I remember watching Looney Tunes when I was six and the episode "What's Opera, Doc" started playing. Suddenly, this piece thundered in triumphantly. I spent the next 11 years of my life, until a few months ago, trying to find the name, and became a trombone player simply so that, one day, I could play this piece in an orchestra. I will never forget the effect that this piece first had on me- the first time shivers ran down my back, all my hair stood on end, and me just enthralled- and it gets me every time.
It's moving , but this is my own musical experience ,what about finding that after you've made a small piano arrangement in your teens by ear of this song not recorded yet?when you become an adult at 50 who does not remember everything and become aware that Liszt has already made the whole arrangement for you ?What about when you wake up in the morning listening to that crazy Liszt arrangement and then moved to this famous thundering original piece , being sillingly in love one day after spending 20 years doing efforts the dark and being aware may be of getting through , you open your windows and look in the early moning at the sunrise with the sun climbing on the sea both with the forte and piano part of mind blowing Taunhauser that you prefer to any anthem now.I have You begin to shiver .What might you think your destiny hides you??The answer my friend is blowing in the wind .Wagner has given it .No one has enough time to live .Life goes on .Sorry if my comment has disturbed anyone .
I also discovered this by way of Bugs Bunny. It wasn't until I played Pilgrim's Chorus in high school band that I found out it was Wagner. Surreal to play it for the first time and realize the melody you're playing is that song you remember as a kid!
I had a similar experience in hearing something that, in my case, started playing on the radio while driving home around midnight that wrecked me so much I had to pull over to listen, just shaking and crying, to be honest. Being before the internet age, I sat in the car waiting for the DJ to say what it was. When he finally said it, it made no sense. But I pieced together enough syllables to at least deduce the composer. So I ordered a half dozen or so CD’s, hoping to find the piece that moved me so much. When I finally found it….just wow. Anyway, Zdenek Fibich’s ‘Poeme’. Magical. Or it’s also about 6 minutes and 39 seconds into ‘At Twilight’.
This is undeubtedly one of the most brilliant masterpieces in the history of music. The leitmotiv that opens this overture represents the redemption and forgiveness, since it is the same tune that is in the pilgrim's chorus when going to Rome.
Dear Dad, I whish I had known more of the classical repertoire when you were passing away, I would have played this for you to lend you courage and joy on your way.
THE most brilliantly emotional, moving rendition of this incredible overture... Karajan keeps the strings to the fore (pulling at our heart-strings!?) and the trumpets at just the right pitch of restraint that they don't blow everything out of their paths (as other versions seem to)... along with intense dynamics throughout that push & pull & overwhelm throughout, making slaves of our hearts!! AHHH... PERFECTION...
The balances between the voices happening simultaneously are masterful in Maestro Karajan’s hands. Superb Vienna Philharmonic musicianship. Such great feeling and nuance!
I came to wagner too late in my life.It was a mistake.Wagners music is so intense that drains out your soul and don't let me get out of his music. You only live for his music and don't aloud any thing else get to your heart Ruben
We just need to appreciate Wagner for his sublime genius of music which was very futuristic in the 19th century. And Karajan was absolutely amazing, a true Master.
Ladies and Gentleman, please put this unbelievable for human standards music at your earphones and go either at your garden or balcony all alone one silent winter late evening when sky will be partly lighted by moon while heavy clouds are slowly moving and leave your self looking this sky hearing this music...The unique feelings you will receive will be never forgotten not only to this life but surely also beyond of it...
Karajan has passed away for almost thirty years but his Tannhauser Overture is still second to none in my humble opinion. There is not a single current conductor who can match his interpretation and execution. None!
Marvelous!!!!(Herebrt von Karajan was one of the best ever musical conductors...and this piece is perfectly interpretated by him and his extraordinary orchestra!!!), hope one day I can sing the main tenor role of this opera...is something that really gets into my heart and soul...cannot describe how deep I feel this music in me. BRAVO!!!!
