Bud Herseth in all his glory - loud, bright, brilliant, long, passionate, ferocious, and 76 years old. Unbelievable.

As great to watch as to listen to. Barenboim is the best, he really gets into the music completely.

Tempestuous,troubled,exuberant,sorrowful,resplendent...Magnificent. Barenboim and Chicago Symphony at their absolute interpretive best!

BEST trumpet player ever....!!!!!

This is my favorite piece of music of all time.

The CSO with Barenboim I think have produced some of the greatest sounds and recordings there are!

If anyone's ever read The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis, whenever I think about the world of Charn, I always hear this music playing in my head. Tchaikovsky is amazing.

I think this first movement is by far the most complicated music Tchaikovsky ever composed. Chromaticism + 9/8 time signature + Tchaikovsky ...it doesn't get much better than that.

This may not be considered a masterpiece, but it's dessert for the ears. The best brass section in the world showing the world what they do - led by a man in his mid-70's who is completely in charge and knocking down the back wall. The sound is overwhelming. The whole work is among my favorites - just a fantastic showpiece for a top orchestra to display their best work and bring the audience to their feet shouting.

Barenboim is the MASTER of phrasing!

Ah, 240p. We meet again.

Thanks for posting! I love every minute of this❤

This was the first Tchaikovsky symphony that I fell in love with -- it's the pathological melancholy of that waltz that transforms into the glorious fanfare of trombones and the soaring horns at 8:29. Transcendent! Barenboim and the CSO own this performance.

Bud gave an incredible interview as he was retiring. I was fortunate to have seen many of his performances. A pillar of the CSO.

A stellar performance, indeed. Bravo!

This symphony begins in tragedy...and ends in revolution. This reminds me of everything that happened since 5th century AD to Now.

This is a fantastic symphony and one of Tchaikovsky's greatest works. It's so vivid and powerful, and the part at 3:42 gives me goosebumps every time.

Bud is so cool! He is my hero! Giving me my career today!

Truly one of the greatest of symphonies. Believe it or not, I know people who don't like this!

RIP Bud Herseth. Now God gets to have you in His orchestra.

The world's greatest music ever.

I looked this up because it's in a book I'm listening to. I've never heard it, but much of it sounds familiar from movies. I love it!

all i can say is.....FANTASTIC PERFORMANCE!!!! best performance of this piece on the whole site!! Thank you tchaikovsky for your wonderful music and Barenboim is just awsome! This song will Always be in my Heart!:D

Goddamn, that brass section. Unparalleled.

GREAT!!!! this is my favorite orchestra and brass section!!!! God bless them!! They Play SOOOOO good!!!

it always inspire me 💖💖

Listen to how herseth’s trumpet rings at 0:45 it’s unbelievable to imagine how loud he is playing. It’s beautiful.

It looks like he give CSO life it's amazing... Wonderful upload thanks!

It's a great depiction of life.

This Symphony is really powerful! My God!

tchaikowsky is my favorite composer!

magnificent! a very intense, committed and virtuosic performance

I LOVE THIS SYMPHONY. Words cannot describe. Phew!

Listened this for the first time and the blare from the trumpets in the beginning scared the crap outta me. :-0

And yet the CSO remains of the the top five orchestras in the world.

He was not playing Brandenburg 2 when that happened. He was playing the C to high C call in Also Sprach Zarathustra. Fritz Reiner kept going over the passage repeatedly, for no apparent reason. When a violinist asked him why, Reiner said he was waiting for the trumpet player to miss, at which point Mr. Herseth said, "Maestro, I'm prepared to do this all afternoon." That was that.

🎧 Daniel Barenboim (Buenos Aires, 15 de novembro de 1942) é um pianista e maestro argentino. Daniel Barenboim mora em Berlim.

The beginning of this is such a horngasm.

I get to see this this afternoon!

Fantastic. Favourited and liked.

Chicago does indeed have the best orchestra brass.....once im good and advanced in my career i would love to play for them

Grande interpretação essa é uma de minhas sinfonias preferidas em todos os seus movimentos Tchaikovisk genio

my oh my, barenboim is a dramatic conductor, i must say

Bud Herseth is still principal trumpet in this recording -- 49 years after he started with the CSO in 1948!

this is a wonderful piece. i really think tschaikowsky was one of the greatest composers of his time

i've just returned from tchaikovski concert in tel-aviv,performed by the israeli philharmony,they play both 4 and 5 symphony,the conductor was gergeive from russia...what an awesome event.

just one word.... amazing

best orchestra brass ever heard

Herseth!!!! A New England Conservatory Grad. Half way through his 1st season, the principal trumpet took ill. Bud was moved up from 3rd. Reiner was the conductor then. He was known to try to break people. The famous 1st trumpet c to high cl ick from Strauss was played by Bud and Reiner tried to break Bud by going back over it a couple of times. He nailed it every time. After that,Reiner gave Bud final say who got in the brass section. That's why they sound the way they do.

