I was a violinist, and this piece is absolutely the most fun to play. The bow movements are aggressive and you can get some frustration out. It is also a bit difficult in the beginning where the brass goes hard and you are supposed to play quietly and move the bow slowly with no vibrato. It is absolutely my favorite.

@LoriJSykes

5 ай бұрын

I 100% agree! This was one of my favorites to play growing up! 🔥🎻🎶❤️

@Crystils

5 ай бұрын

It is also really hard to play especially when Ur in grade 5 xd. I played this when I was grade 5 in my school orchestra

@yawenliu6648

11 күн бұрын

I have listened to this suite 5+ times live by different orchestras. This is a piece that has everything and I never get tired of. Every time I could see all the musicians on stage very engaged in it and enjoying playing their parts, I can tell from their facial expressions

The bass trombone is a beast. Best rendition I've heard of this piece.

@Tromboneryan

3 жыл бұрын

That is Randy Hawes! He’s absolutely incredible! (I know I’m two years late, but it’s okay ahaha)

@johnsmuth5062

3 жыл бұрын

Don't forget the tuba. We are an octave under the bass trom. Huge

@ballaarnold8255

2 жыл бұрын

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@differous01

2 жыл бұрын

The base trombone makes the ripples in the coffee as the T-rex approaches

@alexandersupertramp6813

2 жыл бұрын

Indeed

Prokofiev was a genius at musically interpreting classics. Shakespeare hit the ball out of the park with his play in verse, ROMEO AND JULIET, and then Prokofiev re-interpreted the play as a ballet with music nobody else could dream of!

@Malouco

3 ай бұрын

❤

Thoughts, emotions, passion without words. I defy anyone who thinks classical music is boring to listen to the masters.

The tempo is challenging and the rhythm is harshly tight. That's the thing! Great rendition!

@missarel78

2 жыл бұрын

Wow, you are very right about the tempo flows beautifully throughout. 😱🥰🥹

When i was in the fifth grade in the early 50s my parents bought us a record of the narration of the Siege of Troy. The section here from about 1:20 was a major part of our enjoyment of the record, and it was called The Love for Three Oranges, which Prokofiev wrote in 1921. He apparently used it again in 1935 when he wrote Romeo and Juliette. I prefer calling it The Love for Three Oranges.

When I first ever heard this song, I was about 5 years old and I would walk slowly with big stomps which related to the music. I don't remember doing this. But a childs imagination really amazes me.

lol the trombonist at 2:14 smiles when the bass trombone enters

@vjncenzx5964

5 жыл бұрын

It is Not a bass trombone that

@jg14gerhard_bar

5 жыл бұрын

@@vjncenzx5964 really? liking your own comment...also maybe watch right behind the speaker on the right at 2:16 notice the slide movement and then trombones rising, that bass trombone on the far right entered b4 the other 2 trombones so either way my comment stands the guy likes the sound of the DUH..DUH

@vjncenzx5964

5 жыл бұрын

@@jg14gerhard_barI am not English

@vjncenzx5964

5 жыл бұрын

@@jg14gerhard_bar I Am Italian so to talk to me you have to use the translator as I am using it

@jg14gerhard_bar

5 жыл бұрын

@@vjncenzx5964 use English to Italian.....

Basstrombone nice

This is my favourite song, it gives me chills every time.

@individualmusic8615

4 жыл бұрын

Yess

@apotezatorautentycznosci6760

3 жыл бұрын

Not a song really, it's a piece

@jlbbuena

3 жыл бұрын

@@apotezatorautentycznosci6760 Spot on

@geuros

2 жыл бұрын

Come on guys, it's actually fantastic that someone who calls pieces songs has a piece of classical music as his favourite music. OP, you have great taste for music.

@danielbyrne5402

Жыл бұрын

Same, took me forever to find it only knowing it by ear without knowing the name grrr

Bass trombone has entered the chat. 🤯

This orchestra sounds incredible. My jaw is in my lap. Tutti bravi! Even the sax solo is premier quality!

Stunning, mesmorising, enchanting, haunting, dramatic, serene, encapsulating and so so beautiful. Dramatic art in its purest form. A breathtaking rendition that invades all the senses and moves the soul. Bravo!

