Lohengrin: Prelude to Act I - Wagner

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  • @Zone913PhotoAgency
    @Zone913PhotoAgency 10 років тому +31

    "It was after 1 am and I had just gotten back from a full day teaching in Boulder. I lived in an isolated cabin, high in the Rocky Mountains, three miles in from the highway. Each winter I had to ski in and out from at least November through March. The weather was cold, so cold that the air felt like brittle glass. There was a full moon. A couple of inches of new snow had fallen making everything sparkling fresh and white. I started skiing uphill to get warm and thankful I had the right wax on my skis as it would have been extremely difficult to change wax in the bitter cold. I was the only living person for miles in a perfectly still white arctic world. It was magical. About halfway in I noticed coyote tracks in the road. There were four or five of them. I could hear them howling at the moon about a half mile ahead of me. (These were the same coyotes that would make a large circuit every couple of nights walking through the meadow by my cabin. I could see their tracks all winter.) I decided to announce my presence so I pressed the play button on a cassette player I had in my backpack. The music was the ethereal Prelude to Act I of Wagner's opera Lohengrin. The coyotes stopped howling as I'm sure they had never heard Wagner before. The music ended with the loud crash of cymbals just as I made the final turn into my cabin. When I reached the cabin I checked the outside thermometer. It was stuck as low as it could go -30 degrees below zero.

  • @derek978
    @derek978 8 років тому +26

    Thank you JonCJG, thank you.....

  • @joshmartin4914
    @joshmartin4914 2 роки тому +6

    "Scrabble after?"
    "You're on, Ar-bud."

  • @franciscollard2711
    @franciscollard2711 3 роки тому +2

    Ma jeunesse au Congo Belge! La musique qui a hanté mes bivouacs au clair de lune sous le ciel étoilé dans la brousse congolaise.

  • @Gargantupimp
    @Gargantupimp 14 років тому +2

    @arykk "so the Juden will be no more after the last one falls into deaths embrace, and finally mankind's final and most resolvent cadence will be complete into a perfect tonic, and purity will be restored" -Richard Wagner.
    Wagner's words ring in my ears every time I hear this musik, words that do not compete with the music in beauty but instead enhance it! I doubt there can be a dry eye or a shallow heart! In the presence of such beauty!

  • @colinjordan3597
    @colinjordan3597 11 років тому +11

    Couldn't agree more with the comments about this music. In general, Wagner's music can be a bit over-bearing and bombastic, but not this wonderful piece. It took a genius to write it. It's moving and beautiful. Thank you, Richard.

  • @SymphonyBrahms
    @SymphonyBrahms 10 років тому +10

    Sir Georg Solti conducting the Vienna Philharmonic in one of Wagner's most beautiful Preludes.

  • @franco96544
    @franco96544 14 років тому +1

    Non posso credere che ancora oggi ci sia qualcuno che possa sottovalutare il GENIO.!!! Non esiste nella storia della musica qualcuno più grande di lui. Basterebbe il TRISTANO -l'opera più completa - a fare di Wagner il più grande compositore della storia.

  • @windstorm1000
    @windstorm1000 8 років тому +12

    This prelude is perhaps the most sublime music ever written--it touches one's heart and spirit--and reminds one of a better world. the composer's inspiration of having the trumpet introduce the divine melody very softly (an instrument not often given this opportunity) is pure genius....then it all develops and glows into a beautiful musical radiance--a blue ether descending from the sky with shards of golden light--as the composer said--most certainly I want this music played at my funeral.

  • @kevkev00333
    @kevkev00333 10 років тому +33

    Like a prelude to heaven, this is perfection.

