Listen to the story in the music. It starts in a peaceful russian village. But tension mounts from 1:50, then at 3:27 the French arrive. At 4:27 the Cossacks arrive to fight back. From 6:00 the Battle of Borodino. Afterwards 6:35 on, the village returns to peace but with 70,000 dead. This is genius.
in my orchestra, our conductor stopped us playing this beautiful piece and took half an hour to explain to us everything. What all parts of the music meant, to give us more emotion to put into the music. It worked, we instantly played it much better.
Tchaikovsky is, in my opinion, the best composer to have ever lived. His music is so expressive. His life was so troubled and yet he managed to pour his emotions into his music so well. This is also his best song, in my opinion.
The beginning of this song always makes me cry. After one of my classmates died in his sleep, we performed this as a band at his funeral because it was his favorite song. Everytime I hear that openning line, it just reminds me of him. R.I.P. Nick Byers.
Tchaikovsky has been used in at least 3 oscar nominated and winning films for 2010: The King´s Speech, Black Swan and Le concert! The last 2 could not have existed without the music, so it is kind of hard not to find someone who started listening because of a popular movie. Hell with it, I started liking classical music at a very young age because of Bugs Bunny!
I am playing this song for the 4th of July concert at Brevard Music Center, with live cannons! I wrote in my part "Be Prepared to Get Your Head Blown off" lol It should be a lot of fun.
One of my most favorite overtures. I'm sure I blasted out my neighbors playing this so many times. As a violinist at one time, I loved to play certain pieces in orchestra, and this is just one of them. Great post.
I love the way the girl to the left of the conductor is just so mesmerized by the orchestra. I wish everyone felt that way about this incredible high-quality music.
What a testament to the spirit of music that a piece like this, written over a century ago, is still being listened to and enjoyed. However, most of the 'popular' music of yesteryear will be forgotten soon.
I came here as I'm playing this piece (piccolo part-yes!) for an orchestra performance next week, and it's been a few years since I've played it. However, I already know this piece is awesome!
I remember growing up my mom had an old, old vinyl record that had this on one side and the entire Nutcracker Suite on the other side. My mother and I may disagree on many, many things but I will always be grateful that she exposed me to music like this at a young enough age that I didn't have any preconceived notions about what music is "cool" and what music isn't.
What I like the most of this particular interpretation is the bark-like sound of that cleanly tuned sneeze you may here first pianissimo in 0:45 and then forte in 0:50. Wonderfull sense of art! Seriously now: thanks for uploading, excelent audio quality, best regards.
That sneeze was epic... I know I would have loved that when I played this in the high school orchestra But in all seriousness. A beautiful piece of art.
They always tell me to close my eyes and think of a story while listening to classical music. When I first heard this peace fully, I thought this was the most bipolar story ever. Great music though, fantastic feeling it has too.
i am amazed that tchaikovsky had the restraint to write that sublime intro using only basic primary chords.... it's incredible that diatonic triads are still so evocative.
This start of this is probably the most perfect piece of music to have ever existed. When the world is ending, and chaos is surrounding, I want to be listening to this piece. It will make things seem like it was supposed to be and I will die content.
the most beautiful classical piece ever written. It does not matter how many times I listen to it, I always get tears in my eyes, especially in the beginning.
I played this when I was 12. It is a phenomenal piece and even though I have played it and listened to it loads, you hear something different in it every time
I was introduced to this song through my Music Interpretation class in college, but I guess that says something significant about my intelligence if I haven't heard this song before the age of 18
Yo a esta overtura es lo que yo llamo belleza musical! Por que? Simplemente todos participan, nadie se queda afuera, absolutamente nadie... todo el mundo tiene su solo, todo el mundo tiene su parte corrida, su tristeza... El alma se alimenta de musica y musica es amor... esto es amor...!!!
When my daughter was small, about 3 or 4, she loved falling asleep to this piece. Never could understand it, but there she'd be, sound asleep amid the cannons and boisterous ending. :)
This is one of my favourite classical pieces of music of all time. I am wondering if anyone can point in me the right direction with similar compositions with the same feel from 7:48 onwards. It sounds extremely mystical and elegant. I'd be grateful for any feedback.
this performace is perfect, almost like the performance i saw when i was in the 6th grade. the first time i heard this song was when i was 11 years old. this the hungarian dance my first concert during a music class fild trip. compared to the music that i was playing at the time i was in shell shock. i had no idea people could be that good in a perfromance.
