Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet (2/2); Bernstein

[HurricaneFrog]

oh wow i thought it would be kissing you instrumental from 1996...

[Psam091]

i love the ending its AWESOME

[dimlyk1]

Please Bernstein is excellent.... don't underestimate Svetlanov, we are short of great conductors today ...thank you my friends

[CaliBreeze3]

8:17 brings tears to my eyes.

[dimlyk1]

@CaliBreeze3

[IceBlueHuskyClub]

In a couple of hours i have my leaving cert music exam, something i never thought i would be doing yet here i am, and gotta say the only way i would wanna end my school life, would be to the friar lawerence theme in the coda, its been a blast tchaikovsky.

[Rheesoman]

Sublime! There's no other word f0or it but absalutly sublime!

[louiebryan5]

@3:28 and @4:08 gets me everytime

[karcalacu]

this is ouverture 1812

[1812Beethovens9th]

Favorite Part 2:08 - 2:40 SO AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!

[rachmaninov46]

@1812Beethovens9th

this part, as well as the rest of the piece is so tremendously breathtaking from the simon bolivar orchestra!

[pontondon]

8:17 is so powerfull, this arrangment is spectacular, especially the stentorion notes at 8:58- 9:11.

You can feel the emotion of Romeo & Juliet at there demise.

[TheZachReed]

JESUS CHRIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!

[bub777]

listening to 0:54-1:05 (also @ 1:27-1:38) I think Alan Silvestri may have picked up on this excerpt in one of his signature motifs in films like Back to the Future.

[GunnarMcGriff]

It's amazing how much classical music you can learn from cartoons.

[otherjoe1234]

probly because it's easier for them to just use recordings rather than hire a composer to do incidental music, thankfully they have good taste in what they do use

[MisterJimJim]

@GunnarMcGriff This isn't classical music, it's romantic music written in the romantic era ;]

[GunnarMcGriff]

@MisterJimJim "Classical" is the catch-all term for it, though. Believe me, I know Tchaikovsky too well to forget the details.

[MisterJimJim]

@GunnarMcGriff It seems like all pre-modern music is called classical nowadays lol.

[thelizardprince1]

i have a book with the score in it. reading along while it plays is amazing.

[katums141]

I'm playing this in the WAAPA orchestra *sigh* proudest moment of my musical existence as a flute/piccolo player...........

[otherjoe1234]

whoa! right at 2:11-2:12 one of the trumpets slips and hits a wrong note! ouch, since i believe all the trumpets are in unison at that section.

[ajamiecoaklyxperienc]

i guess that makes the three of us............

[roco501]

Same, and bohieman rapsody XD ( doubt thats spelled right :P) Love this peice

[xxxxelliehoganxxxxz]

Studying this for Leaving Cert.. delighted :)

Its gorgeous.

[georgehouse]

that was amazing

[mahlerite]

8:17-8:55 sends chills down my spine. after R drinks the poison and J absorbs the blade of the dagger, these melodies appear to encapsulate what happens next in a perfect world. the arpeggios from the harp emanate a transcendental quality here.

[heracles3000]

couldn't have said it better

throughout the whole piece, the flucuating tempers pose a threat , utlimately leading to their deaths, yet in the end we are reminded of how love, one as innocent as their's, can be an absolute beauty

[smitschagen]

@mahlerite Finally united in death..

[Chaliamusiclover]

@mahlerite me too

[skuzinsk]

@mahlerite this is my favorite version of the Romeo and Juliet Overture. Since your name is mahlerite: have you seen the clip of Bernstein conducting the finale from Mahler's 2nd? Ano ther chill-inducer. Haitink's is good too. Both are on youtube.