  • @derek978
    @derek978 5 років тому +2

    I played this on the very last day of school which was a graduation rehearsal before the big day of graduation... I just sat under a tree on the green cool somewhat wet grass in the shade with the cool wind blowing and the sun near the horizon while listening to this beautiful piece... looking directly at the front of my high school Vista Del Lago... There and then.. I started reminiscing about my schools years from pre-school to then.. It wasnt honestly a great experience as i didnt really have friends and just played on the swings and the other playsets on the playground during recess and lunch... Middle school was just me playing on my phone watching funny youtube videos which somehow i now miss... High was the same too... Its just that every day when school was over, i looked very forward to playing Xbox live and playing some of the best titles like halo... The kid who wasnt worried about his furture because it did seem it was far from reach at the time... But man... How time flew by very fast... I didnt necessarily liked school but im glad i got to be a student to a few teachers that were kind and funny to me... I'll always consider them friends and even some janitors and Campos... I sat there with almost sweet relief and also... A bit of sadness... My childhood has finally... Came to an end... Im no longer the careless kid who wasnt worried about his future yet... I realized... A chapter of my life has ended... Now... Life begins...
    June 12th, class of 2019

  • @aldenheartless
    @aldenheartless 15 років тому +1

    if i go to space, i would like to go, listening to this song. and watching the stars dancing with the universe,

  • @johnmassey1952
    @johnmassey1952 12 років тому +3

    Wagner is a musical giant. This piece has great beauty and underlying power. He creates a tension, which he refuses to resolve until we reach the majestic climax. Awe inspiring. When I hear it I have to stop what I'm doing and just listen. Genius!

  • @SPLINTER581
    @SPLINTER581 11 років тому +1

    Det bästa som skrivits som i musiken. Så underbar musik !!!! Wagner är the best!!!!

  • @allcatsarebeautiful3588
    @allcatsarebeautiful3588 8 років тому +10

    A wonderful beauty which haunts my heart in a very sweet and melancholic way. I have no words for this masterpiece. This is beyond all the languages in the world.

    • @genericnameman7899
      @genericnameman7899 8 років тому +2

      Too bad Wagner was an antisemite

    • @mrp6850
      @mrp6850 7 років тому

      He thought they were a bit much.

  • @leavesyoubreathless
    @leavesyoubreathless 14 років тому +1

    How do I know this is Georg Solti an the Chicago Symphony? It just is. No other recent interpreter and orchestra has come close to Solti / Chicago (in my humble opinion). There is an indefinable "sweetness" to this orchestral playing that enables me to "pin-point" Solti / Chicago.
    Wagner's music is etherial. If you like this you'll love the entire opera for a lifetime!

  • @filabelle
    @filabelle 7 років тому +2

    The magic of the music is alive... I am living it and proclaim it for all of them that wish a Lohengrin would appear in their lives...

  • @thecosmicpallbearer
    @thecosmicpallbearer 3 роки тому +3

    A beautiful piece. A song I hold dear, and one I’ve held dear since childhood. Maybe not technically the greatest song out of all the old composers, but definitely my favorite.

  • @crushing26
    @crushing26 12 років тому +1

    Whomever.....its wondrous. Makes me feel like one would feel dying and going to Heaven.

  • @heidistevenson
    @heidistevenson 14 років тому +1

    Wagner for all time. Sublime music from the paragon of composers who, along with Bach, was among the most gifted to have ever lived. Music such as this is belongs to a different world, to a race of angels. How fortunate are we, for this undeserved visitation, for this gift of music supreme.

  • @peter359
    @peter359 14 років тому +1

    It is near to impossible for me to reckon with anyone creating such extraordinarily beautiful music that brings me to tears every single time I'm blessed to hear it.

  • @pippilangstom8781
    @pippilangstom8781 12 років тому +5

    Evil? He was a damn saint. God blessed him with the unique ability to compose the best music ever known to mankind.

  • @NCLN
    @NCLN 14 років тому +2

    So so so beautiful. Music of heaven.

  • @spencerandersen271
    @spencerandersen271 10 років тому +16

    Wagner at his finest... this piece is so delicate and ethereal, one cannot help but want to cry. :_-)

    • @windstorm1000
      @windstorm1000 7 років тому +1

      yes. its divine music. completely inspirational.

