Holst: The Planets, 'Mars' - BBC Proms 

miracleofsound ...every time I listen to this my hair stands on end!

Never really thought of it that way. Just another thing that makes these piece amazing

I probably would have been confused...scared...angry. But mostly confused, I think!

Definitely would've scared alot of people

Problem is this: the piece wasn't written until 1913, so your argument, while apt, is moot.

Bart Alder her bangs make it that much better, but amazing conducting.

you sound gay

Golden Eagle Playing this is just as much of a workout as conducting it

Well she made the most of it. Women ARE equal to men. In their natural roles.The lines of which have been somewhat blurred of late.

Yeah she is killing it!!

Did you invite him for dinner?

Michael Cox

The coolest is the director

CEO of flute

As soon as I saw the stache I knew there had to be a comment about it! Have a blessed day

Someone knows their Metal!! 🤘 Also, Nile…Technical Death Metal legends…constructed their song “Ramses Bringer Of War” off of their debut album Amongst The Catacombs of Nephren-Ka

And Geezer Butler mentioned the same thing in interviews. Classical music is equally an influence on Prog Rock and Power Metal. It seems that everyone takes a cue from the greatness of the past, brilliant.

wasn't it Geezer that was a fan of Holst?

Holst. The all-father of metal.

The intro to "am I evil" by Diamond Head was taken from this piece

Ha! Yeah, maybe.

@@poethenry8189 If not maybe, then why not?

@@SmileyandTheUnderclass no, no, definitely maybe. Like the song by that band. You know who I mean?

@@poethenry8189 I'm not certain as this is a classical music video, but I think you mean Oasis! There music rarely captures the war like manner of Holst's piece here, but they do provide a similar anthemic quality in their music in terms of the way they arrange sounds (or "make" music).

*Their. Typo, haha!

Second only to the Chicago symphony orchestra

Not one single musician was looking at her....

😂

A little bit different, but you should check out the young men and women from DCI (Drum Corp International) and watch their Drum Majors. These talented young adults and teens rock!

Dvorak, Dudamel, Symphony no9 ))

​@@jamessteven711bro has no idea how a conductor works

Audrey Utley, Energy is totally useless unless it manifests itself into a first class performance, in most cases it doesn't.

Audrey Utley check out Franz Anton Krager! I was lucky enough to be conducted by him. Great energy and overall great person.

The conductor is as much a performer to the audience as a coordinator to the orchestra.

My dad was a conductor and said that conducting the large concerts he would lose weight, about 2 kgs!

Bit over the top

Thankyou - nice to be appreciated :-)

But thats Tuba Tenor

ya, who among us hasn't been waiting for a legit Eu.. Eupho... Eu-pho-ni-um solo.

@@PromixDelPiero and its a bloody euphonium!

For the philistines amongst us, could you please tell us when to look out for this Euphonium solo or, indeed, what the blinkin’ heck it even looks like?

Try 'Peer Gynt Suite No.1 - Morning Mood' by Grieg.

Elytra Pug 1874 -1934 composed during ww1

Elytra Pug it is classical music

Elytra Pug haydn mozart and beethoven are considered classical but these as well Stravinsky prokofiev holst elgar etc

Elytra Pug because it's not baroque or romantique

Shostakovich's 8th Symphony.

I can't agree.. I think most artists, as creative types, are horrified by war and its devastation, and it's no different in classical music. Shostakovich, Nielsen, Sibelius, Britten, Richard Strauss, Vaughan Williams, etc. all wrote famous musical responses to the horrors of the 20th century's new mechanized form of warfare.

You have neglected the positive effects of war .

@@rilakkumafarm9159 which are? war is a terrible thing, it's bad for everyone involved.

@@georgsgrants9925 Even though it is a big taboo and will most likely start a debate, wars helped greatly in creating new ways to defend our country, to attack as well of course, but actually it is thanks to WW1 that the big part of the code of war exist which prohibit the use of chemicals weapons, for example, and the creation of the atomic bomb is right now one of the best thing we can use as a threat to big countries who would want to start a war. Without WW2 the US would probably not have been one of the most powerful country in the world and there would be most likely no Europe. Even if they were terrible things, the many experiences done in Auschwitz and the Unit 731, they helped in understanding more about the Human body (Even if I agree that most of those experiments were more fantasy-like type of science sometimes). So yes, wars helped, and there is probably more things about it that I haven't said or know. And yes, wars are terrible things but that exists since the dawn of mankind when we were already creating clans against each others. In a kind of ironic way, it is thanks to wars that Humanity have somewhat learned to prevent them from happening.

