At primary school in the UK 1960s, late afternoon, we would close our eyes and rest our heads on our desks to have some quiet time. My teacher at the time, Mr Jones, would play classical music for us to listen to, this was always one, if not my favourite! I'm 65 now and have listened to and enjoyed classical music every day of my life since then! My children and grandchildren are devoted fans too having been brought up on such classical masterpieces.
On rainy days, we would gather in the hall at lunchtime and the Headmaster would play classical music for us. My introduction to such gems as Swan Lake, Peter and the wolf, etc. I still remember those occasions with great fondness.
I'm 65; why on earth didn't they do that in Australia, too? It would have been brilliant. As it was, it took me decades to discover the joys of classical music.
I took a boat trip from the Isle of Mull to Fingal's Cave on Staffa in 2022. Dolphins accompanied us all the way, then as we slowly approached the cave which inspired Mendelsshon to write the Hebridean Overture the crew started playing the music. It was moving beyond words; I cried
I too have a son named Felix. We had the most fortunate opportunity to meet his great-grandson Thomas Wach at the Mendelssohn Haus in Ried, Switzerland a few years ago. One of the most incredible moments of my life - to tell Herr Wach that it was "nicht aus Versehen" that our son was so named.
My mother said that this was playing when she gave birth to me, hence the reason why I decided to look it up. Seems pretty awesome to think that this was the first thing I would have heard.
We always walked into morning assembly at my primary school to this music in the 1960s and it has been a favourite ever since. Tomorrow evening our son is playing this in his local symphony orchestra and we will be in the audience.
I headed out from the isle of Iona to Staffa where Fingal's cave is located yesterday. The Atlantic surge was too much to be able to moor at the island so we could only just hold on to the sides of the wooden boat while staring into the crashing darkness between the basalt pillars. Then the captain told us about the crashing of the surf is what inspired Mendelssohn when he came here in 1856(?) to write this piece, and it played over the tannoy while cormorants dived and guillemots swam around us, the sea heaved, the foam sprayed up around the rocks, and the grey seals watched us from their breeding ground around the island's side.
Wow... this man just managed to use the words tannoy, cormorant, and guillemots. in the same sentence... Let's take a moment to recognize his perspicacity whatever that means
+Robert Gage Hmm. I was 18 in 1966 here in Lafayette, IN. I think I might have been there for the performance. At that big meeting house (I forget the name) a block north of Main St.? Not at Mars theater?
Thats impressive. Im from the west coast, and like many people from an area, we are the worst tourists and don't explore as we should. That cave, from pictures, I would describe as a natural cathedral, so it must be something in reality.
So many appreciative comments here... And I, too, have much to recognise, acknowledge and appreciate. My reception teacher, Miss Irwin, in 1959, was an outstanding teacher and musician. Sadly, long gone, I pay public tribute to a truly lovely lady who helped to shape my life and life-long interest in music. RIP Miss Irwin.
Interesting Fact. Whilst on his way to Scotland Felix Mendelssohn stopped to inspect the Liverpool & Manchester Railway. The first locomotive worked Inter-City Railway in the World was in its final stages of construction. Robert Stephenson escorted the composer around the new railway. He became the first member of the public to travel on the line between the two cities!
Two 19th century geniuses together. I hope they had translators around. German to English.... English to Geordie.... Geordie to English etc... apparently Robert Stephenson's accent was so broad he really did have a translator with him when he traveled outside of the north east.
Such joy! I could taste the salty sea air. majestic. Moving me to tears before that baton was laid aside. I am actually the proud owner of this powerful piece on a 78 which was recorded in 1928. My maternal grandfather was the previous owner of this 78 which, when played on the old gramophone, he would conduct his invisible orchestra! Ordinarily, his 'conducting' was carried out on a Sunday morning before we all set off to church. I would call into my grand parents house which was on our farm, and I'd find my grandfather wearing his pyjama's and a bow tie. The perfect outfit for all conductors! After he performed this energetic form of art, he'd quickly shower, get properly dressed and before we knew it we were in the church. A brilliant start to a Sunday for any young child!
@@philipwilliams5808It is indeed. I visited it yonks ago, the music coursing through my mind as I oggled the basalt columns - that's the trouble with being a geologist we 'consume' the rocks.
i was supposed to play this for my final concert of the session for my youth orchestra and it was cancelled because of the covid-19. this was my favorite piece out of everything we played :(
You will always remember that just as I remember that the school puppet show I was to take part in at Christmas 1957 was cancelled because half the class, including myself, contracted the Asian Flu. Of course at that time we all stayed in school until sick.
I agree with all of you that he is underestimated, and so is Dvorak, to some degree. But they both have composed some beautiful pieces, this one among them.
When I was a child of 7 in England and my brother was 9, we loved this piece of music whenever it was played on the radio. That's the only place we heard it. We'd sit there transfixed. So beautiful.
I wonder if Mendelssohn was freaking out when he wrote this, thinking "This is really good. It's going to be a classic. 200 years from now, people will download this from the internet and leaving comments on how good it is. This is great!"
James A ""This is really good. It's going to be a classic. 200 years from now, people will download this from the internet and leaving comments on how good it is." , and that darn Mynah Bird:).
I remember having the little mermaid audio tape when I was a kid each chapter started with this. Always makes me think of plunging to the depths of the ocean!
