Tchaikovsky💥1812 Overture 🇷🇺

Tchaikovsky

Overture 1812

(Full, Choral)

Ashkenazy

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The choral contributions are very spectacular and effective. And the cannons are as they should be: not blazing out the music! This is 1812 with realistic Cannons!

In this transcription by American conductor Igor Buketoff the following changes and additions were made:

1. The opening segment, God Preserve Thy People is sung a cappella by a choir.
2. A children's or women's choir is added to the flute and cor anglais duet rendition of At the Gate, at my Gate.
3. The orchestra and chorus unite in the climax with a triumphant version of God Preserve Thy People and God Save the Tsar.

Tchaikovsky's compositions: 1812 Overture

Composed to commemorate the Battle of Borodino, fought in September 1812, Tchaikovsky called his own work “very loud and noisy and completely without artistic merit, obviously written without warmth or love”. However, the overture won him fans the world over and made him a household name.

Clockwise from top left:

1. The Battle of Borodino by Louis-François Lejeune 
2. Napoleon watching the fire of Moscow by Albrecht Adam 
3. Marshal Ney at the Battle of Kaunas by Auguste Raffet 
4. French retreat by Illarion Pryanishnikov

Tchaikovsky

🇷🇺 1812 Overture 🇫🇷

💥 Full with Cannons 💥

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WARNING:

Cannons may make dogs bark, scare your mom, leave your neighbor dumbfounded, make cats panic, wake you up in the middle of the night shouting at the top of your lungs because you think you are being robbed, scare the crap out of you, and/or blow up your ears and brains; among other things...

Tchaikovsky - 1812 Overture

🎆Full with Cannons🎆

Tchaikovsky - 1812 Overture

🇷🇺  (Full with Cannons) 🇫🇷

Historical Tempo Reconstruction - Noteperformer

The Year 1812 Solemn Overture, festival overture in E♭ major, Op. 49, popularly known as the 1812 Overture, is a concert overture written in 1880 by Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky to commemorate the successful Russian defense against Napoleon's invading Grande Armée in 1812.

You will hear this work for the first time again performed according to the original tempo indications of the composers, where the Metronome Marks are read in the WBMP.  (https://youtu.be/6EgMPh_l1BI). This result in music with more 'depth', harmonic 'sensation' than in the very rapid performances this master piece today is played in. We believe that it is highly probably that Tchaikovsky had these tempi in mind when composing this ouverture.

0:00 Largo (quarter = 60) 

7:05 Andante (q=80)  

8:51 Allegro giusto (q=138) 

24:20 largo (q=60)

This 'performance' was created in Sibelius/Notperformer by the "Authentic Sound Noteperformer team", where everyone joined forces for this project and presented me (and you!) this wonderful interpretation of the '1812' as an incredible surprise and gift:
-Glenn Tiedemann took care of the many notes and 'project manager' - took him ... well a bit of time!
-Ken Nichol assisted in making noteperformer perform even better than it already did (as he always does) +  created the visualization using See Music software
-John Citron acted as editor/proofreader
-Thomas Hughes advised in the canon's to be used (yes, he is not only our 'pendulum' guy)