The Planets - Mars

[Reg9500]

Impressive!

[Sammichez1]

THOU SHALT REMEMBER THE VENTURE BROTHERS, SEASON TWO, EPISODE TWO!

21 and 24 sing this as they're gearing up XD

[MultiBorovnica]

the main theme is very similiar to begining of mad max 2 road warior

[zerochrome85]

Speaking of Star Wars... Is it me or does Mars looks like the Alien that said "Its a trap"?

[taburde]

@zerochrome85 You know, It DOES resemble Ackabar!

[Tresix]

Isn't there a version of a video that was taken from the Rover's camera to this music? I think "CBS Sunday Morning" did a story about the full work being combined with the NASA footage from the different planets.

[lalala300]

THIS IS FLUFFY.

HE IS THE DESTROYER OF WORLDS.

Also, did anyone else think of the tank at the very beginning?

[lalala300]

THIS SI FLUFFY.

HE IS THE DESTROYER OF WORLDS.

[101barnslig]

ausome love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[MsSmartypants96]

fantastic.

[MikeyD4x]

The old game Mars patrol brought me here, great game

[evilottojr]

NOTE: John Williams work on Star Wars was not "ripped off" from this music. It was inspired by it. Composers do this all the time. Beethoven, for example, was heavily influenced by the work of Mozart, and even made variations of Mozart's music. It is a common musical technique and pays homage to the original artist. Stop being a troll and go get a life.

Also, I'm not seeing how anyone is claiming "bad audio" on this video. It sounds fine to me.

[starfoxjr6976711]

We Love Gustav Holst

[TheYellowQilin]

really good audio!

[plastique45]

This is the music to which Chuck Norris fucks.

[tatbas29]

very intense.

[KarlRKaiser]

If you think this "sounds like Star Wars", consider that it was written in 1920.

[come2u2cu]

@KarlRKaiser the star wars score was actually a rip-off from this. george lucas wanted something like "the planets". gladiator was another one of those rip-offs btw. 

[Martins2012]

This is a really great recording. Do you have Saturn by this recording ?

[tnvincesanity]

sounds like Star Wars..

[MetalDubs666]

Du er norsk?

[niclucianosr]

growing up, my science text books at BEST had nice paintings of Jupiter and Saturn, and maybe even a grainy black and white photo of mars ... so for me to see this, is completely mind blowing ...

[jbe0]

i normally don't like orchestras but i LOVE this ^^

[mikexlong]

where would star wars be without this!?!

[kurtcorris]

@mikexlong erm, lol

[LeonaRulez]

I think the movie Gladiator used certain parts of this piece? But made it sound slightly different, perhaps changed the key or something

[Kayes21]

the start of am i evil sounds so much like this

[hellspawndarkangel]

@Kayes21 yeah cos they ripped it off this

[historicalogicalness]

I declare war on the 2 people who dislike this!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[pastasalad64]

Completely epic :)

[PoT278]

This song made me feel like I was on a rollar coaster - and then all of a sudden, a battle scene. And THEN suddenly, somebody died, the alien was coming out to explore the spaceship on Mars, and BOOM! We go down the rollar coaster. A rather exciting song. XD

[ktothej12]

i played jupiter too and its so slow

luv this better bout war and stuff makes me happy

[blackcatlucky1313]

My brother played this in his marching band show it was so COOL!!!

[MrZcross37]

@blackcatlucky1313 so did mine, 6 years ago.

[ktothej12]

iv eplayed this is honor band and this is the best song ever

i luv it

[Shoomooful]

We played Jupiter....it sucked....but now we're playing Mars and I camp up with the idea for red and black bandanas and war paint since it's our last song. But "NOOOO IT'S UNPROFESSIONAL" yes, that's the point my dearest conductor

[jayce2728]

4:21, trombones = FUCKING GOLDEN djjridieie

[ajdicks]

i'm jealous of people who got to enjoy this type of music before all the science fiction shows

[SiezeyourDay]

Imperial March definitely took some qualities from this piece.

