I was listening to this on the subway and had to put my sunglasses on so no one would see my eyes watering and think I was a crazy person. What a perfect and moving performance of this already devastating piece of music. I can't!
Wonderful. My dad passed away in 1993, this was his favourite piece of music, he loved listening to Kirsten Flagstad. The Furtwangler / Flagstad recording was my introduction to Wagner, I was hooked from that moment. My dad would have been blown away by Waltraud Meier.
So good she knows what's going on harmonically and she displays it through her character. She actually exhales as the last Tristan chord finally, after four hours, resolves.
Still after all these years this final act still manages to make me cry. If I am driving and this comes on the radio, here come the tears! I usually only go the Wagner operas , took a bud of mine to see this ( he wanted to see what the big deal was about), asked him to store tissues in his pockets and sure enough, once Isolde starts that first note of this, here come the tears....But I looked over in the dark and there was a tiny tear in his face. He was floored by this whole opera. And like me he never missed a Wagner opera performance whenever it hits town.
Hopefully you have not let Wagner prevent you from seeing/hearing/experiencing the emotive power of composers from Vivaldi to Ades and Heggie in opera. What a shame if you reject so much beauty solely to hear Wagner.
@@wilsonwatt9283 LOL of course I go to other operas!!! I just prefer Wagner. Aida and La Boheme are also my favorites, Mozart Don Giovanni is pretty awesome to watch when it comes to town.
Sublime musique , magistralement interprétée !!!! ..." Isoldes Liebesbestod " est incontestablement l'un des sommets de l'art lyrique !!!! Il y en a bien d'autres chez le génial maître de Bayreuth !!!! "
Barenboim is a genius. His Wagner is so heartfelt, alive, emotional and I always understood why he loved to work with Waltraud Meier and her understanding of the necessity for a warm and touching tone Wagner needs.
Wunderbare Musik! Der Höhepunkt kommt bei 13:56, als die Bläser zu einer wunderbaren Melodie anheben, in welcher soviel Sehnsucht liegt und welche wie aus dem Jenseits klingt. Die Oper endet in einer wunderschönen, friedlichen Harmonie.
"... wafting about me, ... clouds of heavenly fragrance? ... to expire in sweet perfume? ... in the vast wave of the world's breath, to drown, to sink unconscious -- supreme bliss!" HOW GRANDIOSE! HOW AWE-INSPIRING! HOW PASSIONATE! And yet HOW TENDER, all at the same time!! This is my first exposure to an operatic performance of this Wagner "passage"; usually I simply watch an orchestral performance of the piece. THIS IS BEING BOOKMARKED!!! I can hardly see the monitor thru my joyous tears to type this reply. WUNDERBAR!!! DANKE!!! With such a less-than-elaborate backdrop, beautiful in its simplicity!
Muchas veces lo escucho con auriculares cuando voy a dormir ,cierro los hojos y me concentro unicamente en esta musica celestial y llega un momento en el que paresco flotar ,momento fantastico , unico , cuanto talento para describir un momento tan tremendo de la vida y tan celestial , envuelto en la musica y letra ,que suerte poder disfrutar de esta genialidad
Tristan und Isolde is for me the best opera ever. I love all of the music and the Liebestod (Death Song) is extremely moving, raw and emotional. I have heard many versions of it, including the great Birgit Nielson. This is now my favorite version. The lady singing is beyond compare! I would love to see this opera in person.
Enjoyed your comment, just had to point out that _liebestod_ means "love death" ... only in death are the lovers Tristan and Isolde finally together (which I never took seriously as a libretto, because death _separates_ , it doesn't "unite" which is why religions offer a "life after death"; I prefer to think of this as the culmination of their passion, finally resolving in an emotional crescendo).
Waltraud Meier ... fantastic! ...After many years attempting to get the tickets, this july I'll be in Bayreuth listening to this live!! Looking forward !!
