If you don’t know what this piece is about, the cacophony and chaotic dissonance at the beginning signifies the two families feuding and it clears to reveal the beautiful love between Romeo and Juliet, quietly lurking under the surface.
all good Late Romance music tells a story - Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, Grieg, Stravinsky, Smetana, Holst, Ravel, et al...it's almost like its own genre. ;)
Prokofiev really knew how to depict the tension that existed between the Montagues and Capulets, and he did so amazingly by composing this piece of music.
Yeh. I play it on piano, it actually sounds pretty dang cool! The bass has a completely different effect when banging on a keyboard than with an orchestra, I like it.
Actually I'm far more awestruck by the introduction. For me, it is like listening to the creation of the universe. I hear the collisions of atoms, stars, galaxies, big bangs followed by majestic nebulae and interstellar particles gracefully expanding. Don't ever skip the incredible beginning.
I love older classical music, but it's not dead by any means. It's just moved to videogame soundtracks, and believe me, if you visit a videogame OST on youtube, you'll see thousands of young folks waxing poetic about them!
this is exactly why i’m so thankful that i learned appreciation for music at such a young age. my husband and i are both musicians so our future kids will appreciate it also.
I have always loved the way this particular piece of music can go from being so angry ,which gets your heart pumping and you feeling as if you could take on anyone...to so quiet and delicate.You can actually visualise the ballet in the quiet parts of the piece.A genius piece of music and I will always love that about it.
Any major battle of ideals, empires, peoples, creeds, species, minerals etc. can be illustrated by this magnificent work. It is truely one of the best.
I was listening to this while my cat was playing with a crinkly toy, and right as it god bombastic, she attacked it with just. The Absolute Utmost Ferocity and I almost fell out of my chair bc it was so funny
+tacos mexicanstyle Prokofjev uses much sofisticated harmony and instrumentation then Carl Orff. Great example is first piano concerto writen in his age of 18 years old. Gravity of the piece depens on performer. If you love great sound, let's listen Berliner Philharmoniker performances, I hope you will enjoy:)
I love this classical piece I love how it builds up as it goes along amazing classical composer ever love all the classical composers Bach beet oven Mozart etc
I have been to a performance of this ballet by the English National Ballet and this is my favourite part. It is so powerful and stirring even my husband loved it.
I feel like the joke of this being the orchestral piece for the Russian is that it's intense and violent during peacetime and it's intense, even genocidal during wartime, which strikes me as just another Russian joke.
Every other civilization in the game has a really clear separation in music between peace and war. Not Catherine. That bitch is always figuring out how she can kill your entire people
I have loved this piece of music since I was very little.It invokes such anger,makes you feel that you can take on the world.....then the tempo changes and becomes so delicate...you can almost picture the ballet.I will love this piece till the day I am not here anymore.
I could just imagine some montagues and capulets fighting and a montage of a bunch of differnt events from romeo and juliet. This song is just so brilliant, its chilling. I could just imagine some really large general walking around and strutting his weight around!!! :D
Austro-Hungarian Empire I don't get you, Ukrainians. Do you guys have inferiority complex or something that whenever something is related to Ukraine you have to point it out. Prokofiev was Russian from Ukraine. He recieved his music education from St. Peterburg. Can it get any more Russian than that?
played this last year as a senior in high school in one of the local college orchestras, and geesh those first two chords, if it's not that dissonance that doesn't get ya first it's the loudness that will lol, startled me a few times.
I played this as a viola in the all state orchestra for where I live. It was one of the most amazing musical experiences of my life, and call me corny, but I cried at the end when we played romeo at juliet's grave just because it was so beautiful and sad.
@AreY0uExperienced Finally!!!! Someone who shares my opinion! I never thought I'd see the day I'd meet someone who liked Prokofiev's version better. Kudos to you!
One of the greatest classical pieces ever written, thrusting, searing with tension and erotic intrigue - it perfectly enacts the clash of high power it was written to depict. A beautiful arrangement with incredible dynamics that erupt with potency that sound like war.