[taramals]

This orchestra nailed it, others i've heard go softer on the brass in the second half. No contest on Mars being the best movement.

[YoYoSmileALot]

Holy sh*t.

4:21 sent chills down my spine, so . . . powerful.

Mr. Holst, you are now my favorite composer.

[3dudelys]

ooo intense and i love it :D

[Hanichan1]

@DuckingEnoriBag awesome! xD

I play the Bari Sax =]

We played this in our visual performance arts concert... erm.. today? XD

It was really fun :O But i dont really like my part because its too repetitive T0T

[cameron123abc1]

mars is my favourite movement. I have to do a music project on it

[DuckingEnoriBag]

THIS IS MY FAVORIIIIITE!

We're playing this for orchestra. we're playing mars and jupiter.

i play the tuba in our orchestra :D

it's a great time.

[sharpshoot28]

@DuckingEnoriBag OH yeah EXACTLY my situation too! GO BASS!

[penelopeinbrazil]

Konductt:

If you fancy heavy - you could try Mahler, Verdi (I particularly think the Requiem is totally kick ass) or there is always Wagner...

Let us know how you get on with them...

Penelope

[kagiva56]

Powerful classical, you mean like Prokofiev's 'Dance of the Knights', or Resphigi's final part of 'Pines of Rome'?

[Xanofar]

Ha! Besides the similarity to Star Wars, I just realized where I've heard this before - In the Venture Brothers, the Monarch's henchmen number 21 and 24 sing this song when they're getting into 24's stanza (in the time when the Monarch is in prison). They sing from approximately 4:15

[Konductt]

i really like this song, but can anyone else help me find more powerful, or heavy classical music like this? i would reall like to find more like this thnx

[ball2906]

Dvorak new world symphony, it's the first one that comes up on youtube. Night on Bald Mountain. Oh and one winged angel - athough that's not strictly classical (^_^)

[MitzisLoppunny]

we all wanted to do this song in orchistra... but noooo! we have to do jupiter D:

[codarkstarxx13]

@MitzisLoppunny

Jupiter is awesome!!!!!!!! I don't know what you're talking about :)

[eaterofcandy]

@codarkstarxx13

EVERY piece in the planets is amazing, but i would rank mars as the most epic of them all.

[codarkstarxx13]

@eaterofcandy Obviously xD Hmmm.. I'd say: Mars Jupiter Neptune Venus Mercury Saturn Uranus I'm a little iffy on the last two. They might be switch on my ranking. :)

[Wolvve]

Epic and Uplifting.

[Metallideth1993]

I've been listening to a lot of classical music recently, but I think this is my favourite piece I've heard so far.

[chessgeek4400]

john williams based a lot on this piece. he's said it in interviews a hundred times.

[PTMarchingBand]

This is so damn awesome! I am going to be playing this in District Orchestra in Feb. and now I now just how epic we WILL NOT sound! YEAH!!!

[kevinazhu]

PTMarchingBand: Same! I'll see you there, whoever you are! lol. And i completely agree with you.

[bodemjager]

sounds like star wars music, the death star is aprocing!!!!

[wackyfun512]

how dare you! THIS SONG PWNZ STAR WARZ MUSIUC!!!

[Wullewub]

actually it's used in star wars ;D

[timesdaughter]

@wackyfun512 hngh, what? This song pwnz star warz musiuc? could plz. write that again in a readable way...?

[freakybeast112]

@wackyfun512 John Williams derived most of the star wars themes from this...

[MozTS]

@freakybeast112 james horner derived his entire career from this

[LittleMiss0902]

@freakybeast112

[RoboRobotnik]

@wackyfun512 Any one who says that is just trying hard not to be mainstream. Good music is good music.

