V. Hobbits. The Lord of the Rings. Johan de Meij
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- Опубликовано: 3 сен 2008
- Arranged by the London Symphony Orchestra and conducted by David Warble. Paintings of several artists as Jon Howe, Ted Nasmith, Angus McBride, and more...
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One of the pieces that I always point to when anyone asks "Why did you choose French Horn as your instrument?"
(sigh)
When you wrote this comment, The Hobbit hadn't even been released in theaters yet!
This brings back some of the greatest musical moments I had in high school state band. What a great piece, especially for the euphonium players and low brass.
i think this is one of the most dragged out endings i've ever heard. lollll but i looooove this piece and gandalf too! so good!!!!
I played this with my university's symphonic band. Wow I love it
Johan de Meij came to our college and guest conducted the band I'm in about a week ago. We played a few of his Irish-themed pieces, and he guest conducted us in our performance. That was the first standing ovation I've seen in my 9 years of playing in bands. Now we're playing this piece, and performing it in a few days. I wish he could have stayed at our school for awhile longer. He's a great conductor and a really, really nice guy. He expects perfection, but obviously it paid off for us. :)
We played this in high school, 1995-ish. LOVED that piece!
We played this the same year. Great memories.
Man. This is a FANTASTIC 45 minute symphony! Thumbs up if you think that this is the music that should be in the movies!
I feel honored to play the snare drum part in my first ever Wind Ensemble concert TONIGHT! (October 24, 2019) so good
same here
The one thing the movie has over this is the chorus. Those voices really add a lot of feeling to the picture. I think there is a lot more musicality in Johan de Meij's version though. More contrasting and interweaving themes and such. I mean you really don't need a visual aid to know what Johan was trying to depict through his music. Simply magnificent.
I played the flute my senior year of high school (1999) and the 4th period band (the audition only group) played this. To this day, I get overwhelmed by feels. I love this piece. It has never failed to give me goosebumps. So many memories attached. And yet those scales still kicked my butt. :)
I can feel my lips still when I played this years ago in high school on Euphonium but boy was it fun!
That descending part with flute in the end gets me everytime.
This is one of my favorite orchestral pieces ever. I like the whole tune of it - all of the 'parts' of it are good.
I especially like the french horn solo at 1:39
Those were trumpets.
Aww, we played this when I was in high school band back in 1996. Such good memories!! :)
This piece as a whole. All 5 movements. Every part for every instrument is just so... epically envailed.
the elvish theme in the very end just kills me evey time. Fare you well Galadriel!
We played this back in middle school. This is the song that I started playing trombone on.
I played last night the whole symphony, José Rafael Pasqual Vilaplana was the conductor, and Johan de Meij was in the first seat, listening. It's been amazing.
My high school wind ensemble played this my senior year. It will always hold wonderful emotions for me. I would leave every rehersal feeling goosebumps from the music.
You can't be in a bad mood while listening to this piece - and the occasional lovely bass trombone part doesn't hurt that!
I played it twice in an orchestra. As a french horn player you'll love this piece!!
i had the honor to play this music as solist clarinet with 15 years old, and its so ... don´t have words, i can´t whait to play this again, specialy as a solist, in Chaves
Bassoon part @ 1:23 is the
BEST HALF NOTE LINE EVER.
Thank you Johan de Meij!
Got to play this twice in two different bands! So much fun playing this
I was also supposed to play it... But covid😑
I played trombone 1 for all of this. Quite an amazing musical experience. One I won't forget.
Damn right
I really want to play it, but I doubt my school will find money to buy it, let alone the orchestra director humor me enough to even include it in concert...
Same here. Absolutely beautiful piece that I'll never forget.
love playing this on the trumpet. what a beautiful song
Measure 23 - 1:18
Measure 39 - 1:38
Measure 56 - 2:19
Measure 72 - 2:39
Measure 91 - 3:00
Measure 107 - 3:20
Measure 163 - 5:19
Measure 186 - 6:50
Measure 194 - 7:14
more magical than the movie
Ab Min. 6:00 bekommt man nur noch Gänsehaut von den Hörner, Posaunen und der gesamte Basspartie.
Wir spielen den auch aber leider nicht so gewaltig.
my favorite movement from the lord of the ring symphony! AMAZING!
Chills, chills!
Like this
The happy/funny part at the beginning sounds like banjoo kazoe and later it remembers me of the Phantom of the Opera
I'm a former euph player myself. We tried this one out in high school, but they scrapped it for some reason. I was pissed because I loved this song, and it was such a fun piece to play.
I got the privilage to play this in my college wind ensemble and I loved the music! I would give anything to get to perform this again!
I played this and Johan de Meij guest-conducted it.
Auburn Sypmhonic?
played this a few years back. im a horn player ;) super fun.
Fellow hornist, and I agree with how amazingly fun it’s been to play. Played it twice - January 2004 for All-Region Honor Band (Horn 3), and August 2021 for Virtual Concert Band (Horn 2 and 3).
Played the 2nd chair trumpet part in marching band and it was great being able to do the harmony! Love it!
@Jmcc1993: I love the fact that my Orchestra is playing this piece now thanks to my wish to play it (and im 1st horn, hurr!)
Just so much fun. Actually, every part of this symphony is!
Anyone think that at 5:20 the music sounds almost exactly like Think of Me from Phantom of the Opera? Seriously, its uncanny. I know they were both released around the same time too... :)
Absolutely, it does. I wonder if he and Andrew Lloyd Webber kahooted on this. There must be some explanation. I think it is even in the same key as Think of Me.
