First time I heard Tristan und Isolde Kirsten Flagstad was Isolde and I thought it was the most amazing thing I had ever heard. Now I was 3 1/2 years old but my father said that I was entranced and made him play it again at least 5 times. That was 65 years ago and The Ring by Wagner is still my favorite set of operas. Please let generations to come be amazed, enthralled and swept up not only by Wagnet but all operatic composers who have given us a huge amount of fabulous music and boundless emotion, even if you don't know the language. I have cried so hard at some operas that my grandsons won't stay to the end, I embarrass them with my crying. God I love opera!
Let's hope the music teachers in school can continue to do their jobs and hopefully teach the next generations the beauty of this art form, if one is not lucky to have it at home like you and I did.
Cheryl - listening to great music at an early agi can really affect you for the rest of your life. I was exposed to Italian opera, Sinatra and The Beatles at that age and I ended up becoming a musician. We should feel fortunate to have these moments when we were young and apparently you're still listening to the good stuff - thanks for sharing your story.
@@jacobshirley3457 I think that sadness encourages introspection and can be a catalyst for growth and change. It's beauty is in it's universality and part of being human is to experience and understand it.
I think that this is the single greatest classical piece I have ever heard. The tension is dramatic and overwhelming at times. I really do feel like the only being alive hearing it.
I find the music from 1:42 to 3:44 incredibly moving: a mix of sadness, regret, maybe lost time or maybe a humble acceptance of one's human limits and flaws. Powerful and beautiful.
YES! those colossal strings @ 1:42, and then @ 7:28 - 7:42 never cease to give me goosebumps and make me teary eyed. Those lush cellos and glissandi from the cellos @ 7::37 also give me the chills. Masterpiece.
One of the deepest pieces of music ever written brilliantly chosen to become a part of one of the depeest movies ever made. Lars Von Trier, you are a genious.
I've never really listened to Wagner before. Seeing "Melancholia" shattered my lens. This piece haunts me, as does the film. I've decided to really listen to as much Wagner as I can find now. I always loved Schubert and Liszt, and now I'm hooked on Wagner even more. Incredible music.
Good point. Being a CONTRARIAN makes you very special, one against the crowd. But it also can draw hatred in some situations, and some cultures. It can end up in violence, even death.
Great performance, Zubin gives Tepstead a run for his money. I like how he pinches the orchestra quiet, but even more so at 1:43 when he seems to conjure the next melodic phrasing into existence. Powerful stuff.
All great preludes, introductions, etc. give the audience a clue to what they'll be hearing. Wagner does this as he gives hints of the coming melodies. Also, this is one of the first pieces of music using chromaticism. Absolutely brilliant!
First pieces of music using chromaticism? Strange statement. Have you heard Mozart's symphony 40? I'm sure you have. That's why it is a strange statement.
+Oscar Rubilar I think he means using chromaticism to this extent, certainly used differently to how Mozart uses it, and its effect on the whole not really resolving thing.
+Oscar Rubilar I am a Mozart lover and know his last 3 symphonies very well. He was a pretty conservative composer, and didn't even get into Bach until his twenties. His brilliance always showed in his variations, a precursor of Ravel. The Into of the E flat Symphony contains a C against a C# with nothing in between. the most dissonant interval. The audience must have held their ears. THAT was strange for Mozart and he never did it again. I love the G minor, like so many people do. But I don't see any chromaticism in it. It would be unlike Mozart to do that. It is the Andante that is beyond description. The rise of the violins and the descending woodwinds bring tears to my eyes every time I hear it. No chromaticism . Just Mozart's genius.
+Bruce Robbins I suggest you watch "Bernstein on Mozart" uploaded here on youtube by paxwallacejazz, a lecture given by Leonard himself to a group of Harvard students in the 70's. He explains the intricate combinations of chromaticism and diatonicism in Mozart's Symphony No. 40 in G minor. It's really informational and fascinating!
The 'chords' are not standard, but still harmonious in a strange but powerful way. The successive notes are totally unexpected and my breath stops by itself. The sequence of notes gives neither a joyful nor a sad feeling, but rather a great Power coming in this world from other occult dimensions and stilling every movement by its power. Haven't heard anything like this ever.
Well said! That's probably why Tchaikovsky called Wagner: "The greatest symphonist since Beethoven". What he couldn't realise at that time was that Wagner actually opened the door to modern music, cinema and opera. It's safe to say that 20th century music (not to mention the movie industry) is unthinkable without Wagner.
I would agree, I don't really see what is 'non-standard' about them, but I would also agree with your point of view: there is something deeply original and powerful about this aesthetic.
