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  • The applause in "The Planets" comes at the end - 6 pieces later. Having seen it live twice myself, it does feel unnatural not to applause after "Mars The Bringer of War", but that's just the convention.

  • NO APPLAUSE?!?!?!?!

  • @Steinedbybill Not between movements

  • i know absolutely nothing about classical/orchestral music and am now having a long over-due delve into it. It's absolutely amazing, epic sounding and shame on me for not doing this years ago. I'm normally into indie-rock, drum & bass, hip-hop etc. My eyes are being well and truly opened!!

  • Holst, one of the best composers of all time.

  • IMO John Williams sounds MUCH MORE influenced by Tchaikovsky than by Holst. It is like if The Swan Lake was intended to be the Star Wars Soundtrack. lol

  • @MatheusManentee John Williams is inspired by many composers, among those Wagner, Mahler and Holst. In many the ways the orchestration by Williams are very similar to Holst, but the melodies are more comparible to Mahler and Wagner. I can´t hear or read that much Tchaikovsky in Williams music, just slightly...

  • @dannymaestro I guess it is all too relative... I was listening a lot of Tchaikovsky in the last days and started to think about how, sometimes, it sounds really close to the compositions, or maybe orchestrations, of John Williams music. Well, everybody has their influences, they are all great composers anyway. =)

  • I hate how you're not supposed to applaud between movements. How can you listen to this and not want to burst into applause immediately? It's quite a modern thing - they did applaud between movements a century ago, and thank god you can still applaud every aria in operas.

  • @trashcanalive The way that I've come to understand it, is that the attitude is much like how you would read a book; you don't applaud and congratulate the author after every chapter, only after the book is finished. That's the same way it is with music--all the movements are only parts of the central idea. Once the idea has been heard in full, then people show their appreciation.

  • @agentmabus333 Yes, I know that. I just think it's a pity that this 'etiquette' exists at all. It's only in classical music, it doesn't exist in opera or ballet and didn't exist even in classical a century ago.

  • Great performance. That part at the very end is really tricky to play. There were very few people that were off which is impressive. I wish this video could convey better what is like to hear this played live. I am a trombone player and once did this piece in a group. The brass section in this song is really intense. And in the second half of the song with the heavy brass section everything is vibrating on stage it's so loud. hearing it live gives you goosebumps.

  • Wonderful performance. My only quibble is that there's no current app to allow the viewer/listener to choose which sections they want to watch at a given measure/phrase. The camera director can't please everyone. I'd love to be able to choose a section or even do a split screen between 2 or four sections simultaneously. If the producer would allow all footage taken from a performances many cameras to be made available, it'd be pretty easy to do. Some DVDs let you choose viewing angle.

  • To everyone who says that John Williams has copied Holst just by listening to this piece. It's inspiration, which is probably what Holst had also. It's always happened and will continue to happen. Every note and chord has been played so if something sounds similar that's because probability says so. Both are great orchestral pieces and deserve just as much credit as each other.

  • @Matchmad He copied. "O Fortuna" from Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana" became Star Wars' "Sith Theme". He does it again and again: ET, Jurassic, Raiders. At least John Williams copies from the best.

  • @333666666

    Think for yourself now. Can you write a piece like the Raiders theme and have it not draw from anything else? Not if you're using a similar band setup.

    John Williams didn't "copy" did he. Do you hear that ostinato pattern? Well I don't hear it anywhere in John William's pieces. Holst used a lot of brass in this piece. Williams uses a lot of brass as well. That's personal style. Copland used a lot of brass as well. He didn't copy from O Fortuna either. Check libretto

  • I see this live in the Royal Festival Hall in London, this does it no justice unless your there seeing it live!

  • This whole suite gives me the chills, its so cool, fantastic and simply a wonderful composition. I can trace themes from the music in modern classic movies including star wars, jaws, alien 2, minority report, gladiator and others. Big Up Holst and cheers to all that appreciate this creation.

  • I hear the song Black Sabbath in this

  • @comicozy87

    Well golly gee,

    Could it possibly be because on the documentary "Metal Evolution" Gezzer Butler said that they came up with the main riff by trying to play this?

