My director described the french horn solo as lulling people into a false sense of safety and the flute solo as announcing your arrival to Purgatory and that makes me quite happy
Fits pretty well to the poem, seeing as The Purgatorio can range from being pretty calm, to confusing, to outright horrifying. The addition of the vocals singing "Gloria in excelsis deo" is also a great addition because if you've ever read it, you'd know that everyone in every level of purgatory sings some sort of hymn.
My teacher wanted to sight read this, so he came up to the sax section and said, "Yeah, if one of you could sight read the soprano solo, that'd be great"
Played this in band back in high school. Scary song for those who hadn't heard it before. We also did Symphony No.1 (In Memoriam Dresden, 1945) another scary song about the Allied fire bombing of Dresden in WWII.
I love this!!! Impressive, the symphony orchestra in my daughter's ex-high school played it and it was impressive. My daughter was the lead clarinet player.
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My director described the french horn solo as lulling people into a false sense of safety and the flute solo as announcing your arrival to Purgatory and that makes me quite happy
The angel Boatman would be proud
Iconic
Fits pretty well to the poem, seeing as The Purgatorio can range from being pretty calm, to confusing, to outright horrifying.
The addition of the vocals singing "Gloria in excelsis deo" is also a great addition because if you've ever read it, you'd know that everyone in every level of purgatory sings some sort of hymn.
My teacher wanted to sight read this, so he came up to the sax section and said, "Yeah, if one of you could sight read the soprano solo, that'd be great"
That happened to me today!!
My teacher has told stories of teaching this song, and having some ... interesting results with the groans
UwU
Whoever dislikes this is probably in orchestra,choir,or just haters
the original score has strings included. also thERES A SINGING PART
All his songs are just amazing,I just can't dislike it
Played this in band back in high school. Scary song for those who hadn't heard it before. We also did Symphony No.1 (In Memoriam Dresden, 1945) another scary song about the Allied fire bombing of Dresden in WWII.
I love this!!! Impressive, the symphony orchestra in my daughter's ex-high school played it and it was impressive. My daughter was the lead clarinet player.
Played this once before. Miss it. Righteous piece, man.
We are playing this song in marching band
Lucky
current soloist for all 3 trumpet solos in the full Divine comedy, Idk why my director wanted to kill the trumpet section this year
Ross Miller lol okay ross 😂
he's gonna kill the clarinets as well lol
I’m in normal Concert band in high school and we are playing this and for a grade 5 piece it isn’t that bad
Jesus Christ they played it uber fast
The part going from 3:30 to about 4:15 reminds me so much of "It's hard work" from Spirited Away. It's kinda fitting too, I'd say
That sax solo is so nice. It really isn't even that hard
@WhFL, Thats how RWS conducts it.
Sax solo at 2:16.....
exelente obra!!
played french horn
@cortrellrocksnice It's still nice though haha
Lolz