1812 Overture - Tchaikovsky (Full)

[BsBMania2]

I know it before V for Vendetta sure ! 1st I heard it was in a game called Risk II when I was young

[jotajoeyeah]

La Obertura 1812, Op. 49 es una obertura romántica escrita por el compositor ruso Piotr Ilich Chaikovski en 1880. La pieza fue escrita para conmemorar la victoriosa resistencia rusa en 1812 frente al avance de la Grande Armée de Napoleón Bonaparte. La obertura fue estrenada en Moscú el 20 de agosto de 1882. La obra es reconocida por su final triunfal, que incluye una salva de disparos de cañón y repique de campanas.

[TheVoodooMaker]

-Hello, I play in an orchestra.

-Oh yeah? What instrument do you play?

-Cannon.

[DMan2277102358]

Fucking addicted to 13:53 on

[WickedpersonY]

13:40 yo

[Fullmetalminos]

3:21 Thumbs up if you are for Risko II, a great game of a great time.

[AaronATG]

a great piece of music from the 19th century.

[edie19591]

I came here trying to re-create a summer evening at Kenwood Lakeside with the London Philharmonic, Jim, Payton & my sister & a picnic basket! What a wonderful night! Real cannons booming and fireworks! July of 1983!!

[ieuan56]

risk ii mothefuckers

[CameronGeorge96]

A classic. This puts modern music to shame. The opinion of a 15 year old.

[ClarJMoon]

Written for the 60th anniversary of War of 1812 you fools!!!!

[icklestick]

quite honestly, I DID get this from V for Vendetta, and instead of saying,"oh hey, cool soundtrack" and completely forgetting it, I continue to listen to it and am glad I watched the movie.

[rafortin]

@ sbartsa: "V for Vendetta"? Pah. That's all Globalist reverse-psychology rubbish. You're already enslaved.  Before your grandparents were born, I'm sure.

[sbartsa]

@rafortin i'm pretty sure long before that mate :/

[yaik7a]

I actually got the idea to come here from Napoleon Total War.

[joerocks33]

Thumbs up if you knew this before V for Vendetta because you're not a philistine.

[Nbrimmer27]

@joerocks33 Whats it matter, V was a great film, completly did justice to the Overture

[WizardGoggles]

@joerocks33 i almost can't enjoy the song because of this comment. almost

[TheJokerTiVi]

5:21 : ça ressemble étrangement à "la marseillaise" non ?

(It look like : "la marseillaise" no ?)

[manabk]

@TheJokerTiVi

It really is a fragment from the Marseillaise (wikipedia :D).

[TheJokerTiVi]

@manabk I search before on Wiki but I don't find it ^^

thanks ;)

[hewleyittf]

Da best

[sofrech1991]

The beginnig is a bit slow, for my taste.... It needs tension in those chords.

[Internationaliste45]

!!!

[Internationaliste45]

c est bien

[MrBorregation]

aaah yo se que les gusta esta canción por los cañonazos! y los esperan desde que dieron play jaja

[TheSilas117]

ending is WAY better with cannons and choir

[Strakanator93]

v for vendetta is a movie

[snrlxgod]

Whats a V for Vendetta?

[TozeDT]

@snrlxgod if you're serious i think the only option for you to take is to commit suicide for not knowing one of the best movies ever ._.

[bountyofmaryjane]

I hope my neighbors like this song

[kevinporsch]

fuck,, where are the canons, I waited 15 minutes for that.



[skuterixas91]

thumbs up if u fucking learned about tchaikovsky in school not in V For viagra

[MrHellowassup]

@skuterixas91 learned about tchaikovsky on my own and v for viagra sucks i agree

[dulajsanjula31]

bella

[C0L0URBL1ND]

Am I the only one who gets depressed at the end when nothing Blows up

[Pbatsfan1]

13:52 The part i love.

[botdorf]

The beginning of this overture gives me chills.

[DBass9994]

Good recording, but where's all the bass? My ear always goes to the bass and I'm just not hearing it with this recording. Everything else sounds great though. Just wish there was more low end.

[krisp209]

One of the best ending Ive heard, clear and accurate.

[xlea07]

one of the best classical pieces to be created.

[Straightedge308]

Yes i came here from V for Vendetta big deal i enjoy this music and what it represents, it may represent something different to you but art is different to everyone, to be honest im not really a classical type of person but i enjoy listening to it

[mikaelfodor]

@Straightedge308 Actually it does have a story to this music it's to do with Napoleon's invasion of Russia, which didn't go too well. Happened in 1812 funnily enough. A lot of classical music has a story it's set to. Though a golf course springs to my mind more so than the Houses of Parliament. Naughty Gophers!

[JNoshima92]

Listening to this music because you love the music and appreciate it for the reasons it was actually written for, not what V for Vendetta turned it into.

