Chopin for me is the like most romantic out of all the piano composer ... Like sure it's virtuoso and difficult to learn but you just don't feel it that much...
@@wolly-wiev it really is hard to describe with liszt he pushed the piano technicality to new heights sure but with chopin i feel like he gave the piano its identity. This is all extremely subjective here but there is a reason why hes one of the most performed composers on that list
When I was little my city had an event called Beat Beethoven. Where you tried to run 10km before his 9th? Symphony ended. The one that is 1 hour. Musical groups would be stationed along the route and all begin playing at the same time. My aunt would take me to watch as my parents participated. It was magical.
weird how that lines up with their respective music tastes. Brett loves the intricate details, complex melodies and technical brilliance, so he leans forward to hear all the specifics. Eddy, at the end of the day, loves the overall feel and emotion a piece can evoke, and so leans back to soak in the overall vibes of the piece.
Twoset should be in that Top Ten busiest Musician-list too: They produce like 4 videos a week, have at least one big livestream concert a year, a virtual world tour coming up, design clothes, model, do tiktoks, bake cupcakes, cook bubbletea and on top of that PrAcTice 40 hours a day!
@TheCartoon94 Dabs Symphonie Fantastique drastically set the tone for the new music that would come after. It's almost like he said "To hell with the joyful and light stuff from prior composers!" That is without considering all the musical innovations that were packed in that single composition.
I'm blessed with not having heard 4 seasons too often, so i can still actually enjoy it. This in contrast to all the christmas music that's gonna bombard our ears in a few weeks time...
You guys and your whole team that works to put out this content are amazing! I just want to thank you so much for getting me back into playing music. I have played piano since I was about 7 years old but a couple years ago I stopped lessons and only played here and there. I am now 29 years old btw. I'm not sure what made me stop wanting to play but I just did one day. But since I found your channel I have re-ignited that musical spark in myself and I am starting lessons again and playing everyday. Anyways, THANK YOU for EVERYTHING you ALL do! Don't stop... ever, please! Lol I hope you stay happy and healthy! :)
Who hasn't been inspired by B & E either to take up an instrument (generally violin) or pick up where they left off? Always heartening to hear... Practice warrants passion...
Ah yes, statistics. One possible reason why there are only violin concertos in the top 10 of pieces: let's say all concert halls do twice as many piano concertos than violin concertos. But if there are four times as many great piano concertos than violin concertos, individual piano concertos get played less than individual violin concertos (like 10 piano concertos get played three times each, but 3 violin concertos get played six times each). Four Seasons and Messiah get played a lot to cover the year's expenses, I guess ...
I'm still surprised that Rach 2 isn't in the top 10. It has to be the most played piano concerto since its creation, but like you said there is a lot of competition in the repertoire.
"Just means the busiest not the best" I about spit my drink. Thank you guys so much! I especially enjoyed watching you listen to the various music. You obvious appreciation is infectious. The way you so light-heartedly tease other instruments is GREAT!(Trumpet player here). Thank you guys so much!
Flute player here but such an interesting stat about Andris Nelson! I went to two concerts, this summer, that he directed at Tanglewood (the summer home of the Boston Symphony.) Pre-Covid I saw him conduct a Mahler Symphony. I sat in the front row because I love watching him conduct!
I just listened to this again and heard the most active violin soloists. I realized that I went to 3 concerts at Tanglewood in 2021. One was conducted by both Andris Nelson (Copland "Quiet City" and Stravinsky "Firebird") and John Williams conducting the World Premiere of his Violin Concerto No. 2 that was composed for and performed by Anne-Sophie Mutter, and another concert was a performance by #2 on the soloist list Joshua Bell who played Beethoven's Violin Concerto. The third concert was a "standard" concert. It was performed by the Tanglewood Fellows who had studied at Tanglewood that summer.
continued --- Couldn't find the program but it had the music of Mendelssohn (Overture to Midsummer Nights Dream -- as a flute player one of my favorites!) Mozart ? and Brahms ? All of these composers were in the top 10. For seeing 3 concerts I did pretty good!!
Maybe you guys are exhausted by how it's overplayed and abused everywhere, but Four Seasons for me are always majestic... The whole journey from Spring to Winter is incredible, Autumn is often overlooked but it's magical too. Winter is a fantastic conclusion as much as Spring is a charming beginning. I know, I know, people going for Summer to supposedly show off and all that shit... But that aside, the Four Seasons are an immortal masterpiece.
One of the reasons I like Four Seasons is that it isn't boring. Idk but a lot of the pieces twoset seem to like are underwhelming for me. Differences of taste, I guess.
I've heard the piano version, it's overwhelming if you're sitting 2m from the end of the piano. I had to listen to The Hu on the way home to get the Great Gate of Kiev out of my head.
