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I had a combined music theory and history class in college - two hours a day, five days a week, for two years. A peak experience. One week we listened to the entirety of Das Rheingold (Solti Vienna) - we listened for an hour with scores, then discussed. I was following a terrific trumpet line, when it dropped below middle C and kept on descending! What? So I looked at the full score after class. There were two C trumpets playing the line in the treble clef, then the bass trumpet joined, the C trumpets cut out, and the bass trumpet continued down the bass clef. That was the first time I heard a bass trumpet do anything. What a thrill!

We have in Our military band the bas-fluegelhorn pitched in B-flat that look the same...I don't know how the Wagnerian tubas pitched but looked pritty similar. Maybe a horn player from Germany who playing brass and knowing the german brass bands instruments...because they use lots of other brass instruments different the french or american bands

I want to hear just the rehearsal footage. It sounds absolutely marvelous.

Excellent musicianship within a beautiful setting of some inspiring music performed by top drawer orchestral repertoire trumpet players. But since when do men wear hats in church? Have egos grown larger than respect for certain institutions?

I also look like the use of the contrabass tuba as the dragon theme, just awesome. That said often i find the use of leitmotifs Mickey mousing. Do i have to hear the Valhalla theme anyone mentions the gods?

Nice.

I love the Ring and I love hearing about it!

How do you realize that you know this piece too well? When the basstrumpet is playing the "Sword Motif" and you know exactly that this is the first time it showed up in "Die Walküre" and not the first time it showed up in the Ring because you hear Oboe answering in your head. The first time the motiv shows up it in "Das Rheingold" it is played by a regular trumpet and in a broader rhythm. And I know this just from having listened to the thing, not through studying the scores extensively.

Brilliant. What great pieces. The Plog (never heard before ) was really great - very Shostakovich/Prokofiev sound in places - loved it but.. even on my best day I couldn't pull that one off - too technical for me !.

Por favor no habléis mientras se oye la composición.

that sword theme is badass

Cela aurait pu être très intéressant. Malheureusement on ne peut pas écouter plus de dix secondes de musique sans qu'un crétin nous fasse entendre sa voix. Se superposant à Wagner il coupe la mélodie et s'impose doctement....Mais qu'il la boucle une bonne fois pour toutes...SHUT UUUUUP!

❤Fantastic concert !💯👍

Thank you for that wonderful explanation of the instruments, leitmotifs, etc. In my mind Wagner is the king of composers for the brass section. I'm sure brass players could give other examples. I know Sibelius is famous for his use of brass.

No, no, guys. The hand goes in the bell of the Wagner tubby, right up to the elbow!

leitmotifs have got a specific gestalt btw.

I love the sound of the Wagnertubas ❤

If Puccini or Verdi had written the RING, it would have been much shorter--and a heck of a lot better!

I just realised that the piano is not the ideal accompiant to the trumpet in this style of music.To me it seems to be in competition.Where as in Jazz it can work a lot better.

Chris Martin mouthpiece is ?

I wish regietheater would respect this aspect of opera instead of negating it.

Wow! I've learnt something really new!

What sweet people. They explain everything very clearly. For the people who have little information (like me) this video is brilliant.

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Singular: Leitmotiv Plural: Leitmotive ☝️😤👊😋😩

Très beau...

What a wonderful concert! I have to give a nod to their terrific choices in programming. I was delighted to hear this new music

am I the only person here for school

yeah goood

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I love the Walhall theme, could hear this all day.

It would be cool if the video would actually be what it claims to be.

Disappointed they didn't feature the contrabass trombone in this video, but very nice nonetheless. David Krauss' control on that demonstration was just sublime.

Well, I had already seen this video when I was trying to understand how a Wagnerian orchestra works (even if this is from the MET) and also when I was studying the leitmotifs (I started to know about this thanks to John Williams and the STAR WARS soundtrack). I was between 13 and 14 years old when I started here to watch Wagner's Musical Dramas on CZcams (of course, subtitled, although I also know German very well when studying the history of Germany), I had already studied the legends on which they are based and heard the overtures and the preludes (starting with the Ride of the Valkyries, which I think is the only excerpt from the "Ring" composed by Wagner, the others seem to have been arranged by third parties for the concerts). Now I am 16 years old, and I know everything there is to know about the Classical Genre, now I find this to be something basic, the performers do not seem so bad to me (I no longer like the James Levine recordings or the Wagner productions at the MET ) Even Wagner did not like the word "leitmotif" he preferred to have people guess what the motifs represented, in their minds, nor did he name the motifs since he thought it would be like numbering streets, but this is a good introduction for certain people who want to know about leitmotifs, even for children. Greetings from Venezuela.

2:06 In the words of Anna Russell, "So he pulls out the sword that's stuck in the tree that grows through the house that Jack... that *Hunding* built!"

Does anyone know if their Handel arrangement is published?

RESPECT

Very, very good. David, this Trio actually sounds better with trumpet.

A la tercera tuba wagneriana, le doy hasta que la tetralogía se toque en Tel Aviv...

Where is the full video of this?

I'm sorry but a leitmotiv and a theme are different. The first one is shorter and has to represent an idea or a place or a character . A theme is a melody and doesn't have to represent a specific idea.

only 4 leitmotive? the Ring has a few dozen important motive - love, ring, curse, spear, gold, nibelung hammering, Alberich’s hatred, renunciation, and many others

Where is everyone? Maybe this was a private performance...? Good thing it's online.

Was lucky to see this live. Amazing experience.

Can someone explain to this woodwind player why the trumpets have a characteristic design to them? Is this design more "period accurate" to Wagners's operas? I've only seen this sideways, rotary valve design once or twice in American orchestras.

What I enjoyed the most about this wonderful post is that you don't have to stand that despicable breed of petty dictators known as conductors, just the great guys who make you celebrate music: the members of the orchestra.

Yagiz if you're reading this I was here first

thank you

The piano play the flower duet along with C.Martin....would be better without that melody on piano for sure

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