I once worked with a trombonist from Besses O’ The Barn in Whitefield near Manchester. He said to me if a good piece of music can’t make you cry, you have no soul. This makes me think I might have a soul. It’s stunning no matter how many times I hear it. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I completely agree with you. I've shed tears every time I've heard this piece since I first watched the film "Brassed Off". I've had to pause the video clip to dry my eyes whilst I type this comment.
Well... if you know the story about Rodrigo creating this piece of art it is even more heartbreaking... his wife was hospitalised after giving birth a baby and both of them, mum and son were about to die... he based his composition in the heart beating of his son, and the whole piece is a conversation to God... he is the guitar and Hod is the whole orchestra. His son eventually died... and the last chords of the adagio is his son's soul going up to paradise...
Whoever came up with the idea of a colliery band playing Concierto d'Aranjuez in a film depicting the destruction of the mining industry in the 1980's [by a vengeful Margaret Thatcher] is an absolute genius.
Brassed off was based on the real story of the grimethorpe colliery band in Grimethorpe South Yorkshire, England. In the film, they are called the Grimley brass band. They lost their pit when the coal mine in grimethorpe closed in 1992 but the band are still going.
Thatcher saved England from the socialist policies of the 70s. Mining died then they just closed in the 80s. Liberals really are so pathetic they blame the right for all the problems they cause. God protect us from them
Steven Spielberg called Pete the best actor in the world. He was right. I saw him on stage doing a thing called The Seven Masks Of Scaramouche Jones. One man show. Utterly compelling. Best thing I've ever seen on a stage. No expectation of ever seeing it bettered. God bless Pete.
My husband, a fifth generation Welsh coal miner breaks down when seeing this and he always thought that Miles Davies had the definitive version. What a film and cast.
I totally empathize. And knowing that wonderful, unique, awesome Peter Postlethwaite is no longer with us stretches the emotion beyond bearing. Yet it's impossible not to keep coming back and watching, and sobbing, again! My late uncle in England played the cornet for the Salvation Army band. Oh the agony; Oh the joy. God bless you and your husband. Truly salt of the earth.
I'm from a small miner town in the Argentinian Patagonia, the mine closed around '91 and most of the people left (my family included) I watched the movie and felt that it was our story, I was 14 years old, now I'm 45 and I can't watch this movie without crying.
My first job, 1977, was at a mine, a potash mine, in the north of England. To my last breath I will detest the evil witch Thatcher and her scum, and her modern day spawn. The Brassed off film explains why.
I'm the son of a miner who remembers all too well how difficult it was to see village after village, and town after town, decimated by the closure of Britain's pitts.
@@SuperCasey1972 and it wasn’t just the Mines . Tue local railways suffered due to reduction in traffic …. Less money 💴 in towns led to severe deprivation . Many uk locations still not recovered or will recover !
I am Japanese and every time I watch this film I cannot stop crying. Not only the lead actor but also the supporting actors play their humanity beautifully. Above all, I think it is a masterpiece that expresses respect for human dignity with wonderful music. I like British actors because they have weight and depth in their performances. I can't listen to the majestic Aranjuez Concerto without tearing up. Thank you very much
This is, without a doubt, one of the best movie scenes filmed. The musical piece and peter’s conducting were spot on. As a musician and singer, I am so proud of these musicians and the story they told of this painful time.
@@emmanuelventura7223 "Brassed Off" is the name of the movie. In Britain, the term "brassed off" means "fed up" or "tired of everything". This kind of band is known as a brass band.
Never been one for anything classical but this piece of music draws me back time and again. I just wish I knew who originally recorded this particular recording.
The best version of 'orange juice ' ever. Pete Postlethwait will be sadly missed. To the gentleman who played this in reality, thank you for your beautiful playing.
Fabulous scene takes me instantly back to my childhood in Durham, where my dad would take us to the DLI museum to see the local bands compete. Collieries gone, Brass Bands gone, even DLI Museum gone and sadly my dad gone too. But this superbly acted and directed scene takes me right back there.
Ah! Thats what the instrument is called. Listening to a Naxos recording with the Asturias Symphony Orchestra and came looking for a video that had it playing so I could see. Fantastic, could have seen some professional concert but loved watching this !
Brilliant movie equally superb music,I have watched this movie 🎥 many times and still think it's great it's my wife's favourite movie she came from a mining ⛏️ town Mansfield Notts.
@@michaeldavies9533 . I saw it years agi. Starting with a laugh. But soon it's gets so tragic. So much tears from me. That's why I could not watch it again. Heartbreaking. The cast is "gold". The music is fantastic.
A cracking British film with a great story line and what can we possibly say about Pete Postelthwaite that hasn’t already been said ?. One of this Country’s finest ever actors.
His face as he realizes that he is in one of those special magic moments - only a musician knows exactly what that means. Privileged to have been in a handful of such. Never forget it ever. Pete KNOWS.
Gulp. My brother in law was a conductor for over 30 years. Trust me, he examined Pete Postlethwaite's conduct in this scene and he said any brass band would have followed on with ease, allowing confidence in tempo; his prep and nuances were absolutely spot-on, with the interpretation of score boldly matching his baton timing.
It is timely reminder to us all of what happens when a Government turns it’s back on the lifeblood of so many communities casting them onto the waste tip. Good jobs and a community spirit killed off and replaced by drugs and crime, sadly this drama is still playing out in so many former pit villages 35 years after the strike, it genuinely moves me to tears every time I watch it, it breaks my heart.
@@exiledcornishman and the people that voted Tory for Brexit need constant kicks up the backside to remind them that Tories care for themselves and are only interested in conserving their wealth and privilege.
@@adamcarreras-neal4697 what a load of rubbish,you need to get your facts right,harold Wilsonn closed down more pits than Margaret Thatcher, also many labour voters voted for brexit,
"Don't be soft, lass. You were born 'ere." Haven't lived in my home town, or anywhere near it, for 52 years, but that still sends a shiver down my spine.
It is said that Rodrigo composed the piece in memory of his son, who died aged three. You can hear the emotion here. The gorgeous Tara Fitzgerald learned enough to be able to mime convincingly in this clip. As for Pete Postlethwaite, it is hard to believe that he is not a real conductor here. A wonderful film, grat music, superb acting.
Actually No. I've got Rodrigo's Wife's Autobiography. The Inspiration behind this was a mix of the happy days of their Honeymoon and Rodrigo's inconsolable grief of Victoria's (His Wife) first Miscarriage.
Quite a few of the band are part of the Grimethorpe colliery band, whose Pit and its fight to avoid closure it's about. I have seen a video showing the Flugle horn player behind the scenes playing it
I was not a miner , but lived in a town during the closures of the pits and saw my town DIE . Cannot watch without getting tearful , long may pit & brass bands continue to thrive and raise our spirits
I understand exactly what you're talking about, my father served his time down the pit then left, my grandfather died of cancer because of it my uncle worked down it for 45 years 40 of them without one of his legs(one cut off by a bogie miles underground took 8 hrs for emergency crews to get there) I asked him to get me a job there when I left school at 16. He said Steve I'll do you a favour and Not get you a job there. I'm glad he didn't now
@@steveduncan9256 I take my hat off to those Men who did that job for most of their lives. I am not from a Mining community but I share the pain and Heartache that those community`s went through, all because of a hateful Conservative Government. I saw The results of Thatcher`s handiwork here in my own city of Liverpool, she treated the Dockers with the same contempt as she did the Miners. Awful times, that I hope will never be repeated.
