Sugar Plum Fairy by Tchaikovsky - GlassDuo LIVE (glass harp) 

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“What instrument do you play?” “I play drinking glasses.”

I bet washing the dishes at their house is a real hoot 😂

"I can't perform tonight." "Why not?" "I can't find my glasses."

This song is officially made specifically for this instrument and no one can convince me otherwise

They must be fun to go out to eat with.... "Waitress?" "Yes?" "Could you bring us another 5 glasses of water? We're missing some notes."

It’s like a mix of bells and strings.

If Tchaikovsky were alive today, witnessing this amazing rendition, he'd be swimming in tears of joy. Tchaikovsky: "Yesss! This is what I was trying to create! The most Sugar Plum Fairy (and Christmas) sounds ever!"

Not being a traditional instrument, it sounds almost otherworldly, which actually makes it sound MORE like fairy music. Bravo!

Fact: This is the optimal instrument for this song.

The dislikes are obviously the Mouse king and his army.

They literally sound like strings and chimes. That's insane. Sounds more magical than the original version

I didn't realize glass could sound this ethereal! A magical performance.

Seems like this instrument is the one it should have been composed for.

Teacher: don’t touch the beakers until I say so The kids in the back of the class:

The ability of these two people to do this with such perfect timing! No adjectives good enough to describe this!

something so simple as a vibration can make our brains melt by such a amazing song... that most definitely feels out of this world, almost as if we found something we weren't meant to discover

This legit sounds like the whole orchestra

This is how this song was meant to be played

I have previously commented on these two geniuses. Having tried this with just a few of the right crystal glasses to obtain what you're hearing is brutally difficult. Watch their hands fingers, palms, thumbs, and a lot more so see how these intricate sounds are seemingly being accomplished. Have a hard time viewing this without tears in my eyes from this ethereal music. All I can say is Bravo!

Its Soooo impressive how they both memorised what sound each glass makes!! :)

*Can’t believe no one took the opportunity to call it ”Glassical music”*

Half of the comments: Instrumentation is on point Other half: ItS tHe aLgOrItHm

I am sitting costly in my little home in the woods, watching the snow fall on the forest outside my windows. This was the perfect thing to come across on this peaceful, dreamy day, it only makes it better that this is one of my all time favorite pieces of music!😊❄❄❄🌪🌬💖

Nothing can match the beautiful sound of a glass harp. This was a brilliant performance thank you.

See you in 10 years when this is in everyone’s recommended yet again.

I was not prepared for how amazing this sounds.

Нам удалось услышать такую же игру вживую. Это был Бал Хризантем прошлой осенью. В Ялте, играл Мужчина. Великолепное звучание🥰💐

The glasses must be glued to the table. Either that or these performers have the most-amazing dexterity and feel. BRAVO!

"Cool champagne glasses, what do you call this?" "Oh, that's C."

My friend: What kind of RU-vid videos do you watch? Me: it's complicated

Came here after watching Genshin 4.0 livestream. Such a beautiful musical instrument. Also great performance thank you for sharing.

Wunderschön 💞🕊❤🗽... Danke

RU-vid recommended: 2011-2019: nah not yet 2020: go go go!

I’m a ballet dancer who has performed the Nutcracker many times, and this is by far one of my favorite versions of this piece of music! Well done!

Божественная мелодия🙏🙏

Bro, I remember watching this on our classroom projector in 2nd grade! 😭😭 The good old days of early 2010’s! 😭

Did anyone else get this randomly in their recommended?

That was the coolest thing I’ve heard in a long time.

The most beautiful rendition of the Suger Plum Fairy! Loved this!

The sound fits so well to the songs melody, as if the sugar plum fairies reality could break any moment as if made of glass.

“I play the violin” “I play the trumpet” I pLaY a GlAsS oF wAtEr

Sounds like it’s being played by fairies!

The co-ordination and sheer musical skill between these two performers is astonishing! So very cool! Love and peace.

Im STILL mesmerized by this technique. It's breathtakingly Beautiful. 🙏🏻💗💗💗👏🏻

My friend: So what instrument do you play? Me: It's complicated.

Let’s be real here. We didn’t find the video. The video found us

THIS IS GLASSICAL MUSIC.

This moved me to tears. One of my absolute favorite songs, and definitely my favorite Christmas song! Stunning!