Se respira desde el deseo desenfrenado hasta el anhelo del perdon y el arrepentimiento me facina como se describe el amor y el deseo en la obra las metaforas y la poesia en un lenguaje que solo el alma entiende.
wagner,perché hai scritto questa musica che mi scuote nel profondo delle viscere e mi fa piangere,tanto piangere perché tu e karajan non ci siete più eppure tanto presenti che posso toccarvi,sentirvi!!! Questo è la " MUSICA!!! " GRAZIE...
In Karajan's hands this overture is breathtaking great! his idea to give attention for the violins was genial! I find other versions of this overture a bit lame.
This in one of the most inspiring music I have heard. I listened to it for first time when I was 10 years old in a LP that my mother gave me as a birdtday present. Since then, the emotion and a lot of feelings come out of my being when I listen to it. I love it.
I am deeply in love with the Karajan way of conducting. I have read a lot of critics adressed to him, but for me, it's the Excellence in person. Great pair: Wagner and Karajan.
.....mai più l'essere umano conoscerà le massime vette di espressione dell'arte della MUSICA... ....mai più l'essere umano potrà mai godere della gioia e della pura bellezza..che un'opera del genere può suscitare... ..questo è il nostro tesoro ..e la testimonianza di ciò che di buono l'uomo ha fatto su questa terra... z.edoardo..
La musica è un linguaggio universale e parla ai cuori; la politica divide gli uomini in schieramenti e, spesso, spalanca le porte alla corruzione. Questa è una musica di una bvellezza estrema: amiamola per quello che è, fuori da ogni contesto!
657BIueArmy hello... I am glad I went to your channel and found this beautiful music... such a cultured man you are... with love and light you wrote "As usual, Karajan just totally 'gets it'. Wagner would have relished this"
+657BIueArmy As I said, only Germans can play German music. They understand the subtleties of their culture best, just as the English preform their music like no others, and so on.
@@leonardstevens4412 I strongly disagree with you! Listen to Wilhelm Furtwängler! Everything he conducts (except the Strauss dynasty and partly W. A. Mozart where I prefer Carlos Kleiber {Strauss dynasty} respectively Karl Böhm {W. A. Mozart}) better than Karajan (at least for my taste)! :P
When hearing to this divine piece, my heart feels like a river of sentiments flushing into my soul!!!...only Wagner music can hold so tigth and deeply into myself. Herbert von Karajan was a superb musician who could conduct this peices almost as the same author must dream of. Bravo!!!!
¡ SUERTE GRANDE LA DE APRECIAR LA DESCOMUNAL CAPACIDAD DE WAGNER, PERA ENSAMBLAR TANTO MUNDO SOBRENATURAL !! ¡ HACE 200 AÑOS EL MUNDO ESTABA ATIBORRADO DE LEYENDAS FABULOSAS, QUE HACIAN DEL MUNDO UN MAREMAGNUN FANTASIOSO !! ¡ SOLO EL MUNDO WAGNERIANO, PUEDE LLEVAR UNA VIDA, PARA COMPRENDERLO INTEGRAMENTE !!
I was comparing this with Thielemann versions (which apparently TH-cam is trying to make us watch) and this has a dreamy, relaxed feel that is very pleasing to me. Thielmann's versions seem like he's in a race to get out of the hall before they're charged overtime by the union. You can also hear more detail in the solo parts and in the bowing. He's shaving off 30+ seconds, and that's a damned sin! Solti's versions are fast enough and he's gone for power (and I love his Tannhauser) but this is just perfect for me. I'm sure string players could chime in for their preference.
Who cares!? People are a-holes. (Meaning MANY/MOST artists lived less than exemplary lives and had wide-ranging radical opinions on the left and right.) Music is abstract, it is not describing anti-antisemitism. When I was 14 and crying to Tristan and Isolde I had no idea who Wagner was or the history of the Jewish state. But the music transformed me. If the music reminds you of nazi germany don't listen to it.
