Pas de deux from 'The Nutcracker'. Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893) Orchestra: The National Philharmonic Of Russia Conductor: Vladimir Spivakov
@@Ludwig1625 I agree with you, the divine Mark did not approve of my phrase, and even I, as a modest follower of stoicism, I understand that this is not entirely good. But it was just a stereotypical joke.
@@jarthurpaxton9223 Thank you for your recommendation, i really liked, it is indeed very sophisticated and complex. I didn't knew this Rachmaninov composition. But I still prefer the feeling and intensity that pas de deux conveys to me, so it is a personal opinion and it's not an incontestable truth. So to me pas de deux is the best composition ever made :)
@@helenaaa7711 glad you enjoyed it! And glad that the whole world doesn't have the same opinion about these things! Would be awfully boring if we did 🙂
I remember when I was 4, listening to this song on vinyl with my dad and he would tell me all the Nutcracker story. I was in my little warm dress and we always waited for 3:30 for me to run in his arms from across the living room so he can lift me high to the roof like a ballerina. I'm 29 now and this memory still brings me happy tears listening to this masterpiece.
Desiree Debose had always been a force to be reckoned with on the dance floor. Born and raised in Chicago, she had grown up surrounded by the city's vibrant music scene and had honed her skills as a dancer in the clubs and bars of the Windy City. But despite her talent and passion, she had always felt like something was missing. That all changed when she met Jerome Washington, a black man with a dream of starting his own record label. Jerome was immediately taken with Desiree's energy and spirit, and he saw in her the perfect partner to help him launch his label. Together, they began to work on a new sound that blended elements of pop, easy listening, worldbeat, and EDM to create a unique and infectious style. As they worked, Desiree's desire to leave Chicago and see the world grew stronger, and she began to dream of a life beyond the city limits. Enter Jack Lee, a white dancer from Freeman Country, Virginia. Jack had been traveling the world, performing in clubs and bars and honing his own unique style. When he met Desiree and Jerome, he was immediately drawn to their energy and their music. The three of them began to dance together, and as they did, something magical happened. The music they created together was unlike anything anyone had ever heard before, a fusion of styles and rhythms that seemed to transcend borders and boundaries. As they performed together, Desiree's desire to leave Chicago began to fade, replaced by a newfound love for the music and the people she had found in Jerome and Jack. She knew that she had found her place in the world, and that she would never be content to stay in one place for too long. The thrill of the road and the rush of the stage were her home now, and she knew that she would always be a wanderer at heart. And so, Desiree, Jerome, and Jack set out on a journey to leave Chicago behind and take their music to the world. They danced through the nightclubs and waltzed through the trips, spreading their unique sound and their message of love and unity wherever they went. And as they did, they knew that they were changing the world, one dance at a time.
I was expecting a nice waltz or something easy in the background, I wasn't ready to be lifted from my seat into the stars on a journey of transcendent magnificence.
But seeing colors, and nature is also beautiful and breath taking, especially when you see the face of your beloved, just like hearing your most favorite music that makes your heart feels love.
As a person who has been blind since infancy, may I speak? I would like to agree with your sentiment. That’s why I keep coming back to the song over and over and over and over again.
First time I heard this I cried like I've never cried before 😭 how can something so beautiful exist. Perfectly encapsulated within the notes is love, longing, beauty, sadness, regret, pity, oh God!
I was two when I heard this for the fist time and I erupted into inconsolable bawling for no apparent reason, that's how deep it touched me even before I had any idea about the pain life can bring. I am 32 now and it still affects me the same way.
Russian folk music can also make you cry ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-iKa6ooXY5BQ.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-D7jzoaao6mY.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CpQlM4L3-7U.html
the story behind it it's even sadder. Tchaikovsky wasn't really sure how to approach the Nutcracker, since he worked in more somber and dignified ballets before (the sleeping beauty and the swan lake) but this was commissioned and he couldn't say no, so there he was, uninspired. The Nutcracker's joyful and dreamlike story wasn't his forte, not when the man battled with depression for so long. He went to visit his family to soothe his mind, but a tragic event happened and his brother didn't have the heart to tell him, so Tchaikovsky heard the news when he came back to Moscow. His sister, the person he loved the most, passed away. It was then when he composed this piece as he imagined his sister dancing to it, maybe he remembered the days where they were younger and united as family, playing and opening gifts in Christmas just like Clara at the beginning of the story, maybe that was what made him realize how important this ballet was. A fun time for the family, a story of hope that in the end was just a mere dream. He really put his heart into this piece and the sorrowful acceptance is so vivid in it!