@@jaakkokeskinen The sea has many faces. The prelude to Act 3 of Tristan and Isolde sounds like a powerful but largely calm sea, such as the Baltic. Listen to Wagner's prelude to The Flying Dutchman to get an impression of a stormy sea, such as that which Wagner and his wife experienced on a crossing to England after they had fled Riga in the eastern Baltic. Or listen to the Sea Interludes in Benjamin Britten's opera Peter Grimes. Mendelssohn is describing sea passages around Hebridean islands in the eastern Atlantic. I grew up close to the North Sea coast in Scotland and have seen the Atlantic in Scotland, Ireland, France, Spain, Portugal, Iceland and Norway. It can be a very, very wild indeed. I've been on ferries in a Force 10 gale. The Baltic just doesn't get gales like that.
I went from Mull to Iona and then on to Staffa, on a fantastic August day when the sky was blue with fluffy white clouds, the sea was a fabulous azure and the sand as white as snow. It is the most beautiful memory matched by this beautiful music.
Did not make it to The Hebrides on our recent Scotland tour. Yet made it to Skye, and couldn’t help but whistle this masterpiece upon which our tour guide said, “You whistle that quite nicely.” 🎶
We had a teacher in 1970. Miss Lamb. She taught us well and exposed us to this early. Her father was the choir master at the Cathedral. I remember those days from the 70s well.
In high school in Greenock Scotland beginning 1956, we had an amazing music teacher named Mrs.Waldron. I appreciate her for giving me an introduction and love for good classical music.Also studying the life and times of composers. She taught us to listen to what was going on in each piece. This overture won hands down for effect.......Yes Mrs.Waldron you were a great lady and I know you are in a happy place. Never forgotten.
Can I ask, how many know of/about the "" Schumann Resonance """ I think, I Suspect that those who do , who have learnt know more about music?? It has always been an addition for me!!!!!!!!!!! What is the lowest tone of Singing??
There was a cartoon that featured a snippet of this when I watched as a kid.Never bothered to listen to the entire piece till now. Genius. Artstry. Combined.
I first heard this on that 1943 film, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, when the main character went to the POW camp after WW1 to find his prewar German friend. That music was playing in the background, and I liked it so much, I looked it up 😊
Having twice been in the actual Fingal's Cave in the island of Staffa, this has particular significance both for the peerless music and the natural grandeur of the Cave itself. No wonder Mendelssohn was moved to compose this superb piece.
I love this piece. It moves me and inspires me. Mendelssohn was indeed one of the greatest composers of his time and one of the greats of the ages. Thank you for loading this wonderful work of art for the world to enjoy!
I have been inside this cave. One little known fact...if you are well inside the cave, and look towards the entrance, you can see the entrance framing the Isle of Iona.
amazingly beautiful country. pity it has the worst weather on earth... oh and my horrible, toxic mother lives there, so i will make do with memories... why does this overture make me think of Luis Buñuel?
We are living in extremly strange times and the world is in stress factor but listening to classical music seems to take the worrying pressure away if only for a short while to the people of Japan be careful keep safe take care love as always Dave ENGLAND a land next door to heaven
@@davidbarber4709 Thank-you Take care of yourself Good luck ！ For the second year in a row , we have refrained from the banquet under the cherry blossoms in full bloom in the parks of Tokyo , which is a very pity .
Yes these are stressful times and good wholesome music helps. And watching Baby Sea Otter Joey & Friends also provides hours of relaxation. Hope you are well.
Was there ever a piece of music that so perfectly captured the ebb and flow...the constant rise and fall of the ocean in all its moods? I think not. A top orchestra and conductor do it justice here.
They were pretty good yes? They really are exactly like natural storms. Beethoven th thunder& th storm moving on. Korsakov's sea storm - u can imagine th swell of waves growing taller & more violent! PJS.
@@petersmith9077 Peter - absolutely right. It requires not only a musical skill but the necessary imagination to write music of this sort. In more modern times Richard Rodgers wrote some fine music in a similar nautical vein for the 1950s TV series "Victory at Sea" (arranged by R.R.Bennett, I seem to recall). The title theme "Song of the High Seas" was a good example.
I had the great good fortune to be invited to go to Fingal's Cave, on an island off Mull, when visiting the Hebrides. Mendelssohn's musical imagination captures the place wonderfully, down to the surging tides and eddies by the cave mouth. Listen, and you're there! Promise.
Mr Felix Mendelssohn ... you composed many breath taking Masterpieces. I admire and have always thought of you as among the all time great composers in the same level as Bach, Handel, Schubert, Schumann, Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Mozart and Beethoven.
Likewise! I grew up listening to everything in Classical music, and Mendelssohn has been always among my dearest composers. Playing the piano, I asked my father his book for piano Romance without Words, which I got for one of my birthdays as a teen. Such a joy to be able to play his wonderful compositions.
"That's the beauty of music. They can't get that from you... You need it so you don't forget...there are places in this world that aren't made out of stone. That there's something inside... that they can't get to, that they can't touch - that's yours." -- Andy Dufresne, "The Shawshank Redemption"
@@alancumming6407 That's just a turn of phrase for saying that the person who likes the piece thinks that others who don't or don't even know it are philistines for not appreciating it.
@@alicemilne1444 No, unfortunately I had never heard of this until just recently. When I was a kid, they never taught anything in school about Felix Mendelsohn and whenever anyone plays classical music it's always the same old Mozart and Beethoven stuff over and over again.
