sounds a lot more violent when my band plays it. its probably because we're just awful

Played this in 8th grade, easily my fav song we've played in band, mostly because the Timpani part was SUPER fun to play

0:00 The calm before the battle. The russians are ready for a battle and the german army is approaching. 0:58 The huge german army has arrived and is preparing for a war 1:47 The german army is ready to charge and the russian army is ready to defend 2:19 The german army advances and immediately begin to fight the russians 3:04 The german army pushes past the first line of russian defenders 3:25 The Luftwaffe begins bombing the russian army 3:42 The red army goes on the counteroffensive and catches the germans by surprise The piece ends with the soviets successfully defending their captial and holding back the germans. Love this piece and it got me first chair clarinet with a perfect score

Playing clarinet in this part in my opinion feels like heaven...

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Played this in 8th grade and now I'm in my early 20s... Still one of my favorites and still come by every so often to have a listen ♡

Anyone else just love 3:27 when the base just fires a cannon then low brass take over?

Shit! Those trumpets sound great. I play bari sax but still, they sound great.

Any flutes here?

I imagine this like Stalin vs Hitler. Pretty damn epic if you ask me.

WHERE MY SAXES AT??

i remember when we played this in 7th grade. it makes me sorta miss middle school band

Where my brass at?

Played in with grade definitely my favorite song, I'm a clarinet

The guy who played on the bass drum in my school was amazing for this piece. It was meant to represent bombs going off, and he scared everyone in the auditorium when he hit it!

Trombones... The most underestimated instrument in a concert setting rip

The victory part at 3:42 was always so fun to play. The whole piece was fun, but that part in particular always made me feel excited when I played it

Playing this song on French Horn in Junior High Symphonic Band, probably one of the most fun pieces.

My band made our band director cry after playing this at UIL

3:41 - 4:08 I play 1st clarinet and I was dying to breathe at this part 😂 played it in my concert last night

played in the percussion section in parish honor band. this was my favorite piece.

Still remember that opening part by clarinet! In 2008

I played this for LGPE very recently! I enjoyed the nostalgia. Thanks for posting this!

Played this back in 2013 with my band. Had a Tenor Sax part, and I have to say it was my favorite piece of music that we played.

I play bassoon! I'm really excited for the concert!

Ahhh. I remember playing this back in middle school. This song still gets to me. I love it so much!!

Played this in high school. I’ve been out of school two years now and still love it. Easily my favorite song we ever played. Where are my flutes at?

i loved doing this piece for my 7th grade band class and got to perform it for a bunch of judges it has an amazing dark but light contrast and its amazing

I like how there's all these people in the comment here that are just like "AYYYYEE WHERE MA TRUMPETS AND SAX BOOOOI???!!!!" and I'm just here like " *;-;* where's ma *clarinets* in da haus....?"

Ayyy gonna be playing bass drum percussionists y'all here?? bass is so fun during this song I always slam it so hard and my teacher really gets into it haha performance is tomorrow!!!

Euphonium's represent. I loved playing this song in Eighth Grade. It was so fun and sounded so cool. My only complaint was my proximity to the Bass Drum when stuff really picks up, it was shocking to say the least.

I'm doing this song for band. I play percussion. 😊😊😊 Playing tambourine, claves and some other "undecided instruments."

clarinets sound great!! I love the percussion at the beginning.

OH MY GOSH!!! IT'S SO BEAUTIFUL! I can't wait to play this for a concert this year! Go Horns!!!!

Omg this helps so much!!! My band teacher assigned us with this song and we have to learn it in a day!!

This is my favorite band piece. It’s so intense at some points and calmed in others. I love whipping out my trumpet and playing along.

this song gives me chills

Hi I play the flute on this

Senior year of high school, one of the last songs I'll play with my band. I'm not crying, you are!!

My school's Honors Band is doing this piece (not in it,crap). thanks for posting this,it's been one of those songs that i play whenever im playing a game that suites it.

It's fun to listen out for your part of this song. I played 1st trombone.

I'm playing this this year in 8th grade band. I'm 1st Alto Sax, there are only two, and this is my moment to shine since the other Alto is Second Part: 3:17

My band goes through three guys on chimes. One kid plays the beginning and the other slow part after the first real part. At 85 this other kid plays the siren on the chimes THAT WERE LEFT OUT ON THIS RECORDING and I play 95 to the end. AGAIN LEFT OUT. I play that, bells, and a mini marimba riff at 64. The sirens guy plays bells, and the guy who plays the beginning does nothing else. Havoc, but its so satisfying to have all that going. Concert tomorrow BOYZ

we played this as a piece at Four States Honor Band last week and it was absolutely amazing!!!

Percussion For the Win

Clarinet FTW

Played this in high school... trombone player for 8 years... this song gave me nightmares for many weeks after concert contest. So much fun but man, myself and my other trombonists blew out our lips in the last minute EVERY TIME!

i love how we are all geeking over a band song... (btw, the clarinet solo in this is top notch. (ps it's really fun to play.))