@@noeldunsky ciao Noel! It has been amazing, 4 hours of show are really long, but there are long pauses between the acts. Some parts, were difficult to follow because of the language (I don’t speak German), the theatre is uncomfortable and hot, but the atmosphere is magic. Something that surprised me was the clarity of the voices and the volume (low) of the music, because of the position of the orchestra. I knew it would be different from other theaters but I wasn’t expecting that different. A part these impressions, Thielemann conducted perfectly, Wagner’s music is always astonishing and the Liebestod listened live has been overwhelming. I surely will try to get other tickets in the future.
All the years of rock and roll, THIS is the only time police showed up at my house. Building a Triumph chopper back in the day, 3 AM, 85 degrees out, this opera blasting away. As an album side ended, I slid the trans cluster into the case, great timing. AHEM!!! Ooops... 'Morning Officer, I'll turn it down some...'. He smiles and says I have been to a lot of loud music complaints, but NEVER to an opera! what in hell are you listening to? Any more questions?
In residence I once got annoyed by a part in the room below me so I put this on at full volume and hung my speaker out the window directed at my neighbour... i heard a few WTFs
Meier here does what Callas did in the Visconti Lucia mad scene. She shows that movement is not necessary if the voice has the true emotive power of the composer within its scope. Less is more is a great principle of architecture that should be applied more often to opera direction/production.
Many cannot or will not listen to Wagner for obvious reasons, but once you are exposed to it such as this incredible piece you're hooked. You can't resist Wagner. You can try, but it won't work. Wagner's music reaches out into your very insides and pulls you in, into the "sturm und drang" and into the rapture.
You should "obviously" know that many people cannot (or will not) separate the art from the artist. Wagner was a repugnant, despicable egomaniac and a bigot. This can be said of many people like him who were supremely gifted with an incredible genius, but produced great art for the ages.@@gerhardrohne2261
Strong. Deep. Great singers. My eyes are watering. The final aria is better than everything was composed in pop music ever! It is a song made by an insane man!
And after 3 hours of drama ans sexual lust and belonging, this musical GOD finally resolves that damn amazing cord at the end of the piece.. what a genius
+Nathan Loveridge If your face doesn't melt like Raiders of the Lost Ark every time you hear that, you're not a person. Unbearable tension, and then the grandfather of all beat drops. Oh my god. The rest of the denouement is like having a cigarette after an orgasm.
Totally moved. I have had to say goodbye to a few loved ones over the years, and just today, I was visiting a beloved family member in hospice. The beautiful pure singing and the aria itself brought tears to my eyes.
I played this song for my mother while she was in the ICU. She was enchanted by it. I was grateful that if she had to pass, she heard one of the masterpieces of all time.
Tristan is one Himalaya among human artistic production and this 1995 team belongs to the very happy few who served it best, including Furtwangler, Kleiber and Bohm
One of the most glorious experiences in music ruined by the stupid placement of an ad right at the climax! if UA-cam thinks that this is going to make me shell out extra bucks to purchase their ad free version they've got it totally backwards.
@@sharpsvilleBill wow, those are the best same words I said Yesterday after watching Tristan und Isolde live at the theatre. Curiously enough, Einstein didn't like Wagner at all: It was too booking and loud (he often played music in order to concentrate and think)
Waltraud Meier is in today's Wagnerian Opera world beyond compare. Kirsten Flagstad and Birgit Nilsson, watch out! Waltraud's interpretation is perhaps not as comparable in projection and volume as your own, but I find that her nuanced performance touches more deeply.