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I was about to comment that!!

oh jesus, he loves hair...

Masøn Burke thx for that

I did double-take at that bit...

It's only 2 of dis symbol ** it's not three like dis***

Nah hes saying fu**s

Me too, and it looks like he had it "done" especially for this performance. :-)

Yes, indeed! Amazing mustache. His name is MICHAEL COX, one of the most important British flautists, a very well-known and highly respected musician. Mr. Fox is a professor of flute, with an interesting career as both a soloist and a chamber musician, principal flute of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the Academy of St Martins of the Fields. Google BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA FLAUTIST MICHAEL COX which will take you to his home page, where you will find a great picture of Mr. Cox with his glorious mustache. And, no, he did not have it done especially for this performance. It takes a very long time to grow something this extraordinary.

Ajescent it was made in 1913... sounds pretty old to me. 😉

@@jackdonohue7893 haha thats a funny one

lol your a comedian

This is so funny

So you just ripped off another person's comments from the mars video on RU-vid he wrote over a year ago. You just done what you acusesd john Williams of doing ha ha.

Think that’s bad, Brian Tatler from Diamond Head ripped this off on one their songs, Am I Evil?

@@JordanT.Zacharias E1M1 from doom is also basically a cover

I heard it in Astro Biscuits video where he was taking pictures of... mars ironicaly and something passed in front of it!

Back in the early to mid 90s when I was in middle school we played The Planets for our Concert Band. I played the trumpet. I remember playing both Mars and Jupiter as well as a few others from the score. If I remember correctly Mars was the Bringer of War and Jupiter was the Song of Jubilee. Each song from The Planets has a distinct sound that matches what it represents. It's a great and fun piece to play!

They are not many, but hopefully we'll see more of them. She did a great job conducting this!

Christine Hals the middle school I go to has a male and female conductor and I've been in boths bands

Funny enough when I was in a band our first conductor was a woman.

Bumble Douche Really? All of mine were females

Jason Veloso No one is asking for bad women conductors, fuckass. Last I checked, there a lot of men who are pretty shitty at what they do too, we’d all be better off if we had good representation of quality men and women in their fields.

" This stick makes everything follow my command.. "

You forgot to subtract 1% from one of those to fit in your comment in the equation...then again, there are lot of those comments here...

@@kaiser9287 my comment counts as each of the categories!

@@ekaterinakonovalova1377 dota 2 Mars?

the beginning sounds like the airship theme from Mario

I have a feeling some unspoken is those who did it as a marching band arrangement, either pep tune or full piece

Except no one in the orchestra is watching her and every motion she signals is lagged by the orchestra. Very weird.

Jovet orchestral conductors will sometimes conduct a fraction of a beat ahead

@@jovetj most recordings both the timing

@@jovetj Oh, you can be sure that they are watching her but they still look at their sheet music. When you learn to play in an orchestra and especially if you're at that level you set your vision in a way that you can see both at the same time. So they look like they're not looking but they are

Give credit to Gustav Holst

do u mean conductor lmao

Truth, except I was in middle school when we played this.

Marching a 5/4 song lol, nice

Andre' Mactal this is better though

averagecoasterenthusiast na

ikr if black Sabbath never did use mars as inspiration we wouldnt have metal

arty99 And Jimmy Page played it within live versions of 'Dazed and Confused'.

really? how do you know?

Lucky Dude Bernstein?

Karajan?

Charley Hibschweiler Robert Shaw?

Rattle?

Dudamel

lol

Nick Hoad i

Nick Hoad um play bass clarinet and is in middle school

As a tenor in choir who often sits right behind the french horns, I feel at least some of your pain.

I was the euphonium player... my ears hurt

I'm not a dog amen

I'm not a dog no shit

Thank god you're not a dog, man.

