Arranged by the London Symphony Orchestra and conducted by David Warble. Paintings of several artists as Jon Howe, Ted Nasmith, Angus McBride, and more...
This brings back some of the greatest musical moments I had in high school state band. What a great piece, especially for the euphonium players and low brass.
Johan de Meij came to our college and guest conducted the band I'm in about a week ago. We played a few of his Irish-themed pieces, and he guest conducted us in our performance. That was the first standing ovation I've seen in my 9 years of playing in bands. Now we're playing this piece, and performing it in a few days. I wish he could have stayed at our school for awhile longer. He's a great conductor and a really, really nice guy. He expects perfection, but obviously it paid off for us. :)
The one thing the movie has over this is the chorus. Those voices really add a lot of feeling to the picture. I think there is a lot more musicality in Johan de Meij's version though. More contrasting and interweaving themes and such. I mean you really don't need a visual aid to know what Johan was trying to depict through his music. Simply magnificent.
I played the flute my senior year of high school (1999) and the 4th period band (the audition only group) played this. To this day, I get overwhelmed by feels. I love this piece. It has never failed to give me goosebumps. So many memories attached. And yet those scales still kicked my butt. :)
My high school wind ensemble played this my senior year. It will always hold wonderful emotions for me. I would leave every rehersal feeling goosebumps from the music.
This is one of my favorite orchestral pieces ever. I like the whole tune of it - all of the 'parts' of it are good. I especially like the french horn solo at 1:39
i had the honor to play this music as solist clarinet with 15 years old, and its so ... don´t have words, i can´t whait to play this again, specialy as a solist, in Chaves
I played last night the whole symphony, José Rafael Pasqual Vilaplana was the conductor, and Johan de Meij was in the first seat, listening. It's been amazing.
Fellow hornist, and I agree with how amazingly fun it’s been to play. Played it twice - January 2004 for All-Region Honor Band (Horn 3), and August 2021 for Virtual Concert Band (Horn 2 and 3).
I really want to play it, but I doubt my school will find money to buy it, let alone the orchestra director humor me enough to even include it in concert...
Boy did I love playing the cornet (Special occasion 8th grade, the Band Instructor had the Principle order Bach Trumpets for this song. At the concert, we had an amazing sound and took 1st. Tears slid down my face around 5:18 when the whole band played together.). This song was AMAZING and I still get goosebumps just listening to this piece. (Especially since I remember ever since part I had) ;n;
@Jmcc1993: I love the fact that my Orchestra is playing this piece now thanks to my wish to play it (and im 1st horn, hurr!) Just so much fun. Actually, every part of this symphony is!
I'm a former euph player myself. We tried this one out in high school, but they scrapped it for some reason. I was pissed because I loved this song, and it was such a fun piece to play.
euphoniums rock our band had no french horns so i had to play their part in the upper register and at competition judges said nice horn solos throughout song
all in all, very different from the concert band version, but it's still a great version. obviously, much longer, and more complex, but it's an amazing arrangement. both versions are great!
Great piece, period. Equally amazing group. We would always read this a couple of times in high school. Finally, in my senior year my band director let me pull out a flugelhorn for that lyrical part near the end(Don't remember if it was technically a solo. All eyes were on me when I read it though so...).
Anyone think that at 5:20 the music sounds almost exactly like Think of Me from Phantom of the Opera? Seriously, its uncanny. I know they were both released around the same time too... :)
Absolutely, it does. I wonder if he and Andrew Lloyd Webber kahooted on this. There must be some explanation. I think it is even in the same key as Think of Me.
I agree with you completely. I think this is one of the best Wind Ensemble Symphonies. Don't need no stinking string section! LOL Seriously though: I love orchestras, but there are some pieces created for wind ensembles that really shine with all that glorious brass and woodwind choir. :)!
yep... studied it for 12 years before deciding to choose engineering over a music degree but picked up guitar since. still break out my yamaha every now and again. Euphonium is really the hidden gem and should be used more often... at least i think so.
@stupefy07 its supposed to be. if you have seen or read the return of the king at the end all it is is a boat leaving off for the grey havens. it ends on a mysterious note, so the piece ends in a silent mystery, it mirrors the actual story.
