I stood for the whole Ring cycle in the RAH that hot week at the end of July 2013, having driven up 100 miles each afternoon and returning in the evening. Unforgettable
@ronin, yes that's the end of the "Excalibur" soundtrack 😊 I always smile when people ask who wrote the fantastic soundtrack of Arthur's death and his sea burial 😉
I attended every night of this Ring Cycle and it was truly magnificent. I also went to Tannhauser and Parsifal, both also excellent. Nothing tops the Staatskapelle Berlin and Barenboim, though.
Thank you so much for posting it. I was there - as you certainly too - for the complete cycle, and for all these years have looked for some records of those supreme performances. Something to remember for life.
Look at the 6 harps. Finally a performance with all the instruments Wagner intended for his Ring and which can never be used due to orchestra pits being too small. Add that to one of the best orchestras in the world and a genius on the baton. I don´t know about the singing, but the basic package is very promising ;-)
At the start of this fateful music ominously creeping in, I had an eerie sense of foreboding. Then, with the 4 heavy, thunderous semiquavers, I saw Hitler barking his evil. Ultimately, Germany triumphed over their demons to become a beautiful, humanitarian and soulful country. It's all expressed in this music, as though Wagner had a prophetic vision.
Wagners Musik ist fantastisch, demgegenüber erscheinen die Kompositionen seiner "Vorgänger" wie weichgespült. Seine Musik ist absolut präsent, direkt, impulsiv, äußerst dynamisch. Allerdings - was den ganzen Gesangsteil seiner Opern betrifft, die Arien, die kannste nahezu alle in die Tonne treten IMHO. Es gibt ganz wenige Gesangsstücke, die etwas größeren Bekanntheitsgrad erlangten, z.B. das Lied "Steuermann lass die Wacht" aus dem fliegenden Holländer dürfte einer "breiteren" Öffentlichkeit bekannt sein. Aber sonst... eher Fehlanzeige. Verglichen mit anderen Opernkomponisten eher mager. Aber wie gesagt: Seine Musik ist grandios. Wie er in Rheingold einen Sonnenaufgang intoniert: Einfach grandios. Und natürlich gibt es noch viele andere Beispiele...
Only thing I ask myself is, why is there only one timpanist playing. The entire ring asks for two. And each of the operas has at least two instances where they both play at the same time, the funeral march being one of them. It certainly wasn't for lack of space on stage. See the score page where it comes into play here: czcams.com/video/BQHtYVjCCF0/video.htmlh50m8s
I noticed that too - yet, it seems that the other tympanist's work IS audible. Could he and that other tympani set be placed out of sight of the camera?? YES, *that's exactly what's happening* (apparently Barenboim &/or the drummers wanted the two sets to be placed at a distance from each other)!!!! If you look at a few of the other clips, you WILL see the other tympanist placed at the extreme left (e.g., Prelude to Act 3 + conclusion of Act 3 - both of "Siegfried" - all captured from another camera-angle facing from the right as opposed to this one focussing from the left)!!! WOW, now I must even more strongly mention that these clips of those performances were NOT - repeat, NOT - filmed by a professional camera-crew. Apparently Robert Newton smuggled (or was he allowed to bring it in officially?) his own video-camera into the hall. He was able to only handle taping highlights - a real pity, but yet we MUST give him credit for being able to capture as much as he did given that his videocam was hand-held (that's no fun)!!! That's why there was only one viewpoint (for "Siegfried" he was placed to the right, on the left for "Götterdämmerung") each time...
Very fine performance from all concerned - and I'd also like to applaud Mr Daniel Barenboim for thanking the orchestra, choir, solo-singers AND the audience (this last for their attentiveness and caring for what was being sung and played). All the more so given his wanting to send off the retiring concertmaster off with such caring and devotion. [The REAL reason why Barenboim didn't use the German translation of "leader" (British-English synonym for "Concertmaster") is its being "(der) *Führer* " - spoiled thanks to that monster Adolf Hitler...]
I'll guess I will be the dissenting opinion here. Not a good performance, it sounds disjointed, I realize it's not the best audio recording but then there is 2:33 and 4:21, ouch, that shouldn't happen at this level.
