Pini Di Roma - André Rieu & The Johann Strauss Orchestra

[MastodonRockss]

Yeah, to be honest I had never heard of him before I saw this video. I didn't mean to belittle him by calling him 'that conductor'.

[MastodonRockss]

That conductor looks like the offspring of Franz Liszt and David Hasselhoff. He conducts like it too.

[CanalInutelha]

@MastodonRockss That conductor you mean Andre...?

[GoFeri]

@MastodonRockss That's funny.

[massimolioy]

grande grande grande questa e' la vera musica grazie

[TheUndacovabrotha]

When trombones came in they sounded kinda sloppy and not very good :/

[dex21797]

can someone plzzzzzz send me the sheet music for trombone to this?!?!

[superality]

You're absolutely right, this is brilliant and very impressive, every note perfect. But this kind of show will not transform myself into and André Rieu lover.

[garrytr]

Brilliant! Love it!

[OceanPrincess88]

i love the part when the music changes and starts swelling up (is that the right word for it? owell.)

[EorRompage7]

What happened to the articulations and separation between notes? i hate woodwinds. But grrreat performance!! And I Love YOU BRASS PLAYERS!!!!

[Bassobuffo97]

Respighi è stato uno dei rari compositori classici a creare una musica così moderna e contemporanea. Questo pezzo musicale è uno dei miei preferiti, cosi trionfale e avvincente

[MrGomesAndrade]

I'm the humblest human in this world now.

[alonshofar]

This is just awesome!!!

[TheMediankurd]

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA­AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA­AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA­AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA­AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA­AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA­AAW

[wcip1Angel]

Pardon my ignorance, but why is the conductor holding a violin?

[iluvviolin356]

@wcip1Angel You need to watch more of his videos/TV specials. :-) While André Rieu (the conductor) does conduct some pieces in the way that he did in this video, in others, he conducts while playing his violin, à la J. Strauss, Jr. André also plays the violin solos in all places where there is a solo for that instrument, or where he's arranged a solo for violin (for example: his arrangement of "The Music of the Night", which is on the CD and DVD "New York Memories").

[giannibert]

For critics of this kind of shows. What was the nineteenth-century French grandopera if not a great show with hundreds of musicians, extras, dancing, parades and fanfares? Classical music also needs these people, not only of philological priests of music. People really like this kind of shows: me, too!.

[superality]

ridiculus, monstruous, kitsch and ugly. Andre Rieu definitely knows how to make an idiot circus of any great music masterworks. His gigantic shows are decadent.

[pianodude1971]

@superality You're right - but this performance surprised me. I thought it was quite good. Respighi wanted the score to evoke a triumphant procession along the Appian Way toward the Imperial Capital. You can't have enough brass for something like that.

[waltz333]

The most epic classical music ever written

[LaserBeam002]

If more orchestras would take notes of Andre Rieus performances then classical music wouldn't be dead to the general/mass audiences. Instead when you go to most classical music concerts you see what looks to be a bunch of mannequins on stage and some dried up high brows in the audience. Theres no color or excitement. You don't feel as though you have been invited to come, relax and enjoy.

[anonymouslogon6]

@LaserBeam002

Dried up highbrows? That is funny!!

[dex21797]

@LaserBeam002 TSO.

[raft222]

Im performing this piece with the orchestra Im in

[arrchi89]

"Maja rozmach skurwisyny ... "

Your sincerely Siara

[Bratrecord]

Grande Respighi, grande Andre Rieu!

[globaleverbloedung]

LOL... soon Mr. Rieu will perform Mahler VIII or the Alpensinfonie with his Johann Strauss-Orchestra and the fire brigade banda ;-)) Ridiculous !

[herrieindetent]

Great i was one of the 400 brassplayers.

[anonymouslogon6]

@herrieindetent:

That is COOL!

[falcons1988]

@herrieindetent

I would love to have played there myself.