Changing of The Guard Copenhagen (With Concert) - Saturday 7th January 2023

Den Kongelige Livgardes Musikkorps and Tambourkorps, The Band of the Royal Life Guards and Corps of Drums supporting the ceremony of Changing the Guard in Copenhagen on Saturday 7th January 2023.
The ceremony takes place with full musical support daily (other than on Fridays) between December and April when Her Majesty Queen of Denmark resides in Amalienborg Palace no matter what the weather is. Luckily the rain was lighter during the main changeover which allowed for the band to perform their concert of three pieces of music.
Please see below the timestamps for highlights from the ceremony:
00:00 The parade leaves Gothersgade 100 Barracks in front of Rosenborg Castle and marches through Copenhagen City Centre
13:14 Entering Amalienborg Palace
15:15 The Advance Forward (with a very good trombone counter melody)
15:43 Marching on the colour
16:16 The Changing of the Guard
17:31 The Palace Concert
22:04 Marching around Amalienborg Palace
24:25 The 2nd advance forward to Her Majesty's Palace
24:52 Marching out of the palace square and to barracks
26:48 The return march through Copenhagen City to Gothersgae 100 Barracks
The band was under the direction of their Musical Director Michael Aaberg Thomsen. The parade features music alternating between the Musikkorps and Tambourkorps, where each march by the Musikorps is repeated when they play.
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It has been a pleasure visiting Copenhagen documenting the work of the Royal Danish Life Guards. There will be two further videos of other changing of the guard ceremonies from this trip to be published in due course and many photographs on our Instagram Page. Thank you to the band for their hospitality during my visit!
Interesting, unique points to note:
The Bass Drummer holding music for the cymbal player to follow whilst on the march
The head dress is called a bearskin and is actually flat on top and built around a silver helmet, hence the peak and this is where the head dress evolved from
The band uses no Saxophones and instead two Bb Baritone Horns carrying the tenor lines
The Tuba's played are Concert F and C tubas with one placed behind the percussion to provide the melody lines with a pulse and bass line.
Both Flute and Piccolo is played on the march
The Band of the Royal Life Guards are the only professional Danish Wind Orchestra and are the official musicians of the Royal Danish Household.
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  • @MsBritishGrenadiers
    @MsBritishGrenadiers Жыл бұрын

    Den Kongelige Livgardes Musikkorps performs the following marches: 1) 'Rendezvous' by Friedrich Zikoff at 0:00 and 2:06 2) 'Amalienborg March' by Richard Lindebro at 4:36, 6:18 and 16:17 3) 'Disciplinmarch' by Richard Lindebro at 8:37 and 10:13 4) 'Den Kongelige Danske Marines Honnørmarch' by Kai Verner Nielsen at 13:10 5) 'Göta Signalbataljons Marsch' 'Göta Signal Regiment's March' by Oswald Brodin at 17:32 6) 'Frisk Mod' by Alexander Schreiner at 20:21 7) 'F. F - March' by Carl Edvard Nielsen (Not to be confused with Carl August Nielsen, the famous classical music composer!) at 22:02 and 24:52 8) 'Kong Georg d. I Honnørmarch' by Hans Christian Lumbye at 27:15 and 29:47 9) 'Berliner Luft' by Paul Lincke at 31:47 and 34:00 10) 'Light of Foot' by Carl Latann at 36:30 Recordings of all the marches are available on KZread and on CD/ MP3 releases.

  • @MilitaryBandsEverywhere

    @MilitaryBandsEverywhere

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank you very much for this fantastic musical listing of the music played on the parade!

  • @MsBritishGrenadiers

    @MsBritishGrenadiers

    Жыл бұрын

    @@MilitaryBandsEverywhere You are welcome! It's my pleasure!

  • @chriz7074

    @chriz7074

    11 ай бұрын

    Do you know if Disciplinmarsch is on Spotify?

  • @zymelin21
    @zymelin218 ай бұрын

    once upon a time (in 1962) I happened to walk down that street in my sergeants uniform. The parade was passing, and we had been instructed, that should we be where the parade was passing we had to front it and salute. I did, and the officer leading the armed detail returned my salute by lowering his sabre. I was so proud!

  • @pj2605

    @pj2605

    5 ай бұрын

    And they still do so today!!

  • @PUAlum
    @PUAlum Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for posting. Great quality. These guys put in a full days' work in 40 min. they must be exhausted. I pray Queen Margrethe is doing better.

  • @Benlarsendk
    @Benlarsendk Жыл бұрын

    As a former guard, this video made me smile - a lot. Thank you! I miss this.