This is the film that made me fall in love with Tara Fitzgerald. A vastly under rated film, led by characters who had a story to tell, moving performances that covered up a desperate time, a story perfectly told with incredible acting from the late Pere Postlethwaite & Stephen Tompkinson. This scene moves me to tears.
I was in a film with her when I was 10. I was in one scene with her and while waiting for filming to commence, she gave me this smile that i still remember to this day.
Played this at my Dads funeral last week. He was a horn player and member of Sale Brass Band. A most suitable moving piece. I chose The Floral Dance to end the ceremony on a high note. .
Coming from a former mining village, I was privileged to see & hear our local brass band made up of mostly miners. To this day we still have a thriving band although without any miners who were the salt of the earth.
This film is pure gold. The balance between the lows and highs is superb. The music is spine tingling and Tara Fitzgerald puts the icing on the cake. If you've never seen it do yourself a favour and watch it. I guarantee you will be moved.....
This is, without a doubt, one of the best movie scenes filmed. The musical piece and peter’s conducting were spot on. As a musician and singer, I am so proud of these musicians and the story they told of this painful time. Peter’s conducting was perfect. I cry each time I watch this, and return over and over to listen again.
I WENT TO SEE THIS FILM ON PICTURES AROUND 96/97 LOVED THE FILM, BUT I DIDNT PROPERLY APPRECIATE THE MUSIC UNTIL YEARS LATER, BUT BETTER LATE THAN NEVER EXCELLENT FILM AND MUSIC SIMPLY QUALITY THOMAS
This is played with heart and soul ( music and actors) !!! Thank you, i saw this for the first time and my eyes closed or open it gives me goosebumps and tears !!! ❤❤❤😊😊😊 L.M.
Well, it won 10 awards, most of them internationally, and was nominated for 7 more, including 3 BAFTA’s so I’m not sure it was *that* underrated. It certainly ranks in my top ten, and this piece in particular makes my hair stand on end.. although I rather love the Victoria Wood version as well
This rates for me one of the best renditions of Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez by a brass band I have ever heard. Grimethorpe Colliery Band, (Flugelhorn solo: Paul Hughes)
Pete has been one of the greatest actors to ever live. Unbelievable that he never got the full recognition he really deserved. He owned any movie and any scene he's ever been in. Much like Danie Day Lewis. I'm in complete awe of his acting abilities...........whenever I see him in a movie. Spectacular!!!
This always brings a tear to my eyes of not just one industry but all the others that went with it. A film that showed the spirit and tradition that sadly went too. People will never understand who lived and worked for it. I love the sound of an echo that once roared.
this film never got the credit it deserved a real classic. Pete was a fantastic actor and kept his northern roots and never forgot them. thank you Pete for the memories.RIP
A trio of these type of movies were released in a short period. The Full Monty and Billy Elliot were big hits - but I think this is the best of the three.
Absolutely, by far it's the best. I can't think of many films that pack such an emotional punch, and the stellar cast give some lifetime best performances. And then the music! If you don't shed a tear during the Danny Boy scene, there's no hope for you. I get why The Full Monty was the biggest hit as it's funnier & an easier watch, but I thought Billy Elliot was way overrated.
Easily the best of the three. Brassed Off and the Full Monty was the subject of a case study in a film course I did, where Miramax timidly opened Brassed Off on a few screens with minimal advertising. 20th Century Fox threw caution to the winds, opened The Full Monty on a couple of thousand screens with tens of millions in publicity. Brassed Off earned $2.5 million. Monty earned 100 x its cost, $258 million. Both were Channel 4 films. Miramax for their parsimony lost out big time.
I watched this film with my (then) 88 year old retired scientist grandfather a while ago (I was a little nervous as he is quite a gentle man, and there is a fair bit of 'effing and jeffing'): I have never seen him so enthralled by anything on screen before (he doesn't watch much TV). He thought it was a really excellent and entertaining piece of social commentary - I doubt he would have said the same of The Full Monty!
@@Krzyszczynski you do know that Concierto de Aranjuez is composed by Joaquin Rodrigo , a Spanish composer originally composed for classical guitar in 1939, is not English culture.
Pete Postlethwaite is up there with the greatest. Far more skill and craftsmanship in his little finger than the over hyped, plastic, script talking narcissist could ever dream of. Even with such a distinctive face he was the character/part every time, never Pete playing someone. Wonderful talent.
Mind you , Aranjuez is my home town , so I can tell about it . Mr. Rodrigo was born in Sagunto , Valencia , when he died was buried in Aranjuez . He made Aranjuez famous worldwide with that tune .
my grandfather was your countryman. An exile from Catalonia, he played a very old vinyl copy of this to me when I was a very young boy, 6 or 7 at most. It is and will always be my favourite classical piece. It made him remember home and what he'd left behind, I just wish my guitar playing was good enough to play this. He used to call my grandma he little Fey, Fairy for the English speakers, and we named my daughter Fey and yes spelt the Spanish way to honour both as they had both passed away.
That brings back so many beautiful memories, mostly about the working people of the industrial regions of Britain and how we had real communities in those days with people you could rely on and trust...much more than 2023! It's heartbreaking for an old guy like me who was born in 51 and grew up in the working class slums of an industrial northern city, times when communities were exactly that, communities! What I see today is some other unrecognisable place! Thank God I learned my life's values from those times & communities. My heart bleeds for the kids of today!
What I see today is some other unrecognisable place = there was a paradigm shift. in those days with people you could rely on and trust = why were those people trusted? I lived in one of those north cities, because they were Christians, and has a Christian values, unlike today who believe in atheism. How to return? Change the paradigm, it really is that simple.
Yes I too was also born in 1951, I worked down Gedling pit in Nottingham and I new the meaning there of friendship, loyalty and community spirit. It very sad now to see this disaffected society we now live in. fortunately I moved from Nottingham to Ilkeston Derbyshire where there still is a great deal of community spirit and friendship. I also play the Flugelhorn In the local brass band so here its not so bad
@@Jago938 Nice area Derbyshire, a good move for sure. I spent most of my beautiful life in Australia but came back to Europe 6yrs ago after my only son died (had been divorced a long time). Didn't want to live there after that so retired to Portugal, couldn't live in UK although did think about it....for a very short time :) Life goes on eh :) hope you stay in good health. Cheers.
The story behind the Aranjuez Concert: the blind Spanish composer - Joaquin Rodrigo - was inspired during his honeymoon in the gardens of the city of Aranjuez. The work was composed in Paris where the author took refuge during the Spanish civil war. Upon returning to Spain, the manuscript written in Braille was brought. The concert of Aranjuez continues being the classic Spanish work that more royalties reports every year. Loaded with enormous sensitivity and passion, both its original version for guitar and Orchestra and this one for brass are fabulous.
