I did Wagner Rienzi Overture on double bass in high school all state orchestra and I will always remember that in concert my hands just tried to do it and doubtless failed. But it will always be an important piece of music to me. To be perhaps fair, even looking back on it, it was not the easiest piece, and I remember doing better in college with simpler things like Firebird and Beethoven Symphony No. 7. So I wasn't a total loss, but Wagner kicked my ass, early on. It was the fire I got dropped into. Although now I think about it, I bet I could pick up my guitar and play a good deal of it, 35 years later. It gets in you.
Some of the most influential metal musicians have praised Wagner's music. Joey DeMaio said, "Wagner's music changed my life many years ago. I don't know if I could live another day without the feeling his music gives me. He was the greatest composer ever. He invented metal." Ronnie James Dio said in a 1997 interview when asked for his favourite opera, "The whole Valkyrie thing was cool, 'cause it was so tied into metal. I like Wagner's strength, just the pureness of it. I like a couple of Mozart things, but mainly Wagner."
I love that comment 😍😍 It's like a comparison to pop music and what the current level of music in the world comes down to... That is, a completely accurate definition of what Wagner (evolution) and popshit (evolution-destruction) were for music.
I listen to everything but my two favorite genres are Heavy Metal and Classical. People look at me strange when I say this but when I listen to Wagner it is a very clear connection between the two. My love of Classical started when I listened to Savatage perform Edvard Grieg's "Hall of the Mountain King," a piece of "Peer Gynt."
I am 78 and exactly the same. Hence my particular love for Nightwish, Epica, Therion, etc. Anyone who loves metal needs to listen to the opening of Prokofiev's "Scythian suite" or the Final Dance from Bartok's "Miraculous Mandarin". Pure metal, and just two examples.
@@alanfoster6589 Listen to both an electric guitarist and violinist shred. Metallica uses Holst's "Jupiter." Arnold Schönberg perfects the twelve-tone technique which is used by metal to create dissonance and Stravinsky's atonal woks all lead to metal. A key reason I love both genres is that more than any other genres tap into the primal energy.
@@childlessdoggentleman746 Decades ago at a California Jam I had the pleasure of watching, among others, ELP. When the did their version of "The Great Gate of Kiev" from "Pictures at an Exhibition", I had to explain to the girl next to me that it was not an original composition of theirs 😁
So good. I love the Solti version, with Birgit Nilsson. Wagner also pioneered and, arguably, perfect the use of _leitmotifs._ If you look at a movie like Star Wars, it is chock-full of significant leitmotifs and I have a feeling that if Wagner was alive today he would be writing film music. And film scripts.
Watch Excalibur, besides that it is a great film (yeah I know, the armor is not authentic, but sorcerers aren't either), the music is VERY Wangerian. And Carmina Burana, which is another classical piece I like a lot. The music and the pictures together ... epic. Certainly a film where Wagner would have written the music.
Thanks Beth. Wagner is completely amazing. Ride of the Valkyries is so powerful and uplifting. I love it and also Siegfried’s Funeral March. As I could see in your reaction this type of music touches you like no other. Anthemic!
I have listened to this in a variet of performances, with the translations of the lyrics in subtitle. It is an utterly fantastic and complex story. A work of genius
Fantastic explanation of the Song of the Valkyries and very good contributions in the text boxes. Wagner was pure music, who only denigrate him because an enlightened person said he liked him.
Wagner is exhausting to sing. No arias, just extended singing dialogue.. with episodic scream fests. The Immolation scene from Gotterdammerung and the Forging scene from Siegfried are amazing!
@@jonathanwetherell3609 No, the debts were his personal debts, not those of the state. His family repaid them in full to the creditor banks by 1902. The Bavarian state made a fortune with his castle and palaces, not to mention all the other palaces of the Wittelsbach dynasty.
A ways back in 1989, I was able to listen to the complete 15 hour "Ring des Nibelungen" while in Chicago. It was broadcast live on radio one Sunday and I happened to catch it at the beginning. The one and only time I've listened to the entirety of the series...
