1812 Overture (Tchaikovsky)

[zem00ner]

@1927gallagher

The piece that you're talking about is Slavic march, not this one, but what you've said is rather true.

[1927gallagher]

An excellent version. Tchaikovsky knocked this off in a few days in preparation for a benefit concert in aid of Serbia. Incredible. It has never been highly regarded by critics, though.

[jotitamaster]

sublime



[AlesanaCrazy459]

0:15 im sexy and i know it

[pakasit1812]

Agreed. This is the best recording of 1812.

I symphatize the 4 dislikers...ha ha ha ha

[lshah115]

The 4 dislikes must be French.

[nyuu919]

best version.. well of course

JOHN WILLIAM conducts here...

[wdprincess]

My history teacher sent me here. If all homework was like that, i'd love to do it! haha

[wolfking164]

This reminds me of the beginning of a series. I can't remember which one. I'm thinking The Pacific. Anyone care to verify?

[andrezemuner]

I cried like a babe... TCHAIKOVSKY FOREVER!

[MrBruno2106]

This is my favorite music. Of them all!!!

[MrBruno2106]

This is my favorite music. Of them all!!!

[sunnyelsy]

my papa own's the real one!!!!

[81salpizza81]

pronounced jack-Offski?

[Joaquinperez6]

That ending really inspiring! Пётр Ильич Чайковский was a great composer.

[MikeAndy1961]

there is a better version

[xpressyaself4me]

@MikeAndy1961 enlighten us :-)

[DarthZmex]

It would have been better if we stayed in Moscow to wait for the warm days and to go back home... We would be the masters of Europa and Hitler would never exist.

[DarthZmex]

No I'm french and I love this music and this video. Because we good fought, and we lost because we were far from home.

[DarthZmex]

Too bad that today France and Russia don't represent more the greatest nations in the world.

[Andi94S]

The best Version i`ve ever heard!!!!

I love russian classical Music^^

[BillyTheCaterpillar]

4 people are sorely deprived of both a sense of culture and a knowledge of what music really is.

[dominiquesoucyp]

at 14:12, the orchestra kind of falls apart

[RagoDN2]

@dominiquesoucyp What you heard was the many different tempo changes and/or note lengths (for example, high strings would play eighth notes while bass strings played triplets, the church bell plays quintuplets, and brass plays sixteenth notes).

[zikikolev1997]

13:57 Is the Best part

[elxaime]

When I hear the work of geniuses like Tchaikovsky, it reminds me of what a magnificent history and civilization Russia has. Yes, she has had some twists and turns, and suffered greatly under tyrants. But there is an inner strength to these people - they defeated both Hitler and Napoleon in their prime. Here is to the Russian people. (I say this as a proud American)

[Elfangor567]

The defeat of Napoleon to Russia's best general, Winter. (The Season Of)

[linglishboy]

If the new world order were to fall after a great battle between good and evel it would the song to play. Go Poutine Go Russia and everybody against the NWO

[Urmagicalchicken]

@linglishboy Damn lunatic......

[codcdbp]

4 french guys viewed this video hahahahah

[ViciousCritique]

Wonderful.

[miliona1re]

A USA Military History (Tchaikovsky 1812 Overture)

This is (I.M.O. :) ) the best version i have found on youtube.VERY powerful,mighty,with chorus and cannons.

This is also very good,thanks

[ELECTRORAVETECHNO707]

THE SPIRIT OF GUY FAWKES & V-FOR VENDETTA ARE LIVING INSIDE US. BANKERS - NEW WORLD ORDER & GLOBAL MAFIAS MUST BE DESTROY .- WE ARE THE RESISTANCE !!!!!!!!!!!!

[GDupons]

A masterpiece! May I ask which orchestra plays in this video?

[walkingtree9]

The melody that starts at 5:25 (with some foreshadowing at 5:17) and reoccurs through the piece is the French national anthem. The melody that starts at 14:09 was the national anthem of Czarist Russia.

Excellent choices of pictures, the go well with the music.

[walkingtree9]

You don't credit the conductor or orchestra?

This is certainly the fastest (especially in the first section, up to 1:52) of any version of 1812 I have ever heard. I like it, it works, Makes me wonder why most conductors play it so slowly,

[mxgzn]

@walkingtree9 because the first section is an old church worship song which is pretty slow, it's called "Save O Lord Thy People". But fast as in this version isn't ugly either.

[linglishboy]

This version is pretty fast

[donman8848]

Best recording ever. All 32,918 of you share this for the world if you have souls

[Tschernobyl089]

i got a boner at the end O.o

[agioni99]

DAMN! Now, this, THIS is music!

[BlutFrostUnheiligg]

Is it a complete Version of this Ouverture? The beginning sounds a bit cut off.

[mendelevio101]

I love the final

[almusicien]

YOU BELONG ON THE GREEN HORNYET!!!

[solidscott118]

whats sad is that this doesn't have millions of views

[tchaikovskyfan7]

@solidscott118 I know :( I really want these videos to be spread to as many people as possible!

[MisanthropX]

@solidscott118 presentation is all :P

also tagging, i searched a bit before I found that video

[clicktheyellowbox]

@solidscott118 yet the majority of the music with millions of views is a piece of shit.

[gotsda]

@clicktheyellowbox WT R U SYIN JUSTIN BIEBR IS AMZIN

[MYSTERIOUSWAYS1000]

@solidscott118 Agree with you

[Damientucker101]

*not thee, the. Thee refers to to a person. The is the definate article... :P

other than that, this was pretty good

[RagoDN2]

This song has literally inspired me to write a story that revolves around the mood of the piece. Tchaikovsky, you are amazing.

[Klos010634]

Debes aprender español. (You should learn Spanish) If you like this piece, you should be a well educated person, why not another lenguage?