The classic, most well known section is always in my head when I'm walking the wild, windy moors between Hebden Bridge and Haworth. Wuthering Heights. With some Keith Emerson keyboards thrown in for good measure.
I performed in a ballet with this music back in 1992. Since then I have been trying to find out the title. Just this minute a friend played it while studying and I now know. Cool music!
i kept going back to this video for a charged performance of the score.... so full of energy... it's different story when pairing the score with the ballet dance which tends to be a bit slower... love this score....
No it is a really powerful section. It has a strange feeling to it, almost a kind of reflection on the fight between the two families one could take it as.
Such a wonderful piece of music. For me, it conjours an industrial age of machines, metal and engineering - Huge steam pistons and iron works moving up and down. Clouds of smoke and steam . . . the smell of furnaces . . .
I heard this song live by some real famous russian symphony (whose name unfortunately escapes me it was several years ago), but I must say when I heard this it gave me chills hearing this song booming in the concert hall
This is the kind of music that ought to be played at the beginning of a bodybuilding competition! During the openg and closing sections of the march, the contestants could march and strut and swagger back and forth across the stage, flexing and striking poses in time to the music--in effect, literally "strutting their stuff"!
If you don’t know what this piece is about, the cacophony and chaotic dissonance at the beginning signifies the two families feuding and it clears to reveal the beautiful love between Romeo and Juliet, quietly lurking under the surface.
all good Late Romance music tells a story - Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, Grieg, Stravinsky, Smetana, Holst, Ravel, et al...it's almost like its own genre. ;)
all retards love this song, because it's so easy to understand
Don't try too hard, Shakespeare winged it a bit..
@@paulwaring7215 lol yes he did but the story is superb
@@paulwaring7215 i don't think they are trying too hard. I got the same vibe. It makes sense to me.
I like to blast this while driving in heavy traffic, it makes the other drivers wonder what you're going to do...lol
His face looks like "Who the hell named my piece 'Dance of the Knights?'"
Probably a choreographer for the Romeo and Juliet ballet
haha yes xD
lmao haha
I'm pretty sure he was supergay. He looks so gay in some of the pictures.
@@Thelavendel cool
The very beginning of the song makes me feel like the Eye of Sauron is about to flash across my screen
well my eye looked at ur screen
LOL true
DHaines6 very nice hear °
looooool
Lame.
Prokofiev really knew how to depict the tension that existed between the Montagues and Capulets, and he did so amazingly by composing this piece of music.
Almost the Shakespeare of music right here.
I am here because this used to play every time The Smiths entered the stage back in the 1980s. Couldn't get it out of my head, what a song.
I was looking for this comment! I'm not the only one!
The smiths
And Muse for their HAARP album! What a great piece to use.
Reading Johnny Marr’s autobiography brought me here. Wish I had been born a few years earlier and seen them live 😢
"Hello, we're the Smiths and we come from England."
It is the whole song that is so good. Prokofiev is a genius.
*was
@@Edgar_Randolphno he is a genius
@@Edgar_Randolph He still is a genius, although dead
Llllllllllllllllllllllllllll l lllllllLLlLLlLLLqllllllllllll 1:30ll genius' Just reincarnate
I'm playing this in orchestra
It is fun to play
I played it the summer I was 12 at orchestra camp and it’s my favorite.
are you playing brass?
Yas queen
@@mgz282 Flute! We didn't actually get to perform because of covid and I'm trying to convince my teacher to have us play it again :/
I have performed this piece with two different orchestras, and I can tell you, it was epic!
I've ben looking for this masterpiece for so long!!!!
me too!
i just burst into tears when i got this!!
Now U got it
Same. I called it the elephant marching song when I was little lol
Yeh. I play it on piano, it actually sounds pretty dang cool! The bass has a completely different effect when banging on a keyboard than with an orchestra, I like it.
Actually I'm far more awestruck by the introduction. For me, it is like listening to the creation of the universe. I hear the collisions of atoms, stars, galaxies, big bangs followed by majestic nebulae and interstellar particles gracefully expanding. Don't ever skip the incredible beginning.
