1812 Overture- Royal Albert Hall - 2017 - Complete - WITH CANNONS @ 12mins:20secs !!!! - OUTSTANDING 

What instrument do you play? *_Heavy field artillery_*

Tchaikovsky: "Beethoven is going deaf? Yeah, he'll be able to hear this one. I'll make sure of it."

Tchaikovsky: "So anyways I started blasting"

Imagine falling asleep during this. You just wake up to a cannon blasting above your head.

Inn1980, my high school band played this for our final concert of the year in our auditorium 😟🫣. It was by far the best performance of my entire high school band experience. I was first chair clarinet which made it even more exhilarating. When it came time for the "cannons," the band dad's (mine included 😬) previously came up with the idea and ran it by the band director, Mr. Price to make it sure it was safe and effective. He was on board. So cue the cannons and the idea was to shoot shotguns into barrels with sand to achieve the desired sound. Well, after a few minutes of cannon fire, the smoke started filling the auditorium with smoke. (oops!) They didn't count on the smoke filling the building and the fire Marshall (my uncle) showing up. They let us finish the entire piece, even with the smoke stinging our eyes and making us cough. We got a standing ovation even thru the coughing, etc. What a wild and memorable performance it was. One I'll never forget.

Finally, a performance where the artillery deafens the music

Them: "Classical music is so boring." Tchaikovsky: "Hold my cannon."

11:40 -15:30 The concluding part of the loudest, over the top, overture ever written in the classical music genre. Love it!!

The cannon man has to be quite good at what he is doing, shooting inside a concert hall, but no casualties and no material damage. Great work!

someone's having a little too much fun with the light show! :P

Tchaikovsky said about this piece, "I wrote it with no warmth and no love, I did it in a week". The great composer was surprised at how captivated and receptive the worldwide public became with this masterpiece that he himself hated. Now, imagine if Tchaikovsky had put 'warmth and love' into the 1812 Overture? Oh my God...😦

11:00 It looks great for the audience... but playing under those little moving star lights is a nightmare for us on stage.

And all the Brits responded, "Did you hear something Sir?" "Perhaps a small hint of a shot yes" "Ah very good" Golf clap...

Whe will escape from the catacomb whit this one 🗣️📢🔥🔥🔥

14:19 I know y'all waiting for this

Such a powerful and deeply emotional performance. Absolutely astounding. When the organ and cannons come in is so dramatic and the organ is powerful enough to be heard above everything including the orchestra and cannons

Once heard it NEVER Leaves your head. A Long time favorite since I was a Kid. Cannons Rules!

I'm an American and this was the best performance I've ever heard on July 4th. Thank you so much ,.for making 2021 a little less hopeless.

1812年こそクラシック最高の名曲だと自分は思っています｡

Idk if you're supposed to stay all nice and composed for a fancy classical music concert, but I'd be screaming like a wild fangirl during the brass cannon section.

Is there anything more heavy metal than cannons?

I went to Moscow in 2012, and there was a fantastic museum to all the artifacts. They replayed the battle in a large park, while a military band and cannons played this. Heart moving to say the least.

This is probably if not the greatest piece of classical music in the canon repertoire, no pun intended

is there a professionally made recording of this? i would give good money.

NOBODY does quite like the CBC does in that venereal Royal Albert Hall!! As an American, I ALWAYS seek most of the musical activities via the Internet. Wish I could one day sit in one first group of rows [ya, but I'm 83, what are my chances,? HaHa1 Thank God Almighty for the Internet!!!

I saw this at the Albert Hall as a teenager during the proms season, they didn't have the moving lights back then in the early 1970s but they had the cannon and mortar, it was amazing.

The Classic Musics are always the best

Эта увертюра не просто симфоническое произведение, это целый спектакль.

I saw this at the Royal Albert Hall last week, excellent performance!

I once did a gig in the room in St Petersburg where this piece was premiered. It was a very small concert hall. This must have been so loud that the audience felt flattened against the back wall!

I was once at a public performance of this where cannons were used. I considered myself lucky to have survived the carnage.

Chorus and canons, rarely done together. Really spectacular. 👏👏👏

I was here on my band Europe trip and saw this live, I cant believe I found this video

haven't seen a light show at the Proms, just great. Oh, that music, goosebumpy

Lol How is it possible that the camera gets ringing in its ears after the cannons?

My idiot friend: Classical Music is boring Me : Plays 1812 Overture My friend: :0 Me:What pop song uses cannons and church bells? Yeah that’s what I thought

I enjoyed every moment of this day

What a magnificent performance....... 👏 can't say it loud enough ..... YES

I don't understand ANY negative comments about this videoed concert! I would NEVER have thought of those lights accompanying this music but it worked tremendously (in my opinion)! And the sound; THE SOUND was OUT OF THIS WORLD (if one has the proper equipment to do it justice)! THANK YOU, THANK YOU for sharing this and keep up the good work!

