Concierto de Aranjuez

[ukipwarrior]

great version. i hate south yorkshire but still this is splendid.

[oliviaj1974]

best song of the film! pity tara fitzgerald didn't play it for real! saw Grimethorpe play the song for real! it was actually amazing! love the vibrato of the flugel in the piece, such a stunning instrument. Grimethorpe is actually stunning and they played the song better than the movie people did! we're playing it in band too, and it will amazing! i love orange juice! best song for brass bands!!!

[payitforwardeddie]

I'd like to dedicate this piece to the four Miners in South Wales who died in a pit near Swansea. You'll have seen it on the news, where ever you are. If you feel as I do, please donate something to the families via the " Swansea Valley Miners Appeal Fund", 39 Windsor Road, Neath, SA11 1NB, Wales. United Kindom. Thank you.

[clockerfeet]

This wonderful piece of music, captures the drama of the Great Miners Strike ! It may mean many other things to lots of different people, but to miners, it's the music of 'Brassed Off ' ! I lived thru', and took part in every minute of this Strike ! I believed in it then ! and I believe in it now, --as an old man ! God bless Arthur Scargill !

[payitforwardeddie]

This tune will always remind me of the death of the Coal Mining industry in the UK. Ian McGregor was a pile of shit. I hope one day soon Thatcher the Snatcher will be buried in it.

[vialli2]

i clicked on this cos i love the tune, but the video transfixed me, very moving, well done :o)

[maxiemaz1]

what once was is no longer

[payitforwardeddie]

@maxiemaz1

Is the bitch dead yet?

[aikyu999]

Orange is naranja. Aranjuez is a place in Spain - not orange juice.

[mitchrhodes]

@aikyu999 Thank you for your Linguistic and Geographic insight.

However, your Cinematic insight seems to need a little honing. "Orange Juice" is a reference to a brief descriptive dialogue in the film 'Brassed Off'. 'Aranjuez' or ' Concierto de Aranjuez' is the preferred musical piece that Gloria ( Tara Fitzgerald) wishes to play and solo. Danny (Pete Postlethwaite) the colliery band conductor, for easement of this foreign tongue twister to Yorkshire lads, refers to it as "Orange Juice"

[lspons]

ARANJUEZ is a place, good version.

[666jimmysmusicgirl]

@aikyu999 Where do you come from? Because this film which mitchrhodes has referred to is well known and important to the people of Yorkshire, Lancashire, and Newcastle because of it's moving Pete Poslethwaite's speech... Concierto D'Orange Juice is what I have called this piece for a long long time and if you were from here, you would know that.

[xxterrasolarisxx]

me volvi loca buscando el concierto de aranjuez , mil gracias , realmente relaja los nervios y hace olvidar los problemas.

[tuborgnights]

Enough to make a grown man cry,

That was very well done the images and the music go together like hand in glove.

Shame on you Thatcher

[Gillmeister2465]

They couldn't break us all.... im proud to come from a scab free mining family... brilliant vid..

[mogford23]

good on yer daz70den, GCB is the best,like you, i`m proud to be a yorkshireman, hearing GCB makes my heart swell with pride, no place on earth like Yorkshire.

[ruth7067]

Great video, simply brilliant, and yes, it was a bloody tragedy

[hopsangel]

Lovely video, shows some of the best bits of God's Own County. I remember '84/'85 well - what a tragedy that followed.

[Duuupi]

Dinlediğim en güzel hali Tesekkürler.i'm from TURKEY

[SmileyDeluxe]

We also watched the film in a Ennglisch lesson. Of course I was amazed by this emotional piece of music *-*

[mitchrhodes]

I cock.....

And tha can find Yorkshire if tha turns reet just past Manchester.

[titobe23]

Eccezzunalo veramento !

[jemodk]

Just caught "Brassed Off" on TV, and this piece of music really got to me along with the story itself.

My dad would've loved the Concierto as he'd been in various brassbands most of his life.

[daz70den]

we are just a small village , but with the heart of a giant.. god times,bad times come and go but gcb willk continue to be the best there is. grimey and proud

[dasringelsoeckchen]

We watched the film in some english lessons. It's a great piece of music in a great film. :)

[CHUCKYB7777]

one of the best recordings i have ever heard. the emotion was masterfuly captured by this arrangement.

[Roberto2727Genesis]

I Love this peice. Im in a brass band. I played this at my grandads Funeral the other week. It was his Fave :)

[ihaveanaddiction1995]

this was also at my grandads funeral his fave too but his funeral was like 5 years ago x

[Roberto2727Genesis]

I was sad but happy playing it. he said to me when he was n hispital that he wanted me to play it :):(

[georgia123able]

Ive heard Aranjuez many times, played by the worlds best guitarists and orchestras. Ive never been moved so much as I was listening to this version. I was born and raised in South Kirkby so I have a soft spot for Grimethorpe and the Band but this reduced me to tears. When I left in 1966 there was hardly a family that didnt have someone working in the coalmines.The area depended on coal and an Industry of that size canot be replaced not even in 30 years. But we still have the music of the people,

[mitchrhodes]

Thank you for your comments georgia (& others) I also have heard many versions of this piece but I keep going back to the Grimethorpe brass version.