Thank you for sharing this story with us. I am learning this piece on electric guitar now. It's the only piece of music I have found in ten years that I really need to know how to play!
In Miles Davis version (amazing and my favorite) there is the moment (3/4 in) were the musician owns the piece and takes it back to his place, more modern Jazz .
Rodrigo and his wife lost a child and he succumbed to the sadness and went to Aranjuez to cry his lost and it was there when sadness and pain push him to make this master piece
I come back to watch this whenever I am lost. It is simultaneously sorrowful and joyful and reminds me there is still tremendous beauty and kindness in the world. Pete Postlethwaite lives forever in these 5:38 seconds and I am so grateful.
Concierto d'Aranjuez was written for guitar, but the flugelhorn was a good instrument to use because it sounds so beautifully melancholy. The composer Joaquin Rodrigo, who was born in Sagunto north of Valencia on the Mediterranean coast, was blind from age 3 when he contracted diphtheria. His family moved to Valencia so he could attend the blind school there. It was in Valencia where he married his wife Victoria Kamhi, a Turkish-born pianist.
@@waltzsofa1602 YMMV indeed. For me, this version sounds like a parody arranged by someone that believes that a Spaniard composer should sound like a mariachi band. But if you like it, feel free to like it. Taste in music is subjective, and you shouldn't allow anyone to tell you that your tastes are objectively wrong.
Played this at our friend Tammy's funeral service today. She joined Stacksteads Band in 1993 when she was 6 years old, I was 5 and joined at the same time. This was her favourite piece. It always gave me goosebumps but today it was almost impossible to get through, but we did it ❤️ RIP
@@terrymurphy66 Yep. I am sure it was all political spitefullness. It is not beyond the wit of man and science to filter out the nasties when burning coal. The Uk is sitting on 2 - 3 hundred years supply of the stuff, and it would surprize me, Not, if at some time in the future, Modern methods of extraction, will see it being brought to the surface, again.
please stop calling pieces of music like concertos and symphonies, songs. I know it's an appalling affectation. They are not songs are they? any more that the round green thing in your hand is a banana
Although these events took place nearly 40 years ago they still stir feelings of sadness,and quiet rage.Barnsley born and bred,we were all affected. Concerto d’ Aranzuez perfectly depicts the poignancy of that time.What a masterpiece.
Un des plus beaux films (les Virtuoses) sur la période de crise en Angleterre sous Tatcher avec les mouvements sociaux dûs à la précarité grandissante. Seule la fanfare était un échappatoire pour ces mineurs de fond.. Dont le chef d orchestre atteint de silicose.. Film très émouvant et très belle interprétation du concerto d Aranjuez..
In my top 5 films of all time , unfortunately came out around same time as overrated Full Monty , and never got credit for just how brilliant a film it was
I echo all that's been said by all the posts, this piece of excellence always makes me cry too, This version by the Grimethorpe Colliery Band is my favourite. Great film Great music . Beautiful.
Yes me to i love this underrated film . This music sums up the whole film and how powerful those times were .Great acting by everybody .Had a BIG crush on Tara Fitzgerald lol
You can take the mine out of the working class... but you can't take the class out of a miner. God bless all those who toiled beneath the waves, in the deep dark. The modern world owes you much.
I'm from the next village to where this was cast. My dad was a miner all the way through the strike when I was born and carried on mining until they closed the lot. Barnsley people will never forget what Maggie did!!!!
I'm a 28 year old British man. Im not a miner, although my ancestors were. I can't watch this film without feeling like it's a window into that world that I missed. I will forever love this film and much respect to all miners past and present.
I’m 53. I’m a Yorkshireman and lived through the miners riots and pit closures. The film is a brilliant representation of life at the time. Devastatingly sad, and just full of anger, passion, despair...crazy times. The actors are simply sensational. I can’t watch the film without it bringing tears to my eyes. The music is beautiful and this piece haunting. Superb.
Imagination What you wrote here rings a bell. I am from northern France, and one of my great grand fathers worked in the mines too. I never knew him, and all the mines are closed now, but reading or watching movies such as this one can help to figure out this reality.
@@sirkildalot8409 I'm from Yorkshire too although I'm only 16😂 my grandad worked in the mines and my dad would have too if they hadn't been shut down I love this movie
I love the part where Pete comes into his own. I admire and respect him for his work alone. What a talented man Pete was and highly respected too. RIP Pete and thank you so much for your talent.❤
Saw this beautiful British movie many years ago in the midst of a family tragedy of wrongful death of a very near one and I identified myself with the Colliery band players as they endeavored to overcome their hardships in the midst of inexorable technology transition as traditional mining industry became outdated pushing miners into unemployment. Only classical music can elevate human spirits in the face of all insurmountable obstacles in life.
This film was and still is one of the most emotional ones ever made. It never received the true acclaim it deserved (imho). I fail to understand how The F/Monty was that much more popular - nowhere near as good as this one!
One doesn't negate the other. They're both great movies but it's simple. The plebs out in the world when faced with the decision to go a see a movie about some down and out guys turning male strippers or a down and out brass band will 10 times out of 10 go see the first movie!
You only have to see what people like watching more ( soaps so called reality shows) to get the answer most people aren't interested in quality but instead just to follow the crowd to have people doing the thinking for them
Understand what you say,apart from the humour in both, the crushing memories brought back are often to much,a whole life style gone,when people looked out for one another, down the pits was hard, had to be dependant on each other,,a lot of bands were attached to colleries,the music is brilliant that comes out of them.
I bought a double-bill of The Full Monty and Brassed Off on VHS shortly after a colleague at work had sung the praises of The Full Monty. Monty is a great film: very funny to see the way that a group whose industry (steel-making) had collapsed tried to find something else to do to re-kindle their self-esteem. But it is Brassed Off that I've watched time and time again, and which still stays with me. Danny's "Oh, aye, they can knock out a bloody good tune. But what the fuck does that matter?" speech invariably makes my eyes leak ;-) The moral of both films is very simple: if a long-established industry that employs most of the local people closes down, there needs to be a damn-good plan to re-train and re-employ all those who are affected. Nobody is "just" a miner or "just" a steelworker. Those are earn-to-live jobs just as much as white-collar office jobs are.
Back in the day when you folks had Kings and queens and all that,trumpet players were highly treasured and not allowed to perform with the street performers. They were a military asset and otherwise only allowed to perform for the king and his court .
Brassed Off is possibly one of the best films ever made for British cinema.
Check out This is England if you can.
along with the Full Monty.
And Kes
Italian job
And forget the possibly, it is the best
This scene is a utter masterpiece. That is all I came here to say.
Well said!
100% agree.
I once worked with a trombonist from Besses O’ The Barn in Whitefield near Manchester. He said to me if a good piece of music can’t make you cry, you have no soul. This makes me think I might have a soul. It’s stunning no matter how many times I hear it. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
This could make even a ginger cry (I would know)
I completely agree with you. I've shed tears every time I've heard this piece since I first watched the film "Brassed Off". I've had to pause the video clip to dry my eyes whilst I type this comment.