Poor Valkyries, who have to make their voices reach the last row of the hall without microphones and behind a huge orchestra but especially behind the brass instruments that have an ff in the score. Maybe that's why they are Valkyries. Well done, Wagner would be proud. 👍
I would love to be in the audience for this. I went to one classical concert this year and it was a blast. It was not such an epic concerto as something like this (Wagner), but experience it live was still such an Intense experience. Happy to say I will go to two more concerts next spring (though it is violin concerts cause I love the violin more than anything)
I love the music of Wagner since i was 12 years old - i prefer it live, but at home its a great experience also listening to my little 8.5kW PA (perfectly equalized). I also played several times Wagners music with a Rockband; I love the 9/8 ... and that ROCKS!!!! really
Kilgore: We'll come out of the rising sun and about a mile out we'll start the music. Lance: Music? Kilgore: Yeah. Play Wagner. Scares the hell out of the slopes. My boys love it!
Wagner's music also translates spectacularly for brass bands - "Elsa's Procession to the Minster" is one of the most popular concert finishers of the last few years, and the "Entry of the Gods into Valhalla" is just spectacular.
This has always been one of my favorite pieces of music. Not the vocals (sorry) but the first performance I heard had such an aggressive L-R mix that you could hear instrumental voices bouncing from left to right and back. I lost hearing in one ear, and it's just never been the same.
The lady on the far left seems INFUSED with sheer JOY at singing! She smiles broadly throughout, almost laughing (it appears) while the woman in purple looks nearly angry with intensity! My mother *_loved_* Wagner, and now that I'm her age at the time she died, it's very poignant to hear the music *_and_* your commentary. Wonderful, Beth!
Experiencing the complete cycle is a very special and awesome experience. Have had the pleasure twice. Not in Bayreuth though, but with local Danish ensembles. Wouldn't mind experiencing it with the Berliner Philharmonie and Sir Simon Rattle either as in this video 😀
Gotta love the Berlin Philharmoic Orchestra conducted Sir Simon Rattle. They have done some amazing performances over the years and this one is right up there amongst them. My favourite of theirs is Stravinski's "The Rite of Spring". Edit: Apologies, The Rite of Spring" performance I was thinking of was performed by the London Symphony Orchestra with Simon Rattle conducting.
Yes I'm familiar with this song, one of our local highschool orchestras tried to do it but it's really ba not much for them. With Christmas coming up you should do a reaction to Celtic Woman they have several live Christmas songs on utube one of my favorites is "I'll be home for Christmas"
Verdi's Dies Irae would have been another of this ilk, stupendous choral music. Just the bass drum is spectacular, about 6' in diameter. I remember performing it once, and the direction to that percussionist was louder, boom, LOUDER, BOOM, louder! Ultimately, you could actually feel the impact, viscerally, in your body. It is one of the most spectacular musical openings I have ever performed (in the choir). I kept thinking he was going to drive that thing right through the drum head. You have so much fun watching these, and it is fun to watch. Having you see some of it for the first time is beneficial, as after you have performed some of these works many times, you lose that initial awe and other emotional reactions. Carry on, young lady. I always learn something. ;-)
There is a recording of Toscanini conducting the Dies Irae here on TH-cam, during which you can hear him exhorting the orchestra, "Louder, louder!" Earth-shaking, despite the early recording tech.
this was my first opera. I was but 7 and it was 1955 Syr NY. I love German opera. Italian is good but German was made for it. It seems about every mid century we get a blast of very good music and then we have many yrs of shat. Cycle been going for 4 centuries now. Ppl find it funny that i like this and Sabaton and NightWish
Written two short stories with valkyries in them "At Sea" and "Evacuation". Heard the music while writing the stories, but couldn't find a way to work it into the prose.
Wagner is mostly known for bombastic and dramatic opera but there are some sweet and fine pieces of music he wrote such as Elsas Brautzug zum Münster or Kaisermarsch, just to name a few of them.
The best version on DVD is the one in the MET toilet. The version with Terfel as Wotan. It is the same version as shown here with the huge woodden movable elements. Check the extra material.
