IN-FREAKIN-CREDIBLE! This is a high school band performing this piece of music that's not easy. And they freakin KILL it! Old PI is smiling down on this group of incredibly talented musicians and lovin' every minute of it!
OMG! What an unbelievable job by this high school band! They are the best non-all star band I've ever heard and I've been in music since I was age 11. And I thought the bands I was in were great! These kids are unbelievable. What a joy to listen to! Bravo! (Shijonawate Gakuen High School brass band)
Non ho mai sentito il migliore di questo come finezza di suoni, comportamento e serietà dei ragazzi e spettacolo. Se potessi vi abbraccerei uno per uno, ragazzi e ragazze. Grandi auguri per il vostro futuro, meritate ogni soddisfazione dalla vita per quanto regalate a noi. Congratulazioni al Maestro che ha saputo prepararli così bene. Credo che meglio non si possa fare.
A very impressive performance, given the youth of the orchestra, they played with maturity, great control,and intonation. The woodwind section, as far as I could see all female, were particulalry good, the runs were crystal clear and tonal quality was excellent too! The introduction of physical movement, in complete unison was a triumph. With violins in a traditional orchestra, you do have the movement, which you don't normally have in a symphonic orchestra, clarinets are normally pretty much fairly static~ this band gave that little extra interest. I thought the dynamics too, were brilliant. An excellent performance, let's see much more please!
Movements while playing the music increases the emotional feeling of musicians towards the piece. It makes the music more dramatic and expressive. Very nice band! :)
Bravissimi, tutti quanti. Mai sentito niente di più eccezionale, di più pulizia di suoni, di professionalità. Auguri per il vostro futuro, ragazzi, meritate tutte le soddisfazioni di questo mondo. SIETE GRANDIOSI.
Having all the saxophones set up in the front along with their amazing tone gives off the effect of strings,especially in the beginning. I'm sure it was purposeful.
What a talented young team. Players the school must be very proud of. Also so well disciplined even when they are not playing. Wouldn't mind going to see and hear them if they ever tour.
Bravo!... Parabéns a esta orquestra de sopros formada exclusivamente de jovens, é uma das mais fantasticas interpretações de Overture 1812. Saudações a todos os musicos e esperto que se aprimorem a cada dia.
Well, in virtuosity of total range covered..........only the piano covers more octaves than the clarinet family. I don't know exactly how many more pitches a piano can play than the clarinet family can but between all of the members of the clarinet family there is something like 82 different pitches covered. A standard piano has 88. If I really wanted to figure it out I would, but nnnnaaaaahhhhhh.....(8^P
It's nice to see a really great and professional concert band! Too bad here in Brazil there is no unique since it is not given due importance and value, you are to be congratulated!
These kids are INCREDIBLE! This is now my favorite recording/performance of this piece and I own MANY. Does anyone know why so many Japanese orchestras and bands have female percussionists? The ones here are MAGNIFICENT and, yes, I know that one is male. This is also a good example of how far behind, and not just in music, we here in America are when compared with much of the rest of the world.
The sax choir doing the introductory hymn definitely works, but had I done the arrangement, I think I would have had the low brass do it (or the low woodwinds).
Bravo! Bravo! Better than most of the professional orchestra recordings! Simply remarkable for high school students to be technically flawlessly & emotionally fearlessly. Congratulations to the studnets and maestro for a remarkable performance. I would love to hear you play Aaron Copeland's Fanfare for the Common Man... -- Nicole
Somebody mentioned this was not an All Star Band. What kool-aid were you drinking. This is a performing arts academy in Japan similar to Juilliard, Eastman or Interlochen. No reed squeeks, no brass split notes, no mistakes. This band is huge. I have played in many advanced wind ensembles and there are always mistakes. This is near perfection. You don.t teach that intonation. Some have it and some don't. listen to that 4/4 time. Impossible to keep in synch with one another. Where are you going to get all those French horn players from one school?
ruclips.net/video/xe6clDYFlQ8/видео.html what about this one, my wife played in the similar band when she was at school, and she has never been professional musician, like this kids in many schools across Japan, the problem is that Japanese people are doing always everything 100% as western countries used to do, but now our civilisation is dying, we are living in the world of "I DESERVED" they still live in the normal world in the world where you have right to achieve whatever you want
Gee - and there in the credits it proclaims this Shijonawate Gakuen High School. Phrasing is off in certain passages for the saxophones (some players not sustaining notes through the full count) and there is one over-zealous clarinet standing out in the closing anthem, along with one "added" trumpet. By far, this would rate a definite "Superior +" rating by U.S. band standards; but, this performance is NOT flawless. Fully expected, as this was only ONE selection they performed at this concert. Run a search to find their other equally incredible performances - to include, their kick-ass "Music of the Spheres".
piotr kamieniak Yeah, about your link to the "pros", It is too fast to enjoy musically. The problem with lots of music played today. They are all just showing off.