    YA THINK?

  • Wow my orchestra teacher sent me here and this has nothing to do with the pieces we are playing... Great vid though.

  • The dude playing tuba at 4:20 always makes me laugh, cause he's smiling since that part is so awesome.

  • So apparently this is the song that inspired the legendary Black Sabbath tune.

  • Wait, no clapping? I guess it's for the reason of doing a recording? I have no idea. Maybe it's just the thing you don't do at these performances?

    Anyhow, that gave me chills at various times throughout the song. Incredible.

  • @InnerNarrative They don't clap because this isnt the finale of the suite. They only clap when all the Planets have been played.

  • @100flobby Oh, thanks!

  • Und genau deswegen liebe ich utube :)

  • I can see Gustav Holst talking to John Williams, telling him "I'm your father", and then they pick up laser batons and start dueling

  • A masterpiece.

  • Wow! Great performance!

  • Everytime I hear this music I think of Quatermas

  • At 4:16 the ENTIRE orchestra is playing the Mars theme expect for the contrabass Bassoon. Aw...poooor contrabass bassoon...

  • very good...

  • @wardie73 I can see where Hans Zimmer got his copy for Gladiator

  • Anyone else notice how starting at around 5:00, Mackerras keeps hitting his music stand with the baton?

  • when i listen to this i just can't resist knocking on my desk DADADADUM DUM DADADUM, i just can't...

  • mars, the bringer of star wars.

  • Absolutely f***ing brilliant!!

  • way too fast...makes it lose some of its deep painful emotion, but still nice performance!

  • @tubelug004 - Holst's own version of this movement on YouTube is over a minute faster!

  • Amazing stuff!

    Did i hear a clap at the end? >:O Sir Charles was about to go and smack them

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  • 4:17 final attack

  • BBC? is this in Britian?

  • @platinum243125 nahhhhhhhhhhhh

  • @platinum243125 Yep its the BBC proms done every year around now actually celebrating different types of classical music and composers. Brings orchestras from around the world though not just ones in the UK. It also includes choral groups and choirs. A night this year was the human planet and it showed musical influences from around the world. Mongolian throat singing for example! Really interesting

  • now. we're talking.............

  • Pause at 1:50, and you will see the organ player on top.

  • WOW!!! I LOVE IT !!! FUCKING GOOD!!!

  • 3:59 ATTACK FORMATION KILL!!!

  • This is SO metal...

  • @Guitarsthatkill Diamond Head - Am I Evil?

  • @SUSAltd My thoughts EXACTLY! :D

  • @Guitarsthatkill

    Wrong. Metal is SO this.

  • @ohmandamp LOL Not all of it, sadly.... :p

  • @Guitarsthatkill Indeed! \m/ eargasm

  • col legno!!!!!

  • The chord at 5:07 is my favourite in the piece. Gets me every time whether I'm in rehearsal or on stage.

  • What a piece! I was lucky to study it for GCSE Music. It influenced the intro to the song "Am I Evil?" by Diamond Head.

  • even though my favorite planet is saturn this is my favorite song out of all the movements.

  • At 4.23 you want it to stop, but it doesn't it just keeps coming, oh the brutal pleasure of it all.

  • This is a fantastic performance. Charles Mackerras was a wonderful conductor. He wasn't an empty showman, but treated the music with a real integrity, respect and intelligence. And yet, he produced awesome, thrilling music. This is a powerful rendition of Mars. The climax at 1'15 gave me goose bumps. I missed this when it was first broadcast. He is sorely missed. RIP Charles.

    Thank you so much for posting :-)

  • I can see where John Williams got his inspiration from for the Star Wars theme.

  • @wardie73 I see where Led Zep's Kashmir came from.

  • @wardie73 Well, that's a fact.

  • anyone knows who's the euphonium player ?

  • @tomboy104 listen at 6:10 then 6:45 and you will realise they are different sounds. The first is definitely a gong, so the second can't be. There is no reason to think it was not a live performance.

  • @354pm yeah, you have good point,

    sorry for being such an a**hole.

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  • @tromboy104 You know music can come from an instrument out of sight?