Sorry you are completely wrong and were clearly not there. This whole ring cycle from the Albert Hall in 2010 was one the the best performances there has been. Just search and read the reviews form that evening.
I wonder how Wagner would have felt about being presented in a British "pops" format...bet he would have approved.... He always wanted the people to hear his music, more so than the princes...
@@rattywoof5259 The greatest classical music festival in the world is in Bayreuth, or Salzburg, or perhaps Milan...those festivals are in countries actually produced the great music performed at the proms.....
Yes, and Bayreuth concentrates on Wagner, Salzburg on Mozart/Strauss/Schubert, Milan on Verdi/Vivaldi/Puccini etc - the Proms plays everybody's music from all over the world. (Including the UK - Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Britten, etc)
Not relevant - there are hundreds of composers who are not in the top rank (Copeland, Bernstein, Ives, Korngold etc) but they still deserve to be heard. The BBC Proms months do just that which IMHO makes your description as a 'pops' format overly harsh.
Oh look an incel. Also your classical playlist is awful. It’s so basic it’s unreal. Idiots like you can’t fully appreciate this kind of music because you use it as your soundtrack for stroking your egos. Pathetic honestly.
Wagner is WAGNER, and always moves, but this work was not made to be represented like that. After the war in Germany there was an unbridled interest in making an absurd "sublimation" of reality and fantasy, even disfiguring the scene to the point of absurdity. The ridiculous taken to the limit.
@@rdslw No hay palabras que expliciten en toda su dimensión el talento del Mtro.Baremboin.Ademas tiene la virtud de recordar a quienes lo apoyaron en su vertiginosa hacia el éxito.El Metro.Furtwangler se quedó corto en su premonición.Dr Leiva Roberto O. Abogado Rosario Argentina
I stood for the whole Ring cycle in the RAH that hot week at the end of July 2013, having driven up 100 miles each afternoon and returning in the evening. Unforgettable
Ah, if only I lived near the Staatskappelle! Alas, California is too far away. I guess I'll just have to stick with the SFSO. Great music, this.
@@oleflogger6828 This was in London, not Berlin.
congratulation for that chance. I saw The Ring a few years ago in the theater of Dessau in cooperation with the opera Halle.
Have you been to the Bayreuth Festival where then entire folio of Wagners work is performed end to end? Sort of a form of masochism.
Whatever turns you on!!!!
There's nothing like a live performance to fill your ears, eyes, mind, and heart!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"One day, a king will come, and the sword will rise again."
@ronin, yes that's the end of the "Excalibur" soundtrack 😊
I always smile when people ask who wrote the fantastic soundtrack of Arthur's death and his sea burial 😉
Outstanding performance and kudos to the recording engineers for a bang-up job!
My eyes filled with tears. Fabulous post, many, many thanks.
Fantastic work from the trumpet section.
I attended every night of this Ring Cycle and it was truly magnificent. I also went to Tannhauser and Parsifal, both also excellent. Nothing tops the Staatskapelle Berlin and Barenboim, though.
Thank you so much for posting it. I was there - as you certainly too - for the complete cycle, and for all these years have looked for some records of those supreme performances. Something to remember for life.
Look at the 6 harps. Finally a performance with all the instruments Wagner intended for his Ring and which can never be used due to orchestra pits being too small. Add that to one of the best orchestras in the world and a genius on the baton. I don´t know about the singing, but the basic package is very promising ;-)
Beautifully balanced orchestral playing. Bravo!
absolute fantastic....epic....Wagner at his best.....
thanks for sharing. what a fantastic piece of music expertly played and conducted.
Why recordings of this Cycle were not released, who knows. It was incredible.
Barenboim is a master in creating tension and emotional excitement.
Wagner is pretty good too!
Wonderful position you had and I appreciate that with filming it detracts a little from your own pleasure so thank you.
Obra majestuosa!! Espectacular!!!
Now this is truly great, thanks for sharing
At the start of this fateful music ominously creeping in, I had an eerie sense of foreboding. Then, with the 4 heavy, thunderous semiquavers, I saw Hitler barking his evil.
