Camille Saint-Saëns - Aquarium

[warriorfight111]

when i hear this, i think of a city street, at night, after it has just stopped raining, the cobble-stones are wet and there is a lamp-post at the end of the street, illuminating the mist nearby.

[zbt518]

This movement of Le Carnival des Animaux to me seems to embody perfectly the mood of an awestruck child standing before a vast, deep tank of curious-looking, beautiful and fantastical (even more so because they're real) sea creatures, like jellyfish or cuttlefish. Further, the mood could be applied to any sense of amazement, and captivated wonderment experienced by any person when watching something intricate and inexplicably beautiful. In Layman's terms, when your mind is blissfully blown.

[CautionLlama]

Beauty and the beast

[dradoczy]

This music is more than brilliant!

When I hear it I just imagine lots of fishes swimming in the deep ocean.

[Detroitbcn]

Lovely

[Nobodyknowsme021]

Hauntingly beautiful, I might just have found another favorite classical composer who isn't Russian.

[4tt1]

now this is one of the scariest but at the same time somehow the most beautiful melody i have heard in my life

[MadHatterz7]

@4tt1 why the scariest?

[4tt1]

@MadHatterz7 because this is more than just a melody , than just a song

[mefistogirl]

is it just me or was this track used in a harry potter movie?

[rosloka]

@mefistogirl no 

[DrStrangefate]

@mefistogirl

It wasn't.

Though John Williams does take alot of cues from famous Romantic period composers works.

You can hear the influences of people like Stravinsky, Holst, Mahler, Wagner, Saint Saens and the like in his various work.

[siircha]

Le rêve... ça a bercé mon enfance :)

[eiaenhorn]

Alright...what is Aquarium and Carnival of the Animals?

[coolboy551]

imagine you are in a museum looking at old stuff

[darkmaster489]

@coolboy551 No.

[metalallday95]

they played this in music class back in third grade, i missed it

[carmenfalstaff]

ma quanto è "moderna" questa musica????!!

[nobrakesytfc]

The Simpsons brought me here, of all things!

[ToyRoss90]

William Orbit brought me here

[mojo3713]

Thumbs up if Randall brought you here:)

[0incia0]

Is that this melody was in Beauty and the Beast? It's sounds similar...

[moarDylan]

SO THAT'S WHERE THE SONG FROM ALL THOSE 90'S MOVIES WAS FROM!

[Lucas4Manga]

I remember hearing this song for the first time in first grade and my music teacher would tell us to close our eyes, visualize, and feel the music...Good times... :D

[DouceFrance21]

SUBLIME

[laraangelina]

The Simpsons brought me here.

[cargomagno]

@laraangelina me too :), and after i listen this song i discovered the music of Camille Saint-Säens.

[Danyhg92]

Beautiful the match between Saint-Säens music and Leonora Carrington's paintings.

[ElTuco84]

I saw Days of Heaven a few days ago and this music stills sound in my head, Morricone did a great job using this piece and several variations of it through the film.

[TsuMK10]

Simpson Season 18 Episode 10

[VIVAgarenaXd]

@TsuMK10 and????

[TsuMK10]

@VIVAgarenaXd

This music is in Episodi 10 in Season 18 of Simpson

[VIVAgarenaXd]

@TsuMK10 ty.

[BeufaBoy]

Danny Elfman's main influence, the french compositor is definitely better....

Plagiat or not plagiat ?...

[LagginLikeHell]

From Beauty and the Beast

Lovely~

[Redmeddle]

@LagginLikeHell Actually Beauty and the Beast took some of this and put it in that song. They are slightly different.

[Gatadelscanals]

@Redmeddle That's why it sounded familiar to me! =D

[mooganify]

@LagginLikeHell Is it really?! Where!

[BsCalcioVideo]

Is very beautiful; but she frightened me.

[TrebleRose723]

I've been trying to find a book with a collection of pictures of Leonora Carrington's work. Not necessarily a biography, I'm just interested in the art. Can anyone help?

[IngridBerg]

@TrebleRose723 I have never seen a book about her, sorry.

[Miguelbernuy]

MARAVILLOSA.

[BaLiCeInWoNdErLaNd]

Beauty and the Beast <3

[deadlywolffangs]

@BaLiCeInWoNdErLaNd actually its Edward Scissorhands

[BaLiCeInWoNdErLaNd]

@deadlywolffangs It does sound similar to Danny Elfman's work, but i'm pretty sure it is from beauty and the beast. I have the soundtracks for both movies and this song isn't on Edward Scissorhands and i own both the movies but never mind.

