Mussorgsky - The Great Gate At Kiev - Pictures At An Exhibition
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- čas přidán 27. 11. 2011
- Pictures at an Exhibition is a suite of ten pieces plus a recurring, varied Promenade composed for piano by Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky in 1874. The suite is Mussorgsky's most famous piano composition, and has become a showpiece for virtuoso pianists.
- Hudba
I played this 40 years ago in orchestra, and can still remember what my movements were. I played violin.
Me too and it was one of my favorites-Hey Putin Russians are cool too.
shop99er I played this last year
I'm playing this now I play bass
Our school orchestra played this. Considering the oldest player was 13 I reckon we did a pretty good job. At the age of 63 I'm still in touch with some of those musicians. Its not a piece you forget in a hurry. I was a flautist in those days.
shop99er I'll play it in Milan on 8th April... wish me good luck!😄😄
I just want to share something. This song played on my way home from the hospital on the day my son was born almost two years ago. It perfectly encapsulates the emotion I felt that day and it still moves me to tears whenever I hear it. The wonder of fatherhood, life and love is magnified by this work of divine art.
Hope you've stopped crying bro
In my high school orchestra we'd play this at the very end of the senior graduation ceremonies. Finally after 4 years I was able to walk the graduation and hear this song as I exited high school and took my first steps into the unknown.
Pretty sure it was Pomp and Circumstance and not The Great Gate of Kiev. Pomp and Circumstance is known as the graduation song.
@@greekmonkey9790 hahahahah There you go but it would have been interesting hahahaha
They had both pomp and circumstance and this at ours.
We did play pomp and circumstance on repeat while everyone grabbed their diplomas but we'd cap off the graduations with this song.
This song is much better than Pomp and Circumstance. Pomp and Circumstance is a stupid song.
Gong, cymbals, bass drum, tympani, chimes… a percussionist's dream. One of the greatest orchestral pieces. Extra fortissimo everyone!
I can't help crying every time I listen to it, it's so epic, beautiful and powerful
Check out Emerson Lake and Palmer's version. Greg Lake wrote lyrics for that version. It is so powerful and epic.
We played Pictures at an Exhibition my first season in the marching band, so it always has a special place in my heart. I distinctly remember shedding a couple of tears while playing this one, and thinking "I can't believe us clumsy, goofy middle and high school kids are actually making these sounds". I am clinging hard to that association right now, and trying not to wonder what will happen to Kiev... 💔
THE QUEEN OF SWORDS
Thank you Mussorgsky for composing this magnificent piece and TNO devs for introducing me to it.
Thank also Ravel for orchestating it
Can you tell the name of that song ?
Tno Devs 🍆🍆🍆
we never use words like majestic or breathtaking in our everyday conversation. until we hear this, or see places like Alaska.
T. Alaska resident
When you have once gained sight, it is impossible to feign bllindness.
This music is so powerful, that even Jerry 'The King' Lawler had to make this his intro when he was on WWF.
before him, King Harley Race
Actually, it was Harley Race when he was king and used that piece for his entrance. Later, it was Haku in 1988, then Hacksaw Jim Duggan in 1989, Macho Man Randy Savage (using his own theme), and finally Jerry Lawler in 1993.
It was looped strangely at one part, though. Having said that, it was done very well.
@@Rlotpir1972 you sure know your WWF history.
@@jamesharrington4752 He sure knows Wikipedia...
What a majestic/timid piece of music.The peace. The grandiosity. The means of modern transmission: ELP. Heard it in '72. Loved it since.
It's splendid grandiosity indeed. Ironic that this was composed by someone who's first name is Modest.
"Ten Four" on EMERSON LAKE AND PALMER ❗🎶 😊
Flat-out the single most _majestic_ piece of music ever written. Others may be more bombastic, more powerful, or more thrilling, but for the sheer essence of MAJESTY, nothing touches this.
@Voracious Reader everyone knows it's an opinion mate
Yes, this is as perfect a piece of music as ever was written, and Ravel's orchestration is brilliant.
I played 2nd chair trombone with the Melbourne (FL) High School bands from '64-'67. This fabulous work still stirs my heart like it did then.
@@steveberry515 Yes and given the darkness that is coming for the city this composition has become more majestic and poignant .