Well... if you know the story about Rodrigo creating this piece of art it is even more heartbreaking... his wife was hospitalised after giving birth a baby and both of them, mum and son were about to die... he based his composition in the heart beating of his son, and the whole piece is a conversation to God... he is the guitar and Hod is the whole orchestra. His son eventually died... and the last chords of the adagio is his son's soul going up to paradise...
I think he's confusing soul with sentimentality. Or is it 'good' with sentimentality?
Whoever came up with the idea of a colliery band playing Concierto d'Aranjuez in a film depicting the destruction of the mining industry in the 1980's [by a vengeful Margaret Thatcher] is an absolute genius.
spot on
Few do it like UK.
…and a vicious, destructive arsehole like Scargill who was prepared to sacrifice British society to achieve his (not his member’s) goals.
Brassed off was based on the real story of the grimethorpe colliery band in Grimethorpe South Yorkshire, England. In the film, they are called the Grimley brass band. They lost their pit when the coal mine in grimethorpe closed in 1992 but the band are still going.
Thatcher saved England from the socialist policies of the 70s. Mining died then they just closed in the 80s. Liberals really are so pathetic they blame the right for all the problems they cause. God protect us from them
Pete Poslethwaite is possibly the best actor I've ever seen, a tiny gesture or look and he can make a 10 minute scene his own. RIP Pete.
Steven Spielberg called Pete the best actor in the world. He was right. I saw him on stage doing a thing called The Seven Masks Of Scaramouche Jones. One man show. Utterly compelling. Best thing I've ever seen on a stage. No expectation of ever seeing it bettered. God bless Pete.
Great actor in both this and Name Of The Father.
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Pete Posltewaite, born in the 70s love you, watched and love you forever
A true professional and great actor; he will be missed but appreciated by many generations to come.
My husband, a fifth generation Welsh coal miner breaks down when seeing this and he always thought that Miles Davies had the definitive version. What a film and cast.
I totally empathize. And knowing that wonderful, unique, awesome Peter Postlethwaite is no longer with us stretches the emotion beyond bearing. Yet it's impossible not to keep coming back and watching, and sobbing, again! My late uncle in England played the cornet for the Salvation Army band. Oh the agony; Oh the joy. God bless you and your husband. Truly salt of the earth.
This film led me to Miles Davis. Thank you God.
Beautiful ❤️❣️🙏🇬🇧💯💥
I'm from a small miner town in the Argentinian Patagonia, the mine closed around '91 and most of the people left (my family included) I watched the movie and felt that it was our story, I was 14 years old, now I'm 45 and I can't watch this movie without crying.
Sounds just like broken Britain’s from same era due to mags and her cronies
My first job, 1977, was at a mine, a potash mine, in the north of England. To my last breath I will detest the evil witch Thatcher and her scum, and her modern day spawn. The Brassed off film explains why.
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I'm the son of a miner who remembers all too well how difficult it was to see village after village, and town after town, decimated by the closure of Britain's pitts.
@@SuperCasey1972 and it wasn’t just the Mines . Tue local railways suffered due to reduction in traffic …. Less money 💴 in towns led to severe deprivation . Many uk locations still not recovered or will recover !
I cry my eyes every time I watch and listen to this. A perfect film.
I am Japanese and every time I watch this film I cannot stop crying. Not only the lead actor but also the supporting actors play their humanity beautifully. Above all, I think it is a masterpiece that expresses respect for human dignity with wonderful music. I like British actors because they have weight and depth in their performances. I can't listen to the majestic Aranjuez Concerto without tearing up. Thank you very much
That astonished look Pete gives when he realises she is smashing it. One of the best underplayed moments in film history.
I totally agree with that, this film is one of my favorite and i noticed that too.
A pleasure to see that i'm not alone.
“Lovely”. She calls that wobbly.
agree
Typical Yorkshireman, completely over the top
@@321bytor You must have loads of friends....
This is, without a doubt, one of the best movie scenes filmed. The musical piece and peter’s conducting were spot on. As a musician and singer, I am so proud of these musicians and the story they told of this painful time.
Name filme?
@@emmanuelventura7223 "Brassed Off" is the name of the movie. In Britain, the term "brassed off" means "fed up" or "tired of everything". This kind of band is known as a brass band.
Oh I agree xxx
Never been one for anything classical but this piece of music draws me back time and again. I just wish I knew who originally recorded this particular recording.
It's grimthorpe colliery band, they are a championship section band they performed all the music to the film
God, i dont know why, but this tune brings tears to my eyes 😢😊
For those of us who lived through these times, this film (Brassed Off) brings tears of nostalgia to a hardened old sod like myself!
What happened really? Unions, Bosses, greedy Pit Owners Government?
Me too Phil XX 💞🫶
Brassed off
With you there
I lived through it. My dad was miner and the 1984 strike was a painful time in our home. This scene from Brassed off never fails to move me
The best version of 'orange juice ' ever. Pete Postlethwait will be sadly missed. To the gentleman who played this in reality, thank you for your beautiful playing.
Listen to Narciso Yepes an then you answer me. Regards.
@@Cortadillo Ya missing the crack, young man. She's NOT being literal, it's just English humour/irony.
Stan Westh played this
Paul Hughes played the flugelhorn solo in this scene.
To the best of my knowledge I’m sure the band is Grimethorpe colliery
Fabulous scene takes me instantly back to my childhood in Durham, where my dad would take us to the DLI museum to see the local bands compete. Collieries gone, Brass Bands gone, even DLI Museum gone and sadly my dad gone too. But this superbly acted and directed scene takes me right back there.
Go to Durham big meeting
Our village still has a band afaik.
They don't parade around the streets anymore though. I used to love waking up to the sound of brass.
I play in a brass band in darlington and although not as prevelant there's still lots of us around!
As an ex brass band player the Flugelhorn player was superb, but Pete Postlethwaite as conductor was professionally suberb. What an actor...RIP Pete.
Ah! Thats what the instrument is called. Listening to a Naxos recording with the Asturias Symphony Orchestra and came looking for a video that had it playing so I could see. Fantastic, could have seen some professional concert but loved watching this !
Yes, Pete, gave great performances in this GREAT movie, hands down. But who played the fluefel in this scene. Beautiful. Who was it?
@@brucerobbins6528 Tara Fitzgerald
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@@alanwatson2997 Tara was only pretending to play! In fact, it was the flugelhorn soloist Paul Hughes who played...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brassed_Off
Pete Postlethwaite ey...RIP you absolute genius
This piece of music sends absolute shivers down my spine. It's just amazing.
One of my favourite films.
In the context of the film and the times its one of the most moving bits of cinema I've ever seen.
its called li bairut its orginely lebanese sung honoring the capital city of lebanon
Brilliant movie equally superb music,I have watched this movie 🎥 many times and still think it's great it's my wife's favourite movie she came from a mining ⛏️ town Mansfield Notts.
@@michaeldavies9533 . I saw it years agi. Starting with a laugh. But soon it's gets so tragic. So much tears from me. That's why I could not watch it again. Heartbreaking. The cast is "gold". The music is fantastic.
