Pas de deux from 'The Nutcracker'. Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893) Orchestra: The National Philharmonic Of Russia Conductor: Vladimir Spivakov
@@Ludwig1625 I agree with you, the divine Mark did not approve of my phrase, and even I, as a modest follower of stoicism, I understand that this is not entirely good. But it was just a stereotypical joke.
I remember when I was 4, listening to this song on vinyl with my dad and he would tell me all the Nutcracker story. I was in my little warm dress and we always waited for 3:30 for me to run in his arms from across the living room so he can lift me high to the roof like a ballerina. I'm 29 now and this memory still brings me happy tears listening to this masterpiece.
@@jarthurpaxton9223 Thank you for your recommendation, i really liked, it is indeed very sophisticated and complex. I didn't knew this Rachmaninov composition. But I still prefer the feeling and intensity that pas de deux conveys to me, so it is a personal opinion and it's not an incontestable truth. So to me pas de deux is the best composition ever made :)
@@helenaaa7711 glad you enjoyed it! And glad that the whole world doesn't have the same opinion about these things! Would be awfully boring if we did 🙂
But seeing colors, and nature is also beautiful and breath taking, especially when you see the face of your beloved, just like hearing your most favorite music that makes your heart feels love.
As a person who has been blind since infancy, may I speak? I would like to agree with your sentiment. That’s why I keep coming back to the song over and over and over and over again.
I was expecting a nice waltz or something easy in the background, I wasn't ready to be lifted from my seat into the stars on a journey of transcendent magnificence.
O.K. yesyes talent you can prepare for your self God give you healthy faces and bodys that is talent God give you You can prepare a lot yesyes for yourself
Mr. Tchaikovsky, you sadly did not receive the recognition you deserved while alive. But there are millions whom you have touched with your gift. Wherever you are, I hope you are at peace and in eternal happiness. Thank you for this amazing work of art. I cry every single time.
I'm French and we have some of the greatest composers of all time in classical music, yet in my opinion none reaches the greatness of the Russian composer, Tchaikovsky.
First time I heard this I cried like I've never cried before 😭 how can something so beautiful exist. Perfectly encapsulated within the notes is love, longing, beauty, sadness, regret, pity, oh God!
I was two when I heard this for the fist time and I erupted into inconsolable bawling for no apparent reason, that's how deep it touched me even before I had any idea about the pain life can bring. I am 32 now and it still affects me the same way.
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the story behind it it's even sadder. Tchaikovsky wasn't really sure how to approach the Nutcracker, since he worked in more somber and dignified ballets before (the sleeping beauty and the swan lake) but this was commissioned and he couldn't say no, so there he was, uninspired. The Nutcracker's joyful and dreamlike story wasn't his forte, not when the man battled with depression for so long. He went to visit his family to soothe his mind, but a tragic event happened and his brother didn't have the heart to tell him, so Tchaikovsky heard the news when he came back to Moscow. His sister, the person he loved the most, passed away. It was then when he composed this piece as he imagined his sister dancing to it, maybe he remembered the days where they were younger and united as family, playing and opening gifts in Christmas just like Clara at the beginning of the story, maybe that was what made him realize how important this ballet was. A fun time for the family, a story of hope that in the end was just a mere dream. He really put his heart into this piece and the sorrowful acceptance is so vivid in it!
i dont know anything about ballet or classical music, i'm a hiphop dancer. but this is the most beautiful thing i've ever heard and i'm sobbing listening to it. i can't even put the emotion this song represents into words--it's almost like a bittersweet feeling, a tragic love. i have never heard of this composer in my life, but some people's talents are truly a gift to the world and this man's was one of them.
Se mi permetti vorrei suggerirti di ascoltare il primo movimento della 6 Sinfonia di Tckaikoski travolgerà le tue emozioni. E ancora il 2 movimento della 5 Sinfonia. Ascoltali e i tuoi sentimenti saranno elevati e ti pentirai di non avere conosciuto prima questo grande Autore. Cordiali saluti
Ouch. I felt this pain and longing as I read this comment and listened to the music simultaneously. I was about to say, this sounds like something a Florence and the Machine fan would say...then I realized that your username is possibly based on "Strangeness and Charm" by Florence and the Machine. As a fellow fan, I approve.
@@dancingheart6224 oh, you're very attentive! Yes I'm a huge FATM fan and I named my blog (and afterwards my TH-cam account after Strangeness and Charm). I'm glad to meet a fellow FATM fan.
Love that hurts... the beauty of This Music renders the Heart of the believer of newfound love impervious to the fact that you must Lose your loved-one sometime... thank you for This comment!
It feels like a wounded soul that’s finally blossoming, driven and stirred by feelings of joy and love, perhaps for the first time ever, until it’s so overwhelmed with emotion that it gives in and completely embraces it.
If you subscribe to the idea this entire piece was written by Tchaikovsky as both a musical memorial to his dead sister and as a personal expression of his own grief and acceptance then yeah...
i completely felt this way too. regardless of what others here reply to you. what lies in the subconscious is something else. also i am a believer that music speaks of and reflects our own experiences. this is probably what we are going through right now.
@ClandestineOstrich Tbh I was obsessed trying to find a partner. All feelings you mentioned was the daily mood. But for the time I decided to switch to improve myself, and I was full focused on building my careers and find a way to enjoy my work. The way I found happiness was hard because you must feel happy with your own to be happy with your partner. Then move on be confident with your personality, share time with people who add positive value to your life and avoid toxic relationships. Once you get there, you will find a supportive partner, but never forget you must be happy with or without him/her. TDLR focus on build your happiness on your own, eventually you will find the right partner.
@ClandestineOstrich you must build your self-confidence and happiness on your own. Support from a partner is a gift, it should make you happier because it is a fulfill experience. But you can't rely on people support, you can't "need" someone's support because that is not healthy. You can build your energy from doing workout and working on your art daily will make you more attractive and self-confident. Eventually you will feel stronger mentally as you feel fit. And that will help you to find someone with no extra effort. Healthy body, healty brain. Hope it helps you
I play the cello. I played this piece in my freshman year of high school, and am currently at the end of my junior year. This is probably the piece that made me realize my dream of becoming a professional musician, and most likely my favorite piece of music of all time. Thank you so much, Mr. Tchaikovsky.
I'm neither a cello player nor professional musician, just an amateur piano player who's majoring mechanical engineering in uni. but this piece always motivates me every time and i hope that i can play this sheet with piano someday. Hope you can make your dream come true to be a professional musician.
I don't understand what it is about 19th century Russia that made it so outstanding. It's almost an age that deserves recognition in the history books.
I usually hear little of Russia, but when I started reading classicals I find Russian to be my favourite. Not even French literature with all their glamour could compare to my first Russian classical novel, the one that immediately settled Russian literature in my heart : Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Still haven't read a book that could leave an impression as strong on me as that one.
Arguably one of the most extraordinary pieces of art ever created. Tchaikovsky was the only man capable of creating music that would have been suitable for heaven itself. It's spellbinding. If there's one song humanity should cherish forever, let it be this one.