  • @UntrueLove
    @UntrueLove 9 років тому +7

    I'm so glad I've found this piece of beautiful music! I first heard it on Charles Chaplin's film The Great Dictator. I tried finding this music for years, but was unable to find a version without Charlie talking through it, haha. Thank you for uploading!

  • @onigercent
    @onigercent 10 років тому +1

    Je ne pas Ecouter sans mes larmes cette symphonie m'envie mon moi !!

  • @juansantos5556
    @juansantos5556 7 років тому +2

    "Here's not here", such a beautiful song with a beautiful episode of twd

  • @Wickett01
    @Wickett01 14 років тому +1

    I just saw this opera on Sunday. Enjoyed it immensely mostly for the preludes in each act.

  • @joshuapurdy7065
    @joshuapurdy7065 5 років тому +4

    Rip Scott

  • @27brigitte
    @27brigitte 7 років тому +1

    Beautiful and sublime....this music is leaping into another world....thank you

  • @itslindyh
    @itslindyh 12 років тому +1

    Makes me cry every time I listen to it! Beautiful!

  • @jraldne1
    @jraldne1 10 років тому +2

    I do believe that this is my favourite overture; that it took me the longest time to find one that I could enjoy since someone's decided to post it five different ways, at least…it was not a delight to the ears quite so much as this one is…Thank You!...

  • @RayWood500
    @RayWood500 9 років тому +2

    You immediately think of opera and only opera when you here the name "Wagner", but he was also a master of just pure orchestral composing. I mean, just LISTEN to this !!!

    • @windstorm1000
      @windstorm1000 8 років тому +1

      agreed--wagner was light years ahead of his contemporaries with regards not only to themes, orchestration but a very advanced emotional fabric--that's genius...

  • @Evenizer120
    @Evenizer120 13 років тому

    @Marianitomiron Y yo le respondo con un abrazo también a usted respetable Marianito, es agradable saber que este tipo de interpretaciones no queden olvidadas y sean disfrutadas en tiempos contemporáneos.
    El saludo que le mando es desde México.

  • @shlomzion
    @shlomzion 11 років тому

    You are absolutely right. I am Jewish and didn't listen to Wagner for over 40 years, until "by accident" I heard to prelude to act one of Parsifal. Since then, I'm hooked. Surely, with Richard Strauss, the master of orchestral writing.

    • @windstorm1000
      @windstorm1000 7 років тому +1

      it may interest you to know that wagner had a lot of jewish friends and colleagues. this is divine music--I don't care what nationality is of anything--if its good, its good!

  • @peter359
    @peter359 13 років тому +1

    Sod all these terrible comments, I still would wish with all my heart to hear this beautiful piece as I pass into the next world.

    • @jodyhill5624
      @jodyhill5624 3 місяці тому

      Best comment dear soul

    • @FilmCars
      @FilmCars 3 місяці тому

      @@jodyhill5624 ahh, a kindred heart, thank you Jody all these years later.

  • @stelioskokkinos
    @stelioskokkinos 9 років тому +3

    Outstanding, unique performance whose beauty culminates in 06:35 onwards. A vintage recording!

  • @MassiveMoment
    @MassiveMoment 12 років тому +2

    This is so marvelous Music, sensitive and yet powerful... it is divine.

    • @windstorm1000
      @windstorm1000 7 років тому

      yes, its divine. that's the only word for it--sublime would be another good word. its beyond 'good' music obviously.

  • @lohengrinfalcon7257
    @lohengrinfalcon7257 5 місяців тому

    Este vídeo lo conoci precisamente hace 15 años en Medellín, con motivo de un viaje turístico que hay ice allá, se de Lohengrin desde hace más de 30 años y es una de mis óperas favoritas: Por algo mis padres me llamaron Lohengrin

  • @joopblok
    @joopblok 12 років тому

    Never mind all the negative response. For me it is the most beautiful music I have ever heard and I hope to watch the full opera sometime with my wife and children. It would be my last whish on this $#%^$# earth!

