Astrology Venus: peace & feminine beauty Astronomy Venus: burning hell of acid rains where Sun never shines

@ClassicsExplained

3 жыл бұрын

haha love this comment!

@julesguermonprez1392

2 жыл бұрын

Good news : if the Venera probes' photos are anything to go by, daylight does reach the surface. Bad news : ...yeah, it's still an unfathomable sauna with a pressure equivalent to 900 meters under the sea, and 430°C temperatures sufficient to make the aforementioned sulfuric acid rain evaporate. (ah, and nights are as cold as Mercury's)

@rosemma34

2 жыл бұрын

it's home sweet home if your life is a burning hell of acid rains

@thinginground5179

2 жыл бұрын

Astrology Venus: peace and feminine beauty! Astronomy Venus: burnin' hell of acid rains whert' sun don't shine

@WCLCooke

Жыл бұрын

Well, whether Venus is the goddess or the planet, she is too hot to handle.

I know it's beyond cliche at this point, largely due to John Williams purloining so much from _The Planets_ for his _Star Wars_ score, but I still believe this is one of the most important orchestral works ever written. There's not a single movement that doesn't put me in a state of transcendence so effecting that I dare not listen to it in other than comfort and solitude.

@ClassicsExplained

3 жыл бұрын

Great comment - thanks

@rosemma34

2 жыл бұрын

I know what you mean

@rogerhorky7258

2 жыл бұрын

the soundtrack to The Right Stuff (1983) cribs from Holst as well

@fenixphire84

8 ай бұрын

Very well said and I agree so much that you put tears in my eyes. I have tears every movement every time I listen. It’s the most incredible and beautiful piece of music I’ve ever heard. That video was great too btw

I have a gig nightmare story about the planets. I performed with a symphony in a hall that didn't have a room for the choir. They decided to have the choir walk away through the wings. There were two problems. 1. The wings went out into the audience area, so they got louder. 2. Many dressed in fancy high heel shoes, even though they weren't visible. The result was a clomping sound like a herd of horses that got louder from the audiences perspective. It was not exactly what Holst was going for. :)

@meganlewis2377

3 жыл бұрын

If he can’t make the music about Pluto, but we will do it for him!

@archangecamilien1879

3 жыл бұрын

Haha...

@rewindcat7927

3 жыл бұрын

That is a very 'rock n roll' story :D

@ZidaneWarner

2 жыл бұрын

When I saw the planets, the choir actually sang in the lobby. So the audience got to see the doors to the lobby close as the piece ended.

@ImVee10

2 жыл бұрын

@@meganlewis2377 In 2000, Colin Matthews wrote “Pluto, the Renewer.”

Please never stop making this videos!

@ClassicsExplained

4 жыл бұрын

we'll do our best! :) we really don't want to stop

@hilariodaragona4473

3 жыл бұрын

@@ClassicsExplained please do a translation to spanish! Many many more views!

@Absycal

3 жыл бұрын

@@ClassicsExplained cool!! :)

@erick-gd7wo

3 жыл бұрын

*AGREE* the animation is a stroke of genius

@apolloathena8140

3 жыл бұрын

@@ClassicsExplained What you mean is subscribe.......so I did.....because I enjoy your videos. Easy peasy lemon squeezy. Also, if you sprinkle when you tinkle, be a sweetie wipe the seaty.

Gustav's Holst's best achievement is making the theme for every ww2 documentary for the past couple of decades

Holst became so infatuated with eastern mysticism that he learned Sanskrit and set some verses of the Rig Vada to music ,he also composed a Christmas carol “In the Bleak Midwinter”.

@ClassicsExplained

3 жыл бұрын

Indeed! There's a great deal more to the composer than The Planets - hope people who don't know much about him will go off and delve deeper into the composer after watching the video :)

@arnavranka4510

3 жыл бұрын

Veda not Vada

@gpcrawford8353

3 жыл бұрын

@@arnavranka4510 I stand corrected thank you 🙏

@KentuckyLiz

3 жыл бұрын

One of the greatest Christmas carols of all time, the last verse makes my sister and I cry....so moving.

@tammygant4216

Жыл бұрын

@@KentuckyLiz yes, I just discovered it Christmas 2019 and I swear I was still singing it (badly) 6 months later. In fact....