This is Tchaikovsky at his most lyrical, heartbroken, despairing peak. My heart cries for him each time I listen to The Nutcracker, his fairytale fantasy of a happy life. Keep resting in peace and power, Pëtr.
you put it so well. I cry rivers everytime i hear this piece. If I try to put what i feel listening to this piece, it would be smth like this: a purity, a dream, a hope, admiration, devotion, love. But then...disappointment, sadness, anger, hopelessness, being hit by the reality (multiple times), again a tiny piece of hope, and then final and utter disappointment... and death. This piece precisely describes (without a word) something grand and essential which started so beautifully and ended with heartbreaking disappointment. I dont know.. I think this piece is very tragical, considering that this is actually a duet of the Prince and Sugar Plum Fairy.
Такое удушающее, тошнотворное, но и тёплое и далекое чувство детской ностальгии от этой музыки… исполнение шедевральное. Как же я люблю этот отрывок. Люблю до слез.
Когда он писал эту музыку, то пришло известие о смерти его младшей сестры от передозировки морфия(если я правильно помню). Думаю, вы услышали именно то, что он хотел сказать, ностальгия за детством со своей маленькой сестрёнкой и прощание с ней. Ведь эта музыка на самом деле несёт в себе очень глубокую и глубоко заложенную грусть...
@@rhomai не полностью горькое, есть в нём и немного сладкого в чем то далёком, в памяти, навсегда в прошлом... И от этой сладости горечи ещё больше. Сколько сложных эмоций, Чайковский был гением в том, как рассказывал свои чувства музыкой
Dude this is litturally the last song at the end before the finale (I have preformed it before), it is in my opinion the best dance and song out of the whole nutcracker and even I want to cry while preforming because this song just is so much energy and emotions, it's a whole other level if u listen to the whole nutcracker, trust me
I can't understand how a theme that basically consists of a descending major scale can be so powerful. That requires the perfect implementation of harmony, rythm, dynamic, orchestration and context. Tchaikovsky was truly a genius.
Tchaikovsky expressed his musical ideas with emotion, without which the music becomes boring. It isn't just about playing the notes: when the orchestra play with emotion then the listener just might get to feel the soulfulness of the music. And when the feelings are expressed in performance, and the listening audience connects with those feelings, wow 💣💥😍
First heard this song while driving. Just looked up Nutcracker and let it play. Really amazed this song is not more well known. But that goes for a lot of this type of music. Most people dont know Moonlight Sonata has three movements.
Whenever they performed the Pas at our nutcracker growing up there was total silence backstage and in the wings. Everyone was in awe of the sheer beauty being performed on stage, every single time.
@@Gospodin_Brante Дело не в том, доказано это или нет. Есть вещи плохие есть хорошие, есть личные. Гей ли он - его личное дело .В первую очередь он музыкальный гений
It's even more magical when you're dancing the pas de deux with a close friend and you just get wrapped up in the music and the story. It's hard not to cry on stage :)
Yes Gen, I feel you. I have listened to this so many times yet it has ahold of me once again and the tears won’t stop flowing and my entire body is in spasmodic mode in response to Pyotr.
Spivakov and the National Philharmonic of Russia! I just learned the source of this the absolute best version of the Nutcracker Pas de Deux. It seems to stand out more than all the other pieces in Nutcracker. There is a sense of tragedy, loss, and fatalism which would mark the last music Tchaikovsky ever composed. The thrilling climaxes and crescendos. This is so moving. I can hear the heartache. It's a winter ballad. It's falling snow deep snow on the ground in the forest a snow storm keeping lovers apart from each other. Absolutely shattering and amazing. At least in this pas de deux Spivakov truly 'got' Tchaikovsky and understood everything. I am in tears.
Almost every time I listen to this, tears come to my eyes. So beautiful and dramatic✨... I've heard that the whole Nutcracker was planned by Tchaikovsky as a farewell to childhood or something like that. Brilliant! 👏
it’s literally 3am right now, and i’m staring at the moon and listening to this beautiful work and i just, wow it felt like the moon was brighter at the crescendo and now tears are streaming down my face
Sometimes I ask myself, how is it possible to create such a masterpiece? Painters, musicians, poets: how can they do this? How can they catch these emotions, these feelings so accurate? How can they express them so clearly? I am crying right now because I am happy that such humans existed. I am crying because this is my inner response to this masterpiece. I am crying because I am happy.
i am 12 years old and in tears at 1:06 am . God is almighty he will always be there and I am so thankful for that. When no one cared he did . He helped me through a lot. Please pray for me god bless you all
I went to a Nutcracker concert during this Christmas break, it was I think my first time in a real spectacle with an orchestra and everything. Let me tell you people, if you already love this song on TH-cam , then you definitely should try, one time in your life, to go listen to it with an actual orchestra playing live in front of you. My heart pumped out of my chest at the momentum/catharsis of the song. I had the luck to listen to the music while looking at two ballet dancers who were dancing a duet with beautiful dresses and there even was fake snow at the end of the song/choreography. It was magical, I was in Fairyland. The overall show was good, but this was extraordinary, I swear to god I’ll try to attend to a Swan lake representation one day too. The only frustration came from the people who clapped before the last symbal, because they obviously didn’t know the song or didn’t know it well enough but hey, I though screw them 😂
Even i was a boy i watched those barbie movies, and these classics have a special place in my heart (don’t tell me only girls watched those barbie movies)
Dude you're so cool for saying it. And no, you're not alone, a lot of guys I know have watched Barbie movies. It's not a big deal they never said Barbie was just for girls.
As a dancer who does the nutcracker every year, this brings back so many amazing memories of waiting backstage while the snow queen and prince do their dance. It is such a magical thing, and when the crowd cheers so loudly before every comes on for the last part...... I love it so much. It truly is the most magical time of the year.
I do the Nutcracker myself every year too, And this year I got the honor of playing the role of Clara in this year’s Nutcracker production! I’m so excited, Whenever I listen to the soundtrack, I keep thinking I need to be on stage what am I doing- Haha
I read that he composed this as an elegy for his beloved sister after she passed away. I did always think this piece felt like a lament, haunting and full of grief. I always want to cry when I listen to it.
As a guy who has seen all the original old school Barbie movies, the nutcracker was the most awesome of them, easy top two right behind princess and the pauper
I'm being curious, which 2 perfect Barbie movies? I myself always loved the first four Barbie movies (Nutcracker, Rapunzel, Swan Lake and the princess & pauper
To me, this is one of the most heartbreaking songs ive ever heard. Apparently Tchaikovsky wrote this score during the news that his sister had died, and it truly sounds like all of that grief was poured into the music. It sounds like the fleeting, desperate, but ultimately futile grasps for something you're destined to lose. It makes me think, loving someone is the saddest thing a person can do.
I can name several people in my life who can't stand to hear classical music.. I try to play 1 round of Nutcracker during Christmas and they beg me to turn it off.. I will never understand it. To hate the sound of art, carved from the face of heaven..it's like a curse, to hear something so resplendent, so beautiful, and not love it.
Otherwise known as my brother. I always say “Alexa play Tchaikovsky’s the nutcracker” and my brother begs me he’s like “TURN IT OFF THIS IS SO ANNOYING!” so I always say “annoying to you, art to everyone else in the world” (an exaggeration, not everyone thinks it as art)
@@stevetutty2818 But at least they need to respect other person's taste. Not everyone has an attention span longer than 8 seconds. Sorry if that was overheated.
