True. And playing it is just the upmost experience, I got shills and goosebumps playing some symphonies.

Energetic how? Nobody moves their heads everyone sits still in their seats

@@birddoesnottalk1032 i dont think they mean energetic in that way🤣😭.. i mean classical music does sound livelier in live concerts. Attended an orchestral performance once, i think its what they mean by that

so true, mixing plays a huge part in multitrack popular music and live music is a whole different thing. live orchestra performances always give me chills

@@ahappyfrenchtoast2669 Someone could be screaming on stage. It wouldn't matter if all you're supposed to do is sit there passive as an audience, simply admiring someone else doing something. That's not exciting. Movies and tv work because you're supposed to identify with the people performing the actions. And fail, no matter how much action and conflict they have, if they can't get the audience to do so. Music to sit still to is, for most, music to sleep to, no matter how interesting that music is for musicians.

Great comment 😊

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So old???!! The oldest TwoSetter I've come across in the comments is 80! But yeah, there's summat about the energy of young folk though guess Brett'll be giving us his 'I'm so old' when it's his birthday in March!

@@wakingtheworld and Eddy's :)

@@Whatdouevenwriteforthesethings Yeah I know but Brett will be first to hit 30...

I'm gonna make a wild guess: you have ADHD, right?

Same better when coding too

SAME

Same. I studied to a chemistry exam while listening to Verdi's Dies Irae

Dope name

DUDEE lmaooooo🤣🤣🤣🤣

My dad has been doing stuff like that since my brother and I were little (, he still does it occasionally even though my brother and I are towards the end of HS now). 🤣

LOL

LOL! I used to wake up my students at band camp by blasting Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man. I found it woke them up in a hurry!

@@fantomhalo3938 LOL 😂my mom does something similar but with comedy videos

Lol 😂

Epic drive!

We were in the middle of Hurricane Ike, I was listening to Vocalise, did not realize I had shuffle on, next piece started playing was Dies Irae. I swear up until that moment I had never heard my mother curse. I immediately stopped it and quietly laughed at her who kept shooting daggers my direction. I did not do it intentionally. It took 45 mins for the hurricane to blow over us, we were fine, never lost power or anything but, listening to the wind…holly molly!!!!

My playlist is also mostly classical lol ;btw hope ur ok)

Try Louis Vierne's toccata

I do that too, it feels awesome.

Yasss 👌

Zero - Keiki Kobayashi for me

Oh im an architecture student and i always need an “intense” playlist when i run my freaking brain out over a project 😂

Or the 3rd movement of Summer. That shit is INTENSE

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Thanks mate

Thank you🙇🏻‍♀️!

it quite surprises me they didn't include Penderecki's threnody to the victim of Hiroshima

Tbf second movement of vivaldi’s winter is the sort of music I’d study to

Don't forget Chernabog!

Dance of the Knights is such an epic piece!! They all are, but recently dance of the knights is my favourite!

Ah yes, "the anxiety song"

Prokofiev: Scythian suite "Dance of the pagan monster"

Mussorgsky - Night On Bald Mountain Richard Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra Bruckner - Te Deum (the whole thing is epic ngl) Khachaturian - Masquerade Waltz Marcel Dupre - Variations sur un Noel pour orgue Boely - Offertoire pour le jour de paques though those last two are organ, so I’m not sure that counts

I would love for them to dig into heavy metal's origins and how much classical musicians like Holst, Paganini and Wagner influence musicians to this day.

@@goatthulu6662 its because of this, Black Sabbath clearly set the precident of what metal is, and the band clearly showed more classical influence with their music.

He's also the guy who invented the "banned by the church" myth

@@LynnHermione Tritone bad

Love this info!

I can't too. I always have urge to move around when listening to epic pieces.

@Elijah Kim they mentioned people use it to study so was just stating my experience

Yahh same :)

ikr

Totally true!!

I LOVE THAT PIECE!!!

Lemme listen

Dude funny story. One time I was listening to one of those 'calming music' playlists while trying to fall asleep, and didn't set a sleep timer, so after I dozed off for a while, i wake up with my heart BEATING cause the autoplay turned on Carmina Burana and I felt like i had an anxiety attack in sleep.

mine is prelude in c# minor by rachmaninoff(not sure if rachmaninoff is counted as classical)

@@user-qg4vt9mz3j why

Same, I can testify

Same. Mars brings the hype back when I'm just about to get sleepy from all the readings lol

There are entire playlists on KZfaq full of the most hectic classical pieces for when you're working on a deadline... And they are AWESOME!!!