Mr. Tchaikovsky, you sadly did not receive the recognition you deserved while alive. But there are millions whom you have touched with your gift. Wherever you are, I hope you are at peace and in eternal happiness. Thank you for this amazing work of art. I cry every single time.
Ouch. I felt this pain and longing as I read this comment and listened to the music simultaneously. I was about to say, this sounds like something a Florence and the Machine fan would say...then I realized that your username is possibly based on "Strangeness and Charm" by Florence and the Machine. As a fellow fan, I approve.
@@dancingheart6224 oh, you're very attentive! Yes I'm a huge FATM fan and I named my blog (and afterwards my RU-vid account after Strangeness and Charm). I'm glad to meet a fellow FATM fan.
Love that hurts... the beauty of This Music renders the Heart of the believer of newfound love impervious to the fact that you must Lose your loved-one sometime... thank you for This comment!
I'm French and we have some of the greatest composers of all time in classical music, yet in my opinion none reaches the greatness of the Russian composer, Tchaikovsky.
It feels like a wounded soul that’s finally blossoming, driven and stirred by feelings of joy and love, perhaps for the first time ever, until it’s so overwhelmed with emotion that it gives in and completely embraces it.
If you subscribe to the idea this entire piece was written by Tchaikovsky as both a musical memorial to his dead sister and as a personal expression of his own grief and acceptance then yeah...
i completely felt this way too. regardless of what others here reply to you. what lies in the subconscious is something else. also i am a believer that music speaks of and reflects our own experiences. this is probably what we are going through right now.
@ClandestineOstrich Tbh I was obsessed trying to find a partner. All feelings you mentioned was the daily mood. But for the time I decided to switch to improve myself, and I was full focused on building my careers and find a way to enjoy my work. The way I found happiness was hard because you must feel happy with your own to be happy with your partner. Then move on be confident with your personality, share time with people who add positive value to your life and avoid toxic relationships. Once you get there, you will find a supportive partner, but never forget you must be happy with or without him/her. TDLR focus on build your happiness on your own, eventually you will find the right partner.
@ClandestineOstrich you must build your self-confidence and happiness on your own. Support from a partner is a gift, it should make you happier because it is a fulfill experience. But you can't rely on people support, you can't "need" someone's support because that is not healthy. You can build your energy from doing workout and working on your art daily will make you more attractive and self-confident. Eventually you will feel stronger mentally as you feel fit. And that will help you to find someone with no extra effort. Healthy body, healty brain. Hope it helps you
i dont know anything about ballet or classical music, i'm a hiphop dancer. but this is the most beautiful thing i've ever heard and i'm sobbing listening to it. i can't even put the emotion this song represents into words--it's almost like a bittersweet feeling, a tragic love. i have never heard of this composer in my life, but some people's talents are truly a gift to the world and this man's was one of them.
Se mi permetti vorrei suggerirti di ascoltare il primo movimento della 6 Sinfonia di Tckaikoski travolgerà le tue emozioni. E ancora il 2 movimento della 5 Sinfonia. Ascoltali e i tuoi sentimenti saranno elevati e ti pentirai di non avere conosciuto prima questo grande Autore. Cordiali saluti
I don't understand what it is about 19th century Russia that made it so outstanding. It's almost an age that deserves recognition in the history books.
I usually hear little of Russia, but when I started reading classicals I find Russian to be my favourite. Not even French literature with all their glamour could compare to my first Russian classical novel, the one that immediately settled Russian literature in my heart : Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Still haven't read a book that could leave an impression as strong on me as that one.
I play the cello. I played this piece in my freshman year of high school, and am currently at the end of my junior year. This is probably the piece that made me realize my dream of becoming a professional musician, and most likely my favorite piece of music of all time. Thank you so much, Mr. Tchaikovsky.
I'm neither a cello player nor professional musician, just an amateur piano player who's majoring mechanical engineering in uni. but this piece always motivates me every time and i hope that i can play this sheet with piano someday. Hope you can make your dream come true to be a professional musician.
O.K. yesyes talent you can prepare for your self God give you healthy faces and bodys that is talent God give you You can prepare a lot yesyes for yourself
Arguably one of the most extraordinary pieces of art ever created. Tchaikovsky was the only man capable of creating music that would have been suitable for heaven itself. It's spellbinding. If there's one song humanity should cherish forever, let it be this one.
