Eddy: "99 million! Almost 1 billion!" And this is why Eddy's a musician, not a mathematician

TwoSet: * forgets Nocturne Op. 9 No. 2 with 175 million views * Chopin: * sad Eb major noises *

I’m surprised Für Elise doesn’t make it

Don't get it wrong; it's not that these pieces are overrated, they're getting the attention they deserved; the others are underrated

Pachabell's Canon in D is only 9th because not everyone is getting married

Mozart's Lacrimosa is *so* strange. It's creepy, depressing, epic, soothing and disturbing, all at once. One of my absolute favorites.

Chopin: "Am I a joke to you?"

I don't care how overplayed it is, Ode to Joy is freaking iconic. Chills every time.

“Air on the G string” could be the name for a Hiphop song

I was surprised not to see Fur Elise, Handel's Messiah, Nessun Dorma, Carmen or Carmina Burana in there. Or of course you guys' favourite Bumblebee

Chopin nocturne in Eb major has 175 million views but isn’t on the list? _visible confusion_

The fact Vivaldi died basically unknown after his popularity earlier in his life, and remained forgotten until the recoring era, now THAT's what you call a comeback.

Nocturne op 9 no 2 with 175 mil views: Am I a joke to you?

Do you realise how much making us hear the first and second movements of the Moonlight Sonata without ANY glimpse of the third is SACRALIGEOUS ?!

Listen to Vivaldi's 4 seasons on Baroque instruments. Now you can really hear the thunder, the joyful spring winds and the summer heat. It makes such a difference. I don't mind too much for other renaissance/baroque pieces, but for this one, it's amazing.

- "Moonlight is... OK." - Doesn't play 3rd movement 😔

Eddy: talking about Four Seasons. Editor San: Plays Eine Kleine Nachtmusik.

Clair de lune is also my favorite, although it makes me sad bcs it was like an offering to my sister while she was battling cancer. I brute forced that piece because it calmed my sister back then when her legs were in pain (my parents were the ones taking care of her most of the times, so I'm mostly on the piano). I no longer know how to play the piece completely these days which makes me even sadder. but despite of all that sadness, I still love that piece because it reminds me so much of the great times.

Some of the reasons why these pieces got those number of views: -every member of the orchestra played the videos on loop -these videos are added to study/sleep playlists

I totally didn't expect Shostakovich Waltz 2 to be here... It surely deserves it though...

I uploaded Four Seasons right at the beginning of when KZfaq began allowing uploads longer than 15 minutes. No more part 1,part 2 nonsense. I decided to upload that because it was my favorite thing to listen to at the time. It's incredible how many people it's touched, and I love reading comments about how it helps people through their day. It unfortunately pulled a ton of traffic away from my original music but I could never imagine taking it down.

Mozart's Lacrimosa was used in a scene in Hunter x Hunter, where the Phantom Troupe did a massacre in Yorknew City...which is eerie and taunting but also really fits the characters and story.

Claire de Lune, despite being overplayed and hackneyed to death is still top tier, and not just harmony-wise

twoset subtly roasting four seasons after they made merch out of it

I Know that Vivaldi's Four Seasons will be on the top.

Surprised these (and some others) didn't make top ten: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Blue Danube, Toccata and Fugue, Fur Elise. I'm guessing that these songs are so widely known and so often played/performed, there were no "definitive versions" of it on KZfaq, and the views got distributed more evenly. That would also explains why Canon in D only got 9th place.

Sadly there isn't many official channels for classical music with high-quality recording, most of the stuff on youtube is uploaded by random people of varying quality, and soo many people reupload the same song that I think the views for each piece should be way higher since in comparison there are only one or two official videos on youtube for popsong, etc making them have an easier time to concentrate their view into the video Like, could you imagine the number of views Mozart would get if he had a youtube channel since he was alive?

I was surprised Chopin’s nocturne op 9 no 2 didn’t make it, then saw it has 175 million views. 🤔

Brett correcting Eddy’s math Me: I believed a lie all these years?

