The Divine Comedy - Purgatorio by Robert W. Smith 

My director described the french horn solo as lulling people into a false sense of safety and the flute solo as announcing your arrival to Purgatory and that makes me quite happy

Fits pretty well to the poem, seeing as The Purgatorio can range from being pretty calm, to confusing, to outright horrifying. The addition of the vocals singing "Gloria in excelsis deo" is also a great addition because if you've ever read it, you'd know that everyone in every level of purgatory sings some sort of hymn.

My teacher wanted to sight read this, so he came up to the sax section and said, "Yeah, if one of you could sight read the soprano solo, that'd be great"

I love this!!! Impressive, the symphony orchestra in my daughter's ex-high school played it and it was impressive. My daughter was the lead clarinet player.

My teacher has told stories of teaching this song, and having some ... interesting results with the groans

Played this in band back in high school. Scary song for those who hadn't heard it before. We also did Symphony No.1 (In Memoriam Dresden, 1945) another scary song about the Allied fire bombing of Dresden in WWII.

All his songs are just amazing,I just can't dislike it

Whoever dislikes this is probably in orchestra,choir,or just haters

Played this once before. Miss it. Righteous piece, man.

current soloist for all 3 trumpet solos in the full Divine comedy, Idk why my director wanted to kill the trumpet section this year

We are playing this song in marching band

I’m in normal Concert band in high school and we are playing this and for a grade 5 piece it isn’t that bad

The part going from 3:30 to about 4:15 reminds me so much of "It's hard work" from Spirited Away. It's kinda fitting too, I'd say

That sax solo is so nice. It really isn't even that hard

Jesus Christ they played it uber fast

@WhFL, Thats how RWS conducts it.

exelente obra!!

Sax solo at 2:16.....

played french horn

@cortrellrocksnice It's still nice though haha

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