For anyone wondering: Hilary Hahn might have been on the list of performers had she not been on sabbatical for much of 2019. She Took a 1 year sabbatical beginning on September 1, 2019.
A recomendation for B & E: Voices of Music on youtube is a baroque small orchestra and they have the most amazing and tasteful interpretation of Vivaldi's Four Seasons. I know is overplayed, but the soloists and the orchestra ensemble are really good and they really deserve the recognition.
Geisa Pires I watched it a couple of weeks ago. I've seen many, (probably 100s) wonderful historically informed performances, with ornamentation and all (forget all about the "just playing the notes" versions) but this was AMAZING - they were all on fire, and the soloist was out of this world. It was like listening to it for the first time. Brett and Eddy, if you are bored with it, try this one. THAT"S how it should be played. (Tasteful isn't quite the word I'd use - stylistic to a tee which actually means full of improvisational fire!)
Brett: Hello guys, welcome back to another episode of TwoSetViolin Eddy: *just casually smiles* Me: Nice :] Brett: And today we're going to be reviewing classical music stats. Eddy: Statistic Ling Ling doesn't need statistics, Ling Ling is all knowing, but for us mortals, we found some interesting statistics on classical music. Me: Nice, once again :]
I was just looking at a list of the top 10 symphonies as voted by conductors! What a coincidence. Eroica, the Berlioz, and Brahms 4 were on it. And lots and lots of Mahler.
@@cesardiezv The first half, yes. The part about him being not as well-known, absolutely not. Mahler is probably one of the best known sinfulness amongst people who know classical music. If you listen to classical music, there is a very good chance you have listen to Mahler.
A big thank you for introducing new pieces to listen to. I played the piano when I was in primary school but stopped eventually. Your videos has inspired me to start learning music again!!!
Handel's Messiah is one of my favourite pieces of all time, and YES I DO know the rest of the piece! The whole thing is absolutely amazing!! My favourite bit is 'for unto us a child is born'.
YES. THANK YOU. That piece is my childhood. I went to the sing-along Messiah every year with my father, from around when I was 6 until we moved out of state. Now I'm an adult and live in a different state than my parents. This past December my local symphony had performances of the Messiah. I went TWICE. It was an emotional experience both times.
At first glance, I was surprised that no Bach pieces are in Top 10. But he composed so many pieces, so no pieces were ranked in, although his music is widely performed (Anyway he was the 3rd place as a composer)
B&E, this video was one of my FAVES of yours… I think I speak for all of us LingLing Wannabees when I say, “We’d love to hear more of your thoughts and impressions of various classical pieces/performers/composers!” 😍 (mixed in with the usual programming, of course… you guys are always fantastic!)
Surprised Sibelius violin concerto isn't up there ☹ in fairness though, I'm not a musician and I only got to know (and love) Sibelius because of you guys 😊
Two reasons I can think of: 1) not as many people know Sibelius, so some programming decisions are what sell tickets. The name Beethoven sells tickets, even to people who don't know much about classical music. 2) it's hard, and you need a very high quality soloist to pull it off. Any professional orchestra can do Beethoven 3
Sibelius' vn concerto is well known among violin players, but not so much in general. I love his concerto the best for both playing and listening, though.
I would like to get more grip about "living" classical composers! Like, what kind of work they do and how does it difference from "normal" musicians. Kind of a field, that is shadowed under the few iconic composers.
Most of them teach composition at universities/colleges. Some perform or conduct. While the details may differ, it actually isn't that terribly different from bygone composers. One generally does not get rich in the composition business, and income is usually cobbled together from several sources.
As Vivaldi is my favourite composer, I can never tire of The Four Seasons, but I can see why it's one of the most played. It's a beautiful piece. The others surprised me (not Handel though. That is played a whole lot!)
TwoSet unfortunately doesn't appreciate Baroque that much, with Bach being the only exception... It takes genius to compose pieces that describe the seasons too!
I find it ironic that in the same video they praise Tchaikovsky for his melodicism and basically poo-poo on Vivaldi. Sure, Tchaikovsky was an excellent melodicist... for the Romantic era, when melody itself wasn't considered all that important or even necessary part of serious music. Vivaldi though, he breathed and lived melody, many Baroque masters did, it was their bread and butter. And here is why centuries later they are still among the most played composers and I reckon they still will be centuries later, whether many classical snobs like it or not.
@@kosmosyche The sad thing is that people only know Vivaldi's FOUR SEASONS. They don't dig deep enough into his catalouge to realize the depth and beauty of his compositions. He is, in classical music, vastly underrated, as is Pachelbel.
@@GinaBlythe I agree, his sacred music repertoire in particular is tragically underappreciated. And I'm not talking about his Stabat Mater (which by itself is one of the most beautiful pieces ever composed, so divine and human at the same time).