I don't have the technical knowledge, but I can tell what I feel in the music. For me chords are a harmony of different notes. And usually these notes blend together harmoniously. However here, you see at regular intervals, sudden coming together of a high note with a group of low notes, where the high note simply doesn't make sense - doesn't sound like a harmonious chord - so I called them 'non-standard'. But this constant mixing of high and low notes produces an extremely strange feeling. Sometimes, the low notes themselves rise to the high note - producing the extreme pinnacle of feeling which can't be described and which stills the breath. Can't explain more.
I actually really like how you think about chords and music, because it's not theoretically standard but it's interestingly fresh. Normal theory books get so boring sometimes.
I don't care what Wagner believed in. A human being that has the sensibility to compose a masterpiece as amazingly beautiful, dramatic and filled with such sadness and love as this one .... he cannot be evil. It just isn't possible. I adore Wagner's music, and no matter what anyone says, he will live on forever through his music.
Grant C are you kidding? How he does it is with large 9th, 11th, and 13 chords, making the harmonies more dense and adding dissonance and color. This pushes the boundaries of tertian harmony and that was what the romantic era was all about. Don't ask how if you dot know anything about music history or theory because it will just go over your head
I, AM here because of Melancholia and am glad to have arrived. The movie, like Wagner's music & many great works of art can leads us to the most profound emotions & thoughts, even inspiring some to go beyond what we thought were their normal limits. Whether the viewer sees the film as a study of clinical depression, Sci-Fi catastrophe, or both, it is rare to find a film such an inspiration for exploring the boundaries of the human experience, but you gotta have an open mind to make the trip.
I loved Melancholia, though it frightened and saddened me immensely.. I knew Wagners Ouverture well before - but every time the music started in the film, my tears were just falling and falling. Thank you Wagner, and thank you Lars Von Trier (Don't bother about his comments - he is just a kid sometimes. He doesn't mean what he said)
UA-cam commenters are a funny lot. Some post honestly and bare their soul, hoping their words will connect with someone out in the depths of cyberspace. And then there are those who prey on those commenters and attack them in the most childish and hurtful of ways. Sad.... As for conductors, another post said it perfectly: a dynamic metronome. Music like this is best when there isn't a strict adherence to the limitations of the printed time scale. When there is a natural ebb and flow based on the emotion ingrained in the music itself. This is the conductors true purpose. To interpret a piece of music and guide the orchestra through its emotional landscape. And its use in Melancholia was beautiful. The images in that movie haunt me. And some of the dialog..."Life on earth is evil. And not for long." And that final image. Remarkable, terrifying, beautiful. Wagner wrote some of humankinds most emotionally potent music. Its true greatness shown in how it connects with audiences in its own way. Each person can take the music to mean whatever their soul needs it to mean.
As for conductors, believe me emotions don't play aconsiderable role. Emotions are being generated inside the audience. Being a professional musician, a conductor is pure work, intellectual work. To interpret music, a musician has to remain very humble towards the composer and his masterpiece. The most part of the work of a conductor is behind the scene. At the rehearsals. The concert is only the peak of the iceberg.
Isaac Stern played this for the movie Humoresque starring John Garfield & Joan Crawford it was transcribed for violin... After all these years and years I have never forgotten the violin interpretation... beautiful beyond all words
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Esse prelúdio é algo sem palavras... Wagner é único
This is wonderful music: it was a revolution to the classical music and opera. Wagner remains one of tthe greatest composers in history and nothing, not even the foulest action of him, let alone his political opinions, could change this fact.
Wagner is one of my favourite composer. I descovered this wonderful Tristan & isolde Prelude when watching Melancholia on television. Un pur chef d'oeuvre.
if you're sad, then hearing a piece like this will surely make you feel better. why? in feelings of sadness, a sad piece make you sense "its me". and then these beautiful tunes are what make you feel better
Why do people feel the need to argue, here and now, in front of a beautiful piece of music giving itself fully to us all? Sit back and enjoy the show--it will bring you peace. Be humble, that we don't have to go further than a few clicks to see a magical show.
Para los amantes de la buena musica...!Festin del espiritu ! El disfrute de esta obra,es inalcanzable para los humildes ! !Gracias a las redes...Gracias R.S. Maria J. San Juan Estupinan de Novas.
Actually it's one of the best, but then there's Barber's adagio, Rachmaninoff's Prelude 32.10, Chopin's Etude 25.12, but I'd put Wagner's piece and Barber's adagio about the closest in comparison for mood.
Wagner's preludes were breathtakingly beautiful . . . my own favourite is Parsifal, but this is so incredibly passionate and romantic. Awesome music that sends tingles up and down my spine.