I always loved this piece of music. I'm not sure if there is anyone in the world who doesn't. Tchaikovsky was a great composer, and he wrote with so much passion ^^ Ah~
los detalles de la conducción son impresionanates, el conductor se enfoca en los detalles... y los resuelve en el conjunto sin perder la Harmonia!!! extraordinario!!! en verdad encuentro partes que se me habían pasado y tengo varias versiones....
Great playlist ! Thank you. Please, remove the ads during the playlist. I can understand the ads in the beginning, but during the video they destroy the environment that the playlist has created
I'm playing the flute in a school orchestra and we're playing this piece - it sounds nowhere near as good as this!!! but hopefully it will in the end :)
ryoushii, he may well have hated this piece, but it's still stunning. the fact that he just "knocked it off for the money", and the fact that a lesser composer might have taken a lifetime to compose, and how famous it shows that its apprreciated. I personally like it a lot more than, for example, Mozart's Eine Kleine Nach Musik because it's deeper and less flighty, but still energetic. Sometimes geniuses don't recognize the greatness of their own work.
I think people should stop thinking that anyone who doesn't like this, has no sense of appreciation for music. Personally, I think this is one of the best pieces of work ever made. But in its essence, this is art, and art can both be liked and disliked. So please stop make referrals to justin bieber, lady gaga or whatever. Let everyone express their opinion, whether it is 'like' or 'dislike'.
Absolutely--its a thrilling--even moving (ie the beginning) masterwork and very effective as drama and music. The funny thing is that T. didn't like this work--feeling it was composing by no.'s. Artists, as we know, can sometimes be dead wrong about their creative works. Beethoven adored his Wellington Symphony (which is a piece of noise and never played). Apparently both geniuses were off on their respective pieces--for the wrong reasons!
Listen to the story in the music. It starts in a peaceful russian village. But tension mounts from 1:50, then at 3:27 the French arrive. At 4:27 the Cossacks arrive to fight back. From 6:00 the Battle of Borodino. Afterwards 6:35 on, the village returns to peace but with 70,000 dead. This is genius.
70,000 people used to live here now it’s a ghost town
One of the best performances of this Overture I had heard in a very long time.. Loads of power, grace and emotion
Andy R agreed
Tchaikovsky is the best composer ever. !
in my orchestra, our conductor stopped us playing this beautiful piece and took half an hour to explain to us everything. What all parts of the music meant, to give us more emotion to put into the music. It worked, we instantly played it much better.
Excuse me, orchestra, could you quiet down, I was having a sightly difficult time listening to the people coughing and sneezing.
Hahahahahahahaha
Tchaikovsky is, in my opinion, the best composer to have ever lived. His music is so expressive. His life was so troubled and yet he managed to pour his emotions into his music so well. This is also his best song, in my opinion.
The beginning of this song always makes me cry. After one of my classmates died in his sleep, we performed this as a band at his funeral because it was his favorite song. Everytime I hear that openning line, it just reminds me of him. R.I.P. Nick Byers.
I first heard this piece when i was about 6 playing the computer game Risk II (pc version of the Risk board game) and fell in love with it :D
Tchaikovsky has been used in at least 3 oscar nominated and winning films for 2010: The King´s Speech, Black Swan and Le concert! The last 2 could not have existed without the music, so it is kind of hard not to find someone who started listening because of a popular movie. Hell with it, I started liking classical music at a very young age because of Bugs Bunny!
The first minute of this has me thinking of the soldiers; reflecting on their comrades and adversaries lost after the battle.
my dad love this he use to wake us up with it when i was little i miss him rest in peace dad i hope you here this
I am playing this song for the 4th of July concert at Brevard Music Center, with live cannons! I wrote in my part "Be Prepared to Get Your Head Blown off" lol It should be a lot of fun.
One of my most favorite overtures. I'm sure I blasted out my neighbors playing this so many times. As a violinist at one time, I loved to play certain pieces in orchestra, and this is just one of them. Great post.
Love how the adagio in the beginning transitions into a harsher , more bone shattering tone , then to the heroics of battle.
We are playing this in my band class. I'm am oboe. The guy plays the little Oboe part SO well! I wish i could sound like that!
I like how they have the bassist positioned. That's pretty sweet.
I love the way the girl to the left of the conductor is just so mesmerized by the orchestra. I wish everyone felt that way about this incredible high-quality music.
i'm 12, and i must say, this is truly a work of art. absolutely amazing.