To me, this song is like all your suppressed feelings; confusion, sadness,anger and feeling conflicted while so many things are happening around you. Everything is going by quickly. Life's nothing but a beautiful disaster. This song gives me solace and washes my worries away. Something ethereal and inspiring. All you can do is smile and move on while still having these feelings rooted inside. This is what the song is to me.
If there is such a thing as an absolutely perfect composition, this is it ❤ I remember the first time watching the Nutcracker this song gave me goosebumps & brought tears to my eyes - I was 6 & it still gives me the same amazing run of emotions every time I listen to it
The three Tchaikovsky ballets are, in my opinion, at the summit of human artistic creation. I don't think anything surpasses the immense creative genius of these masterworks.
@@DTJKS Agreed, #TchaikovskySymphonyNo5, and 6, are more condensed brilliance, as are the #TchaikovskyViolinConcerto, and #TchaikovskyPianoConcertoNo1. Symphony No.5 is his best, although some say 6, but all his famous pieces are great.
Beethoven was at the same level, and in some ways surpasses Tchaikovsky (and in some ways Tchaikovsky surpasses). In terms of raw emotion, they are both par IMHO. Of course this is just re: music. If speaking of painting or sculpture, the conversation goes in a very different direction.
Obviously the whole thing's not a scale: I mean those first eight notes on the strings, after the harp has set the scene. That phrase, which appears again and again through the piece in various musical costumes (e.g. relative minor at 0:30), is a downward scale, isn't it, surely? I'll concede he does sprinkle a little rhythmical change on it to turn it into a tune - you'd get a frown from your music examiner playing one in that rhythm - but that's the wonder of it: with a touch of creativity a great composer can turn something basic into gold.
Try listning to "Aase's Death" from the Peer Gynt suite. It's a musical portrait of an old, seriously ill woman seemingly getting better followed by a downward motif indicating she's not getting better after all. I will never understand how orchestra members can stay dry eyed while performing it.
Im dumbfounded why classical music is so underrated, like its the best why dont people listen to them? other than those mainstream ones...You know, Canon in D, Flight of the bumblebee, Summer, Fur elise, etc.
there was a time where the music mentioned was mainstream. It's just been.. kinda forgotten about, for the world and media changed and thus this basically drowned with the other mentioned music tracks.
Because today in a digital era at the same time that everyone can listen to classical music, most people just what listen to song with catchy lyrics and 3 minutes long. I'm not against that type of music, but because of it people aren't usually patient enough to truly stop and listen a classical instrumental piece like this one.
Alletsasil, for me as well. It could be the lovely sound of the violins that repeat the note (in different scale) several times. But really I love the song from start to finish... from the very first note to the very last one. I love that it begins in a sweet and lovely melody and ends in a very powerful and dramatic way. Truly a masterpiece.
Listening to this masterpiece in December, made me feel how it sounds like this year to me. I started it with little steps of fake hope did a little well that I didn't even notice, went through storms but never gave up and always returned to the right path, tasted alot of disappointments and bad treatment that I stopped giving a damn, which made me stick even more to my hopes in the universe. And suddenly all my goals started to manifest in my life! Suddenly I became worthy of everything I ever wanted. I'm still celebrating every little achievement that nobody notice. Thanks God for being generous to me, thanks for being worthy of my faith❤
As a ballerina, I can think of when I hear this piece is backstage at my favorite old theater, it’s a week before Christmas. The whole cast is waiting in the wings for finale, silently shuffling around while watching this beautiful dance take place. There’s a revered silence and energy in the air, like everyone’s holding their breath, a brief moment of calm in the storm. The beautiful music coming through the speakers so loud and reverbing off of the high domed ceiling you can feel it in your bones. Time warps, going so fast while going so slow. I can’t even begin to describe the feeling when the audience erupts into applause at the end and everyone backstage is cheering and clapping too, and listening to this piece without it just feels so empty. 2020 was the first time in 10 years I went without it. I know someday I will be the sugar plum fairy and have the honor of performing this dance, but for now I just get to sit here and cry, reminiscing on some of the best times of my life, and how much I’ve missed out on.
I love you, you're amazing. Don't worry, it'll be back to normal someday. Please make sure to post a recording of your performance when you get that part and do this dance.
Wow. You have the most elegant way of putting things. As a writer and a ballerina, I support you and hope that one day it will get back to normal. ❤❤❤ hope you get this and just remember, patience is key.
This is simultaneously triumphant and melancholic. it's like catching the eye of a brother over a battlefield in chaos and taking a moment to revel in that at whatever may happen, victory or defeat, you were with them
When the choir gets to be with the band I don’t think anyone appreciates it as much as I do. My college band did this at our Christmas concert. When I heard this for the very first time at dress rehearsals I cried. There is just something about it. It’s like how fully realizing everything that happened to you all at once. The horns the rage. The strings the sadness. The beautiful decent to heart break all in one piece. This song unlocked some primal response in my body when I heard it for the first time.
Sascha Shingles It gets me too. I was that wrestler jock in high school that got asked to be the prince in our local Nutcracker production, and I fell in love with this piece. Every time it would begin playing while I was on the throne, I'd subtly tear up...
Sasha, as I wrote above: Is this the most intense passionate piece of music ever written? (This is quite an intense rendition in my opinion) Like his Andante cantabile, con alcuna licenza from Symphony No. 5 (second movement).
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i don't listen to Pas de deux often, but when I do, so do my neighbors
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Good lad....
🤣 hahaha
Well done. I would happily have you as a neighbour if this is the quality of your musical taste
How was he able to compose something like this? It's just unreal.
Only gay, my friend. Tchaikovsky was gay.
Marcus Aurelius uh
@@nik2513 my friends, who are gey, are not briliant artists. I think the magic is in something else.
@@nik2513 This sounds so weird coming from Marcus Aurelius lmao, considering he was a philosopher, and I still live by his quotes to this day
@@Ludwig1625 I agree with you, the divine Mark did not approve of my phrase, and even I, as a modest follower of stoicism, I understand that this is not entirely good. But it was just a stereotypical joke.
I remember when I was 4, listening to this song on vinyl with my dad and he would tell me all the Nutcracker story. I was in my little warm dress and we always waited for 3:30 for me to run in his arms from across the living room so he can lift me high to the roof like a ballerina. I'm 29 now and this memory still brings me happy tears listening to this masterpiece.
чудесное и тёплое воспоминание)
This is a memory you will never forget
And in 2022 I’m creating the same memory for my 5year old on Christmas eve
😭🥺🥰
Oh my goodness such a lovely story, brought tears
The most beautiful composition ever created in the entire history of humanity. Tchaikovsky is an absolute genius.
And it feels timeless
@7711 it's a ballet , better if you see it on stage with two dancers ; j saw at Paris-Opera unforgetable very far from to day
I can respect your opinion. But to me it's probably Rachmaninov piano concerto no. 2
@@jarthurpaxton9223 Thank you for your recommendation, i really liked, it is indeed very sophisticated and complex. I didn't knew this Rachmaninov composition. But I still prefer the feeling and intensity that pas de deux conveys to me, so it is a personal opinion and it's not an incontestable truth. So to me pas de deux is the best composition ever made :)
@@helenaaa7711 glad you enjoyed it! And glad that the whole world doesn't have the same opinion about these things! Would be awfully boring if we did 🙂
I just don't understand how can people not enjoy classical music
story of my life
@@eline8087 you are so deep. inspiring. misunderstood. don't worry i see you
it's such a pleasure to watch pure talent react to pure talent
Because there is something dearly wrong with them in the head.
