1812 Overture- Royal Albert Hall - 2017 - Complete - WITH CANNONS @ 12mins:20secs !!!! - OUTSTANDING

[@thatpianoman925]

Tchaikovsky: "Beethoven is going deaf? Yeah, he'll be able to hear this one. I'll make sure of it."

[@Taco_Mex]

Beethoven: "Darling, why do i hear boss music?"

[@grahamstretch6863]

🤣🤣

[@lishengwu4230]

Tchaikovsky wrote this piece on 1840. Beethoven passed away on 1927. Beethoven might hear this in the heaven 😂

[@elektrokinesis4150]

@@lishengwu4230 1827

[@fabianwhs9891]

@@elektrokinesis4150 just imagine late romantic Beehoven

[@nonchalantree6604]

What instrument do you play? *_Heavy field artillery_*

[@thalesnemo2841]

@Home Wild You’re a high caliber player😃 Not just a flash in the pan!

[@ekdog91]

But the question is if he is a rifled Parrot gun or a smooth bore Napoleon

[@morikhya7540]

Hey cool mine is *c h u r c h* *b e l l s*

[@sopcannon]

Howitzers

[@malcolmabram2957]

Tchaikovsky also wrote a concerto for heavy field artillery and orchestra.

[@thibaultdrake9255]

Imagine falling asleep during this. You just wake up to a cannon blasting above your head.

[@alistair1315]

I was just chilling listening to the music about to drop off and then the cannon scared the hell out of me

[@ScubaFreq113]

I could sleep peacefully under outgoing rounds

[@professorterrarist5149]

Я буквально засыпаю под эту музыку

[@fuffywaffes]

i slept through all of it

[@alexduta7469]

Tchaikovsky: "So anyways I started blasting"

[@BALLERBOYS21]

Holy shit dude that’s the best use of this meme I’ve ever seen 😂😂

[@BecarefulIliveinyourwalls]

As Ukrainian I’ll be fine

[@hippychikforever]

Them: "Classical music is so boring." Tchaikovsky: "Hold my cannon."

[@ToaGatanuva]

Finally, a performance where the artillery deafens the music

[@camfg8908]

The cannon man has to be quite good at what he is doing, shooting inside a concert hall, but no casualties and no material damage. Great work!

[@freyaparker1936]

They’re blanks. It’s just gunpowder.

[@thoomish3556]

@@freyaparker1936 whooosh

[@deanoh9980]

🤣🤣🤣

[@balistixmapping197]

@@freyaparker1936 we know, right?

[@visalvorak4662]

The canon that is visible is fake, the smoke is from a smoke machine. The real cannons are at the back.

[@just_lisa1931]

Inn1980, my high school band played this for our final concert of the year in our auditorium 😟🫣. It was by far the best performance of my entire high school band experience. I was first chair clarinet which made it even more exhilarating. When it came time for the "cannons," the band dad's (mine included 😬) previously came up with the idea and ran it by the band director, Mr. Price to make it sure it was safe and effective. He was on board. So cue the cannons and the idea was to shoot shotguns into barrels with sand to achieve the desired sound. Well, after a few minutes of cannon fire, the smoke started filling the auditorium with smoke. (oops!) They didn't count on the smoke filling the building and the fire Marshall (my uncle) showing up. They let us finish the entire piece, even with the smoke stinging our eyes and making us cough. We got a standing ovation even thru the coughing, etc. What a wild and memorable performance it was. One I'll never forget.

[@JoieKnorr]

Bravo!!!! 👏🏼 🎉

[@LGranthamsHeir]

11:40 -15:30 The concluding part of the loudest, over the top, overture ever written in the classical music genre. Love it!!

[@bryangl1]

By no means the loudest. Try the conclusion of Mahler's 2nd and 8th symphonies as examples.

[@waynemasters8673]

Through these hands I make the thunder claps!!!

[@morrisharlan1469]

Right on....💯

[@MusicalMercenary]

11:00 It looks great for the audience... but playing under those little moving star lights is a nightmare for us on stage.

[@nanwijanarko1969]

I was thinking of that and sympathizing with the orchestra. It must have been hard reading the music under that light.