Hii guys I'm gonna create a spotify playlist for twosetters which contains Classical Music Essentials and share the link You can leave your pieces' suggestions below :)
You should make some justice to Vivaldi and add some of his not so famous concerts. Rachel Podger has some of them on Spotify and using Baroque instruments which makes the pieces even better. You can add La Cetra or La Stravaganza
A bunch of places have a Hallelujah sing-along around Christmas time. It's mostly for people who have choral experience but don't really sing as a career -- everyone prepares their parts on their own, then show up and sit in the section for your voice, and all sing. I've never done it, but some friends have said that it's fun.
One of my favorite parts of "The Messiah" is the song "We Like Sheep Have Gone Astray." It's just very entertaining hearing a large group of adults singing "We like sheep!" over and over again. I love the whole thing, but really enjoy this one likely unintended moment of humor.
Yes, I‘m offended! Beethoven 3 and Brahms 4 are the two symphonies I NEVER get tired of hearing, no matter how often, no matter how short the intervals between hearing them. I never fail to hear something new. And then there‘s Mahler, of course.
Today was a great day :) .. - TwoSet posted a new video - My favourite streamer who normally listens to pop music or rap decided to go for a bit of Rachmaninov and Debussy instead - I'm going to make some bubble tea - and I bought my first Twoset apparel that just came back in stock in my size - also I now have 69 practice points :D
I completely agree Brahms' first symphony is the hardest to get into by far. It took me many listens for me to "get" it, but now it's one of my favorites pieces of music.
And here we are again.. I always feel like I wanna practice after watching twoset videos. You motivate me so much guys and I'm so thankful!.. But as always..it's night and I can't make any sound cause everybody is asleep :)
I feel like the reason it's violin concertos that are up there is that violin is that perfect sweet spot of being a very very VERY popular instrument that has a *huge tradition of standard repertoire*. Most professional violinists I know have all "gone through the ranks" and played the same set of the popular concertos just to "have them", versus piano (which is technically more played as an instrument?) I feel emphasizes less of that tradition. There are definitely popular concertos, but you're more likely picking from a wider range as you choose your path/style as a pianist.
During this video I realized I’ve watched twoset so much that I now could hear the pieces in my head just by reading the name. That’s… idk. I never thought that would happened.
Yes, everyone knows the "Hallelujah" chorus, but the REST of Messiah? There is a reason it's played to death! To quote one choir director: "Handel really knew how to write a hit!" I had the opportunity to sing it, in its entirety, in college. The "Amen" at the end is HUGE, and sublime, and by the time you sit through the entirety of Messiah before that, it's just so cathartic. Is Messiah overplayed? Probably. ...but it is so, so darn good!
@@bachstraightboy1293 I mean, I get it. Baroque music typically doesn't have as daring violin parts, but a lot of that music is sublime! Vivaldi's Gloria? There's a video on youtube of an all-women group doing a historically-informed version in the very church it was written in...and it is **chef's kiss**
@@ryano.5149 if baroque music is performed properly, it's as daring as they come. As you no doubt know, the composers didn't write all the notes down that they fully expected performers would know just to do. Like jazz. And some of the performers lived very dangerously, from contemporary accounts! Check out the earlier Baroque - Monteverdi, Carissimi, Lully, Couperin. Bach and Handel (late Baroque) were ones who started writing a lot of the notes down, but they still expected the performers to improvise and expand the music.
i’m at a performing arts school. they decided that the first performance they had in two years would be of shostakovich’s fifth symphony, which was challenging but not unbearable. they decided that the next one would be mahler’s fifth symphony, which is VASTLY different from shos's
Very interesting! Haven't listened to a lot of Brahms, maybe something to consider.. Didn't really 'get' his Violin concerto until I listened to Leonidas Kavakos play it with Gergiev Valery Abisalovich and a wonderful orchestra from Munich, I think, - it was like an eureka-moment ⭐ Here's something beautiful (and very true) said by F Chopin that I recently found on the vast prairies of the Internet: "Bach is an astronomer, discovering the most marvellous stars. Beethoven challenges the universe. I only try to express the soul and the heart of man."
For a composer who wrote almost exclusively for one instrument only, Chopin is pretty darn ace for making it in the top 10 most performed!
Fr tho chopin's a legend
Chopin is the piano honestly no other composer embodies that instrument more
Chopin for me is the like most romantic out of all the piano composer ... Like sure it's virtuoso and difficult to learn but you just don't feel it that much...