"Now from the gray mist of the ocean the white-sailed ships of Fingal appear. High is the grove of their masts, as they nod, by turns, on the rolling wave. Swaran saw them from the hill. He returned from the sons of Erin. As ebbs the resounding sea, through the hundred isles of Inistore; so loud, so vast, so immense, returned the sons of Lochlin against the king. But bending, weeping, sad, and slow, and dragging his long spear behind, Cuthullin sunk in Cromla's wood, and mourned his fallen friends. He feared the face of Fingal, who was wont to greet him from the fields of renown! ... Fingal, tall in his ship, stretched his bright lance before him. Terrible was the gleam of his steel: It was like the green meteor of death, setting in the heath of Malmor, when the traveller is alone, and the broad moon is darkened in heaven." (Epic of Fingal III from the Poems of Ossian)
Thankyou. This transported me away from all the idiocy and madness and onto beautiful landscapes of legends and myth with mountains and storm lashed coves.
My absolutely favorite piece of music. Something majestic and airy about this emotional experience absorbing this performance. I wish Mendelssohn had a larger library of compositions. But ill settle for this small piece of perfection
@@palmermonsen9098 @jeffrey burger His Octet for Strings is one of the greatest pieces of chamber music ever written and he wrote it when he was....wait for it....16.
I visited Fingal's Cave on Staffa last week with my family and little dog. Oh my goodness, it was amazing. It was particularly poignant as Staffa tours play this music as they enter the cave before you get off the boat to explore. It is really worth the journey and so moving to listen to this piece of music.
After visiting many of the islands it's quite moving to hear this music again capturing the mood and rugged beauty of such an outstanding part of the world We live on a planet with some extraordinary stunning places and the inner and outer Hebrides counts as one of them
I am going to hear this tonight at the Sydney Town Hall - Sydney Symphony orchestra and I am so excited ...never heard it live and I think this is one the most evocative pieces of music of all time.
Listening to this very late one Sunday night - (well, easily Monday morning now ...) I am just reminded of what an underrated genius Felix Mendelssohn was. There is something about this piece of music that takes you right to the place the inspired him ... I feel like I am in that cave on that Scottish isle looking out on to the world with different eyes ... perhaps, sharing his eyes of the time? I feel connected. In fact, about twenty five years ago I did just that very thing - I have piece of paino music that I wrote, it's stashed away somewhere, and it was provisionally entitled 'Scottish Isle piece' It doesn't bear much resemblance to this Mendelssohn masterpiece other than the mood and the concept. But over a couple of days in the mid nineties I was completely taken with a theme I had in my head and I fleshed out a piece for piano ...i must dig it out sometime soon.
I hope you do. I never thought i would either, but after surviving cancer and recently pnuemonia, I am returning at nearly age 73. Keep dreaming. You can make it happen. ( We travel cheaply).
Ik heb een grote bewondering voor Mendelsson, voor het vele mooie werk dat hij in zijn korte leven verwezenlijkt heeft. Hij ligt bij mij in de bovenste plank!!! uit het diepste van mijn hart : vele dank !
We are going to Scotland, hopefully in May. One of our stops will be Iona, the Ferry to Staffa and Finns Cave the inspiration for this masterpiece is there!
Possibly one of the greatest pieces of music ever written. Brilliantly capturing the varied tunes - akin to the whirlwind of emotions one might feel driving up the winding roads of the desolate Hebrides Islands on a winterstorm at dusk.
took a boat trip from the Isle of Mull to Fingal's Cave on Staffa in 2022. Dolphins accompanied us all the way, then as we approached the cave which inspired Mendelsshon to write the Hebridean Overture the crew started playing the music. It was moving beyond words; I cried
A truly great composer and yet many people pass over him without a glance he deserves more recognition. Only true connoisseurs of music recognise this man's genius.
One of my favorite pieces... Performed this in high school orchestra at state competition with a 10/10 from all judges. Our orchestra was very, very good at the time, I was a violist and performing this in a very well put together group is intense! One of my best memories.
Inspired for the last 60 years by this piece of music. To the point, to go and visit the Hebrides myself in the last month. Felt, the majesty of what Felix wrote. An awesome experience.
I first heard this sometime in the '80s in an old "Don Winslow of the Navy" serial; it was the main theme of the show IIRC. Anyway the music wasn't attributed; it took me some 20 years to finally learn the name and composer, but I never forgot its haunting beauty. Nor have I forgotten since.
The "Don Winslow Of the Navy" serial was the first time I heard this too. The main theme played when the enemy submarine appeared. Took a long time to discover the entire piece. Then I found Otto Klemperer's recording of it. (That record also had Mendelssohn's "Scottish" and "Italian" symphonies).
I'm living in Italy and it is 6pm now, sun thankfully going down. I took heard the Hebrides overture at school in the 60s. We were told that the composer wrote this whilst sitting Fingal's cave. The waves were crashing in and I still imagine that and enjoy the music.
This moved me a lot when I first heard it played on a BBC micro in 1984. I still listen to it now when I cannot sleep to relax. Masterful, exilerating and relaxing at the same time.
Sans Mendelssohn, il n'y aurait sans doute pas eu Wagner, les ambiances, les harmoniques ont inspiré le grand Wagner. La musique classique anglo-allemande-franco italienne est comme une colonne vertébrale, où chaque compositeur musicien est une vertèbre au service du public qui est la tête qui écoute...Pour en revenir à cette sublime interprétation des Hébrides (ouverture) par l'orchestre L.S.O.de Londres avec comme chef Caudio Abbado, nous avons une ampleur quasi cosmique palpable dans la masse sonore voluptueusement et finement répartie.
At primary school in the UK 1960s, late afternoon, we would close our eyes and rest our heads on our desks to have some quiet time. My teacher at the time, Mr Jones, would play classical music for us to listen to, this was always one, if not my favourite! I'm 65 now and have listened to and enjoyed classical music every day of my life since then! My children and grandchildren are devoted fans too having been brought up on such classical masterpieces.
@Lil Wen You had a great teacher!