This is Tchaikovsky at his most lyrical, heartbroken, despairing peak. My heart cries for him each time I listen to The Nutcracker, his fairytale fantasy of a happy life. Keep resting in peace and power, Pëtr.
you put it so well. I cry rivers everytime i hear this piece. If I try to put what i feel listening to this piece, it would be smth like this: a purity, a dream, a hope, admiration, devotion, love. But then...disappointment, sadness, anger, hopelessness, being hit by the reality (multiple times), again a tiny piece of hope, and then final and utter disappointment... and death. This piece precisely describes (without a word) something grand and essential which started so beautifully and ended with heartbreaking disappointment. I dont know.. I think this piece is very tragical, considering that this is actually a duet of the Prince and Sugar Plum Fairy.
Такое удушающее, тошнотворное, но и тёплое и далекое чувство детской ностальгии от этой музыки… исполнение шедевральное. Как же я люблю этот отрывок. Люблю до слез.
Когда он писал эту музыку, то пришло известие о смерти его младшей сестры от передозировки морфия(если я правильно помню). Думаю, вы услышали именно то, что он хотел сказать, ностальгия за детством со своей маленькой сестрёнкой и прощание с ней. Ведь эта музыка на самом деле несёт в себе очень глубокую и глубоко заложенную грусть...
@@rhomai не полностью горькое, есть в нём и немного сладкого в чем то далёком, в памяти, навсегда в прошлом... И от этой сладости горечи ещё больше. Сколько сложных эмоций, Чайковский был гением в том, как рассказывал свои чувства музыкой
Dude this is litturally the last song at the end before the finale (I have preformed it before), it is in my opinion the best dance and song out of the whole nutcracker and even I want to cry while preforming because this song just is so much energy and emotions, it's a whole other level if u listen to the whole nutcracker, trust me
Whenever they performed the Pas at our nutcracker growing up there was total silence backstage and in the wings. Everyone was in awe of the sheer beauty being performed on stage, every single time.
Spivakov and the National Philharmonic of Russia! I just learned the source of this the absolute best version of the Nutcracker Pas de Deux. It seems to stand out more than all the other pieces in Nutcracker. There is a sense of tragedy, loss, and fatalism which would mark the last music Tchaikovsky ever composed. The thrilling climaxes and crescendos. This is so moving. I can hear the heartache. It's a winter ballad. It's falling snow deep snow on the ground in the forest a snow storm keeping lovers apart from each other. Absolutely shattering and amazing. At least in this pas de deux Spivakov truly 'got' Tchaikovsky and understood everything. I am in tears.
It's even more magical when you're dancing the pas de deux with a close friend and you just get wrapped up in the music and the story. It's hard not to cry on stage :)
Yes Gen, I feel you. I have listened to this so many times yet it has ahold of me once again and the tears won’t stop flowing and my entire body is in spasmodic mode in response to Pyotr.
I can't understand how a theme that basically consists of a descending major scale can be so powerful. That requires the perfect implementation of harmony, rythm, dynamic, orchestration and context. Tchaikovsky was truly a genius.
Tchaikovsky expressed his musical ideas with emotion, without which the music becomes boring. It isn't just about playing the notes: when the orchestra play with emotion then the listener just might get to feel the soulfulness of the music. And when the feelings are expressed in performance, and the listening audience connects with those feelings, wow 💣💥😍
First heard this song while driving. Just looked up Nutcracker and let it play. Really amazed this song is not more well known. But that goes for a lot of this type of music. Most people dont know Moonlight Sonata has three movements.
I went to a Nutcracker concert during this Christmas break, it was I think my first time in a real spectacle with an orchestra and everything. Let me tell you people, if you already love this song on RU-vid , then you definitely should try, one time in your life, to go listen to it with an actual orchestra playing live in front of you. My heart pumped out of my chest at the momentum/catharsis of the song. I had the luck to listen to the music while looking at two ballet dancers who were dancing a duet with beautiful dresses and there even was fake snow at the end of the song/choreography. It was magical, I was in Fairyland. The overall show was good, but this was extraordinary, I swear to god I’ll try to attend to a Swan lake representation one day too. The only frustration came from the people who clapped before the last symbal, because they obviously didn’t know the song or didn’t know it well enough but hey, I though screw them 😂
Almost every time I listen to this, tears come to my eyes. So beautiful and dramatic✨... I've heard that the whole Nutcracker was planned by Tchaikovsky as a farewell to childhood or something like that. Brilliant! 👏
I read that he composed this as an elegy for his beloved sister after she passed away. I did always think this piece felt like a lament, haunting and full of grief. I always want to cry when I listen to it.
it’s literally 3am right now, and i’m staring at the moon and listening to this beautiful work and i just, wow it felt like the moon was brighter at the crescendo and now tears are streaming down my face
As a dancer who does the nutcracker every year, this brings back so many amazing memories of waiting backstage while the snow queen and prince do their dance. It is such a magical thing, and when the crowd cheers so loudly before every comes on for the last part...... I love it so much. It truly is the most magical time of the year.