[PeachRamuneXD]

I just realized that this music is often used as background in the Princess Tutu series! It's very popular, I see!

[deadlywolffangs]

@PeachRamuneXD Yeah...i found the song...it is called ice dance and if you listen to both they sound really close to the same

[Rhed009]

Used in Simpsons XVIII (10) - The Wife Aquatic.

[MikiteKaddict]

amazing



[moviemagic233]

Thumbs up if Benjamin Button trailer took you here!

[musicmusicmusic97]

@DistantMirrors who's the artist that created all these paintings on your videos? they are very pretty.

[xxpurpleCHROMExx]

@musicmusicmusic97 It's Leonora Carrington. :)

[musicmusicmusic97]

@xxpurpleCHROMExx thanks!!!

[caritolunamore]

Love ♥this song

[JessAtlas]

I think of nightmare before Christmas when I hear this.

[xskinyjeansx]

Anyone else think of Bioshock when they hear this? Either way, it is a great song. :D

[bryanjht]

harry potter's song :D..... XD

[awesomeirishmen123]

@bryanjht wat? NO shutup

[2Lazy2Handle]

I believe this was used in Beauty and the beast :D cool

[ikertznus]

@2Lazy2Handle Are you sure? I can't quite remember it, but this was an interesting thing to point out.

I think it was just the same key xD.

[2Lazy2Handle]

@ikertznus well I'm not an expert on this :p so I guess it sounds the same to me as the song from the movie xD

[yarco8000]

Days of Heaven

[lost2fairyfate]

The art with the pictures ... just..... AMAZING- BRILLIANT.

[thedragoonknight]

Omg, its the space mountain music, well, the 1990's version

[Jodie1800]

Oh, this is so magical, so deep... Thanky you very much!!!

[ButWeHaveGotNoMoney]

this song leaves me speechless

[The3rd93rd]

@WumWip omg, i don't know if it's staring at me, or looking to the side. :O scary.. XP

[xkennyPLx]

I heard this song on a Hulu.com commercial >_>

[Addicted2Blood]

Anyone else got led here by the Simpsons ;) ?

Beautiful composition!

[TheTiah2002]

@Addicted2Blood no but when i first heard the song it was on the simpsons XD

[cupcakequeen2010]

@Addicted2Blood I did! But my music teacher had previously played it!

[WumWip]

Stare at the fish the whole time. It'll freak you out.

[DanielHung100]

scary...



[TheRaiderrider]

this music is also used at epcot center in the france pavilion, I have beeen looking for this music for years. thanks

[rugbytlse]

@TheRaiderrider it's also one of the official musics used to illustrate the Festival De Cannes.

[Xobralvl70]

this sounds like the beauty and the beast starts off with.

[aledeviejo]

@Xobralvl70 sounds more like the scene from the west wing

[Fireman84170]

Ouah.... This song is.... magic !

I' remember my trip to Disney Land Resort.

[Conchiron]

Harry Potter.

Weirdly good music for revision though :p

[SuperSolitaireShock]

omg omg omg i was looking for this song for years i heard it once and i had no idea what it was called or who wrote it....but i was listening to the swan and i clicked this next and yeah, FINALLY :)

and how can anyone dislike this?!

[4540524]

@SuperSolitaireShock Sinesthetic people became blind, so awesome this piece is.

[Mattnek]

the beauty and the ebast of walt disney use this (or part of it) song.

[Wiseguyzmoney]

@Mattnek Really? which part?

[4540524]

@Mattnek Its not this song neither part of it, but a song heavily influenced by this piece.

[curzmg]

Not to mention that it captures the mystery of Saint-Saens himself, surely the most underrated composer of them all. I mean listen to this, I cannot know why this is not as popular as the cream from Rach, Beethoven or anyone else - watch?v=SsdK3OLZIwQ

[ploycarat]

@curzmg Oops, you already said he's underrated. My bad! haha

[Wiseguyzmoney]

@curzmg Maybe beethoven had a better publicist? lol either way thank god for the internet because now we can really go back in time and reinterpret, and discover gems of art we never knew existed.

[PrinceMaino]

I can feel magic when i'm hearing this song

[HoppoLOL]

I kinda find this song scary...something about it freaks me out.

[thegryffindorgurly]

AND I"M NOT GOTH OR EMO OR ANYTHING!

[thegryffindorgurly]

My friends think this is creepy... but I find it beautiful...