Paul Armitage Yeah, no kidding. My point was that this piece is reminiscent of his more romantic works. Composers can have works that don't sound like it's composed by them. This is not much of a romantic piece, and I didn't recognize it was by him the first time I had this on a playlist, but you can really hear that it's by him at the end of the piece. I knew it was by Tchaikovsky when I wrote my original comment, but just because it's composed by Tchaikovsky doesn't mean it has to sound like it.
It is really sad to see that so many people just don't appreciate good music anymore, this music makes rap music of today look like children trying to rhyme, even though that's pretty much what rap is, just more obcene
I'm surprised I don't see more Rovner ligatures on any of the clarinets or saxophones. The black flexible rubber one with the one screw that sits on the top of the mouthpiece not the bottom of it. The Bass Clarinet is a good example @ 2:46. That type of mouthpiece holds reeds in place better because they make direct contact with more of the surface area of the reed itself, and it's flexible. You can sit on a Rovner ligature and not break it at all. You can't do that with the gold colored metal ligatures that most of these students are using.
+r5t6y12 Despite the fact that Japanese students run circles around us here in the U.S. in virtually every subject, they do so with about half the funding. This school is relatively well off by Japanese standards and have good equipment, but there are performances out there of this quality with the performers playing on B12s and YCL-255's (with similar quality across all instrument families across the band)
Well, you'll notice that they're Oriental of some nationality. They don't fool around as much as western peoples do. They might not have as much fun in life as westerners do, but they also don't fool around as much. Actually, if everybody concentrated as much as they could, half of all of the high school bands in the world could play half of this song within one month of seeing if for the first time. There's a phrase in the movie Karate Kid, where Mr. Miyagi says..."no such thing bad student, only bad teacher......". If the teacher is very good (including on discipline and making the students understand that a subject is not as difficult as the students think it is), the teacher can get students to do things like this within weeks.
r5t6y12 If there is no such thing as a bad teacher, how come the same teacher can have pupils who struggle to pass exams and others who get comfortably high grades comparitively easily? Also, Western children don't "fool around", its just that we understand that there is far more to music than being able to play the notes and being able to show off technically. The point of music is to express emotion, not to dismiss it for the sake of getting rid of every miniscule error.
This is a fine performance, but it is an ordinary Japanese high school band. If you listen, you can hear plenty of intonation issues throughout the performance. Shijonawate Gakuen HS has never made it to the finals of the All-Japan Band Contest, meaning they have never been in the top 29 high school bands in Japan. If you want to hear the very top bands in Japan, search for Seika Girls, Yodogawa Tech, Osaka Toin, Katakura, Inagakuen, and Saitama Sakae for starters. Those bands usually place in the top 10 bands in Japan each year.
And is there any other high school band in the western world who can play as good as this. These are young adults and should get some praise for their efforts instead of know it alls finding fault. They enjoy what they do and its entertainment not competition
You don't play do you? Less than 2 years after starting an instrument the muscles in your lips and lower jaw have really gotten used to it. Bachelors students and Masters students play 2-4 hours a day for months at a time getting ready for recitals and degree qualification tests.
IN-FREAKIN-CREDIBLE! This is a high school band performing this piece of music that's not easy. And they freakin KILL it! Old PI is smiling down on this group of incredibly talented musicians and lovin' every minute of it!
What an outstanding band with a fine conductor! The parents and the school should be tremendously PROUD - and the players!
14:34 I always get goosebumps at that part
These young musicians must be connected by their souls they are so spot on. I’m blown away.
I'm such a baby! I cried at the end. Music is music and this group really did Tchaikovsky justice! Bravo!