Most metal classical piece....I'm binging this channel muhaha

@ClassicsExplained

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@solarean

3 жыл бұрын

*cough* shostakovich *cough*

@Ace_of_Empires

3 жыл бұрын

Toccata and Fugue

@solarean

3 жыл бұрын

@@Ace_of_Empires not good enough that barely makes it

@Ace_of_Empires

3 жыл бұрын

@@solarean Well, I didn't want to burst your bubble, but the only part in Planets is Mars, Jupiter almost. As for Toccata and Fugue, it's not just the first part; the later parts are more metal. It's well known that metal pulls heavily from Baroque music, and Bach was the pinnacle of Baroque, and music for that matter. Give the metal covers a listen. I think you may be talking about not metal, but just epic or hardcore

I've sung in the Neptune chorus, with the Minnesota Orchestra, and it's really rather tricky. But the worst thing is knowing that the rest of the suite is being played and only getting the muted sound through the walls while you wait.

I listened to an orchestra play the entirety of The Planets at a live concert, and I felt like I'd traveled through space at the end of it all. Truly some of the most captivating music ever written.

While the stuff about Holst not wanting to do Pluto is mostly true, I remember reading somewhere that there was a bit more to it than that. Basically, he stated something along the lines at some point, "If you want your piece for Pluto, listen to/perform "Ode to Death". It's good fit. and fits Pluto nicely."

@PsychoPills-yx3lc

Ай бұрын

I think (and this is just based on research) that he was going to write "Pluto - The Renewer" but died 4 years after Pluto was discovered. So, somebody named Colin Matthews composed Pluto to complete the set while doing so changing a few bars on Neptune.

He put the choir in another room!? That is genius! 😍😂😂

The Blasting Off sequence from Star Wars: literally Mars

My music teacher showed this to the class. Im was absolutely shocked to find put this much quality only had 30k views. Really good job

The first time I listened to Jupiter I burst into tears crying, it moved me in a way music has never done before

@ClassicsExplained

11 ай бұрын

Gorgeous, isn't it :)

@Nikkidafox

7 сағат бұрын

Someone else watched Bluey huh?

@Welsh7133

7 сағат бұрын

@@Nikkidafox it’s been my favorite looong before the show came out, but it hit me especially hard in that one scene 🥺

Thanks for opening my eyes and ears to the inspirations which Holst had, and I'd offer a few more: Mars and Stravinsky is not difficult, in Venus I can hear e.g. some Ravel, of Mercury I'm not sure, Jupiter's beginning reminds of Stravinsky's Petrouchka while much of Jupiter's "Englishness" is reminiscent of Elgar. Schönberg (in Saturn) is probably less well-known, and I also didn't know of Debussy's choir (Neptune). But what bugs me the most is how blind (or deaf) I've been for many years, not recognizing Dukas' sorcerer's apprentice in Uranus, even though I've even played Dukas myself in an orchestra! It starts with the titles of both pieces, for crying out loud (sorcerer = magician)... Once you know it, it's blatantly obvious: The staccato dance of the bassoons in the beginning, the dissonant menacing theme, the stumbling tympani, the avantgarde wild harmonies, the long alarm chords at the climax, the wondrous soft conclusion after that. Fortunately Holst omitted the final "butt-kick", that would have been too much ;-)

@ClassicsExplained

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much - great comment

They're back!

If there's ONE THING I've learned from this, it's that Holst was a MAJOR fanboy. I love the detail and explanations that you use! I hope that you blow up (like in views/subscribers sort of way not the other kind)

5:50 Holy donuts! I am dead! 8:46 The choir just got yeeted into space

4:11 not only is Glockenspiel there, but the Celesta is as well! (I'm unsure if that was in the original version but I often see those in performances) 6:00 Yeah we can easily tell that through Saturn he loves using strange harmonies. I was once playing Saturn on piano, and there are 4-note chords with the strangest combinations of notes! I personaly think Saturn, Uranus, and Jupiter are the best ones entertainmentwise. Also your videos are actually entertaining, so I subbed. Keep up the gr8 work!

@rosemma34

2 жыл бұрын

"Every Day" by Buddy Holly has a nice Celesta passage

Fun Fact: When I played double bass, I broke a bow while playing Mars during the fortissississimo part. I guess I played loud enough...