+King Ludwig II I have never met a Fin, but judging by what state they left the soviet army after they tried an invasion, i heartily agree

Yep. That was a bad war for us. And it was quite injustice to people of Finland as well. But we got some territory (as we had not enough already...) political and strategy meanings was involved. So technically, USSR kinda won, but theese lads from Finland are tough, and love their land. Don't mess with them lightly. Good people they are. I hope, we will never be at war again. And we are actually a distant relatives. Modern russians are descendants of slavik refugees from Kievan Rus (Mongol invasion caused this), who was driven to northern forests and swamps of Rus. And they're actually assimilate the local finnish tribes who lived there. Moskow itself stands on that lands. So we, russians, originally, a finnish-slavik people. Our history and linguistic reserches affirm that fact.

The Gadget Crew not quite but very early whatsoever

The Gadget Crew what about Mozart Symphony 25?

what about winter from the 4 seasons?

Wagner is more metal and older I'd say, but Black Sabbath song is literally cover of Mars, so yeah, that's definitely metal!

Strelok Gunslinger Black sabbath (the song), the middle section from Children of the grave (sabbath) and the intro to Am I evil? (Diamond head), these all sound like this and are amazing songs!

Reminds me of Lego Batman 2 sorry

Diminished, but i think it's the orchestration that makes its vive

Tamlan Dipper wow never knew that! Thanks!

@@cparis2990 You never knew it because it's BS. Holst didn't finish composing the 'Planets Suite' until 1916, two years AFTER WWI started. The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand started WWI.

@@patrickdoran180 old and everybody who has a high school education (meaning everybody) knows about the assassination. likely was just a joke.

You can hear the constant drumbeat of war throughout this piece, so relentless it is.

@@patrickdoran180 I thought that the buildup of geopolitical tensions in the Balkan region, culminating in the Serbian independence movement, serving as a spark to the powderkeg of rivalry and secret alliances among the European empires, compounded with a general naivite as to the full apocalyptic potential of modern weaponry, is what inevitably led to World War 1, whether or not a certain fellow got shot on a particular day.

don't forget O'Fortuna...Orff.

The demon god by joe hisaishi

I agree

If you like those two you’ll also enjoy “Night on Bare Mountain” by Mussourgsky.

Good stuff 🙂

6:33 there now experience the destruction >:D

@@milly_walters0856 "Your All Clear Kid, Now Lets Blow This Thing And Go Home!!"

@@dtaylor4552 "Remember, the Force will be with you. Always."

Me too. This and the devastating pure terrible awfulness of human death in Prokoviev's Romeo and Juliet.

Got me in my 20s

Best thing u did 👍

Quit honking, I heard you the first time!!

The ting go skrra

I was looking for you fellow henchmen.

kevs musicandstuff effect

thank you for the lyrics

Borstal

I played this for our middle school concert band back in the early to mid 90s. I played the trumpet. It's a great score and it is a fun piece to play!

Thankyou brasschick42, that's me on the euph!

bro i think you do XD

I hope she doesn’t know where I live

@@me_is_hobo she does 😨😨😨

UncleDraggi The CSO recording is my favorite

Funny it scared the hell out of me too.

I always picture that is the exact moment when Mars, the god of war himself, steps out on the battlefield, and the enemy army’s stomachs sinks as they come to the harrowing realisation: they have already lost.

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I’m a euphonium player and listening to recordings I didn’t know it was a euphonium until watching this video

It sounds like the tatooine soundtrack from Star Wars

@@netherwolves3412 it’s memed most of John Williams compositions were written by holst before he was even born

Thankyou! (it's me playing)

D'une évidence absolue ...

She German btw?

@@mdemanuel1911 Finnish

The second half of the 20th century was the best and most peaceful time in human history

@@FantadiRienzo the cold war?? the cuban missile crisis?? the korean war?? vietnam?? the constant threat of annihilation by nuclear weapons??

@@fabiannathanael9859 Most peaceful doesn't mean totally peaceful. Btw, why do you only list american wars? "Cold war" and "constant threat of nuclear annihilation" sounds like you didn't really experience what life was like back then. If you felt like you were in a war and nuclear bombs could drop any moment, you were probably paranoid.