[philmixer]

This is a fabulous version of the 1812 overture,though not my favourite,still great though.

[OneJohnFiveTwelve]

I have to admit this is an excellent version. Lovely finale. I also have to admit to being spoilt, owning a full DTS version (I think by the Philadelphia Philharmonic?) which includes the choral parts. It opens with choral instead of strings, and the choral litereally bursts into the finale to heighten the crescendo. Played on a large Yamaha surround system, it puts you right in the middle of "the battle" so to speak, and all the adjectives I can think of are insufficient to describe it.

[2009071894]

this should be the french national athem :)

[lindentree93]

@2009071894 It is, in part! It contains a quote from La Marseillaise, their anthem.

[melchizedek22]

@2009071894 They got their ass kicked,and this should be the natioinal athem?

[woodtick71]

would never have ever found this song if not for v for vendetta.

[CornishCockney]

The London Festival Orchestra

[sortilegus]

I learned about this song when I was a child. Because of the movie Young Einstein. And it's just as epic as I thought it was then.

[ArmyHighlander]

Allégez, Junior

[0674523]

2 people are bonapartists

[kmill1030]

what orchestra is this? they sound great!!

[MarkBrennan]

@kmill1030 The London Festival Orchestra according to the iTunes link

[cablepelaove]

La Obertura 1812, Op. 49 es una obertura romántica escrita por el compositor ruso Piotr Ilich Chaikovski en 1880. Fue escrita para conmemorar la victoriosa resistencia rusa en 1812 frente al avance de Napoleón Bonaparte.Fue estrenada en Moscú el 20 de agosto de 1882. Es reconocida por su final triunfal, que incluye disparos de cañón y repique de campanas. De una belleza impecable. Gracias por colocarla. Desde San Juan de los Morros, Venezuela.

[ikschrijflangenamen]

@cablepelaove Nice comment, but next time rather not in spanish.

[claraakane]

may i ask which orchestra's recording this is? i just randomly searched for something to listen and this showed up.

[EJsacasa]

one french person

[GustavoUlate25]

what are the names of the paintings at 11:15 and 12:24

[rumbleman007]

Remember, Remember, The Fifth of November...

[SS1v3k1]

Add in real cannon fire and this would be perfect.

[ulphil08]

This version is a little too fast paced then the one I grew up with.  Parts of it seem rushed. It's still good, but there have been better ones.

[santo3194]

from 13:47 is a mythbuster's soundtrack ;) watch Mythbusters Best Explosions ( 1 m and 16 s)

[Trillios]

@santo3194 no it aint, thid was made in 1880 (i think it was)

[Jimmytuba08]

@Trillios Pretty sure the latest it could have been written was 1840 something.

[Trillios]

@Jimmytuba08 is an overture written by Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in 1880 (wikipedia)

[Jimmytuba08]

@Trillios I stand corrected. :-) Carry on.

[Curatica]

Thanks for the post. Who performs it?

[Thinker2112]

It's a bit slow for my taste. Then again, Sir John Eliot Gardiner is my favorite conductor, so most recordings are slow for my taste. On the other hand, I don't think I've ever heard a recording that uses an actual cannon. That's definitely cool.

[ultigamer124]

all the french are running so theres noone to dislike this video

[Saruman38]

@ultigamer124 Fuck you, little bitch, and all the other other morons who plussed your com.

[ultigamer124]

@Saruman38 damn man it was just a joke. dont worry about it. sorry if i offended you :P

[ikschrijflangenamen]

@ultigamer124 there are two, they're Napoleon and Marshal Ney

[GALGO1812]

@ultigamer124 Every body knows that Napoleon won that battle,, He must retreat because the winter,, and because the winter he lost his army,, of course after been in Moscow that was burning by russian

[Lefebvremat]

as a matter of fact, napolean lost that battle... just saying.

[onpsxmember]

@Lefebvremat

that depends on who you ask

the way to moscow opened (hence some say the french won)

but by all the casualties on both sides...

it was a draw...

[cantor0305]

@ultigamer124 ah ah let's go kotouzov ! tchaikovsky, what a music's painter !! from france

[ultigamer124]

@cantor0305 hey thanks, your the first guy to reply on this vid and not cuss me out.

[jaschaortmanns]

Tchaikovskyfan - do you know what recording this is.

It is THE very best!

:-)

[Alexkarasick]

We are playing this song for our school band. this is probably one of the best recordings i have heard.

[mrsz30]

The best indeed :)

[Hipshot60]

Reminds me of the old "Victory AT Sea" TV show when I was growing up................

Oops, my age is showing...

[molendijkarie]

Is this the Georgian Festival Orchestra?

Arie Molendijk

[ImperialSport]

Probably the best version on Youtube.

[xXJawruWolfXx]

Beautiful <3 the Cello quartet at the beginning brought a tear in my eye <3

[chibimonse]

una magistral obra de arte, para escuchar con el corazon 

[clarkbailey1973]

Is that you Napolean we se running....

[creativeplanetjanet]

Finally! I found the whole performance on YouTube. I wanted to listen it in full because of its beautiful beginning taking me all the way to the end. Makes me wonder how in the world YouTube picks the videos to be found when doing a general search. This one finally came up when I clicked on the Nuclear Tests version. Oh YouTube I think I will never understand how you work. Thanks tchaikovskyfan7 for posting a great audio recording! (I still want real cannons though) ;)

[Linkage1992]

Great version! Thanks.

[DannibalG36]

It is sad... no choir to burst in at the climax. You lose kudos.

[tchaikovskyfan7]

@DannibalG36 well, it was originally written by Tchaikovsky without a chorus, but Igor Buketoff added in the chorus later. So this is a recording of how it was written to be performed by the composer.