@SuperBassoon24 Wow, You're right, those have to be the best half notes I've ever heard. I didn't even notice them when my high school band played this song a while ago, and I was hearing it everyday.
@SaxophoneJ It's good to know they at least looked at this music before doing the scoring for the movie. Probably didn't use it because it's hard to break up a symphony for a movie...
lol @ParisDakota : I always thought of "Think of Me" when I Played it back in 1998. Many years later, I still loved this song and wished they used this in the movies.
hey, i agree with you, it should be featured more. a wind ensemble w.o euphs would just not be the same. it truly is hidden. you don't always hear it... but you can definitely tell when it's missing
We are playing this in my highschool band I never realized the song is this long As a freshmen I need as much practice as I can get I never played music anywhere near this grade b4
@cpthornman actually no, the burst of air is not created by the articulation, it is created by the fact they are so perfectly in tune and the release was together (quick tip, YOU NEVER RELEASE WITH THE TOUNGE) :) :) :)
@grappleguy77 My high school band is playing this also, the concert band arrangement obviously, and we aren't having any trouble with it. The brass' chops are fine and there have been no problems except for intonation at the beginning between our bassoons and tubas. I am really enjoying playing this (being on 1st trumpet) and don't feel that my ensemble is 'just making it through the piece' but instead providing a wonderful musical experience for the ensemble members and the audience.
One of the pieces that I always point to when anyone asks "Why did you choose French Horn as your instrument?"
(sigh)
When you wrote this comment, The Hobbit hadn't even been released in theaters yet!
This brings back some of the greatest musical moments I had in high school state band. What a great piece, especially for the euphonium players and low brass.
i think this is one of the most dragged out endings i've ever heard. lollll but i looooove this piece and gandalf too! so good!!!!
I played this with my university's symphonic band. Wow I love it
I can feel my lips still when I played this years ago in high school on Euphonium but boy was it fun!
Johan de Meij came to our college and guest conducted the band I'm in about a week ago. We played a few of his Irish-themed pieces, and he guest conducted us in our performance. That was the first standing ovation I've seen in my 9 years of playing in bands. Now we're playing this piece, and performing it in a few days. I wish he could have stayed at our school for awhile longer. He's a great conductor and a really, really nice guy. He expects perfection, but obviously it paid off for us. :)
The one thing the movie has over this is the chorus. Those voices really add a lot of feeling to the picture. I think there is a lot more musicality in Johan de Meij's version though. More contrasting and interweaving themes and such. I mean you really don't need a visual aid to know what Johan was trying to depict through his music. Simply magnificent.
I played the flute my senior year of high school (1999) and the 4th period band (the audition only group) played this. To this day, I get overwhelmed by feels. I love this piece. It has never failed to give me goosebumps. So many memories attached. And yet those scales still kicked my butt. :)
Man. This is a FANTASTIC 45 minute symphony! Thumbs up if you think that this is the music that should be in the movies!
We played this back in middle school. This is the song that I started playing trombone on.
We played this in high school, 1995-ish. LOVED that piece!
We played this the same year. Great memories.
Aww, we played this when I was in high school band back in 1996. Such good memories!! :)
That descending part with flute in the end gets me everytime.
This piece as a whole. All 5 movements. Every part for every instrument is just so... epically envailed.
I feel honored to play the snare drum part in my first ever Wind Ensemble concert TONIGHT! (October 24, 2019) so good
same here
My high school wind ensemble played this my senior year. It will always hold wonderful emotions for me. I would leave every rehersal feeling goosebumps from the music.
the elvish theme in the very end just kills me evey time. Fare you well Galadriel!
Chills, chills!
This is one of my favorite orchestral pieces ever. I like the whole tune of it - all of the 'parts' of it are good.
I especially like the french horn solo at 1:39
Those were trumpets.
i had the honor to play this music as solist clarinet with 15 years old, and its so ... don´t have words, i can´t whait to play this again, specialy as a solist, in Chaves
You can't be in a bad mood while listening to this piece - and the occasional lovely bass trombone part doesn't hurt that!
I played it twice in an orchestra. As a french horn player you'll love this piece!!
Bassoon part @ 1:23 is the
BEST HALF NOTE LINE EVER.