@stevestocker8467

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly that

@penguartz

Жыл бұрын

Ugly

@LeslieShaff-ud1ty

5 ай бұрын

Wow your description is Superb. Although there are other renditions 1. Solo.piano 2. Solo harp 3. Ballet troop 4. The Full orchestra (here) totally lives up to your verbal description. Thx.

Something so satisfying about watching those violins

First chair violin is very beautiful and great violinist.

I would love to listen to this live or sit in the middle of the orchestra and play myself (I play the flute). Highly tempted to teach myself that flute solo

@Lxnorius

Жыл бұрын

do it

@Sarah_270

6 ай бұрын

Go for it.

@Sarah_270

6 ай бұрын

Go for it.

this song gave me goosebumps

Bravo za trombone! Fantastičan orkestar, bravo za sve!

Played this for my spring concert! Amazing

One of the piano accompanists at Dance Theatre of Harlem would open class with this for plies. NOTHING, could warm up the legs and get the heart pumping on a cold January morning than Prokofiev's Montagues and Capulets! By the end, I felt regal and in power!!!

@missarel78

2 жыл бұрын

Amazing 🤩

This spirit-stirring melody is beyond description , and unfathomable. This wonderful performance the great performers play is leads me into Shakespeare's moving world.

Simply stunning. The integration of the chords, the layering, the main theme, how it is supported by the different sections. You are fooled into an almost Greig-like calmness... relax and enjoy.. then the oboe bringng the theme back to the strings then percussion, amazing

I'd fucking love to see this live!!

Terrific sound, well enunciated throughout. The dramatic tension is maintained as beftting the warring families. Thank you all concerned.

@susannabonke8552

2 жыл бұрын

I wonder how I missed it being 53... Nice to open up my mind.

thanks for this great theme, i love it

MARVELOUS SOUND!!!

Masterpiece by great Prokofiev

The way they came out of the quiet section was so nice

Brilliant piece of music!

The descant clarinet was amazing and the harp emit an amazing sound

Absolutely incredible rendition of this amazing masterpiece 👍 Tam.

Bellísima interpretación.

My God, how wonderful this excerpt is! I keep listening on loop. Wonderful interpretation!

Genius piece of music. Beautifully played.

Amazing quality of recording. Sharp and clear. And tremendous performances all around!

This song demands a candle lit room with a stiff drink, cigar with scowl on your face.

@ghlexa4042

2 жыл бұрын

Concur!

I’m a bass clarinetist and this song was great to hear while sitting in the back not playing

The orchestration of this amazing masterpiece is incredible. Thank you all. I tend to look at the faces of these amazing musicians and wonder if I have seen them before :) In a supermarket, on a train...

Musical perfection.

Randy Hawes, bass trombone. He's driving the whole orchestra.

@petergrant747

6 ай бұрын

The tuba was pretty good also 😊

just amazing

One of my favorites!

Great! 😍😍 my favorite!

Oh wow this was fantastic

Exquisite, bravo!

1:19

@individualmusic8615

4 жыл бұрын

Yess

@tannabanana8099

3 жыл бұрын

thanks, I needed that time stamp

@sophiequint6661

3 жыл бұрын

TYSM

My wife and I have tickets to see R&J with City Ballet of San Diego next month, the third time over the past 20 years. She has taken ballet lessons for exercise and enjoyment as long as I have known her, and I am a music lover and amateur pianist.

Everyone bangs on but the opening minute of this has always been the best.

Brilliant performance.

Amazing!!!! LOVE THE BONES!!!

just really enjoyable🙂🙂🙂

Брависсимо!

I was privileged to be in Moscow and see/hear Spivakov Orchestra perform this several years back. He intro'd this with "If you don't mind, we are going to let percussion off the leash just a bit" and holy shizzles was he NOT exaggerating!

outstanding

Ochen' Prekrasno!!

So, that's where John Williams got his inspiration from for the Imperial March in Star Wars...

@tryphenasparks

11 күн бұрын

It's a bit of this and a bit of Holst's Mars, the Bringer of War. Also worth a listen.

@LukeSkywalkerInMe

11 күн бұрын

@@tryphenasparks Yeah, I know it. Wonderful piece of music

Adoroooooo❤❤❤❤

And there i have my next samples👍

Starting at 2:48 the most fantastic piece of music ever written. Well done Ukraine.

@Pulsar3061

4 жыл бұрын

Its no wonder, as today many talented artists still live there...

@JarvFrankA

2 жыл бұрын

what has... Ukraine... got to do with this?