[@theaskewone8947]

Tbh it's annoying for the audience too (For me at least)

[@CaptainGrimes1]

Close your eyes

[@drewder1789]

@@CaptainGrimes1 how exactly would you read the music then?

[@wastenotwantnot1523]

I have no idea why you would need to dress this music up with added extras. It’s got it all!

[@hugovoss]

Tchaikovsky said about this piece, "I wrote it with no warmth and no love, I did it in a week". The great composer was surprised at how captivated and receptive the worldwide public became with this masterpiece that he himself hated. Now, imagine if Tchaikovsky had put 'warmth and love' into the 1812 Overture? Oh my God...😦

[@davidevans3227]

no he didn't like it did he.. i do! 🙂 love the opening with the bass.. strings then woodwind.. then the brass.. and on it goes.. got a version somewhere with a choir singing the opening minute or so.. it works..

[@SnanSYTP]

Inane to think about id argue it’s one his best works.

[@petemccarthy6403]

He also didn't intend for the cannons to be part of it but the tzar insisted.

[@linedwell]

And all the Brits responded, "Did you hear something Sir?" "Perhaps a small hint of a shot yes" "Ah very good" Golf clap...

[@macmuggo5459]

@H Fromsteps I thought mandem referred to a group of people?

[@andrasbarkanyi7876]

Stiff upper lips folks....end of the world will be far worse

[@ursonate]

someone's having a little too much fun with the light show! :P

[@duartearaujo9946]

Homie Steve The Triggered Prankster Gangster how is light loud mate

[@FakeMoonRocks]

When the pyrotechnics started, I thought for sure they'd set the whole theater ablaze. Then, at the sound of the first cannon, I thought Adolf Hitler got shot. As it turns out, that's obviously not what happened at all, and I was just having some kind of strange flashback related to my experiences in World War Two.

[@terryruggiero1718]

I'm an American and this was the best performance I've ever heard on July 4th. Thank you so much ,.for making 2021 a little less hopeless.

[@hangdarktw5037]

Glad you enjoyed it…. It was pretty good being there as well..! Very best wishes from the UK👍

[@thisisajang]

14:19 I know y'all waiting for this

[@glazedicedmoon]

Thank you good madam

[@ChillaxeGames]

BON-BON, GO G-G-G-GET HIM!

[@okofreak01]

Honestly, hearing the Mairseillaise getting blasted away by the Theme of God save the Tsar is one of the best things ever.

[@ewwmorons]

Lifesaver

[@DynastieArtistique]

What about the rest lol

[@kareno8634]

Once heard it NEVER Leaves your head. A Long time favorite since I was a Kid. Cannons Rules!

[@PrinceOberon87]

Such a powerful and deeply emotional performance. Absolutely astounding. When the organ and cannons come in is so dramatic and the organ is powerful enough to be heard above everything including the orchestra and cannons

[@calebgreen3554]

This is probably if not the greatest piece of classical music in the canon repertoire, no pun intended

[@philipcoles126]

I went to Moscow in 2012, and there was a fantastic museum to all the artifacts. They replayed the battle in a large park, while a military band and cannons played this. Heart moving to say the least.

[@PassTheCemeteryGates]

Idk if you're supposed to stay all nice and composed for a fancy classical music concert, but I'd be screaming like a wild fangirl during the brass cannon section.

[@davidabrahamargaezburgos2929]

Es el mejor comentario que he leído. Porque yo haría lo mismo al escuchar esos cañones y el final. Maravilloso. !!!'

[@damnedseagull6194]

Chorus and canons, rarely done together. Really spectacular. 👏👏👏

[@YourAverageKriegsman]

Cannons*

[@PrinceOberon87]

​@@YourAverageKriegsmanand the great organ of the Royal Albert Hall which can be thundering away

[@Jager97-el8kw]

The most amazing thing I've ever heard, I can die in peace after seeing this live

[@irampotter]

I saw this at the Albert Hall as a teenager during the proms season, they didn't have the moving lights back then in the early 1970s but they had the cannon and mortar, it was amazing.

[@hughrobertwright]

I saw this at the Royal Albert Hall last week, excellent performance!