Very good performance!!
There are so many bass players, and the camera focuses on them alot ( it's 'cause they are the best section!!)
Tchaikovsky knows how to put an ensemble together.
What a testament to the spirit of music that a piece like this, written over a century ago, is still being listened to and enjoyed. However, most of the 'popular' music of yesteryear will be forgotten soon.
they pour their hearts into the performance. that makes it 10x more enjoyable and powerful.
How could Tchaikovsky not have liked this!?
I think it's one of his best works, now the nutcracker suite, that's another story....
I came here as I'm playing this piece (piccolo part-yes!) for an orchestra performance next week, and it's been a few years since I've played it. However, I already know this piece is awesome!
I remember growing up my mom had an old, old vinyl record that had this on one side and the entire Nutcracker Suite on the other side. My mother and I may disagree on many, many things but I will always be grateful that she exposed me to music like this at a young enough age that I didn't have any preconceived notions about what music is "cool" and what music isn't.
the whole thing is brilliant, but the beginning always gets me. it's so beautiful, brings tears to my eyes.
Marvelous, timeless, and universal
Man what I would do to see Tchaikovsky live with his orchestra........
This brought me to tears, I was balling like a baby. I love this! Thank you.
What I like the most of this particular interpretation is the bark-like sound of that cleanly tuned sneeze you may here first pianissimo in 0:45 and then forte in 0:50. Wonderfull sense of art!
Seriously now: thanks for uploading, excelent audio quality, best regards.
That sneeze was epic... I know I would have loved that when I played this in the high school orchestra
But in all seriousness. A beautiful piece of art.
Incredibly lovely, it is a pity indeed that is not complete but, is one of the most beautiful works of Tchaikovsky.
This is one of my most favorite song!
hearing it in live is even better :) very moving, especially in the end with the cannons.
They always tell me to close my eyes and think of a story while listening to classical music. When I first heard this peace fully, I thought this was the most bipolar story ever. Great music though, fantastic feeling it has too.
i am amazed that tchaikovsky had the restraint to write that sublime intro using only basic primary chords.... it's incredible that diatonic triads are still so evocative.
This start of this is probably the most perfect piece of music to have ever existed. When the world is ending, and chaos is surrounding, I want to be listening to this piece. It will make things seem like it was supposed to be and I will die content.
the most beautiful classical piece ever written. It does not matter how many times I listen to it, I always get tears in my eyes, especially in the beginning.
this is sheer brilliance in the highest degree. :)
This is my favorite song. I just love the intensity and the cannon fire. It makes you remember about the famous Napoleonic era.
wonderful!! One of my all time favorites
Such a powerful piece, it says so much about the beauty of Tchaikovsky's writing. Thank you to whoever put this piece on!
The cello/viola part in the beginning is beautiful. makes me so proud of the instrument i play. Go cello!!!!
Bravo! Wonderful sound. Excellent.
Damn, I think Im going back to my roots and listen to more classical music. This is Music
This is the best version of 1812 that I've heard. Wish I could get the audio for it.
This is my favorite piece of music. Ever. OF ALL TIME!
I played this when I was 12. It is a phenomenal piece and even though I have played it and listened to it loads, you hear something different in it every time
I was introduced to this song through my Music Interpretation class in college, but I guess that says something significant about my intelligence if I haven't heard this song before the age of 18
I swear, I was crying when I first saw this!
Why are people so reluctant to realize how beautiful this is? :)
the intro is so... wow
3:41, when the violins come in, is just pure heaven.
Yo a esta overtura es lo que yo llamo belleza musical! Por que? Simplemente todos participan, nadie se queda afuera, absolutamente nadie... todo el mundo tiene su solo, todo el mundo tiene su parte corrida, su tristeza... El alma se alimenta de musica y musica es amor... esto es amor...!!!
When my daughter was small, about 3 or 4, she loved falling asleep to this piece. Never could understand it, but there she'd be, sound asleep amid the cannons and boisterous ending. :)
This is the greatest piece of music ever written. Period.
A masterpiece.
I can not die without listening to this on live!!
At 7:08. It melts like butter. Divine!
The sound is glorious!
impresionante, esta es una de mis Favoritas...
This is an amazing song; it tells a story, without words.
Truely one of the best songs ever written.
I'm surprised movie makers don't use it more. I can picture so many things with this...
it's a literal musical retelling of the story as it actually happened :) and yes incredibly genius.