Opposed to former Opera music, Wagner sometimes made the orchestra more important than the singer. Before Wagner the orchestra accompanied the singer, but often in Wagner´s music, The singer instead accompanies the orchestra!! Particularly evident is it in Liebestod in Tristan and Isolde. The music there: the climbing up chromatic melody, the increasing tension or agony, up to climax, and then --- the wonderful the resolution in major! And that climbing structure you can only hear in the orchestra, not in the soprano. If you think that the soprano has the melody, you get completely wrong. Because, the soprano a c c o m p a n i e s the orchestra. She is not singing that important upclimbing melody. When I recently heard Tristan and Isolde at Metropolitan, in a theatre in Sweden, I was disappointed. The orchestra music was too weak and the singers too loud, especially in Liebestod. The orchestra wronly accompanied the singers. Besides that the sopranos were singing with a permanent, loud, and horrible vibrato. That ever vibrato stands in the way of the melody! Wagner was innovative with a new kind of melody by the singers in Tristan and Isolde, a melody with an extended tonality. That extended tonality has the effect that you the whole time are expecting the resolution, the resolution in Liebestod. But that whole structure you cannot apprehend with that vibrato lying over it all. Don´t tell me the vibrato is necessary for matching the big orchestra. That´s a myth. The vibrato has been a particular form of art. Many people think that Opera is the art of vibrato singing. Johan Cavalli
This is my FAVOURITE piece ever! How many essays have I written on 'this'? I do not care! THIS IS GENIUS! JUST LISTEN! That is all you need to do! AMAZING! WOW!
"...these bars from the prelude to Tristan do not express for us love or frustration or even longing; but they produce for us, both qualitatively and dynamically, certain gestures of the spirit which are to be sure less specifically definable than any of these emotions, but which energize them and make them vital to us... " excerpt from The Composer And His Message.
At 7:15 he just keeps stretching it and stretching it and you can hear the resolution in your head, but Wagner just does not give it to you and it feels just so unsatisfying but at the same time beautiful.
When the film came out, I felt like this music had been conceived for it, had been waiting around for 150 years for the consummation of being put together with von Trier's story and visuals. It transfixed me. Watched it 3 times in 2 days. I took it very seriously. Recently I heard von Trier calling it kitch, which I have to admit I see now (also).
@@hedgehog5ful F**k Melancholia and Lars Von Trier, that movie will be forgotten in some decades or years, instead Richard Wagner will be remember for ever
S U P E R B. Excellence in beauty and elegance coming from Wagner -- and this wonderful rendition. // Thank you very much for placing this video here. [ On the other hand, now we know there are at least 131 strange and ugly aliens.]
This "Tristan chord" doesn't really resolve but it's aesthetically pleasing... Milton Babbitt and John Cage took this "we won't resolve the chord" shit too far.
This music is just one magnificent way of pulling on my heartstrings, intent on warming it, and opening my eyes to the sheer beauty and prowess that the piece exudes infinitely.
The incredible thing here is that this music, which sounds so beautiful to us, actually sounded like nothing but a chaotic magma of distorted sounds to many 19th century hearers. Wagner's innovative use of continuous tonal changes was something many were unprepared for then.
I read once that they had to abandon it initially after 70 rehearsals because it was so strange to the orchestra they found it impossible to play. I don't know how true that is, but it is fascinating how without an appropriate analog in reality, something as beautiful as Tristan und Isolde could be perceived so differently.
This is my first go for years at listening to a whole piece of Wagner. I like the opening but kept returning to my passive resistance mode to all the swirling about of waves of emotion. I appreciated the conducting more than the music.
What gorgeous music! I am still fascinated with that Tristan chord that leads everywhere and nowhere. It is said to have already featured in Chopin's Ballade in g minor, but it would seem more in passing than as a main motive.
oh, i love the part on 06:51 to 07:33 !! is amazing, this interpretation is very excellent!! im wagnermaniac lol .. that strings so clearly on 06:06.. the violins 1 with the violins 2, so clearly and on 7:05 violins so expressive! EXCELLENT, on one of my favorite parts of this vorspiel.
i can't describe this music, but you must think 'wide', very very wide, fluid not like water that goes fast, but fluid like honey because you can feel that intensity, very unique, and unique way of writing, melodies... very amazing.
One of the greatest pieces of composition ever. If you know anything about the story behind tristan and isolde, you know that its about the sexual tension he has along with all other feeling that come along with that. And you hear it so much in this prelude... This was also a great film score in Lars Von Triers MELANCHOLIA
I watched the film Melancholia yesterday and i felt completely in love with the background music. It was familiar to me. I started to research, then I realized that the music was the prelude of Tristan und Isolde.