They not spend life much
God: how many Feelings do you want to express in your pieces?
Tchaikovsky: yes
Pieces
*your . You're welcome! 🙂
Thank you very much for the correction, my English is not perfect.
greetings from Mexico.
@@DannY-og8lv Viva Méxicoooooo!
খুব ভালো মন্তব্য
Tchaikovsky touches the deep sorrow within our hearts with this masterpiece
NO QUESTION.
A myriad of emotions... HOPE. Wanting to LIVE!♥️ 🎶
Indeed.
On one visit, when Schubert called with Anselm Hüttenbrenner, Beethoven remarked, "You, Anselm have my mind, but Franz has my soul."
lies
People can mock barbie movies as much as they want, but they introduced me to classical music, and I’ll be ever thankful for that
Bro. SAME.
Whatever it takes! The old, classic cartoons of Warner Bros., Hanna Barbara, and Disney did the same for millions of people.
Real
SAME 😭 the best thing ever from barbie
FOREVER GRATEFUL FOR BARBIE MOVIES INTRODUCING ME TO COOL CLASSICAL SONGS
And this is why I’d rather go blind than deaf
Good point
But seeing colors, and nature is also beautiful and breath taking, especially when you see the face of your beloved, just like hearing your most favorite music that makes your heart feels love.
Be careful what you wish for!
@@stevetutty2818 dude ain't wishing tho, it was if he had to choose between the two
As a person who has been blind since infancy, may I speak? I would like to agree with your sentiment. That’s why I keep coming back to the song over and over and over and over again.
Others: Pass the aux
Me an intellectual: *PAS DE DEUX*
Abd Rauf Bin Ahmad I laughed a lot longer than I should have at that
Darn, you beat me to it
once upon a midnight bleary omg same
You’re not like others are you?
Geeezz
Only Tchaikovsky could have taken a G major and E Minor scale and make them shine like this, true masterpiece.
Absolutely 💯💯🎻🎻
😍😍
I was expecting a nice waltz or something easy in the background, I wasn't ready to be lifted from my seat into the stars on a journey of transcendent magnificence.
Same
Yeah it happens
So true
That's the problem with putting on music! lol
neither did i
Tchaikovsky: setting impossible boyfriend standards since the composition of this piece.
and what's most unfair, he himself was quite happy with his boyfriends!
@@MrLacian true that :/
not the happiest person considering how he died tho :(
@@MrLacian and he had no boyfriends. He was just gay in Russia
Lol. Tchaikovsky wasn't gay, that's an exposed fake already.
God: "So how much talent do you want?"
Tchaikovsky: "Yes"
O.K. yesyes talent you can prepare for your self
God give you healthy faces and bodys
that is talent God give you
You can prepare a lot yesyes for yourself
so bored of this joke
the fact that this has been posted 3weeks ago and already has more than 600 likes just means that at least 660 people still listen it. warms my heart
@@williamtoner8674 I find the fact that it's now being used in the context of classical composers to be hilarious.
X,D
Mr. Tchaikovsky, you sadly did not receive the recognition you deserved while alive. But there are millions whom you have touched with your gift. Wherever you are, I hope you are at peace and in eternal happiness. Thank you for this amazing work of art. I cry every single time.
He was pretty celebrated in his lifetime in Europe ans especially in America.
Why wish him all the best just because he was gifted, maybe he was an absolute asshole
@@Ali_esam.нет, он был прекрасным человеком во всех смыслах, бог рано забирает лучших
@@gudllyfРано? Он на всех изображениях предстает абсолютно поседевшим
@@user-1g6hfpy4y. он умер в 50 лет, и имел много планов, а седина совсем не показатель возраста если что, у меня все родственники до 30 уже седые были
I'm French and we have some of the greatest composers of all time in classical music, yet in my opinion none reaches the greatness of the Russian composer, Tchaikovsky.
you know grandma Pyotr Ilyich would not approve the Z stuff if you knew his bio...
Из России с благодарностью.
@@extrasystole ты тем более не достоин даже слушать его
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@@extrasystole I don't think you realize how much of a nationalist Tchaikovsky was.
Doctor: I'm sorry. You only have 4 minutes left to live.
Me: I want to listen to Tchaïkovsky pas de deux
Doctor: But it's 5 min long
God: It's ok
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Sorry but I can't stop thinking about the ads in the beginning and there you are dying sad
@@andrea22jre wouldn't happen if you have TH-cam® PREMIUM™
@@el_teodoro or adblock?
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“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
― Victor hugo
Possibile traduzione italiana o francese? Grazie
@@idacaggiano8396 La musique exprime ce qui ne peut pas s’exprimer avec des mots et sur quoi il est impossible de se taire.
@@idacaggiano8396 La musica esprime quello che non si può mettere in parole ma che non può rimanere in silenzio.
Sorry I'm not a native speaker 😂
I think this is Shakespeare...
I love this
First time I heard this I cried like I've never cried before 😭 how can something so beautiful exist. Perfectly encapsulated within the notes is love, longing, beauty, sadness, regret, pity, oh God!
I was two when I heard this for the fist time and I erupted into inconsolable bawling for no apparent reason, that's how deep it touched me even before I had any idea about the pain life can bring. I am 32 now and it still affects me the same way.
Тоже самое😭😭😭
Xshut up you utter nonce
Russian folk music can also make you cry
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the story behind it it's even sadder.
Tchaikovsky wasn't really sure how to approach the Nutcracker, since he worked in more somber and dignified ballets before (the sleeping beauty and the swan lake) but this was commissioned and he couldn't say no, so there he was, uninspired. The Nutcracker's joyful and dreamlike story wasn't his forte, not when the man battled with depression for so long. He went to visit his family to soothe his mind, but a tragic event happened and his brother didn't have the heart to tell him, so Tchaikovsky heard the news when he came back to Moscow. His sister, the person he loved the most, passed away. It was then when he composed this piece as he imagined his sister dancing to it, maybe he remembered the days where they were younger and united as family, playing and opening gifts in Christmas just like Clara at the beginning of the story, maybe that was what made him realize how important this ballet was. A fun time for the family, a story of hope that in the end was just a mere dream. He really put his heart into this piece and the sorrowful acceptance is so vivid in it!
i dont know anything about ballet or classical music, i'm a hiphop dancer. but this is the most beautiful thing i've ever heard and i'm sobbing listening to it. i can't even put the emotion this song represents into words--it's almost like a bittersweet feeling, a tragic love. i have never heard of this composer in my life, but some people's talents are truly a gift to the world and this man's was one of them.
just listen to the classical russian composers Tchaikovsky Schostakovich, Prokofiev, Mussorgsky maybe even Borodin
God is good! What a song!
Try this. Greatest symphony. #RachmaninovSymphonyNo2: th-cam.com/play/PLlwGHNQ81SnqiGiQJ_Ahx2584epGcDM5n.html
Se mi permetti vorrei suggerirti di ascoltare il primo movimento della 6 Sinfonia di Tckaikoski travolgerà le tue emozioni.