Isolde’s Verklarung (‘Coming to Clarity’) AKA Liebestod by Wagner Mild und leise Mildly and gently, wie er lächelt, how he smiles, wie das Auge how the eye hold er öffnet ... he opens sweetly ... Seht ihr's, Freunde? Do you see it, friends? Seht ihr's nicht? Don’t you see it? Immer lichter Brighter and brighter wie er leuchtet, how he shines, stern-umstrahlet illuminated by stars hoch sich hebt? rises high? Seht ihr's nicht? Don’t you see it? Wie das Herz ihm How his heart mutig schwillt, boldly swells, voll und hehr fully and nobly im Busen ihm quillt? wells in his breast? Wie den Lippen, How from his lips wonnig mild, delightfully, mildly, süßer Atem sweet breath sanft entweht --- softly wafts --- Freunde! Seht! Friends! Look! Fühlt und seht. Don't you feel ihr's nicht? and see it? Hör ich nur Do I alone diese Weise, hear this melody, die so wundervoll which wonderfully und leise, and softly, Wonne klagend, lamenting delight, alles sagend, telling it all, mild versöhnend mildly reconciling aus ihm tönend, sounds out of him, in mich dringet, invades me, auf sich schwinget, swings upwards, hold erhallend sweetly resonating um mich klinget? rings around me? Heller schallend, Sounding more clearly, mich umwallend --- wafting around me --- Sind es Wellen Are these waves sanfter Lüfte? of soft airs? Sind es Wogen Are these billows wonniger Düfte? of delightful fragrances? Wie sie schwellen, How they swell, mich umrauschen, how they sigh around me, soll ich atmen, shall I breathe, soll ich lauschen? shall I listen? Soll ich schlürfen, Shall I drink, untertauchen? immerse? Süß in Düften Sweetly in fragrances mich verhauchen? melt away? In dem wogenden Schwall, In the billowing torrent, in dem tönenden Schall, in the resonating sound, in des Welt-Atems in the wafting universe wehendem All of the World-Breath ertrinken, drown, versinken --- be engulfed --- unbewußt --- unconscious --- höchste Lust! supreme delight!
... Barenboim als absolut genialer Wagner-Dirigent! - Hier mit sehr, sehr guten Solisten; vgl auch die ältere, noch intensivere Bayreuther Barenboim-Ponnelle-Inszenierung auf UA-cam...
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I was listening to this on the subway and had to put my sunglasses on so no one would see my eyes watering and think I was a crazy person. What a perfect and moving performance of this already devastating piece of music. I can't!
you are not alone, never. don't forget, never
Nobody with a soul would blame you for crying during Isoldes Lovedeath.
hey you are exageratting....yoyu are so ridiculous
The voices are so clear and beautiful, too!
Wonderful. My dad passed away in 1993, this was his favourite piece of music, he loved listening to Kirsten Flagstad. The Furtwangler / Flagstad recording was my introduction to Wagner, I was hooked from that moment. My dad would have been blown away by Waltraud Meier.
Furtwangler, a mio parere il più grande interprete di Wagner (fra quelli che ho ascoltato)
So good she knows what's going on harmonically and she displays it through her character. She actually exhales as the last Tristan chord finally, after four hours, resolves.
Magnificent!!❤❤❤❤
Yes exactly, it's so important!
How did I live before this. How will I live after this.
That is the question.
14:11 - The feeling of complete peace and acceptance that life is over, and know matter how painful it was, it was beautiful.
Very well said.
God this is deep.
I'm crying at this point.
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God seams here in an "Instant
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. . . Un instant de béatitude, sinon de beauté aveuglante.
Still after all these years this final act still manages to make me cry. If I am driving and this comes on the radio, here come the tears! I usually only go the Wagner operas , took a bud of mine to see this ( he wanted to see what the big deal was about), asked him to store tissues in his pockets and sure enough, once Isolde starts that first note of this, here come the tears....But I looked over in the dark and there was a tiny tear in his face. He was floored by this whole opera. And like me he never missed a Wagner opera performance whenever it hits town.
Moondra3 😏
Hopefully you have not let Wagner prevent you from seeing/hearing/experiencing the emotive power of composers from Vivaldi to Ades and Heggie in opera. What a shame if you reject so much beauty solely to hear Wagner.
@@wilsonwatt9283 LOL of course I go to other operas!!! I just prefer Wagner. Aida and La Boheme are also my favorites, Mozart Don Giovanni is pretty awesome to watch when it comes to town.
😂 Who the hell takes a “bud” to the opera??? And you told him to bring kleenex? A butt-bud I presume?
I was like, damn this lady sings it as well as Waltraud Meier.
Then I realized it was Waltraud Meier. LoL.