[queggy1]

You're absolutely right! I don't get why people give you four thumbs down. They obviously don't know what they're talking about. George Lucas and John Williams agreed on wanting a Wagnerian, Gustav Holst-like music, Lucas himself called it "Space Opera". So Williams used some measures almost unchanged, for instance the ones that you were referring to. Another example: Erich Korngold's Main Theme for the movie "Kings Row" (1942). You can find the first bars in the "Main Theme" of "Star Wars"!!!

[randomnews]

I'm so goanna play this when I buy my zeppelin next week as I sweep across the land leaving doom and tyranny in my wake.

[electric926]

Yes, this is a good song to use during grandiose scenes of evil.

[hnrksl]

@randomnews well, when your done can i borrow your atomic doom cannon?

[TheSayHiChannel]

this is awesome were doing an assignment on it in class and the stereo rocks

[AkuzameConTuHermana]

me gusta : D

[bluelover404]

The ending is very enthusiastic.

[HaipaaBurosamu]

This is way awesome! Could you upload "Jupiter" Stereo version too please?

[sailorfan1111]

we're doing an arrangement in my 8th grade ^___^ <333

[KhagarBalugrak]

I've never heard a more beautiful brass section than in this recording.

[KhagarBalugrak]

This is an incredible recording. It's very refined and well thought-out.

[FekLeyrTarg]

btw Have you ever heard of Tim Wisseman's turn based strategy game "VGA Planets"? (It's based on Star Trek, Star Wars and Battlestar Galactica but the names have been changed for copyright reasons)

During combats, you can hear a (shorter) MIDI version of Mars. (but I found a longer version somewhere)

[FekLeyrTarg]

This is my favourite track from Gustav Holst's Planets.

[Gradius0]

Jupiter is pretty good too.

[PeopleRDumbAsShit]

That is one gorgeous planet. We'll live there one day. Among other places. Just a matter of time.

[FekLeyrTarg]

And perhabs we'll even have shipyards in Mars' orbit one day. ;-)

[crazymanwhois]

Haue, Mars Altor!

[mattmurray8]

WOW a mix of star trek, star wars, and Gladiator!!!!!

amazing piece of work.

[TLW91]

This is where they probably got their inspiration from. All the movies you listed are generally based upon war. Make sense. :]

[csmusicforall]

Yeah, I know that the music for Star Wars was influenced by this and although I'm not sure I could see how Star Trek was, but the music from Gladiator actually has some passages that are note for note taken from this movement of The Planets and yes it is an amazing piece of work.

[routhoula]

until 1:23 is like star trek, from that point on is like star wars. that track was sooooooo many decades ahead of its time.

[shuppet34]

Sounds like mario like when your in bowser castle or when you see the doom ships

[CrisisCake]

I can just imagine hundreds of thousands of soldiers marching... or a navy of hundreds of battleships... aircraft flying in vast formations through the air.

[letsapastel]

Mario 3!

[omegablake]

Ahhh, mars.. bringer of GORE

[StntDbl83]

I'm in the middle of reading Heinlein's "Stranger in Strange Land", and this song is mentioned, so I checked it out. Awesomness. Makes me want to kill something...

[routhoula]

yeah, mainly star destroyers xD

[Prysiau]

He stole this off Gladiator.

[tetramincolor2000]

how about we say that they all composed great works and keep going on with our lives :) i think this song sounds tons better played in person. my band plays this song and you get more power from it

[trpdng]

really bad audio!

[NorskTorsk]

link in description

[chasepw133]

@NorskTorsk Still really bad audio!

[grunthor31]

John Williams : BUSTED !!!

Please also listen to Stravinsky "rites of spring", it surprisingly sounds like the sandmen part of star wars.

lol lol lol lol

[snoopster2009]

So you would rather have heard this during Star Wars than the music that John Williams composed? Interesting. I guess that no new music should be composed because one can draw similarities between many different songs. . .

[stercus2759]

Every composer throughout time is influenced by another's works. Mozart and beethoven are the prime examples. Mozart had hayden and Beethoven had Mozart.