I had no idea that Debussy parodies the first 4 notes of this opening in the mid section of his "Golliwog's Cakewalk"! Oh, the anecdotes of the great ones! I love it!
Not only that, but what you see at the concert is the end result of very intense studies and hard practice. All this is organized and conceived by the conductor, who usually comes from a broad background of incredible knowledge and experience in classical music. Karajan, Solti, Toscanini and Wagner are all good examples of this.
Olağanüstü ,derinlik,genişlik ,tutku ; kulakları dolduruyor,doyuruyor.Opera müziğinin piri.Wagner dinledikten sonra başka müzik dinlenilirse kentten kasabaya gelmiş gibi oluyorsunuz.
First time I heard Tristan und Isolde Kirsten Flagstad was Isolde and I thought it was the most amazing thing I had ever heard. Now I was 3 1/2 years old but my father said that I was entranced and made him play it again at least 5 times. That was 65 years ago and The Ring by Wagner is still my favorite set of operas. Please let generations to come be amazed, enthralled and swept up not only by Wagnet but all operatic composers who have given us a huge amount of fabulous music and boundless emotion, even if you don't know the language. I have cried so hard at some operas that my grandsons won't stay to the end, I embarrass them with my crying. God I love opera!
You would love listening to my shower renditions of Ave Maria then. The neighbors in the next apartment are always banging the walls in appreciation.
Ha ha ha!
Let's hope the music teachers in school can continue to do their jobs and hopefully teach the next generations the beauty of this art form, if one is not lucky to have it at home like you and I did.
Cheryl - listening to great music at an early agi can really affect you for the rest of your life. I was exposed to Italian opera, Sinatra and The Beatles at that age and I ended up becoming a musician. We should feel fortunate to have these moments when we were young and apparently you're still listening to the good stuff - thanks for sharing your story.
@@shmolouis Poor Ben's neighbours in 2020.
This melody proves that sadness is a beautiful feeling
of course!!! that's the mystical sadness... When I feel sad and I hear the saddest pices of wagner, I feel happy...
Emotions within a controlled environment can be beautiful.*
@@jacobshirley3457 I think that sadness encourages introspection and can be a catalyst for growth and change. It's beauty is in it's universality and part of being human is to experience and understand it.
I CAN'T STOP LISTENING TO THIS. HELP.
Then don't stop, and MOTHER**** ENJOY, because this is ORGASM.
When I first discovered it I stayed up till 8am listening over and over.
A Very profound effect on me
bburago9 Haha yes : )
Hehe! I know that feeling.
There is no help. Once Wagner haunts you, your soul is lost.
what brilliant conducting. He is utterly in control, and perfectly unambiguous in his gestures.
Listen to Carlos Kleiber interpretation. And tell me.
I think that this is the single greatest classical piece I have ever heard. The tension is dramatic and overwhelming at times. I really do feel like the only being alive hearing it.
St Mathew Passion by Bach is transformative also.
Melancholia is going to pass right in front of us, and it'll be the most beautiful sight ever
If Hannibal Lecter doesn't handcuff us to the fridge first.
This music has nothing to do with melancholia....
@@Poragok well if you didn't know, the piece was actually in the movie.
@@Poragok lol 🤦🏻
I can only commend Wagner for this. I hate it when opera (not early music) singers start singing, but this is pure. What a gift he was.
I find the music from 1:42 to 3:44 incredibly moving: a mix of sadness, regret, maybe lost time or maybe a humble acceptance of one's human limits and flaws. Powerful and beautiful.
YES! those colossal strings @ 1:42, and then @ 7:28 - 7:42 never cease to give me goosebumps and make me teary eyed. Those lush cellos and glissandi from the cellos @ 7::37 also give me the chills. Masterpiece.
One of the deepest pieces of music ever written brilliantly chosen to become a part of one of the depeest movies ever made.
Lars Von Trier, you are a genious.
I don't think i'll ever create something this beautiful.
sucks to be you.
Nobody ever does, until they do.
It doesn't get any better than this!
I've never really listened to Wagner before. Seeing "Melancholia" shattered my lens. This piece haunts me, as does the film. I've decided to really listen to as much Wagner as I can find now. I always loved Schubert and Liszt, and now I'm hooked on Wagner even more. Incredible music.
nothing stirs the romantic sensibilities so profoundly as this piece of music. simply breathtaking!
This is music at its most sublime- no composer before or since has reached so deeply into the human spirit than Wagner.
