Zoom to 105mm Cannons being used in the Artillery Section of the orchestra :
0:00 Start of Clip
0:34 FIRST flag to fire goes up
0:42 5 Cannon blasts representing Battle of Borodino (+ see the lady with the hat JUMP)
2:32 Triumphant "GOD SAVE THE TSAR" + 11 Cannon blasts

I FIRST FELL IN LOVE WITH THIS PIECE ...... when my elder brother blasted this from his LP, hooked to a Sony amp, powering 2 HUGE Sansui speakers !!!!!
...... I cracked the speakers .......

!!!!! WARNING !!!!! {{{{ DIGITAL RECORDINGS OF LIVE CANONS }}}}
Adjust volume to a comfortable listening level before BLASTING THIS CLIP.
You have been duly warned !!!!

Bought the CD years ago.

Special thanks to Itoshin8778
   • [HD] 1812 Overture - Tchaikovsky - wi...  
whose video I used as the main clip, and

AMANO Jun-ichi
   • Tchaikovsky "1812 Overture" with 105m...  
whose clip I used to get interesting and wide angles.

Had fun syncing the clips to the original 1978 loud speaker-killer recording.

The last time I enjoyed this piece 'Live' in Japan, the bass drum was used to substitute the canon blasts.

Very thankful that the Eastern Army Band, 1st Band, 12th Band and 1st Artillery Unit of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force played the piece at a tempo very close to the original !!!!!!!!
Any quicker, it'll feel rushed. Any slower, sluggish.

The level of precision employed is AMAZING !!!!!
In the original recording, the canon blasts were added IN POST.
In the videos, the Japanese fired their ordinances LIVE !!!!!
They had to take into account the lag between giving the command to fire and the pulling of the cords to the actual canon blasts that sync PERFECTLY with the music that the band was playing !!!!
...... which was at the same tempo as the one in the original recording !!!!!

Read about the documenting of this MATERPIECE in DIGITAL during the era of ANALOGUE
https://www.stereophile.com/content/r...

Telarc's recording of 1812 .... is out ON VINYL again !!!!!
https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnat...

What tickled me was
"The first crack-boom with a full pound of powder blew out the microphones. “All we heard was the tinkling of glass falling out of the windows in the building next door. Luckily, we had insurance,” said Woods."