One of the best films ever about British social history
Couldn't agree more.
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I need to stop watching this. Every time I do I’m in bits. What a beautiful piece of music.
Looking for “concierto de Aranjuez Paco de Lucía”. If you like this version, i think you love others
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Know the feeling Jason.
I was never a big fan of orchestra music but this piece is epic!
A cracking British film with a great story line and what can we possibly say about Pete Postelthwaite that hasn’t already been said ?.
One of this Country’s finest ever actors.
Of the top three of ALL TIME!
Stephen Spielberg said of Pete Postelthwaite he is the best actor in the world...
Best British film since "Chariots of Fire"
Pete Postlethwaite.... what a performance throughout this whole film. He was one of the best. RIP.
May God Bless him too ❤
Absolute ledgend
John O'neil really?
His face as he realizes that he is in one of those special magic moments - only a musician knows exactly what that means. Privileged to have been in a handful of such. Never forget it ever. Pete KNOWS.
Couldn’t agree more. The man was a legend. This movie and ‘In the Name of the Father’ stand out for me
This movie was panned by the critics at the time, but I think it is great... any movie that has Pete Postlethwaite in it is a winner.
RIP Pete
Just read this I bet it was panne by pro tory thatcher critics .
Aye, who do "critics" work for, pyrofella ? It's even worse now.
Critics know nowt.
@@jackcole3146 Who do media critics work for ? think on, Jack lad.
It wasn’t panned by all - there was a lot of praise for it for Postlethwaite’s performance. But Tompkinson is the best in this.
Gulp.
My brother in law was a conductor for over 30 years. Trust me, he examined Pete Postlethwaite's conduct in this scene and he said any brass band would have followed on with ease, allowing confidence in tempo; his prep and nuances were absolutely spot-on, with the interpretation of score boldly matching his baton timing.
This music was Beautiful. The acting was great, but the Music was BEAUTIFUL. I have never heard a trumpet that I could FEEL.
Pity it’s a flugelhorn
@@Bobblenob was there a need?
Bloody hell I know this is fiction but this performance gets me every time.
me too ...
The music was performed by grimethorpe colliery, obviously not the actors, but it's not really fictional, plus the movie is based on actual events
It is timely reminder to us all of what happens when a Government turns it’s back on the lifeblood of so many communities casting them onto the waste tip. Good jobs and a community spirit killed off and replaced by drugs and crime, sadly this drama is still playing out in so many former pit villages 35 years after the strike, it genuinely moves me to tears every time I watch it, it breaks my heart.
@@exiledcornishman and the people that voted Tory for Brexit need constant kicks up the backside to remind them that Tories care for themselves and are only interested in conserving their wealth and privilege.
@@adamcarreras-neal4697 what a load of rubbish,you need to get your facts right,harold Wilsonn closed down more pits than Margaret Thatcher, also many labour voters voted for brexit,
Pete Postlethwaite, brilliant actor, gone way before his time.
Brings me to tears every time I hear it
I loved this the first million times I viewed it; so why do I keep coming back?
Wotever, but here's another 'Like' ...
"Don't be soft, lass. You were born 'ere." Haven't lived in my home town, or anywhere near it, for 52 years, but that still sends a shiver down my spine.
It's south Yorkshire where I still live now at 76 years, having been around the world.
@@dinerouk Good for you. I'm still on the other side of the world. I wish England well, but I won't be going back.
It is said that Rodrigo composed the piece in memory of his son, who died aged three. You can hear the emotion here. The gorgeous Tara Fitzgerald learned enough to be able to mime convincingly in this clip. As for Pete Postlethwaite, it is hard to believe that he is not a real conductor here. A wonderful film, grat music, superb acting.
Actually No. I've got Rodrigo's Wife's Autobiography. The Inspiration behind this was a mix of the happy days of their Honeymoon and Rodrigo's inconsolable grief of Victoria's (His Wife) first Miscarriage.
Quite a few of the band are part of the Grimethorpe colliery band, whose Pit and its fight to avoid closure it's about. I have seen a video showing the Flugle horn player behind the scenes playing it
She had the correct fingerings down pat. That took some work to learn. Plus the breath phrasings as well.
Peter Postlewaite, best actor in one of the best films with the best music. Loved this film.
I was not a miner , but lived in a town during the closures of the pits and saw my town DIE . Cannot watch without getting tearful , long may pit & brass bands continue to thrive and raise our spirits
I understand exactly what you're talking about, my father served his time down the pit then left, my grandfather died of cancer because of it my uncle worked down it for 45 years 40 of them without one of his legs(one cut off by a bogie miles underground took 8 hrs for emergency crews to get there) I asked him to get me a job there when I left school at 16. He said Steve I'll do you a favour and Not get you a job there. I'm glad he didn't now
@@steveduncan9256 I take my hat off to those Men who did that job for most of their lives. I am not from a Mining community but I share the pain and Heartache that those community`s went through, all because of a hateful Conservative Government. I saw The results of Thatcher`s handiwork here in my own city of Liverpool, she treated the Dockers with the same contempt as she did the Miners. Awful times, that I hope will never be repeated.
@@steveduncan9256 hear hear
@@stephensmith4480 People only remember Thatcher but Wilson started the closures Both my grandfathers were coal miners.
@@toothpick4649 Wilson came onto The Radar of MI5 because of some of their "Concerns " regarding him.
This is the film that made me fall in love with Tara Fitzgerald. A vastly under rated film, led by characters who had a story to tell, moving performances that covered up a desperate time, a story perfectly told with incredible acting from the late Pere Postlethwaite & Stephen Tompkinson. This scene moves me to tears.
There is nothing more attractive in a woman than talent. The whole room fell in love with her as soon as she started playing.
I was in a film with her when I was 10. I was in one scene with her and while waiting for filming to commence, she gave me this smile that i still remember to this day.
It's not really underrated! Barry norman once said it was for him the best film he'd ever seen!!
Played this at my Dads funeral last week. He was a horn player and member of Sale Brass Band. A most suitable moving piece. I chose The Floral Dance to end the ceremony on a high note. .
Brian Hodgson great~♡
Brian Hodgson bet he smells now
It's so powerful
Roger McGroggan, that is a cuntish thing to say, to be fair, to be honest, to be serious, to tell you the truth.
Brian Hodgson l
Coming from a former mining village, I was privileged to see & hear our local brass band made up of mostly miners. To this day we still have a thriving band although without any miners who were the salt of the earth.
This film is pure gold. The balance between the lows and highs is superb. The music is spine tingling and Tara Fitzgerald puts the icing on the cake. If you've never seen it do yourself a favour and watch it. I guarantee you will be moved.....
Crikey - all these years later and it still brings a big lump to my throat. Magnificent.
Very probably one of the greatest British films ever made
This is, without a doubt, one of the best movie scenes filmed. The musical piece and peter’s conducting were spot on. As a musician and singer, I am so proud of these musicians and the story they told of this painful time. Peter’s conducting was perfect. I cry each time I watch this, and return over and over to listen again.
Fabulous
How could anyone not like this.