[@adgodbee3272]

NOBODY does quite like the CBC does in that venereal Royal Albert Hall!! As an American, I ALWAYS seek most of the musical activities via the Internet. Wish I could one day sit in one first group of rows [ya, but I'm 83, what are my chances,? HaHa1 Thank God Almighty for the Internet!!!

[@adgodbee3272]

correcton: BBC

[@bryangl1]

a d godbee Further correction ; "venerable". And even though I believe in God, I suspect He had nothing to do with the existence of the Internet (allthough I wish He had given better assistance to the level of education in parts of the USA).

[@thisisajang]

Venereal? You mean venerable, right? Venereal is genital disease

[@boomerrob9223]

Venereal?

[@FnafFanProductions]

The Classic Musics are always the best

[@lionofrojava7461]

Is there anything more heavy metal than cannons?

[@lordofrims]

Anvils (for whom the bell tolls)

[@OP5redsolocup]

A battleship, with cannons

[@tash7477]

Nukes

[@gilbertc4323]

@@tash7477 Only Once for A concert…

[@rainwu751]

The schwer Gustav cannon

[@mochidalovinson3713]

1812年こそクラシック最高の名曲だと自分は思っています｡

[@mikegross6107]

I don't understand ANY negative comments about this videoed concert! I would NEVER have thought of those lights accompanying this music but it worked tremendously (in my opinion)! And the sound; THE SOUND was OUT OF THIS WORLD (if one has the proper equipment to do it justice)! THANK YOU, THANK YOU for sharing this and keep up the good work!

[@altermoves]

I once did a gig in the room in St Petersburg where this piece was premiered. It was a very small concert hall. This must have been so loud that the audience felt flattened against the back wall!

[@papaalphamike]

haven't seen a light show at the Proms, just great. Oh, that music, goosebumpy

[@davidevans3227]

the last few minutes always makes me want to laugh.. so over the top! thankyou for sharing this! 🙂 x

[@builtbydylan8315]

I was here on my band Europe trip and saw this live, I cant believe I found this video

[@karenanderson3514]

Amazing,am at a loss for words so beautiful!!!!

[@davidroberts5602]

Hi 👋 that’s was brilliant great 👍 cannons as well as you say to many lights other wise brilliant music 🇬🇧❤️David

[@ЛапинСтаниславович]

Эта увертюра не просто симфоническое произведение, это целый спектакль.

[@carnicero-cruel]

Whe will escape from the catacomb whit this one 🗣️📢🔥🔥🔥

[@malcolmabram2957]

I was once at a public performance of this where cannons were used. I considered myself lucky to have survived the carnage.

[@markthornton1621]

I also survived the carnage as well

[@summerinspringville-hill]

oh god this would really scare me live 😂😂😂

[@nobaso620]

I enjoyed every moment of this day

[@nadimhernandez3742]

Un torrencial de emociones que no puedo explicar , que hacen que el alma se conecte con la perfección de la música !! La cadencia en lo armónico de cada sonido , finamente tocado , !! Es tocar lo profundo de si mismo

[@guguigugu]

is there a professionally made recording of this? i would give good money.

[@KasbashPlays]

There's a version by the Liverpool Philharmonic, with Cannons and Church Bells included. Here you go. kzbin.info/www/bejne/aanNmnutnrFpebM

[@kingseiryu929]

Just search, there is one without background noise - the one with tchaikovsky face

[@brokkrep]

@@KasbashPlays How many moneys did he give you?

[@mandakhbaatar]

@@KasbashPlays Equalized and tuned-down cannons just aren't good enough. I need them LOUD

[@puciohenzap891]

@@mandakhbaatar You need the Erich Kunzel 1812, Telarc label

[@bizzleblue38]

Wow! Such power! Would've loved being there in the audience.

[@ducatiman1309]

Thankyou for sharing !! only thew rich can see !!!

[@JohnThomas-lq5qp]

There is a nice restaurant in Ocean City Md that plays a 2 or 3 mintue section of cannon firing from this evey day at dusk. Chilling listening to this great composition while watching the sun setting over a large bay. Thiught I remembered that it was compised rather quickly.