Calculus is indeed a boss fight, speaking as someone who tried pre calc and immediately said nope

You clip it good bro :)

thanks!!

Small typo *no.8 not 3 :)

@@bobdathang3229 Corrected, thanks!! Too early in the morning lol

@@FLOrtE_SUS Thanks! Twoset did a good job choosing the pieces lol

welcome to the classical gang :)

My first memory of listening to music is of when I was about 4 yrs old. I was in the garden with my grandmother and she was listening to Concierto de Aranjuez with Paco Lucia (flamenco guitar player) my grandmother told me, that I was quietly playing but when the last 3.5 mins started playing, I stopped and sat down next to the record player and tears started running down my face. She picked me up and cradled me in her arms. I did not stop my quiet sobbing until the music stopped. Every time I listen to it (is the second movement by the way, the adagio) those last 3.5 mins make me feel like I am in a maze I can’t get out of and just when I am about to lose my mind and give up, the music reaches its climax and there is a ray hope and I breathe again and dry my tears and listen to it over again because that is just what you do when music moves you like that right? To this day, it holds a special place in my heart. And my favorite way to listen to it, is while galloping on my favorite horse. If you get a chance to listen to it, do. Is a beautiful piece of music.

lol???? glad you are not part of 4 chords = not boring gang

@@ryzikx Andalusian cadence too good

So cool! I hope you keep studying. I mean, practicing.

I love classical music too. When metal uses counterpoint right it HITS

it really makes me work fast and concentrate. this is what i listen to at the office

wouldn’t you just drop your work and stand up to dance instead?

I like to write so it helps when writing specific plots or scenes

@@trishaong338 high five 🙌🏼

@@jytwang that happens as well 🤭

Ikr

Same

Same

I wish he'd continue his other yt channel. He's a good teacher

Correction, professor Eddy.

Lol which part? The opening of the Requiem is one of my top 5 favorite music segments...EVER.

I played in a quasi-professional orchestra when we performed this piece outdoors with cannons. My stand partner had offered me ear plugs, but I denied them, not realizing that the canons would be so loud. Every time they went off during the piece I jumped out of my chair. 🤣🤣🤣

Yes, I've been to one of these as well, but in the UK and obvs not for 4th July! It is epic though. They also had Beethoven's 5th in the concert - superb!

I think fireworks are a great idea for the 1812 Overture cannons. I have heard lots of (recorded) versions of this where they got modern military howitzers, loaded with high-velocity smokeless powder, to play the cannon parts. They don't sound right. They go off with an earsplitting "CRACK", instead of a deep, visceral "KaBoom". I think Tchaikovsky was probably intending his cannons to be nice basso profundo 1812 black powder cannons whose shots resonate in your chest--as Heather noticed with the black powder fireworks.

also confutatis

@@minnieyuyantung confutatis is balanced out nicely by Lacrimosa

But really just imagine The Requiem coming from a fun cool chill guy

Yeah. Been using Dies Irae as my phone alarm for more than three years and it never fails to wake me up.

This is an old comment but I need to say thanks for the William Tell recommendation, I hadn't realized that that Overture was in multiple parts and I agree that middle section sounds intense. It's apocalyptic.

same. intense music lets me release the suppressed, even buried emotions inside, which brings some kind of relief

SAMEEEEEEE Shostakovich legit calms me down

Exactly! One of my friends is a fan of the "chill" type music, and once recommended it to me, but it sort of gets on my nerves. I don't even find it calming, let along relax to it. It may sound absurd but I do feel calm while listening to metal and classical music (which are extremely intense and demand my full attention).

yesss, background and personnal stories really complement the rank 👏❤

Same here, I love how I gain some new knowledges or being reminded of some theories that I almost forgot \(^v^) Even now I still learn something new from twoset, like ‘sul ponticello’, even though I’m not a string player, it’s very aspiring to know that Winter uses this technique to project the ‘chill’ sounds (•O•)

@@ciel-101 Same!! And also each time we know a little bit more about them!

