Hm, this is not one of the best orchestras in Germany, it´s undoubtedly the best orchestra in the world - maybe in cojunction with the Vienna Philharmonic :-)
@@JollyRoger150 Interesting because to me it is the opposite. The music is what drives the tempo, not the reverse. While I have heard it played more _moderato_ by other orchestras this pace is preferable as it reflects the urgency of the drama more effectively. Again, my opinion only.
Wagner wrote emphatically about how music had to be accompanied by words - and then he wrote pieces like this! No wonder there have been so many albums of "Wagner Orchestral Highlights" over the years!
I loved this overture everyday I listened at 6:00 am when the program started and at 12:00 am or midnight when the program closed and it was Radio Station XELA Good Music from Mexico City.
Generally what people consider as wonderful moments are preludes-overtures which are written for the sake of music; and what they consider as terrible half hours are orchestral music written as accompaniment for the acts, to strengthen the current emotion of the scene. This fallacy occurs because it's demanding to stage an opera and musical directors prefer only to stage the orchestral music, excluding the theatric part of the opera.
As an opera lover of some years I don’t have to understand it. “I don’t know why I love you like I do. I don’t know why, I just do.” If you are moved by this music, you’d probably like all of Lohengrin. If you live near San Francisco the opera will be doing Lohengrin this October/November.
I must say, I'll never quite understand why Henry James left "Glasses" out of the New York Edition, it must surely be among the most moving stories he ever wrote . . . Was it because the first couple of pages make him sound anti-Semitic? He was writing, of course, in the voice of a character, not his own . . . But it's an easy misunderstanding, particularly for a naïve reader! Not that Wagner didn't have the same misreception . . . Nothing quite like the way Lohengrin comes into play at the end, but James references Act II, not the ACT III Prelude . . . But read it for yourself! I wouldn't want this particular piece to be played any faster, but this is glorious, and all kudos to the orchestra, among my very favorites, then and now, as ever.
Nothing like of one best orchestras in Germany playing one of the greatest German composers music!!
Hm, this is not one of the best orchestras in Germany, it´s undoubtedly the best orchestra in the world - maybe in cojunction with the Vienna Philharmonic :-)
Yeah, nothing like it. Usually when Wagner gets played with such conviction, Poland gets invaded.
I feel like they played it too quickly
@@JollyRoger150
Interesting because to me it is the opposite. The music is what drives the tempo, not the reverse. While I have heard it played more _moderato_ by other orchestras this pace is preferable as it reflects the urgency of the drama more effectively. Again, my opinion only.
An absolute favourite since my adolescence!
Wagner wrote emphatically about how music had to be accompanied by words - and then he wrote pieces like this! No wonder there have been so many albums of "Wagner Orchestral Highlights" over the years!
The most glorious piece ever
Ojalá en la vida que siga a esta, se pueda seguir escuchando a Wagner.
Wow! I’ve never heard the oboe part played like that. 😮
Beautiful masterpiece
I loved this overture everyday I listened at 6:00 am when the program started and at 12:00 am or midnight when the program closed and it was Radio Station XELA Good Music from Mexico City.
I love the brass in this, makes me want to learn to play trombone.
An acid trip without the acid. Mind-blowing. Brilliant. Stirring.
Magnifica, Obra Prima Perfeita
@@niedsonemanoel Tu me conhece de onde pra tá me chamando de nazista aqui nos comentários seu otário, vsf seu cyber facista
Ahh, Mariss: you are missed.
Wagner's music had wonderful moments but terrible half hours. Happily, this is one of the wonderful moments.
lomax343 I feel like that describes the majority of operas...(but maybe I'm biased towards [not sung-through] musicals because I'm a dancer)
Generally what people consider as wonderful moments are preludes-overtures which are written for the sake of music; and what they consider as terrible half hours are orchestral music written as accompaniment for the acts, to strengthen the current emotion of the scene.
This fallacy occurs because it's demanding to stage an opera and musical directors prefer only to stage the orchestral music, excluding the theatric part of the opera.
cosas bellas de la vida y esto... pura emoción y sentimiento.
Completely amazing, incredible
Listen! I'm on a horse!
I don't pretend to understand opera, but in watching this performance, you can see that the members of the orchestra are playing their guts out ...
As an opera lover of some years I don’t have to understand it. “I don’t know why I love you like I do. I don’t know why, I just do.”
If you are moved by this music, you’d probably like all of Lohengrin. If you live near San Francisco the opera will be doing Lohengrin this October/November.
Wagner does have a way of stirring one's ancestral Teutonic blood.
Dat triangle doe!
Bravo!
Wonder where Star Wars got the inspiration for their soundtracks... 😉
Those french horns are intense for sure. However, does this passage not seem a tad rushed?
I agree Tojazzer, just a little.
Perfeito na velocidade x 0.85
anyone know where this was filmed?
Belíssimo
anybody know the year?
BPO killing it
2:22 is that guy laughing or crying
Lol idk
Crying...
As featured in “The Marx Brothers At The Circus”.
Thoose french horns!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I agree. And trombones, too!!!!!!!!
genius
Attention: tempo adjustment required.
Wow
Ach Himmel!!
ma come sbatte quei piatti? non sa come essere originale a tutti i costi!
To write music this magnificent you must have an oversized ego.....
😮😮😮
0:26
I must say, I'll never quite understand why Henry James left "Glasses" out of the New York Edition, it must surely be among the most moving stories he ever wrote . . . Was it because the first couple of pages make him sound anti-Semitic? He was writing, of course, in the voice of a character, not his own . . . But it's an easy misunderstanding, particularly for a naïve reader! Not that Wagner didn't have the same misreception . . . Nothing quite like the way Lohengrin comes into play at the end, but James references Act II, not the ACT III Prelude . . . But read it for yourself!
I wouldn't want this particular piece to be played any faster, but this is glorious, and all kudos to the orchestra, among my very favorites, then and now, as ever.
I love it the way it´s taken. Fast, dramatic and extremely well performed
Precisa de mais tônico chará.
2:22
2:31
Superman?
Pica pau
Sadly played too fast. Sad to see this masterpiece even slightly conpromised. Es lebe Deutschland!
That's exactly what I was thinking. It's really noticeable concerning the french horn passage.
a little bit fast in few parts but ok
1:23 - Donald Trump
Pino-lol please no... 😂
Poor Mr. Mayer Hahahaha
😢🎉
Slower please!
Viel zu schnell!
Too fast.
no
It's supposed to be fast!
Idiot
Too FAST!
so boring...
This is one of my favorite overtures.
ma come sbatte quei piatti? non sa come essere originale a tutti i costi!