Ultimately, Germany triumphed over their demons to become a beautiful, humanitarian and soulful country.
It's all expressed in this music, as though Wagner had a prophetic vision.
Absolutamente fantástico!!!!!
Boa arte, nunca envelhece.
Hi Frank. Glad you liked it. Check the Immolation scene.
Gracias por subir este video
El sonido en mi opinión es como el el teatro.
Espectacular obra!!!!
Uma obra, com mais 150 anos de idade.
BARENBOIM MARAVILLOSO.EMOCIONANTE.-
Excellent masterpiece👍
The recording sounds great too. If this was by phone, then it just shows twin mikes is all you need for an orchestra ^^ (HUuuGE dynamics)
Wagners Musik ist fantastisch, demgegenüber erscheinen die Kompositionen seiner "Vorgänger" wie weichgespült. Seine Musik ist absolut präsent, direkt, impulsiv, äußerst dynamisch. Allerdings - was den ganzen Gesangsteil seiner Opern betrifft, die Arien, die kannste nahezu alle in die Tonne treten IMHO. Es gibt ganz wenige Gesangsstücke, die etwas größeren Bekanntheitsgrad erlangten, z.B. das Lied "Steuermann lass die Wacht" aus dem fliegenden Holländer dürfte einer "breiteren" Öffentlichkeit bekannt sein. Aber sonst... eher Fehlanzeige. Verglichen mit anderen Opernkomponisten eher mager. Aber wie gesagt: Seine Musik ist grandios. Wie er in Rheingold einen Sonnenaufgang intoniert: Einfach grandios. Und natürlich gibt es noch viele andere Beispiele...
¡Vergüenza para Baremboin interpretar esto! Deshonrado para siempre.
I think the version from Sir Georg Solti is the better one.
Only thing I ask myself is, why is there only one timpanist playing.
The entire ring asks for two. And each of the operas has at least two instances where they both play at the same time, the funeral march being one of them. It certainly wasn't for lack of space on stage. See the score page where it comes into play here: czcams.com/video/BQHtYVjCCF0/video.htmlh50m8s
I noticed that too - yet, it seems that the other tympanist's work IS audible. Could he and that other tympani set be placed out of sight of the camera?? YES, *that's exactly what's happening* (apparently Barenboim &/or the drummers wanted the two sets to be placed at a distance from each other)!!!! If you look at a few of the other clips, you WILL see the other tympanist placed at the extreme left (e.g., Prelude to Act 3 + conclusion of Act 3 - both of "Siegfried" - all captured from another camera-angle facing from the right as opposed to this one focussing from the left)!!!
WOW, now I must even more strongly mention that these clips of those performances were NOT - repeat, NOT - filmed by a professional camera-crew. Apparently Robert Newton smuggled (or was he allowed to bring it in officially?) his own video-camera into the hall. He was able to only handle taping highlights - a real pity, but yet we MUST give him credit for being able to capture as much as he did given that his videocam was hand-held (that's no fun)!!! That's why there was only one viewpoint (for "Siegfried" he was placed to the right, on the left for "Götterdämmerung") each time...
How did it achieve that astounding sound quality? Great.
Dieses Orchester mit Siegfrieds Tod unter Otman Suitner, ich habe nie Besseres gehört nie !!!!!!!!
Hay varias marchas fúnebres y requiems en la música clásica, pero esta es "la Marcha Funebre".
This reminds me of Star Trek
Ah, it's nice to hear from a 12 year old every once in a while....
Grandosa orchestra direttore interprete eccellente
Obra maestra.
2.32 the 2 french horns. Such a shame about the mispitch 2nd horn.
Barenboim always conducts too slowly for me. George Solti is the supreme master.
Too slow ?
I disagree. Barenboim raises and lowers the tempo as the score demands.
comme cela est terne et routinier , sans parler de la fausse note des cors .
Cette indépendance d'esprit, cette expertise à toute épreuve... Merci de nous éclairer Maître
D’accord avec Georges il y a bien eu un couac.
Par contre écoutez la version de Sir Solti et la ...
C’est autre chose .
Class.....................