READ Mickisch if you want to know the truth about Wagner's antisemitism. You'll find that Wagner maintained Jewish friends throughout his life. His remarks were based on his ideas in linguistic-philosophy in relation to art and culture. He was NOT a racist! His point was that Jews (or any foreigners for that matter) were incapable of catching the essence and spirit of what makes German art. Why did he publish it? Because he had a row with German-Jewish composer Mendelssohn who was more famous at that time than Wagner. They basically hated each other for stupid, egotistical reasons. Of course he was wrong, as the great German-Jewish composer Gustav Mahler proved later, BUT that doesn't make him a racist. The whole Wagner-Nazi thing is a wartime propaganda construction.
@@jaikee9477 I totally agree, Wagner brings tears to my eyes. Best conductor Karajan. Was Wagner anti-Semitic; I don't think so. I don't know who cry and moan the most over past hurts the Jews or my fellow blacks. World War II is over-you won! Slavery is over-we have equal rights! This is 2019 for heaven's sake! Let the dead past bury itself. Live for the present moment.
Excellent!!!!!!! The von Karajan was and will remain the largest classical music personalities of modern history. Let stupidity ends with Hitler and the Nazis, at last.
parece el libro de la vida, como si todos tus actos se encontraran en esa sublime musica, cada momento lleva consigo armonia,Triste es que en israel no den conciertos de ete prtentoso compositor,aun que supongo que si lo oiran en casa,wagner llega a la sublimacion con esa potencia esa fuerza.
I was thrilled to hear this again after not hearing it in years. I have it on CD some place i think. It brought tears running down my face into my beard and at times i got chills.I need to find my CD of it.
This overture is a work of a genius! In it, Wagner has expressed the true, deep idea that underlies the entire musical drama: the divine-spiritual-mental and the earthly-material-bodily principles can live together in harmony, expressed without a conflict in the realm of genuine love with a real person. It's like carnal desires and spiritual strivings counterbalance and complement each other without being in discord or mutual repudiation. I suppose this was too radical an idea for the audience to conceive. That’s why Wagner, contrary to his aesthetic convictions, has decided to conceal it in “pure” music instead of elaborating it with operatic means. He has masterfully rendered this idea by synthesizing the Pilgrims' theme with a motif-reminiscence of Venusberg played by the violins in the magnificent coda. Actually, the ostinato motive in the violins is a transformation of the “Repentance” theme (played by the cellos in the beginning), here enriched with the tingling vibrations of Venusberg. This is Tannhauser’s version of repentance - it does not repudiate erotic passion, but strives at its spiritual elevation and purification. Note that this was expressed more than 50 years before Freud brought up his ideas of drive-neutralization, displacement and sublimation! Wagner hasn't presented the Pilgrims’ theme in the same way, neither in the opera finale nor elsewhere. It’s interesting that in the overture’s beginning, the similar appearance of the Pilgrims’ theme in the trombones is synthesized with a bit grotesque transformation of the “Repentance” theme played earlier by the cellos. It seems like Wagner viewed the clerical-ascetic repentance of guilt and redemption seeking as something inauthentic and hypocritical: throughout the opera, he always depicts the Pilgrims in this light. In the coda, however, besides the above-mentioned thematic synthesis, the Pilgrims’ theme appears in much larger-scale augmented form. It seems like Wagner wanted to highlight his actual comprehension of the redemption through love. Great! Karajan's interpretation also rules!
The only thing we should be commenting on here is the music. For me this is a stunning piece that I almost feel I can climb inside. Truly a masterpiece.
With Karajan, the orchestra has a sound that almost nobody is able to give and create. Simply wonderful.
I remember watching Looney Tunes when I was six and the episode "What's Opera, Doc" started playing. Suddenly, this piece thundered in triumphantly. I spent the next 11 years of my life, until a few months ago, trying to find the name, and became a trombone player simply so that, one day, I could play this piece in an orchestra. I will never forget the effect that this piece first had on me- the first time shivers ran down my back, all my hair stood on end, and me just enthralled- and it gets me every time.