Bro got a 5 in AP literature
@@Penguinz072💀
I play this song when i eat cereal
I laughed way harder than necessary
i FART harder than you
Epic!
best comment ever lol
LMFAO.
I usually don't listen to this kind of music, but this piece is just breath taking. I love it! So powerful.
This is well and truly an amazing classical song! it was a nightmare trying to find it but i did in the end! enough said! listen and enjoy!!
I loved listening to this and many other classical music as a child. It saddens me that more and more kids go without enjoying this timeless music.
I love older classical music, but it's not dead by any means. It's just moved to videogame soundtracks, and believe me, if you visit a videogame OST on youtube, you'll see thousands of young folks waxing poetic about them!
this is exactly why i’m so thankful that i learned appreciation for music at such a young age. my husband and i are both musicians so our future kids will appreciate it also.
I have always loved the way this particular piece of music can go from being so angry ,which gets your heart pumping and you feeling as if you could take on anyone...to so quiet and delicate.You can actually visualise the ballet in the quiet parts of the piece.A genius piece of music and I will always love that about it.
Any major battle of ideals, empires, peoples, creeds, species, minerals etc. can be illustrated by this magnificent work. It is truely one of the best.
I don;'t think someone will ever write a better song than this. It's just amazing. Everything that should be in music is in this song
Err hello? Have you heard the locomotion by kylie??
😜@@Edgar_Randolph
what about Yeat
Gotta love those powerful trombones in this.
So much fun to hear in person.
Played this for full orchestra 3 years ago, most fun I've had bcs it was nice hearing strings with band instruments
When this plays, I open my balcony doors and shout "Egoiste!"
😂😂😂
hahaha what,meaning yourself?
@@информациясовсехсторон I meant the men's cologne by Chanel; the TV commercial used music from this piece.
I was listening to this while my cat was playing with a crinkly toy, and right as it god bombastic, she attacked it with just. The Absolute Utmost Ferocity and I almost fell out of my chair bc it was so funny
I’m laughing just picturing that lol!! If my cat did that (especially at those tragic-sounding parts in the intro) I would’ve completely lost it! 😂😸
One may search forever among the songs of punk, metal and hip hop, but never has- and will there ever been/be piece of music heavier than this.
1812 Overture? Tchaikovsky's Romeo an Juliet? Carl Orff's O Fortuna?
I think they're all much heavier than this
+tacos mexicanstyle Prokofjev uses much sofisticated harmony and instrumentation then Carl Orff. Great example is first piano concerto writen in his age of 18 years old. Gravity of the piece depens on performer. If you love great sound, let's listen Berliner Philharmoniker performances, I hope you will enjoy:)
Yess true this song is so hype 😆
I played bass for this once, one of my favorite pieces on it ever (especially at 1:35!!!)
At 1:39, the hair on the back of my neck stands up, I get goosebumps and am filled with a deep sense of dread and foreboding. This guy was a genius.
I love this classical piece I love how it builds up as it goes along amazing classical composer ever love all the classical composers Bach beet oven Mozart etc
This must be the 100th posting of this theme, certainly one of the most memorable ever written by anyone. A fine performance!
1:40 this is the part they always use for WW2 documentaries
Anyone from Hunter x Hunter? Zoldyck family theme [Starts at 1:30]
exactly what i thought 😂
Bruh I literally played this piece and didn't realize the connection with the Zoldyck theme until reading this
yesss thank you for the time stamp
Yes !!! I'm glad someone noticed it... (even if I don't watch HxH 2011, only 1999, I know this theme)
And I always thought it was plagiarism.
YES
This popped into my head and it took me an hour and a half of hunting to find the right piece. I'm so glad to be here.
I have been to a performance of this ballet by the English National Ballet and this is my favourite part. It is so powerful and stirring even my husband loved it.
The Cleveland orchestra visited my school and played this song... never forget it
Наконец то я ее нашла! Незаслуженно забытый шедевр!
YAY!!! I have been searching for this song all day!! It's so beautiful!
Approved
(Insert Russian chanting in background)
Don't you backstab me, Cathy.