As far as I recall it, the valkyries took the fallen fighters/heros from the battlefield and brought them to Walhalla. But the decision who'd make it and who had to die was Odin's. Which is one important part in this storyline, because Odin decided that Sigmund (Siefried's father) had to die, but Brünhild would't take him, but instead let him live. Therefore she got banned into the ring of fire (Waberlohe) and was later freed by Siegfried. Now of course it could be, that Odin only decided in the case of important persons and not for every other hero and that these decisions where made by the valkyries, but in important cases Odin himself would interfere (which he constantly did anyway).
Now I have a question you mentioned it was written in German, high or low, given the time frame I believe it was low and at that time it was low more guttural. so how hard is to sing in low German when most of Germany is in the high German. Yes that's how I learned there was a music style of opera through Bugs Bunny cartoons.
The composer, as well as Richard Wagner himself, are simply simply Germans to th large extend of the team. Its in their Gnomes and DNA to composing some of greatest musics since time memorable. My take on what Germans are.🥰
I love this overture but i can't help thinking of Apocalypse Now "I love the smell of napalm in the morning" when i hear it or Elmer Fudd in the Wagner style looney tunes version with Bugs Bunny. It's just so good, i love it
Thomas Leyendecker, one of the trombone players, gave a masterclass about his part in this piece. He basically said there is nothing beautiful here. Paraphrasing, he said: "Women who are dressed in armor arrive at the battlefield, deciding who is about to be killed. They help in the slaughter then carry the dead bodies to heaven. It is a tragic scene; they are standing in blood up to their ankles. The women are the very beautiful daughters of Wotan, and the performance should capture the feel of their majestic galloping horses." In essence, nothing about this is nice or lovely. Everything should be dark and very, very heavy. Great work identifying this characteristic in the vocal performances.
btw, Tolkien tried to play it down (was bad at that time back then to admit it and he wanted always be vague/unconcrete) but Wagner's 'Ring of the Nibelungen' was most likely the role model for the 'Lord of the Ring' ring.
How about a comparison between the end of Wagner's "Tristan and Isolde" (Mild und Leise, when Isolde dies), and Nightwish's Ghost Love Score? Would show how similar classical music and symphonic metal can be 🙂
Rock drummer here. By far one of my favourite pieces of classical music. I have to say though that I'm not a fan of opera singers because their vibrato is so wide that it's hard to know which note they're singing. I'm sure it's there somewhere in the middle of the 3 note range.
I dunno, Beth Roars; It's iconic but the Rienzi Overture (my double bass audition piece in high school) was always my go to. Why? Because it's just 13 minutes long instead of four days and you can do it without purpose building an opera house to stage the damned opera cycle. I am trained to know where Wagner fits in all of this. Of course he's a "war horse". So is Weird Al Yankovic. Love to see you reacting to the classics, but so far my fave part of one of your reactions is to his song "Foil", where you just lose it over one lyric. Music is music. Wagner has his shelf in the music school, you and I do, and so does Weird Al. You said, "I wish I could do that." Well, I am sure that you do, or will, more.
My way to measure the skill of a conductor is to listen to them perform Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" from his 9th Symphony. I find this piece seprates the boys from the men. For the record my favorite conductor is Arturo Toscanini with Herbert von Karajan biting at his heels. I use Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto to do the same for pianists, Martha Argerich tops my list, sorry Arthur Rubinstein.
I've heard several Heldentenors in performances I've played in, including a Beethoven 9th with the great Ben Heppner right behind me.......these Opera singers can really sing very very loud(or should I say resonantly)
If you are into classic / modern fusion and want to hear something really outstanding try Friedriche Gulda's "Concerto for Ursula" - Take one of the versions sung by Ursula Anders herself. It will blow you away.
First one I’ve watched on this channel so had a quick look at one other. Simple question, why does the host feel the need to take up half the screen to gurn?
8:42 the musical legacy of Wagner is not controversial. If we judge artists by their political views and not by the art they created, we need to have a debate about everything made in Hollywood in the 21st century, because the majority of the US citizens obviously doesn't share the artists' political views. Let's just enjoy the music.
I cannot find any video about Anathema on your channel. Just listen A Natural Disaster live performance from "A Sort of Homecoming". It is really outstanding and I'd love to watch a video about it!
"I'm afraid there is no law allowing to put someone behind the bars for lack of taste, therefore - I'm sorry to say - music of Mr Wagner is perfectly legal." 😜😁 Poor Richie, so underappreciated in his own lifetime.