@@ujjwalmishra8962 what about Liszt
@@wolly-wiev it really is hard to describe with liszt he pushed the piano technicality to new heights sure but with chopin i feel like he gave the piano its identity. This is all extremely subjective here but there is a reason why hes one of the most performed composers on that list
When I was little my city had an event called Beat Beethoven. Where you tried to run 10km before his 9th? Symphony ended. The one that is 1 hour. Musical groups would be stationed along the route and all begin playing at the same time. My aunt would take me to watch as my parents participated. It was magical.
What a charming story. Magical indeed!
oh my. I would love to do such a run!
What a marvelous idea!!!! How many city has
What city is that, to have multiple groups playing Beethoven’s 9th at the same time??? Wow!!!
@@88starmusic Saskatoon, SK Canada. We have just one symphony orchestra. The groups were sometimes as small as a quartet.
that "bach on trach" joke was delivered so casually, i love it 40/10
4?🤔😅
@@dev3403 LingLing, 40 hrs a day = everything is 40/10 :)
@@dev3403 uncultured smh
Thanks for your kind words.Anyway I was just joking.
@@OctoPlaysPiano uncultured sacrilegious boi**
just correcting a few words 😄
I love how Brett leans forward to enjoy the music, and Eddy leans back. they complement each other in every way.
Oh, yes, wonderful detail. 🤍👌
weird how that lines up with their respective music tastes. Brett loves the intricate details, complex melodies and technical brilliance, so he leans forward to hear all the specifics. Eddy, at the end of the day, loves the overall feel and emotion a piece can evoke, and so leans back to soak in the overall vibes of the piece.
@@DustyStarrs built in volume control lol
Twoset should be in that Top Ten busiest Musician-list too:
They produce like 4 videos a week, have at least one big livestream concert a year, a virtual world tour coming up, design clothes, model, do tiktoks, bake cupcakes, cook bubbletea and on top of that PrAcTice 40 hours a day!
Agree totally!
I want to be like them i love hardworking people.
whenever brett and eddy talk about how they've played these pieces at this hall and that orchestra, it always makes me feel some type of way
🤨🤨😏😏😏 wdym
Classical music is so peaceful and calming.
Classical music: *decapitation*
Classical music: *not peaceful at all
@TheCartoon94 Dabs Symphonie Fantastique drastically set the tone for the new music that would come after. It's almost like he said "To hell with the joyful and light stuff from prior composers!" That is without considering all the musical innovations that were packed in that single composition.
"Tchaikovsky, cannons are not an instrument"
It's so wholesome to see them listening and vibing to classical music.
“In the dream he’s supposed to be decapitated”
“In the fifth movement he’s supposed to go to hell or something”
Well that took a dark turn
Not only does he go to hell in the fifth movement, but the woman he loved who slighted him, she is the leader of the witches dancing around in hell
@@ghillies4life oh my-
Better still, there's a whole piece after he wakes up: Retour a la vie
That whole piece is a trip. You should give it a listen.
Movements 4 and 5 are about the protagonist of the story poisoning himself and hallucinating his own trial, death, and funeral
It's epic
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:29 the list of Top 10 Concert Pieces
0:36 No.10: Mendelssohn - Violin Concerto
1:03 No. 9: Berlioz - Symphony Fantasique
1:55 No. 8: Brahm - Symphony No. 2
2:17 No. 7: Brahms - Symphony No. 1 2:52
3:12 No. 6: Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition
3:33 No. 5: Handel - Messiah
3:51 No. 4: Vivaldi - Four Seasons
4:15 No. 3: Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 5 4:34
5:19 No. 2: Tchaikovsky - Violin Concerto
5:35 No. 1: Beethoven - Symphony No. 3 (Eroica)
6:21 Top Concert Composers 6:29 - 7:04
7:51 Women Composers & Conductors
7:56 Contemporary Composers
8:03 Busiest Performers
9:09 Outro 9:26
U dropped this 👑
Thx
Yey pvz fan gang
You don’t think twoset wanted folk to watch the video so they could see via the video rather than you just listing them out?
@@miarosie as their goal is to spread classical music to the audience, i would say this comment helps them
If these composers are still alive and can collect copyright fee from these performances, they will be RICH af lol
Well if there was copyright then none would play it rather they themselves would play and earn the money and imagine that... Absolute stuff of dreams
Lol yes. Billionaires
not as rich as the billionaires who make mainstream pop songs...
eddy is just sprinkling chef kisses these days and im LOVING IT
Eddys hair antenna is evolving
I can't help noticing it
I'm blessed with not having heard 4 seasons too often, so i can still actually enjoy it.
This in contrast to all the christmas music that's gonna bombard our ears in a few weeks time...
few weeks? Damn you’re lucky
Let’s just appreciate guys dedication for our entertainment. That was quite a wipeout
...How
These are the youtube live stream emojis.
@@akshitsharma8475 oh thank you
@@funguy-yt7632 I was just making a reply to the commenter.