I did not expect this many likes on this comment. Thanks for enjoying my anecdote!
th-cam.com/video/KJXBZbi2RJc/w-d-xo.html
It's moving , but this is my own musical experience ,what about finding that after you've made a small piano arrangement in your teens by ear of this song not recorded yet?when you become an adult at 50 who does not remember everything and become aware that Liszt has already made the whole arrangement for you ?What about when you wake up in the morning listening to that crazy Liszt arrangement and then moved to this famous thundering original piece , being sillingly in love one day after spending 20 years doing efforts the dark and being aware may be of getting through , you open your windows and look in the early moning at the sunrise with the sun climbing on the sea both with the forte and piano part of mind blowing Taunhauser that you prefer to any anthem now.I have You begin to shiver .What might you think your destiny hides you??The answer my friend is blowing in the wind .Wagner has given it .No one has enough time to live .Life goes on .Sorry if my comment has disturbed anyone .
I also discovered this by way of Bugs Bunny. It wasn't until I played Pilgrim's Chorus in high school band that I found out it was Wagner. Surreal to play it for the first time and realize the melody you're playing is that song you remember as a kid!
I had a similar experience in hearing something that, in my case, started playing on the radio while driving home around midnight that wrecked me so much I had to pull over to listen, just shaking and crying, to be honest. Being before the internet age, I sat in the car waiting for the DJ to say what it was. When he finally said it, it made no sense. But I pieced together enough syllables to at least deduce the composer. So I ordered a half dozen or so CD’s, hoping to find the piece that moved me so much. When I finally found it….just wow. Anyway, Zdenek Fibich’s ‘Poeme’. Magical. Or it’s also about 6 minutes and 39 seconds into ‘At Twilight’.
This is undeubtedly one of the most brilliant masterpieces in the history of music. The leitmotiv that opens this overture represents the redemption and forgiveness, since it is the same tune that is in the pilgrim's chorus when going to Rome.
What a combination...Wagner-Tannhauser-Karajan = perfection
Dear Dad, I whish I had known more of the classical repertoire when you were passing away, I would have played this for you to lend you courage and joy on your way.
Em 1998 tive o prazer de assistir esta peça no municipal do Rio, Wagner era um Gênio .
Karajan’s magnificence. Wagner’s miracle. Germany’s glory!
THE most brilliantly emotional, moving rendition of this incredible overture... Karajan keeps the strings to the fore (pulling at our heart-strings!?) and the trumpets at just the right pitch of restraint that they don't blow everything out of their paths (as other versions seem to)... along with intense dynamics throughout that push & pull & overwhelm throughout, making slaves of our hearts!! AHHH... PERFECTION...
The balances between the voices happening simultaneously are masterful in Maestro Karajan’s hands. Superb Vienna Philharmonic musicianship. Such great feeling and nuance!
Que maravilla es la buena música , una gran razón para vivir.
I came to wagner too late in my life.It was a mistake.Wagners music is so intense that drains out your soul and don't let me get out of his music. You only live for his music and don't aloud any thing else get to your heart Ruben
I`m not sure if I will ever see this charisma and this ocean of expressiveness in front of orchestra!
We just need to appreciate Wagner for his sublime genius of music which was very futuristic in the 19th century. And Karajan was absolutely amazing, a true Master.
I hear god in this piece, simply divine... one of the most beautyful pieces of all times..
You too? I am not alone in this, then.
Ladies and Gentleman, please put this unbelievable for human standards music at your earphones and go either at your garden or balcony all alone one silent winter late evening when sky will be partly lighted by moon while heavy clouds are slowly moving and leave your self looking this sky hearing this music...The unique feelings you will receive will be never forgotten not only to this life but surely also beyond of it...
Karajan has passed away for almost thirty years but his Tannhauser Overture is still second to none in my humble opinion. There is not a single current conductor who can match his interpretation and execution. None!
Thank you!!! Karajan conducts without hands, his soul sets the time. Bravo!!!!!
А Мравинский?
I just think this is beyond perfection. It moved me to tears.
I'd like to express my Gratitude to Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd for introducing this beautiful piece to me when I was a mere child.
Marvelous!!!!(Herebrt von Karajan was one of the best ever musical conductors...and this piece is perfectly interpretated by him and his extraordinary orchestra!!!), hope one day I can sing the main tenor role of this opera...is something that really gets into my heart and soul...cannot describe how deep I feel this music in me. BRAVO!!!!