I’ve always preferred Mozart, growing up in a modernist household, anything Romantic was considered Schmaltzy. I try to get beyond my father’s prejudices, but it takes an effort. I have to admire the training and dedication required to become a Wagnerian singer, though I don’t relish sitting through hours of his music!
Well, Sprechgesang ... I am German, I do not understand what they are singing. I am aware that the singers are not necessarily native speakers, but I would have expected to catch something, but nothing, nada 😀
As a horn player, I can assure you this is an absolute blast to play. This is proto-metal.
I did Wagner Rienzi Overture on double bass in high school all state orchestra and I will always remember that in concert my hands just tried to do it and doubtless failed. But it will always be an important piece of music to me. To be perhaps fair, even looking back on it, it was not the easiest piece, and I remember doing better in college with simpler things like Firebird and Beethoven Symphony No. 7. So I wasn't a total loss, but Wagner kicked my ass, early on. It was the fire I got dropped into. Although now I think about it, I bet I could pick up my guitar and play a good deal of it, 35 years later. It gets in you.
Some of the most influential metal musicians have praised Wagner's music. Joey DeMaio said, "Wagner's music changed my life many years ago. I don't know if I could live another day without the feeling his music gives me. He was the greatest composer ever. He invented metal." Ronnie James Dio said in a 1997 interview when asked for his favourite opera, "The whole Valkyrie thing was cool, 'cause it was so tied into metal. I like Wagner's strength, just the pureness of it. I like a couple of Mozart things, but mainly Wagner."
I love that comment 😍😍
It's like a comparison to pop music and what the current level of music in the world comes down to... That is, a completely accurate definition of what Wagner (evolution) and popshit (evolution-destruction) were for music.
My neighbor played French Horn and this was one of his favorites!
I listen to everything but my two favorite genres are Heavy Metal and Classical. People look at me strange when I say this but when I listen to Wagner it is a very clear connection between the two. My love of Classical started when I listened to Savatage perform Edvard Grieg's "Hall of the Mountain King," a piece of "Peer Gynt."
I am 78 and exactly the same. Hence my particular love for Nightwish, Epica, Therion, etc. Anyone who loves metal needs to listen to the opening of Prokofiev's "Scythian suite" or the Final Dance from Bartok's "Miraculous Mandarin". Pure metal, and just two examples.
@@alanfoster6589 Listen to both an electric guitarist and violinist shred. Metallica uses Holst's "Jupiter." Arnold Schönberg perfects the twelve-tone technique which is used by metal to create dissonance and Stravinsky's atonal woks all lead to metal. A key reason I love both genres is that more than any other genres tap into the primal energy.
@@childlessdoggentleman746 Decades ago at a California Jam I had the pleasure of watching, among others, ELP. When the did their version of "The Great Gate of Kiev" from "Pictures at an Exhibition", I had to explain to the girl next to me that it was not an original composition of theirs 😁
@@alanfoster6589 I had tp explain to my mother that the music of Eric Carmen's "All by Myself" was Rachmaninov's "Piano Concerto No.2."
You should watch Lisztomania--you'll be very pleased by Wagner's character in the film. I won't spoil it by saying more.
So epic...so powerful. Beautiful.
So good. I love the Solti version, with Birgit Nilsson.
Wagner also pioneered and, arguably, perfect the use of _leitmotifs._ If you look at a movie like Star Wars, it is chock-full of significant leitmotifs and I have a feeling that if Wagner was alive today he would be writing film music. And film scripts.
It´s "Leitmotiv".
Watch Excalibur, besides that it is a great film (yeah I know, the armor is not authentic, but sorcerers aren't either), the music is VERY Wangerian. And Carmina Burana, which is another classical piece I like a lot. The music and the pictures together ... epic. Certainly a film where Wagner would have written the music.
@lotog692 Excalibur is my favorite movie. So good.
@@anonymusum Apparently both are allowed in English. The original German is leitmotiv, yes.
@@Valdagast I don´t care if it´s allowed in English or not. It is obviously a German word and for a German like me it hurts to read it that way.