@@akshitsharma8475 and I was just making a reply to the reply yo the comment
You guys and your whole team that works to put out this content are amazing! I just want to thank you so much for getting me back into playing music. I have played piano since I was about 7 years old but a couple years ago I stopped lessons and only played here and there. I am now 29 years old btw. I'm not sure what made me stop wanting to play but I just did one day. But since I found your channel I have re-ignited that musical spark in myself and I am starting lessons again and playing everyday. Anyways, THANK YOU for EVERYTHING you ALL do! Don't stop... ever, please! Lol I hope you stay happy and healthy! :)
Who hasn't been inspired by B & E either to take up an instrument (generally violin) or pick up where they left off? Always heartening to hear... Practice warrants passion...
That's such a wholesome story 😊
I won't stop playing music
Ah yes, statistics. One possible reason why there are only violin concertos in the top 10 of pieces: let's say all concert halls do twice as many piano concertos than violin concertos. But if there are four times as many great piano concertos than violin concertos, individual piano concertos get played less than individual violin concertos (like 10 piano concertos get played three times each, but 3 violin concertos get played six times each).
Four Seasons and Messiah get played a lot to cover the year's expenses, I guess ...
Statistics should always be taken with a grain of salt cause you can easily lie with statistics
@@speeddemon2901 You couldn't be more right. I'm a stats student and I'll just say “Lies, damned lies and statistics.
I'm still surprised that Rach 2 isn't in the top 10. It has to be the most played piano concerto since its creation, but like you said there is a lot of competition in the repertoire.
Interesting point. It figures.
That's actually a really good point!
As a horn player, I loved watching them just being blown away from the Horn solo in Tchaikovsky Symphony 5
Happy to see Tchaik 5 up there. I think it too often gets overlooked by 4 and 6. Tchaik 5 is probably my favorite symphony from top to bottom.
"Just means the busiest not the best" I about spit my drink. Thank you guys so much! I especially enjoyed watching you listen to the various music. You obvious appreciation is infectious. The way you so light-heartedly tease other instruments is GREAT!(Trumpet player here). Thank you guys so much!
Flute player here but such an interesting stat about Andris Nelson! I went to two concerts, this summer, that he directed at Tanglewood (the summer home of the Boston Symphony.) Pre-Covid I saw him conduct a Mahler Symphony. I sat in the front row because I love watching him conduct!
I just listened to this again and heard the most active violin soloists. I realized that I went to 3 concerts at Tanglewood in 2021. One was conducted by both Andris Nelson (Copland "Quiet City" and Stravinsky "Firebird") and John Williams conducting the World Premiere of his Violin Concerto No. 2 that was composed for and performed by Anne-Sophie Mutter, and another concert was a performance by #2 on the soloist list Joshua Bell who played Beethoven's Violin Concerto. The third concert was a "standard" concert. It was performed by the Tanglewood Fellows who had studied at Tanglewood that summer.
continued --- Couldn't find the program but it had the music of Mendelssohn (Overture to Midsummer Nights Dream -- as a flute player one of my favorites!) Mozart ? and Brahms ? All of these composers were in the top 10. For seeing 3 concerts I did pretty good!!
I swear the screen brightens every time a piece is playing I live for this passion
Eddy if you are short of practice material, just go with Paganini, I think most of us wouldn’t reject that for 5 mil lol
Maybe you guys are exhausted by how it's overplayed and abused everywhere, but Four Seasons for me are always majestic... The whole journey from Spring to Winter is incredible, Autumn is often overlooked but it's magical too. Winter is a fantastic conclusion as much as Spring is a charming beginning. I know, I know, people going for Summer to supposedly show off and all that shit... But that aside, the Four Seasons are an immortal masterpiece.
One of the reasons I like Four Seasons is that it isn't boring. Idk but a lot of the pieces twoset seem to like are underwhelming for me. Differences of taste, I guess.
I still prefer his RV 392 specifically movement 3 but 4 seasons is still good
I have been waiting for something like this!
Interesting fact: Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exibitation, was actually written for solo piano. The piece was eventually transcribed for orchestra.
I thought it was written by Emerson 🤔😁
That was my first orchestra concert! They projected the paintings on a screen over the orchestra. I can see it like it was yesterday.
@@jasoncdebussy underrated comment
I've heard the piano version, it's overwhelming if you're sitting 2m from the end of the piano. I had to listen to The Hu on the way home to get the Great Gate of Kiev out of my head.
@@subjectline Why on Earth would you want to get the Great Gate of Kiev out of your head? It's magnificent!
I love when you guys have videos like this where we learn new stuff and get to see your absolute love of what you do ❤❤
3:50-4:10 The four seasons of Eddy's hair....
I love your content, most relatable to musicians, including violinists!