2022 called ...
whoa
it is a great a great achievement. Still it cannot match the dense emotional framework of "Ring without Words" by Lorin Maazel.
Fantastic performance. Pity the fixed, illicit (?) camera footage does not do it justice!
Gracias 🐱🇪🇸
Anything available for all four nights complete?
Sadly the answer is no. If only!
Ich muss weinen!
Wagner forever....
Very fine performance from all concerned - and I'd also like to applaud Mr Daniel Barenboim for thanking the orchestra, choir, solo-singers AND the audience (this last for their attentiveness and caring for what was being sung and played). All the more so given his wanting to send off the retiring concertmaster off with such caring and devotion.
[The REAL reason why Barenboim didn't use the German translation of "leader" (British-English synonym for "Concertmaster") is its being "(der) *Führer* " - spoiled thanks to that monster Adolf Hitler...]
Europa!
I can't get any sound
Daniel Boingboing is very good.
5:45 Hero
Bravoooooo
I came here after watching Excalibur
Un fragment força majestàtic.
I'll guess I will be the dissenting opinion here. Not a good performance, it sounds disjointed, I realize it's not the best audio recording but then there is 2:33 and 4:21, ouch, that shouldn't happen at this level.
Sorry you are completely wrong and were clearly not there. This whole ring cycle from the Albert Hall in 2010 was one the the best performances there has been. Just search and read the reviews form that evening.
I wonder how Wagner would have felt about being presented in a British "pops" format...bet he would have approved.... He always wanted the people to hear his music, more so than the princes...
'Pops'? Hardly a fitting description for the BBC Proms, the greatest classical music festival in the world.
@@rattywoof5259 The greatest classical music festival in the world is in Bayreuth, or Salzburg, or perhaps Milan...those festivals are in countries actually produced the great music performed at the proms.....
Yes, and Bayreuth concentrates on Wagner, Salzburg on Mozart/Strauss/Schubert, Milan on Verdi/Vivaldi/Puccini etc - the Proms plays everybody's music from all over the world. (Including the UK - Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Britten, etc)
@@rattywoof5259 That's the problem. They play Elgar, Vaughan Williams and Britten and pretend that it's the same caliber as Wagner Mozart and Verdi.
Not relevant - there are hundreds of composers who are not in the top rank (Copeland, Bernstein, Ives, Korngold etc) but they still deserve to be heard. The BBC Proms months do just that which IMHO makes your description as a 'pops' format overly harsh.
Very fast
Six Harps!
The people's square
Oh look an incel.
Also your classical playlist is awful. It’s so basic it’s unreal. Idiots like you can’t fully appreciate this kind of music because you use it as your soundtrack for stroking your egos. Pathetic honestly.
Wagner is WAGNER, and always moves, but this work was not made to be represented like that. After the war in Germany there was an unbridled interest in making an absurd "sublimation" of reality and fantasy, even disfiguring the scene to the point of absurdity. The ridiculous taken to the limit.
Dieser Kasper...
Wyższa półka muzyki. To nie disco z pola.
Please Mr Barenboim, do us a favor and continue your career as a pianist...
Mr Mehmet you are still pleasing...
@@rdslw No hay palabras que expliciten en toda su dimensión el talento del Mtro.Baremboin.Ademas tiene la virtud de recordar a quienes lo apoyaron en su vertiginosa hacia el éxito.El Metro.Furtwangler se quedó corto en su premonición.Dr Leiva Roberto O. Abogado Rosario Argentina
It was rushed in my opinion
They likely wanted to get him buried quick and get on with the luncheon, like my uncle Bert's funeral.
5:40 when EU finally collapses under its own idiotic bureaucracy and nation states will be free once more !
So agree, Solti is the very best, I don’t care for Barenboim.
Very ordinary -- VPO are the benchmark.
Obviously a hand-held and illegally obtained recording.
Bah… the British playing Wagner…
It’s like the Russians playing Hawaiian music.
It was a German orchestra.
You're not very intelligent, are you?
bum notes from the brasss....v.poor
Bootleg!
Dear MrBarenboim, please I beg you, go back to piano playing...
Great orchestra with a mediocre conductor
Barenboim is fantastic at Wagner