E ancora il 2 movimento della 5 Sinfonia. Ascoltali e i tuoi sentimenti saranno elevati e ti pentirai di non avere conosciuto prima questo grande Autore.
Cordiali saluti
And this isn't even the most moving performance of it! Beautiful words, thank you for sharing.
This is the sound of loving someone you know you will lose.
Ouch. I felt this pain and longing as I read this comment and listened to the music simultaneously. I was about to say, this sounds like something a Florence and the Machine fan would say...then I realized that your username is possibly based on "Strangeness and Charm" by Florence and the Machine. As a fellow fan, I approve.
@@dancingheart6224 oh, you're very attentive! Yes I'm a huge FATM fan and I named my blog (and afterwards my TH-cam account after Strangeness and Charm). I'm glad to meet a fellow FATM fan.
Yes
Love that hurts... the beauty of This Music renders the Heart of the believer of newfound love impervious to the fact that you must Lose your loved-one sometime... thank you for This comment!
And it hurts like hell...
Please reply to this. I'd like to get a notification from time to time to remind me this masterpiece exists. Thanks in advice.
Listen to this
Seems like you will come and listen every week
I’m sure you listened to it yesterday, but today is a fine day to do it again.
My reminder man!!!!
As you wish, my friend
Anyone here shed a tear for how beautiful this song is?
Me right now! 😥😥😥🎻
So many times. The last one tonight in a theatre were I saw The Nutcraker for the first time live. Too beautiful for words.
Me when conducts
This is a piece. A song is music with words
It feels like a wounded soul that’s finally blossoming, driven and stirred by feelings of joy and love, perhaps for the first time ever, until it’s so overwhelmed with emotion that it gives in and completely embraces it.
Yes, I interpreted it the same. :)❤
If you subscribe to the idea this entire piece was written by Tchaikovsky as both a musical memorial to his dead sister and as a personal expression of his own grief and acceptance then yeah...
Well no... He was in despair.
i completely felt this way too. regardless of what others here reply to you. what lies in the subconscious is something else. also i am a believer that music speaks of and reflects our own experiences. this is probably what we are going through right now.
3:15 that buildup... this guy was a real genius
Hey, Beethoven to Beethoven, do you know the name of the painting?
One legend to another, nice👌
@@i.pezzotti853 Is it, is it .. Amadeus? Amadeus Mozart?
yo, when's your next piece be on air
@@kentmacalalad new album out on 11th of jan, with the merch
so is it talent or raw emotions?
tchaikovsky : *_yes_*
Army 😍
both. You need talent in order to properly convey raw emotions this strongly in music. So in other words, yes.
@@nasu8244 Don't forget Goya was a genius painter he got up early every day 6:00 to start painting
@ClandestineOstrich Tbh I was obsessed trying to find a partner. All feelings you mentioned was the daily mood. But for the time I decided to switch to improve myself, and I was full focused on building my careers and find a way to enjoy my work. The way I found happiness was hard because you must feel happy with your own to be happy with your partner. Then move on be confident with your personality, share time with people who add positive value to your life and avoid toxic relationships. Once you get there, you will find a supportive partner, but never forget you must be happy with or without him/her. TDLR focus on build your happiness on your own, eventually you will find the right partner.
@ClandestineOstrich you must build your self-confidence and happiness on your own. Support from a partner is a gift, it should make you happier because it is a fulfill experience. But you can't rely on people support, you can't "need" someone's support because that is not healthy. You can build your energy from doing workout and working on your art daily will make you more attractive and self-confident. Eventually you will feel stronger mentally as you feel fit. And that will help you to find someone with no extra effort. Healthy body, healty brain. Hope it helps you
3:30 does such a good job of holding the suspense and then releasing. No other version does that. This is why I keep going back to this one.
Me too
That's the best part of the whole song
You're right 💯🎻
I play the cello. I played this piece in my freshman year of high school, and am currently at the end of my junior year. This is probably the piece that made me realize my dream of becoming a professional musician, and most likely my favorite piece of music of all time. Thank you so much, Mr. Tchaikovsky.
I'm neither a cello player nor professional musician, just an amateur piano player who's majoring mechanical engineering in uni. but this piece always motivates me every time and i hope that i can play this sheet with piano someday. Hope you can make your dream come true to be a professional musician.
@@user-gu2rs3mu5r thank you so much for your words. I wish you the best in your endeavors.
The fact that this is available for me to play whenever I feel like is absolutely insane. Thank you
Agreed!
Love your gratitude🙏🏼
Agreed!
You're welcome.
@@okyouknowwhatever Who are you to tell her who she is
It's so hard not to admire Russian culture. Both in literature and Classic, their achievement is like a myth.
I don't understand what it is about 19th century Russia that made it so outstanding. It's almost an age that deserves recognition in the history books.
Its russ Per Gunt, ok?
Truly nothing hard at all. Russian culture is as beautiful as it’s amazing.
I usually hear little of Russia, but when I started reading classicals I find Russian to be my favourite. Not even French literature with all their glamour could compare to my first Russian classical novel, the one that immediately settled Russian literature in my heart : Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Still haven't read a book that could leave an impression as strong on me as that one.
@@mattakubodimasen10 I relate to you. I can hardly find more deeply telling stories of the human condition than from that period.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who cries over the absolute Heavenly beauty of this piece. 😭🎻😭🎻
I listened to this every night of my son’s third deployment to Afghanistan. He’s home safe now.
A message to the future generations. Don't let this song die.
piece
Please 🥺
No bro we are all ready dead.
No hate but don't call it a song. It's called piece
@@bait5257 bait, you are right.
The sound of falling in love for the first time.
Yes
The sound of falling in love, in general.
That’s exactly what it reminded me of ❤️💔
best description ever
I want this sound forever in my head tho lol
Arguably one of the most extraordinary pieces of art ever created. Tchaikovsky was the only man capable of creating music that would have been suitable for heaven itself. It's spellbinding. If there's one song humanity should cherish forever, let it be this one.
Well said.
or Perl Fishers by Bizet
It's Bach for me. But Tchaikovsky is pretty damn awesome too.
3:30 gets me every time. Tears flow down my cheeks as if they were a stream. Absolutely beautiful
*Tchaikovsky in heaven*
Tchaikovsky: was I a good composer?
God: No
God: I was told you were the best
They are playing his music up there i bet
Apparently, God failed English 101.
@@lecobra418 God also failed to give you a respectful personality i see.
@@gvantsa4403 He probably had some difficulties typing that correctly into my bios.
@@lecobra418 you said it
God: Yo bring this guy up here this is fire
LMAO
😂
If I were God, I would've done the same thing lmao 🤣
😂😂🤣
*all hail to Tchaikovsky*
this is how love feels like
Yes❤
Пётр Ильич Чайковский - мой земляк, я родился и вырос в городе Воткинске. Наш город гордится им.
Wow! It’s magical! A honor!
Tchaikovsky is a gift to humanity
@@piotrilitchtchaikovsky2314 np my man just keep what you're doing
@@piotrilitchtchaikovsky2314 can decompose and compose at the same time
I Totally agree. His music is perfection
Hyden 啦 idiot ！ 哈哈哈 you 短音 顫音人生
Right. As you say "humanity", not nation or culture. His work is proof that genius and innovation is a province of all races..