Your profile picture is fantastic
@@puszzydestroyr69yesthatsga7 a tiger and bf109 meet
@@imperatorcaesaraugustuspri5319 the Sherman spontaneously combusts
For anyone wondering: Hilary Hahn might have been on the list of performers had she not been on sabbatical for much of 2019. She Took a 1 year sabbatical beginning on September 1, 2019.
Nice videos lately guys!!! Can we have a pt.2 of underrated pieces? Please?
That video made me fall in love with Kapustin's music lol
A recomendation for B & E: Voices of Music on youtube is a baroque small orchestra and they have the most amazing and tasteful interpretation of Vivaldi's Four Seasons. I know is overplayed, but the soloists and the orchestra ensemble are really good and they really deserve the recognition.
"The Four Seasons" is overplayed. But it deserves so.
Geisa Pires I watched it a couple of weeks ago. I've seen many, (probably 100s) wonderful historically informed performances, with ornamentation and all (forget all about the "just playing the notes" versions) but this was AMAZING - they were all on fire, and the soloist was out of this world. It was like listening to it for the first time. Brett and Eddy, if you are bored with it, try this one. THAT"S how it should be played. (Tasteful isn't quite the word I'd use - stylistic to a tee which actually means full of improvisational fire!)
100% agree with you. Voices of Music is such a gem.
Brett: Hello guys, welcome back to another episode of TwoSetViolin
Eddy: *just casually smiles*
Me: Nice :]
Brett: And today we're going to be reviewing classical music stats.
Eddy: Statistic Ling Ling doesn't need statistics, Ling Ling is all knowing, but for us mortals, we found some interesting statistics on classical music.
Me: Nice, once again :]
Let's get to 4M fir Mendelssohn Violin Concerto! He's my favorite composer!
I was just looking at a list of the top 10 symphonies as voted by conductors! What a coincidence. Eroica, the Berlioz, and Brahms 4 were on it. And lots and lots of Mahler.
Mahler is my favorite composer. But I suppose that his symphonies are too expensive to play and not so many people know Mahler.
@@cesardiezv The first half, yes. The part about him being not as well-known, absolutely not. Mahler is probably one of the best known sinfulness amongst people who know classical music. If you listen to classical music, there is a very good chance you have listen to Mahler.
看著這集裡Eddy的髮型變化，覺得很有趣🥳🥳🥳
身為音樂麻瓜感謝Brett 跟 Eddy 推薦有名的曲目
Me never being able to reach Ling Ling’s talent be like:
“…for us mortals” 😞
They refer to ling ling as a kind of music god...
@@jeremyleow because she is ✨👑
can't wait for the 4mil drop
Love these classical music appreciation/review type videos :)
I'm personally offended that any of Mahler's symphony wasn't in there.
They are good but I imagine they would be insanely hard to perform frequently. Especially the 8th lol.
@@oweeoh7895 true lol 8th needs hundreds of musicians to be performed
Too complicated to be performed frequently
To be fair there is no post-romantic composers at all in that list.
@@aliceko4695literally a thousand
A big thank you for introducing new pieces to listen to. I played the piano when I was in primary school but stopped eventually. Your videos has inspired me to start learning music again!!!
My honors orchestra literally JUST performed the March to the Scaffold of Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique on PBS Wisconsin!! Such a fun piece
I love it when they get nerdy and excited about music and composers.
Handel's Messiah is one of my favourite pieces of all time, and YES I DO know the rest of the piece! The whole thing is absolutely amazing!! My favourite bit is 'for unto us a child is born'.
I can sing all the lyrics myself :D nice to see another Messiah fan
I know almost the entire Chorale by heart!
'All we like sheep'.
We have tuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhrnéd. Everyone to his. Own. WAY.
I'm picturing my choir acting out being sheep in rehearsal.
YES. THANK YOU. That piece is my childhood. I went to the sing-along Messiah every year with my father, from around when I was 6 until we moved out of state. Now I'm an adult and live in a different state than my parents. This past December my local symphony had performances of the Messiah. I went TWICE. It was an emotional experience both times.
Yes! "Surely he hath borne our griefs" slaps hard as well
I would love to see Twoset do this with the Symphonic Band genre!
At first glance, I was surprised that no Bach pieces are in Top 10. But he composed so many pieces, so no pieces were ranked in, although his music is widely performed (Anyway he was the 3rd place as a composer)
These nerdy videos are so cozy
B&E, this video was one of my FAVES of yours… I think I speak for all of us LingLing Wannabees when I say, “We’d love to hear more of your thoughts and impressions of various classical pieces/performers/composers!” 😍 (mixed in with the usual programming, of course… you guys are always fantastic!)