Ну и как? Спел?😊
Se respira desde el deseo desenfrenado hasta el anhelo del perdon y el arrepentimiento me facina como se describe el amor y el deseo en la obra las metaforas y la poesia en un lenguaje que solo el alma entiende.
My favourite orchestra, my favourite conductor
Impresionante. Los pelos de punta con el tema de los trombones.
wagner,perché hai scritto questa musica che mi scuote nel profondo delle viscere e mi fa piangere,tanto piangere perché tu e karajan non ci siete più eppure tanto presenti che posso toccarvi,sentirvi!!! Questo è la " MUSICA!!! " GRAZIE...
In Karajan's hands this overture is breathtaking great! his idea to give attention for the violins was genial! I find other versions of this overture a bit lame.
"Tannhauser": La obertura más preciosa que he escuchado de Richard Wagner - Con la dirección de Herbert Von Karaján - Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.
This in one of the most inspiring music I have heard. I listened to it for first time when I was 10 years old in a LP that my mother gave me as a birdtday present. Since then, the emotion and a lot of feelings come out of my being when I listen to it. I love it.
I am deeply in love with the Karajan way of conducting. I have read a lot of critics adressed to him, but for me, it's the Excellence in person. Great pair: Wagner and Karajan.
Die beste Kombination des Komponisten, des Dirigenten und des Orchesters. Einfach wunderbar!
Согласна с Вами.
Ohne Zweifel ist diese Ouvertüre einer der schönsten jemals von Wagner zusammen. Es ist mein Lieblings ... Obwohl Wagner einen schlechten Ruf.
.....mai più l'essere umano conoscerà le massime vette di espressione dell'arte della MUSICA...
....mai più l'essere umano potrà mai godere della gioia e della pura bellezza..che un'opera del genere può suscitare...
..questo è il nostro tesoro ..e la testimonianza di ciò che di buono l'uomo ha fatto su questa terra...
z.edoardo..
Wunderschön!
Breaks my heart everytime.
Talán minden idők legjobb zenekara és Mestere találkozás ez......
Was für eine herrliche Musik!!!!👍❤️
Incredible interpretation by Karajan as usual 👏👏🎵🎶
Me facina wagner grande unico y esta melodia preciosa me encanta
Sublime!!
L'Ouverture più bella diretta dal miglior direttore di tutti i tempi, e che orchestra !!!!
magnificent
La musica è un linguaggio universale e parla ai cuori; la politica divide gli uomini in schieramenti e, spesso, spalanca le porte alla corruzione. Questa è una musica di una bvellezza estrema: amiamola per quello che è, fuori da ogni contesto!
Simplemente, una obra maestra!!!! Música y relato, contrapunto y crítica. Genial!
KOOOOOOOLLLLL . . . . I thinks this is a magificent musical piece, conducted by H.V.KARAJAN, is a 15:01 min of eternety !!!
I have just listened to this again and what beats me is how could a mere human being create something so stupendous?
Beauty,passion and emotion summed up in 15 minutes. Wonderful music from a real maestro.
As usual, Karajan just totally 'gets it'. Wagner would have relished this.
657BIueArmy hello... I am glad I went to your channel and found this beautiful music... such a cultured man you are... with love and light
you wrote "As usual, Karajan just totally 'gets it'. Wagner would have relished this"
+657BIueArmy Exactly!
+657BIueArmy As I said, only Germans can play German music. They understand the subtleties of their culture best, just as the English preform their music like no others, and so on.
Von Karajan got almost everything. He owns Bruckner, especially the 7th.
@@leonardstevens4412 I strongly disagree with you! Listen to Wilhelm Furtwängler! Everything he conducts (except the Strauss dynasty and partly W. A. Mozart where I prefer Carlos Kleiber {Strauss dynasty} respectively Karl Böhm {W. A. Mozart}) better than Karajan (at least for my taste)! :P
Magistrale Karajan!