I do the Nutcracker myself every year too, And this year I got the honor of playing the role of Clara in this year’s Nutcracker production! I’m so excited, Whenever I listen to the soundtrack, I keep thinking I need to be on stage what am I doing- Haha
Sometimes I ask myself, how is it possible to create such a masterpiece? Painters, musicians, poets: how can they do this? How can they catch these emotions, these feelings so accurate? How can they express them so clearly? I am crying right now because I am happy that such humans existed. I am crying because this is my inner response to this masterpiece. I am crying because I am happy.
To me, this is one of the most heartbreaking songs ive ever heard. Apparently Tchaikovsky wrote this score during the news that his sister had died, and it truly sounds like all of that grief was poured into the music. It sounds like the fleeting, desperate, but ultimately futile grasps for something you're destined to lose. It makes me think, loving someone is the saddest thing a person can do.
@@Gospodin_Brante Дело не в том, доказано это или нет. Есть вещи плохие есть хорошие, есть личные. Гей ли он - его личное дело .В первую очередь он музыкальный гений
Even i was a boy i watched those barbie movies, and these classics have a special place in my heart (don’t tell me only girls watched those barbie movies)
Dude you're so cool for saying it. And no, you're not alone, a lot of guys I know have watched Barbie movies. It's not a big deal they never said Barbie was just for girls.
As a guy who has seen all the original old school Barbie movies, the nutcracker was the most awesome of them, easy top two right behind princess and the pauper
The three Tchaikovsky ballets are, in my opinion, at the summit of human artistic creation. I don't think anything surpasses the immense creative genius of these masterworks.
@@DTJKS Agreed, #TchaikovskySymphonyNo5, and 6, are more condensed brilliance, as are the #TchaikovskyViolinConcerto, and #TchaikovskyPianoConcertoNo1. Symphony No.5 is his best, although some say 6, but all his famous pieces are great.
Beethoven was at the same level, and in some ways surpasses Tchaikovsky (and in some ways Tchaikovsky surpasses). In terms of raw emotion, they are both par IMHO. Of course this is just re: music. If speaking of painting or sculpture, the conversation goes in a very different direction.
Listening to this masterpiece in December, made me feel how it sounds like this year to me. I started it with little steps of fake hope did a little well that I didn't even notice, went through storms but never gave up and always returned to the right path, tasted alot of disappointments and bad treatment that I stopped giving a damn, which made me stick even more to my hopes in the universe. And suddenly all my goals started to manifest in my life! Suddenly I became worthy of everything I ever wanted. I'm still celebrating every little achievement that nobody notice. Thanks God for being generous to me, thanks for being worthy of my faith❤
Obviously the whole thing's not a scale: I mean those first eight notes on the strings, after the harp has set the scene. That phrase, which appears again and again through the piece in various musical costumes (e.g. relative minor at 0:30), is a downward scale, isn't it, surely? I'll concede he does sprinkle a little rhythmical change on it to turn it into a tune - you'd get a frown from your music examiner playing one in that rhythm - but that's the wonder of it: with a touch of creativity a great composer can turn something basic into gold.
Try listning to "Aase's Death" from the Peer Gynt suite. It's a musical portrait of an old, seriously ill woman seemingly getting better followed by a downward motif indicating she's not getting better after all. I will never understand how orchestra members can stay dry eyed while performing it.
Sascha Shingles It gets me too. I was that wrestler jock in high school that got asked to be the prince in our local Nutcracker production, and I fell in love with this piece. Every time it would begin playing while I was on the throne, I'd subtly tear up...
Sasha, as I wrote above: Is this the most intense passionate piece of music ever written? (This is quite an intense rendition in my opinion) Like his Andante cantabile, con alcuna licenza from Symphony No. 5 (second movement).