  • @Sam-sr1jx
    @Sam-sr1jx 7 років тому +1

    Genius. Just love for Europa's culture and her people.

  • @Mirani2
    @Mirani2 14 років тому +2

    This is the music I imagine every time I picture any heavenly heroic knight

  • @arthursid1129
    @arthursid1129 11 років тому +3

    I must say the conductor waved his baton superbly here.

  • @fsanjur36
    @fsanjur36 13 років тому +1

    this music is really inspiring!

  • @jansabarth9466
    @jansabarth9466 6 років тому

    this wonderful Oprea actually tells a legend story of our small german hometown 'Cleves' ... this makes us sooo incredible proud!!

  • @katalepsis74
    @katalepsis74 11 років тому +3

    Utterly sublime, a real de-stressing piece.

  • @Rocktag0nal
    @Rocktag0nal 13 років тому

    most bautiful piece of music i have ever heard

  • @arykk7235
    @arykk7235 14 років тому

    I played this this year and it is so beautiful when you are with the orchestra and working with so many people to create this amazing piece

  • @heidistevenson
    @heidistevenson 14 років тому

    @leavesyoubreathless Wagner for all time. Sublime music from the paragon of composers who, along with Bach, was among the most gifted to have ever lived. Music such as this is belongs to a different world, to a race of angels. How fortunate are we, for this undeserved visitation, for this gift of music supreme.

    • @jodyhill5624
      @jodyhill5624 3 місяці тому

      He like Beethoven also very very much

  • @Rapunzzel07
    @Rapunzzel07 11 років тому

    Thank you, ItzhakRoxMySox for the upload. Heard this in concert last night and it was wonnnnderful! Had to look it up right away.

  • @cristianvejar5050
    @cristianvejar5050 7 років тому +1

    impresionante esta musica te emocina hasta lo mas prufundo del alma.

  • @donnamariebeck2413
    @donnamariebeck2413 11 років тому +4

    So beautifully inspiring!
    SDMB

  • @fdaguiar
    @fdaguiar 12 років тому +1

    Simply Beautiful!

  • @cpgamer117
    @cpgamer117 11 років тому

    As a classicaly trained cellist I have always admired wagner. Hus style of composing allows all parts to be heard clearly and each has their own importance in every piece. I love this song and I always find myself listening to it for fun. Also Jon Graham uses this a lot during the sad moments in Arby n' the Chief, one of my favorite internet series.

  • @WilfredIvanhoe
    @WilfredIvanhoe 15 років тому

    This is one of my favorite pieces of music. Beautiful and delicate, almost fragile like crystal, and yet it reveals great strength when the brass comes in.

  • @viningscircle
    @viningscircle 11 років тому

    Enjoyed a performance of this back in the 90s sometime, with the LSO visiting Daytona Beach at the nice Peabody Auditorium. Sublime.

  • @alerommel1
    @alerommel1 13 років тому

    @Wolfmester Great music and great movie! Thanks for the answer!

  • @huebener58
    @huebener58 7 років тому +1

    Göttlich ! Himmlisch, Einzigartig !

  • @Baldgol4
    @Baldgol4 14 років тому

    I agree. Truly one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written.

  • @alicelouise6677
    @alicelouise6677 14 років тому

    I concur with the Findlandator. Being a musical genius doesn't guarantee a good character. What is good about Wagner is with us for all the world to share

  • @foerster
    @foerster 14 років тому

    great execution, this music is great, sweet harm. Grazie Wagner!:-* grandissimo maestro, grazie Toscanini.

  • @Earendel11
    @Earendel11 15 років тому

    I agree. I saw this for the first time at the Royal Opera House in London a couple of years ago and it was utterly captivating. This prelude is stunning. The purity of sound which I believe is meant to represent a vision of the holy grail coming down to earth is completely ethereal. The first note on the violin as it pierces through the auditorium is at once groundbreaking and contemporary.