Here in Italy "Air on the G string" is one of the most famous and recongisable pieces, because it was used for 40+ years as the intro for a TV science program, "Superquark". In italian culture (both pre-meme and post-meme) it has become synonimous with science and education itself, even as a parody! And then, of course, Beethowen 9th last movement is the hymn of the European Union, no other "country" can flex such a piece! :D (I really wish "country" was not in quotes...)

I know musicians dont usually like Andre Rieu, but for many people he was the front door for classical music. In my country there was a free religious tv channel that played him almost every weekend, and i saw it with my dad and sometimes with my grandmother, i asked them to put in "Andre Rieu Channel" and it made my childhood very happy. I saw waltz after the preys while eating or making cake with granny or while dad was cooking or working from home. It was like this until maybe my 8 years old, of course they played another conductors, but he was the familys favorite because he is fun. It kinda hurted the way you guys looked at him, but i still love the channel and both of you. Stay healthy guys ♡

Bruh chopin's nocturne has 175 mil views, y'all got a wrong list

10. Beethoven's 5th Symphony 9. Pachabel Canon in D 8. Mozart- Lacrimosa 7. Bach- Air on the G String 6. Shostakovich- Waltz no. 2 5. Debussy- Claire de Lune 4. Mozart- Requiem 3. Beethoven's 9th Symphony 2. Beethoven- Moonlight Sonata 1. Vivaldi- Four Seasons

99M almost 1B! and thats why they met at math tutoring

Beethoven's Moonlight sonata is my favourite classical piece. And guess what I know the 2nd movement. I love the whole piece not just the 1st and 3rd movements.

I’m gonna make a statement: 1. Vivaldi - Four Seasons (1.5 Chopin - Nocturne op. 9 no. 2) 2. Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata 3. Beethoven - Symphony no. 9 4. Mozart - Requiem 5. Debussy - Clair de Lune 6. Shostakovich - waltz no. 2 7. Bach - Air in G string 8. Mozart - Lacrimosa 9. Pachelbel - Canon in D 10. Beethoven - 5th Symphony Piano gangs!!! We’ve got 4 on the board, so proud of all of US 🥳

While Mozart did get represented on the list, I'm surprised not to see Eine kleine Nachtmusik.

I was kinda expecting Dvorák’s New World Symphony to be on here

1:39 I would say that Mendelssohn's wedding march is way more played that Canon in D.

Im just happy that The Flight of the Bumblebee was not on the list. Maybe there's hope for humanity after all-

Simple fact that most people know, "Ode to Joy" is European Union's "national anthem" piece. Edit: THE HECK, where is Moonlight Sonata 3rd movement, the first speed metal piece in the history of music, ffs!

Fun fact: the ode to joy (Beethoven - symphony n° 9) is the official anthem of the European Union

Dude, I love Andre Rieu and the Johann Strauss Orchestra! The concerts look so fun. I love it when they play a fun waltz or other piece that everyone knows and the audience sways altogether to the tempo. My interest in classical music would not be so great now if it wasn't for his concerts on PBS.

I object to the statement “Moonlight Sonata is overrated”, the third movement is an absolute masterpiece, I wish two set listened to it in the video

IMHO, the worst of "The Four Seasons" is that it obscures the rest of Vivaldi's work, which is so good, and sometimes, even better.

2:25 I just finished practice and I've been subscribed for 5 years 🫡

09:00 how tf am I supposed to keep a straight face when Eddy just spouts “I can’t hear, I’m deaf”?

Calling it before watching, für Elise is no 1 Edit: damm you, red monk

Vivaldi's Four Seasons is the gateway drug to classical music. Young people listen to it and think "it's pretty good, classical music might even be my cuppa tea". Maybe it's overplayed but it's still great because it leads you on a journey of discovery. So it serves a great purpose. As a musician it's a different issue, Twoset are super bored by it. 🥱

Me : *Here already expecting Symphony No. 5, Canon in D, The Four Seasons and The Blue Danube* Also Me : *Shocked to find Waltz No. 2 and Clair de Lune higher than Canon in D*

I love just hearing them discuss the pieces and what makes them special. It would be awesome to see a full length video where they just analyze a piece :)

I have to say, all those pieces are the typical pieces you would find in like an 'introduction to classical music' kind of CD. And also, in Europe the Vienna New Year's Concert is a staple, and I feel like I've listened to those pieces in that concert over the years and they repeat them because the audience loves them

Fyi : Chopin - Nocturne 9 op 2 should be second with approximately 175+millions of views :). Great video !!