[ploycarat]

it conveys such an air of mystery....modern music can never have the same effect

[curzmg]

@ploycarat I agree, this piece always humbles me when I begin to think I know a lot. It captures truly the majesty and mystery of the aquatic, I feel myself sinking to the bottom of the ocean with the falling piano; I imagine all the things there that I have never seen, that no one has ever seen. More than that, in the seemingly trivial, unassuming subject it manages to capture so much more than the explicit mystery of the ocean.

[ploycarat]

@curzmg I completely agree. I've listened to the whole of Carnival of the Animals and you can really feel the variations and characteristics of the animals. I do feel Saint Saens is a little under-appreciated though, just my personal opinion :)

[curzmg]

@ploycarat Ha yes I agree!

[BadMoonRising0202]

OMG! I was looking this song for such a long time! Since I heard this song on an add for child milk in 2007! Finally! =D

[ROGAMAGS]

this is used in the hulu advertisements for the Criterion Collection. it has a creepy feel to it when you watch the clips that go along with it. They make Chaplin look like a scary movie lol

[RiverByDay]

I'm pretty sure this wasn't used in Harry Potter (although it has some of this type of undertone to it). But this exact song was the original theme for Dick Dale when he created the onboard soundtrack for Space Mountain at Disneyland. The ride version is just the faster, upbeat, surf-rock version.

[pusettina]

There are no words to describe it. :')

[noirion47]

beautiful but scary

[shelling13]

this is in the beauty and the beast

[dunkelmond9]

@shelling13 Not quite, but this was a huge influence on it. I thought the same when I heard this on hulu, but after looking up the B&theB opening theme on UTube, i heard differences :P

[vivybebe]

where is it in harry potter?

[justintheman26]

how exquisite. I cant believe how great this music is. really complements the kush

[BarkingSands]

As well, this piece is used to advertise the Criterion Collection of classic film dvds... a very effective commercial. I'm seeing it a lot on Hulu this week.

[jemkota]

5 people have no heart.

[KarlaKarly]

They used this for Harry Potter huh?

[Fireman84170]

@KarlaKarly Yes, Aquarium used for Harry Potter :)

[Dummer19mann]

:D

[DesiFuyuko]

Magic.

[fullbrigades]

Finally found it. This is used in The simpsons too, when Marge was describing her childhood in an island.... Tried to shazam it, to no avail....

Very haunting melody.

[giulyludo89]

This extract was used for the beginning in the Walt Disney Classic movie "The beauty and the beast"!!! :D Beautiful composition!!!

[yosoytacoseasoning]

also was used in ren and stimpy a few times as well

[bulgari1515]

Mette i brividi

[TuNonSeiTu]

fantastic



[chickensRkwl]

I love this it has to be my favourite tune



[koldslaw]

Kinda Funky. -U little virgin fishy....

[27Noodles59]

This is beautiful. Thank you for sharing!

[Kidagirl5]

i hear this song on so many movies and TV shows and i just love it, its so beautiful, i really want to know more about it

[laszappatosbonitas]

i could listen to this for hours :)

[Chameleonardodavinci]

Just throwing this out there; Apparently my great-grandfather, (or perhaps great-great-grandfather, I forget) was best friends with Saint-Saëns since childhood. Thought it was pretty cool.

[theajarvis]

@Chameleonardodavinci wow !!! x x x

[nauort23]

@Chameleonardodavinci Very cool.  I can imagine him waiting for St-S. to finish his piano lessons to come out and play. It's easy to forget that geniuses were once children.

[valenresh]

This is really lovely

[OoAzuraoO]

Beautiful sound .. :) i lovee it it makes me relax !

[esther8495]

thats saint saens right there at the right bottom corner

[bnsomin]

great fit for the new criterion collection ads on hulu.

[vivybebe]

@bnsomin so true! that's where i got it from

[missoldfashioned]

i love the entire carnival of animals piece, but i think this one is my favorite... it has such a cheerfully haunting sound (if that's even possible)...

[DarqueMyth]

It really sounds like Beauty and the Beast in the beginning, doesn't it? Such a beautiful peace...

[reedinthewind119]

@DarqueMyth Alan Menken based that 'Beauty and the Beast' theme (The West Wing, I think?) on this piece. I heard it on the local classical station and thought I had the wrong frequency--when did they start playing Disney soundtracks!? Beautiful, though!

[jcplaty]

The artwork is by Remedios Varo. His work seems perfect for The Carnival of the Animals, doesn't it?

[plutenglupeng]

@jcplaty Good call on Varo, as Carrington and Varo both have some very similar elements in their work. But this is Leonora Carrington's painting. BTW, Remedios Varo is a female artist :)

[TRDSC]

@plutenglupeng What's the exact name of the painting? I tried to look it up, but no sites list the name. Thanks.