  • If I ever became a king this would be my nation's anthem.

  • 4:17, 21 and 24 gearing up :)

  • that band is huge! 7! horns!

  • alsome!!!!! i cAN FEEL THE MUSIC IN ME. this is head to head with jupiter

  • I just wanna rule the world everytime at 4:17

  • @dreadss64 Silly Billy. Much better having a go at ruling your own self, and also trying to control your comments, lol.

  • EPIC.

  • I shiver whenever I hear 0:27.

  • I wonder why the fourth chair cellist is missing. @4:09

  • @trekcube he was probably out making war.

  • Fantastic camera work, and great sound. Rivals anything I have on CD. Thanks!

  • This is a very enjoyable performance of the modern arrangement of the masterpiece. The climactic change of pace (at around 6.10 on this version) is one of the most exquisite moments in classical music.

    Compare this version with the Holst conducted performance (available elsewhere on You Tube) which seems very loose and amateur in comparison.

  • old man jizzed at the end

  • PROMS is the greatest idea for anything anyone has ever had ever.

  • I SO love the British! Only they keep the AWESOME styling and FANTASTIC finesse that is the Classical Pops alive and well!! I heard a Boston Pops Orchestra recording of this piece, and it SUCKED SO BAND, I tossed it into my fireplace!! That's why when I want to hear GREAT classical literature, I first seek out British ensembles! And I'm an American, too!

  • @SFAPowerhouse

    As a Brit I love your comment. America has some great composers and music (Howard Hanson symphony No 2 - to name but one) Shame there's no Proms equivalent in the US. I'm sure it could be arranged though.

  • BRAVO!!!! Amazing!

  • You don't clap in between movements (for all of you waiting for the applause)!

  • Gustav Holst epic win. Hey John Williams, stop stealing from this guy to make music for Star Wars saga... The Planets suite and this movement in particular have all ingridients to make one of the best compositions ever IMHO. Thx 4 posting this.

  • @ndaemon Yeah and your an epic fail. Not to be a d*ck but musicians borrow fron others. There are fewer melodies to come up with ever single day so they borrow from other composers! Think twice before trying to sound smart on the Internet! Thx 4 posting this my butt

  • @vequense Are you a John Williams relative? STFU douchebag, If you try to sound smart on the internet maybe you should try start typing "from" instead of "fron". Your concept of "borrow" word mixes a lot with "plagiarism" you d1ck.

  • If someone made a Metal or Symphony & Metal version of this song, it would be EPIC

  • @The9thAvenger The prog-rock band Morgan used the theme from "Jupiter" for the intro of their 1972 song "Nova Solis", it's really beautiful.

  • A one night only concert , similar to Within Temptation's 'Black Symphony', but featuring metal renditions of epic classics would be amazing!

  • euphonium!!!!

  • I cant wait, I'm playing this in youth orchestra soon :D

  • I like how the conductor turn the sheet page as usual them makes a slight shoulder gesture to indicate how fun it was.

  • One of my favorite compositions!! The suite is just fantastic and this performance is excellent!!

  • I want that Paiste gong in my apartment!

  • @aregal Me too! It's a 50" I think.

  • As a band director and a trombone player, I LOVE this AWESOME piece of literature. A LOT of band nerds, like me, either loved playing it or are DYING to play it! I've played it, but it was an arrangement written for a Middle School Band (in other words, not that great, but serviceable). I like how the ending was drawn out so much. Some do it too fast, others a bit longer. This was a nice medium of the extremes! Also, this piece inspired a movie script that I'm currently writing!

  • @SFAPowerhouse Star Wars has already been done... :P

  • @Bountyhunter306 Whoever said anything about that? The novel I have in mind is a HELL of a lot more intense and much more mature than that. Not to mention MUCH BETTER story writing!! :)

  • my HS band is doing thif for our next concert, its so much fun!

  • Every time I hear this piece I can't help but think of Star Wars. John Williams was obviously heavily influenced by Holst's work, and Mars in particular. Thankfully, it's some of the best music ever written.

  • @bitbucket66 I also think of the film Gladiator, that also in my opinion was influenced by this piece of music.