I WENT TO SEE THIS FILM ON PICTURES AROUND 96/97 LOVED THE FILM, BUT I DIDNT PROPERLY APPRECIATE THE MUSIC UNTIL YEARS LATER, BUT BETTER LATE THAN NEVER
EXCELLENT FILM AND MUSIC SIMPLY QUALITY THOMAS
A hugely moving piece of cinema when you know the history.
Pete Postlethwaite did an amazing job conducting this piece on the film, and Tara Fitzgerald looked as if she could actually play the flugelhorn.
He was such a believable villain in "Sharpe's Rifles"..
Terrific actor, gone much too soon .
RIP Sir and thank you.
Pete poslethwaite was the master he could take a simple scene and make it a absolute belter rip pete
Pete was an incredible actor. May he rest in peace.
Steven Spielberg said Pete Postlethwaite was the best actor in the world. I think he's right!
Legend, national treasure
PARKLIFE!
First watched him in Sharpe with Sean Bean. Top quality actor.
What movie did they do together?
@@samanthab1923 The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
This is played with heart and soul ( music and actors) !!! Thank you, i saw this for the first time and my eyes closed or open it gives me goosebumps and tears !!! ❤❤❤😊😊😊 L.M.
2023 and this scene still makes me well up 😢
Love ❤️ this film
This film was a reflection of the times, people battled for their way of life and their livelihood. Superb performance from Pete P and all. ❤️
How are you doing today my name is Eric
Probably the saddest and most beautiful film ever. RIP Pete Postlethwaite.
Yes...
Could not agree more
Could not agree more
1000 percent agree
No more worts needed, thanks
Brassed off a fantastic film ❤
Beautiful. Pete Postlethwaite owned every movie he was in. Incredible actor. Wonderful movie and brilliant scene.
A very underrated film that never got the recognition it deserved.
Because it wasn't filmed in Notting Hill or 'ampstead buhloody 'eath! 😉 😂
I loved this film...loved Pete Postlethwaite....so much better than The Full Monty....XXX
Well, it won 10 awards, most of them internationally, and was nominated for 7 more, including 3 BAFTA’s so I’m not sure it was *that* underrated. It certainly ranks in my top ten, and this piece in particular makes my hair stand on end.. although I rather love the Victoria Wood version as well
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Underrated by whom? I don’t know a single person who has seen it and not utterly loved it.
This rates for me one of the best renditions of Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez by a brass band I have ever heard. Grimethorpe Colliery Band, (Flugelhorn solo: Paul Hughes)
Not Mark Walters?
@@steffenmrsk4720 According to IMDB www.imdb.com/name/nm0400853/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t50 It was Paul Hughes.
OrangeJuice if you please 😂🤟🤟🤟
@@flutebandclassics5766 of cause it was. I stand corrected! :)
Yep definitely Paul Hughes
Pete has been one of the greatest actors to ever live. Unbelievable that he never got the full recognition he really deserved. He owned any movie and any scene he's ever been in. Much like Danie Day Lewis. I'm in complete awe of his acting abilities...........whenever I see him in a movie. Spectacular!!!
Dustin Hoffman said he's the greatest actor he's ever seen. Recognition enough in my book
Steven Spielberg also said he was the best actor he worked with, Peter's answer that was it's nice but is only one man's opinion.
completely True. I think if he had been from the US, and had a bit more exposure, he would of been huge.
Try Postlethwaite and Day-Lewis together in "In The Name Of The Father".
@@annalieff-saxby568 yeah, that's an acting powerhouse there. Day Lewis is arguably the best actor the late 20th century.
This always brings a tear to my eyes of not just one industry but all the others that went with it. A film that showed the spirit and tradition that sadly went too. People will never understand who lived and worked for it. I love the sound of an echo that once roared.
Aye, who's voting for a moneyed nonentity who can't string a sentence together ? That's what i want to know,754.
this film never got the credit it deserved a real classic. Pete was a fantastic actor and kept his northern roots and never forgot them. thank you Pete for the memories.RIP
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And she calls that wobbly... R. I. P Pete postlewait.. Sadly missed
I cry every time I see this. I absolutely love Pete Postelthwaite.
The sound track musical genius the film is spectacular
Petes expression doesn’t change through the whole song but shows so many different emotions and feelings, brilliant
He could convey so many emotions without saying one word. He made me cry watching Lost for Words....an amazing actor with so much talent, RIP XXX
Very good observation
A trio of these type of movies were released in a short period. The Full Monty and Billy Elliot were big hits - but I think this is the best of the three.
Absolutely, by far it's the best. I can't think of many films that pack such an emotional punch, and the stellar cast give some lifetime best performances. And then the music! If you don't shed a tear during the Danny Boy scene, there's no hope for you. I get why The Full Monty was the biggest hit as it's funnier & an easier watch, but I thought Billy Elliot was way overrated.
Easily the best of the three. Brassed Off and the Full Monty was the subject of a case study in a film course I did, where Miramax timidly opened Brassed Off on a few screens with minimal advertising. 20th Century Fox threw caution to the winds, opened The Full Monty on a couple of thousand screens with tens of millions in publicity. Brassed Off earned $2.5 million. Monty earned 100 x its cost, $258 million. Both were Channel 4 films. Miramax for their parsimony lost out big time.
@@fhebbert Proud to say I paid to see all three movies in a cinema when they were out first. Although there were about 4 people at Brassed Off sadly.
This is one of the best movies I've seen. And its far better than The Full Monty, which of course is good too.
I watched this film with my (then) 88 year old retired scientist grandfather a while ago (I was a little nervous as he is quite a gentle man, and there is a fair bit of 'effing and jeffing'): I have never seen him so enthralled by anything on screen before (he doesn't watch much TV). He thought it was a really excellent and entertaining piece of social commentary - I doubt he would have said the same of The Full Monty!
Something draws me back to this every few months. Something about the sound a brass band makes that just stirs the soul. Stunning
Also love The Floral Dance
So many people say the English (as opposed to the Scots, Welsh or Irish) have no culture that's truly theirs. But they do - THIS IS IT!!
"Something about the sound a brass band makes that just stirs the soul."
Controlled power is sexy.
@@Krzyszczynski you do know that Concierto de Aranjuez is composed by Joaquin Rodrigo , a Spanish composer originally composed for classical guitar in 1939, is not English culture.
@E Lee, music is universal. But what you do with it makes it your own.
Brings a tear to my eye every time, and not only because I miss Pete Postlethwaite
British Cinema at its finest. No CGI etc just well crafted cinematography ... Goosebumps every time.
Agree
Spine chilling movie.
Pete Postlethwaite is up there with the greatest. Far more skill and craftsmanship in his little finger than the over hyped, plastic, script talking narcissist could ever dream of. Even with such a distinctive face he was the character/part every time, never Pete playing someone. Wonderful talent.
I remember Spielberg saying he thought Peter was one of the greatest actors he’d worked with 👌👌👌
@@janeclarkson8471accordions
Accordion players are
Mind you , Aranjuez is my home town , so I can tell about it . Mr. Rodrigo was born in Sagunto , Valencia , when he died was buried in Aranjuez . He made Aranjuez famous worldwide with that tune .