[HAILYN57]

@TRDSC I think it's "March sunday" 

[HimekaHaruna]

This is bloody amazing. I can't even say...

[alysssounette]

could someone tell me who painted this picture please?

[magxardas]

Wow i was searching for this piece for quite time and i found it by accident XD

[SpedunkTV]

MCM!

[Snapepet]

This piece has haunted me for YEARS. I never knew the name or composer, and I desperately wanted to find out, but didn't know how. I just recently heard it in a mall, and again wondered. Tonight, I happened to be listening to Michael Savage clips...and he played it, and said the name and composer. RESULT! Thanbk you for posting, and thank you Michael Savage! What a lucky coincidence!

[mayagertie]

this sounds like Nancy Drew Ghost Dogs of Moon lake music;O)

[gregapage]

I thought this was by Prokofiev!?!

Is he quoteing this then in 'Peter and the Wolf'?

[RemovdSande11]

@gregapage

which part grega?

[radioheadfan993]

"Days Of Heaven"

[hightofthekite]

This is my favorite from the carnival of the animals. I always think of the rose in beauty in the beast. Its a brilliant piece. Its magical, but slightly somber, but so alluring. Amazing, just amazing.

[DeMonfa13]

@hightofthekite Beauty and the Beast! me too!

[serenitylite14]

This is the same song that was used in Disney's Beauty and the Beast!! Very beautiful yet somehow dark. The music sends my mind back to dancing outside at night as a little girl and wondering if I could one day touch the moon.

[100irissa]

This is very pretty, i've heard it somewhere, but i don't remember where. Well, i supposed it has been used in some movies and cartoons.

[CannedSausages]

HurrDurr 5 ppl mised da like butten

[evolvedant]

Listen to this while questing in Vashj'ir in World of Warcraft Cataclysm.

Just do it.

[Hatryp]

Simpsons did it

[iameli432]

@Hatryp yeah when marge was having the flashback of the island. that's when i liked the music :)

[dejka77]

sounds very mysterious

[woogytojimmi]

I heard this on Pet Society.

[PolarisTNW]

@woogytojimmi Yes, but I don't know why, I mean, It's a nutcracker musical box xD

[luckyclover246]

I LOVE this so much. It's so beautiful. And yes, like many other people have said, it is quite reminiscent of several other pieces in movies/shows.

[StickyRix]

I could swear I first heard this on Ren and Stimpy. And they say Cartoons don't teach kids anything, ha ha ha

[maestronrp]

aH yes it was also in Terrence Malicks 'Days of Heaven' amazing movie

[LwrncMJ]

If you're looking for movies this piece was in, it's in the trailer for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.

[mosbyperry]

The Simpsons :)

[MMKursch]

i think the composers from Beauty and the Beast took a bit of inspiration from here, it reminds me a bit of the prolouge

it's an amazing peace of music:D

[Sasha2319]

This is on Disney CHANNEL...

[Svartalfgeist]

This is oddly terrifying. Terrifying but beautiful.

[superfinkerbell]

this was on the simpsons

[hexalzink]

Hey guys!

I`ve read it so often now on various pages that this is used in Harry Potter. I myself am absolutely sure, but I can`t find any video...if anyone of you could help me I´d be soooo thankful, because my girlfriend won`t believe me -.- Thank you! :D

[srang12345]

@hexalzink duno...maybe watch somewhere in the third part...would be the only one id say it could be in...the music from harry potter is quite similr...sont dont be sad if you just have been tricked by hollywood they like to take old fashion themes and styles of music to copy it in to modern...

[luckyclover246]

@srang12345 So true about copying old styles of music.....sigh.....

[jordanb7624]

@hexalzink i know for a fact that this piece never shows up in harry potter

[cycy1994]

Fantasia =D

[xtokioxbillx]

Oh my, this reminds me of the Harry Potter trailers...this peice is really amazing

[ByReasonOfInsanity1]

5 idiots

[Jowud]

This is the best thing I've accidentally clicked on

[heavenshikari999]

@TheF0etus

I respectfully disagree. I've heard some beautiful work from movie soundtracks; beautiful and original.

@ anyone inquiring: Yes, I believe it was confirmed that the main theme from Beauty and the Beast was inspired by this.

Also, I think this song is gorgeous :D

I don't know if I must agree with you, cause I do when you say that there are beautiful and original soundtracks out there. But Like foetus, they are mostly inspired by classical compositions.