Thank you Johan de Meij!
love playing this on the trumpet. what a beautiful song
Got to play this twice in two different bands! So much fun playing this
I was also supposed to play it... But covid😑
I played last night the whole symphony, José Rafael Pasqual Vilaplana was the conductor, and Johan de Meij was in the first seat, listening. It's been amazing.
I got the privilage to play this in my college wind ensemble and I loved the music! I would give anything to get to perform this again!
Like this
The happy/funny part at the beginning sounds like banjoo kazoe and later it remembers me of the Phantom of the Opera
my favorite movement from the lord of the ring symphony! AMAZING!
I would love to live in a world where you could hear this music wherever you went...
more magical than the movie
Measure 23 - 1:18
Measure 39 - 1:38
Measure 56 - 2:19
Measure 72 - 2:39
Measure 91 - 3:00
Measure 107 - 3:20
Measure 163 - 5:19
Measure 186 - 6:50
Measure 194 - 7:14
I love this! Its my favorite of all the movements in this series! It is SO MUCH FUN to play on trumpet! :D
played this a few years back. im a horn player ;) super fun.
Fellow hornist, and I agree with how amazingly fun it’s been to play. Played it twice - January 2004 for All-Region Honor Band (Horn 3), and August 2021 for Virtual Concert Band (Horn 2 and 3).
I played 1st Clarinet to this in High School. Was awesome.
I played trombone 1 for all of this. Quite an amazing musical experience. One I won't forget.
Damn right
I really want to play it, but I doubt my school will find money to buy it, let alone the orchestra director humor me enough to even include it in concert...
Same here. Absolutely beautiful piece that I'll never forget.
Wow we played this song in high school. I hadn't heard this since then.
Awesome vid you made for this great piece of music. Well done.
Floris
Wow!!!
Beautiful, speechless.
Ich liebe diesen Part einfach! :) Hatte letztes Jahr das Glück das gesamte Stück spielen zu dürfen und bekomme jetzt noch Gänsehaut!
Our Concert Wind Ensemble just performed the entire symphony for our end of the year concert.
It was indeed... might I say, epic...
Boy did I love playing the cornet (Special occasion 8th grade, the Band Instructor had the Principle order Bach Trumpets for this song. At the concert, we had an amazing sound and took 1st. Tears slid down my face around 5:18 when the whole band played together.). This song was AMAZING and I still get goosebumps just listening to this piece. (Especially since I remember ever since part I had) ;n;
we are learning this movement this week. I absolutely love it!
Played the 2nd chair trumpet part in marching band and it was great being able to do the harmony! Love it!
Great job on arranging the art to the music on all the movements. Very well done.
I love this song.
I remember playing this in high school one of my fav
Auburn Senior high school 2014-15. ❤
I played this and Johan de Meij guest-conducted it.
Auburn Sypmhonic?
I loved playing this back when I was in HS. I played Euph and I
@Jmcc1993: I love the fact that my Orchestra is playing this piece now thanks to my wish to play it (and im 1st horn, hurr!)
Just so much fun. Actually, every part of this symphony is!
I'm a former euph player myself. We tried this one out in high school, but they scrapped it for some reason. I was pissed because I loved this song, and it was such a fun piece to play.
Ah I have first trombone on this piece in my junior wind ensemble really fun tune not only to play but listen to
Woohoo, we're playing this also. :)) Lovely tune :)
Being a French horn player is awesome!
euphoniums rock our band had no french horns so i had to play their part in the upper register and at competition judges said nice horn solos throughout song
Ed io ero li ad ascoltarvi a Spilimbergo. Grandiosi, tutti!!!!
yeah, that's what i thought when i played it in concert band! gorgeous melody : )
all in all, very different from the concert band version, but it's still a great version. obviously, much longer, and more complex, but it's an amazing arrangement. both versions are great!
One does not simply dislike a lord of the rings composition, for Sauron will find you...
Yay syncopated woodblocks! Very happy tune, and very open...
Great piece, period. Equally amazing group.
We would always read this a couple of times in high school. Finally, in my senior year my band director let me pull out a flugelhorn for that lyrical part near the end(Don't remember if it was technically a solo. All eyes were on me when I read it though so...).