Sublime musique , magistralement interprétée !!!! ..." Isoldes Liebesbestod " est incontestablement l'un des sommets de l'art lyrique !!!! Il y en a bien d'autres chez le génial maître de Bayreuth !!!! "
Incredible and awe inspiring. It gives me goose bumps every time I hear it.
Absolutely no one on earth sings this aria better than Waltraud Meier. What you just heard is as good as it gets, and that's perfection.
Have you heard Flagstad's? Its also marvelous
@@gglucs1799 I searched "Flagstad's aria tristen and isolde" and nothing came up. Can you be more specific? I want to hear it.
@@Timothy4186 Search "WAGNER - Tristan und Isolde: Prelude & Liebestod (Furtwängler/Flagstad)". Here's the link: ua-cam.com/video/SQO7QIgNvA0/v-deo.htmlsi=WuxFYbG1k76-xi-5
@@Timothy4186
Search " WAGNER - Tristan und Isolde: Prelude & Liebestod (Furtwängler/Flagstad)". Here's the link: ua-cam.com/video/SQO7QIgNvA0/v-deo.html&pp=ygUIZmxhZ3N0YWQ%3D
Barenboim is a genius. His Wagner is so heartfelt, alive, emotional and I always understood why he loved to work with Waltraud Meier and her understanding of the necessity for a warm and touching tone Wagner needs.
I've come to believe that Barenboim is the greatest of the modern Wagner conductors...and this is a pretty crowded field.
This is so true...Barenboim FEELS Wagner in the depths of his SOUL...
And he worked very carefully an every little detail in the music and in the text.
Wunderbare Musik! Der Höhepunkt kommt bei 13:56, als die Bläser zu einer wunderbaren Melodie anheben, in welcher soviel Sehnsucht liegt und welche wie aus dem Jenseits klingt. Die Oper endet in einer wunderschönen, friedlichen Harmonie.
"... wafting about me, ... clouds of heavenly fragrance? ... to expire in sweet perfume? ... in the vast wave of the world's breath, to drown, to sink unconscious -- supreme bliss!" HOW GRANDIOSE! HOW AWE-INSPIRING! HOW PASSIONATE! And yet HOW TENDER, all at the same time!! This is my first exposure to an operatic performance of this Wagner "passage"; usually I simply watch an orchestral performance of the piece. THIS IS BEING BOOKMARKED!!! I can hardly see the monitor thru my joyous tears to type this reply. WUNDERBAR!!! DANKE!!! With such a less-than-elaborate backdrop, beautiful in its simplicity!
Muchas veces lo escucho con auriculares cuando voy a dormir ,cierro los hojos y me concentro unicamente en esta musica celestial y llega un momento en el que paresco flotar ,momento fantastico , unico , cuanto talento para describir un momento tan tremendo de la vida y tan celestial , envuelto en la musica y letra ,que suerte poder disfrutar de esta genialidad
😂
The most emotional love song which was ever written.
My God these voices! They are incredible!
Lo vi en 1986 en Santiago d
E chile en 1986.
Inolvidable!!!!!
I have never heard anything in my life more magnificent and enchanting than this opera and Ms. Meier's glorious voice. Brava and bravo.
This piece never gets old. It is forever emotional and moving. It always brings me to tears.
There are no words adequate enough to do justice to this work of art.
I weep at the ending.. Amazing how music can move one person to such tears.. How hauntingly beautiful..
This just transported me to an unimaginable dimension.
Every voice in this production is just PURE GOLd. So vibrant and full of spin and richness it just pierces the soul. Absolutely mind blowing ❤ Wow
Tristan und Isolde is for me the best opera ever. I love all of the music and the Liebestod (Death Song) is extremely moving, raw and emotional. I have heard many versions of it, including the great Birgit Nielson. This is now my favorite version. The lady singing is beyond compare! I would love to see this opera in person.
Enjoyed your comment, just had to point out that _liebestod_ means "love death" ... only in death are the lovers Tristan and Isolde finally together (which I never took seriously as a libretto, because death _separates_ , it doesn't "unite" which is why religions offer a "life after death"; I prefer to think of this as the culmination of their passion, finally resolving in an emotional crescendo).