  • @FransVranken1
    @FransVranken1 Жыл бұрын

    Nice to this music band marching and playing intermational music with flutes corps. The band has fine sound Thanks for scharing this video Greetings from Belgium 🇧🇪

  • @MilitaryBandsEverywhere

    @MilitaryBandsEverywhere

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank you very much!! The band were great indeed

  • @martinmartinov3860
    @martinmartinov386011 ай бұрын

    Beautiful and impressive. The Royal Danish Life Guards have always seemed much more inspiring to me than their British counterparts. Even the uniform and equipment of the Danish Guards looks much more interesting and attractive than many other guard formations in Europe and around the world. The musical marching repertoire is also first rate in selection and execution. May their public appearances continue in the same spirit of preserving traditions. I imagine that not only Danish children, but everyone else at the sight of the Danish Guards, would think of Hans Christian Andersen's Brave Lead Soldier.

  • @MsBritishGrenadiers
    @MsBritishGrenadiers Жыл бұрын

    The quality of this video recording is exceptional! Well done! Thank you so much for sharing your adventure in Copenhagen!

  • @user-ir7os6wh1w
    @user-ir7os6wh1w Жыл бұрын

    Interestingly the piece played during the palace concert was a Swedish march (Göta Signal Regiment's March). Great video and fantastic series you have made! Are there any other trips planned in the future? Norway's and Sweden's guard mount with their respective bands would be a fantastic addition to this channel!

  • @MilitaryBandsEverywhere

    @MilitaryBandsEverywhere

    Жыл бұрын

    Thank you very much for the comment. I am glad you have enjoyed this series of videos from my adventure to Copenhagen. My plan is to eventually go and experience as many ceremonies and bands across the world as I can manage and absolutely to include Sweden and Norway too - all the Scandinavian counties are at the top of my list to visit! In the mean time back to the streets of the UK when I can outside of work and when I have some more leave then of course I am hoping to create more videos like these featuring and highlighting the work of other military musicians around the world!

  • @Zebzu00
    @Zebzu004 ай бұрын

    16:23 i just noticed how tall the guards are compared to the band...

  • @DSR299
    @DSR2994 ай бұрын

    The separate piccolo corps should be allowed to play along with the main band during the regular marches.

  • @MilitaryBandsEverywhere

    @MilitaryBandsEverywhere

    4 ай бұрын

    Not necessarily. They are not part of the band and a separate military unit. They also do not have lyres on them so all of their tunes are learnt by memory unlike e band who carries music on the march and therefore had a far wider repertoire. When the whole parade reached Amalienborg Palace there are a few joint items that they play together.

  • @michelefur
    @michelefur Жыл бұрын

    Esses de copenhage sao muito mais bonito a roupa do que a britânica.

  • @quran6145
    @quran6145 Жыл бұрын

    19:26 What is that beautiful music?

  • @mgaws

    @mgaws

    Жыл бұрын

    It's a Danish national song kalled 'Den Danske Sang er en ung blond Pige'' (the Danish Song is a young blond girl). The composer is our great national symphonic composer Carl Nielsen.

  • @johanrebel

    @johanrebel

    Жыл бұрын

    Just wait until the woke mob hears this, they will do everything they can to make sure poor Carl faces the music.

  • @tubamus9261

    @tubamus9261

    Жыл бұрын

    @@johanrebel There was actually an incident a couple of years ago, when the staff of a university faculty had sung this very song in the beginning of a meeting, and were requested not to choose this song again.

  • @PUAlum

    @PUAlum

    Жыл бұрын

    @@mgaws Thank you! I'd heard it before....and loved it! Why is it controversial (judging by the next exchange of comments)?

  • @zymelin21

    @zymelin21

    6 ай бұрын

    some young girl who was not young and blond took offence,and the university did not have cohones to tell her to stuff it!!@@PUAlum

  • @chriz7074
    @chriz7074 Жыл бұрын

    can someone give a list of the marches played while marching throughout the video?

  • @MilitaryBandsEverywhere

    @MilitaryBandsEverywhere

    Жыл бұрын

    They are written as captions on the video as they start 👍

  • @chriz7074

    @chriz7074

    Жыл бұрын

    U sure? I cant see it

  • @MsBritishGrenadiers

    @MsBritishGrenadiers

    Жыл бұрын

    @@chriz7074 I have posted a list of the march titles above.

  • @Reggie_91
    @Reggie_91 Жыл бұрын

    the police seem alot friendlier than in London where they are all miserable, although i suppose thats what London does to you

  • @RakHineUss9
    @RakHineUss99 ай бұрын

    Rakhine