Schubert: Song "An die Musik" (Benjamin Zander - Interpretation Class)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ธ.ค. 2019
- For more classes like this one, please visit the Benjamin Zander Center - www.benjaminzander.org/
Wei En Chan, countertenor
Liya Nigmati, piano
Benjamin Zander's Interpretations of Music: Lessons for Life
Dave Jamrog, Audio/Video - เพลง
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Thank you for the compliments! Being coached by maestro Zander was a great privilege.
You were beautiful. I wept throughout the music! ❤️
Hearing you sing, and hearing you respond to tat wonderful coaching was a great privilege. Thank YOU
So thrilled to see you in the comments here! Now I get to tell you directly, you made me cry at 20:49. Thanks friend!
The collaboration was magical
@@viktorsebastien604 me too
Let's give the pianist a huge round of applause! She humbly grew into a great pianist in 20 minutes!!!
Being an accompanist myself, it is a great skill to be able to change playing like that. I very much appreciated Maestro Zander’s compliments to the pianist.
I think this is my favorite of Zander's interpretation classes so far. So inspiring. I love the quote of "To be worthy of this role, we need to develop our humanity to such a point that the world needs to hear from you." such a beautiful way to view music and being a performer.
I first heard of An Die Musik in 1975, because a UK experimental theatre company, Pip Simmonds, created a show with its name. The show was set during the Holocaust in a concentration camp, but it was about a group of Jewish musicians who`s role it was, while appalling things were going on all around, to play music to mask the terror. I can`t even remember if the Schubert music was used or if they just took the title and played other things. It was one of the most powerful theatrical experiences I can recall in over 50 years of theatre going. So how wonderful it is to hear BZ, who`s family fled the Nazis, give so much to this young man and his wonderful accompanist
His pronunciation is on point! In parts it's even better than me singing - and I AM German. Very impressive.
Also, I really adore his voice, it is so direct and yet warm and sweet.
Ganz genau, das muss man einmal so hinkriegen! ;-)
@@bucaneromax1 Auf jeden Fall! Und zwei Jahre später bin ich immer noch genau so begeistert :)
Can I show the way zum Krankenhaus?
*Lyrics (English Translation)*
_To Music_
Beloved art,
in how many a bleak hour,
when I am enmeshed in life’s tumultuous round,
have you kindled my heart to the warmth of love,
and borne me away to a better world!
Often a sigh, escaping from your harp,
a sweet, celestial chord has revealed to me a heaven of happier times.
Beloved art, for this I thank you!
“we need that song more than we have ever needed it” 7:50
Mr. Zander, I love you with all my heart. You are music itself. You are Apollo, Homer, Demodocus, Beethoven, and Schubert!
What a voice!!!!!! and the interpretation.... and the pianist ....and Ben.... it's awesome!!!! BRAVISSIMI!
Simply GREAT. Conductor, singer and pianist. I take this words from this video: "You have to develop your humanity to such a point that the world wants to hear from you". Congratulations from Spain.
i know nothing about classical music and opera, but this has been one of the most uplifting lesson i have followed in my life. transported i am, to some very exalted joyful realm. i don't want to come back.
Wonderful. Thank you. What a sublime voice.
These are so good thank you Benjamin Zander!
The singing and piano playing are so beautiful! I adore these videos!
I could easily have clicked on something less wholesome, but Zander is right - the world needs the healing qualities of music. He conveys the wisdom in Schubert’s music. This piece can bring tears to my eyes and warmth to my stony heart. It’s great to see such receptive musicians, well on their way to melting people with music’s beauty.
I want to study this piece now! The music and the interpretation are so beautiful!
What a beautiful voice, amazing performance.
Amazing class and amazing how you got the ideas and put them into music.
Beauuuuutiful video!! Great job!! Voice, Piano, Direction! Everything is great!
wow, this sounds so much better speed up! i love how he's always right about the tempo...he always knows when it's too fast or too slow
True! As Dr Benjamin said , it shouldn’t be funereal
Incredible Pianist
Bin vollkommen verzaubert! Vielen vielen Dank . Es hat mich gerührt, kann mein Gefühl gar nicht zum Ausdruck bringen und muss erst zu Ende weinen. Danke dafür !
Ja, Schubert ist unsterblich.
@@vilemflusser9794 wie wahr! Möge die Kunst uns alle beflügeln und heilen, die bessre Welt wartet auf uns.
Oh I shed my tears.
This is really deeply touching - a beautiful voice like a beam from heaven - and a fascinating lecture by Maestro Zander - just marvellous!!
Beautiful, inspiring, we need this so much. Thank you for learning this lied, it's what we need right now, inspiration, sharing the noble art of music, all of us. Thank you maestro, thank you Schubert!!
Wonderful. Bravo Mr Chen!
Moved me immensely
First time I have heard this sung by a countertenor. Sublime
This helped me a bunch as I learn this song too, thank you!
Bravo!!!! I just had the best masterclass I could dream of ❤️❤️❤️👏👏👏
Indeed, there's healing (17:3) in such beautiful music ...Thanks so much!
Great uploads, B. Zander is an amazing, amazing (!) teacher
This is brilliant....thanks so much for sharing this !
Ben is so amazing. He gets right to the point of the matter and straight to your heart !! 😊😊😊
Night and day difference at the end, beautiful!