I walked down the aisle at my wedding to this
That's awesome
I played this 2 years ago in my youth orchestra. I was co-concert master and the entire Pictures At An Exhibition was so fun.
fuck I wish I got to play pictures at an exhibition at my school when we played this song, I would've loved playing that trumpet solo.
I'm in tears... one of the greatest finale ever
Hope you've stopped crying bro
40% comments : This great masterpiece brings tears to my eyes...
60% comments :
J E R R Y. T H E. K I N G L A W L E R !!!
10% comments:
TNO Stalina Komi moment.
@@maxlin200 Me: Adoring fan of Cliff.
Harley Race and Haku for me!!
The real succession of the WWF crown:
•King. Harley. Race
•King Kaku
•Macho King
•Hacksaw King Duggan
...that's it. No more king-wannabes
1% Michael Jackson history tour
"Nice to see you back, Banana Nose, because I hate seeing your front!" -Jerry "the King" Lawler
"The One thing that hadn't gotten smaller was that big mouth of yours" -Lance Russell
lady of steel
This master piece still thrills me everytime I hear it.
When you heard this in the late 90s, you knew commentary was gonna slap-
From Memphis, Tennessee
Weighing in at 243 lbs
Jerry “The King” Lawler
Another great example of Mussorgsky's genius. Listen to how majestic he makes the music sound at 3:14.
… and Ravel’s
When the music comes back in at 3:15 just...chills, man
Currently, Jerry "The King" Lawler still uses this theme song.
Why is that chromatic line so gorgeous?!?! I’ve never heard horns project that much!!! 4:25
They’re pushing their souls through their horns.
Everyone with ears and emotions can tell when the brass are spending their souls on their sound.
"When you have once gained sight, it is impossible to feign blindness"
- Svetlana Stalina
Ah, another TNO fan 😌
I was introduced to this piece in Music Appreciation class and it brings me to tears! Still love it to this day!
I always wanted to make a video of the 1980 USA Hockey team winning the gold medal against USSR to this song! Not as a slight but just because it “seemed to fit” the accomplishment musically! A triumph of music and sport. What a WONDERFUL piece of music!
hope you've stopped crying bro
I’ll always associate this with Jerry Lawler. The greatest ever announcer/wrestler alive today.
I remember playing this when I was a freshman! The memories
I went to a concert today.Memories too! i love the tune.
TheHgcop were playing this in marching band.
This is indeed a phenomenal piece. If I'm not mistaken, I think it was Ravel who orchestrated Pictures which was composed by Mussorgsky for solo piano. Perhaps Rimsky-Korsakov also orchestrated it but I believe it is Ravel's that is the more famous and more often performed.
bcing75 you're right
Wow I never knew that
Yup
Exquisite....
The piano version is inordinately challenging.
Great Gate of Kiev is tremendously like the depth and poignancy of O How A Rose Eer Bloometh. I first heard it on Leonard Bernsteins Symphony one Saturday evening in 1966. For 56 years, the melody never lost its majesty to me.
2:42 always gives me chills.
Played this with my amateur orchestra last night. Absolutely love this piece.
I can literally see the gates opening (the size of Imperial entrance in Aya Sofia or San Giovanni in Laterano) and imperial/royal entourage entering. Majestic music!
Played this on tour in Cologne, it was fantastic!!
I hope they can play this again in peace open air in Kiev
Do you think putin sleeps to this
yes awesome tune
They will
Only in occupied ukraine
Btw. Let's show support by using the Ukrainian spelling "Kyiv".
Pertinent today.
this song is so beautiful and sweet and it comforts me ❤❤
It is not a song. Songs have words, this has none. It’s an orchestral piece.
@@englishrose47shut up
I almost died of sheer exposure to music.
R.I.P. Adoring fan from oblivion
BY AZURA BY AZURA BY AZURA
Giulio Roberto Its the grand champion I can't believe it's you standing here next to me
Aw gee
After listening to this breathtaking performance ,
I might have a dream of Mussorgsky walking in the crowds of somecity in Russia , talking to Ravel ,
I am a person who believes in reincarnation and the immortality of the soul
I was certainly seeing Mussorgsky and Ravel in the crowds of somecity in Mother Russia ,
I give Mussorgsky and Ravel a great admiration
From Tokyo of the Land of the Rising Sun 🇯🇵
@Göran Ingvarsson
Thankyou so much to your wonderful and impressed comment
Please live well
I hope you are well
Everything will be fine 2022
"Once you have gained sight, it's impossible to feel blindness"
- Svetlana Stalina
tno reference
The Iron Lady Triumphs!