CIV is awesome!
Arthur Finally, someone who gets the reference.
Civilization 5?
Sorry what reference?
I feel like the joke of this being the orchestral piece for the Russian is that it's intense and violent during peacetime and it's intense, even genocidal during wartime, which strikes me as just another Russian joke.
Every other civilization in the game has a really clear separation in music between peace and war. Not Catherine. That bitch is always figuring out how she can kill your entire people
MY FAVORITE PIECE OF MUSIC EVER!
I have loved this piece of music since I was very little.It invokes such anger,makes you feel that you can take on the world.....then the tempo changes and becomes so delicate...you can almost picture the ballet.I will love this piece till the day I am not here anymore.
Umbelievibly superb master piece! It's just so... Magnificient!
Many years I took dance classes and we used to movement exercises to this song. It really takes me back.
I heard this song live once and it gave me chills down my spine
heard this on dwts and finally had the opportunity to know what the music was that was stuck in my head since a kid
I could just imagine some montagues and capulets fighting and a montage of a bunch of differnt events from romeo and juliet. This song is just so brilliant, its chilling. I could just imagine some really large general walking around and strutting his weight around!!! :D
The best recording of this song that I could find. Why, all of your recordings are the best @TheWickedNorth.
In Soviet Russia, music listen to you!
exactly what i thought
Theme song of the NSA
what was the intention behind that comment?
Austro-Hungarian Empire I don't get you, Ukrainians. Do you guys have inferiority complex or something that whenever something is related to Ukraine you have to point it out. Prokofiev was Russian from Ukraine. He recieved his music education from St. Peterburg. Can it get any more Russian than that?
Ziad It's a matter of aknowledging the fact, calm your tits, shluhin sin.
I love this piece.
My favourite piece of classical music.
Nadherna hudba od vynikajiciho skladatele,ktera obohacuje lidsky zivot,dekuji,Maestro...
So I had thought I never heard this piece before, but when it got to 1:34 I remembered my friend plays this on piano all the time!
played this last year as a senior in high school in one of the local college orchestras, and geesh those first two chords, if it's not that dissonance that doesn't get ya first it's the loudness that will lol, startled me a few times.
Now that I found this song 🎶 I play it whenever I’m making big plans for myself.
One of the most epic classic music compositions!!!
I actually can't put how amazing this is into words!!
I played this as a viola in the all state orchestra for where I live.
It was one of the most amazing musical experiences of my life, and call me corny, but I cried at the end when we played romeo at juliet's grave just because it was so beautiful and sad.
Just an amazingly strong musical masterpiece.
Love it!
@AreY0uExperienced
Finally!!!! Someone who shares my opinion! I never thought I'd see the day I'd meet someone who liked Prokofiev's version better. Kudos to you!
One of the greatest classical pieces ever written, thrusting, searing with tension and erotic intrigue - it perfectly enacts the clash of high power it was written to depict. A beautiful arrangement with incredible dynamics that erupt with potency that sound like war.
The classic, most well known section is always in my head when I'm walking the wild, windy moors between Hebden Bridge and Haworth. Wuthering Heights. With some Keith Emerson keyboards thrown in for good measure.
If you sing the Star Wars Empire March from 2:32, it matches pretty well.
*Imperial
Came here because someone did this and posted it on Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/d4ybit/execute_order_66/
@@verifex I needed this as proof for my 9 year old who said "that sounds nothing like Star Wars." Mom sez, "does so" *clicks on link*
Look up 'funny trombone section' itll say something about orchestra prank
Can't help dancing listening at this wonderful melodic poem... it touched something in my soul
When you sit right in front of the piccolo...
when you play piccolo and another guy is blasting it on the drums a few seats down
I performed in a ballet with this music back in 1992. Since then I have been trying to find out the title. Just this minute a friend played it while studying and I now know. Cool music!
The Zoldyck (?) family theme from Hunter x Hunter sounds very similar to this, especially at 1:34.