  • @marcelooscargarcia6204
    @marcelooscargarcia6204 5 місяців тому +1

    When I discovered wagners music I realized that I have been wasting my time with the rest of the music I used to listen to.

    • @FayçalFennouche-i2x
      @FayçalFennouche-i2x 3 місяці тому

      What a given gift . Wagner transcended an absolute and endless musical beauty . The more I listen the more I perceive the beauty in more elevated perspective.

  • @johngoodwin1540
    @johngoodwin1540 11 років тому

    I remember leading the pit orchestra at college when we did this opera. Such inspirational music to listen to, and more so to play

  • @praneekranepuhl1078
    @praneekranepuhl1078 11 років тому

    So beautiful. I am getting to like the Wagner music more and more. Thank you.

  • @ConstantinosP
    @ConstantinosP 14 років тому +1

    Just wonderful!

  • @thegamepie47
    @thegamepie47 16 років тому

    It's like waking up from a beautiful dream.

  • @Nanta131
    @Nanta131 11 років тому

    this will be a sad world without your music piece,Sir O:)

  • @pianomangabe
    @pianomangabe 14 років тому

    this is absolutely gorgeous! ive never been a fan of wagner before, but i certainly am now!

  • @pav689
    @pav689 11 років тому

    just incredible, it makes me fly ...

  • @davidbjorkman9097
    @davidbjorkman9097 10 років тому +2

    "It was after 1 am and I had just gotten back from a full day of teaching in Boulder. I lived in an isolated cabin high in the Rocky Mountains, three miles in from the highway. I would have to ski in and out all winter, at least from mid-November to mid-March. The weather was cold, so cold that the air felt like brittle glass. There was a full moon. A couple of inches of new snow had fallen making everything sparkling fresh and white. I started skiing the beginning uphill part to get warm and thankful I had the right wax on my skis as it would have been extremely difficult to change wax in the bitter cold. I was the only living person for miles in a perfectly still white arctic world. It was magical. About halfway in I noticed coyote tracks in the road. There were four or five of them. I could hear them howling at the moon about a half mile ahead of me. (These were the same coyotes that would make a large circuit every couple of nights walking through the meadow by my cabin. I could see their tracks all winter.) I decided to announce my presence to them so I pressed the play button on a cassette player I had in my backpack. The music was the ethereal masterpiece, the Prelude to Act I of Wagner's opera Lohengrin. The coyotes stopped howling as I'm sure they had never heard Wagner before. The music ended in a loud crash of cymbals just as I made the final turn into my cabin. When I reached the cabin I checked the thermometer. It was stuck as low as it could go -30 degrees below zero.

    • @onigercent
      @onigercent 10 років тому +1

      Voila un historie vrais ça fait rêver il faudra écrire un livre !!

  • @PrinceFlashmo
    @PrinceFlashmo 11 років тому +18

    "This is probably gonna sounded super gai
    But I think I has,"

  • @Evenizer120
    @Evenizer120 13 років тому

    @Marianitomiron Ja, no hay problema, es bueno saber que hay muchas personas que tienen su lenguaje español muy nutrido, variedad de palabras, eso lo admiro mucho, y de personas de la Argentina me ha tocado presenciar a muchos que como usted les gusta escribir palabras que ponen en alto nuestro maravilloso lenguaje. Dejando a un lado a los que les gusta escribir sandeces porque han aprendido a usar el teclado, este medio podría ser muy agradable.
    Un saludo para usted desde Jalisco, México.

  • @wernerheld9751
    @wernerheld9751 11 років тому +7

    Wie von einem anderen Stern, himmlisch, einfach unerreichbar

  • @jonysevn
    @jonysevn 12 років тому

    One hell of a ball of atoms. Awesome.........

  • @Oetti
    @Oetti 15 років тому +1

    lohengrin is a masterpiece, also happens to be my favorite Wagner work, one can appreciate the music without appreciating the composer's beliefs on certain things...