[@StereoSpace]

Easily one of the most spectacular finishes to a piece of music ever written and performed.

[@nathant2410]

My idiot friend: Classical Music is boring Me : Plays 1812 Overture My friend: :0 Me:What pop song uses cannons and church bells? Yeah that’s what I thought

[@stanleyknif]

AC/DC in "For Those About To Rock" and "Hell's Bells"

[@nathant2410]

For those about to rock is nowhere near as good as this piece, also the cannons aren’t as well placed as this piece is. The second one I didn’t hear any bells. Just in the beginning as a like a sound effect

[@stanleyknif]

@@nathant2410 Crikey, picky customer! I'll search harder :-)

[@nathant2410]

Challenge accepted >:)

[@mator2339]

@@stanleyknif ac/dc is pop ?

[@Stipdumb]

The muskets are a nice touch, makes you really feel like your there in a Napoleonic Era war.

[@paulmoschette5390]

What a magnificent performance....... 👏 can't say it loud enough ..... YES

[@michaelrosenstock9187]

This is one of thr the most human thing I can imagine

[@JoshRoweice]

Lol How is it possible that the camera gets ringing in its ears after the cannons?

[@danielsolano4606]

Joshua Rowe Microphones are set to a certain sensitivity, the cannons cause a spike that lowers that sensitivity momentarily before the sensitivity self corrects back to the appropriate level for the music

[@PanglossDr]

I was at a performance of this back in the 90s at the Albert Hall, complete with cannons. It was great.

[@danilsmith7292]

holy crap dude, this is so well done!

[@AHPSC]

Unless you’re present, you cannot truly appreciate it.

[@minanes6549]

Ah, so that's what the Albert Hall is for... !

[@christopherarmstrong-steve1122]

@joe jitsu But Prince Albert (namesake for this Hall) and his brothers might well have contributed to the "general" venereal atmosphere. They all enjoyed their favourite venereal "ladies" - as did their Father the Archduke! Some say "Dad" even shared his favourites with his sons. Sick???

[@ducatiman1309]

WOW !!! just the best performance - ever !!!!

[@RobRoyBoaz]

What a performance ! Sheer joy. But there again, it's The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Thank you so much for uploading. Do you perhaps know who the Conductor is?

[@BrittonJOrwin]

11:40 Probably my favorite part of the entire performance begins here. Though, the entire performance is spectacular!

[@terrybeauchamp7070]

1812 Tchaikovsky My favorite song

[@lorddaver5729]

It's not a song. Do you hear anybody singing? No. It's a piece of orchestral music, not a song...

[@christopherarmstrong-steve1122]

@@lorddaver5729 Well, there's a pretty good song towards the end, about the Glory of Russia, sung by a large choir, accompanied by the bells and orchestra!

[@ТычоБлин-я3т]

👍☝🇷🇺

[@EpicCheese765]

If the inclusion of the cannons was a surprise reveal to the audience I would've been going nuts

[@Paul-kd7xz]

Greetings from the USA. This was wonderful!

[@LGranthamsHeir]

Hoping this year's Proms will include this overture in its programme (in its full glory). Very fitting for the first Proms taking place after the Pandemic Era is over!!

[@andrewhopwood1821]

superb video, you got some super shots of me too ;)

[@matthewnorman2951]

Every cannon owner knows when the police show up the excuse will always be, "You got a problem with the cannon then talk to the composer."

[@gilsonazevedo3110]

Fantastic!!!

[@СнежанаД-т2п]

Without a choir with a prayer to God at the beginning, it sounds incomplete. Here is the Russian soul. The Russian people pray, love, and fight for real. And this is their Strength

[@robertknight2556]

Not so much when it comes to Ukraine.

[@crazyfire9470]

@robertknight2556 Here we go…

[@mothranao7810]

ライブだがさすがに演奏のクオリティは素晴らしい。 加えて、派手なライティングやら、花火やら、室内にもかかわらず大砲ぶっ放すわ、コーラスまでついてるわと、超豪華な演出が楽しい。

[@zacbru4609]

Where in the score does it say FREAKING LASERS???