1:40, when the whole orchestra comes in...has never...not ONCE...failed to give me butterflies.
Thank you Wagner. Thank you.
1:40
My favorite classical piece - it tugs at your heartstrings!
Stop saying how many people dislike this or that. People love "disliking" things that everybody loves. That makes them feel special.
Good point. Being a CONTRARIAN makes you very special, one against the crowd. But it also can draw hatred in some situations, and some cultures. It can end up in violence, even death.
Like that's the only reason to dislike something, lol
@Alejandro Tello So, you're saying that if I dislike what the masses love, I'm probably doing it to feel special?
Great performance, Zubin gives Tepstead a run for his money. I like how he pinches the orchestra quiet, but even more so at 1:43 when he seems to conjure the next melodic phrasing into existence. Powerful stuff.
I cant find any information about tepstead, could you help?
All great preludes, introductions, etc. give the audience a clue to what they'll be hearing. Wagner does this as he gives hints of the coming melodies. Also, this is one of the first pieces of music using chromaticism. Absolutely brilliant!
First pieces of music using chromaticism? Strange statement. Have you heard Mozart's symphony 40? I'm sure you have. That's why it is a strange statement.
+Oscar Rubilar I think he means using chromaticism to this extent, certainly used differently to how Mozart uses it, and its effect on the whole not really resolving thing.
+Oscar Rubilar I am a Mozart lover and know his last 3 symphonies very well. He was a pretty conservative composer, and didn't even get into Bach until his twenties. His brilliance always showed in his variations, a precursor of Ravel. The Into of the E flat Symphony contains a C against a C# with nothing in between. the most dissonant interval. The audience must have held their ears. THAT was strange for Mozart and he never did it again.
I love the G minor, like so many people do. But I don't see any chromaticism in it. It would be unlike Mozart to do that. It is the Andante that is beyond description. The rise of the violins and the descending woodwinds bring tears to my eyes every time I hear it. No chromaticism . Just Mozart's genius.
+Bruce Robbins I suggest you watch "Bernstein on Mozart" uploaded here on youtube by paxwallacejazz, a lecture given by Leonard himself to a group of Harvard students in the 70's. He explains the intricate combinations of chromaticism and diatonicism in Mozart's Symphony No. 40 in G minor. It's really informational and fascinating!
The 'chords' are not standard, but still harmonious in a strange but powerful way. The successive notes are totally unexpected and my breath stops by itself. The sequence of notes gives neither a joyful nor a sad feeling, but rather a great Power coming in this world from other occult dimensions and stilling every movement by its power. Haven't heard anything like this ever.
In what way are they not standard?
Well said! That's probably why Tchaikovsky called Wagner: "The greatest symphonist since Beethoven". What he couldn't realise at that time was that Wagner actually opened the door to modern music, cinema and opera.
It's safe to say that 20th century music (not to mention the movie industry) is unthinkable without Wagner.
I would agree, I don't really see what is 'non-standard' about them, but I would also agree with your point of view: there is something deeply original and powerful about this aesthetic.
I don't have the technical knowledge, but I can tell what I feel in the music. For me chords are a harmony of different notes. And usually these notes blend together harmoniously. However here, you see at regular intervals, sudden coming together of a high note with a group of low notes, where the high note simply doesn't make sense - doesn't sound like a harmonious chord - so I called them 'non-standard'.
But this constant mixing of high and low notes produces an extremely strange feeling. Sometimes, the low notes themselves rise to the high note - producing the extreme pinnacle of feeling which can't be described and which stills the breath. Can't explain more.
I actually really like how you think about chords and music, because it's not theoretically standard but it's interestingly fresh. Normal theory books get so boring sometimes.
I don't care what Wagner believed in. A human being that has the sensibility to compose a masterpiece as amazingly beautiful, dramatic and filled with such sadness and love as this one .... he cannot be evil. It just isn't possible. I adore Wagner's music, and no matter what anyone says, he will live on forever through his music.
Wagner really stretched the limits of musical traditions, especially in relation to harmony.
Wa Gamer House exactly !
How?
Wa Gamer House, ¡exactamente eso!
Grant C are you kidding? How he does it is with large 9th, 11th, and 13 chords, making the harmonies more dense and adding dissonance and color. This pushes the boundaries of tertian harmony and that was what the romantic era was all about. Don't ask how if you dot know anything about music history or theory because it will just go over your head
muh wigga used da foxy lady chord (measure 16)
Say want you want about Wagner, but the one thing anyone can NEVER say about him, was he couldn't make you just feel.