9:20 as a French hornist, my face just melted

Wow chills mid way through it really hit me.

I just saw this yesterday. Fantastic piece.

The Chicago brass are the best in the world...period!

yes i have, i love the horn part in the danse infernal with the syncopated high notes and stuff. good music

I wish I could have seen it... I love this movement.

The clarinet player's expression at 5:41 is just as surprised, curious, and derpy as the music there is. I love it :D Awesome solo.

this song is just amazing.... at 6:06 when the cellos take the melody... like a magestic wave of sound flowing through the air. It gives me chills!

I don't know that I would compare other symphonies as cardboard boxes, but the 4th is my favorite, but Tchaikovsky is also my favorite composer as well.

Great symphony, it shadows his greatest, No. 6, which he wrote as an elegy to his life and soon to be death.

Majestic!! Fabulous!

If my county orcestra does it half as good as this I will be thrilled.

what a true work of art

yes, the are both excellent.

loveeee thisss!!

a work from Tchaikovsky is more than millions work than actual artists

TRUE!! Gotta love CSO's brass!!

phenomenal. I aspire to play like david mcgill. some ppl say that trying to play like a professional usually is not practical. But i think it's a great way to discover more about your own sound and style. i also think it's great motivation.

Troubled soul .. superb

i love looking at the score of this symphony.

THANKS FOR VIDEO...!!!! TCHAIKOVSKY THE GREAT COMPOSER !!!!! JITEN PATEL INDIA....jzpatelut..

Stunning Orchestra

I really love the Andante sostenuto Introduction with a brass "ta-tatatatatata-"

That´s true! I simply love his music.

Barenboim is a great conducting

That's true. I saw it. Amazingness.

this movement gives me goosebumps

I LOVE this symphony... :D

6:05 to 6:25, the interaction between the flutes and low strings is breathtaking

Fritz Reiner--yes! His morbid account of the Pathetique symphony is still in a class by itself. I simply can't believe his RCA recording of the Nutcracker Suite which features the fastest March and Trepak that I have ever heard anywhere, and the Waltz of the Flowers with that colossal Chicago sound.

The Clairinetist and Bassonist and Oboeist are amazing!

this guy is so amazing!!!!

you can't compare Tchaikovsky to Beethoven. Two different periods of music Romantic and Classical, two different ways to look at music and composition. Actually the legacy of Romantic period is the "not-to-the-point-ness" that composition reached by not being loyal to one key as the classical period. That's why Tchaikovsky sounds so different. I Love this symphony, monumental piece of art, and Tchaikovsky surely deserves to be in the top 10 of best composers in history.

don't diss the marching band people--because of their experience playing this composition, #1. they are ahead of the rank&file population by a long shot(they've heard Tchaik., they can read music--the universal language) #2.the experience may be a prelude to a love of classical music, Tchaik., in particular#3. they may be the ticket buyers to future symphonic orchestra concerts.

amazing!!!!

No, 76. Born 1921, performance was 1997. 76. I'll say it again. 76. What a gift.

the best

incredible, amazing!!

SO...MANY...LEGENDS!!!

love those violins!

this is en stays just soo fukking awesome!!..

most powerfull thing man have created

incredible conducting !!!!

dang just look at helseth on trumpet.... jeeze what a pair of chops

amazing wonderfulllll !!!!! everytime i play this piece i fly to sky !!!!!!!!!!!!!! i am violinist. it is genius' minds....

yes sir. he is sitting right next to Bud. i'm still nervous playing in front of him, and its been about 3 years that i have been taking lessons with him.

@AlexClouseComposer Totally agree!!!!! He was a GENIUS!!

This Bud´s for you! Nice job on 2nd as well John!

it's the character of the solo. The second solo in the third movement of Scheherazade is the same way...and if you watch any professional (and most college students and even some good highschoolers) they'll have a similar facial expression when they play.

@geosulli Not only that but after a while Herseth raised his hand and told Reiner "Your arm is going to give out before my lip does." Reiner moved on and never tried that again. One of the best stories out there.

@angelaoboe22 Me too! Tchaikovsky's 4th makes me so unbelievably happy! It makes my little sister who plays trombone EXTREMELY happy! :D