@ClassicsExplained

3 жыл бұрын

Goodness! I'm not surprised though - sure there have been many broken bows over this

@thinginground5179

2 жыл бұрын

Did you say "ffff"

The Planets is my favorite piece of classical music! I remember playing Mars back in high school and cello with the high school‘s entire orchestra! Holst’s compositions really inspired me to learn music theory and composition! I even find myself using certain aspects of the Planets in my pieces!

Mars: Theme song of WWII, played in 1939 when the Germans invaded Poland (When I listen to this piece, I can hear the loud wail of the air raid sirens and the whistling of falling bombs.) Venus: When the rainstorm is over and the clouds open to reveal the sun Mercury: Sounds like Peter Pan Jupiter: I Vow To Thee My Country, played at the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales (RIP) Saturn: An elegy of mystery, suspense and fear of the unknown Uranus: A festival of curiosity and eccentricity Neptune: A piece to fall asleep to

Great video! You deserve way more views for this quality. I reccomend posting this on the classical music subreddit, I think they will enjoy this!

@ClassicsExplained

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your feedback and recommendation! Will do!

*Venus sprawled out, drooling* Ah, yes. "Heavenly repose"

@jameerlawrencebondoc8162

2 жыл бұрын

Venus is kinda sus

@llewelynshingler2173

7 ай бұрын

More like Heavy Repose than anything

At the "I vow to thee, my country" part in Jupiter, I give my grade 6 (Indonesian) students Kipling's If to read. Afterwards, they're so roused, they want to colonise somewhere.

@meganlewis2377

3 жыл бұрын

Well if Holst won’t make a music about the planet Pluto then maybe we should in the memory of Pluto and Gustav Holst himself!

@Ind0nesiannationalteamgoated

Жыл бұрын

Dang, hope my indonesian school does that

@Chebab-Chebab

Жыл бұрын

@@Ind0nesiannationalteamgoated Saya di PIK, Jakarta. Kamu dimana?

@sandradermark8463

10 ай бұрын

It brainwashes them. If is such a badass poem

@Ind0nesiannationalteamgoated

3 ай бұрын

Saya di tangerang selatan

About The Imperial March from Star Wars, there was a little segment from Arnold Bax's first movement of his first symphony that sounds similar to John Williams piece. I guess John was inspired by Bax as well.

@ClassicsExplained

4 жыл бұрын

Oh that's interesting! Thanks for sharing your thoughts!

@roger420220

2 жыл бұрын

Inspired?

I am an elementary music teacher. I teach The Planets to my 5th grade every May and I LOVE this video. I've watched a few others on your channel and THEY ARE GOLD. I love your use of humor and graphics to explain the history of these pieces and give interesting facts. I also love the sampling you of the pieces you include. PLEASE KEEP MAKING THESE. I'm going to give your channel a shout out on my IG! I Can't wait to see more!

@ClassicsExplained

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for your comment and support - we will keep making these; just taken a bit of time in last few weeks but we do have more in the pipeline. Stay tuned and keep inspiring our future Mozarts :)

I love this piece! The Jupiter movement is my favorite, especially since I sang the song "I vow to thee, my country" which is based on that movement in my choir.

I always connected Mars to the Death Star theme but hadn’t heard it’s Imperial March!

@ClassicsExplained

3 жыл бұрын

Is the Death Star theme the Imperial Attack theme or are they different, because that one is also very reminiscent of Mars too

@axecalibore

2 жыл бұрын

Mars is the Death Star theme. The Imperial March is Chopin's funeral march. Mars also shows up at the beginning of the movie Gladiator.

"Get in" ... haha. Loved this, thank you for making it.

@ClassicsExplained

4 жыл бұрын

Thank YOU for watching!

Suggestions: Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue

@ClassicsExplained

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the suggestions! One of them is coming in a couple months

@Rgoid

3 жыл бұрын

@@ClassicsExplained And the other?

@meganlewis2377

3 жыл бұрын

What about pastoral symphony?

@_rstcm

3 жыл бұрын

@@ClassicsExplained Add Saint-Saëns' Carnival of the Animals to the list too, PLEEEEEEEZZZZZ!!!!

@meganlewis2377

3 жыл бұрын

@@ClassicsExplained don’t forget Bolero and Pines of Rome!👌

So good. Like, just really top notch. If I complete nothing else today I at least learnt something about this wonderful piece of art.