Thanks Beth. Wagner is completely amazing. Ride of the Valkyries is so powerful and uplifting. I love it and also Siegfried’s Funeral March. As I could see in your reaction this type of music touches you like no other. Anthemic!
I've seen the Ring Cycle at the CSO years ago! A full orchestra and full chorus, along with additional vocalists. The music was massive!
I have listened to this in a variet of performances, with the translations of the lyrics in subtitle. It is an utterly fantastic and complex story. A work of genius
My favourite Wagner piece is also from the Ring Cycle, Siegfried’s Death March, sad, joyful, mournful, epic, stirring.
Fantastic explanation of the Song of the Valkyries and very good contributions in the text boxes. Wagner was pure music, who only denigrate him because an enlightened person said he liked him.
Visiting Bayreuth festival is on my bucket list.
Wagner is exhausting to sing. No arias, just extended singing dialogue.. with episodic scream fests. The Immolation scene from Gotterdammerung and the Forging scene from Siegfried are amazing!
Love this music and love to see your enjoyment of it Beth
I would love to see a video about Diana Damrau as Queen of the Night
Yes, I definitely recognize the music, but I don't think I've ever heard the vocal parts in entirety. Very interesting commentary. Thanks, Beth!
As Symphonic Metal fan, thanks for this reaction Beth. The first time i hear it, are in the movie Apokalypse Now. Grettings from northern Germany 🤘 🤘
This is my chance to recommend to you the album "Secret of the Runes" by Therion. This concept album has a lot of Wagnerian influence.
'Experiencing the full 'Ring Cycle' remains on my bucket list...
It's sooooo expensive to see them all. But aaah it's good to dream.
Fun fact, Neuschwanstein Castle is decorated and furnished in Wagnerian style. Like walking into a set for The Ring.
"Mad King Ludwig" was a weirdo of the first water. However his madness gave us one of the wonders of the modern world.
@@tarmaque And left a huge financial debt to his kingdom. Fortunately charging people to tour his folly paid that off in a few years.
@@jonathanwetherell3609 Excellent point.
@@jonathanwetherell3609 No, the debts were his personal debts, not those of the state. His family repaid them in full to the creditor banks by 1902. The Bavarian state made a fortune with his castle and palaces, not to mention all the other palaces of the Wittelsbach dynasty.
Loved visiting that castle!
A ways back in 1989, I was able to listen to the complete 15 hour "Ring des Nibelungen" while in Chicago. It was broadcast live on radio one Sunday and I happened to catch it at the beginning.
The one and only time I've listened to the entirety of the series...
I'm defo requesting this for my funeral 😁
I first remember this piece from the movie "1941" playing as James Belushi flys his plane.
Growing up we had maybe 5 LPs in the house--this was on the orchestral music sampler. So I've loved this since about age 10.
Muy bonita tu reacción, gracias por los subtítulos. Esta joya musical es muy poderosa. Saludos desde Ciudad de Guatemala en Centro América.
The sound of my alarm clock.. that gets you going
Love the passion!
So much energy! But I'm not sure I've ever seen a more energetic stings section! Awesome!
Poor Valkyries, who have to make their voices reach the last row of the hall without microphones and behind a huge orchestra but especially behind the brass instruments that have an ff in the score. Maybe that's why they are Valkyries. Well done, Wagner would be proud. 👍
Poor orchestra trying to be heard over Birgit Nilsson...
@@Spo-Dee-O-Dee It's a different point of view, but it can be possible 😆
I would love to be in the audience for this. I went to one classical concert this year and it was a blast. It was not such an epic concerto as something like this (Wagner), but experience it live was still such an Intense experience. Happy to say I will go to two more concerts next spring (though it is violin concerts cause I love the violin more than anything)
Just plain kewl!!
She nails the trill at 2:19. Amazing
I love the music of Wagner since i was 12 years old - i prefer it live, but at home its a great experience also listening to my little 8.5kW PA (perfectly equalized). I also played several times Wagners music with a Rockband; I love the 9/8 ... and that ROCKS!!!! really
I played French Horn in middle school. Orchestra was one school activity I did enjoy.