This was my favorite song that I played in Wind Ensemble. Piccolo ftw :3
nice painting for a great music
Ab Min. 6:00 bekommt man nur noch Gänsehaut von den Hörner, Posaunen und der gesamte Basspartie.
Wir spielen den auch aber leider nicht so gewaltig.
Listening to this while playing skyrim=Win.
i played trumpet 4 for this song XD loved every bit of it
1st trumpet part...Amazing
Hobbits are sooooo cuuutttteee!
Anyone think that at 5:20 the music sounds almost exactly like Think of Me from Phantom of the Opera? Seriously, its uncanny. I know they were both released around the same time too... :)
Absolutely, it does. I wonder if he and Andrew Lloyd Webber kahooted on this. There must be some explanation. I think it is even in the same key as Think of Me.
I agree with you completely. I think this is one of the best Wind Ensemble Symphonies.
Don't need no stinking string section! LOL
Seriously though: I love orchestras, but there are some pieces created for wind ensembles that really shine with all that glorious brass and woodwind choir. :)!
yep... studied it for 12 years before deciding to choose engineering over a music degree but picked up guitar since. still break out my yamaha every now and again. Euphonium is really the hidden gem and should be used more often... at least i think so.
I feel the exact same way. We played an arrangement of this in marching band last year.
I love the Hobbit music at 1:25
@stupefy07 its supposed to be. if you have seen or read the return of the king at the end all it is is a boat leaving off for the grey havens. it ends on a mysterious note, so the piece ends in a silent mystery, it mirrors the actual story.
since everyone is leaving their instrument....oboeeeeee
lol trumpet :p
2nd the oboe
Oboe yay my fav
Bass clarinet
Alto Clarinet!
@DonavanJerles I played first + solo flugelhorn at 4:17 during national competition several years back... this is one kick-ass piece!
these songs should be in the actual movie.
I played this in grade 11 as a flute. rip flute players. hahaha
der anfang ist echt klasse!!! :)
@SuperBassoon24 Wow, You're right, those have to be the best half notes I've ever heard. I didn't even notice them when my high school band played this song a while ago, and I was hearing it everyday.
@SaxophoneJ It's good to know they at least looked at this music before doing the scoring for the movie. Probably didn't use it because it's hard to break up a symphony for a movie...
lol @ParisDakota : I always thought of "Think of Me" when I Played it back in 1998. Many years later, I still loved this song and wished they used this in the movies.
@ParisDakota I heard this performed last night live, and as it was playing it hit me as soon as I heard it.
hey, i agree with you, it should be featured more.
a wind ensemble w.o euphs would just not be the same. it truly is hidden. you don't always hear it... but you can definitely tell when it's missing
epic trumpet!!!!!! 1:37 especially
damn straight
baaaahhhhh listening to this is so awesommmeeeee especially if you listen to gandalf then this peice, they flor nicely together haha
They wanted to put them in the movies, but sadly DeMeij said that this is his interpretation of LOTR and that Peter Jackson needed to make his own.
0:55 Trombone 1 chills with that high f sharp.
We are playing this in my highschool band
I never realized the song is this long
As a freshmen I need as much practice as I can get
I never played music anywhere near this grade b4
@maxyboy712 Yeah im playing it now in high school. its awesome!
@Rule1717 we played it with our orchestra and there the clarinets played it (with a few) I melt because it was so beautifull
cornet 2. very very nice
Im playing this at my school :D
am i the only one? but this whole symphony reminds me alot of mahler's no.1
@cpthornman actually no, the burst of air is not created by the articulation, it is created by the fact they are so perfectly in tune and the release was together (quick tip, YOU NEVER RELEASE WITH THE TOUNGE) :) :) :)
wonderful piece of music
the piece was originally written for wind ensemble, so there's no doubt it sounds better all winds!
@grappleguy77 My high school band is playing this also, the concert band arrangement obviously, and we aren't having any trouble with it. The brass' chops are fine and there have been no problems except for intonation at the beginning between our bassoons and tubas. I am really enjoying playing this (being on 1st trumpet) and don't feel that my ensemble is 'just making it through the piece' but instead providing a wonderful musical experience for the ensemble members and the audience.