@ClassicsExplained

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you! We are so excited to be back and so glad the new video has been received so well!

I cannot tell you how much I love your videos. Thank you for taking the time to explain the background of musical pieces. After hearing them, knowing the history behind makes them million time better. Keep on the AMAZING work

@ClassicsExplained

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you - we cannot tell you how much we love your comment!

Your videos make me appreciate these pieces even more!! Thank you so much😇

These videos bring some of my favorite pieces more meaning and I love them

I can't believe it, a new video. I'm so glad to see you guys again. As well as on a subject that I'm trying to study on. This is some good timing right here.

I’m in total binge! Watching and rewatching this videos and loving it! So smart, so funny so clever! Excellent work! Thanks a trillion !!

Just discovered this channel today. Instantly became a huge fan! I’ll be sending this to all my friends. These videos are such an excellent way to expose people to important musical works.

So very enjoyable - loved the graphics, too ! Please give us some more interpretations of ballets & opera, too.

You did it again, mates! Very on point.

Thanks Benjamin et al! I have watched all of your videos over the recent years, and each of them is a gem. 3:49 your Venus is ....er...uh..... hilarious! Much admiration and appreciation for all of your excellent work.

This is one of my favorite pieces, thank you so much for making these videos. Beautiful and educational!

@ClassicsExplained

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much! We love it too - keep watching and enjoying and listening :)

YESS FINALLY! PLEASE CONTINUE THE VIDEOS!

@apolloathena8140

3 жыл бұрын

Tell your friends then!

Exhilarating compositions a new spiritual renewal every single time I listen to Holst mesmerizing The Planets!

This is what I’ve been looking for to help understand why classical music is both great and important. Thank you!

@ClassicsExplained

3 жыл бұрын

Our pleasure!

I always had trouble relating to this piece, I'll have to go back and listen again now that I know more of the context. Thank you so much for posting these! They're wonderful

@ClassicsExplained

3 жыл бұрын

as did I funnily enough - and then I researched it more and more and making this video made me finally fall in love with it

I love learning about the stories behind all my favorite classical pieces 😌😌 do one on Shostakovich plz!!

@ClassicsExplained

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much - and for your suggestion :)

This is absolutely brilliant! Informative and witty! I love it!

@ClassicsExplained

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you - cannot tell you how much those words mean to us! Be primed for more vids coming soon

Tears. Man, that was really great. Thank you for that. I’ve been using my imagination for that piece for about 25 years now. It’s incredible how close my thoughts about this piece and my imagination was to your video. Again great job and thank you

This channel is outstandingly beautiful, thank so very much for doing this, hope that next generations continue to value this wonders of music.

@ClassicsExplained

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much - this is music to our ears; hugely appreciate your support

Thank you for these amazing videos!

many a young astronomer were probably inspired by Holst’s The Planets. but when it comes down to it, the music he composed served more as an interpretation of the Greek gods characterization than the planet themselves. although it could be said that the planets’ names do aptly represent a certain characteristic of their respective god name. Jupiter being the king of the planets and gods, Mars being red, representative of fury and war. Mercury being the fastest god and planet.

I am planning on using your videos in my middle school music classes! They are of great quality and funny in a way that I think my students will appreciate!

@ClassicsExplained

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much - really appreciated :)

I just rediscovered this series of compositions yesterday. It’s fantastic.

@ClassicsExplained

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Coming a little late to this channel!! Great content both entertaining and educative, sublime script and editing! Keep this going!

One of my favorite early 20th century classical pieces!

I’m binge watching these videos!! Love the simple art style and everything

@ClassicsExplained

3 жыл бұрын

much appreciated!

@needleboy17

3 жыл бұрын

This video is so funny.

This is so fantastic. Jupiter was used as the background music of a film that was shown every hour at the North Rim Lodge at the Grand Canyon back in 1974 when I worked there. The title of the film was "Wings in the Canyon" and this music fit the views of the canyon so perfectly, filmed from a small plane. I have loved this music for many years.

Excellent!!! I like your creative explanations of many of the classical music pieces I like! :)

@ClassicsExplained

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for the support! And exactly the sort of thing we're aiming for :)

Your videos are so good! It's an inspiration

A new video!!! :O I subscribed to your channel half a year ago and thought you might never post again :"D Looking forward to moreee videos!