I, AM here because of Melancholia and am glad to have arrived. The movie, like Wagner's music & many great works of art can leads us to the most profound emotions & thoughts, even inspiring some to go beyond what we thought were their normal limits. Whether the viewer sees the film as a study of clinical depression, Sci-Fi catastrophe, or both, it is rare to find a film such an inspiration for exploring the boundaries of the human experience, but you gotta have an open mind to make the trip.
"I can't even write a simple modulation" - Wagner
I loved Melancholia, though it frightened and saddened me immensely.. I knew Wagners Ouverture well before - but every time the music started in the film, my tears were just falling and falling. Thank you Wagner, and thank you Lars Von Trier (Don't bother about his comments - he is just a kid sometimes. He doesn't mean what he said)
UA-cam commenters are a funny lot. Some post honestly and bare their soul, hoping their words will connect with someone out in the depths of cyberspace. And then there are those who prey on those commenters and attack them in the most childish and hurtful of ways. Sad....
As for conductors, another post said it perfectly: a dynamic metronome. Music like this is best when there isn't a strict adherence to the limitations of the printed time scale. When there is a natural ebb and flow based on the emotion ingrained in the music itself. This is the conductors true purpose. To interpret a piece of music and guide the orchestra through its emotional landscape.
And its use in Melancholia was beautiful. The images in that movie haunt me. And some of the dialog..."Life on earth is evil. And not for long." And that final image. Remarkable, terrifying, beautiful.
Wagner wrote some of humankinds most emotionally potent music. Its true greatness shown in how it connects with audiences in its own way. Each person can take the music to mean whatever their soul needs it to mean.
Your sentiments as beautiful as the music
As for conductors, believe me emotions don't play aconsiderable role. Emotions are being generated inside the audience. Being a professional musician, a conductor is pure work, intellectual work. To interpret music, a musician has to remain very humble towards the composer and his masterpiece. The most part of the work of a conductor is behind the scene. At the rehearsals. The concert is only the peak of the iceberg.
You won the internets today, sir.
This music was here when you were born, it will be here when you are dead. Does that frighten or comfort you?
I was actually born the year before Wagner wrote this! Not long to go now...
@Arvid Borelius It doesn't frighten nor comfort, but rather, it fascinates me.
I guess I can live with it.
I've just seen Melancholia and I got so caught up by the music... it's an amazing masterwork!
I'm glad you brought that up. The use of Tristan & Isolde in that film was a stroke of genius.
Um deleite aos meus ouvidos, não me esqueço do dia em que escutei pela primeira vez ao ver os créditos finais do filme Melancolia.
I heard this in the film Melancholia. It sounds great there, but for me it's now forever melancholic.
+Jan Aike Yeah, that might work. To dilute the first impression with a flood of new ones.... not a bad idea to try.
I mean, the piece is actually supposed to be melancholic. This opera is...not a happy one.
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For me, it's always been melancholic music, so desolate sounding.
Isaac Stern played this for the movie Humoresque starring John Garfield & Joan Crawford it was transcribed for violin... After all these years and years I have never forgotten the violin interpretation... beautiful beyond all words
Esse prelúdio é algo sem palavras...
Wagner é único
Everytime J listen Tristan und Isolde my eyes are full of tears......Wagner masterpiece....
This is wonderful music: it was a revolution to the classical music and opera. Wagner remains one of tthe greatest composers in history and nothing, not even the foulest action of him, let alone his political opinions, could change this fact.
Wagner is one of my favourite composer. I descovered this wonderful Tristan & isolde Prelude when watching Melancholia on television. Un pur chef d'oeuvre.
The strange and beautiful movie Melancholia from Lars Von Trier. He know how to use the masterwork of our culture.
if you're sad, then hearing a piece like this will surely make you feel better. why?
in feelings of sadness, a sad piece make you sense "its me". and then these beautiful tunes are what make you feel better
There is no other sound like that of Wagner
Debussy
***** ?
+Steve Seifer
Wagner is a genius.
But Bach is a greater one. Probably the greatest.
Ikr and this reminds me of Hayden's Creation
Gassed and mid@@truhl32
The greatest 10 minutes of music EVER written.
In my humble opinion.
pura melancolia.. porem beliíssimo!!
Why do people feel the need to argue, here and now, in front of a beautiful piece of music giving itself fully to us all? Sit back and enjoy the show--it will bring you peace. Be humble, that we don't have to go further than a few clicks to see a magical show.
Magnificent.
Para los amantes de la buena musica...!Festin del espiritu ! El disfrute de esta obra,es inalcanzable para los humildes ! !Gracias a las redes...Gracias R.S. Maria J. San Juan Estupinan de Novas.