Madness yet powerful enough to shaking up dead body
You need to listen to Liniker, she recently won a Latin Grammy. She sings with her whole body, it's beautiful to see how she interprets the songs.
"I love the Smell of Napalm in the Morning" - Robert Duval in Apocalypse Now
Exactly!
It's been a lot of years since I saw that movie, I still remember the helicopters scene
It smells like ... victory.
Kilgore: We'll come out of the rising sun and about a mile out we'll start the music.
Lance: Music?
Kilgore: Yeah. Play Wagner. Scares the hell out of the slopes. My boys love it!
One of my two favorite songs. Right up there with AC/DC Back in Black. Yeah, it actually does make sense.
Wagner's music also translates spectacularly for brass bands - "Elsa's Procession to the Minster" is one of the most popular concert finishers of the last few years, and the "Entry of the Gods into Valhalla" is just spectacular.
This has always been one of my favorite pieces of music. Not the vocals (sorry) but the first performance I heard had such an aggressive L-R mix that you could hear instrumental voices bouncing from left to right and back. I lost hearing in one ear, and it's just never been the same.
….for me, this will forever be the soundtrack of a fleet of Huey gunships pushing as hard as they can over a beach of crashing waves. I’m not sorry.
Don't forget the Opera House Wagner built in Germany for exclusively his Works to be performed.
The lady on the far left seems INFUSED with sheer JOY at singing! She smiles broadly throughout, almost laughing (it appears) while the woman in purple looks nearly angry with intensity! My mother *_loved_* Wagner, and now that I'm her age at the time she died, it's very poignant to hear the music *_and_* your commentary. Wonderful, Beth!
The singers are Flosshilde, Wellgunde and Woglinde i would say..☺️
Estou apaixonado, além de linda nos mostra o que existe de melhor da música mundo afora, obrigado.
Experiencing the complete cycle is a very special and awesome experience. Have had the pleasure twice. Not in Bayreuth though, but with local Danish ensembles.
Wouldn't mind experiencing it with the Berliner Philharmonie and Sir Simon Rattle either as in this video 😀
Gotta love the Berlin Philharmoic Orchestra conducted Sir Simon Rattle. They have done some amazing performances over the years and this one is right up there amongst them. My favourite of theirs is Stravinski's "The Rite of Spring".
Edit: Apologies, The Rite of Spring" performance I was thinking of was performed by the London Symphony Orchestra with Simon Rattle conducting.
Yes I'm familiar with this song, one of our local highschool orchestras tried to do it but it's really ba not much for them. With Christmas coming up you should do a reaction to Celtic Woman they have several live Christmas songs on utube one of my favorites is "I'll be home for Christmas"
All I hear is Elmer Fudd singing “Kill the wabbit, kill the wabbit…” 🤣
Same. I try to be cultured, but I am a 12 year old American at heart. Gotta admit I kinda like it
I'm a 65 yr old Australia 🇦🇺 and when I hear this, I'm 12 yrs old again, and I hear, kill the wabbit.
Epic cartoon.
Always, and Apocalypse Now, with Elmer in the Robert Duvall role.
"Oh mighty warrior, of great fighting stock, may I enquire to ask, eh, what's up doc?"
“Myyyeeeeh what’s up doc? It ain’t over til da fat lady sings…” 🐇 🥕
"Kill the wabbit, kill the wabbit!"
Love Wagner! Sooo triumphant!
Verdi's Dies Irae would have been another of this ilk, stupendous choral music. Just the bass drum is spectacular, about 6' in diameter. I remember performing it once, and the direction to that percussionist was louder, boom, LOUDER, BOOM, louder! Ultimately, you could actually feel the impact, viscerally, in your body. It is one of the most spectacular musical openings I have ever performed (in the choir). I kept thinking he was going to drive that thing right through the drum head.
You have so much fun watching these, and it is fun to watch. Having you see some of it for the first time is beneficial, as after you have performed some of these works many times, you lose that initial awe and other emotional reactions. Carry on, young lady. I always learn something. ;-)
There is a recording of Toscanini conducting the Dies Irae here on TH-cam, during which you can hear him exhorting the orchestra, "Louder, louder!" Earth-shaking, despite the early recording tech.
this was my first opera. I was but 7 and it was 1955 Syr NY. I love German opera. Italian is good but German was made for it. It seems about every mid century we get a blast of very good music and then we have many yrs of shat. Cycle been going for 4 centuries now.