Thank you..it is a beautiful piece of music
Thanks for that. Be proud
Even more outstanding is that Rodrigo was blind from age three!What an achievement.
my grandfather was your countryman. An exile from Catalonia, he played a very old vinyl copy of this to me when I was a very young boy, 6 or 7 at most. It is and will always be my favourite classical piece. It made him remember home and what he'd left behind, I just wish my guitar playing was good enough to play this. He used to call my grandma he little Fey, Fairy for the English speakers, and we named my daughter Fey and yes spelt the Spanish way to honour both as they had both passed away.
@@adamcarreras-neal4697 That’s a beautiful memory and honouring to it. indeed
This piece of music is fantastic and bless all brass bands still performing.❤❤❤❤❤
That brings back so many beautiful memories, mostly about the working
people of the industrial regions of Britain and how we had real communities
in those days with people you could rely on and trust...much more than 2023!
It's heartbreaking for an old guy like me who was born in 51 and grew up in the
working class slums of an industrial northern city, times when communities were
exactly that, communities! What I see today is some other unrecognisable place!
Thank God I learned my life's values from those times & communities.
My heart bleeds for the kids of today!
What I see today is some other unrecognisable place = there was a paradigm shift. in those days with people you could rely on and trust = why were those people trusted? I lived in one of those north cities, because they were Christians, and has a Christian values, unlike today who believe in atheism. How to return? Change the paradigm, it really is that simple.
Yes I too was also born in 1951, I worked down Gedling pit in Nottingham and I new the meaning there of friendship, loyalty and community spirit. It very sad now to see this disaffected society we now live in. fortunately I moved from Nottingham
to Ilkeston Derbyshire where there still is a great deal of community spirit and friendship. I also play the Flugelhorn In the local brass band so here its not so bad
@@Jago938 Nice area Derbyshire, a good move for sure. I spent most of my beautiful life in Australia but came back to Europe 6yrs ago after my only son died (had been divorced a long time). Didn't want to live there after that so retired to Portugal, couldn't live in UK although did think about it....for a very short time :) Life goes on eh :) hope you stay in good health. Cheers.
The story behind the Aranjuez Concert: the blind Spanish composer - Joaquin Rodrigo - was inspired during his honeymoon in the gardens of the city of Aranjuez. The work was composed in Paris where the author took refuge during the Spanish civil war. Upon returning to Spain, the manuscript written in Braille was brought. The concert of Aranjuez continues being the classic Spanish work that more royalties reports every year. Loaded with enormous sensitivity and passion, both its original version for guitar and Orchestra and this one for brass are fabulous.
Thank you.
Ithink Rodrigo composed a Concerto for flute,for James Galway.You can hear the same lovely harmonies in that .
did'nt know that, Nacho. great info , from a gringo in england.
Thank you for sharing this story with us. I am learning this piece on electric guitar now. It's the only piece of music I have found in ten years that I really need to know how to play!
In Miles Davis version (amazing and my favorite) there is the moment (3/4 in) were the musician owns the piece and takes it back to his place, more modern Jazz .
There is something about this piece that brings tears to my eyes. Makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up
Thanks for the info Enrique such a haunting piece of music
old65rocker: I know what you mean. You'd have to have a heart of stone not to be affected by this piece, It gets me every time I hear it.
Same here - when I first saw it in the film the tears just started rolling down my cheeks
Rodrigo and his wife lost a child and he succumbed to the sadness and went to Aranjuez to cry his lost and it was there when sadness and pain push him to make this master piece
@@yandig08 thank you very much....now this amazing piece of music makes sense to me.
I come back to watch this whenever I am lost. It is simultaneously sorrowful and joyful and reminds me there is still tremendous beauty and kindness in the world. Pete Postlethwaite lives forever in these 5:38 seconds and I am so grateful.
Concierto d'Aranjuez was written for guitar, but the flugelhorn was a good instrument to use because it sounds so beautifully melancholy.
The composer Joaquin Rodrigo, who was born in Sagunto north of Valencia on the Mediterranean coast, was blind from age 3 when he contracted diphtheria.
His family moved to Valencia so he could attend the blind school there. It was in Valencia where he married his wife Victoria Kamhi, a Turkish-born pianist.
Thanks, but I’d heard he wrote this beautiful piece on the sad death of his beloved daughter?
@@stonemarten1400 Correcto, el bebe nacio muerto.
@@waltzsofa1602 YMMV indeed. For me, this version sounds like a parody arranged by someone that believes that a Spaniard composer should sound like a mariachi band. But if you like it, feel free to like it. Taste in music is subjective, and you shouldn't allow anyone to tell you that your tastes are objectively wrong.
I've been variously described as a hard bastard and an unfeeling sod but this piece of music brought me close to tears. Enough said!
Derek,being described as a hard bastard & an unfeeling sod,doesn't mean you don't have a heart. @ Say what you mean,mean what you say.
So, you didn't quite make the grade then ! Perhaps, Next time !
ps. there is no shame in 'man tears'.
Peace.
Played this at our friend Tammy's funeral service today. She joined Stacksteads Band in 1993 when she was 6 years old, I was 5 and joined at the same time. This was her favourite piece. It always gave me goosebumps but today it was almost impossible to get through, but we did it ❤️ RIP
So sorry for your loss. May this music help your heart heal
This is by far the best version I have ever heard. It's wonderful.
Chet Baker look into it
@@the1truth420 That was unexpected. It IS definitely on my list. Will have to play a few times to make a decision. Thank you.
@@cavok76 enjoy
have you heard any other version?
@@enieniz Not with a Flugel horn, no. Seen other captures and other instruments.
As an ex Miner this never fails to bring a tear or two and makes the hairs stand up on the back of the neck.
" And she calls that wobbly "
I am sure that with the technology availabe today they can still mine coal I grew up in a Mining Village and MAGGIE Killed so many Communintes
As a southern softie rattling my "Support the Miners" collection bucket under the noses of the uncaring and abusive - I salute you, brother.
@@terrymurphy66 Yep. I am sure it was all political spitefullness. It is not beyond the wit of man and science to filter out the nasties when burning coal.
The Uk is sitting on 2 - 3 hundred years supply of the stuff, and it would surprize me, Not, if at some time in the future, Modern methods of extraction, will see it being brought to the surface, again.
@@anthonytaylor9232 they have the technology but will not share it until it will make a profit
Brassed off
Hit the Heart of Yorkshire
And we will still fight through this Virus
Keep safe all,
RIP Pete
❤️ 2022
How are you doing today my name is Eric moore
@@ericmoorev8165 Hello Eric
I am french. I love this song and movie. Thank uk. Welcome visit france.
please stop calling pieces of music like concertos and symphonies, songs. I know it's an appalling affectation. They are not songs are they? any more that the round green thing in your hand is a banana
I love his pronunciation "concerto d'orange juice" :-D
I still don’t know if that joke was intended.
Conchertou*
@@erik5374 Concierto de Aranjuez from french into english is concerto of the orange juice
@@erik5374 ofc it was. Its cos they're British and can't pronounce owt French mate
@@noverrr4508 French?? WTF!