How amazing. I’m 62 and our Headmistress did the same in 1960’s. Miss Gayford (Primary school in the UK) played this and it has stuck ever since.
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On rainy days, we would gather in the hall at lunchtime and the Headmaster would play classical music for us. My introduction to such gems as Swan Lake, Peter and the wolf, etc. I still remember those occasions with great fondness.
I'm 65; why on earth didn't they do that in Australia, too? It would have been brilliant. As it was, it took me decades to discover the joys of classical music.
I'm on a bus in the hebrides listening to this while looking at majestic mountain formations. Yes I hear the voice of God through this song
I took a boat trip from the Isle of Mull to Fingal's Cave on Staffa in 2022. Dolphins accompanied us all the way, then as we slowly approached the cave which inspired Mendelsshon to write the Hebridean Overture the crew started playing the music. It was moving beyond words; I cried
What a beautiful experience. Real?
Goddish experience, friend! Amazing!
The cave looks quite dangerous to enter in rough seas crashing inside.
so happy for you. the tears prove what a good person you are.
I named my oldest son after Mendelssohn because of this piece. You can't get more respectful than that!
SO you're telling me your family name is Overture?
Felix is a good historic name but your son *will* be mocked
Felix is a beautiful name @@Sheehan1
@@user-qr9uh1fd8g Yes even Fingal would have been a good name
I too have a son named Felix. We had the most fortunate opportunity to meet his great-grandson Thomas Wach at the Mendelssohn Haus in Ried, Switzerland a few years ago. One of the most incredible moments of my life - to tell Herr Wach that it was "nicht aus Versehen" that our son was so named.
There are two people who listen to this song.
Classical music enjoyers
And Crash twinsanity fans.
Or those who appreciate the Mynah Bird
Former . two thumbs up. I started in about 1972.
Both a graduate of music school and an avid crash fan here
Wouldn't that be more correct to say "two types of people"?
You left out Bugs Bunny fans... :)
Playing this at full volume whilst sailing in a yacht up the west coast of Scotland is memorable.
wish I'd been with you ... I'm a direct descendant of William Wallace ... one of my favorite movies is "I know where I'm going" ...
My mother said that this was playing when she gave birth to me, hence the reason why I decided to look it up. Seems pretty awesome to think that this was the first thing I would have heard.
Wow! That is quite an anecdote to share! Fascinating that this welcomed you into the world!!
Unborn babies can already hear in their mother's womb.
But the strings don't come through very well underwater.
you had to look it up? didn't you remember it?
Nah my memory is pretty crappy haha
We always walked into morning assembly at my primary school to this music in the 1960s and it has been a favourite ever since. Tomorrow evening our son is playing this in his local symphony orchestra and we will be in the audience.
I headed out from the isle of Iona to Staffa where Fingal's cave is located yesterday. The Atlantic surge was too much to be able to moor at the island so we could only just hold on to the sides of the wooden boat while staring into the crashing darkness between the basalt pillars.
Then the captain told us about the crashing of the surf is what inspired Mendelssohn when he came here in 1856(?) to write this piece, and it played over the tannoy while cormorants dived and guillemots swam around us, the sea heaved, the foam sprayed up around the rocks, and the grey seals watched us from their breeding ground around the island's side.
1829.
Yes! ☺️
Wow... this man just managed to use the words tannoy, cormorant, and guillemots.
in the same sentence...
Let's take a moment to recognize his perspicacity
whatever that means
Lord have mercy. Thank you.
@@tarengo3 i wish people still had the ability to speak like this. I love reading it and it's so much more interesting describing it like that
I remember playing this at music camp while it was pouring rain outside. One of the best experiences of the summer.
I remember seeing a Mynah bird walk to this song.
As a 16 year old i played this with the Lafayette, Indiana symphony in 1966. I have loved it ever since......beautiful overture.
+Robert Gage Amen for music education in High School!
+Robert Gage Hmm. I was 18 in 1966 here in Lafayette, IN. I think I might have been there for the performance. At that big meeting house (I forget the name) a block north of Main St.? Not at Mars theater?
I just heard it done at the indianapolis symphony orchestra!! It was stunning!
So this is where the walrus chase song from crash twinsanity comes from!
I've been to the actual cave. Unbelievable beauty. Music is the only way to describe it, because it's beyond words.
Thats impressive. Im from the west coast, and like many people from an area, we are the worst tourists and don't explore as we should. That cave, from pictures, I would describe as a natural cathedral, so it must be something in reality.
I wonder if there are any Mynah Birds in that cave?
So many appreciative comments here...
And I, too, have much to recognise, acknowledge and appreciate.
My reception teacher, Miss Irwin, in 1959, was an outstanding teacher and musician.
Sadly, long gone, I pay public tribute to a truly lovely lady who helped to shape my life and life-long interest in music.
RIP Miss Irwin.
Interesting Fact. Whilst on his way to Scotland Felix Mendelssohn stopped to inspect the Liverpool & Manchester Railway. The first locomotive worked Inter-City Railway in the World was in its final stages of construction. Robert Stephenson escorted the composer around the new railway. He became the first member of the public to travel on the line between the two cities!
Two 19th century geniuses together. I hope they had translators around. German to English.... English to Geordie.... Geordie to English etc... apparently Robert Stephenson's accent was so broad he really did have a translator with him when he traveled outside of the north east.
@@andymoore9977 Wow, that's a neat fact! (I've been a model railroader since 1953 and a classical music fan before that.) Stay safe.
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Such joy! I could taste the salty sea air. majestic. Moving me to tears before that baton was laid aside.