Majestic and magnificent
The King!!
This song was used not just by wwe but also by Michael Jackson during his history world tour
Was the reason, the song History got changed after the first pressing of the Album
Dedicated to the people of that great City ❗ March 2022
by a russian composer . . .
@@denesecsedi2392 you do not have to read too many comments and replies to see widespread support for this musical piece. The allies used Beethoven's 5th as a rallying cheer against Nazi Germany ❗ Do you suppose that Beethoven would have been a Nazi❓ I think not.
@@mauricewascom658 I only wanted to say that Ukraina is part of the russian nation and they belong to each other. I m sorry for that you did not understand well
@@denesecsedi2392 I understand very well what you infer. Because we support the Ukrainian people does not mean that we should despise every person, poem, musical composition or thought that comes from Russia ❗
@@mauricewascom658 But this is not only "comes from Russia". Mussorgsky was russian and was building his music on russian traditional music. And this piece showing us that he did not think Kiev as a capital of a foreign country ! . . .
“The following contest, is a Table match. The only way to win this match, is to place your opponent through a table. On the way to the ring, from Memphis Tennessee, weighing 245 pounds, Jerry The King Lawler!” - Howard Finkel
"He maybe be a King, but Lawler is a snake in the grass if you think he is going fight fair. And take what I said with a grain of salt, Ladies and Gentlemen." - Jim Ross
"JR...I would agree with you but then we'd both be wrong!!". --Jerry Lawler
Goosebumps. Very few compositions do this to me.
I’m the type of guy who walks around the house naked when no ones home and says ‘Alexa , play the great gates of Kiev!”....
I still remember this from music appreciation in college. Those giant wooden wheels turning. Unforgettable.
Doing so now!!! Lmaof
@@jasonpaul82 Great minds
Wish I was there..... 😀
Worth sharing again in 2022
a truly awesome composition of music.
I’m playing this piece in orchestra currently and today we started working on this movement of the piece, absolutely fun to play :)
I finally found the song that's part of Michael Jackson's "History" song.
And of course I found it during these times. :(
Absolutely Magnificent.
So majestic
My heart goes out to both peoples I'm a 2-3rd generation Eastern European Jewess. My family members escaped from Poland, Russia, White Russia(Ukraine)because of the Czar, pogroms in late 1800's. White Russia Kiev, Odessa, Ukraine
The Adoring fan at Dive Rock, anyone??????
MR. Bucket 2006 memories
Yesss
YES
Holy fuck i didnt realize this was the song but YESSS
Yes sirrr
A genius, pure and simple...
"COME ON DOWN JERRY THE KING LAWLER!"
Magnificent!!!
I played the cymbals when the school orchestra played this 50 years ago when I was 14 and I really enjoyed it, especially the end.
@tailspin37 John, I'm very glad you enjoy the channel and the music.
The louder the better for this song 😊💯❤️🇦🇺
I too played this in orchestra and still remember each up bow and down bow. Each run.
One composition we played in concert band in HS. Always sticks in my head when I hear something related to it.
This song is so good that animusic used it. Michael jackson used it and much more. Legendary🤩
Duuuuude. Animusic was such a weird, random, abstract selection of different works put into animations. It was a big part of my childhood. This was my dads favorite because he was a trumpet player, and I can totally see it now. I can’t quite explain how I feel about animusic but it was definitely good.
"Making his way to the ring: Hailing from Memphis, Tennessee. Weighing in at 243lb. Jerry "The King" Lawler!"
Masterpiece
Wholesome Stalina Komi moment
Based and CentristPilled
Fantastic poignant and moving
Please don’t deny credit to Ravel. Mussorgsky composed it for piano solo only. Ravel wrote the orchestration.
Ravel conposed this twenty after Borodin died. The composer sadly never got to hear this rendition of his piano masterpiece. I like both!
ウクライナに平和を
OBLIVION EVERYBODY! THE PERFECT GAME!!!
24.02.2023 - A good day to listen to The Great Gates of Kyiv!
its interesting that different conductors can present this piece in such different ways.
I was teaching assistant to Lelia Haller, director of the Loyola Ballet in the 1970s. She choreographed this piece for a class and I had the privilege of dancing it. She was the choreographer for the New Orleans Opera Ballet and had studied at the Paris Opera and danced for a year with Diagelev. This piece should be played to demonstrate support for the people of Ukraine and Kyiv.