Yes you said it Benjamin fabulous wonderful noble and inspiring to Me and Humanity !!
Man this hit home.
Beautiful! And your German is wonderful!
So inspirational! I love Zander's total belief in the romantic ideal.
Amazing maestro
What a fabulous session! I adore that song, of course, and have watched and taken part in very many masterclasses here in England. This video is a perfect example of the very best.
what a unique voice
Blablabla!!!! This music is so wonderful that it is not necessary to do so much, to make a spell with each word, just sing and the magic of Schubert will work !!!!
What Zander is saying about speaking for all humanity ... no pressure there 😉
Usually like it with a deeper voice, but this was marvellous !
Greetings from the UK.
Nach den Korrektionen konnte ich dieses Lied mit Tränen zuhören!!! 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Bravo, bravo 👏
this sounds so much better because the singer is making facial expressions
Exciting counter tenor.
He’d be so amazing in Philip Glass’ Akhnaten. As Akhnaten. ❤️
I wish Zander was right that the camera represented tens of thousands of people. Only 9000 views on this video is a sacrilege !
By now it's already >17000 spectators "...we are getting there..."!
But I agree: Litterally EVERYBODY should watch these videos; they are so enlightening!
Incredible
This truly moved me, thank you so much
This song is essentially prayer.
Du holde Kunst, in wieviel grauen Stunden,
O blessed art, how often in dark hours,
Wo mich des Lebens wilder Kreis umstrickt,
When the savage ring of life tightens round me,
Hast du mein Herz zu warmer Lieb' entzunden,
Have you kindled warm love in my heart,
Hast mich in eine beßre Welt entrückt,
Have transported me to a better world!
In eine beßre Welt entrückt!
Transported to a better world
Oft hat ein Seufzer, deiner Harf' entfloßen,
Often a sigh has escaped from your harp,
Ein süßer, heiliger Akkord von dir,
A sweet, sacred harmony of yours
Den Himmel beßrer Zeiten mir erschloßen,
Has opened up the heavens to better times for me,
Du holde Kunst, ich danke dir dafür,
O blessed art, I thank you for that!
Du holde Kunst, ich danke dir!
O blessed art, I thank you!
"Things are pretty gloomy these days", "The world is pretty depressed" - just before covid-19 outbreak
Maestro Zander thought the roof was caving in in 2019. Oh boy, the 2020s' gonna be a shock!
What a subtle observation on Singaporean by the master ...hahahaha...:-p and yes... a world citizen we shall be..
Wow, go beyond your culture, thats quite a thing!! Bravo!
Absolutely beautiful singing and the pianist, a dream. I have difficulty with Zander's interpretation of the tempo however. Suddenly, this solemn prayer to music sounds completely flippant in his suggested tempo. The text is indeed solemn, and is about art providing a respite for all of life's trials and hardships. This fine duo's tempo was beautiful, in fact, the second verse was a bit faster and in my view, to the detriment of the poem. This is truly a fine duo and Zander, obviously a great artist....just in disagreement here.
I'm in sympathy with your reaction, although I think there is a middle way here. I love what Zander is talking about but I find the contrast in tempos within each verse to be way too extreme. A little more movement for the beginning than the duo started off with was welcome, but it was TOO fast, and then that HUGE ritardando at the climaxes pulled the whole thing all out of shape.
@@eclarksoprano he is, most of all, a conductor - and I noticed he was very “conductorly” when he was talking them through the piece.
Duly noted, it is Mäßig, but *in 2*. So the base beat is half-bar, not quarter note. Plus both the vocal line and the left hand do work much better at a not-slow tempo. This also affords the opportunity to do those extreme pullbacks in tempo, without making it impossibly slow to sing.
In terms of “pulling it out of shape”… perhaps the shape of the piece *is* to be “brisk” when declaiming the text, but then to linger very much on the climaxes, both in terms of high notes and important words. It’s *not supposed* to be performed at relatively the same tempo throughout.
What is the meaning of : ...oft hat ein Seufzer, deiner Harf entflossen, den Himmel bessere Welt entrückt...?
25:40
7:30 Oh my God, The Maester talked to me through the camera !!! ... 😅😃
wow? his funeral? that's so sad to think about but cool how he knows what he wants
He sounds like a soprano - how is this possible ?
I really hope somebody will tune the piano. It is quite shockingly bad at the moment.
Nai61a and oil the squeaky pedals...
Oh that pedal.. sounds like a brood of mice
Disaster
You must use your real voice ! Unless you are castrated , then what can one say. Shame on your coaches and teachers for allowing this falsetto voice !
Yes, I enjoyed Zander's interpretive skill and enthusiasm much more than any hope for this young singer. He has a "pretty" sound but I would be very surprised if he could ever get any meat into it - the low notes are nowhere and the highs, while more attractive than most countertenors, are unsteady when he puts any pressure on them.
The countertenor voice has long been a recognized and valid voice in early music. I think he has a beautiful voice
Hes a "Counter Tenor!!!No Falsetto!!
Beautiful Voice❤🌺❤
The high countertenor is a widely practiced and recognized voice type today. One of the foremost choral groups in the world, Chanticleer, is all-male, with the soprano and alto sung by countertenors. I’ve been to their performances, and it’s an astonishing sound.