98 ignorant fools dislike this. This is arguably the most important piece of music ever written.
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Franz G maintenant, qui est l'ignorant?
Actually it's one of the best, but then there's Barber's adagio, Rachmaninoff's Prelude 32.10, Chopin's Etude 25.12, but I'd put Wagner's piece and Barber's adagio about the closest in comparison for mood.
Certainly the most revolutionary. With Sacre du Printemps a bit later. But this broke all waves. The birth of the Romantic and Modern music.
A expressão máxima dos sentimentos! Obra linda e ricamente regida pelo Zubin Mehta!
Perfeito!
Imagine the orchestra as an instrument and the conductor as the person who plays it.
Wagner's preludes were breathtakingly beautiful . . . my own favourite is Parsifal, but this is so incredibly passionate and romantic. Awesome music that sends tingles up and down my spine.
Yes, his Preludes are the music of heaven. Lohengrin is amazing as well.
This Prelude so perfectly fit the movie Melancholia !
Appreciation and love for art and music brought be here.
Opposed to former Opera music, Wagner sometimes made the orchestra more important than the singer. Before Wagner the orchestra accompanied the singer, but often in Wagner´s music, The singer instead accompanies the orchestra!! Particularly evident is it in Liebestod in Tristan and Isolde. The music there: the climbing up chromatic melody, the increasing tension or agony, up to climax, and then --- the wonderful the resolution in major! And that climbing structure you can only hear in the orchestra, not in the soprano. If you think that the soprano has the melody, you get completely wrong. Because, the soprano a c c o m p a n i e s the orchestra. She is not singing that important upclimbing melody.
When I recently heard Tristan and Isolde at Metropolitan, in a theatre in Sweden, I was disappointed. The orchestra music was too weak and the singers too loud, especially in Liebestod. The orchestra wronly accompanied the singers.
Besides that the sopranos were singing with a permanent, loud, and horrible vibrato. That ever vibrato stands in the way of the melody! Wagner was innovative with a new kind of melody by the singers in Tristan and Isolde, a melody with an extended tonality. That extended tonality has the effect that you the whole time are expecting the resolution, the resolution in Liebestod. But that whole structure you cannot apprehend with that vibrato lying over it all. Don´t tell me the vibrato is necessary for matching the big orchestra. That´s a myth. The vibrato has been a particular form of art. Many people think that Opera is the art of vibrato singing.
Johan Cavalli
This is my FAVOURITE piece ever! How many essays have I written on 'this'? I do not care! THIS IS GENIUS!
JUST LISTEN! That is all you need to do!
AMAZING! WOW!
every time i listen to this Wagner's prelude i find it truly amazingly moving!
So impressed by this man's conducting. So musical!!!!
Why the left channel higher in volume?
I have seen the film Melancholia....Love it! It's beautiful and so is this piece.
I want this when IM dying,
Same 💗
I want this when we're *_ALL_* dying
Salvador Dalí died listening to this.
"...these bars from the prelude to Tristan do not express for us love or frustration or even longing; but they produce for us, both qualitatively and dynamically, certain gestures of the spirit which are to be sure less specifically definable than any of these emotions, but which energize them and make them vital to us... " excerpt from The Composer And His Message.
It actually made me feel somewhat better, really.
At 7:15 he just keeps stretching it and stretching it and you can hear the resolution in your head, but Wagner just does not give it to you and it feels just so unsatisfying but at the same time beautiful.
MELANCHOLIA!
+Charlie Bury Watching it now. About 30 minutes at a time.
When the film came out, I felt like this music had been conceived for it, had been waiting around for 150 years for the consummation of being put together with von Trier's story and visuals. It transfixed me. Watched it 3 times in 2 days. I took it very seriously. Recently I heard von Trier calling it kitch, which I have to admit I see now (also).
Lars Von Trier gang
@@hedgehog5ful F**k Melancholia and Lars Von Trier, that movie will be forgotten in some decades or years, instead Richard Wagner will be remember for ever
S U P E R B. Excellence in beauty and elegance coming from Wagner -- and this wonderful rendition. // Thank you very much for placing this video here. [ On the other hand, now we know there are at least 131 strange and ugly aliens.]
This "Tristan chord" doesn't really resolve but it's aesthetically pleasing... Milton Babbitt and John Cage took this "we won't resolve the chord" shit too far.
+Jos B Wagner was an hipster :P
+Jos B Or perhaps you were not willing to go far enough!
Of course it doesn't resolve .. and it shouldn't. That's the point.
Yes, I know. Lol but thank you.
