levine must had an extra cup of coffee-usually he's slower than molasses. except when he isn't. sorry, just my own opinion. i know most people love him, but having sat through agonizingly slow tristans at the met among others, he's just not my cup of tea. having said that i love this part of lohengrin!
Lohengrin was probably his best Wagnerian interpretation. The others were largely as you say particularly his lifeless Parsifal. Always ridicuously overrated by Met and New York audiences .
This march sounds very nationalistic. Almost like a something from an Nazi propaganda film. If you watch Riefenstahl's 1936 Olympic Film the music is very similar to Wagner.
Windt wrote an excellent, memorable, rhytmic tune to the film. I always remember the opening theme and the tower divers motive. Yet not very wagnerian, he had a good style of his own.
Beautiful by maestro James Levine sir.
Goosebumps! Goosebumps!! Goosebumps!!!
I play this every morning to wake myself up, lol.
Thrilling. Levine conducts with such feeling, such passion! Breathless anticipation.
3:00 there's nothing weirder to an opera lover than a bunch of choral tenors belting a high C.
Wonderful riot of horn and string ---- the thing is falling over itself in its momentum and echo. great !
A. Leverkuhn
magnifique, merci Wagner et Levine ! une fantastique chevauchée !
Wagner Richard , orgoglio e bandiera della cultura musicale tedesca.😌
Beautiful brass ❤ best version of all
a masterpiece, unthinkable, inaudibile
Its the best part of the Leinsdorf studio set. The Boston Symphony!!!
Thank you for sharing 🙏🏼
Awesome!
If you're German and over 60, it does something to you.
German or not, with over 60 or not, this music is wonderful. Greetings from La Plata, Argentina.
Hoping you're still with us, at 70 I laughingly agree!
not even over 60 comrade.
Ja Sie haben Recht
In deutscher Hand das deutsche Schwert, so sei des Reiches Kraft bewährt!
What year was this?
You sure they're not just having sync issues with the offstage instruments?
It's part of the charm. And even with a perfect synchro, it is made to sound "unpredictible" . Especially here : 02:01, when the king's trumpets come.
A.C.S.
levine must had an extra cup of coffee-usually he's slower than molasses. except when he isn't. sorry, just my own opinion. i know most people love him, but having sat through agonizingly slow tristans at the met among others, he's just not my cup of tea.
having said that i love this part of lohengrin!
Lohengrin was probably his best Wagnerian interpretation. The others were largely as you say particularly his lifeless Parsifal. Always ridicuously overrated by Met and New York audiences .
Hope he uses a strong deodorant
Old Spice
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So?
This march sounds very nationalistic. Almost like a something from an Nazi propaganda film. If you watch Riefenstahl's 1936 Olympic Film the music is very similar to Wagner.
I think it's Wagner
Oh, dear. Tsk.
Herbert Windt is the composer of Olympia.
Windt wrote an excellent, memorable, rhytmic tune to the film. I always remember the opening theme and the tower divers motive. Yet not very wagnerian, he had a good style of his own.