Forbidden Love type of Piece | Tchaikovsky: Fantasy Overture | Classical Music Reaction

[@VallaMusic]

Tchaikovsky is associated with beautiful melodies, but I don't think he gets enough credit for how ferocious he can be when the drama gets dark.

[@nbeutler1134]

The latter half of the first movement of his 6th Symphony is testament to that- those trombones are pure dread

[@franceshaas8255]

Just found your channel. The Romeo and Juliet was like peace struggling to be born amid war. But, for some reason, I kept picturing a horse galloping, carrying a man with a message that would avert the war. He fails. Beautiful and tragic.

[@CaptainYoshi1978]

Would love to see you react to Tchaikovsky’s ‘Tempest’ and ‘Francesca da Rimini’ if you enjoyed this.

[@thethikboy]

The love theme of all love themes. And the apotheosis at the end - After the lovers commit suicide. Triumph of Love over Hatred.

[@barneymiller3925]

We can only hear a piece of music for the first time once. But I have found watching you hear pieces I know gives me a vicarious sensation of hearing it for a first time. If that makes sense. Thank you.

[@JohnnyDelta-24]

Tchaikovsky was my first classical love when I was in high school, especially the Symphony No. 6. So much soul and emotion. His music is the model of Russian classical music in the late Romantic period. I will always have a soft spot in my heart for Tchaikovsky.

[@aleksklyar]

Thank you for being with us, friend. As a person living with academic music, it is extremely pleasant for me to sometimes share my love for it. Working with your own musical taste is a rarity. Be healthy from Russia (I hope for Scriabin's 3rd Symphony). Спасибо)

[@KrivitskyM]

That's the one to cross off the checklist! I hope that one day the time will come for Tchaikovsky's Francesca da Rimini, which has about the same length as Romeo and Juliet and is (IMO) equally as beautiful.

[@Quotenwagnerianer]

As famous as this piece is, Tchaikovsky struggled with it and revised it twice. The version performed now is the 2nd revision which is substantially different from the first version. That has also been recorded, has a completely different introduction for example. The piece is a mixture between a symphonic poem and an overture. It follows in broad terms the events of the story. The introduction depicts Friar Lorenzo, who has always tried his best to keep the peace between the Montagues and the Capulets and who secretely married Romeo and Juliet and also gave Juliet the sleep potion that leads to the tragic conclusion. The main section is depicting the battle between the rivaling families, the second subject needs no explanation, very clearly represents the lovers, the development depicts how everything goes to shit and the recapitulation ends with the tragic death of both lovers and the coda is basicly an epitath for the greatest of loves that transcended all animosities.

[@culbycove4963]

I got to see this performed live with the Charlotte Symphony and Youth Orchestra when I was 13. I fell in love with Tchaikovsky that night. Keep playing the bangers - the Sugarplum Pas De Deux from his Nutcracker is heartbreaking, especially with the biographical context behind it.

[@didi_mega_dudu]

idea: on a separate channel, create a podcast channel where teachers of music, various instruments, history of music, forms, harmony, counterpoint, solfeggio, musical theory, conducting, composing... are your guests and you discuss the pieces that you've listened to. this will amplify your understanding and enjoyment of classical music as well as your audience

[@williamswitts8286]

Ive been waiting for you to discover this one! This is my favorite Tchaikovsky piece aside form his Symphony 6. This NEVER gets old! I completely understand the feeling to want to immediately listen to it again. I think it is perfect! It is only 15 minutes long, so whenever I need to take a moment and get lost in something moving and beautiful, this is where I go.

[@comandantegabrielflores6056]

Gidi really hoped that one day you would be able to react to Tchaikovsky's first 3 symphonies, which are very beautiful indeed. I'll be eagerly awaiting that day, keep up the work.

[@stevenframe5722]

I like amongst many others on here really appreciate your sensibility to these pieces , you don't talk over the pieces (apart from the occasional emotion which adds your humanity to it) this piece Tchaikovsky Romeo And Juliet is considered his first masterpiece (C:1869 ) Yes as you alluded to its after Shakespeare and the eponymous title, What is so wonderful is your natural unaffected joy in reaction by that I mean you're so humble and honest and willing to learn and the more videos I see of yours you are really getting this genre, keep up the good work as I consider yourself the highest of the reaction youtubers especially in Classical Music, do post any of your own stuff too.

[@capefox8321]

I have no idea how many times I have listened to this work in my 77 years. It never fails to touch the emotions.

[@philipadams5386]

This is usually one of the very first pieces to be recommended to a classical music newcomer. But I don't think I would describe Gidi as a 'newcomer' any more!