I am actually the proud owner of this powerful piece on a 78 which was recorded in 1928. My maternal grandfather was the previous owner of this 78 which, when played on the old gramophone, he would conduct his invisible orchestra! Ordinarily, his 'conducting' was carried out on a Sunday morning before we all set off to church. I would call into my grand parents house which was on our farm, and I'd find my grandfather wearing his pyjama's and a bow tie. The perfect outfit for all conductors! After he performed this energetic form of art, he'd quickly shower, get properly dressed and before we knew it we were in the church. A brilliant start to a Sunday for any young child!
That's lovely. I have been to Fingal's Cave it is a magical place, like the house of your Grandfather obviously was for you!
@@philipwilliams5808It is indeed. I visited it yonks ago, the music coursing through my mind as I oggled the basalt columns - that's the trouble with being a geologist we 'consume' the rocks.
@@Volcano-Man Hi Gerard, It must be very gneiss to be a geologist!
That is such a wonderful story.
@@kithughesx Bless you - thanks! Just a wee trip down memory lane and music does tend to draw us there. Enjoy your day.
Both a Tuba Player and a Crash fan at the same time i love it.
Tubas rule!
I a Tubaist also loved the transcription we played in college. Hard Hard Hard but twice the fun. Never got to play it with the Symphony.
I'm a mynah bird lover.
I also listened to this at primary school in the 1960’s,we used to lie down and close our eyes to listen.Magical,a distant time now 😢
I feel you sister!
i was supposed to play this for my final concert of the session for my youth orchestra and it was cancelled because of the covid-19. this was my favorite piece out of everything we played :(
You will always remember that just as I remember that the school puppet show I was to take part in at Christmas 1957 was cancelled because half the class, including myself, contracted the Asian Flu.
Of course at that time we all stayed in school until sick.
LOL GET REKT
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Really sorry to hear that:(
Oof
Perhaps the most underestimated of the great composers. And he was nothing less than great.
Definitely agree. My favorite is his Italian Symphony.
I'm sure you love the Scottish. So uplifting and saying Yes to Life!
One of my 5 favourites.
Sheer GENIUS! The quintessential romantic sublime!
I agree with all of you that he is underestimated, and so is Dvorak, to some degree. But they both have composed some beautiful pieces, this one among them.
When I was a child of 7 in England and my brother was 9, we loved this piece of music whenever it was played on the radio. That's the only place we heard it. We'd sit there transfixed. So beautiful.
I played crash twinsanity years ago and I DIDN’T EVEN RECOGNIZE THIS MUSIC BUT I SAW THE NAME OF THE SONG
I wonder if Mendelssohn was freaking out when he wrote this, thinking "This is really good. It's going to be a classic. 200 years from now, people will download this from the internet and leaving comments on how good it is. This is great!"
James A ""This is really good. It's going to be a classic. 200 years from now, people will download this from the internet and leaving comments on how good it is." , and that darn Mynah Bird:).
Wow. He conceived of the internet at the same time as writing this piece. Extraordinary...
There is no tune that so invokes the sea as this one. I must have been a seaman in a past life, because I long for this life...
I remember having the little mermaid audio tape when I was a kid each chapter started with this. Always makes me think of plunging to the depths of the ocean!
listen to the first movement of Shahrazade by Rimsky Korsakov who was a captain in the Czar's navy.
What about beginning of 3rd act of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde? That is, to me, the best sea description ever in music.
FTN
@@jaakkokeskinen The sea has many faces. The prelude to Act 3 of Tristan and Isolde sounds like a powerful but largely calm sea, such as the Baltic.
Listen to Wagner's prelude to The Flying Dutchman to get an impression of a stormy sea, such as that which Wagner and his wife experienced on a crossing to England after they had fled Riga in the eastern Baltic.
Or listen to the Sea Interludes in Benjamin Britten's opera Peter Grimes.
Mendelssohn is describing sea passages around Hebridean islands in the eastern Atlantic.
I grew up close to the North Sea coast in Scotland and have seen the Atlantic in Scotland, Ireland, France, Spain, Portugal, Iceland and Norway. It can be a very, very wild indeed. I've been on ferries in a Force 10 gale. The Baltic just doesn't get gales like that.
Went to the Hebrides in a heavy rainstorm. Mendelssohn definitely caught the feeling of those islands on the edge of the North Atlantic.
Went there back in '95, beautiful weather... It was August. I miss the Atlantic... Greetings from Italy
I went from Mull to Iona and then on to Staffa, on a fantastic August day when the sky was blue with fluffy white clouds, the sea was a fabulous azure and the sand as white as snow. It is the most beautiful memory matched by this beautiful music.
@WastingMyLifeInGlasgow
The only other place in the world would have Mynah Birds.
Did not make it to The Hebrides on our recent Scotland tour. Yet made it to Skye, and couldn’t help but whistle this masterpiece upon which our tour guide said, “You whistle that quite nicely.” 🎶
The Isle of Skye is part of the Inner Hebrides, so technically you did make it to the Hebrides. 🤓
We had a teacher in 1970. Miss Lamb. She taught us well and exposed us to this early. Her father was the choir master at the Cathedral. I remember those days from the 70s well.
Good she wasn’t a baaaaaaaad teacher
In high school in Greenock Scotland beginning 1956, we had an amazing music teacher named Mrs.Waldron. I appreciate her for giving me an introduction and love for good classical music.Also studying the life and times of composers. She taught us to listen to what was going on in each piece. This overture won hands down for effect.......Yes Mrs.Waldron you were a great lady and I know you are in a happy place. Never forgotten.
How can one dislike such a masterpiece?!