Oh, so you play violin? Can you play Canon in D? *sighs in Twoset*

Although 4 seasons is so overplayed, I will never forget, how it made me fall in love with classical music when I was 15-16. In my household, we never played classical music, but pop, and disco polo (yes, I'm from Poland). We did listen to classical pieces in music lessons in school, but you know, everybody needs to discover that by themselves. And I won't forget that feeling when I first listened to four seasons.

Fun fact: Claire de Lune was the first ever recorded noise in human history. It was recorded in 1860 by Léon Scott de Martinville. Edit : the first recorded piece is actually Au Clair de la lune, my mistake

Unpopular opinion: I actually really like Canon in D (if it's played well). (And i play cello, btw)

Winter is the only piece I really, really like in Four Seasons. The rest are "eh, it's alright.". I expected Fur Elise to be there though

WOW!! I really believed Tchaikovsky would be in top places!!

Singing Mozart's Dies Irae got me into classical music. When I was a kid, I used to go to this week-long summer camp at a state college, and every year it was amazing. We would have a bunch of kids all really passionate about music all coming together to learn 3-6 pieces per class throughout the week. Summer of 6th grade, it was my first time singing in a choir of more than 50 people (pretty sure we had 80 kids from ages 12-15), and just being able to hear all of the different voice parts in the auditorium during rehearsal was a transcendental experience. I haven't sung the piece since, but I can still remember my part and all of the lyrics.

If my memory doesn't deceive me, the second waltz was written by Shostakovich as sort of a mocking/joke into the face of people saying that his music is often depressing and rather moody, or that he was kinda pressured into writing something "jolly" and he wrote this in the sense of "f*ck you"?? or maybe that's just a myth

Brett and Eddy: "I just feel like Mozart's Requiem was so different from all his other music" Me: "duh, it's a funeral mass"

Understanding the progression of Beethoven's 9th seriously made me tear up.

Lacrimosa is one of my favorites. When we sang it in a concert held in Sampung Mga Daliri at CCP, I felt goose bumps with the entrance 2-note slurs from the strings. I was an alto then. I enjoyed harmonizing which singing the second voice of the melody of Lacrimosa. Mozart might be sighing with those 2 notes, like crying.

It's not that people don't make it to the second movement of moonlight sonata, it's that they skip it and listen to the third movement

10. Beethoven - Symphony No.5 66M 0:32 (152M in another vid, could be the 3rd) 9. Pachelbel - Canon in D major 69M 1:34 8. Mozart - Lacrimosa 71M 2:02 7. Bach - Air on the G string 72M 3:07 6.Shostakovich - Waltz No.2 73M 4:09 5.Debussy - Clair De Lune 77M 5:29 4.Mozart - Requiem 100M 6:57 (include excerpt of Lacrimosa too) 3.Beethoven - Symphony No.9 109M 7:51 2.Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata 170M 9:53 (Chopin - Nocturne Op. 9 No. 2 175M) 1.Vivaldi - The four seasons 231M 11:16

I sang Mozart’s Requiem with my youth choir last year and it’s one of the best pieces I’ve ever sung 😭 just so good

Amazing top 10 list! The four seasons and moonlight sonata are my favorite! 🎻🎼❤️😍

I share the same love as Eddy’s for Clair de lune. Like, even though it’s relatively popular now, its musical effectivity hasnt been killed and stays the same genius for such a “basic” piece as Debussy thinks.