@@ciel-101 ....non musician...sounds like a mushroom, so all good

yeah same, sometimes i start thinking about what's happening in the music, or even thinking "i should try to learn this one"

@@cer371 The exact same things come to my mind lmaoo

Same ahah

the first violin part of Carnival Overture is a freaking concerto 🙃

Im not a classical musician, but honestly the same T-T i always fantasized on what scene is happening when that part of the piece(?) played, and once i did that, i could do it for like 10 minutes or more T-T

Btw im a kid so I don’t have that much knowledge. Do take a listen to these pieces.

also the second movement from prokofievs first violin concerto. its so insane that i hated it the first time i heard it but now i love it

Also regarding the Moonlight Sonata, I think I often see Valentina Lisitsa in the same light that you see Hilary Hahn in lol. Her fingers glide over the damn keys and it looks like she puts little to no effort in to get the amazing sound she gets out. It never fails to amaze me. Hell, her live performance of La Campanella, her fingers move so fast the camera can only pick up blurs.

noice

I Love Valkyries

9/8 is an interesting signature

Sadly, the Nazis used to play it while they massacred thousands in their gas chambers

One of my favorite pieces

I once heard it live - I purchased some of the best seats in the house. I shall never forget the experience (I'm waiting to do it again). The 'Tuba Mirum' was something you will probably only experience fully live in person.

@@Sathrandur Listen to Verdi's Tuba Mirum is at the top of my wishes list

Same. It's not the hardest peice, but the intensity means you have to be super-focussed. Terrifying and magnificent at the same time.

There's a Belgian musical called 14-18 (Studio 100, they tried to make an English version but it didn't have the same magic) where the composer used the piece as a theme. Even that version is intense.

Fun fact: it was written before the atomic bombs were dropped in Japan.

@@katherinemurphy2762 Source? A quick Google search told me it was composed in 1960 and premiered the following year.

@@stephenpastena8583 My source is my music professor in college who shared this fact when we were studying 20th century music.

@@stephenpastena8583 This seems to be correct. I checked Polish-speaking sources (Penderecki was Polish and I speak the language). Basically, in 1959 he won a 2-month stipend in Italy in a composition competition. He went there in December 1959 and came back with a draft of a piece, which he then completed over the following year. Initially he simply called it 8’37’, after its length. He sent it to the Fitelberg Competition in 1960 (and won). When in 1961 it was supposed to be sent to Paris to the Tribune Internationale des Compositeurs UNESCO (as the winner of the Fitelberg Competition), the director of the Polish Radio, Roman Jasiński, who were to take the composition there, suggested changing the title. After a consideration Penderecki decided to dedicate the piece to the victims of Hiroshima.

right? i don't understand music like breddie do but this music always makes me feel like crying. like im achieving something i always practice for. if that makes sense

You made me tear up thinking back about the first and only time I'd ever seen the whole Beethoven's 9th live. It was in February 2020 before the lockdown, in Johannesburg, South Africa. Little did we know that it was the last live performance we would see in almost 2 years! It was sooo epic. The orchestra added extra instruments. There were 4 French horns, for example.

Same here, exact same feeling, somehow its always Beethoven and Brahms. Soooo emotionally overwhelming

Epic is the best word for the 9th

I've never seen it performed live. But I have performed it. I was on 2nd trumpet for our orchestra's performance of it in 2018 and it felt like I got done with a full day of emotional work after the concert was over. It's difficult to keep it together as a performer in some spots.

I just realized I had forgotten the notorious William Tell overture, hopelessly associated with a stupid TV program (and before that, on the radio). Yup, quite the head-banger. But there isn't enough time in one video to cover all that many super lively pieces. (Beethoven symphony #2, #7).. Somebody STOP ME! 😁

oh man the #8 got that hemiola

same!! I am originally a metalhead who delved into classical too!

I would argue it's at least "also" Mischa's Quartet

Relatable

we have some video clips of this piece where we used a trombone instead of a cello if you're interested in watching :D (it was so much fun!!)

Try to post this in the twoset reddit, maybe they'll see it there

Hope they can collab🥺 Classical Guitar Gang United!!!!!!

OMG YES I NEED THIS

What part did you play on double bass? I'm so confused, cause it's not an orchesteral piece, it's a quartet and also there is no double bass in it.

@@dingdongsilver4783 yea i am too

@@dingdongsilver4783I guess it could be the chamber symphony version arranged by Barshai?

oh yeah I forgot about Carmina Burana 😂😂😂

Two pieces that should totally be on this list 😂

@@rindodenervoso6475 they have a video of scariest music that they made around Halloween. It’s got carmina Burana and Hallo the Mountain King

@@susanbryant6516 thanks for pointing that out 😉

Yeah I specifically listen to electronic techno sort of stuff (Daft Punk, Caravan Palace etc) when I'm doing homework. Classical music is far too unpredictable and emotional to listen to while trying to concentrate!