Not everyone can truly comprehend a masterpiece. Totally understand your reaction tho!
Go figure?
I think the appreciation of music its pretty subjective . Many people out there would discard classical music all together.
Can I ask, how many know of/about the "" Schumann Resonance """ I think, I Suspect that those who do , who have learnt know more about music??
It has always been an addition for me!!!!!!!!!!!
What is the lowest tone of Singing??
They were chased by a walrus when listening to this
There was a cartoon that featured a snippet of this when I watched as a kid.Never bothered to listen to the entire piece till now. Genius. Artstry. Combined.
Inki and the Minah bird
@@manuel2cinco6 ha!
Muy cierto , buscando ese cartoon y por un comentario sobre el autor de esta pieza de arte estoy aquí
I first heard this on that 1943 film, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, when the main character went to the POW camp after WW1 to find his prewar German friend. That music was playing in the background, and I liked it so much, I looked it up 😊
Having twice been in the actual Fingal's Cave in the island of Staffa, this has particular significance both for the peerless music and the natural grandeur of the Cave itself. No wonder Mendelssohn was moved to compose this superb piece.
If you haven''t seen it, look up Fingal's Cave. It's a stunning cave made of basalt columns in the Inner Hebrides.
I love this piece. It moves me and inspires me. Mendelssohn was indeed one of the greatest composers of his time and one of the greats of the ages. Thank you for loading this wonderful work of art for the world to enjoy!
Just beautiful;
@@jackporter9257
It is the Mynah Bird that is truly beautiful.
I have been inside this cave. One little known fact...if you are well inside the cave, and look towards the entrance, you can see the entrance framing the Isle of Iona.
Staffa.
Where is this cave?
@@marciep3535 It's on the island of Staffa, in the Inner Hebrides, Scotland.
@@alexgabriel5650 Thank you
@@marciep3535 You are welcome :)
This and the Scottish symphony make me miss Scotland and I've never even been there.
I have the same feelings about Scotland, but I've been there twice and it's breathtakingly amazing!
I feel the same way about "Donald Where's Your Troosers?"
DanceCommandant oh you bloody heathen😂😂
amazingly beautiful country. pity it has the worst weather on earth... oh and my horrible, toxic mother lives there, so i will make do with memories...
why does this overture make me think of Luis Buñuel?
Same, bro, same. I feel some weird kind of patriotism for this country without ever having been there :'D
Just by listening to this masterpiece ,
the worries of this fleeting life will be blown away
From Tokyo of the Land of the Rising Sun 🇯🇵
We are living in extremly strange times and the world is in stress factor but listening to classical music seems to take the worrying pressure away if only for a short while to the people of Japan be careful keep safe take care love as always Dave ENGLAND a land next door to heaven
@@davidbarber4709
Thank-you
Take care of yourself
Good luck ！
For the second year in a row , we have refrained from the banquet under the cherry blossoms in full bloom in the parks of Tokyo , which is a very pity .
Yes these are stressful times and good wholesome music helps. And watching Baby Sea Otter Joey & Friends also provides hours of relaxation. Hope you are well.
@@cdog9559
Thank-you so much to your wonderful comments
Which is your country ？
was introduced to this fab piece of music in high school many years a go soon became a firm favorite still is no other piece fits a place so well
nothing made me feel more whole than playing a piece like this in class. i miss those days.
I am 67 And I just love this maybe because I am scottish
50 years old and just joined a symphony orchestra in my area. Never played this before and I love it.
@@lynnharris2934
Cook
Rusty Walrus theme sounds beautiful😍
Was there ever a piece of music that so perfectly captured the ebb and flow...the constant
rise and fall of the ocean in all its moods? I think not. A top orchestra and conductor
do it justice here.
It's a wonderful work, Mark. Allow me to suggest you listen to "La Mer" (The Sea) by Debussy. With closed eyes.
I can think of at least 2 composers who had storm passages(pardon th pun)in their music. BEETHOVEN the Pastoral Symphony and KORSAKOV'S Scherezade
They were pretty good yes? They really are exactly like natural storms. Beethoven th thunder& th storm moving on. Korsakov's sea storm - u can imagine th swell of waves growing taller & more violent! PJS.
@@neilbriscoewhite4953 Thanks Neil. I know Debussy's La Mer and agree
with your point about its quality in thsi regard.
@@petersmith9077 Peter - absolutely right. It requires not only a musical
skill but the necessary imagination to write music of this sort. In more
modern times Richard Rodgers wrote some fine music in a similar nautical vein for the 1950s TV series "Victory at Sea" (arranged by R.R.Bennett, I seem to recall). The title theme "Song of the High Seas" was a good example.
Absolutely stunning, I feel invigorated just listening to it.
It invokes my craving for...fresh meat...for my pot.
I need to chase something. Fast.
I had the great good fortune to be invited to go to Fingal's Cave, on an island off Mull, when visiting the Hebrides. Mendelssohn's musical imagination captures the place wonderfully, down to the surging tides and eddies by the cave mouth. Listen, and you're there! Promise.
Staffa one of the Inner Hebrides.
Mr Felix Mendelssohn ... you composed many breath taking Masterpieces. I admire and have always thought of you as among the all time great composers in the same level as Bach, Handel, Schubert, Schumann, Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Mozart and Beethoven.
Lennon, McCartney...
i love Mendhellsohn. It's underrated.
@@agenziapagano4928 he’s*
@@agenziapagano4928 Mendelssohn...
Likewise! I grew up listening to everything in Classical music, and Mendelssohn has been always among my dearest composers. Playing the piano, I asked my father his book for piano Romance without Words, which I got for one of my birthdays as a teen. Such a joy to be able to play his wonderful compositions.