Ppl find it funny that i like this and Sabaton and NightWish
When Coppolla used the song in Apocalypse Now, it was in one of the film's most surreal scenes and this film has several.
Written two short stories with valkyries in them "At Sea" and "Evacuation". Heard the music while writing the stories, but couldn't find a way to work it into the prose.
I really need to add the Ring cycle to my bucket list. I don't care how long it lasts, i need to hear it in it's entirety before I go
beautiful reactions. good videos
Wagner is mostly known for bombastic and dramatic opera but there are some sweet and fine pieces of music he wrote such as Elsas Brautzug zum Münster or Kaisermarsch, just to name a few of them.
Oh, and I love Wagner!
SVT televised the full cycle when I was a wee child. Ride of the Valkyries stands out.
The best version on DVD is the one in the MET toilet. The version with Terfel as Wotan. It is the same version as shown here with the huge woodden movable elements. Check the extra material.
As far as I recall it, the valkyries took the fallen fighters/heros from the battlefield and brought them to Walhalla. But the decision who'd make it and who had to die was Odin's. Which is one important part in this storyline, because Odin decided that Sigmund (Siefried's father) had to die, but Brünhild would't take him, but instead let him live. Therefore she got banned into the ring of fire (Waberlohe) and was later freed by Siegfried. Now of course it could be, that Odin only decided in the case of important persons and not for every other hero and that these decisions where made by the valkyries, but in important cases Odin himself would interfere (which he constantly did anyway).
Now I have a question you mentioned it was written in German, high or low, given the time frame I believe it was low and at that time it was low more guttural. so how hard is to sing in low German when most of Germany is in the high German.
Yes that's how I learned there was a music style of opera through Bugs Bunny cartoons.
The composer, as well as Richard Wagner himself, are simply simply Germans to th large extend of the team. Its in their Gnomes and DNA to composing some of greatest musics since time memorable. My take on what Germans are.🥰
I love this overture but i can't help thinking of Apocalypse Now "I love the smell of napalm in the morning" when i hear it or Elmer Fudd in the Wagner style looney tunes version with Bugs Bunny. It's just so good, i love it
The Ring of the Nibelungs is the greatest opera cycle ever composed. Epic!
Please consider listening to Lisa Hannigan - Undertow (Lisa Hannigan ft Loah - Undertow live at Other Voices.) She's an amazing Irish singer.
One Ok Rock - Clock Strikes ( live japan tour 2023 ) 😊😊 this live is phenomenal
Thomas Leyendecker, one of the trombone players, gave a masterclass about his part in this piece. He basically said there is nothing beautiful here. Paraphrasing, he said: "Women who are dressed in armor arrive at the battlefield, deciding who is about to be killed. They help in the slaughter then carry the dead bodies to heaven. It is a tragic scene; they are standing in blood up to their ankles. The women are the very beautiful daughters of Wotan, and the performance should capture the feel of their majestic galloping horses." In essence, nothing about this is nice or lovely. Everything should be dark and very, very heavy. Great work identifying this characteristic in the vocal performances.
btw, Tolkien tried to play it down (was bad at that time back then to admit it and he wanted always be vague/unconcrete) but Wagner's 'Ring of the Nibelungen' was most likely the role model for the 'Lord of the Ring' ring.
I came here for the trombones, and was not disappointed.
The perfomances from Kristen Flagtad. Was the true Hero in Wagner🫶🏻🖤
How about a comparison between the end of Wagner's "Tristan and Isolde" (Mild und Leise, when Isolde dies), and Nightwish's Ghost Love Score? Would show how similar classical music and symphonic metal can be 🙂
Rock drummer here.
By far one of my favourite pieces of classical music.
I have to say though that I'm not a fan of opera singers because their vibrato is so wide that it's hard to know which note they're singing. I'm sure it's there somewhere in the middle of the 3 note range.