OMG! What an unbelievable job by this high school band! They are the best non-all star band I've ever heard and I've been in music since I was age 11. And I thought the bands I was in were great! These kids are unbelievable. What a joy to listen to! Bravo! (Shijonawate Gakuen High School brass band)
As a clarinet player, really cool how wind instruments can fill in for string instruments
SAME ❤
Non ho mai sentito il migliore di questo come finezza di suoni, comportamento e serietà dei ragazzi e spettacolo. Se potessi vi abbraccerei uno per uno, ragazzi e ragazze. Grandi auguri per il vostro futuro, meritate ogni soddisfazione dalla vita per quanto regalate a noi. Congratulazioni al Maestro che ha saputo prepararli così bene. Credo che meglio non si possa fare.
A very impressive performance, given the youth of the orchestra, they played with maturity, great control,and intonation. The woodwind section, as far as I could see all female, were particulalry good, the runs were crystal clear and tonal quality was excellent too! The introduction of physical movement, in complete unison was a triumph. With violins in a traditional orchestra, you do have the movement, which you don't normally have in a symphonic orchestra, clarinets are normally pretty much fairly static~ this band gave that little extra interest. I thought the dynamics too, were brilliant. An excellent performance, let's see much more please!
A Wind Ensemble Really Gets Ones pulse beating with the Pure joy of that special sound... Bravo, One and All....
The orchestrated version of this piece always gave me chills at the end. This performance gave me the same chills! Excellent job!
Bravissimi! Non è facile suonare brani di questo livello con una banda
Well played.....Fine young musicians....Congratulations Mr Band Director
Movements while playing the music increases the emotional feeling of musicians towards the piece. It makes the music more dramatic and expressive. Very nice band! :)
I don't care who played this rendition of 1812 Overture, it is one of the best that I have ever listened to.
Bravissimi, tutti quanti. Mai sentito niente di più eccezionale, di più pulizia di suoni, di professionalità. Auguri per il vostro futuro, ragazzi, meritate tutte le soddisfazioni di questo mondo. SIETE GRANDIOSI.
From one little village of Europe i SAY : VERY VERY VERY GOOD. On these way i can to listen all the notes. With the strings not the same.
Wow! They must have an awesome music program. This performance is cleaner than many professional performances I have heard, Great job!
Loved it. Could watch it over and over again and still not get bored. All credit to those musicians and conductor.
Marvellous!!! They should all be very very proud of themselves.
Having all the saxophones set up in the front along with their amazing tone gives off the effect of strings,especially in the beginning. I'm sure it was purposeful.
BRAVO! one of best interpretations i have ever heard! gooseskin and tears in my eyes. thank you!
Without a doubt the finest HS band I have ever heard. Love the drummer at 15:27 digging into that snare for the final crescendo.
nitetrane98 it was timpani not snare
You're quite correct.
what an outstanding performance for a highschool orchestra!!!
Everything they do is so regimented even the way the clarinets sway the same way and at the same time
What a talented young team. Players the school must be very proud of. Also so well disciplined even when they are not playing. Wouldn't mind going to see and hear them if they ever tour.
Superb performance and arrangement.
Loved it all, but above all, that small part that starts in 08:23 !
excellent playing of music and excellent tuning.
Bravo!... Parabéns a esta orquestra de sopros formada exclusivamente de jovens, é uma das mais fantasticas interpretações de Overture 1812. Saudações a todos os musicos e esperto que se aprimorem a cada dia.
Great performance, harmony & orchestration. May peace come to Japan & people all over the world.
I love how they have so many of my instrument. Go clarinets!
Well, in virtuosity of total range covered..........only the piano covers more octaves than the clarinet family. I don't know exactly how many more pitches a piano can play than the clarinet family can but between all of the members of the clarinet family there is something like 82 different pitches covered. A standard piano has 88. If I really wanted to figure it out I would, but nnnnaaaaahhhhhh.....(8^P
Une belle découverte que cet orchestre. Pour une superbe interprétation.
Fantástico. Saludos desde Madrid
Very good performance, especially technically. Just wondered if the clarinets were instructed to move in unison. Seemed too much of a coincidence.
It's nice to see a really great and professional concert band! Too bad here in Brazil there is no unique since it is not given due importance and value, you are to be congratulated!
I have played flute on this in a local community band. A good exercise in double-tonguing!
Truly beautiful!
best 15:46 seconds I spent on RUclips!
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Amazing! Really Wind Orchestra!
it is one of the best wind orchestra i think
Geweldige Band en een uitstekende Directeur
Extraordinary!
Excellent! It actually sounds so much better without the strings.
QUE PRECIOSA INTERPRETACION, PRECIOUS TO INTERPRETATION
I can't stop listening this! It's...Glourios! :')
magnifique!!