Was introduced to the piece by Mars, more specifically through the music game Smule. Then the fascination grew when i recognized the idea behind the piece in one of the songs in Hyrule Warriors (video game). Though not a perfect match, it gets surprisingly close, only changing the progression of a note or 2. Now i should probably hear the suite in full, as this video has given me a taste of the scope of the piece.

@ClassicsExplained

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your very interesting comment - and for watching :)

Brilliant. Ive learnt so much

@ClassicsExplained

4 жыл бұрын

Great to hear that! Thanks for watching! there will be more videos soon

Interesting video - Fantastic piece! Thank you :D

This video is amazing! Thank you!!!

@ClassicsExplained

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!

This is a phenomenal video. Thank you.

@ClassicsExplained

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for this lovely comment!

The Whole suite gives me Goosebumbs

@ClassicsExplained

3 жыл бұрын

I know - very ethereal!

This is my favourite classics explained episode :D

INCREDIBLE! Great video!

@ClassicsExplained

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you - much appreciated :)

This is a very hilarious video. 5:50 made me laugh. "Holy donuts!"

@ClassicsExplained

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!

Thanks for letting me know how the history of this piece I love this musical classical stuff because I love the planets too

Absolutely loved that one, I never got around to really fully assimilate this oeuvre and now I'm looking forward to listening to it with these ideas in mind! Also 11:19, very good joke!

08:27 the "see you later peeps" got me cracking up

You guys deserve at least 3MM views for this video!

@ClassicsExplained

3 жыл бұрын

Yay! Thanks

Our marching band plays that one part of mars, AND I START IT. Thank you for explaining the origins of my favorite classical piece

Wonderful video. Thanks!

@ClassicsExplained

3 жыл бұрын

Our please - thanks :)

They’re finally back!!!

I love the music matching the narration!

Youre back! i was sad when i found you and then realized you hadnt posted in forever!

@ClassicsExplained

4 жыл бұрын

we are back :) and we'll be releasing new videos pretty often now - enjoy!

Thank you for explaining this!

@ClassicsExplained

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

These videos are so great!!!

@ClassicsExplained

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!

As a music and astrology lover, my heart is soaring from this video. Thank you for making this!!

@ClassicsExplained

3 жыл бұрын

Our pleasure! We certainly learned a lot about astrology writing this

Awesome video! Came across it while doing some research on the full composition. I do photography for a living and have had good luck with photographing the planets this year. Every time I post one on Instagram I would do the accompanying song and most recently I caught Saturn and wanted to look up some more history

these are incredible work

@ClassicsExplained

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much!

Your animations are simply amazing!

@ClassicsExplained

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you

Oh so cool! Your channels is awesome

Jupiters Chorale is simply the most sublime piece of music I have ever heard

Arnold Schonberg was not the only avant garde composer behind Holst's Saturn! So too was Alben Berg and Anton Webern. All these composers developed a system called atonalism/ twelve-tone/ or serialism.

I watched this after seeing your video on Rhapsody in Blue. This great stuff, so I subscribed! 👍🏻👍🏻

@ClassicsExplained

11 ай бұрын

Awesome! Thanks for the support :)

KZread's algorithm did its job well. Excellent video. Greetings from Ecuador!

I think this opus is just so inspiring to film music composers till today..

cool calm and colourful chords. someone likes alliteration too :)

@ClassicsExplained

3 жыл бұрын

We do try!

I love your videos❤️❤️❤️❤️

Yayyyyyy your back!

@ClassicsExplained

4 жыл бұрын

😊

@Snookbone

Ай бұрын

you're

Thanks this is brilliant!

He was so definitely ahead of his time.

Great story, mate! Following already 👍

Great video high quality content

So excited to have you back. I always told myself as soon as they release a new video I will support them on Patreon. Is this still possible?

@ClassicsExplained

4 жыл бұрын

It's so sweet of you! Our Patreon page is still up but a much better help is to spread the word about us :) The more views and subscribers we have here, we better chances we have to get some external funding and keep producing videos forever (www.patreon.com/classics )

At the beginning the transition from Uranus to Jupiter to Saturn to Mars was insanely smooth