Did you guys know that this song was inspired by a Russian folk song called “Polyushka Polye.” If you like this song you’d love that one.

saxophones for the win

Percussion - bass drum for this song. Part of the audience of 8th graders that were at the band festival jumped when I swung at full force - it was amazing. BOOM. The sound resonated so much the air vibrated. (This is a concert bass drum - HUGE).

still one of my fav pieces!! i played trombone 1 in 8th grade and would play along to this recording and now 8 years later im still coming back!!

everyone is like aye lmao trumpets where you at and I'm like euphoniums? anyone?

You can feel the heart of every soviet comrade lost that day!

Gonna play this for my spring concert. Very excited as It's my last spring middle school concert and I get to play this masterpiece

thanks for uploading man!!!

BOYS THE BOMB AT 0:59 IS AMAZING, IN BAND IT GAVE ME CHILLS EVERYTIME

LOW BRASS POWAH!!! That will be all.

My school did this song for its concert, but the drummers got somewhere either to far ahead, or too far behind, and the loudest tenors in the section got off as well. One started following the other's lead, little did they know that the other guy was following his lead, and they just kept playing things at the wrong time. For once, I knew what I was doing, but I was still too nervous to try to play the correct notes louder than them. The alto section was in front of us, and this one jerk in the section kept blaming all of us. I really have to hand it to those two, for messing up as loudly and proudly as they could, even though we all would be much better off if they just stopped playing when they got confused.

this is the first time i added music im playing in band to my playlist. THIS SONG IS THAT GOOD

I played this last year! 1st Trombone boiii

I’m such a looser, but we played this for concert once and I literally listen to this when I’m bored, I played flute and oh my gosh I loved my part it was so much fun

My Concert Band is playing this for the Spring Concert. Such a beautiful piece when played correctly

We played this song in my concert band recently and it was such an amazing piece to play. So much emotion! I got goosebumps occasionally when playing. I'm a flutist btw.

clarinets?

Guys- I am first chair in my band (clarinet speaking) and I CANNOT stand when the other ones mess up- *hem hem* the trumpets in our band SUCK they sound like dying ducks *hem hem*

When the flutes and clarinets were featured ugh it's so beautiful!! I've been playing flute for six years and this is my favorite song

This has to be my favorite band arrangement ever, just the flows and tempo changes are just amazing, we played this my 6th grade year and it was phenomenal, i mean from a trombone's perspective

Where my clarinet peeps at? c:

I honestly think the band was equally balanced. I heard every instrument..

Damn, this is giving me some really nostalgic feels. Wish I kept an instrument around.

I played this song in band last year, and it was so fun to play. It took a little bit of time to learn for my band, but my god... it was so much fun to learn it and hear it on videos taken by my parents.

I was the dude that played the chimes (the deep bell thingys in the beginning)

I love this artist Brian Balmages all his music really brings power to a certain section for example this song was really bringing out that trumpet lowbrass. and if you ever heard electricity that one is really powerful in the woodwinds low woodwinds and great lowbrass

In 9th grade now,still come back to this played trumpet,flute,and French horn.sadly I dont play anymore but easily the best years were in middle school.

this song is so great... my band loved it so much we're doing it for two consecutive years. The joys of bass clarinet

percussionists right here 🙋😂

No one talks about flute...

First chair trumpet in 8th grade concert band and this is my favorite song we've played so far this year.

I played the bells on this for my middle school band, it was my favorite piece

Trumpet 1, and some parts do get quite intense with the trombones backing along side us. All I can say is the end stretch.

FLUTES!!

This was and will forever be my most favorite song that up played in band. The snare part is the best!

This song was the reason I looked forward to band class every single day back in middle school XD

7th grade percussionist anyone else? Playing this song

Alto sax here 🎷🎷🎷🎵🎵🎵 thumbs up for sax👍👍

this song is so beautiful! my band teacher had my social studies teacher come in and explain this piece which made it ten times more amazing. everyone (including the people who only join band to get an easy A) were able to understand it's meaning and want to play the song every practice.

Played this in 6th grade. The 7th and 8th grade band had 2 flutes in all, and I was the only other flute lmao so I got to play with them! I'm glad I did cause this song is great

WHERE MY ALTO Sax's AT

we played this song every year in band.. and guess what instrument I played? the best one aka clarinet

well we're playing this at our holiday concert this year as a "thanksgiving" piece and i have to say it's composed well. my favorite piece out of all 7 were playing. i play clarinet and i love the part thats supposed to imitate the sirens. beautiful

can we just talk about that *low* clarinet sound..? absolutely gorgeous

Tenor sax was the most fun part to play on this especially at the time change to 144

Come on guys give the clarinets some love :3

I remember when I played this 2 years ago, I’m a trumpet and this is the first I went back to hear this song since our state assessment (got 1st place cause of this song btw) and u couldn’t stop getting chills cause honestly this will probably be the best peace I will ever play

love this piece !! the baritone part is so amazing!!! that's what I play :p

By the way all of you are wrong.... band for the win!!!

I'm the only tuba in my band :(

Haven't played this since 6th grade. I forgot how great this piece is to where it doesn't need to be difficult to be moving

My band class is playing this at graduation for the seniors, I am one of the seniors and honestly we played this in 8th grade so seeing us play this in a farewell will be amazing