I've just sat here quite literally gobsmacked for almost the entire piece - jaw dropped after less than 10 seconds and stayed that way. That's proper talent, that is. Yes it's 8 years old and yes, 'RU-vid recycles yet more old crap again' - but you know what - it's been years since I've seen this and I'd forgotten just how magical it sounds. Bravo RU-vid! You can spam me with this shit any day 😊

The sound hypnotizes you that you cant stop listening to it

This is unbelievably beautiful

I remember first lostening to this back in idk 2013? I was so insanely obsessed with this duo, with glass music, with the fairy aesthetic, all because of this clip alone. Lostenih to this again ten years later feels like a fwver dream

It sounds like this piece was made to be played on glasses.

The glass is more in tune than my piano.

Потрясающее исполнение!!! БРАВО!!!

Absolutely beautiful. Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy is one of my favorite instrumental songs of all time.

_Mom: "Stop playing with your cups."_ *_7 Year Old Me At The Dinner Table:_* *_Edit: I can't tell if y'all are getting the joke or if you really think I made music with 20 cups._*

Me: so you guys know how play any instruments. The Glass duo: Yes but no.

Real crystal glasses, with specific amounts of water in each. Beautiful! 🧚‍♀️

Such a beautiful tone, and it just proves that almost anything could be used as a musical instrument. When I was in university I did my thesis on that very subject. Turning every day household items into musical instruments, that play and sound completely unique from traditional instruments we are used to hearing. Almost anything can be used for percussion, I’m sure you’ve all seen videos of people carving out vegetables, especially the carrot, to be used as a flute of sorts, but I managed to make string instruments from tin cans, string, wire, just things most people have sitting around the house. If you have kids, and you want to get their minds going while having fun at the same time, challenge them to see if they can make up a musical instrument from every day ordinary objects in the house, you’ll be amazed at the things you can come up with, and yes, I even did the stereotypical milk carton ukulele, which actually sounded quite good to my surprise! I also did use glass, but not just wine glasses and goblets, but properly balanced on sticks, affixed with an adhesive, I was able to use dinner plates, water pitchers, cutlery, you name it. Sounds rather corny for a University thesis, but I am going to blow my own horn, pardon the pun, and tell you that my professor gave me a perfect score, and more than that, insisted that I bring all the instruments in to the lecture hall, and teach all the students what I had made and how to play them, and as it turned out it was actually pretty fun, we got a rivalry going! My fraternity brothers and I started to compete with other groups in the University, and we actually managed to put on a concert, for the entire university, even managed to raise $200,000 that we donated it to all local schools in the area, so that they may have a better music program for their students, it isn’t that wonderful? I grew up here in Toronto as my name suggests, lived here all my life, pathetically I haven’t gone far, I literally live four blocks from the hospital I was born in! But unfortunately a lot of the schools, both grade schools and high schools are like, have very poor or even absent music programs due to funding issues, so my professor came up with the idea of putting on a concert and charging money to raise funds for these underprivileged schools. Now it’s a yearly tradition, and although I haven’t kept up with the exact amounts, we have raise tens of millions of dollars over the decades, to help students have a proper introduction to music, and as a result, countless students that we helped ended up attending our universities music program, now that’s something to be proud of! But I’m not taking any credit, because it might’ve been my idea for my thesis, but literally hundreds of other people were involved in the creation of these challenges and concerts each year. Anyways, my apologies for rambling on as I always do, but I just had to throw that out there, and say don’t put limits on what you can achieve when it comes to music. Even my own family laughed at me when I was putting the so-called instruments together, but after receiving a perfect score, what does my father say? “Pretty good for junk that probably would have been throwing in the garbage”. Unfortunately, that was 40 years ago, and over the years, I have lost every single instrument that I created, but I also drew blueprints of every single one, so after watching this video, I think I’m going to try to re-create it just for fun. I’m desperately trying to get my grandchildren involved and interested in classical music, but being typical young people, all I get to hear is “that’s for old people“. But I think I can trick them into actually playing classical music on homemade instruments without them even realizing it. Do you want to know how I developed my love of classical music? It’s not because of my family, as I am the only person in my family with any musical interest or ability, it’s from watching Looney Tunes and other various cartoons that used a vast amount of classical music in their programs. Unfortunately, most of those cartoons are just not appropriate for today’s society, most being horrifically politically incorrect, as they were very very sexist, racist, homophobic, and every other social stigma you can imagine, but back when they came out, all those things were socially acceptable. I’m not saying they are acceptable, because after watching the same cartoons as an adult I was horrified, but the music is still there, I wish they would start re-introducing classical music into modern children’s programming. To be honest I don’t know anything about it, because my children are in their 30s, and my youngest grandson is already 13, so I don’t see children’s programs anymore. For those of you with young kids, do they still use classical music at all in children’s programming? If not, maybe that something we need to re-introduce. Classical music will never ever go out of style or die, if anything it’s experiencing a renaissance right now, but the best time to get children interested is preschool, because that’s when I fell in love with classical music. It’s such a different world today than it was when I grew up. I’m not that old, I’m not retired and I still work full-time, I’m in my mid-50s (I skipped several grades), but judging from my family, the younger ones have no interest in classical music whatsoever, and I’m desperately trying to change that, to open their minds to new experiences. Whenever they come over to the house, I always have classical music playing in the background, and then I hear the whining, the complaining, the accusations of listening to nothing but old man music, as they like to refer to it. Again my apologies for going off topic a bit, but it’s something I’m very passionate about, ironically I don’t even work in the music industry, but in medicine instead, but my love of classical music, has never left me, and I still play the piano, trombone, trumpet, tuba, both French and English horns, and I’m pathetically trying to learn the violin, but I’m absolutely useless at it, wind instruments seem to be my forte! Whatever the case, try to get your kids interested, it’s a proven scientific fact that children who grow up exposed to classical music, especially if they enjoy it and learn to playing instruments, greatly increase their neural plasticity, what more reason do you need? If only things weren’t so expensive, because I know how unaffordable most instruments are, even a cheap violin runs several hundred dollars, which isn’t much for me and a lot of people, but for most people who live on a budget and have children, it’s just not feasible, which is why we continue to raise funds every year at those concerts. Thanks for letting me ramble on and on, my gratitude for indulging me, all the best, and if you have any questions, feel free to respond to this post, I’d be happy to answer them. Many thanks, and take care.