Amazing,am at a loss for words so beautiful!!!!

This is one of thr the most human thing I can imagine

Hi 👋 that’s was brilliant great 👍 cannons as well as you say to many lights other wise brilliant music 🇬🇧❤️David

Easily one of the most spectacular finishes to a piece of music ever written and performed.

Wow! Such power! Would've loved being there in the audience.

Ah, so that's what the Albert Hall is for... !

The muskets are a nice touch, makes you really feel like your there in a Napoleonic Era war.

Unless you’re present, you cannot truly appreciate it.

the last few minutes always makes me want to laugh.. so over the top! thankyou for sharing this! 🙂 x

I was at a performance of this back in the 90s at the Albert Hall, complete with cannons. It was great.

Without a choir with a prayer to God at the beginning, it sounds incomplete. Here is the Russian soul. The Russian people pray, love, and fight for real. And this is their Strength

Thankyou for sharing !! only thew rich can see !!!

The Russian culture is something special in this tiny world

Every cannon owner knows when the police show up the excuse will always be, "You got a problem with the cannon then talk to the composer."

WOW !!! just the best performance - ever !!!!

Where in the score does it say FREAKING LASERS???

ライブだがさすがに演奏のクオリティは素晴らしい。 加えて、派手なライティングやら、花火やら、室内にもかかわらず大砲ぶっ放すわ、コーラスまでついてるわと、超豪華な演出が楽しい。

What a performance ! Sheer joy. But there again, it's The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Thank you so much for uploading. Do you perhaps know who the Conductor is?

11:40 Probably my favorite part of the entire performance begins here. Though, the entire performance is spectacular!

Real cannons? Cool. Laser light show? Wrong.

*TCHAIKOVSKY YES*

Was the video filmed only from the very top bleachers!?

I think that light show woke up poor Tchaikovsky.

If the inclusion of the cannons was a surprise reveal to the audience I would've been going nuts

Gave me chills

Tchaikovsky was a master storyteller through his music.

Magic actually exists!!!

1812 Tchaikovsky My favorite song

This song is too GLORIOUS EMPIRE inducing...

Anyone who truly knows me knows why I am playing this video repeatedly from 12:20 on as of yesterday.

Hard to believe Tchaikovsky felt this was a horrible composition giving himself a scathing review.

Fantastic!!!

Спасибо Петру Ильичу Чайковскому! Торжественная увертюра «1812 год», соч. 49 - оркестровое произведение Петра Ильича Чайковского в память о победе России в Отечественной войне 1812 года.

holy crap dude, this is so well done!

Shivers

I was in the audience 🙂

Amazing

Hoping this year's Proms will include this overture in its programme (in its full glory). Very fitting for the first Proms taking place after the Pandemic Era is over!!

Unfortunately, if you watch versions of the 1812, many people don't know how to film it. Do I focus on the orchestra or the cannon? Do I shift back and forth? Do I know when the cannon come in? Do I even know the piece of music. Most people fixate on the cannon and end up not being on them when they should and missing the orchestra. In this video, given that the light show is so spectacular, and the audience reacts to the new stage effects at that point, you should have stayed on the orchestra for the first volley. Then shifted to the cannon in the second volley. Remember, the cannon are used as percussion in this piece. You filmed it like zooming in on the kettle drums was so great and missed the rest.

obrigado por compartilhar.

Quite ironic that the cannons announce the peace. - And again we long for the last shots to be fired and the ringing of the church bells…

Effin bloody brilliant!!!!!!!!

Theodore H. Maiman: How about some lasers? Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: da.

I've heard a small field cannon firing a blank once, didn't know how it sounds so me and dads stood like 5m behind it, the blast was insane, can't imagine it indoors with bigger cannons

La vuelvo a escuchar una y otra vez y siempre me emociona mucho.

Maravilloso !!!! Esos cañones !

Another masterpiece by Peter the Great

Legendary

canon in d doesn't even have a canon🥲

Tchaikovsky you madlad

maravilloso

Do you like music Mr Finch?

fortissississimo

This symphony NEEDS cannons!!!

please, teach us how to play this glorious instrument called cannons

Wasn't Pink Floyd banned from playing at Royal Albert Hall due to firing Canons?

*Napoleon has left the chat*

And there wasn't a dry seat in the house!

Great summer music!!!

superb video, you got some super shots of me too ;)

get those rainbow lights shining for Pyotr 🏳️‍🌈