![]() ![]() Listen to the audience scream at this performance of the 1812 Overture at the Royal Albert Hall:īudget can sometimes be an issue. It’s sensible to have the canons outside, right? Well don’t tell health and safety, but it’s so much more fun when they’re indoors. Here is your standard, cannon-tastic 1812 Overture. It’s since gone on to be one of the most famous pieces of orchestral music of all time, and you need more than just a few loud bangs to earn a place in the *canon* (sorry) of symphonic repertoire… The 1812 Overture certainly is loud and noisy, but it surely isn’t completely without artistic merit. He famously hated the work, describing it as ‘very loud and noisy and completely without artistic merit.’ Tchaikovsky penned the 1812 Overture in about six weeks to commemorate the Russian victory over the French at the battle of Borodino. Well, it's not the first time explosives have been used for entertainment. In The Sunday Times Brie Larson talks about her role in Free Fire, a new thriller about a gun deal gone spectacularly, explosively wrong. ![]() and paper bags? These are the most overblown and gunpowder-tastic renditions of Tchaikovsky’s masterpiece. ![]()
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