  • @tones3d
    @tones3d 14 років тому

    I think this recording is by the Vienna Philharmonic, conducted by Georg Solti.
    It's a gorgeous performance, featuring the voices of Plácido Domingo, Jessye Norman, Hans Sotin, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau .

  • @helburr
    @helburr 9 років тому

    Probably what I listen to the most these days.

  • @SandySelorme
    @SandySelorme 8 років тому +1

    absolutely beautiful!

  • @peter359
    @peter359 13 років тому

    @philipc67 'Torturingly radiant' is perhaps the best description I have ever heard in my life to describe this beautiful overture.

  • @FayçalFennouche-i2x
    @FayçalFennouche-i2x 3 місяці тому +1

    4:35😭❤

  • @Marianitomiron
    @Marianitomiron 13 років тому

    @Evenizer120 Es un gusto poder compartir esto, y ver que se puede entablar un diálogo melónamano en youtube, un medio tan propenso a las opiniones irrespetuosas. Saludos cordiales desde Buenos Aires!

  • @DALNewhouse2012
    @DALNewhouse2012 13 років тому

    heard this just 20 minutes ago for the first time in my Understanding Music course at Syracuse University...Love at first sound. :)

  • @CaptPreston
    @CaptPreston 13 років тому

    i really like this song.

  • @LeRinkRat
    @LeRinkRat 13 років тому

    @WolseleyAC BRAVO, Wolseley!!! Well Stated!!!

  • @IchbinSchalker
    @IchbinSchalker 14 років тому

    This is magnificent!

  • @ShermanM36
    @ShermanM36 11 років тому

    a beautiful romantic prelude which goes dep in the heart..
    Whatever was wagner political dark ideas . His symphonic music and coros are above all ideologies (which has his dreadfull darkness).Forget evey materiel jewels and just listen to eternity

  • @ascenbach1
    @ascenbach1 12 років тому

    Glad to see that you have a sense of humor about the comments. At least some of them are germane to the music. Thank goodness.

  • @Crzygtrgod3
    @Crzygtrgod3 15 років тому

    Beautiful.

  • @Marianitomiron
    @Marianitomiron 13 років тому

    @Evenizer120 Estimado Evenizer, coincido absolutamente con ud! Un gran abrazo desde la Argentina!

  • @Aristocratico77
    @Aristocratico77 12 років тому

    Edizione bellissima.

  • @cristianvejar5050
    @cristianvejar5050 7 років тому

    impresionante esta musica te emociona hasta lo mas profundo del alma

  • @tromuniapp
    @tromuniapp 12 років тому

    Oh my, my EXACT feeling!!!!!!

  • @Evenizer120
    @Evenizer120 13 років тому

    Una deliciosa interpretación de Wagner y definitivamente una de las mejores obras maestras que he escuchado, he sido llevado al cielo y al estar ahí experimentado una sensación muy hermosa.

  • @aquelescaraaaaaaaaaa
    @aquelescaraaaaaaaaaa 12 років тому

    best music to go with an ending to something we love.

  • @PaulAndMuttley
    @PaulAndMuttley 13 років тому

    In my video response, I just happened to catch this beautiful piece of music as I made a video of my dog and myself riding back from a walk, and it just seemed to fit perfectly with the scenery on the back roads from there through part of the Loch Raven Watershed to my house.

  • @dalmaximus
    @dalmaximus Рік тому

    Beautiful

  • @TheMegaSchelle
    @TheMegaSchelle 11 років тому

    beuatiful music. thnx.

  • @KOLN555
    @KOLN555 14 років тому

    Every time I hear this beautiful song I think of Charlie Chaplin's dance with the globe balloon in the Great Dictator. It never fails to make me smile.

  • @Coriolanable
    @Coriolanable 13 років тому

    It took me a long time to understand Wagners music. Lohengrin was the entrance. The story is not too complicated and the music is of heavenly beauty. Here in Amsterdam I'll go and see Parcifal in June. I'll go together with a friend who knows much about the more complicated story.