I actually bought a box set of 12 CD’s of the whole ring opera… I have only gotten to this point , never any further..
so good
Do we get so many interruptions if we watch this live??. anyway your constant talking is fantastic as usual CLick😮
I dunno, Beth Roars; It's iconic but the Rienzi Overture (my double bass audition piece in high school) was always my go to. Why? Because it's just 13 minutes long instead of four days and you can do it without purpose building an opera house to stage the damned opera cycle.
I am trained to know where Wagner fits in all of this. Of course he's a "war horse". So is Weird Al Yankovic. Love to see you reacting to the classics, but so far my fave part of one of your reactions is to his song "Foil", where you just lose it over one lyric. Music is music. Wagner has his shelf in the music school, you and I do, and so does Weird Al. You said, "I wish I could do that." Well, I am sure that you do, or will, more.
My way to measure the skill of a conductor is to listen to them perform Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" from his 9th Symphony. I find this piece seprates the boys from the men. For the record my favorite conductor is Arturo Toscanini with Herbert von Karajan biting at his heels. I use Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto to do the same for pianists, Martha Argerich tops my list, sorry Arthur Rubinstein.
All of what I remember is the scene of the Hueys coming in in Apocalypse Now
The Valkyries were Odin's three warrior daughters, this is Wagner's
magnificent homage to them.
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❤ it!
I've heard several Heldentenors in performances I've played in, including a Beethoven 9th with the great Ben Heppner right behind me.......these Opera singers can really sing very very loud(or should I say resonantly)
If you are into classic / modern fusion and want to hear something really outstanding try Friedriche Gulda's "Concerto for Ursula" - Take one of the versions sung by Ursula Anders herself. It will blow you away.
Cover die Zauberflaute if you haven’t already!
Fun Fact: The horns on the viking helmets are from the Ring too.
The Vikings doesent have Horns on her Helmet's☝️
@mydogs9900 that's what I say. It was Wagner's Idea. But you can see it in so much pictures, films, comics and theaters, since then.
@@andreasniedermeir2846 Sorry,🫡
First one I’ve watched on this channel so had a quick look at one other. Simple question, why does the host feel the need to take up half the screen to gurn?
When I hear the Valkyrie, I see the helicopter scene from Apocalypse Now in my mind's eye.
We call him "Krawall-Richard" (riot-Richard"), because you need at least 300 people in the orchestra for a Wagner performance.
everytime i hear this. the helicopter attack from "Apocalypse Now" pops into my head...
8:42 the musical legacy of Wagner is not controversial. If we judge artists by their political views and not by the art they created, we need to have a debate about everything made in Hollywood in the 21st century, because the majority of the US citizens obviously doesn't share the artists' political views.
Let's just enjoy the music.
2:20 BEYOND MUSIC: You forgot to mention that he wrote the texts himself! He was a poet, too.
I cannot find any video about Anathema on your channel. Just listen A Natural Disaster live performance from "A Sort of Homecoming". It is really outstanding and I'd love to watch a video about it!
"I'm afraid there is no law allowing to put someone behind the bars for lack of taste, therefore - I'm sorry to say - music of Mr Wagner is perfectly legal." 😜😁 Poor Richie, so underappreciated in his own lifetime.
I’ve always preferred Mozart, growing up in a modernist household, anything Romantic was considered Schmaltzy. I try to get beyond my father’s prejudices, but it takes an effort. I have to admire the training and dedication required to become a Wagnerian singer, though I don’t relish sitting through hours of his music!
Now try another Wagner piece: Siegfrieds Funeral March, I recommend the Furtwangler version. Even better than Ride of the Valkyries but no voices....
The old Sweden/Switzerland mixup :(
Wagner spent his exile in Switzerland (mostly Zurich), and later Paris and Venice, but never Sweden...
Many Americans think the Ride of the Valkyries is a film score from Apocalypse Now.
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whoop whoop whoop whoop whoop whoop whoop whoop
I wonder who will get it
does it scare the hell out of the sl/pes?
@nickmitsialis it...might
The vocals were replaced for me decades ago by Elmer Fudd's "Kill da wabbit". I am afraid that I can hear nothing else. ;)
Well, Sprechgesang ... I am German, I do not understand what they are singing. I am aware that the singers are not necessarily native speakers, but I would have expected to catch something, but nothing, nada 😀