Большое спасибо! Недаром David Coverdale не забывает Вашу страну!
Like 1 million times, verry well played
We're getting ready to play this in our High School Band. I'm the 1st part French horn. It's going to be a challenging piece.
Do you know who arranged this?
These kids are INCREDIBLE! This is now my favorite recording/performance of this piece and I own MANY. Does anyone know why so many Japanese orchestras and bands have female percussionists? The ones here are MAGNIFICENT and, yes, I know that one is male. This is also a good example of how far behind, and not just in music, we here in America are when compared with much of the rest of the world.
ONE WORD BRILLIANT!
You are all Great! :) Thanks to you all!!
HIGH SCHOOL! I thought this was experienced professionals.
Just amazing.
Yes, a fantastic performance! Albert van der Net.
Fantastic!
Excelente.
5:39 Allons enfants de la Patrie! Le jour de gloire ...
this is scary good
Read my reply to rex759 from earlier today. His comment was from 3 weeks ago.
Magnificent !!!!!
The sax choir doing the introductory hymn definitely works, but had I done the arrangement, I think I would have had the low brass do it (or the low woodwinds).
i propose french horns have the melody there
or euphonium baritone
suavidade , comprometimento , pureza , uma bela orquestração das jovens , belo
i wanna play the triangle when i grow up!!
worst childhood ever! 😂😂😂
Awesome！！
Bravo! Bravo! Better than most of the professional orchestra recordings! Simply remarkable for high school students to be technically flawlessly & emotionally fearlessly. Congratulations to the studnets and maestro for a remarkable performance. I would love to hear you play Aaron Copeland's Fanfare for the Common Man... -- Nicole
magnifico !
Very interesting arrangement. Without the strings, it sounds a lot cleaner!
Somebody mentioned this was not an All Star Band. What kool-aid were you drinking. This is a performing arts academy in Japan similar to Juilliard, Eastman or Interlochen. No reed squeeks, no brass split notes, no mistakes. This band is huge. I have played in many advanced wind ensembles and there are always mistakes. This is near perfection. You don.t teach that intonation. Some have it and some don't. listen to that 4/4 time. Impossible to keep in synch with one another. Where are you going to get all those French horn players from one school?
ruclips.net/video/xe6clDYFlQ8/видео.html what about this one, my wife played in the similar band when she was at school, and she has never been professional musician, like this kids in many schools across Japan, the problem is that Japanese people are doing always everything 100% as western countries used to do, but now our civilisation is dying, we are living in the world of "I DESERVED" they still live in the normal world in the world where you have right to achieve whatever you want
this is how professionals are playing do you see the difference ruclips.net/video/InN8MTV2t1Y/видео.html
I agree. I've played tuba since 1958 and have played the 1812 Overture in two symphony orchestras. These young musicians are fantastic.
Gee - and there in the credits it proclaims this Shijonawate Gakuen High School.
Phrasing is off in certain passages for the saxophones (some players not sustaining notes through the full count) and there is one over-zealous clarinet standing out in the closing anthem, along with one "added" trumpet. By far, this would rate a definite "Superior +" rating by U.S. band standards; but, this performance is NOT flawless.
Fully expected, as this was only ONE selection they performed at this concert.
Run a search to find their other equally incredible performances - to include, their kick-ass "Music of the Spheres".
piotr kamieniak
Yeah, about your link to the "pros", It is too fast to enjoy musically. The problem with lots of music played today. They are all just showing off.
AWESOME!
Great performance
I was hoping that they would use cannons, but drums are ok I guess
The bass drums are so good because it has to replicate the sound of a cannon
This piece is played excellent by the Mexican Air Force Orchestra.
Awesome!
dem synchronized clarinets doe
The ending of the piece is so Tchaikovsky-esque
it's almost as if it was written by Tchaikovksy or something...
+Alec Pearl ikr it's crazy. For real, though, I mean more along the lines of, it's really reminiscent of his more romantic stuff.
+chessicles99 Alec's point was that the 1812 Overture was originally written by Tchaikovsky...
Paul Armitage Yeah, no kidding. My point was that this piece is reminiscent of his more romantic works. Composers can have works that don't sound like it's composed by them. This is not much of a romantic piece, and I didn't recognize it was by him the first time I had this on a playlist, but you can really hear that it's by him at the end of the piece. I knew it was by Tchaikovsky when I wrote my original comment, but just because it's composed by Tchaikovsky doesn't mean it has to sound like it.