For the communities affected by the demise of the coal industry a catastrophe on an immense scale & still being felt today. Political ambition & greed from both sides of the fence.

[kinnard666]

thanks mitch and how very true,people don't like to admit it but both sides of the fence just about sums it up!!

[ihaveanaddiction1995]

nicely said

[CasFan76]

I am moving to South Elmsall soon to be with my girlfriend, my dad (Ackton Hall) and my girlfriend's dad (Frickley) both did the year.

[yazoozo]

much prefer this played by brass, gives it amazing depth :)

[sarahwudster]

Absolutely amazing piece. Reduces me to tears.

[bodiedoyle2007]

Same here, in tears every time I hear this. One of the most emtional pieces of music ever

[kinnard666]

Well mitch lad,a truly beautiful piece of music set against a truly difficult time in the north.The miners and there families and communities were in my opinion one of the last of the great british things smashed by the state.Now look at our beautiful country!!!!!!!

[ashkid70]

Beautiful Mitch, absolutely beautiful!

[Busterstheboy]

At first I thought it was a shame to politicise this beautiful piece of music, but your video starting bringing back memories of those days. The Metropolitan Police attacking the strikers and Ambulancemen and Women begging for money in the high street whilst they were on strike. The Army Green Goddesses manning the fire stations. Bleak days indeed. I remember being overjoyed when Labour won the 1997 election. LOL at such naivety. To hell with all politicians.

[xxtenorhorn]

@Busterstheboy

It looks like we are going back to the bad old days,maybe they never went away,but I say UP THE WORKERS LETS START TO FIGHT FOR OUR RIGHTS AGAIN and lets not be trampelled into the ground

[julesverne1828]

best version..truely fantastic..

[IrishLinB]

Probably one of the most haunting, hard to get out of your head music piece's ever composed. Wasn't familiar with it until a few years ago Michelle Kwan (skater) used it for her competition program, this year a couple of skaters are using it. Magical, could listen to it all day long.

mitchrhodes, Thanks so much for posting this video.

[cjwaywell]

PS great video the scenery is wonderful

[cjwaywell]

My favourite song, the only reason I stay with AOL is because they play this to you when you are on music on hold and I could wait all day listening to it.

[neilam6]

i hear this in my head when i see all the shops that have closed down recently

[alacko]

u can have SO much fun ... with me J

[mitchrhodes]

MMMM! I doubt it very much somehow.

[dilwich123]

the miners kept the goverments children warm.......they starved and deprived the miners kids......thanks mrs thatcher and all who were in her parlament.......i here she is nearly about to die....so sleep well my love because so many at your hand has'nt slept since!.x

[daveyboy1887]

simply fantastic playing!!

[mansteinm]

aranjuez is avillage at north to madrid

[leafybitch]

i think this is being played on a bugle not a trumpet. a trumpet would be deeper.

[mitchrhodes]

The solo instrument is actually a flugel.

[neilam6]

you ever herd this played live? i went to see brassed off tonight it was amazing

[RomolaDesLoups]

What a beautiful montage, and perfectly synchronised with the music. Makes me cry every time.

[parellichick]

This was my favourite part in the movie. I bought the movie & soundtrack just for this peice. I'm currently teaching myself the trumpet, and aim to play this song.

[CornetGirl91]

Hehe me too. i bought the movie and soundtrack for this, its a beautiful piece.

[Jliett]

Wow

[frankthaxter]

it is really sickenng to think the "iron lady ",was closing down our pits and at the same time we were buying subsidized coal from Poland (a communist state and ally to our cold war enemies)

[mitchrhodes]

Poland could hardly be categorized as an ally to our cold war enemy. They were a satellite state that had a soviet regime imposed upon them. A lot of poles died in attempts to resist the imposition of power from the soviet union.

[maestosomajestico]

Hi Mitch. I'm new on this blog and I am a brass player(!) but it is so refreshing to read someone's educated comments, and not those that have just been observed via the media! Good on you! Trevor

[yankeechai]

I am crazy about the music. However, would someone let me know what had happening to the miners at Yorkshire and why such mishap happened.

[mitchrhodes]

To answer your question would be quite a long task. A clue is the two people at the end of the clip Sir Ian MacGregor & Margaret Thatcher. If you Google 'UK Miners Strike' all (most) will be revealed. What may not be revealed so much is the devastation of not only the miners and their families but whole communities infrastructure who relied upon such a workforce who provided the retail demand...all now gone.

[superfev1]

@yankeechai You might like to see my website from Yorkshire, showing mining and music from various countries that I think have "heart and pride"

[shannondore]

And she call's that Wobbly...!

[alchie0]

wow what an excellent job you have made of this.

i grew up in grimethorpe and the photos and music bring back some great and sad memories of the strike.

thanks very much,some more please??

[Dashingzeb]

What a beauty... LOve this film.. Great music.. it brings the fond memories back of UK..

Thankx for posting it...

[mitchrhodes]

Although this was a piece by a Spanish composer for guitar it lends itself to brass well, as in this case by Grimethorpe Colliery Band. The scenes are all of Yorkshire.

Glad you enjoyed.

[waheiki]

I can play the solo part :D