This is Tchaikovsky at his most lyrical, heartbroken, despairing peak. My heart cries for him each time I listen to The Nutcracker, his fairytale fantasy of a happy life. Keep resting in peace and power, Pëtr.
Caro Roberto, la penso come te, sono una romantica ottocentesca❤️❤️
Ascolto questo brano e lo schiaccianoci, fin da piccolissima
you put it so well.
I cry rivers everytime i hear this piece. If I try to put what i feel listening to this piece, it would be smth like this: a purity, a dream, a hope, admiration, devotion, love. But then...disappointment, sadness, anger, hopelessness, being hit by the reality (multiple times), again a tiny piece of hope, and then final and utter disappointment... and death.
This piece precisely describes (without a word) something grand and essential which started so beautifully and ended with heartbreaking disappointment.
I dont know.. I think this piece is very tragical, considering that this is actually a duet of the Prince and Sugar Plum Fairy.
He was in love with his nephew. Reminder.
@JM 9 everything is cringe nowadays..
Такое удушающее, тошнотворное, но и тёплое и далекое чувство детской ностальгии от этой музыки… исполнение шедевральное. Как же я люблю этот отрывок. Люблю до слез.
Когда он писал эту музыку, то пришло известие о смерти его младшей сестры от передозировки морфия(если я правильно помню). Думаю, вы услышали именно то, что он хотел сказать, ностальгия за детством со своей маленькой сестрёнкой и прощание с ней. Ведь эта музыка на самом деле несёт в себе очень глубокую и глубоко заложенную грусть...
ну не тошнотворное а скорее горькое
@@rhomai именно что тошнотворное))
@@rhomai не полностью горькое, есть в нём и немного сладкого в чем то далёком, в памяти, навсегда в прошлом... И от этой сладости горечи ещё больше. Сколько сложных эмоций, Чайковский был гением в том, как рассказывал свои чувства музыкой
тошнотворное...какое неприятное слово вы выбрали, оно никак не вяжется с этим шедевром
One of the greatest pieces of music to ever be written
That moment when you don't know anything about The Nutcracker, ballet, or Tchaikovsky and this *still* puts tears in your eyes.
Dude this is litturally the last song at the end before the finale (I have preformed it before), it is in my opinion the best dance and song out of the whole nutcracker and even I want to cry while preforming because this song just is so much energy and emotions, it's a whole other level if u listen to the whole nutcracker, trust me
Person its piece* and aren’t you a musician yourself?
@@matthewgonzalez2040 it is "it's" and he already stated that.
Flexxkii lol
@@matthewgonzalez2040 ;P
I can't understand how a theme that basically consists of a descending major scale can be so powerful. That requires the perfect implementation of harmony, rythm, dynamic, orchestration and context.
Tchaikovsky was truly a genius.
I have no idea what this means but i'm nodding my head yes. Shout out to all musically knowledgable people
Tchaikovsky expressed his musical ideas with emotion, without which the music becomes boring. It isn't just about playing the notes: when the orchestra play with emotion then the listener just might get to feel the soulfulness of the music.
And when the feelings are expressed in performance, and the listening audience connects with those feelings, wow 💣💥😍
I somewhat completely understand this and at the same time would love somebody to deep dive in explaining it.
Не выебывайся братишка
First heard this song while driving. Just looked up Nutcracker and let it play. Really amazed this song is not more well known. But that goes for a lot of this type of music. Most people dont know Moonlight Sonata has three movements.
Whenever they performed the Pas at our nutcracker growing up there was total silence backstage and in the wings. Everyone was in awe of the sheer beauty being performed on stage, every single time.
Same, this brings back all the memories
Чайковский лучший, великий композитор. Вечная ему память.. Это заставляет меня задумываться о жизни 🇷🇺❤️
Он же был геем, он теперь террорист или кто?
@@Gospodin_BranteЭто не доказано
@@Gospodin_Brante
Дело не в том, доказано это или нет. Есть вещи плохие есть хорошие, есть личные.
Гей ли он - его личное дело .В первую очередь он музыкальный гений
"If it weren't for you, I never would have danced at all."
Robby wrong song dumbahh
@@Prince-wi5sp Ass.
Ahhh Us....
“You felt it too”
US. AN US REFERENCE YAAAS
2:58 - 3:46 is surely one of the most amazing moments in the history of music. it brings such an ethereal feeling.
honestly
right ? its just perfection at its best
Thanks for the comment. Now I now how to describe the feeling
It's even more magical when you're dancing the pas de deux with a close friend and you just get wrapped up in the music and the story. It's hard not to cry on stage :)
tokyo inn most definitely
The part at 3:31 just touches my heart in special kind of way. The piccolo runs in the background are my favorite part😌
we call it blizzard))
@@1989ROCKNROLLA oh wow I played flute for years and never knew that👀
My God, it ALWAYS gives me chills and makes my eyes watery ...so beautiful it is !💔❤️🙏
I'ts like @Evan.sv3!
🤤🤤🤤
Me, an intellectual: it reminds me one of Barbie's movie
AHAHAH same here!!! We are intellectuals, but we had a great childhood too
The older Barbie movies had such amazing music and over all my favorites.
Yup, all I can think of when seeing and hearing this song is barbies the nutcracker
Great minds think alike homie
Me too😂😂😂 I watched all the films and I love Tchaikovsky due to these cartoons ❤️✌🏻
I can't stop crying. It is just so beautiful and elegant
Yes Gen, I feel you. I have listened to this so many times yet it has ahold of me once again and the tears won’t stop flowing and my entire body is in spasmodic mode in response to Pyotr.
sameeee
Spivakov and the National Philharmonic of Russia! I just learned the source of this the absolute best version of the Nutcracker Pas de Deux. It seems to stand out more than all the other pieces in Nutcracker. There is a sense of tragedy, loss, and fatalism which would mark the last music Tchaikovsky ever composed. The thrilling climaxes and crescendos. This is so moving. I can hear the heartache. It's a winter ballad. It's falling snow deep snow on the ground in the forest a snow storm keeping lovers apart from each other. Absolutely shattering and amazing. At least in this pas de deux Spivakov truly 'got' Tchaikovsky and understood everything. I am in tears.
Almost every time I listen to this, tears come to my eyes. So beautiful and dramatic✨... I've heard that the whole Nutcracker was planned by Tchaikovsky as a farewell to childhood or something like that. Brilliant! 👏
it’s literally 3am right now, and i’m staring at the moon and listening to this beautiful work and i just, wow it felt like the moon was brighter at the crescendo and now tears are streaming down my face
life is magical, huh?
Twinsies
Very beautiful
mi channnal same here
Same. Except no moon here but my imagination.
Sometimes I ask myself, how is it possible to create such a masterpiece? Painters, musicians, poets: how can they do this? How can they catch these emotions, these feelings so accurate? How can they express them so clearly? I am crying right now because I am happy that such humans existed. I am crying because this is my inner response to this masterpiece. I am crying because I am happy.
🙏 Bless you.
Pain and sadness, Tchaikovskys sister passed away so he created this
It was love. Go read about his story of live. Bless you all ❤
Because they are human!
i know the answear , you should suffer enough and be almost crazy and of course love what you are doing
i am 12 years old and in tears at 1:06 am . God is almighty he will always be there and I am so thankful for that. When no one cared he did . He helped me through a lot. Please pray for me god bless you all
where are you from?
