The love theme in the middle is typical tchakovsky genius but he also ventures into rimsky korsakov territory with moody mysterious tonal sea images. The man was incapable of writing bad music. He enriches our world still with his passion and melody.

Tchaikovsky's three Fantasy Overtures (Romeo & Juliet, The Tempest and Francesca da Rimini) are great masterpieces. In my opinion, they are among his finest and most profound compositions.

It`s fashionable for the so-called music elites` to downgrade Tchaikovsky because of his enormous popularity mainly stemming from his famous ballets but when you listen to a work such as this without bias, it becomes obvious that he is one of the greatest of all composers, no argument.

Tchaikovsky is my favorite classical composer. He was a true giant in the pantheon of great composers. I have fallen in love with his Tempest Overture, a piece that has been shamefully neglected for years but now is enjoying more performances before stunned audiences asking," Why in the hell have you kept this masterpiece from us?" Bravo Tchaikovsky!

I want to stand out in a violent thunder storm with driving rain and flashing fury with this booming in the background, riding the storm as if directing a symphony.

With Tchaikovsky, every piece of music is a journey, sometimes a thunderous one.

A very haunting piece of music. Liked this piece since I was very young years ago,and still do today. Great composer.

This work is very underrated. It’s a work of genius. The orchestration is amazing. It sounds like a modern movie score at times, especially the introduction. Another masterpiece that once again proves that Tchaikovsky is one of the greatest composers of all time.

I'm not familiar with this work. But it is an underrated masterpiece. Tchaikovsky. Still one of the greatest and most heartfelt tune writers ever. That amazing tune appearing at around 9:00 is just otherworldly...

Una gemma del giovane Tchaikowsky ,che già combina l'innata bravura di orchestrazione con il suo inconfondibile dono della melodia.Grande composizione.

Echoing other comments: what a great master composer ! Around 10:30 - 11:50 we hear a passage which exemplifies his lyrical genius, a soaring, sentimental, cinematic melody !

Conducted by Antoni Wit with the Polish National Symphony Orchestra. Recorded in 1992. The BEST recording (In My Humble Opinion). Vladimir Stasov's programme for The Tempest was as follows: "Starting with the sea, the uninhabited island, the mighty and forbidding figure of the magician Prospero, then switching to the graceful and womanly Miranda, rather like the primordial Eve, she has never laid eyes on any breed of man (besides Prospero), until struck by the tempest she is flung ashore with the handsome youth Ferdinand; they fall in love with each other, and I think at this point in the first half of the overture there should be a wonderful and poetic motif, as Miranda gradually becomes more animated and leaves behind her childhood innocence to become a young woman in love. In the second half of the overture her and Ferdinand's passion should already be in full sail, as they embrace the fires of love ... the middle section of the overture would be grouped into three main sections: the half-beast Caliban, the enchanted spirit Ariel, and his chorus of elves. The overture ought to end by depicting Prospero's renunciation of his magic powers, the blessing of the young couple's union, and the return to the mainland."

IMPOSIBLE DEJAR DE EMOCIONARSE CON LA MUSICA DE TCHAIKOVSKY, TIENE UN TIMBRE MUY PERSONAL Y DRAMATICO EN CASI TODAS SUS OBRAS, Y NO ES JUSTO COMPARARLO CON OTROS COMPOSITORES IGUALMENTE GENIALES, ME QUEDO EN TCHAIKOVSKY COMO ESE MAGO QUE DESLUMBRA, TIERNO Y TRISTE, CON M UCHA FUERZA Y POESIA, QUE NO PUEDE PASAR UNO DELANTE DE EL SIN PERCIBIRLO, SU MUSICA ES MUY DE ADENTRO DEL ALMA

Tchaikovsky+overture=sucesso

Sounds like Wagner at first, then Bruckner, then Tchaikovsky, then Stravinsky (14:37) then Shostakovich (20:30) and then Bruckner again (22:35). What a piece!

One of the most gorgeous love themes in all of music is contained within this exquisite work.

Studied this piece for a class, amazing melodies and harmony...So beautifully written. Tchaikovsky was a melodic genius!

Beautiful. A criminally underrated music piece. It shows that even on his early works Tchaikovsky was capable of writing music both clear and passional that can be heard without a program. It really deserves same number of performances as Romeo and Juliet or Francesca da Rimini.

Actually he got famous with this ouverture, and he got the support of Nadia von Meck.

Music, this is real music. Calm, yet slightly fierce in a way, as if you know that something is happening.

Величайший. the greatest composer.

"Sounds and sweet airs,that give delight,and hurt not." Caliban.