Surprised Sibelius violin concerto isn't up there ☹ in fairness though, I'm not a musician and I only got to know (and love) Sibelius because of you guys 😊
Two reasons I can think of: 1) not as many people know Sibelius, so some programming decisions are what sell tickets. The name Beethoven sells tickets, even to people who don't know much about classical music. 2) it's hard, and you need a very high quality soloist to pull it off. Any professional orchestra can do Beethoven 3
Sibelius' vn concerto is well known among violin players, but not so much in general. I love his concerto the best for both playing and listening, though.
so proud of you guys, you’ve come so far
Because of my youth orchestra, school orchestra, and my chamber ensemble, we're playing 4 of these pieces LMAOO
I would like to get more grip about "living" classical composers! Like, what kind of work they do and how does it difference from "normal" musicians. Kind of a field, that is shadowed under the few iconic composers.
Most of them teach composition at universities/colleges. Some perform or conduct. While the details may differ, it actually isn't that terribly different from bygone composers. One generally does not get rich in the composition business, and income is usually cobbled together from several sources.
Important announcement: I found out that my orchestra teacher is a big fan of two set so I’m going to wear the merchto school
4:54 As a true classical musician, this note always makes me cry.
As Vivaldi is my favourite composer, I can never tire of The Four Seasons, but I can see why it's one of the most played. It's a beautiful piece. The others surprised me (not Handel though. That is played a whole lot!)
TwoSet unfortunately doesn't appreciate Baroque that much, with Bach being the only exception... It takes genius to compose pieces that describe the seasons too!
I find it ironic that in the same video they praise Tchaikovsky for his melodicism and basically poo-poo on Vivaldi. Sure, Tchaikovsky was an excellent melodicist... for the Romantic era, when melody itself wasn't considered all that important or even necessary part of serious music. Vivaldi though, he breathed and lived melody, many Baroque masters did, it was their bread and butter. And here is why centuries later they are still among the most played composers and I reckon they still will be centuries later, whether many classical snobs like it or not.
@@kosmosyche The sad thing is that people only know Vivaldi's FOUR SEASONS. They don't dig deep enough into his catalouge to realize the depth and beauty of his compositions. He is, in classical music, vastly underrated, as is Pachelbel.
@@GinaBlythe I agree, his sacred music repertoire in particular is tragically underappreciated. And I'm not talking about his Stabat Mater (which by itself is one of the most beautiful pieces ever composed, so divine and human at the same time).
Hii guys
I'm gonna create a spotify playlist for twosetters which contains Classical Music Essentials and share the link
You can leave your pieces' suggestions below :)
Despacito
You should make some justice to Vivaldi and add some of his not so famous concerts. Rachel Podger has some of them on Spotify and using Baroque instruments which makes the pieces even better. You can add La Cetra or La Stravaganza
Dvorak 9
Mahler 5 and 2
Shostakovich string quartet
Hayden trumpet concerto
Sibelius, mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky violin concerto
Holst the planet
Libertango trumpet arrangement played by Tine thing helseth / or Alison balsom (both are awesome)
Chopin piano concerto n2
A bunch of places have a Hallelujah sing-along around Christmas time. It's mostly for people who have choral experience but don't really sing as a career -- everyone prepares their parts on their own, then show up and sit in the section for your voice, and all sing. I've never done it, but some friends have said that it's fun.
One of my favorite parts of "The Messiah" is the song "We Like Sheep Have Gone Astray." It's just very entertaining hearing a large group of adults singing "We like sheep!" over and over again. I love the whole thing, but really enjoy this one likely unintended moment of humor.
Brett and Eddy saying INTERESTING unironically for 10 minutes straight
You guys should do a second video about under-rated pieces and include pieces by women composers in it!!
So, when are you doing an episode on Indian Classical Music dude? It'll blow your head out completely!
Yes, I‘m offended! Beethoven 3 and Brahms 4 are the two symphonies I NEVER get tired of hearing, no matter how often, no matter how short the intervals between hearing them. I never fail to hear something new.
And then there‘s Mahler, of course.
For new listening material, I HIGHLY recommend Amy Beach. I’ve recently really gotten into her music, and it’s amazing!
1:33 loving Eddy's side eye
TwoSet exudes passion
Today was a great day :) ..
- TwoSet posted a new video
- My favourite streamer who normally listens to pop music or rap decided to go for a bit of Rachmaninov and Debussy instead
- I'm going to make some bubble tea
- and I bought my first Twoset apparel that just came back in stock in my size
- also I now have 69 practice points :D
who's that fave streamer of yours?
@@oxoelfoxo Buddha (he’s a twitch streamer who does gta role play)
@@lari393 thanks!
I completely agree Brahms' first symphony is the hardest to get into by far. It took me many listens for me to "get" it, but now it's one of my favorites pieces of music.