[Rahrification]

@JNoshima92 It was not turned into anything, "V for Vendetta" just gave it a new meaning. Pop culture is not always bad you know.

[JNoshima92]

@Rahrification When the meaning of something truly great is lost on the masses and they believe that it represents something else, it's bad. It's bad enough that most people can't appreciate or don't listen to classical music, but it's better that people don't listen to it than believe it means something it wasn't written for. I'm not blaming V for Vendetta, nor pop culture, I'm blaming the idiots who think this is all the song is.

[brachiatejoker222]

@JNoshima92 Well can you please elaborate on what this music truely stands for? I'm rather curious and would love to learn it. I personally just came because of V for Vendetta but this song is amazing and I'd love to know more. :)

[modernwarfare9009]

@brachiatejoker222 It's about Napoleon's defeat at Moscow in 1812

[JNoshima92]

@brachiatejoker222 This piece was written by Tchaikovsky to commemorate Russia defending Moscow from Napolean. It's about that battle and the victory that came from it.

[12kenpachi]

@JNoshima92 Napoleon took Moscow

[JNoshima92]

@12kenpachi Okay, I'll be more detailed. It was written to commemorate Russia defending Moscow against Napoleon during the Battle of Borodino. Napoleon took Moscow a week later after the Russian's evacuated.

[baumx1]

Who the fuck dislike this?

[Deadlock239]

@baumx1 Mozart, because his music didn't make it into "V for Vendetta"

[Brutalyst]

@SometimesIH8UUToob Farscape was awesome, and same here :)

[SometimesIH8UUToob]

I love "V for Vendetta" but just to clear things up "Farscape" introduced me to this piece of brilliance. Anybody with me?

[humorista]

0:01

[NaRuT0Rocka]

0:00

[sbartsa]

Thumbs up if you came here after "V For Vendetta"

[liambloemendaal]

@sbartsa I thumb you down because I came here because of the great music not because of some movie

[TellNoMore]

@liambloemendaal does it matter how someone reaches a destination as long as they like it?

[liambloemendaal]

@TellNoMore no, but the "thumb me up if you..." are for 12 year old kids if you ask me.

[sbartsa]

@liambloemendaal An action brings a reaction.

Great Movie --> with great Music!

Didn't expect the movie to teach us music.Just to remind it to us.

[kaktuscar86]

@sbartsa What you just said about Tchaikovsky here, would be the same if you said that you have hard of Beethoven's 5th Symphony, 'cause you owned a Nokia cellphone. Shame on you.

[sbartsa]

@kaktuscar86 Ok all you "noble" people listening to classic music....as if anyone else cannot have a break into his life to enjoy this..anyway he likes...

[kaktuscar86]

@sbartsa I am not "noble", or what ever the hell you mean. I don't mind movies cartoons, games, or even Christmas in America using Tchaikovsky and many other classical and baroque music. What pisses me off though is when someone refers to the musical compositions as "the Appocalypse Now music" instead of Wagner's Ride of Valkyries, or refering to as Tom and Jerry music instead of Franz Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No.2. If you don't know it's proper name, don't call it at all.

[dchavez01]

EPIC MUSIC IS EPIC

[NaRuT0Rocka]

Cellists for LIFE!!!! (If you can't tell, I play the cello.)

[Grapist217]

Best music to masturbate to... ever.

[foilseal]

@Grapist217 you're not funny or original. ever consider not commenting?

[Grapist217]

@foilseal Oh don't be such a debbie downer, I wasn't trying to be funny or original, I was just talking about how this music makes me feel. I feel it was a worthy input into the conversation.

[Gregorius91]

@Grapist217 I'm gonna try it tonight. Thanks for the advice.

[chewanta]

Or like something in Fantasia for Disney, check out A Night on Bald Mountain.

[chewanta]

Sounds like something i would play Call of Duty to!

[79mojorisin]

we beat the french we beat the damn germans any takers?? vive russia.

[died244]

@79mojorisin in the end, the americans beat you....

[died244]

@died244 and the chinese will beat the americans :p

[Darkrizk93]

I love tchaikovsky

[TNFiGIT]

WTF? 14:59

[DeaDCorE45]

It is to Madame Justice that I dedicate this concerto...

[1nv151b13b0b]

WTF with the chimes?

[scmeglz]

Tchaicovsky the best!

[Jasminwitzelsucht]

proud to say that I have played the triangle part for this wonderful piece in orchestra - percussionists for the win :D

[totokpurw]

The finest part is the beginning, truly describe pain was. Thumb Up if you agree...

[FatToti]

@totokpurw ok yoda

[lgenerf98]

playing qwop to this,just got to 100.

[lgenerf98]

playing qwop to this,just got to 100.