Miranda's theme here is one of Tchaikovsky's most heart-rending melodies and the equal of the love theme from Romeo and Juliet. It tears me up every single time.

O wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is!

More than I am now, the older I get the more I want to just listen and enjoy.

19:40 Simplemente increíble, sacude el alma de una manera...

Very much a programmatic work, Tchaikovsky received detailed instructions from Vladimir Stasov on how the music should evolve from the opening to the end of this work. For example, Stasov not only requested a sea storm (Tchaikovsky wondered if it was necessary and suggested calling the work "Miranda" instead), but he also asked for a sudden storm rather than the conventional slowly gathering storm found in preceding works about Shakespeare's play. Extremely self-critical, Tchaikovsky would soon evaluate this long overture rather harshly: "Its form is too long, episodic and unbalanced. The effect of these disconnected episodes produces a lack of movement and coherency." But it was popular among the Mighty Five.

the composer is nearly always successful in creating an emotional musical world--we enter it willingly--it reflects and mirrors our own emotional states--we are co-participants in Tchaikovsky's music, there fore. identifying with the composer--I don't get this with other composers.

3:59 bummmm bum bum bum bum bummmm my heart always skips at that part

I love this composition absolutely beautiful

One of my favourites. Music to just float away to.

THE ONLY ONE, THE GREATE...THE BEST OF ALL MASTERS

La maggioranza delle persone di Tchaïkovski conosce solo le musiche per balletto: Schiaccianoci, Lago dei Cigni, Bella addormentata. Ma lui è stato un grandissimo genio che ha composto meravigliosa musica classica di ogni genere

Fabulous reflective music

thank you so much!

I came on this halfway through on a BBC Radio 3 programme this morning 27-11-13 and waited until the end to find out what the piece was, as I was not familiar with it, and could not guess the composer. I too would wonder at the rarity of performance of such an instantly likeable piece. Glad I could find on Utube though!

There is also a posthumously published work, The Storm, Op. 76, which is a totally different piece, not to be confused with this one.

Hay algun compositor, musico que no te aburra despues de escucharlo todo de el o ella durante años??, despues de escucharle repetida e infinitamente???...solo uno.

I love wild classical music in the romantic era!

Having spent thousands of hours listening to Tchaikovsky's music,since my youth as a viola student, I have to say that his music is 90% of french,italian (& a bit of german character) and 10% has russian flavour. As a French writer said 40 years ago, it seems like a salon of a "western" aristocratic palace, invaded by cossacks!

Maravilhoso

Magnificent music 👍👍👍

It is so good! Peter Ilich Tchaïkovsky is a God. We may remember him

this is so wonderful !!

Tchaikovsky looks like he's about to talk about the next great suffering and great peace that will follow.

Still in love with this

And continues to impress me...

Thank you for posting this! Another epic piece.

Thanks for uploading!

I continue to ask myself - why is this magnificent overture so rarely performed? It's every bit as good, if not better than Romeo & Juliet Overture.

5:37 momento de la acción

The beginning of the piece sounds as it was done by Richard Strauss.

13:23 mitad de la obra - momento contrapuntístico (combinación simultánea de melodías)

Beautiful

thank you!

A little Brucknerian in the end@22:32 and at the beginning. Sort of "thin on substance" in between.

fascination...!

not too familiar with this work by tchaikovsky but it's a good one - thanks wn

A winner.

Having fell in love with the 1812 overture back when I was a boy. I have never seem to have been impressed with Tchaikovsky.

19:33 la mejor recapitulación del 2° tema

delightful :)

thank's

The Bestt

Ta de parabéns

un trabajo excelente

the beginning sounds like something straight out of LOTR

nutty

Somewhat reminiscent of "Francesca da Rimini"

♥️

One my favorites...there is listed a recording w. Abaddo & the CSO in the 'Trumpet Herald' but I can't find it anywhere. Any clues?

There is an overture nown as "Hamlet". Is this the dame?

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chai coffee tea

I riferimenti di orchestra e direttore andrebbero indicati......grazie

sarebbe utile aggiungere la direzione e l'orchestra.grazie

Whose performance???

One of the coolest gay men to exist.

My homework 😭

i cant believe tchaik was the supreme gay. like that's my role. u wanna go peter? tchaikovsky can FIGHT ME

if you like chess, try to play a match of 10 min with thise or with Francesca Da Rimini...LAUD.

11:05

7:19

If you don't like Tchaikovsky then you don't like music.🙄

Если можно прямо к делу? И.А.П

director, symphony, date recording, nothing

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Who plays? Great interpretation also right tempu high climax effect