"No one can bring this song to its purest form....." Glassduo- 'hold our glasses'

the fact that this was published 9 years ago but yet has better quality than some 2020 videos

As old as this song is and as much as I am tired of hearing it, seeing it played in a new and innovative way gives it new life

Божественный звук и гениальное исполнение!

I’m saving this video under “Crazy Russian Hacks.” Nothing less will do.

Friend: What kind of music do you listen to? Me: I listen to *Glassical Music*

Those glasses are arranged chromatically so the beauty of the music is made visual, it always amazes me how aesthetically pleasing good music is by any perspective.

WOW! Note the size of the glasses, how full, and arranged from tallest to smallest. Amazing!

"Do you play music" "Yes" "What instrument" "Its complicated"

My friend: "What instrument do you play?" Me: "The Glass."

Beautiful - can close my eyes and picture Harry Potter movies which i loved even tho i am 77yrs!!

Playing this on piano is hard enough. Mad respect being able to remember what note corresponds to what glass.

Goes to instrument shop: “Hello how can I help?” “I would like 100 glasses of unique size please”

The dislikes are from the coffee mugs

If I'd try that, I'd probably knock over at least five of them. And cry.

Мамочки мои! Как это красиво!!! ❤❤❤❤❤

i can finally say that i believe in magic now.

This is the perfect instrument for this song! bravo!

Fabulous. Didn’t want it to end even though I knew it was coming.. what a treat. Thank you.

The miracle of human ingenuity sometimes moves me to tears.

Once, a music teacher told me that the musical glasses were not instruments, I told her there were and she kicked me out of the class. I should show her this masterpiece.

Fun fact: Most of us didn’t search this up.

Did this leave anyone here glassy eyed? I'll see my way out.

1:32 mystical magic kicks in here. MERRY CHRISTMAS 2023 EVERYONE !!!!

Let’s be real... Nobody searched this but everyone clicked, everyone watched and everyone liked

My clumsy self would probably end up knocking over all the glasses

Mi parte favorita del Cascanueces junto con el Vals de las Flores. Realmente estos músicos tienen magia en sus manos. Muchas gracias.

Some music is so beautiful that whenever you hear it there tears in your eyes. And on the glass harp? Play it again!

This must be what it’s like to have perfect pitch. Tuning those glasses would be a nightmare for us mere mortals.

This is unbelievable. What a phenomenal rendition, in every aspect.

It took 9 years, but thank you RU-vid for the recommendation !! This one is a beauty!

I can imagine the time it took to get just the right amount of water in each glass to make the right notes. Then learning how to play it. This was a good performance and sounded beautiful. Thank you .

Let’s face it: nobody looked this up.

Imagine how long it must have taken to get the pitch just right for each glass

I feel it. Midnight during Christmas as the snow is falling hearing only your heart!

What a talented duo, bloody beautifully played. Loved it.

I have played a glass harp, and I will gladly tell you , this is not easy!

Awesome. I used to play this on my dad's record player when I was only about 3 years old. I'm 76 years old now, so that was some time ago and I still remember it.

😃😭🥰🤩❤️ I'm Gobsmacked!