Birgit Nielson was THE GREATEST interpreter of this song.
Death separates if you're a Christian; Buddhists have a different approach
The lady singing is Waltraud Meier.
@@sarastroposa5198 You're exactly correct, thank you. Namaste
Waltraud Meier ... fantastic! ...After many years attempting to get the tickets, this july I'll be in Bayreuth listening to this live!! Looking forward !!
Lucky you!!
So how was it at Bayreuth? :)
@@noeldunsky ciao Noel! It has been amazing, 4 hours of show are really long, but there are long pauses between the acts. Some parts, were difficult to follow because of the language (I don’t speak German), the theatre is uncomfortable and hot, but the atmosphere is magic. Something that surprised me was the clarity of the voices and the volume (low) of the music, because of the position of the orchestra. I knew it would be different from other theaters but I wasn’t expecting that different. A part these impressions, Thielemann conducted perfectly, Wagner’s music is always astonishing and the Liebestod listened live has been overwhelming. I surely will try to get other tickets in the future.
All the years of rock and roll, THIS is the only time police showed up at my house. Building a Triumph chopper back in the day, 3 AM, 85 degrees out, this opera blasting away. As an album side ended, I slid the trans cluster into the case, great timing. AHEM!!! Ooops... 'Morning Officer, I'll turn it down some...'. He smiles and says I have been to a lot of loud music complaints, but NEVER to an opera! what in hell are you listening to? Any more questions?
I always crank Wagner when I am cleaning house
In residence I once got annoyed by a part in the room below me so I put this on at full volume and hung my speaker out the window directed at my neighbour... i heard a few WTFs
That resolution is absolutely shattering
Tout simplement magnifique !
I cry everytime i hear this musical gift to our ears. I can't resist it.
Meier here does what Callas did in the Visconti Lucia mad scene. She shows that movement is not necessary if the voice has the true emotive power of the composer within its scope. Less is more is a great principle of architecture that should be applied more often to opera direction/production.
You are right 100%!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Outstanding. It's a privilege to listen to this performance
This always completely overwhelms me, just so beautiful.
A final resolution after...5 hours! Definitely worth the wait....
Many cannot or will not listen to Wagner for obvious reasons, but once you are exposed to it such as this incredible piece you're hooked. You can't resist Wagner. You can try, but it won't work. Wagner's music reaches out into your very insides and pulls you in, into the "sturm und drang" and into the rapture.
which are the "obvious reasons" except for selfrighteous and obsequious virtue signallings?
You should "obviously" know that many people cannot (or will not) separate the art from the artist. Wagner was a repugnant, despicable egomaniac and a bigot. This can be said of many people like him who were supremely gifted with an incredible genius, but produced great art for the ages.@@gerhardrohne2261
Ironic coming from you@@gerhardrohne2261
@@gerhardrohne2261 Exactly. I love Wagner
Wait why not ?
TBH this is the first time my eye filled with tears for over ten years, this is overwhelming
Terrific - beyond words. The ultimate expression of pure being.
I hope that when I reach my 60s, I can show my grandchildren and remember my youth.
Straordinario, magnifico, eccezionale!
Strong. Deep. Great singers. My eyes are watering. The final aria is better than everything was composed in pop music ever! It is a song made by an insane man!
Took My breath away. Brought me to tears.
+#SUPERSTAR Absolutely !!! This is so powerfull, so beautiful.
Thank you so much for sharing this great video
La meilleure version de Tristan et Isolde pour toujours !
The ending in this piece is in the movie Shining through and it is so beautiful. People think I'm crazy for enjoying Opera!
The sound quality is amazing. Thank you
If you like Wagner, don't miss this. Unbelievably controlled, resonant and beautiful.
And after 3 hours of drama ans sexual lust and belonging, this musical GOD finally resolves that damn amazing cord at the end of the piece.. what a genius
I can's stop playing it! Help!
