Flash mob in the Copenhagen Metro. Copenhagen Phil playing Peer Gynt.

In April 2012 Copenhagen Phil (Sjællands Symfoniorkester) surprised the passengers in the Copenhagen Metro by playing Griegs Peer Gynt. The flash mob was created in collaboration with Radio Klassisk http://radioklassisk.dk/. All music was performed and recorded in the metro.

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The sound: The Copenhagen Metro is very quiet and the recording you hear is where the train is standing still. That's why the recording you hear is so clean and crisp - and the sound is actually surprisingly good in the Copenhagen metro. We did this deliberately because we feel that a good sound experience is vital when trying to portray the actual experience that day. Further to the main recording, when the train was standing still, the recordings from the cameras was, as far as possible, mixed into the sound.

Quote from the sound technician: I recorded the sound with XY Oktava MK-012 supercardioid microphones close to the soloists and a set of DPA 4060 omnidirectional microphones as overhead for the rest of the orchestra. For some of the closeupshots, the cameramikes (Sennheiser ME 66) was added.

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[Kristiany andalas]

Wish I''ll experience myself...I love it.

[As4464]

beautiful

[tonyamb2185]

Its beautiful when people unit for something so sweet that is what makes us cry ... our hearts long for the america that was once untied for a good cause now most of us stand alone in a godless country holding on to the little bit of dignity we have left

[Pau Marín]

jsgflkjasdflakjsgd HERMOSO :'D

[pHruoYnwO]

the power of this song. wow!

[G Hermann]

Magnifique !

La Musique adoucit les mœurs.

[Laura Giselle]

Que hermoso!

[Aelia da Vicus Plave]

OMG...so beautiful, and a great idea...maybe some of the people in the Metro who had no favor for classic music before will now see from a different angle :)

[Simon Claridge]

Me too!

[Ted Lane]

A great idea...it's what I did in 1978 with the Charleston SC Orchestra. The woodwind quintet played at all the major shopping centers by memory walking throughout the malls. Too bad we didn't have Video cameras to record and place on youtube. The National Symphony of Ecuador will play Ravel's "Bolero" tomorrow at the new International Airport in Quito, Ecuador. May 17th, 2013. Word of advise to the failing orchestras in the United States....sell your product....this is just one creative way.