I would love to live in a world where you could hear this music wherever you went...
Wow!!!
Beautiful, speechless.
Our Concert Wind Ensemble just performed the entire symphony for our end of the year concert.
It was indeed... might I say, epic...
we are learning this movement this week. I absolutely love it!
all in all, very different from the concert band version, but it's still a great version. obviously, much longer, and more complex, but it's an amazing arrangement. both versions are great!
Ich liebe diesen Part einfach! :) Hatte letztes Jahr das Glück das gesamte Stück spielen zu dürfen und bekomme jetzt noch Gänsehaut!
Boy did I love playing the cornet (Special occasion 8th grade, the Band Instructor had the Principle order Bach Trumpets for this song. At the concert, we had an amazing sound and took 1st. Tears slid down my face around 5:18 when the whole band played together.). This song was AMAZING and I still get goosebumps just listening to this piece. (Especially since I remember ever since part I had) ;n;
I love this! Its my favorite of all the movements in this series! It is SO MUCH FUN to play on trumpet! :D
I remember playing this in high school one of my fav
Wow we played this song in high school. I hadn't heard this since then.
I played 1st Clarinet to this in High School. Was awesome.
i played trumpet 4 for this song XD loved every bit of it
euphoniums rock our band had no french horns so i had to play their part in the upper register and at competition judges said nice horn solos throughout song
Great job on arranging the art to the music on all the movements. Very well done.
I love this song.
Awesome vid you made for this great piece of music. Well done.
Floris
I loved playing this back when I was in HS. I played Euph and I
Being a French horn player is awesome!
Ah I have first trombone on this piece in my junior wind ensemble really fun tune not only to play but listen to
One does not simply dislike a lord of the rings composition, for Sauron will find you...
yeah, that's what i thought when i played it in concert band! gorgeous melody : )
Auburn Senior high school 2014-15. ❤
nice painting for a great music
Ed io ero li ad ascoltarvi a Spilimbergo. Grandiosi, tutti!!!!
Yay syncopated woodblocks! Very happy tune, and very open...
This was my favorite song that I played in Wind Ensemble. Piccolo ftw :3
1st trumpet part...Amazing
They wanted to put them in the movies, but sadly DeMeij said that this is his interpretation of LOTR and that Peter Jackson needed to make his own.
I love the Hobbit music at 1:25
Great piece, period. Equally amazing group.
We would always read this a couple of times in high school. Finally, in my senior year my band director let me pull out a flugelhorn for that lyrical part near the end(Don't remember if it was technically a solo. All eyes were on me when I read it though so...).
Woohoo, we're playing this also. :)) Lovely tune :)
0:55 Trombone 1 chills with that high f sharp.
yep... studied it for 12 years before deciding to choose engineering over a music degree but picked up guitar since. still break out my yamaha every now and again. Euphonium is really the hidden gem and should be used more often... at least i think so.
@DonavanJerles I played first + solo flugelhorn at 4:17 during national competition several years back... this is one kick-ass piece!
since everyone is leaving their instrument....oboeeeeee
lol trumpet :p
2nd the oboe
Oboe yay my fav
Bass clarinet
Alto Clarinet!
I feel the exact same way. We played an arrangement of this in marching band last year.
I agree with you completely. I think this is one of the best Wind Ensemble Symphonies.
Don't need no stinking string section! LOL
Seriously though: I love orchestras, but there are some pieces created for wind ensembles that really shine with all that glorious brass and woodwind choir. :)!
Hobbits are sooooo cuuutttteee!
We are playing this in my highschool band
I never realized the song is this long
As a freshmen I need as much practice as I can get
I never played music anywhere near this grade b4
@ParisDakota I heard this performed last night live, and as it was playing it hit me as soon as I heard it.
@stupefy07 its supposed to be. if you have seen or read the return of the king at the end all it is is a boat leaving off for the grey havens. it ends on a mysterious note, so the piece ends in a silent mystery, it mirrors the actual story.
these songs should be in the actual movie.
hey, i agree with you, it should be featured more.
a wind ensemble w.o euphs would just not be the same. it truly is hidden. you don't always hear it... but you can definitely tell when it's missing
Listening to this while playing skyrim=Win.
lol @ParisDakota : I always thought of "Think of Me" when I Played it back in 1998. Many years later, I still loved this song and wished they used this in the movies.
I played this in grade 11 as a flute. rip flute players. hahaha
@SuperBassoon24 Wow, You're right, those have to be the best half notes I've ever heard. I didn't even notice them when my high school band played this song a while ago, and I was hearing it everyday.
epic trumpet!!!!!! 1:37 especially
cornet 2. very very nice
@SaxophoneJ It's good to know they at least looked at this music before doing the scoring for the movie. Probably didn't use it because it's hard to break up a symphony for a movie...
@Rule1717 we played it with our orchestra and there the clarinets played it (with a few) I melt because it was so beautifull
the piece was originally written for wind ensemble, so there's no doubt it sounds better all winds!
wonderful piece of music
der anfang ist echt klasse!!! :)
baaaahhhhh listening to this is so awesommmeeeee especially if you listen to gandalf then this peice, they flor nicely together haha
@cpthornman actually no, the burst of air is not created by the articulation, it is created by the fact they are so perfectly in tune and the release was together (quick tip, YOU NEVER RELEASE WITH THE TOUNGE) :) :) :)
am i the only one? but this whole symphony reminds me alot of mahler's no.1
5:50-6:00=chills.
@maxyboy712 Yeah im playing it now in high school. its awesome!
Love the horn as 1:21 and at 2:27
Yes, Horns @ 2:19!