal wind that eternally drives the lovers apart first stirring at 4:20. Genius Appeals to all musical,listeners from novices to conosseurs.

Ah yes, the tale of sinful, forbidden love dedicated to the composer's "good friend"

Loved it, not quite as good as the Romeo and Juliet but a bit better than The Tempest. All three fabulous.Now I can go to bed thoroughly happy

That last part is 2020 in a nutshell. Lol.

23:30

Does anyone know who are the contributors here ? Which Orchestra / Conductor / Clarinet soloist are performing on this track ? In my opinion it's the best performance of the piece ever recorded.

I read the DC a thousand years ago as an undergrad, so I've forgotten -- did the murderous husband get punished in Hell, too?

This piece may be the single most salient reason that the diminished seventh chord became such a cliche.

dat finale

Why didn't you list the orchestra and conductor?

IMHO that last reprise of the love theme before the coda was played too too slowly. I think it shd have been abt 10% faster. That is because that session has many crescendo notes on the strings between one utterance and another of the love theme, each building higher and higher tension after the preceding to culminate into an anti-climax. It was odd sounding by playing seemingly sustained notes during those gliding/scresendos, so that the tension building effect could be less noted.Recording is almost perfect save for the deepest octave.

Love is mercy, God too

This masterpiece has largely been ignored by concert promoters because it's considered too 'Wagnerian' (as if that was a bad thing). Total idiocy.

Tchaikovsky featured in Doritos commercial 2014!!! - Follow the Crunch - Doritos 2014 Crash the Super Bowl

Who is the conductor?