Although these events took place nearly 40 years ago they still stir feelings of sadness,and quiet rage.Barnsley born and bred,we were all affected.
Concerto d’ Aranzuez perfectly depicts the poignancy of that time.What a masterpiece.
Brassed off and Kes ., the best Yorkshire films ever made ....
Happy Yorkshire day.
I will never tire of watching, nor hearing, this. It's a masterpiece of both music and cinema.
Un des plus beaux films (les Virtuoses) sur la période de crise en Angleterre sous Tatcher avec les mouvements sociaux dûs à la précarité grandissante. Seule la fanfare était un échappatoire pour ces mineurs de fond.. Dont le chef d orchestre atteint de silicose.. Film très émouvant et très belle interprétation du concerto d Aranjuez..
Some of the greatest character actors this country had /has all in one series,fantastic stuff.
Love this movie. My dad was a trombonist, from a long line of brass band players. We had this piece played at his funeral.
I know I'm a big soft b'stard, but this gets to me every time. Stunning film, stunning performance.
How could it not get to you great film
Paul Denial At least you don't seem to be in denial of this, Paul.
#metoo
Every bloody time, me too !!
In my top 5 films of all time , unfortunately came out around same time as overrated Full Monty , and never got credit for just how brilliant a film it was
I don't think I've ever heard this piece before. It's magnificent. Stunning and haunting.
Watch the film. It's absolutely brilliant.
It certainly
It was used for the intro to Chick Corea's Spain.
In Digimon
I think it was written for the guitar, but the mournful sound of the brass instruments is perfect👏
One of my top five films ... I've lost count of how many times I've seen it, but it never gets old.
And, damn, it still makes me cry.
Just rewatched it for the umpteenth time. A classic
does the same to me everytime
I echo all that's been said by all the posts, this piece of excellence always makes me cry too, This version by the Grimethorpe Colliery Band is my favourite. Great film Great music . Beautiful.
Pete Postlethwaite was a first class actor in any film he took part in. Pure class❤ Brilliant film, acting etc.😊
I Cry each and every time, not afraid say so ( Just in a way " PROUD " . I am in my " Old Years " ( 71 ) ..but still my Heart can tell and Feel
@@stevenblower5911 Thank you very much ...no more words needed th-cam.com/video/1krM2kVFvs8/w-d-xo.html
were miners daughters and sons traditions ..
I cry every time at the crescendo swell that occurs at 3:58. Every. Damned. Time.
Yes me to i love this underrated film . This music sums up the whole film and how powerful those times were .Great acting by everybody .Had a BIG crush on Tara Fitzgerald lol
I totally agree (at 74).
You can take the mine out of the working class... but you can't take the class out of a miner.
God bless all those who toiled beneath the waves, in the deep dark. The modern world owes you much.
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I can't help tearing up when I hear/see this - so moving.
I'm from the next village to where this was cast. My dad was a miner all the way through the strike when I was born and carried on mining until they closed the lot. Barnsley people will never forget what Maggie did!!!!
I'm a 28 year old British man. Im not a miner, although my ancestors were. I can't watch this film without feeling like it's a window into that world that I missed. I will forever love this film and much respect to all miners past and present.
I’m 53. I’m a Yorkshireman and lived through the miners riots and pit closures. The film is a brilliant representation of life at the time. Devastatingly sad, and just full of anger, passion, despair...crazy times. The actors are simply sensational. I can’t watch the film without it bringing tears to my eyes. The music is beautiful and this piece haunting. Superb.
Imagination What you wrote here rings a bell. I am from northern France, and one of my great grand fathers worked in the mines too. I never knew him, and all the mines are closed now, but reading or watching movies such as this one can help to figure out this reality.
@@sirkildalot8409 I'm from Yorkshire too although I'm only 16😂 my grandad worked in the mines and my dad would have too if they hadn't been shut down I love this movie
I'm 55. From a mining area in Derbyshire. I feel exactly the same.
@@RupertDBayer
Moira Pit?
One of the most moving pieces of cinema I've ever seen.
I'm just about to watch this movie on your recommendation I'll see soon
No matter who plays or what instruments it gets me in tears everytime 💯 in a good way that's the power of music 💯
I love the part where Pete comes into his own. I admire and respect him for his work alone. What a talented man Pete was and highly respected too. RIP Pete and thank you so much for your talent.❤
Saw this beautiful British movie many years ago in the midst of a family tragedy of wrongful death of a very near one and I identified myself with the Colliery band players as they endeavored to overcome their hardships in the midst of inexorable technology transition as traditional mining industry became outdated pushing miners into unemployment. Only classical music can elevate human spirits in the face of all insurmountable obstacles in life.
This film was and still is one of the most emotional ones ever made. It never received the true acclaim it deserved (imho). I fail to understand how The F/Monty was that much more popular - nowhere near as good as this one!
One doesn't negate the other. They're both great movies but it's simple. The plebs out in the world when faced with the decision to go a see a movie about some down and out guys turning male strippers or a down and out brass band will 10 times out of 10 go see the first movie!
You only have to see what people like watching more ( soaps so called reality shows) to get the answer most people aren't interested in quality but instead just to follow the crowd to have people doing the thinking for them
Understand what you say,apart from the humour in both, the crushing memories brought back are often to much,a whole life style gone,when people looked out for one another, down the pits was hard, had to be dependant on each other,,a lot of bands were attached to colleries,the music is brilliant that comes out of them.
I bought a double-bill of The Full Monty and Brassed Off on VHS shortly after a colleague at work had sung the praises of The Full Monty.
Monty is a great film: very funny to see the way that a group whose industry (steel-making) had collapsed tried to find something else to do to re-kindle their self-esteem.
But it is Brassed Off that I've watched time and time again, and which still stays with me. Danny's "Oh, aye, they can knock out a bloody good tune. But what the fuck does that matter?" speech invariably makes my eyes leak ;-)
The moral of both films is very simple: if a long-established industry that employs most of the local people closes down, there needs to be a damn-good plan to re-train and re-employ all those who are affected. Nobody is "just" a miner or "just" a steelworker. Those are earn-to-live jobs just as much as white-collar office jobs are.
Still one of the best films ever the brass bands are brilliant god bless all miners god bless my dad a miner this film is fantastic.👏👏👏👏
hear hear , the view from the nort
WoW goosebumps territory, absolutely beautiful.
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@@matiaslerenaclaussen6502 Of course you can, no problem.
Never get bored watching this again and again. Mr. Postlethwaite taking the acting to its finest level.
i never paid any attention to brass bands before i watched this film , now i love them
+Paul Dodd Same here pal.....
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That's so cool that movies like this spread appreciation of music and introduce people to new kinds of music
Back in the day when you folks had Kings and queens and all that,trumpet players were highly treasured and not allowed to perform with the street performers. They were a military asset and otherwise only allowed to perform for the king and his court .
Brass bands are brilliant
One of my all-time fave films. A little masterpiece.👍👍
Every time I hear and see this scene, I get shivers from the emotion
Same here