+chessicles99 okay, I understand now. thanks for clearing it up.
Why better without strings! I wish i can get a hold of the score for this so our band can play this :)
It is really sad to see that so many people just don't appreciate good music anymore, this music makes rap music of today look like children trying to rhyme, even though that's pretty much what rap is, just more obcene
The timing of cymbals is fucking hilarious LOL ( I mean, in the video)
14:36 there it is
I didn't like how throughout the piece how the musicians were feeling the music looked choreographed
Bryan Brown what do u mean? It looked cool to me
I'm surprised I don't see more Rovner ligatures on any of the clarinets or saxophones.
The black flexible rubber one with the one screw that sits on the top of the mouthpiece not the bottom of it. The Bass Clarinet is a good example @ 2:46.
That type of mouthpiece holds reeds in place better because they make direct contact with more of the surface area of the reed itself, and it's flexible. You can sit on a Rovner ligature and not break it at all.
You can't do that with the gold colored metal ligatures that most of these students are using.
+r5t6y12
Despite the fact that Japanese students run circles around us here in the U.S. in virtually every subject, they do so with about half the funding. This school is relatively well off by Japanese standards and have good equipment, but there are performances out there of this quality with the performers playing on B12s and YCL-255's (with similar quality across all instrument families across the band)
Esta obra é uma das melhores do Mundo!
That is an amazing arrangement of an amazing composition! Where did you get this from?
Its funny how all the clarinets are in sync when they move
Piękne!!!*)
This is a high school band?!?! Unbelievable!
Well, you'll notice that they're Oriental of some nationality. They don't fool around as much as western peoples do.
They might not have as much fun in life as westerners do, but they also don't fool around as much.
Actually, if everybody concentrated as much as they could, half of all of the high school bands in the world could play half of this song within one month of seeing if for the first time.
There's a phrase in the movie Karate Kid, where Mr. Miyagi says..."no such thing bad student, only bad teacher......".
If the teacher is very good (including on discipline and making the students understand that a subject is not as difficult as the students think it is), the teacher can get students to do things like this within weeks.
r5t6y12 They are Japanese music students.
r5t6y12 If there is no such thing as a bad teacher, how come the same teacher can have pupils who struggle to pass exams and others who get comfortably high grades comparitively easily?
Also, Western children don't "fool around", its just that we understand that there is far more to music than being able to play the notes and being able to show off technically. The point of music is to express emotion, not to dismiss it for the sake of getting rid of every miniscule error.
Bravissimi
Beauful♪
superbe _
Excellent playing, really enjoyable to listen to. And wow, how many trumpet player does this orchestra have? Awesome :)
bravo!!
This is a fine performance, but it is an ordinary Japanese high school band. If you listen, you can hear plenty of intonation issues throughout the performance. Shijonawate Gakuen HS has never made it to the finals of the All-Japan Band Contest, meaning they have never been in the top 29 high school bands in Japan. If you want to hear the very top bands in Japan, search for Seika Girls, Yodogawa Tech, Osaka Toin, Katakura, Inagakuen, and Saitama Sakae for starters. Those bands usually place in the top 10 bands in Japan each year.
All the more depressing, that our schools can't live up to even the standard of a 2nd tier japanese school.
And is there any other high school band in the western world who can play as good as this. These are young adults and should get some praise for their efforts instead of know it alls finding fault. They enjoy what they do and its entertainment not competition
Yoshihiro Kimura
Текст хора:
Спаси, Господи, люди Твоя,
И благослови достояние Твоё,
Победы благоверному Императору нашему Николаю
Павловичу на сопротивныя
И Твоё сохраняя
Крестом Твоим жительство.
Крестом Твоим жительство...
Крестом Твоим жительство...
Крестом Твоим...
Крестом Твоим...
Крестом Твоим,
Твоим Крестом!
Твоим, твоим Крестом!
Спаси, Господи, люди Твоя,
И благослови достояние Твоё,
Победы благоверному Императору нашему Николаю
Павловичу на сопротивныя
И Твое сохраняя.
I played this for a college football game :3
15 minutes straight holy crap their mouths must be numb!
You don't play do you?
Less than 2 years after starting an instrument the muscles in your lips and lower jaw have really gotten used to it.
Bachelors students and Masters students play 2-4 hours a day for months at a time getting ready for recitals and degree qualification tests.
.........aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh, there was a mistake somewhere @ 9:08. But luckily everybody caught it and went on as if nothing happened.
Cool