UnorthodoxRomance exactly
The same
this is the base for the zoldyck family theme actually
We are playing this is in my amateur orchestra. And I would like to say the violin part is hell on earth and makes me wince but sounds amazing
1:34 when stalin doesn't get his daily vodka and gets mad
the best of PRKOFIEV,thanks
How powerful a piece of music this is fabulous..x
I love the cluster at beginning
1:35 Darth Vader is comming O.o
+moechtegernPianist :)
Dam Straight
moechtegernPianist lol
ruclips.net/video/Oipg71dSem0/видео.html watch this you will love it then
LMFAO, this is exactly what I wanted to post. :D It's so amazing!
i kept going back to this video for a charged performance of the score.... so full of energy... it's different story when pairing the score with the ballet dance which tends to be a bit slower... love this score....
Perfect sound for taking a shit... or eating a banana... or searching your glasses and realising you are actually wearing them...
DerpNerd your funny
Gross turd music
This is such a powerful piece of music. Awesome.
This plays as you descend the obsidian elevator into my dark, cavernous lair
My fav part is at 3:10. I guess I'm getting old.
Brad H I am 13 and this is also my fav part
Firelizard dude I just read your channel bio and you say you upload once a week put the last time you uploaded was last year
Fantastic switch in tempo and my favourite section also.
No it is a really powerful section. It has a strange feeling to it, almost a kind of reflection on the fight between the two families one could take it as.
@@firelizard4279 Wow. You're 16 or more right now. You were a normal child back then, now a high school teenager.
wonderful. Absolutely gorgeous music.
Monster Girl Quest led me here...
How that happened, I haven't the slightest clue...
Such a wonderful piece of music. For me, it conjours an industrial age of machines, metal and engineering - Huge steam pistons and iron works moving up and down. Clouds of smoke and steam . . . the smell of furnaces . . .
Soundtrack to the apocalypse.
Heard this on Chefs Table and I’ve been looking for it ever since such a good piece love the low brass section.
That jumpscare at 1:33 though
+Gods Don't Talk lol only if you don't know the piece
+slateflash It gets me every time
Derek Hough and Maria Menudos danced this on DWTS. I loved the music and their performance !!
1:33 the beginning of zoldyck family theme haha.
yeessssssss
So glad you noticed that, good sir
The sheer overwhelming power of Prokofiev brought me here!!!!!
Hannibal Cooking
Ye boi
Hahaha
Bruh
I'm literally crying I'm so happy my conductor said we get to play this and it is one of my favorites in the entire world
Prokofiev is a drama queen but that's why I love him
Reminder to myself to start the song at 1:34
I love to see images of great steam engines to this - an industrial muscle piece during the high tempo section
God, I finally found it!
I've been humming that piece for days wondering what it was. And pissing off my coworkers haha
This is going in my bookmarks!
I heard this song live by some real famous russian symphony (whose name unfortunately escapes me it was several years ago), but I must say when I heard this it gave me chills hearing this song booming in the concert hall
I love this piece
Sheer brilliance & genius - always takes your breath away in shear emotion.
TJ
Anyone here from Druck?
Maren 78 Meee
Me
yes kkkkk
Half druck half my love for this music
me
The trombone part is fun. Sounds awesome with the rest of the orchestra too
1:34 ⚔️
I love this music. It used to make me have an intriguing dream...
I'm a magician, Spencer. A furious magician.
Très belle chanson
Only ash remains outro :)
The first CD.. we were given when i was a child, when we got our first CD player. This music is timeless and pure magic!
When Kenny secretly does something to Spenny and Spenny just found out and is furious and Kenny and his crew are laughing maniacally
Lmao
@@deeznuts8845 a man of culture I see
Many thanks for uploading this.
Was looking for this one ...
Immortal music!!!
This is the kind of music that ought to be played at the beginning of a bodybuilding competition! During the openg and closing sections of the march, the contestants could march and strut and swagger back and forth across the stage, flexing and striking poses in time to the music--in effect, literally "strutting their stuff"!
+Tom Nichol Yes this or Mars Bringer of War by Gluck
+MsJubjubbird Did you mean HOLST Mars Bringer of War.
Felix haha sorry, brain fart