I love how they both get lost in the music
4:47 Twoset being at peace
Who else wants a Q&A vid??
The look on Brett's face 0:52 when he realizes he has Mendelssohn at 4mil subs, lol!
I recall seeing some stats on pieces played versus composed and Wagner blew everyone out of the water with how popular all of his compositions were.
And here we are again.. I always feel like I wanna practice after watching twoset videos. You motivate me so much guys and I'm so thankful!.. But as always..it's night and I can't make any sound cause everybody is asleep :)
Tchaikovsky vc being number 2 on the list is so iconic and gives a nostalgic feeling from the 2M drop 🥺
many many more people know beethovens 5th rather then his 3rd its so iconic even in jokes and memes
Christian Li just put out an amazing album of Four Seasons, it's welllllll worth listening to.
I feel like the reason it's violin concertos that are up there is that violin is that perfect sweet spot of being a very very VERY popular instrument that has a *huge tradition of standard repertoire*. Most professional violinists I know have all "gone through the ranks" and played the same set of the popular concertos just to "have them", versus piano (which is technically more played as an instrument?) I feel emphasizes less of that tradition. There are definitely popular concertos, but you're more likely picking from a wider range as you choose your path/style as a pianist.
Happy diwali guys
During this video I realized I’ve watched twoset so much that I now could hear the pieces in my head just by reading the name. That’s… idk. I never thought that would happened.
Eddy: "have you noticed that there's three violin concertos?"
Closed captions: "have you noticed that there's three violent consumers?"
4:50 loving that horn solo, so why no horn example for the "Paganini of 'all' instruments" video the other day ?!?!
I’m playing the clarinet solo in Tchaikovsky 5 rn it’s super fun
From my personal experience the piece I’ve listened to most in a concert is Brahms 2: BSO, CSO and AWO with Zubin Mehta.
Mendelssohn vc appears on the list
Brett: **nervous sweating**
Played Tchaikovsky 5 before easily one of my favorite symphony to play 2nd movement is gold 4th is amazing
the guys relaxing and enjoying music at it's purest form is something we need more of 4:35
I stop practicing 'cos twoset notify hehe (I'll go practice after watching)
The Kavakos selfie flex though
Yesss new Video yay!
Yes, everyone knows the "Hallelujah" chorus, but the REST of Messiah? There is a reason it's played to death! To quote one choir director: "Handel really knew how to write a hit!" I had the opportunity to sing it, in its entirety, in college. The "Amen" at the end is HUGE, and sublime, and by the time you sit through the entirety of Messiah before that, it's just so cathartic. Is Messiah overplayed? Probably. ...but it is so, so darn good!
I second that. TwoSet doesn't appreciate Baroque and Chorale that much, Bach being the exception...
@@bachstraightboy1293 I mean, I get it. Baroque music typically doesn't have as daring violin parts, but a lot of that music is sublime! Vivaldi's Gloria? There's a video on youtube of an all-women group doing a historically-informed version in the very church it was written in...and it is **chef's kiss**
@@ryano.5149 if baroque music is performed properly, it's as daring as they come. As you no doubt know, the composers didn't write all the notes down that they fully expected performers would know just to do. Like jazz. And some of the performers lived very dangerously, from contemporary accounts! Check out the earlier Baroque - Monteverdi, Carissimi, Lully, Couperin. Bach and Handel (late Baroque) were ones who started writing a lot of the notes down, but they still expected the performers to improvise and expand the music.
1:26 Eddy calls it a “song”
*SACRILEGIOUS*
"Some people dream of playing the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto. Just DO IT! And PRACTICE!!!" - Intense TwoSet of the Past
And so a lot of people did. 😁
i’m at a performing arts school. they decided that the first performance they had in two years would be of shostakovich’s fifth symphony, which was challenging but not unbearable. they decided that the next one would be mahler’s fifth symphony, which is VASTLY different from shos's
PETITION for twoset to do a video on the story of symphonie fantastique
This is actually a very cool video
Eddy's hair has a brain of its own
Congratulations to my good friend Berlioz for making the top 10!
Very interesting!
Haven't listened to a lot of Brahms, maybe something to consider.. Didn't really 'get' his Violin concerto until I listened to Leonidas Kavakos play it with Gergiev Valery Abisalovich and a wonderful orchestra from Munich, I think, - it was like an eureka-moment ⭐
Here's something beautiful (and very true) said by F Chopin that I recently found on the vast prairies of the Internet: "Bach is an astronomer, discovering the most marvellous stars. Beethoven challenges the universe. I only try to express the soul and the heart of man."
Ah YES ANOTHER VIDEOOO YAYYY
i love that Eddy's hair is in a diferent nevel of chaos
eddy: that's his head falling off
brett: haha donk bonk