  • that's what i'm talkin' 'bout! bass trombone like a chainsaw!

  • @number1jew Agreed! Overall, this is a great performance, with very engaging videography...with one small quibble: as a trombonist, I think it's downright criminal not to cut to the trombones at 4:23 and 4:33...just my own prejudice.

  • @toAdmiller you got em at 4:43 lol.

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  • @toAdmiller As a trombonist I could not agree more. Wonderful piece though. You can NEVER have enough bone in a orchestra! :P

  • this is just amazing

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  • If you ask me, this is quite possibly the most amazing piece of music ever written.. the whole planet suite is fantastic, but this just takes it to a whole other level. Thanks gustav :)

  • Yet another British guy! Cheltenham has one of their most famous residents here!

  • Brilliant performance. Just flawless

    

  • maybe a bit too fast - but impressive.

    thanks for uploading!

  • We did The Planets Suite in our highschool marching.. It was awesome!!

  • @beyondfamous same here we are doing this in marching this year its freakin epic

  • Masterpeice!

  • absolutly fucking amazing

  • @nick6385 I truly want to murder you for saying that.

  • @DanielDFizzle I truly do so...

  • @nick6385 Dude you seriously can't compare THE PLANETS to Lady Gaga, The Planets win, hands down.

  • nick6385 this guy/girl is trolling

  • nick6385 is obviusly trolling

  • I saw an chinese Luo

  • Awesome video thank you so much for posting!

  • 999999999999999999999/5, such a great rendition, i particularly like the build up to and including 1:17, it gets me all the time, so powerful!!!

  • No doubt there are many many recordings of the planet suite and everyone has their own favourite. But if you want to hear the all time best recording just check out Sir Charles Groves with te Royal Philharmonic. I have all the recordings mentioned and about 10others also and believe me truly the greatest ( even surpassing Adrian Boult with the LPO) is , suprisingly Groves.

  • I say that this is one of the very best performances of "Mars". (Also, at 1:17-1:23, the larger gong's ring sounds sick!)

  • This is the best recording of Mars I've ever heard. Phenomenal.

  • @hornplayerchris

    not really! the best recording is Karajan/ Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

  • I love this rendition... the rest of the concert is also amazing, especially the song of the high hills by Delius... check it out it's an amazing piece.

    I think the faster speed overall works well. My main qualm is the strings - they're all note perfect but look and sound rather emotionless at times.

  • @jazzevans actually the leaders shows a bit of emotion

  • Brilliant!!!!  Is this performance also on CD?

  • awesome piece and performance. i like the fff at 1:10^^

  • This is FRIGGING great!!!

  • @Katertot75 How can a bunch of ordinary, everyday people produce something so beautiful? It is just amazing........and makes me so proud to be a Brit.

  • @lankylad50 Lucky!

  • @lankylad50 Lucky you!

  • Epic!

  • Yes, I did notice ChrisMoonmadness, Thanks anyway though ! :D

  • Fantastic! though is it just me or is the timpanist early at 6.57?

  • I don't think so. I seem to remember that being the case in both of the 2 recordings I have. BTW, there are 2 tympanists :-)

  • I do think that if it was one of them or the other or both. But you are correct, they are early as those are unison hits for the entire orchestra in the score.

  • Finally I have found a video of The Planets performed at a venue more than 5 people have heard of.

  • GOOSEBUMPS!!!!! 4:15

  • in my opinion "Mars" is being played a little bit to fast!

  • yep I felt this as well. I loses it's power at the beginning a bit, but I do think that at the climax bit where everyone gets goosebumps the speed did it good though.

  • absolutely correct, the tempo has been stepped up for some reason.

  • this is a great recording of it, quite inspirational !

  • Im a major fan of Classical music but this just blew me away, this is so epic i got chills down my spine and goose pimples

  • Magnificent! I was there live !

  • Perfect! Awesome music.

  • Fantastic! Beautiful! Excellent!

  • when is proms?? can i see it on BBC America out here in the states? This in surround sound would be incredible

  • BRILL!!! And 'sexy' looking bass trom! :D

  • Just fantastic! Thank you so much for posting!

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