Music video by Trans-Siberian Orchestra performing Dreams Of Fireflies (On A Christmas Night). (C) 2012 Universal Republic Records, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc. & Lava Music, LLC
My wife and I were fortunate to hear this played live a few years ago. Words cannot adequately describe hearing and seeing this played live in concert.
Im going to see them Nov 30th. hope they play this. IF you don't know its a "spin off" from the band Savatage. check out Savatage when the crowds are gone. ill be doing a review for this Album / TSO after i see the concert
Wow, cool!! With every new album the orchestra sounds more "natural" then on the older albums!! Not that artificial sound of strings! I just LOVE it!!!! :-)
Same here. Or, at least, we should be. The other chunk of the orchestra not in my class who's supposed to be doing this with us is struggling. We *have* do do this! It's our winter concert!
Saw this done live at one of their concerts they had an opera singer with the violin, it was amazing, this was over 8 years ago and I still haven't heard anything like it.
Look at their Christmas Albums. They've taken old carols and updated them. Metal band, orchestra, choirs, and soloists. I'm sure that if they were alive today, that Mozart, Beethoven, Vivaldi, and Tchaikovsky would LOVE TSO and offer to sit down and write music with them.
@Tom Harrison Christmas Eve (Sarajevo 12/24) is my all time favorite TSO song. I just like the intensity of it with the electric guitar and all and how it is still able to sound like "traditional" Christmas song, in my opinion that is a rarity
Well, I think it's done intentionally because they are neo-classical rock. They like to mix and match classical pieces with each other. For example this instrumental has motifs from the "Queen of the Night" aria from Mozart's "Magic Flute" opera and Vivaldi's "Winter" violin concerto. But I have seen other times that they reuse their own riffs so..
all of Mozart's works are so old they're in the public domain, so anyone can use them. Plus on their albums they always say where each song came from, even though the risk of getting sued by Mozart is zero.
TSO has always been known to recycle their material not only from previous TSO records but also from the original Savatage catalog :) I loved their incorporation of Vivaldi's melodies.
I have really dissected Christmas Eve / Sarajavo 12-24 which is based on two traditional songs, starting with the English, "God Rest ye Merry Gentle Men" and the Ukrainian Carol of the bells. I think the the thing that makes it so different is not just the new arrangement but the new music in the middle that breaks up the repetition and allows them build the song intensity. Just my opinion.
Technically they wouldn't have to cite the original composers since the original pieces are public domain, but they do anyway and of course aren't trying to fool anyone.