[odalrich]

Most likely the sandmen part of star wars sounds like Stravinsky's rites of spring.

[trumpeteeress]

it's not RITES.

it's RITE.

musically illiterate.

[odalrich]

OK you smartypants, was the mistake so serious? it was just a damn s!

[trumpeteeress]

it was.

i've made it before and i got the same response.

[godlovespigs]

wanna say it again?

What is it?

Hopefully you'll remember next time you talk to Brian...

[cardboardflutist]

Of course Williams was inspired by Stravinsky. The sand-people are portrayed as ravaging barbarians, and "Rite of Spring" is actually pure barbarism. I.E. music focusing mainly on rhytm instead of melodies. Quite fitting for the Sand People.

[xbidix1]

im plaiying this song in the orchestra (percusion) so damn hars

[kimmiealoo]

We're playing this for my Wind Ens.

The Clarient part is soooooo slow..

But this song (and series of all the planets) is absoutly amazing.

[mac112man]

What orchestra is this? Someone, please tell me. I've got the London Symphony Orchestra's performance but I like this one too.

[NorskTorsk]

its all in the description

[mac112man]

Oh man, I feel like an idiot. Thanks.

[xbidix1]

jasso norsk ja=P

[Jpapi2003]

man that trombone is kickin

[CheckMySix]

Hi NorskTorsk

I love this composition so much I used it in my Battle of Britain movie, posted above .

AWESOME.

Keith :)

[skatenowandlater]

dude im in 7th grade and we play this and jupiter and i never liked band until this came around the trombone part is intense (that is what i play)

[Zarathustra799]

yes, we can tell where that praised composer JOHN WILLIAMS gets his inspiration (stealing).

[nejihyuga665]

are you implying that john williams is a fake?

[Zarathustra799]

YES, that's what I'm saying. He's a talentless HACK profiting off the work of others.

[snoopster2009]

Talentless? That's absurd. The repertoire of music which he composed contains songs which are popular among all sorts of different people. It's sad that you believe him to be talentless, because it is likely that his accomplishments will outshine yours, and you are therefore calling yourself LESS than talentless! That's according to my logic though. Who knows, maybe you will not die in anonymity, but it is likely that you and I and many others will. John Williams will not.

[smiledammit24]

I'll agree that John Williams is *talented* in the same way that a director who remakes a movie is talented. Almost every song that John Williams has composed is a carbon copy of some smaller composer's work. Almost the entirety of the Star Wars series' music was borrowed from the scores of other films. I have a friend who is currently working on remaking Star Wars by piecing together clips from every movie that Lucas took from and all the songs Williams took from. So far it's pretty uncanny.

[alastairppcli]

That sounds quite interesting and I would love to watch that could you plaeas email me a link so I could give it a look, thanks in advance

[annihil8ted]

why oh why would you say that?

[annihil8ted]

dude do you even know who wrote this piece? and yes we can all tell ur ignorant and sadly befuddled.

[Grimgerde]

Reminds me of the "Great Tree" from ActRaiser.

[NorskTorsk]

the stereo seems to have disappeared on this one. add &fmt=18 to get it back.

[rockrhapsody123]

Probably the most hardcore piece of music ever.

[topeuph]

Excellent recording, one of the best I've heard, so much clarity. Not the 1st time I've been impressed by a recording made my the Montreal Orchestra. Listen to their treatment of Respighi's "Pines of Rome", its stunning.

[Peepskilla]

I was in the brass section. Trumpet FTW!!

[Soccaboi19]

cool!

[nickie2011]

Excelent, thanks!!! When will you have the other parts...?

[CearaQC]

I have played this piece in orchestra. My part was piccolo. :) It difficult to play, but oh so worth it. It gives a rush when you have all the brass instruments behind you.

[begins632]

This stereo version is excellent! Thanks!

[MaBu888]

&fmt=18 put this after the video address to listen in stereo.