I went to a Nutcracker concert during this Christmas break, it was I think my first time in a real spectacle with an orchestra and everything. Let me tell you people, if you already love this song on TH-cam , then you definitely should try, one time in your life, to go listen to it with an actual orchestra playing live in front of you. My heart pumped out of my chest at the momentum/catharsis of the song. I had the luck to listen to the music while looking at two ballet dancers who were dancing a duet with beautiful dresses and there even was fake snow at the end of the song/choreography. It was magical, I was in Fairyland. The overall show was good, but this was extraordinary, I swear to god I’ll try to attend to a Swan lake representation one day too.
The only frustration came from the people who clapped before the last symbal, because they obviously didn’t know the song or didn’t know it well enough but hey, I though screw them 😂
Even i was a boy i watched those barbie movies, and these classics have a special place in my heart (don’t tell me only girls watched those barbie movies)
This is the first time that I've heard that they had been made. You might be alone! lol
Dude you're so cool for saying it. And no, you're not alone, a lot of guys I know have watched Barbie movies. It's not a big deal they never said Barbie was just for girls.
I’m also a guy and i used to be obsessed with barbie.
The movies you watch don’t define you as a person.
@@antgreen3254 takes one to know one. Are you coming out to us, 😉😉?
@@antgreen3254 If you wanna talk about witless, your own comment is a good start.
Showed this to my girlfriend, she my wife now.
Nice
Showed this to my crush. He didn't like it so I rejected him.
Congrats dude! 😍👍🏻
lol
Congrats 👍
i come back to this piece just to tear up every time ❤ beautiful composition full of feelings !
As a dancer who does the nutcracker every year, this brings back so many amazing memories of waiting backstage while the snow queen and prince do their dance. It is such a magical thing, and when the crowd cheers so loudly before every comes on for the last part......
I love it so much. It truly is the most magical time of the year.
Thank you so much for bringing joy on stage ❤
I do the Nutcracker myself every year too, And this year I got the honor of playing the role of Clara in this year’s Nutcracker production! I’m so excited, Whenever I listen to the soundtrack, I keep thinking I need to be on stage what am I doing- Haha
This is from act 2.
This is not the snow queen's pdd.
@@sonyawalker9212 I mean the final one
It's impossible to listen to Tchaikovsky without having immense goosebumps I mean listen to that man , from 2:58 on it's purely heavenly, so epic
to me it starts at 2:15. I don’t know why but i can’t hold my tears from that moment.
Yes, exactly in 2:58 I felt goosebumps!
For me its after 1 min
But 3:15 is definitely my favorite part
ikr, im listening to this (for the first time) nd get chills all thw time
This piece is AMAZING! I'm crying 😭❤️❤️
Such a genius. Cello, flute, harp trio is perfect for me. And a sprinkle of oboe and bassoon just adds a cherry on top
I read that he composed this as an elegy for his beloved sister after she passed away. I did always think this piece felt like a lament, haunting and full of grief. I always want to cry when I listen to it.
I feel the same way. I know, it's the love song of the nutcracker, but it sounds so bittersweet and melancholic.
Kinda feels like he's remembering and how he felt over all those times
I can literally hear it in the music. It gives me chills.
Ayo any of you cool kids watch the Barbie version of the Nutcracker when you were a kid? That shit was great man
Jo O'Cleary YES!
jackier132 Ayyyyyyyyyyyyy
No I was busy in ballet class rehearsing for the Nutcracker👌
As a guy who has seen all the original old school Barbie movies, the nutcracker was the most awesome of them, easy top two right behind princess and the pauper
Bro yes I've watched all of them up to pink shoes
Tchaikovsky = The GOAT who gave us 2 perfect Barbie movies
I'm being curious, which 2 perfect Barbie movies? I myself always loved the first four Barbie movies (Nutcracker, Rapunzel, Swan Lake and the princess & pauper
To me, this is one of the most heartbreaking songs ive ever heard. Apparently Tchaikovsky wrote this score during the news that his sister had died, and it truly sounds like all of that grief was poured into the music. It sounds like the fleeting, desperate, but ultimately futile grasps for something you're destined to lose. It makes me think, loving someone is the saddest thing a person can do.
I wish he knew that people would cry listening to this again and again in 2018.
Андрей frrrrrr that’s me rn 😭😭
I can name several people in my life who can't stand to hear classical music.. I try to play 1 round of Nutcracker during Christmas and they beg me to turn it off.. I will never understand it. To hate the sound of art, carved from the face of heaven..it's like a curse, to hear something so resplendent, so beautiful, and not love it.
Even my friend, who can't sit for more than a 1minute to classical music, thought this piece was amazing
man thats sad, as a ballerina classical music is the best
Otherwise known as my brother. I always say “Alexa play Tchaikovsky’s the nutcracker” and my brother begs me he’s like “TURN IT OFF THIS IS SO ANNOYING!” so I always say “annoying to you, art to everyone else in the world” (an exaggeration, not everyone thinks it as art)
@@stevetutty2818 But at least they need to respect other person's taste. Not everyone has an attention span longer than 8 seconds.
Sorry if that was overheated.
Shut up you loser. Just enjoy the music jfc
Heard this live at the Joffrey in Chicago last night. So beautiful, I cried
I don’t know if I’m the only one, but I always listen to Pas de deux, when I’m broken-hearted.
People listen to songs about santa for Christmas,
I listen to Tchaikovsky.
Tchaikovsky rocks all year long, my friend ;-)
Christmas is unnecessary.
“Don’t worry guys, I’m not like other girls”
The Nutcracker is a classic at that time of year.
Multitask if you are able and enjoy both!
To me, this song is like all your suppressed feelings; confusion, sadness,anger and feeling conflicted while so many things are happening around you. Everything is going by quickly. Life's nothing but a beautiful disaster. This song gives me solace and washes my worries away. Something ethereal and inspiring. All you can do is smile and move on while still having these feelings rooted inside. This is what the song is to me.
rach I feel the same.
Хорошо сказал
Every time I listen to this music ..I feel that my fantasy world of dreams ....of hope ...of love is falling apart forever
Eloquently put
I remember dancing to this and almost crying on stage from how everything was hitting me so hard with the music and the dancing. It’s beautiful
Reading Russian literature while listening to this Russian masterpiece
If there is such a thing as an absolutely perfect composition, this is it ❤
I remember the first time watching the Nutcracker this song gave me goosebumps & brought tears to my eyes - I was 6 & it still gives me the same amazing run of emotions every time I listen to it
The three Tchaikovsky ballets are, in my opinion, at the summit of human artistic creation. I don't think anything surpasses the immense creative genius of these masterworks.
I bet you’d enjoy his Symphonies #5 and 6. The whole Human Condition is in them.
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@@DTJKS Agreed, #TchaikovskySymphonyNo5, and 6, are more condensed brilliance, as are the #TchaikovskyViolinConcerto, and #TchaikovskyPianoConcertoNo1. Symphony No.5 is his best, although some say 6, but all his famous pieces are great.
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Beethoven was at the same level, and in some ways surpasses Tchaikovsky (and in some ways Tchaikovsky surpasses). In terms of raw emotion, they are both par IMHO. Of course this is just re: music. If speaking of painting or sculpture, the conversation goes in a very different direction.
