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Sound of Nature
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And this MLT gem always evokes feelings of running along beautiful meadows in the countryside, as well as being carried away into the beautiful skies flying with the birds. I can feel nature with this one.
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One of the first MLT videos I saw that drew me in to explore further after San Francisco and The Wide, Wide, Land. Celebrates the beauty of nature in this one too. So beautifully done!
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Because this forum is already about Paul McCarthy, Blackbird and Bach I added this video, which I just found it in the Dutch TV archives, at this place.
Due to the subtitles you can also learn some Dutch.
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Hi Fred, thanks for digging up this old post, enjoyed going through all the videos again here. This video of Paul McCartney talking about Bach is super interesting. I think all the great song writers take inspiration and influence from their peers as well as the great composers either intentionally or unintentionally from music they experienced throughout their life. I’ve read even Bach in his compositions took inspiration from medieval composers of the 1500s. It’s like a creative pool of inspiration in the ether or another plane artists take their inspiration from that spans centuries.
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Hi Jung, once again a nice topic. I’ll now let a little water flow down the brook (german: Bach) 🙂 and return to the title of the topic: Sound of Nature.
The Vltava River (I don’t know how you exactly call the river “Moldau”) by Bedrich Semtana or: when water is transformed into music.
Admittedly, the composition is very well known and has probably been performed in many variations. And yet: until today one of my absolute favorite pieces of classical music. The first time I heard the piece was in music class during my elementary school years. Not even my music teacher at that time, who was somehow a nice person, but a creepy pedagogue, managed to take away my enjoyment of this masterpiece. Whenever I listen to this music and close my eyes, I can vividly imagine the river leaving its source, the water at first quietly rippling and gurgling following the course of the river, gaining more and more volume and power until the Vltava finally reaches Prague. The peasant wedding, the river in the moonlight, the old castle ruins, the rapids and the majestic castle: soon music cannot have more substance and imagination.
Since this topic started with piano music, I would like to present here a nice arrangement for piano and vibraphone:
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Hi Jurgen. This is my first time listening to “Die Moldau” and it is very beautiful and soothing and calming, and I closed my eyes and just let the music carry me and in parts I can feel the movement of water like in a river with the xylophone and piano. It’s quite amazing. It’s an impressive composition when it can do that. Thanks for sharing your experience with this music and posting those beautiful pictures.
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I would like to dwell on the subject of river for a moment. It is only around 160 miles as the crow flies from the Vltava (Moldau) to the Danube (Donau). And that reminds me to the Viennese Waltz King Johann Strauss. He produced the first „dance and party hits“ in the 19th century. Fun Fact: Although Strauss composed such beautiful, danceable music he is said to have been a very bad dancer himself.
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Hi Jurgen, this video with the music of Strauss and the scenery is gorgeous. The music fits well with the beautiful river scenery and dance paintings, and it feels like these are the kind of images that must have been in Strauss mind when he wrote the Blue Danube Waltz. Enjoyed the video very much, so well done. Thanks for posting it.
It’s interesting Strauss was not a very good dancer, but he certainly could in his imagination and in the music.
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I love VIvaldi’s “Four Seasons”. One of my favorite parts is the 1st movement of Winter. To quote an unnamed source in Google:Its high tone is associated with ice-cold wind, freezing weather. If the snow painfully hitting one’s face during a blizzard could sound -Vivaldi’s Winter would be its sound. This melody is a representation of fast movement, a natural process so powerful that it cannot be controlled by a human.
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Wow Diana, the pictures in the video are as beautiful and amazing as the music. Perfect match up of the visuals of nature to the music. Enjoyed that, thanks!
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The pianist Martin Vatter has recreated paintings and pictures of artists sonically in a musical performance, which he called „Klangbilder“ (roughly translated: sound images). The piece “Walchenseelandschaft” (Landscape at the Walchensee), refers to a painting by the artist Lovis Corinth, which was created in 1919. It shows the view from a small house to the Walchensee, which was eponymous for the piano piece (see Picture below).
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In the “Rose” I love how the song ties nature, in the form of a rose to love. The opening dissonant piano note that keeps repeating along with the lyrics paints a mood of a barren cold landscape, and there is a rose seed, a hidden gem that is alive in a harsh environment that can survive and thrive like us, able to love.
It can take several years or longer to grow roses from seeds. Seed germination can take months, and sometimes up to a year for some seeds, even with the right stratification techniques. Growing the young rose seedlings will also take time. It may take up to three years before you even see your first blooms.
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