"That's the beauty of music. They can't get that from you... You need it so you don't forget...there are places in this world that aren't made out of stone. That there's something inside... that they can't get to, that they can't touch - that's yours."
-- Andy Dufresne, "The Shawshank Redemption"
YUMMY FRESH MEAT FOR MY POT
You told what I would have if I had had the inspiration to express that in words...
Wonderful!!
beautifully expressed!
Ah, but, Fingal's Cave is completely made of stone!
I love reading the comments below,, you all teach me so much. Thank you for your memories and your happiness with this wonderful overture.
My favourite classical piece. Criminally underrated, and pure genius.
In what way is it criminally underrated?
@@alancumming6407 That's just a turn of phrase for saying that the person who likes the piece thinks that others who don't or don't even know it are philistines for not appreciating it.
@@alicemilne1444 Yes that's it. Well said.
@@alicemilne1444 No, unfortunately I had never heard of this until just recently. When I was a kid, they never taught anything in school about Felix Mendelsohn and whenever anyone plays classical music it's always the same old Mozart and Beethoven stuff over and over again.
@ct6502 That's a pity. There's so much more than those two, isn't there? Still, it means plenty to discover.
My old school friend Bill had this played at his funeral. He spent every summer holidaying in the Scottish isles.
El re"descubridor" de J. S. Bach. Uno de los más grandes compositores del romanticismo
I love this piece. I always think of a windy, cloudy day at the beach when I hear this, the cold air biting.
I had the pleasure of hearing this live in LA and I cried like a baby.
Lovely Shrew::: At least you're honest. Most beautiful women lie habitually.
Why?
Tears in my eyes- this is what music is all about - emotion
Lenny V so very, VERY true! 😎
Lenny V ... and mathematics and instruments and people ...
it's all about the crash twinsanity remakes for the song and fresh meat for my pot
Further proof that the best music is composed by whites.
@@John-qj2xi Ha ha ha ha ha - what a ignorant remark, Mr White Supremacist.
The clarinet soli at 7:46 is one of the most beautiful things ever written for the instrument.
Truly magical x
"Now from the gray mist of the ocean the white-sailed ships of Fingal appear. High is the grove of their masts, as they nod, by turns, on the rolling wave. Swaran saw them from the hill. He returned from the sons of Erin. As ebbs the resounding sea, through the hundred isles of Inistore; so loud, so vast, so immense, returned the sons of Lochlin against the king. But bending, weeping, sad, and slow, and dragging his long spear behind, Cuthullin sunk in Cromla's wood, and mourned his fallen friends. He feared the face of Fingal, who was wont to greet him from the fields of renown! ... Fingal, tall in his ship, stretched his bright lance before him. Terrible was the gleam of his steel: It was like the green meteor of death, setting in the heath of Malmor, when the traveller is alone, and the broad moon is darkened in heaven." (Epic of Fingal III from the Poems of Ossian)
I have to find that , thank you 😊
This masterpiece of literature is echoed in the masterpiece of a musical work! Thanks for your comment!👌👍
Thankyou. This transported me away from all the idiocy and madness and onto beautiful landscapes of legends and myth with mountains and storm lashed coves.
My absolutely favorite piece of music. Something majestic and airy about this emotional experience absorbing this performance. I wish Mendelssohn had a larger library of compositions. But ill settle for this small piece of perfection
His violin concerto is amazing though
@@palmermonsen9098 @jeffrey burger His Octet for Strings is one of the greatest pieces of chamber music ever written and he wrote it when he was....wait for it....16.
This small piece of perfection is made better by a small walking Mynah Bird.
He has a pretty large number of compositions but if you like the Scottish tone of this then you'll enjoy his symphony no' 3.
I visited Fingal's Cave on Staffa last week with my family and little dog. Oh my goodness, it was amazing. It was particularly poignant as Staffa tours play this music as they enter the cave before you get off the boat to explore. It is really worth the journey and so moving to listen to this piece of music.
Did a little Mynah Bird walk by?
I was listening to this piece while I was at a park, observing the river and the green trees and grass 💚
After visiting many of the islands it's quite moving to hear this music again capturing the mood and rugged beauty of such an outstanding part of the world
We live on a planet with some extraordinary stunning places and the inner and outer Hebrides counts as one of them
First time ever hearing classical music I was 7 and absolutely enthralled. Love other forms, but my classics are my home.
I was introduced to this in school, aged 11, and it remains a favourite,
Me to loved it ever since
I am going to hear this tonight at the Sydney Town Hall - Sydney Symphony orchestra and I am so excited ...never heard it live and I think this is one the most evocative pieces of music of all time.
This the kind of music that sets the imagination and emotions, perhaps it will entice the other music lover to classical music..
Listening to this very late one Sunday night - (well, easily Monday morning now ...) I am just reminded of what an underrated genius Felix Mendelssohn was. There is something about this piece of music that takes you right to the place the inspired him ... I feel like I am in that cave on that Scottish isle looking out on to the world with different eyes ... perhaps, sharing his eyes of the time? I feel connected.
In fact, about twenty five years ago I did just that very thing - I have piece of paino music that I wrote, it's stashed away somewhere, and it was provisionally entitled 'Scottish Isle piece' It doesn't bear much resemblance to this Mendelssohn masterpiece other than the mood and the concept. But over a couple of days in the mid nineties I was completely taken with a theme I had in my head and I fleshed out a piece for piano ...i must dig it out sometime soon.
I've never been to the Hebrides and most likely never will, but this music helps imagine those islands. Thank you.
You are seriously missing out, these islands are wonderful, just like the music !