The main part of the melody is a downward scale. A downward scale! Have you ever heard such an emotionally expressive downward scale in your life?
The Freckled Cormarant no its not a scale each note isnt a whole step down
Obviously the whole thing's not a scale: I mean those first eight notes on the strings, after the harp has set the scene. That phrase, which appears again and again through the piece in various musical costumes (e.g. relative minor at 0:30), is a downward scale, isn't it, surely? I'll concede he does sprinkle a little rhythmical change on it to turn it into a tune - you'd get a frown from your music examiner playing one in that rhythm - but that's the wonder of it: with a touch of creativity a great composer can turn something basic into gold.
Try listning to "Aase's Death" from the Peer Gynt suite. It's a musical portrait of an old, seriously ill woman seemingly getting better followed by a downward motif indicating she's not getting better after all. I will never understand how orchestra members can stay dry eyed while performing it.
Νο I have not listened such an emotionally expressive downward scale...you are absolutely right. So simple and so unique and amazing.
I have no idea what the fuck are you talking about.
Гений и всё. C'est génial et c'est tout.
Tchaikovsky is the most important and a wonderful musician of all time.
Blessed.💕
Falling in love with this song while falling in love with a girl is something guys.
Try listening to his Romeo and Juliet fantasy overture and skip to 14:20
@@Skyro. It's good but it's WAAAY too over played, if I never heard of it it would be good.
❤❤❤ aw I never thought I would find another arctic monkeys fan in a tchaikovsky video hahah
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@@MrHioro yes!! 😊
Im dumbfounded why classical music is so underrated, like its the best why dont people listen to them? other than those mainstream ones...You know, Canon in D, Flight of the bumblebee, Summer, Fur elise, etc.
this has 19m views and its from one of the most popular ballets lol but i see where your coming from
there was a time where the music mentioned was mainstream. It's just been.. kinda forgotten about, for the world and media changed and thus this basically drowned with the other mentioned music tracks.
Air on the g string is nice
Because today in a digital era at the same time that everyone can listen to classical music, most people just what listen to song with catchy lyrics and 3 minutes long. I'm not against that type of music, but because of it people aren't usually patient enough to truly stop and listen a classical instrumental piece like this one.
"Why can't people listen to classical other than the popular pieces?"
- Commented on a piece from the Nutcracker
0:42 - 1:08 brings tears to my eyes every single time. What a masterpiece.
For me this moment 1:43 sounds me very traditional folk Russian.
Alletsasil, for me as well. It could be the lovely sound of the violins that repeat the note (in different scale) several times. But really I love the song from start to finish... from the very first note to the very last one. I love that it begins in a sweet and lovely melody and ends in a very powerful and dramatic way. Truly a masterpiece.
Me too. The cord change and the cellos just bring me to instant tears 😭🎻😭
Listening to this masterpiece in December, made me feel how it sounds like this year to me. I started it with little steps of fake hope did a little well that I didn't even notice, went through storms but never gave up and always returned to the right path, tasted alot of disappointments and bad treatment that I stopped giving a damn, which made me stick even more to my hopes in the universe. And suddenly all my goals started to manifest in my life! Suddenly I became worthy of everything I ever wanted. I'm still celebrating every little achievement that nobody notice. Thanks God for being generous to me, thanks for being worthy of my faith❤
As a ballerina, I can think of when I hear this piece is backstage at my favorite old theater, it’s a week before Christmas. The whole cast is waiting in the wings for finale, silently shuffling around while watching this beautiful dance take place. There’s a revered silence and energy in the air, like everyone’s holding their breath, a brief moment of calm in the storm. The beautiful music coming through the speakers so loud and reverbing off of the high domed ceiling you can feel it in your bones. Time warps, going so fast while going so slow. I can’t even begin to describe the feeling when the audience erupts into applause at the end and everyone backstage is cheering and clapping too, and listening to this piece without it just feels so empty. 2020 was the first time in 10 years I went without it. I know someday I will be the sugar plum fairy and have the honor of performing this dance, but for now I just get to sit here and cry, reminiscing on some of the best times of my life, and how much I’ve missed out on.
I love you, you're amazing. Don't worry, it'll be back to normal someday. Please make sure to post a recording of your performance when you get that part and do this dance.
incredibly worded
this was beautiful, thank you for sharing
Beautifully described the feelings. Merry Christmas
Wow. You have the most elegant way of putting things. As a writer and a ballerina, I support you and hope that one day it will get back to normal. ❤❤❤ hope you get this and just remember, patience is key.
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Everyone talks about 3:30 but the part at 3:49 is also really beautiful
Don´t you mean the part from 0:00 until 5:03?
@@kintaro1851 Yeah that’s the best part for sure
This pieces makes me cry every time I listen to it.. but they're not tears of sadness.. this is just sooo beautiful it makes me cry.
This is simultaneously triumphant and melancholic. it's like catching the eye of a brother over a battlefield in chaos and taking a moment to revel in that at whatever may happen, victory or defeat, you were with them
Beautiful description 😍
That is such a pretty thing to imagine while listening to this
no - it's like catching the eye of a brother over a battlefield when he is fighting for the enemy.
3:30 When Tchaikovsky decided to teach the lazy picolloist a lesson.
literally never noticed the crazy piccolo part until this comment and now it's all i hear 😀
God the piccolo part just tickles my senses. Out of this world!!!!
i am the lazy picolloist....
AhAhAh !!!
SCALES!!! PRACTICE YOUR SCALES!! AND THEN AGAIN!!
still get goosebumps to this day...
When the choir gets to be with the band I don’t think anyone appreciates it as much as I do. My college band did this at our Christmas concert. When I heard this for the very first time at dress rehearsals I cried. There is just something about it. It’s like how fully realizing everything that happened to you all at once. The horns the rage. The strings the sadness. The beautiful decent to heart break all in one piece. This song unlocked some primal response in my body when I heard it for the first time.
To me, this is the sound of being in a bittersweet relationship. Like breaking up with someone you're still in love with.
+GlassMufasa You just can't let go.
It's from a scene where two lovers are compelled to part with each other, isn't it? That would make the sad sound very appropriate.
+John Shaw from the nutcracker right??
GlassMufasa MY E M O T I O N S
GlassMufasa same feeling
Why do I burst into tears as soon as it hits that big note decline it's just so much emotion in the music
men don't cry Sanya calm down))
Sascha Shingles me, also. tear up every bloody time. exquisite.
I do, too.
Sascha Shingles It gets me too. I was that wrestler jock in high school that got asked to be the prince in our local Nutcracker production, and I fell in love with this piece. Every time it would begin playing while I was on the throne, I'd subtly tear up...
Sasha, as I wrote above: Is this the most intense passionate piece of music ever written? (This is quite an intense rendition in my opinion) Like his Andante cantabile, con alcuna licenza from Symphony No. 5 (second movement).
This music touches the heart truely. I can't understand how anyone can say Tchaikovskys music is only sentimental kitsch...
I first heard this as a boy of seven. It enchanted me, as it does today 65 years later.
This song is when you start to realize you're in love with someone at 1:43
That someone is God.
@@garmarrod Yes I agree!!
P I E C E*
@@garmarrod Beautiful.
And that someone is yourself