My mom used to have a doll with a windup cord that used to play this but messed up because of audio compression. So she used to wind it up to help put 5 year old me to sleep. Unfortunately i was scared to death by the beginning so every night id hide under the covers until it ended. So i suppose Im guilty of crimes against humanity.
Because ir is about a naive passion destined to never-to-be-realized since it is forbidden by society. This masterpiece is most probably about his gay lover which he will never be together.
Indeed , it definitely gave me goosebumps when the beat changed, there were shivers running down my spine the whole time , such a beautiful masterpiece
I’m afraid they hated this show when it first came out. I think it was a little ahead of it’s time. The world just wasn’t ready back then. But today? It’s one of the most popular Ballets ever written.
@@billbill5283 beethoven came before Tchaikovsky, also by the time this piece came out, he would have been completely deaf, so there's that. LVB, no offense, I have mad respect for you. :)
@@princelostinlove that's how it goes with most things that are famous now. for example, people absolutely despised Holst's The Planets. sometimes they just weren't ready for it i guess idk lmao
@@IronianKnight probably not that many anymore because even really good music now isn't legendary because the legends are too afraid to create music nowadays.
my grandpa gave me a small jewelry box and inside was a little ballerina. when i winded up the wind part in the back of the box, it twirled around to this song except it was a bit sped up and more high pitched. i could never forget it and i have finally found the song after literal years. this makes me happy 🤍
My Nana had one too, i think it was dark wood with little painted flowers on the box. If i stayed over night she would play it before I went to bed, lovely memories. 😊
That’s awesome. I have a ballerina playing the violin, you turn the knob underneath her and this song plays. I’ve had her for about 28 years now, and I’m daughters absolutely love her.
Thays because It's supposed to represent the story of swan lake. The white swan is a girl who years to be free, but is trapped in a body of a swan. Only by getting a loves true kiss that she can break the curse and get her freedom back, but her evil twin, the black swan, decieves her and gets the prince to fall in love with her instead. Devatested, the white swan kills herself by jumping off a cliff. The angelic notes represent the white swan, whilst the black notes represent the black swan
In Russia this is known as a song with which the Soviet Union died. This song, or better say a video of ballet 'Swan Lake' was on all tv stations during the August coup in 1991, which was the last event that brought to dissolution of USSR. For full three days this was the only thing you could hear and see on TV, because during the coup all news were forbidden. Very ironic considering that ''swan's song'' is a name for someone's last act, before he dies.
I love the fact barbie movies used to have this soundtracks (like this and the nurtcracker). You know classical music basically masterpieces from great composers. the good things is it teachs children what music really is. I'm glad I was one of those children.
I love this piece because it so effectively evokes multiple feelings. It's a sweeping, romantic, epic, tragic, and even a little sinister all at the same time.
Amazing how, even 150 years later, this piece manages to evoke such grand emotions....the composer could never in his wildest dreams have conceived of the technology that now lets us enjoy this masterpiece all across the globe. An intangible, ethereal network based on abstract electrical impulses that connect places and people instantaneously across vast distances...? It would have seemed to him at best a fantastical hallucination. And yet, here we are...music truly seems to transcend time.
Coincidentally, on my first playthrough of Fallout 4, this song was on the classic radio station as I discovered Swans spawn point and the part after 2:20 is where he erupted from the ground, and now this gaming memory will live with me forever. It couldn't have been more perfectly synced.
The incredibly moments where amazing music syncs up with something that you’re in control of, likely video games, is an almost intoxicating experience. I’m glad you’ll remember that for ever. It certainly deserves to be remembered.
the song IS the story of black swan. She starts off innocent and pure, then does dark and black. Natalie (i forget the charactors name) goes back to the innocence but its tainted. she then struggles with both the sides and in the end the dark side wins
The part at 2:12 - 2:40 always make my heart feel like it’s bursting from my chest with pure admiration for the sheer power these notes held in every single instrument. It also has the feeling of beauty and grace but terrifying power and strength. So moving, my secondary favorite piece first being Claire De Lune.
The emotions this song makes me feel is such a wide range. I remember my sister had a music box of it that used to creep me out as a kid because I always thought of that one mini game from fnaf 3. Recently the song has taken on a new meaning with me understanding the story a lot better with it representing more the clash between good and evil in the series. Fredbear represents the good in Henry and Spring bonnie representing the evil in William. It always makes me tear up with how emotional the song is. Just recently I played Signalis and had a flash back when I heard this song and nearly cried.