[@pierfrancescopeperoni]

He does indeed a lot of advanced repertoire, but he also misses most of newcomer's repertoire. Having advice from so many different viewers leads him probably to the most chaotic guided path one could ever have, interesting to say the least. For instance his first quartet was a Shostakovich quartet. He already did almost every Prokofiev symphony, and barely listened to Mozart. He does a lot of piano music, and only listened to like two Beethoven piano sonatas. "Modern" composers are much more enjoyable when you feel provoked by how they destroy the music you are used too. Classical music is something which developes and evolves standing up on its history, like many arts I don't think you can fully appreciate it without having in mind the foundations. Yes, you can still like a piece, but that's it. It's not like pop music which does not evolve but simply changes its colour. There's a constantly evolving human soul in it, and every classical composer knows the path of this soul, and because of this he can identify his with this big evolved human soul and integrate also his personality (and the collective unconscious personality of his time) in it. Btw I'm quite curious about what his impression on the "classic" composers will be, having taken the path in reverse.

[@philipadams5386]

@@pierfrancescopeperoni I agree completely. Gidi's journey has been very convoluted and unbalanced so far. But hopefully he will pick up an understanding of the development of music. This will place everything into context with everything else and allow for informed comparison and contrast.

[@ezno_2603]

Hi! I’m a classical bassist studying at the Oberlin Conservatory. It makes me really excited to see people online excited to discover more classical music. I don’t know if you take requests but I’d LOVE to see a reaction video on Strauss’ Ein Heldenleben and/or Also Sprach Zarathustra. They are very epic cinematic pieces and among my favorites. ALSO a video on Mahler 5’s Adagietto would be wonderful :)

[@stanielgrainstuffer1139]

I just watched your reaction to Kapustin Piano Concerto 4 and it was so fun watching someone else experience that fantastic piece for the first time! Be sure to check out Brahms Piano Quartet 3.

[@Titanandenceladus]

Everyone knows that love theme, but the rest is just as good

[@olyaddewo2379]

Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Shostakovich... Russian composers really understand beauty.

[@riverstun]

Just finished watching your reaction to Beethoven's 9th - the choral symphony. Mentioning this here because its your latest vid and I want to make a suggestion, based on that. It's not as "great" as that work, but check out Saint-Saens Organ symphony, particularly the finale. It has the same kind of harmony and tunes being thrown around as the 9th, but it has one major thing that most orchestral pieces dont - not voices, but an organ. The organ is truly the king of the instruments, and in this piece, its throws a wall of sound behind the orchestra. Even when it plays quietly, it provides a nice warm glow. Thsi version has a nice organ /watch?v=eW-7S9fjyfU&list=RDeW-7S9fjyfU&start_radio=1 So well worth a listen to see what this instrument can do in an orchestral context.

[@znotch87]

14:25 Yes, you do know it. This is the prototypical Love Theme. (We call it a "theme" btw, not a "sound".)

[@thefowlyetti2]

or a melody

[@DaGuys470]

This definitely is a Top 20 piece in terms of popularity and I was quite shocked you hadn't heard it yet. It's great you have now! I am not sure a play has ever been done with that, can someone verify? I do know that there is a Romeo and Juliet ballet written by Prokofiev. I'm pretty sure you remember the Dance of the Knights, which is an excerpt from that very ballet. Quite an enjoyable watch that one, with all of the fencing going on in it.

[@ianpunter4486]

And Berlioz, Constant Lambert, Bernstein, Gounod, Delius, and several more! Thanka Shakespear

[@anthropocentrus]

❤❤❤❤❤ immortal theme, an absolute homerun for Tchaikovsky..endlessy used/adapted to this day..its practically hardcoded in peoples minds…btw really recommend you change the title of the video to “Romeo and Juliet Overture” since thats how people know it “fantasy overture” is very vague since Tchaikovsky wrote some others…

[@obbie1osias467]

Tchaikovsky Serenade For Strings with Saito Kinen Orchestra under Seiji Ozawa.

[@franzie1879]

you should react to vox balanae by george crumb its avant-garde but insanely beautiful

[@ryanallgaier24]

I love your videos!!! Seeing your reactions makes me so happy. I am learning Chopins Ballade No. 1 in g minor, when I finish I will post it on my channel, Im not asking you make a video on it but if you were to check it out it would mean a lot. Keep up the amazing content!❤

[@ruramikael]

You should hear Liszt's Dante Symphony, with a love episode in the central part of the first movement.

[@Quotenwagnerianer]

Or Tchaikovsky's "Francesca da Rimini" which tells the same story and is structually heavily influenced by the first movement of the Dante Symphony.

[@FirstGentleman1]

This part is heavenly: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eKnUppV5jpygqcU

[@Dan474834]

Never heard it called the Fantasy Overture, it’s always been the Overture to Romeo and Juliet. As others have mentioned, this is a staple of classical music.

[@znotch87]

I Know it as the Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture. But no, not just Fantasy Overture.

[@Quotenwagnerianer]

The correct title is: "Romeo and Juliet - Fantasy Overture" Fantasy Overture is the term that Tchaikovsky gave it, it's not the name of the work.

[@FirstGentleman1]

I know it as the "Fantasie-Overtüre zu Romeo und Julia."