Chills everytime at 12:40
+Nathan Loveridge Yeah! I'm just say'in too. My God!!! Talk about crescendo!
+Nathan Loveridge It leaves you speechless; it feels like a cosmic orgasm. You feel the emotion in every cell of your body!!
+Nathan Loveridge If your face doesn't melt like Raiders of the Lost Ark every time you hear that, you're not a person. Unbearable tension, and then the grandfather of all beat drops. Oh my god. The rest of the denouement is like having a cigarette after an orgasm.
I get chills too .. then I tear up and have to try to stop from weeping.
Yes I will cop to the crying also. And then I torment myself by playing it over and over!!!
Heaven sent!!!
Totally moved. I have had to say goodbye to a few loved ones over the years, and just today, I was visiting a beloved family member in hospice. The beautiful pure singing and the aria itself brought tears to my eyes.
I played this song for my mother while she was in the ICU. She was enchanted by it. I was grateful that if she had to pass, she heard one of the masterpieces of all time.
This is an excellent production and portrayal of this thrilling apocolytic love scene. Wudershoen! Molto bene.
Beautiful. Almost otherworldly
I wait for it, I wait for it, I wait for it and then have a freakin' breakdown the last 5 minutes!!!!!
muffin6369 yes
Me too
Truly a magnificent performance.
wow, i find myself speechless....BRAVO!!!!
The only music I've every listened to where I feel the need to smoke a cigarette after..:)
Because this piece of music is both erotic and eternal!
@@maciejofierski6787 I missed the eternal part. But it does imitate an orgasm. Will UA-cam let me say that?
Takes my breath away and fills my lungs with angel dust. The nine muses were fully attendent on wagner from cradle to grave
God, that was phenomenal.
SUPERB Performance. Thank you!
What a magnificent voice this lady has. Her voice is natural, sweet and almost girlish in its lack of pretence.
Tristan is one Himalaya among human artistic production and this 1995 team belongs to the very happy few who served it best, including Furtwangler, Kleiber and Bohm
A interpretação de Carlos Kleiber dessa obra é elevação ao supremo.
I became a mad Dutchman after viewing and hearing this performance. Danke schön.
13:10...extreme chills, every time.
One of the most glorious experiences in music ruined by the stupid placement of an ad right at the climax! if UA-cam thinks that this is going to make me shell out extra bucks to purchase their ad free version they've got it totally backwards.
I doubt they think about your Wagner desecration. More likely, they base their business decisions on a larger heuristic.
What a wonderful power voice! I thought only Jessy Norman's interpretation could give me goosebumps … but goodness me!
That resolution... LOVE
Wagner was a genius
Wagner was an extraterrestrial alien like Einstein...
@@sharpsvilleBill wow, those are the best same words I said Yesterday after watching Tristan und Isolde live at the theatre. Curiously enough, Einstein didn't like Wagner at all: It was too booking and loud (he often played music in order to concentrate and think)
*very same
Wagner was a genius but the director of this Tristan surely wasn't.
@@annalisafantini4678 Einstein and Wagner were both disciples of Schopenhauer.
Definitely in the top 5 I've ever seen. Brava. Bravi.
supreme bliss!
love ever radiant, laughing death!
man did this guy know how to end a show!
Sublime! Perfect! thanks for posting!
7:52 Isolde sings her gorgeous aria!
OMG! Unfathomably Beautiful.
If nothing else on UA-cam, then this alone! There in Bayreuth in 1999, and still here, the Will overcoming!
Ojos rasados de lágrimas. Belleza plena. Poca más que decir ante la interpretación de Meier
Waltraud Meier is in today's Wagnerian Opera world beyond compare.
Kirsten Flagstad and Birgit Nilsson, watch out! Waltraud's interpretation is perhaps not as comparable in projection and volume as your own, but I find that her nuanced performance touches more deeply.
Words fail. Surely the greatest moment of opera! It never loses its power.
breathtaking, there ist no word more to say.
superb, extremely moving ♥
Isolde’s Verklarung (‘Coming to Clarity’)
AKA Liebestod by Wagner
Mild und leise
Mildly and gently,
wie er lächelt,
how he smiles,
wie das Auge
how the eye
hold er öffnet ...
he opens sweetly ...