@pete3166

2 жыл бұрын

@@JarvFrankA Prokofiev was from Ukraine, his work reflects this

@swifto12usedtobetaken

Жыл бұрын

@@JarvFrankA bro guy hears someone say ukraine and flips

@chrisconnor8086

Жыл бұрын

…. i dont think Profokiev would have liked being called Ukranian. Keep the 21st century where it should be

Director was this year at Chopin Competition and did a great job

Well, well, well!!!

i love the break in the middle..the soft part...the layers then the tubuler bells Mmmm

Hermoso

omg❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

My school is playing part of this for our 5th part to our marching show

Couldn't sleep. The theme held me awake. Majestic.

❤❤

They should have used it in Lord of the rings movies. So atmospheric , perfect for fighting the Orcs.

@danielbyrne5402

Жыл бұрын

Can't see that it would work well with fantasy fiction, would feel somewhat out of place. This is most definitely more for grounded fiction surrounding infighting, maybe that's just cuz it's where I'm used to hearing it but I dunno, maybe?

2:37 i love this trumpet here

"ah ma questo è sala" Cit. per i pochi Ballas 💿

Hell's bells, I bet he took the afternoon off when he came up with this belter.

😍👏👏

This piece is almost psychologically disturbing, it rings in the halls of the mind, down to the soul!

At 1:20 the first pedal E is a monster!

Excellent performance. Really gives one a feeling of doom. 😯

This would have been a good song in revenge of the sith tbh when Anakin was killing all the smol bois in the temple

2:39 the trumpets literally sound like an organ🤯 my favorite piece of music out there, I play it in 2 days

1:20 if there's a greater sound , I've yet to hear it. Superb.

@olivers.3669

9 ай бұрын

I call it "Elephant Music"

Personally, the base trombone is the best, and I'm a normal trombonist, but hope to be the base trombonist. The base trombone is the loudest of them all.

@CreativeCreaturefx

3 жыл бұрын

Actually the Tuba is the loudest due to the resonance it provides to the entire ensemble but the bass trombone really amplifies the tuba sound and gives it that characteristic growl. Bass trombone and tuba always go perfectly together.

@Aduysvmncmkouyf

2 жыл бұрын

@@CreativeCreaturefx the double bass has more resonance, but it’s not louder, the bass trombone could easily drown out everyone in the orchestra, the tuba isn’t nowhere near as loud as the bass trombone:

@CreativeCreaturefx

2 жыл бұрын

@@Aduysvmncmkouyf yes, the double bass gives the orchestra that full mature sound. I love Danny Elman's use of the brass instruments particularly the tuba and trombones in accompaniment with the bass drum.

Always reminded my Opa of Stalingrad.

To those wondering where all the tension and power in the piece comes from, look at the composer and violinists hands

_9 out of 10 elephants prefer to rock out to this version when they need to wreck a place._

Tears for Fears used this intro in Argentina Tour 2011...just perfect music

1:19 is where the fun begins.

This was the opening credits theme to Caligula

@WSUCougs02

8 ай бұрын

Like you, I know this song for all the wrong reasons. Caligula has such a great 'plot' lol.

@MasterofRandomness87

8 ай бұрын

what did you like best?

@WSUCougs02

8 ай бұрын

@@MasterofRandomness87 seeing Helen Mirin in the Roman bath...

2:04 and 2:29 were so clean and nasty at the same time.

1:23 3:52

I'm from Why Women Kill Season II Lady in the Lake

@beautygainz

3 жыл бұрын

Exactlyyyyyyyyy

4:54

2:23-30 Star Wars: Imperial March

Low brass rule!

money came w long problems shit got me like hell nah

I have also heard this piece referred to as the “Dance of the Knights”. Is there a distinction between the two or are they the same? If the same why multiple names?

Always reminds me of the smiths coming on stage

Used in the obscene film Caligula; a.travesty to employ such noble music

Thanks to all the musicans who said 1. Look at the violins 2. The bass trombone 3. The sax solo 4. The tight tempo . I quit piano 68 years ago for sports. Big mistake.

Why is the video sped up?

This is on the same level of Kira’s theme from JJBA

unreal

@susannabonke8552

2 жыл бұрын

In Prokofjews Life it was VERY real..of course I understand the music is from another world.

Somehow when I hear this piece I only picture two grisly bears fighting to mate with a female, thanks National Geographic. 😐