This is simultaneously triumphant and melancholic. it's like catching the eye of a brother over a battlefield in chaos and taking a moment to revel in that at whatever may happen, victory or defeat, you were with them
To me, this song is like all your suppressed feelings; confusion, sadness,anger and feeling conflicted while so many things are happening around you. Everything is going by quickly. Life's nothing but a beautiful disaster. This song gives me solace and washes my worries away. Something ethereal and inspiring. All you can do is smile and move on while still having these feelings rooted inside. This is what the song is to me.
I may be wrong, but I heard that much of the music we hear in the ballet and major parts of the plot were added in homage to Tchaikovsky's close sister, who died a year after the first version of it was performed. He had the music and plot rewritten so that Clara/Marie was the main character, that there was a Sugar Plum Fairy, and all the magical beauty that made the ballet what we know now is because of this newer version. It wasn't just to make the ballet more exciting or fun; it was Tchaikovsky's way of coping the lost of his sister. He kept her memory alive through the characters and music, and now I can't hear the music without my heart breaking.
When the choir gets to be with the band I don’t think anyone appreciates it as much as I do. My college band did this at our Christmas concert. When I heard this for the very first time at dress rehearsals I cried. There is just something about it. It’s like how fully realizing everything that happened to you all at once. The horns the rage. The strings the sadness. The beautiful decent to heart break all in one piece. This song unlocked some primal response in my body when I heard it for the first time.
If God gave the gift of Melody to any one composer in abundance, it was to Tchaikovsky. I have carried such thoughts for him in my heart since I was a child to this day. And, for almost 50 years, his framed photo has been on my desk. After all these years, he is still there ...
Alletsasil, for me as well. It could be the lovely sound of the violins that repeat the note (in different scale) several times. But really I love the song from start to finish... from the very first note to the very last one. I love that it begins in a sweet and lovely melody and ends in a very powerful and dramatic way. Truly a masterpiece.
I play this in my classroom for 4th grade and even some of the kids cry... I choke back tears when I hear it too. It's always a beautiful experience everytime I listen.
i am 12 years old and in tears at 1:06 am . God is almighty he will always be there and I am so thankful for that. When no one cared he did . He helped me through a lot. Please pray for me god bless you all
As a ballerina, I can think of when I hear this piece is backstage at my favorite old theater, it’s a week before Christmas. The whole cast is waiting in the wings for finale, silently shuffling around while watching this beautiful dance take place. There’s a revered silence and energy in the air, like everyone’s holding their breath, a brief moment of calm in the storm. The beautiful music coming through the speakers so loud and reverbing off of the high domed ceiling you can feel it in your bones. Time warps, going so fast while going so slow. I can’t even begin to describe the feeling when the audience erupts into applause at the end and everyone backstage is cheering and clapping too, and listening to this piece without it just feels so empty. 2020 was the first time in 10 years I went without it. I know someday I will be the sugar plum fairy and have the honor of performing this dance, but for now I just get to sit here and cry, reminiscing on some of the best times of my life, and how much I’ve missed out on.
I love you, you're amazing. Don't worry, it'll be back to normal someday. Please make sure to post a recording of your performance when you get that part and do this dance.
Wow. You have the most elegant way of putting things. As a writer and a ballerina, I support you and hope that one day it will get back to normal. ❤❤❤ hope you get this and just remember, patience is key.
I can name several people in my life who can't stand to hear classical music.. I try to play 1 round of Nutcracker during Christmas and they beg me to turn it off.. I will never understand it. To hate the sound of art, carved from the face of heaven..it's like a curse, to hear something so resplendent, so beautiful, and not love it.
Otherwise known as my brother. I always say “Alexa play Tchaikovsky’s the nutcracker” and my brother begs me he’s like “TURN IT OFF THIS IS SO ANNOYING!” so I always say “annoying to you, art to everyone else in the world” (an exaggeration, not everyone thinks it as art)
@@stevetutty2818 But at least they need to respect other person's taste. Not everyone has an attention span longer than 8 seconds. Sorry if that was overheated.
Im dumbfounded why classical music is so underrated, like its the best why dont people listen to them? other than those mainstream ones...You know, Canon in D, Flight of the bumblebee, Summer, Fur elise, etc.
there was a time where the music mentioned was mainstream. It's just been.. kinda forgotten about, for the world and media changed and thus this basically drowned with the other mentioned music tracks.
Because today in a digital era at the same time that everyone can listen to classical music, most people just what listen to song with catchy lyrics and 3 minutes long. I'm not against that type of music, but because of it people aren't usually patient enough to truly stop and listen a classical instrumental piece like this one.