I love how the conductors jaw moves up and down every-time he moves his baton up and down...
This is an amazing song I played it in orchestra class
I blast the speakers at the finale of this piece every time, so fun XD
This is one of my favourite classical pieces of music of all time. I am wondering if anyone can point in me the right direction with similar compositions with the same feel from 7:48 onwards. It sounds extremely mystical and elegant. I'd be grateful for any feedback.
I love Tchaikovsky!
wow, this has been my favorite piece for a long time and I never sought the history behind it. thanks for the summary! very interesting.
I love music from the Romantic period, it is so passionate and powerfull.
I am English and I find the music to be one of the best ever wrote.
this performace is perfect, almost like the performance i saw when i was in the 6th grade.
the first time i heard this song was when i was 11 years old. this the hungarian dance
my first concert during a music class fild trip. compared to the music that i was playing at the time i was in shell shock. i had no idea people could be that good in a perfromance.
I always loved this piece of music. I'm not sure if there is anyone in the world who doesn't. Tchaikovsky was a great composer, and he wrote with so much passion ^^ Ah~
When I first clicked on this video I was thinking: "Let's hear the guns roar!" But the song itself captivated me within the first 20 seconds.
its absolutely a story--thank you for clarifying these musical images--I think it helps me appreciate the piece even more---
I'm playing this in my orchestra too!
It's a great piece!
los detalles de la conducción son impresionanates, el conductor se enfoca en los detalles... y los resuelve en el conjunto sin perder la Harmonia!!! extraordinario!!! en verdad encuentro partes que se me habían pasado y tengo varias versiones....
What I would do to hear this live by this amazing symphony.
2:45 - 3:12 Now THAT’S what true Tchaikovsky brass should sound like!
beautiful. my class is learning this right now. we are a group of 7th and 8th graders. (im an 8th grader)
Very nice quality. These videos make me appreciate youtube!!
soy de venezuela esta cancion con solo escucharla... me llena no necesito escuchar otra sino solo esta obra maestra
Thanks Rupert, that was brilliant and now for part 2.
@Theneveragain0 Really cause it looks like a playlist brought you here.
Great playlist ! Thank you.
Please, remove the ads during the playlist. I can understand the ads in the beginning, but during the video they destroy the environment that the playlist has created
¡Me encanta la música clásica desde hace mucho! No solo por "V" o por el "Discurso del Rey"!
Allons enfants de la patrie, le jour de gloire et arrive!!!
Just untouchable. Nothing comes even close to this. It sort of transports me away to somewhere........wow.
@DamienDread
Nice shout out. Probably one of the best movies ever produced.
I'm playing the flute in a school orchestra and we're playing this piece - it sounds nowhere near as good as this!!! but hopefully it will in the end :)
that gal at the front looking happy as larry with her head in her hands...that'd be me
Me too :)
ryoushii, he may well have hated this piece, but it's still stunning. the fact that he just "knocked it off for the money", and the fact that a lesser composer might have taken a lifetime to compose, and how famous it shows that its apprreciated. I personally like it a lot more than, for example, Mozart's Eine Kleine Nach Musik because it's deeper and less flighty, but still energetic. Sometimes geniuses don't recognize the greatness of their own work.
at 06:23 i have to cry... everytime, Im listen to this masterpiece.... every fxxxing time :(
I can't get over how big the brass section sounds. It's absurd and I love it.
I think people should stop thinking that anyone who doesn't like this, has no sense of appreciation for music. Personally, I think this is one of the best pieces of work ever made. But in its essence, this is art, and art can both be liked and disliked. So please stop make referrals to justin bieber, lady gaga or whatever. Let everyone express their opinion, whether it is 'like' or 'dislike'.
Absolutely--its a thrilling--even moving (ie the beginning) masterwork and very effective as drama and music. The funny thing is that T. didn't like this work--feeling it was composing by no.'s. Artists, as we know, can sometimes be dead wrong about their creative works. Beethoven adored his Wellington Symphony (which is a piece of noise and never played). Apparently both geniuses were off on their respective pieces--for the wrong reasons!
Superlative, extraordinaire...great orchestra that would make Barbirolli proud were he alive today. Kudos to the conductor..Mark Elder?
This is the official revolution anthem. Thank you V for introducing me to great music.
Wow! Great playing. We played this a couple of years ago, but it sounded nowhere near as good as halle :) hope to join the halle when i'm older
this wonderful tune always give,s me goose bumps