Others went farther than Cage. Check out this poem: omstreifer.com/2012/10/10/opening-the-cage-14-variations-on-14-words/
This music is just one magnificent way of pulling on my heartstrings, intent on warming it, and opening my eyes to the sheer beauty and prowess that the piece exudes infinitely.
Nietzsche brought me here.
:)
me too
God brought me here. ;-)
Ecce Homo!
God is dead
The incredible thing here is that this music, which sounds so beautiful to us, actually sounded like nothing but a chaotic magma of distorted sounds to many 19th century hearers. Wagner's innovative use of continuous tonal changes was something many were unprepared for then.
I read once that they had to abandon it initially after 70 rehearsals because it was so strange to the orchestra they found it impossible to play. I don't know how true that is, but it is fascinating how without an appropriate analog in reality, something as beautiful as Tristan und Isolde could be perceived so differently.
Melancholia :)
This is my first go for years at listening to a whole piece of Wagner. I like the opening but kept returning to my passive resistance mode to all the swirling about of waves of emotion. I appreciated the conducting more than the music.
Una música súblim.
What gorgeous music! I am still fascinated with that Tristan chord that leads everywhere and nowhere. It is said to have already featured in Chopin's Ballade in g minor, but it would seem more in passing than as a main motive.
cumbre del romanticismo
oh, i love the part on 06:51 to 07:33 !! is amazing, this interpretation is very excellent!! im wagnermaniac lol .. that strings so clearly on 06:06.. the violins 1 with the violins 2, so clearly and on 7:05 violins so expressive! EXCELLENT, on one of my favorite parts of this vorspiel.
Did the timestamps stop working lol
Golliwog's Cakewalk...
Yeah exaclty! There's like this one part in Golliwogs Cakewalk that sounds just like the Prelude.
@@one2play4 Because Debussy laughed at Wagner there :)
@figocooldude Thank you very much my friend. I was really looking for a movie to watch in this weekend!
כפרה עליך זובי
mehta is a just great conductor. thanks for posting!
Doing music revision for my exam and it suggested that I should listen to this piece, so glad I did!
i can't describe this music, but you must think 'wide', very very wide, fluid not like water that goes fast, but fluid like honey because you can feel that intensity, very unique, and unique way of writing, melodies... very amazing.
Melancholia uses this beautifully. You could almost describe the film as a music video for this piece of music, an alternative opera.
The Tristan chord remains the most famous single chord in the history of music.
This may be the most romantic song ever written...I don't think any other tune makes me experience such a mysterious feeling of longing.
Wonderfully chosen theme for Lars von Trier's Melancholia. Loved every bit of it!
What can one say about such music? It is of the stars and the human heart all at once. 'Hats off gentlemen--a genius' (to quote Schumann)
Like is not enough. I am completely in love with this overture
One of the greatest pieces of composition ever. If you know anything about the story behind tristan and isolde, you know that its about the sexual tension he has along with all other feeling that come along with that. And you hear it so much in this prelude... This was also a great film score in Lars Von Triers MELANCHOLIA
I watched the film Melancholia yesterday and i felt completely in love with the background music. It was familiar to me. I started to research, then I realized that the music was the prelude of Tristan und Isolde.
This piece dances with my heart and soul.......
Beautiful!! This overture was used in the movie Melancholia also.
I had no idea that Debussy parodies the first 4 notes of this opening in the mid section of his "Golliwog's Cakewalk"! Oh, the anecdotes of the great ones! I love it!
It is the best love prelude of all time..IMHO
the most beautiful music I have ever heard! Wagner is wonderful!!!
I came to love this watching the movie Melancholia♡
like seriously, I cannot like this hard enough. gorgeous, gorgeous music.
Not only that, but what you see at the concert is the end result of very intense studies and hard practice. All this is organized and conceived by the conductor, who usually comes from a broad background of incredible knowledge and experience in classical music.
Karajan, Solti, Toscanini and Wagner are all good examples of this.
ooo i forget the oboe solo, very beautyful and expressive.. SO EXPRESSIVE. excellent.
Olağanüstü ,derinlik,genişlik ,tutku ; kulakları dolduruyor,doyuruyor.Opera müziğinin piri.Wagner dinledikten sonra başka müzik dinlenilirse kentten kasabaya gelmiş gibi oluyorsunuz.
If there is a pinnacle to human artistic endeavour; it is this. Exquisite is too brutal an adjective to emote such sublime beauty.
4;26-4:31 is one of the most beautiful cadences ever written
I didn’t realize the movie melancholia owes a much of its emotion to this music with out it, you might not have felt as much emotion as you did.