I’ll always know this as Jerry the king Lawler
Jerry THE KINGGGG Lawlerrrr!
This was my childhood song thanks to Animusic and I last night. Finally got to play it for 2nd Cornet. And it’s just as amazing.
When my high school music Director died just before Graduation. My Principal asked me to take the Baton conduct the school orchestra for the Graduation ceremony. I wasn't scheduled to graduate until the next year. But I mixed this Musica piece with Pomp and Circumstancewith The French March Militar for the Graduation Entrance March. It became a regional high school hit. Because I had a little freshman kid named Jack on the Symbols going overboard and the kettle drums shocking the audience.
RIP Mrs. Lottie Tobin of L.I.C. High School Music Department.
I'll have this played when I'm being crowned emperor of the world.
I really want to thank you, TheWickedNorth , for putting together your great channel. It's been quite helpful to me as I'm taking a Music Appreciation class. :-)
You're very welcome.. helping just one person makes it all worth it.
I have this on CD but to lazy to get if and play it. More fun searching for great music!
Just gets more and more epic. I haven't heard this for a while. Played it in my local schools' Orchestra and it gives me goosebumps every time.
This is beautiful
From Memphis Tennessee...Jerry The King Lawler!
As a 2nd generation Russian-American, age 76, Mussorgsky's "Great Gate" has always been my True North. The dynamic music demonstrates the Russian paradox of sensitivity, as in the arts and literature.....contrasted with majesty and sheer power, bordering on savagery.
And you have the same name as another great Russian Composer!!!
@@grahamsmith4831 Hi Graham, "Are you related to the famous Czech composer, Bedrich Smetana" ? .....Many people have asked.
Smetana is widely regarded as the father of Czech music. He composed "The Fatherland," "The Bartered Bride," and many other beautiful works. Our only similarity with him is our name. His name is pronounced phonetically: "SMEH-tuh-nah". We pronounce our name, phonetically, as: smeh-TAH-nuh." He was Czech, highly educated, lived in Prague, and was a Roman Catholic. My ancestors were Russian ("Rusnak"), poor, uneducated, & Russian Orthodox Christians (as am I). My ancestors lived in a rural region called Galicia in the Carpathian Mountains, an area which today is at the intersection of western Ukraine, the Slovak Republic, and southern Poland. My grandfathers' tools weren't pianos & manuscripts, but picks, shovels,& strong backs. They worked in the coal mines & rubber mills in the USA after migrating from "The Old Country" to America in the early 1900s seeking a better life.
@@garysmetana7040 Hi Gary!! Thanks a lot for getting back to me - appreciated. Wow! That is SO interesting (your family background and history). I have long had a fondness for (most) things Russian (except vodka!!! lol!!!). And especially the composers. Never mind the name - we are ALL related through beautiful music eh! Enjoy!! God Bless!
It’s that moment at 2:42 which gets me!!! 💗
Wonderful. Moving
Wow... just wow... this is awesome!
By Azura! By Azura! It's the Grand Champion! I can't believe it's you, standing here next to me!
I've listened to a bunch of your uploads - all excellent. Thanks.
Puppies
Trish Stratus 😂
Wth
"Everyday, create your HIStory."
-Michael Jackson
My college wind ensemble performed this for our annual outdoor concert, and they got the brass section from the 2nd band to act as an antiphonal chorus. Needless to say, we went balls to the wall on this one.
Simply Divine.
And his opponent! Coming down the aisle... From Memphis, Tennessee, weighing 243 pounds... Jerry The King Lawrer!!!
Said in Howard Finkel's voice.
King Harley Race!!!!!!!!!!!!
King Haku
@@lucasblake449 Even though it is public domain, I am sure Lawler asked Race for permission first so the real king would not rape him.
@@testodude Doubt it Race did not like Lawler
4:28 NANI KORE?
xRAFAEL JOKERx OMG I’m surprised that Nani Kore is known by people overseas 4:32
NAAAAAANNNNNIIIIIIII KOOOOORRRREEEEE
oh god that is in fact nani kore..... gosh darn it.... this piece is ruined in my mind forever now
BAH GAWD, IS JERRY "THE KING" LAWLER!!!
In today's wonderful vernacular, Your uploads are the bomb, dawg.