I remeber listening to this piece for the first time in the movie billy elliot! What a wonderful ending scene, i recommend everyone to watch this movie
Man I’m almost 23 and the one thing I want for my birthday since I was little is going to the Swan Lake ballet…I love it so much, gives me goosebumps everytime.
BARBIE!!! Hahahah I didn't think anyone knew about that movie!! Wow, the amount of nostalgia right there is insane!! My sisters were so obsessed with it when I was little, and I remember I would always watch it with them literally just so I could hear the music... aaaand watch the scene with the cookies in the bakery. I always thought the low-budget CGI did a great job making them look delicious. But that movie was my first exposure to this soundtrack, and I've been in love with it ever since. Wow, that was a much needed dose of memories tonight. :-)
I was listening to this piece at maximum volume & my next door neighbor liked it so much that he threw a brick through my window so he could hear it better! I feel so honoured by their genuine appreciation for this masterpiece. 🎇
Mate! I hope you're recovering from your irreplaceable loss. I know time might still feel hard but you have all the courage because you're a part of her which lives on.
At the age of 13, I was hired to care of a child of seven while her parents went out for a late movie. The sweet little girl was asleep, and I was allowed to play the couple's record colleciton. It was the first time I ever heard classic music, and I fell in love with this very piece, It's just beautiful, and so very calming. I'm so glad I found it online. It took awhile, as I had no idea as to what it was called, but I found it! I played it quietly each time I stayed with the child. I'm so thankful to the people who allowed me to listen to their music, and I wish I could thank them, but they've passed on. They took me to church every Sunday with them till we moved from there a few years later. I know they are with God. August 24, 2017
Oddly I did the same with request to watch a couples kids - and they had the biggest stereo system I ever saw in mid 60's and what a thrill to hear it. Must have been the norm then in farming community at 13' and hard to pedal, heavy single speed schwin. Cheers
Have you heard of Dark Moor? They do covers of classical of song's like this and Vivaldi's winter and they slap. It's like getting the best of both worlds!
Not surprising at all. There's a large intersection between metal & classical music. Lots of classic speaks to metal fans, most metal fans just don't know any classical music so they just don't know what they are missing. For example play this piece of music here at a metal concert and I promise you most people there would absolutely love it.
I am a heart patient, but my heart starts pumping blood at high rate when I hear this piece or The Ring by Richard Wagner or Symphony 9 by Beethoven. I feel as if these are the creations beyond human capacity. May the souls of all these and many more Masters live in peace in heaven forever.
Me: Plays this in the room with my sister Sis: Isn't this the Harry Potter theme? Me: Lol what. EDIT: Ok so interesting to know that Harry Potter themes were inspired by this! I also kept wondering why I think of HP at certain points after my sis pointed it out.
She isn't really wrong with that observation! John Williams, who composed the soundtrack of the first 3 Harry Potter movies, was heavily influenced by classical music, like Swan Lake. That's why you can hear lots of references and similarities in soundtracks of Harry Potter, Star Wars and many more. His love for amazing classical music is probably a big factor why his music is so awesome.
Describes nature: beautiful, elegant, tranquil, blissful, yet DARK, DRAMATIC, RUTHLESS, CHAOTIC AND TRAGIC at the same time. Accept, appreciate and cherish while you exist
This is one of the best songs I ever heard in my years of living. This song has so many emotion to it, I feel happiness, calmness turning into anger, rage, and disrespect into this song. This song has one if the best beat drops in history, I don’t understand how people would hate this beautiful masterpiece, this song speaks to me to my heart, if this song doesn’t play in my wedding then I am running away fron my wedding, I am never getting married if this song doesn’t play in my wedding. This song is just so beautiful, if this song is a human being then I will marry this song.
1:54 is about where the symbolized anxiety comes in. Alot of classical artists do this “repetitive” technique in their music, which (successfully) brings up nervousness as the key changes. This is used for battle scenes or anything that could be somewhat unnerving or worrying. Symbolism is what I really love about art!
I was just talking to my friends today, and somehow I bought up swan lake and they looked at me with a blank expression. They had no idea what this song was. What. I didn’t know it was possible not to know this song. I’m still stunned and it’s like 6 hours later
Omg little Einstein's I used to watch that when I was younger and I instantly fell in love with this song when I heard it for the first time in that cartoon