[@michaelrosenstock9187]

If Tchaikovsky knew about "lasers" he would add them

[@michaelrosenstock9187]

Ps also dubstep

[@PedroLopez-ue8ov]

Magic actually exists!!!

[@brianschwartz4780]

Gave me chills

[@jmw939]

Tchaikovsky was a master storyteller through his music.

[@michaeltheisen]

Theodore H. Maiman: How about some lasers? Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: da.

[@jonnnyren6245]

This song is too GLORIOUS EMPIRE inducing...

[@joelhacker8767]

Exactly! That was Tchaikovsky's plan indeed in highlighting the success of the British Empire in their valiant fight and crushing victory in the war of 1812. I'm sure he would be so pleased to hear this performance! /s

[@keifers]

Effin bloody brilliant!!!!!!!!

[@sontheen]

I think that light show woke up poor Tchaikovsky.

[@puciohenzap891]

I've heard a small field cannon firing a blank once, didn't know how it sounds so me and dads stood like 5m behind it, the blast was insane, can't imagine it indoors with bigger cannons

[@СергейАлександровичСидоренко]

Спасибо Петру Ильичу Чайковскому! Торжественная увертюра «1812 год», соч. 49 - оркестровое произведение Петра Ильича Чайковского в память о победе России в Отечественной войне 1812 года.

[@Richard-me2pq]

Was the video filmed only from the very top bleachers!?

La vuelvo a escuchar una y otra vez y siempre me emociona mucho.

[@stevemack2004]

Shivers

[@47of74]

Anyone who truly knows me knows why I am playing this video repeatedly from 12:20 on as of yesterday.

[@chrisgulland4774]

We were there on March 2019 , amazing concert

[@meganvandyke3442]

Where was it?

[@chrisgulland4774]

​@@meganvandyke3442

[@chrisgulland4774]

Royal Albert Hall London. it was the finale to Classical Spectacular, I believe it is on the same time each ear.

[@thomasjaermann730]

I was in the audience 🙂

[@BFPINHO]

obrigado por compartilhar.

[@thelonesculler]

*TCHAIKOVSKY YES*

[@ahmetgocmen5337]

Amazing

[@smi2le4ever]

dk what was going on with the lasers but BRAVO!

[@mikemichael579]

The Russian culture is something special in this tiny world

[@anamarta4097]

Russian culture? Or the culture of the Empire, where many different nations lived and worked. Tchaikovsky is a Pole by nationality, for information. Do not think that all the products produced by the Empire were produced by russians.

[@mikemichael579]

@@anamarta4097 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was born on April 25, 1840 in the village of Votkinsk, Vyatka province (now the city of Votkinsk, Udmurtia). His father, Ilya Petrovich Tchaikovsky (1795-1880), was a mining engineer by education and in 1837 was appointed head of the Kamsko-Steel Plant. Her mother, Alexandra Andreevna (nee Assier), was a graduate of the School for Female Orphans. There were five children in the family, Peter was the second child. A Frenchwoman, Fanny Durbach, was discharged from St. Petersburg to raise children. Little Peter studied well, his favorite subjects were history and literature. Don't mess with me about russian history and their ethnese

[@davidabrahamargaezburgos2929]

Maravilloso !!!! Esos cañones !

[@jeffcurtis5265]

Another masterpiece by Peter the Great

[@HighlandOwl005]

11:40 is where the fun starts

[@oliverroycroft1082]

Legendary

[@SirReginaldBumquistIII]

Everyone talks about the last minutes. I cry for the first minute solid. Its like before the crazed joy of killing, im embracing the simple moving grief of death.

[@jamesgilbert9568]

Do you like music Mr Finch?

[@kadenling3267]

please, teach us how to play this glorious instrument called cannons

[@Belchmaster41]

you can't play them, you have to wait your turn

[@terrythacker2795]

Fantastic

[@germanquintero10121946]

maravilloso

[@gardoniwalter1583]

Have seen it at Royal Albert Hall 1966 or 1967

[@Varelator]

I LOVE THIS

[@balin7889]

fortissississimo

[@realandychen]

Fortissississississississimo

[@moldymacronx9227]

@@realandychen Fortississsissisisisisisisisisisissisismo

[@dinushafonseka3725]

That is brilliant