+karaian and wagner from hear to eternityCenerelli
speechless
אנחנו בישראל צריכים כבר להקשיב לואגנר לא? (:
love this kino! this hands , slowly imposible tempo, strings tempered by alamos....Jodorowsky dream!
When hearing to this divine piece, my heart feels like a river of sentiments flushing into my soul!!!...only Wagner music can hold so tigth and deeply into myself. Herbert von Karajan was a superb musician who could conduct this peices almost as the same author must dream of. Bravo!!!!
c'est vraiment ce que je ressens. l'émotion est présente tout au long de la partition.
¡ SUERTE GRANDE LA DE APRECIAR LA DESCOMUNAL CAPACIDAD DE WAGNER, PERA ENSAMBLAR TANTO MUNDO SOBRENATURAL !!
¡ HACE 200 AÑOS EL MUNDO ESTABA ATIBORRADO DE LEYENDAS FABULOSAS, QUE HACIAN DEL MUNDO UN MAREMAGNUN FANTASIOSO !!
¡ SOLO EL MUNDO WAGNERIANO, PUEDE LLEVAR UNA VIDA, PARA COMPRENDERLO INTEGRAMENTE !!
Thank you so much! I have been looking for this recording. love this album so much!
Este video es un regalo para los sentidos. Gracias
I was comparing this with Thielemann versions (which apparently TH-cam is trying to make us watch) and this has a dreamy, relaxed feel that is very pleasing to me. Thielmann's versions seem like he's in a race to get out of the hall before they're charged overtime by the union. You can also hear more detail in the solo parts and in the bowing. He's shaving off 30+ seconds, and that's a damned sin! Solti's versions are fast enough and he's gone for power (and I love his Tannhauser) but this is just perfect for me. I'm sure string players could chime in for their preference.
Wagner,Karayan. Que más se le puede pedir a la música
I am so moved...It's not only MUSIC....it's the real sense of the entire LIFE!!!!!
Wagner és Karajan is egy csoda. Nagyon köszönöm a felvételt, örök élmény marad!!!
perfect tempo.
Karajan, que privilegio y orgullo haberlo conocido .................dirigiendo Tannhäuser , soberbio !!
Karajan...
EL MEJOR!!!
Krásné - děkuji.
Grande Compositore e Grande Direttore!
This is the best music piece EVER!!
YES! DEFINITELY!!!
such a wonderful piece !
Who cares!? People are a-holes. (Meaning MANY/MOST artists lived less than exemplary lives and had wide-ranging radical opinions on the left and right.) Music is abstract, it is not describing anti-antisemitism. When I was 14 and crying to Tristan and Isolde I had no idea who Wagner was or the history of the Jewish state. But the music transformed me. If the music reminds you of nazi germany don't listen to it.
Mozart was also played at the camps. Shall we also ban Mozart?
READ Mickisch if you want to know the truth about Wagner's antisemitism. You'll find that Wagner maintained Jewish friends throughout his life. His remarks were based on his ideas in linguistic-philosophy in relation to art and culture. He was NOT a racist!
His point was that Jews (or any foreigners for that matter) were incapable of catching the essence and spirit of what makes German art. Why did he publish it? Because he had a row with German-Jewish composer Mendelssohn who was more famous at that time than Wagner. They basically hated each other for stupid, egotistical reasons.
Of course he was wrong, as the great German-Jewish composer Gustav Mahler proved later, BUT that doesn't make him a racist.
The whole Wagner-Nazi thing is a wartime propaganda construction.
@@jaikee9477 I totally agree, Wagner brings tears to my eyes. Best conductor Karajan. Was Wagner anti-Semitic; I don't think so. I don't know who cry and moan the most over past hurts the Jews or my fellow blacks. World War II is over-you won! Slavery is over-we have equal rights! This is 2019 for heaven's sake! Let the dead past bury itself. Live for the present moment.
I feel Hitler listening to this song with me, bigot.
Everybody reveals his own hysteria in commenting this masterpiece. There ate simply no words tp qualilfy this music.
wagner -- = cuore del romantico --questo maestro è ancora un mito = questa musica avvinghia l'anima ...molto bella
The Heart of German Culture! °__°
Excellent!!!!!!! The von Karajan was and will remain the largest classical music personalities of modern history.