[lgenerf98]

playing qwop to this,just got to 100...

[taniiadjordison]

hermosooo

[cessnacitationx1]

this is amazing shit

[megaman349]

love this song

[ShadowPredator31]

17 people don't remember the 5th of November 

[justanorthernlight]

We played this every year in middle/highschool. I was the last chair violist and the percussion section was directly behind me. I couldn't hear right for hours afterwards.

[andrevampire95]

It feels like heaven

[nerdygrl647]

Really the true victor was the nasty Russian winter that nearly wiped out Napoleon's army. The Russians just sat back and laughed at the stupidity of the French for picking the worst time of the year to invade the country.

[krisp209]

The visual is great, however could use a little contrast.

[AshenShug4r]

i like it a bit but i more like the version that was performed live. BUT this is the best ending ive ever heard

[AlkaroSmb]

BOOOM KAHAABOOOMMM VRRROOOOMMMMMMMM KRAAAAAAAAAAHMMMMMM

[antonino20000]

13:50 BEST ENDING EVAH xD

[edie19591]

I was very fortunate to see the London Philharmonic perform this at Kenwood Lakeside, London in 1982. They had actual cannons to "boom" with the music. - A fabulous evening that I will never forget! That and My Dad and I going to the Queen Elizabeth Theater in Vancouver, BC for a night of Tchaikovsky that neither my Mother or my siblings cared to share! Their loss!

[Stephenwolf6721]

This is absolutely moving i am glad that my parents insrilled a love for classical music in me

[92reactor]

QUADRUPLE FORTE!!!!!!!!

[MrPipezapata]

13:53 Here comes the crescendo!

[oagruppakino]

05:21 It's French Anthem intro.Cool story Tchaikovsky.You're awesome.

[fruitallergy]

Thumbs up if you are listing to this in 1890

[PREACHER090411]

One of the best bits of classical music EVER....

[less01]

I am sorry but what country is this Orchestra from? never heard of it but its sounds amazing

[mike14991498]

@less01 Slovenia

[less01]

@mike14991498 GREAT THANKS

[Monozie]

13:50 And there goes parlament.

[swfc13]

I can picture the different scenes in my head. Napoleon coming etc

[raggyelf]

Vive la revolution

[timelordteamspoofers]

To rushed most of it especially the end.

[Dimenchemist]

Glorious.

[KoyiTar]

@ TheFlutegirl15: It is meant to be slow. If you take careful notice in several points this entire song was used in the movie V for Vendetta not just the finale as many people so believe. So enjoy it as it is truly meant to be slow paced because truthfully the slowness is what is really more epic than rushing a piece such as this.

[TheFlutegirl15]

omg this is so slow! its so much more epic at 2x the speed

[bluexrhapsody81]

having a shitty day?

13:52 NOT ANYMORE

[TheSkywalk23]

The Simpsons brought me here.

[TheShadowrunner98]

Remember Remember the 5th of November

[SakkaraStudios101]

@TheShadowrunner98 the gunpowder treason and plot...

[geriscent]

@TheShadowrunner98 how u think i got here...

[Samueli100]

@TheShadowrunner98 The Gunpowder Treason and plot

[UpToEleven11]

@Samueli100 I can think of no reason...

[ultigamer124]

15 people are french

[RandomG4mingHD]

13:53 ftw

[Kowasaci]

15 people are from SOPA and disliked this!

[Sidimoth]

I love that part : 3:18

[TristanLAX311]

Doing my laundry has never sounded so triumphant.

[RandomG4mingHD]

it sounds better in 360p than 480p lol

[92reactor]

I love the tuba part for this. It may be hard (well, it's hard for every instrument playing), but it's well worth it. Nothing makes you feel so immensely powerful after playing a song like this.

[Ziffelzoovop]

I have clashing memories of the movie V for Vendetta and my childhood best friend and I running around acting out what we thought the music was saying. I'm sure the sight of two little girls running in random patters to this song was very funny to watch. XD

[BLACKIESBOY]

@Ziffelzoovop

I always saw it as the Russians pushing the French away, then the French pushing back, then back, then forth, until at the end the Russians are victorious.

It's kind of funny thinking that's all war usually is: two sides pushing until the other keels over.

[choosing2lookeast]

The 1812 overture is an awesome composition! So powerful. I read someplace that supposedly Tchaikovsky didn't really like it. Apparently he felt it was too bombastic. I think he'd be surprised at how popular this piece has remained over the years.

[illhorse]

even here ppl are hating! i love lady gaga and classical music! does it harm anyone? No. :)

[TheAmonamarth17]

that reminds me from the film v for vendetta cause V used tp play this all the time from the loudspeakers when he explodes something :D

[obamasucks760]

And I'm with giantpancakes, lady gaga, I hear she had a cock

[obamasucks760]

Both france and the uk can suck a nut. USA ALL THE WAY!!!