Seht ihr's, Freunde?
Do you see it, friends?
Seht ihr's nicht?
Don’t you see it?
Immer lichter
Brighter and brighter
wie er leuchtet,
how he shines,
stern-umstrahlet
illuminated by stars
hoch sich hebt?
rises high?
Seht ihr's nicht?
Don’t you see it?
Wie das Herz ihm
How his heart
mutig schwillt,
boldly swells,
voll und hehr
fully and nobly
im Busen ihm quillt?
wells in his breast?
Wie den Lippen,
How from his lips
wonnig mild,
delightfully, mildly,
süßer Atem
sweet breath
sanft entweht ---
softly wafts ---
Freunde! Seht!
Friends! Look!
Fühlt und seht.
Don't you feel
ihr's nicht?
and see it?
Hör ich nur
Do I alone
diese Weise,
hear this melody,
die so wundervoll
which wonderfully
und leise,
and softly,
Wonne klagend,
lamenting delight,
alles sagend,
telling it all,
mild versöhnend
mildly reconciling
aus ihm tönend,
sounds out of him,
in mich dringet,
invades me,
auf sich schwinget,
swings upwards,
hold erhallend
sweetly resonating
um mich klinget?
rings around me?
Heller schallend,
Sounding more clearly,
mich umwallend ---
wafting around me ---
Sind es Wellen
Are these waves
sanfter Lüfte?
of soft airs?
Sind es Wogen
Are these billows
wonniger Düfte?
of delightful fragrances?
Wie sie schwellen,
How they swell,
mich umrauschen,
how they sigh around me,
soll ich atmen,
shall I breathe,
soll ich lauschen?
shall I listen?
Soll ich schlürfen,
Shall I drink,
untertauchen?
immerse?
Süß in Düften
Sweetly in fragrances
mich verhauchen?
melt away?
In dem wogenden Schwall,
In the billowing torrent,
in dem tönenden Schall,
in the resonating sound,
in des Welt-Atems
in the wafting universe
wehendem All
of the World-Breath
ertrinken,
drown,
versinken ---
be engulfed ---
unbewußt ---
unconscious ---
höchste Lust!
supreme delight!
Emma Sabia danke schoen
Danke
Wonderful and tear inducing
So intense
Simply glorious.
This music touches the soul of my being. A musical/spiritual orgasm. God!
Nicht von dieser Welt ! Wunderschön !
Meier is awesome
imagine being one the first audiences to hear this piece for the first time, 162 years ago, destroyed! I'm sure, in the very best way though :)
People who don't know the opera: Do I HAVE TO understand those confusing words?
People who know the opera: CAN I understand those confusing words?
Amazing! thanks for posting this.
Holy Fuck... The greatest. I wanna die. Play this until my death.
nut case
12:40 The greatest moment in all of art
Correct.
We felt that relief, I am certain
Eine der besten Inszenierungen aller Zeiten...
Omg how is this voice even posible? For sure an Angel from Haven❤beavoooooooooo
Superb!
This is basically the pinnacle of all music.
... Barenboim als absolut genialer Wagner-Dirigent! - Hier mit sehr, sehr guten Solisten; vgl auch die ältere, noch intensivere Bayreuther Barenboim-Ponnelle-Inszenierung auf UA-cam...
I like this greatly but it is anticlimactic to have no audience to respond at the end.
is this music composed by a human being ?
No, he was infamously a lizard
Supposedly this is what Verdi said upon seeing It.
Adding to that, is it even sung by a human being?
Who ever runs this site has a lot of nerve introducing an ad near the climax of the aria. Shameful. Disgusting
Du bist sehr richtig kamerad Arbeiter….hier alles sind Hundeschwein Untermenchen, Kinder des die Teufel! gl
UA-cam hat keine respekt für Kunst
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I believe it's the fault of the uploaded themselves. I think it depends.
True...they should be sacked.....
This resolution always gets me.
Muito lindo!