@@randomchick1234 Lol that’s not what I meant. There are plenty of fast pieces in classical music too. I listen to them while doing homework and they have worked so good

big bran

She is Susanna Mälkki, a brilliant Finnish conductor 😁 (And now all the Finns know where to meet to put up a party when Finland gets mentioned 😉)

@@pasiholtta oh good to know! Thx! She seems to be brilliant!

I would go with a lot of Alkan’s pieces could go here

Alkan, a deep cut!

Le Chemin de Fer... What a notoriousky difficult piece.

I am doing a project on Pacific 231 by Arthur Honnegar. I almost choose a Russian composer by the name of Olga. She was a range composer I think. Or at least her music was her way to say fudge y

Had to scroll too deep for Liszt. No one told him music should be calming :D

Devil's trill.. if you know the story and can visualise the themes of suicide and the devil, man it's so tough to be calm during it

That Penderecki piece is so fcking horrifying, you can almost hear the screaming people as the bomb dropped

Thank you for sharing those pieces. While watching I was a little bit disappointed that almost all the pieces mentioned in the video are like better known pieces.

Well, they already reacted to Penderecki on a video when they visited Poland

I want to add to you beautiful list Hall of the mountain king. I dare anyone to study while this is playing.

Lordy. As someone who is still recovering from the two hurricanes that hit in 2020, that is a fantastic punishment for hell. 😓

That was the last piece I heard in concert before the pandemic. A piece about hell, hurricanes, and being trapped somewhere. *Sounds familiar, doesn’t it?*

I played Francessca da Rimini in youth orchestra. Honestly life changing experience

My uni orchestra sight read part of Francesca da Ramini but we soon decided it was going to be too hard to learn 😂 Lots of tricky rhythms for sure! I hope to play it someday though because I think it’s a wildly intense but also beautiful orchestral piece

Damn, incredible to think Tchaikovsky wrote a piece about New Orleans.

Shostakovich's symphony no 8 3rd movt.

Yes I completely agree! Night on Bald Mountain definitely not a study fall asleep to piece 😁👍🏽

@@anisanancy6459 Yes! Pure menace. There’s a fantastic KZfaq documentary called Shostakovich vs Stalin that highlights his amazing and courageous response to tyranny.

Would recommend Khachaturian's Gayaneh and Spartacus as well

- Shostakovich Symphony no 10, 2nd mvt (search for the one conducted by Dudamel at the Proms with a Venezuelan youth orchestra, its wild) - Prokofiev cantata "They are seven" (for the dissonances) - Chopin 24 Preludes, the 24th in d minor - Bartók Bear Dance from Ten Easy Pieces I'm sure we can go on for hours extending the list....

Another honorable mention: Several pieces by Hector Berlioz, especially The Damnation of Faust and Symphonie Fantastique

I love twoset videos 😂 whenever I need more classical music, you guys always have SO much

Zadok the Priest is forever giggles for me because of that rubber duck standup video

Royer - Le Vertigo very intense french baroque

@@russellswashbuckler wow that got kinda metal 😆

same

8:20 Does she really play like that every week of the month?

@@matseriksson8177 every week of the month, every day of the week and every 40 hours a day 😊😂

I thought for sure they'd mention the Firebird Suite. I've played that piece before and that BAM! surprised me even when was playing it. It still gets me when I listen to it.

I came to the comments just to find out who this woman is! Never heard anything so astonishing before. What a powerhouse!

@@snowyminnesota6028 yessss, she is a godess when playing the piano!

That's my favorite piece of classical music and she plays it better than anybody.

Valentina Lisitsa is a beast

Valentinas technicality is matched by very few, but her playing is sometimes dry. She is still my favorite pianist, the only recording of hers i actually dislike is chppin etude op 10 no 8.

That movement from Nevkys' cantata is epic. I sang it with my choir many years ago and we could feel the stage floor trembling under our feet! Magnificent!

I was so disappointed not seeing Verdi in there ngl

​@@philippluft7632it is there... did you watch the video..

11. Rachmaninov: Prelude in G minor

confutatis is always great!

These aren't only classical music.

I know right. I'm not exactly sure what it is, but something about intense music helps me focus.

Cesare Siepi, nice nice. Speaking of Commendatore, there's a video here on YT from a production where they have Samuel Ramey playing the Don -- and as commendatore, to cope with that darkness of tone, ... KURT MOLL. It's too much but I love it. Also, your username is killing me in this conversation. Like --- I knew you liked the arquebus, but I didn't think you were THAT into Southern Barbarian culture

I was looking to see if anyone else recommened the Commendatore scene. What a moment!

I also study while listening to Paganini's 24 Caprices.