[SweetlyDissonant]

@obamasucks760 Your previous statement and your username create quite the irony.

[hitmanhornster]

@obamasucks760 Fuck you, you inbred red-neck...Thank you for gaining independence for us...

[rylanify]

I love how @GIANTPANCAKES bags on lady gaga alone hahaha

[interrr09]

Napoleon bring me here

[Malusregnum]

@interrr09 Napoleon brough you here to listen to the song that comemarates his defeat? :D

[nlaszg]

love for classical music brought me here.

[GIANTPANCAKES]

200 years later and I'm still playing out this puppy... This song has more musical genius in the first second than Lady Gaga will ever have in all of her music

[rainbowuniconninja]

Oh my gosh I am playing this in an advanced orchestra and this sounds exactly like it!!!!!

[Kombaiyashii]

For anyone that knows, how come England uses part of this music to identify itself? I'm referring to the part at 11:55 When you see in movies and they think of England, you often hear that bit.

[CountessCulhame]

@Kombaiyashii

England don't. That is La Marseillaise, the French National Anthem. It is used to represent the French forces in this piece.

[EmperorHarold]

@Kombaiyashii Someone has already answered, but I feel the need to comment on your insult to the UK. How could you possibly associate the French National Anthem with England. God this infuriates me!

[canuckleful]

@Kombaiyashii A reprisal of "La Marsailles", the French national anthem?

[hockboy41]

clearly you haven't heard enough endings.

[qweer27]

and this doesn't have 20 mill views why?

[freelander333]

We are alive and free !



[vajron18]

THIS is the real music.

[Tijgerpapzak]

Overture 1812 is written by Russian composer Tchaikovsky in 1880 to commemorate Russia's defense of Moscow against Napoleon. On September 7, 1812 at Borodino 120 km west of Moscow, Napoleon's forces met those of General Kutuzov in the only concerted stand made by Russia against the seemingly invincible French army. The Battle of Borodino saw casualties estimated as high as 100,000 and resulted in a French tactical victory. It was, however ultimately a Pyrrhic victory for the French invasion.

[religiofob]

@Tijgerpapzak

Don't forget it was the EUROPEAN invasion not French only. Many of nations fought with Napoleon - Germans, Austrians, Dutchs, Swedish, Polish... For many nations, it was a chance to independence. Identical situation will be in 1941. Russia always was an oppressive country!

[Tijgerpapzak]

@religiofob You are completly right. Point is, i had limited space to put some info on the comment. I can write a book of atleast 1000 pages about napoleon and his wars. You mention the dutch, who were excellent bridgebuilders, you mention the germans (prussians) who were excellent cavalry, the swedish and polish excellent line infantry and so on. The trip to russia was napoleons best prepared operation. Did you know that napoleon suffered hemarroids during his retreat? No fun horseriding. 

[Tijgerpapzak]

@religiofob 300,000 French 15,000 Dutch/Frisian 9000 Flemish/Waloons 10,000 Italians 118,000 Poles 21,000 Lithuania 132,000 Germans from Rhine Confederation* *29,000 Bavarians *22,500 Saxons *28,000 Westphalians *12,000 Württemberg *6000 Baden *5000 Berg *4000 Hesse 21,000 Italians 16,000 Swiss 4800 Spanish 3500 Croats 2000 Portuguese 5000 Illyrian & Dalmatian 30,000 Prussians Roughly estimated from diffrent sources. It was till WW 1 the bloodies battle in 1 day ever.

[religiofob]

@Tijgerpapzak

1.

Thanks for interesting reply. I see you are interested in history... me, too. In Poland, napoleonic wars are a part of painful history. Poland was partited between Prussia, Austria and Russia and Polish peoples believed Napoleon will restore polish independence. Our ancestors helped Napoleon in many wars e.g. in Spain - Somosierra charge and siege of Zaragoza 1809; cruelty, brutality, violence... :( Napoleon created a liitle substitute of Poland

[religiofob]

@Tijgerpapzak

2.

- Duchy of Warsaw but for a short time (1807-1815). Falling of Emperor was the falling of polish statement too... for 103 year (to 19180. Greetings!

[RhinoSea]

@Tijgerpapzak wait what he wrote a song about a battle in 1812 two years before it happened?

[RebornFlea]

@RhinoSea How did you get that from 1880 more like 78 years...



[hunter398]

We're playing this in my middle school band, it's part of a piece called "Faculty Vs. Band

[stalkerMARY]

gorgeous !!!! many thanks for uploading!!!!!!!

[Smileandwavelol]

To be honest, when I first heard the popping sounds near the end of the piece, I thought they came from popping champaign corks. :)