Eddy: "LMAO do you like Canon in D and the 4 seasons? What a noob they're so overplayed AHAHAHAH" Also Eddy: "OMG Clair de Lune is my favourite piece I always play it when I get at the piano"

1:48 classic 2008 upload with windows movie maker transitions lol

I knew, but my fav is the 3rd movement of moonlight sonata

10:38 brett’s savage face 😳

Twoset should talk about social media’s copyrighting classical music

What a great list! Some are so surprising! Agree about the Shostakovich : doesn’t sound like his usual music. Hugely famous in France since used for an insurance commercial. Thank you for your terrific work! But why don’t you like the Pachalbel?

Shostakovich waltz no2 is my favorite. There's something so innately beautiful about it..

If you ever run out of ideas you can make "Top most viewed pieces on KZfaq, but our favorite performances".

Brett correcting Eddy’s math? Oh how the turn tables.

These compilation commentary videos are really fun, feels like I'm jamming out with more knowledgeable friends 😊

Guys you should absolutely check out Andre Rieu! He performs with his Orchestra eny kind of classical stuff, but he does it in a poular way withut ever be not correct. Some elitists and purists hate him and many passionates love him. I really would love to know your opinion on him and maybe react to some performances of him.

Only just started watching: Lacrimosa will definitely be on this list.

Moonlight Sonata 2nd movement: *You guys think you're so much better than me." 1st and 3rd movements: "Yes."

I will say this about Vivaldi Four Seasons: when I first heard "Winter" Allegro non molto as a kid it was the first time I was ever blown tf away by a piece of classical music. It was the first time I appreciated a piece in and of itself, rather than just being inundated by the usual cliche material on TV or made to play something on an instrument. "so THAT'S what violin can sound like" -10 year-old me

Bach Air on G string is very evocative for me as probably one of the first classical pieces I’d ever heard. I was a toddler in the mid 1950’s and it was played on the commercial radio station to introduce the upcome funerals in our town. So I heard it daily and was mesmerized. What a treat to eventually discover the classical radio station. I never played anything other than percussion for fun but thankyou gentlemen for being the bringers of music.

I remembered that Chopin’s nocturne has 175M views......some lost pieces there But there are too many pieces to not lose any of most view of them😂😂

"Bet you didn't know how the second movement sounds" Me, a non-musician who knows how the whole sonata goes: *try me.*

I like how even a fraction of a second of Bret’s LoFi can reproduce the feeling of anxiety or despair

What I wouldn't give for a TwoSet podcast where Brett and Eddy just talk about different pieces and musical history.

4:45: Eddy : Hahaha, that guy “i must smile because of my contract” Me; mate ! That’s André Riue son !

I thought Chopin’s Nocturne Op. 9 No. 2 would make it to the list.

喜歡聽你們分析樂曲的意境!

I love the second movement the most actually of the moonlight sonata.

The thing with the 4 seasons, is that among all the movements it's hard not to find one you actually like. It conveys a lot of different emotions and atmospheres. Helps to get the views to apply to as many ppl as possible. Vivaldi knows how YT work XD

11:04 "I'll play canon in D at a funeral"... they did. At my grandma's cremation no less. It was SO lamentable it's not even funny.

In France, pachelbel canon is not played at weddings, but the toccata and fugue in D minor is definitely : and shostakovitch waltz n°2 is also played as first dance at a lot of classy french weddings (and blue danube)

Mozart Requiem is my absolute favorite. Still very new to classical music but I can basically sing the whole thing from heart. Absolute banger

My favourite description of Clair the Lune is one that co-relates the five stages of grief by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross- 1. Denial 2. Anger 3. Bargaining 4. Depression 5. Acceptance If you look for those elements in the sound, you can differentiate the emotions.

I love Mozart's Requiem. I think his minor key pieces are special. I think his D Minor Piano Concerto (k. 466), C Minor Piano Concert (k. 491), Rondo in A Minor (k. 511), and Fantasy in C Minor (k. 475) reveal a much deeper, and complex side to Wolfgang. 👌

ugh I love you guys so much, you make me laugh so hard

Moonlight 3rd movement is always my favourite. Goshdarn, never tired of hearing it.