Let stupidity ends with Hitler and the Nazis, at last.
Vraiment ... superbe ! Wagner via Herbert Von Karajan !!! I love them !!!
thank you! His best conducting clip I`ve ever seen ! A master of times and sounds!
Wunderbar
Goosebumps when I hear this.. Simply perfect!
Essa abertura do Tannhouser e simplesmente magistral
LA PASIÓN QUE PONÍA ESTE HOMBRE ES INCREÍBLE...VIVÍA LO QUE ESTABA DIRIGIENDO...CADA VEZ QUE LO VEO ME ESTREMECE EL ALMA
i was not expecting to read intelligent comments here, but i found a lot of meaning in your words. thanks, whoever you are
Speechless! Karajan and Wagner FOREVER!
Superb, Maestro !!!!
Most incredible music AND performance!!! Karajan!!!!!!!!!!!
parece el libro de la vida, como si todos tus actos se encontraran en esa sublime musica, cada momento lleva consigo armonia,Triste es que en israel no den conciertos de ete prtentoso compositor,aun que supongo que si lo oiran en casa,wagner llega a la sublimacion con esa potencia esa fuerza.
Magnifique
I love Wagners music !
I was thrilled to hear this again after not hearing it in years. I have it on CD some place i think. It brought tears running down my face into my beard and at times i got chills.I need to find my CD of it.
Simply beautiful....
Stunning and sublime!
Bellisimo, genial !!!, no me canso de escucharla!
This overture is a work of a genius! In it, Wagner has expressed the true, deep idea that underlies the entire musical drama: the divine-spiritual-mental and the
earthly-material-bodily principles can live together in harmony, expressed without a conflict in the realm of genuine love with a real person. It's like carnal desires and
spiritual strivings counterbalance and complement each other without being
in discord or mutual repudiation. I suppose this was too radical an idea for the audience to conceive. That’s why Wagner, contrary to his aesthetic convictions, has decided to conceal it in “pure” music instead of elaborating it with operatic means. He has masterfully rendered this idea by synthesizing the Pilgrims' theme with a
motif-reminiscence of Venusberg played by the violins in the magnificent coda. Actually, the ostinato motive in the violins is a transformation of the “Repentance” theme (played by the cellos in the beginning), here enriched with the tingling vibrations of Venusberg. This is Tannhauser’s version of repentance - it does not repudiate erotic passion, but strives at its spiritual
elevation and purification. Note that this was expressed more than 50 years before Freud brought up his ideas of drive-neutralization, displacement and sublimation! Wagner hasn't presented the Pilgrims’ theme in the same way, neither in the opera finale nor elsewhere. It’s interesting that in the overture’s beginning, the similar appearance of
the Pilgrims’ theme in the trombones is synthesized with a bit grotesque
transformation of the “Repentance” theme played earlier by the cellos. It seems
like Wagner viewed the clerical-ascetic repentance of guilt and redemption
seeking as something inauthentic and hypocritical: throughout the opera, he always
depicts the Pilgrims in this light. In the coda, however, besides the
above-mentioned thematic synthesis, the Pilgrims’ theme appears in much
larger-scale augmented form. It seems like Wagner wanted to highlight his
actual comprehension of the redemption through love. Great! Karajan's interpretation also rules!
My God its beautiful.
I stopped everything I was doing to listen this masterpiece. Incredible!
que onda ? es el mas maravillosos tema que hay!, aunque no supera la hermosura de la novena, amo este tema!
7:32 - So, a needle pulling thread :)
The piece is very beautiful, thanks to Karajan...piece is genius work.
I'm .fascinated,Karajan is my conductor no 1
Karajan, the magician of the soundbalance!!!!!!!!!!
Divina musica💖
Imperdible, inolvidable...
Thank you very much for sharing.
Genial. Goose bumps all the way.
great emotionating moments unforgottable .
The only thing we should be commenting on here is the music. For me this is a stunning piece that I almost feel I can climb inside. Truly a masterpiece.
Wow, fantastic version.