I hope you do. I never thought i would either, but after surviving cancer and recently pnuemonia, I am returning at nearly age 73. Keep dreaming. You can make it happen. ( We travel cheaply).
Nada mas brillante que empezar la mañana con esta hermosa obra de Mendelssohn
Si, tienes razon
No si te persigue Rusty Warlus 😵💫
Ik heb een grote bewondering voor Mendelsson, voor het vele mooie werk dat hij in zijn korte leven verwezenlijkt heeft. Hij ligt bij mij in de bovenste plank!!! uit het diepste van mijn hart : vele dank !
We are going to Scotland, hopefully in May. One of our stops will be Iona, the Ferry to Staffa and Finns Cave the inspiration for this masterpiece is there!
!exquisita,el matrimonio perfecto entre la genialidad y la belleza!🎉😊
Possibly one of the greatest pieces of music ever written. Brilliantly capturing the varied tunes - akin to the whirlwind of emotions one might feel driving up the winding roads of the desolate Hebrides Islands on a winterstorm at dusk.
took a boat trip from the Isle of Mull to Fingal's Cave on Staffa in 2022. Dolphins accompanied us all the way, then as we approached the cave which inspired Mendelsshon to write the Hebridean Overture the crew started playing the music. It was moving beyond words; I cried
You can say that this song will never get... rusty.
Crash Twinsanity
Rusty Walrus ;-)
Clever. :)
“Ah! Yummy fresh meat for my pot!!
Thank goodness I'm not the only one!
Absolutely love Mendelsohn - his music gives serenity to my soul and heart- especially this particularly...
A truly great composer and yet many people pass over him without a glance he deserves more recognition. Only true connoisseurs of music recognise this man's genius.
My favourite composer since my teens!! ❤
forever masterpiece in music history~!!👍👍
One of my favourite pieces of classical music
I'm studying Classical Music and felt I'd lost all love for the subject, but this piece ALWAYS rekindles it. It's so beautiful.
I'm studying Mynah Birds.
One of my favorite pieces... Performed this in high school orchestra at state competition with a 10/10 from all judges. Our orchestra was very, very good at the time, I was a violist and performing this in a very well put together group is intense! One of my best memories.
That's so awesome
Imagine floating on this music, crossing the Hebrides, can we ever come closer to heaven?
Maravillosa!!!
Escuchar esta música eleva el espíritu.
Si
I studied this piece in high school 25 years ago and still remember every note!
1x speed: what lovely music i'm listening to
1.5x speed: AHHH YUMMY! FRESH MEAT FOR MY POT!!
😂
I precisely came for that game and I didn't expect to find any comment referencing it
confusion
@@galatheumbreon6862they're referencing crash twinsanity, a game that features this song in an acappella style
Thank you! So important to keep this genre going strong- mendelssohn and Sebelius are like superheros
Enjoying this beautiful music while in Lock down here in the UK.
Love and blessing from Wolverhampton England to you all.
@Kit stay safe and blessed Kit. 👍
Hi from Los Angeles
@@elionaidgranados1005 I've subscribed to your channel
@Kit I've subscribed to your channel
This was my gateway drug for classical music
U should listen 2 in the hall of the mountain king -Grieg & pictures at an exhibition- Mussogorsky then u will be higher than a kite
What in Gods name mendelssohn was a genius!!**
Tout le déchaînement de l'océan, c'est rempli d'énergie, mais tout en élégance 🎶❤️🎶
Vrai ❤
-Donde ohi esto antes?
*Aparece imagen de Rusty*
-Joder me entraron recuerdos de Vietnam.
Inspired for the last 60 years by this piece of music. To the point, to go and visit the Hebrides myself in the last month. Felt, the majesty of what Felix wrote. An awesome experience.
I first heard this sometime in the '80s in an old "Don Winslow of the Navy" serial; it was the main theme of the show IIRC. Anyway the music wasn't attributed; it took me some 20 years to finally learn the name and composer, but I never forgot its haunting beauty. Nor have I forgotten since.
The "Don Winslow
Of the Navy" serial was the first time I heard this too. The main theme played when the enemy submarine appeared. Took a long time to discover the entire piece. Then I found Otto Klemperer's recording of it. (That record also had Mendelssohn's "Scottish" and "Italian" symphonies).
Beautiful, and beautifully rendered by a master conductor.
This was the piece that introduced me to classical music at the age of 14.
I'm living in Italy and it is 6pm now, sun thankfully going down. I took heard the Hebrides overture at school in the 60s. We were told that the composer wrote this whilst sitting Fingal's cave. The waves were crashing in and I still imagine that and enjoy the music.
A great masterpiece! I often listen to this beautifull music.. close my eyes and imagine I am at the Hebrides.
"..And we in dreams behold the Hebrides"
My great grand father loved this . Why would you not !
Mendelson, es genial su música te da una paz infinita
This moved me a lot when I first heard it played on a BBC micro in 1984. I still listen to it now when I cannot sleep to relax. Masterful, exilerating and relaxing at the same time.
Wow- amazing! Such a beautiful, haunting melody to listen to on a cold evening huddling in a warm room.
So true Mark Pope
I totally agree
If you have a warm room..
Gorgeous! The rhythm really does evoke the sea crashing on the shore!
Sans Mendelssohn, il n'y aurait sans doute pas eu Wagner, les ambiances, les harmoniques ont inspiré le grand Wagner. La musique classique anglo-allemande-franco italienne est comme une colonne vertébrale, où chaque compositeur musicien est une vertèbre au service du public qui est la tête qui écoute...Pour en revenir à cette sublime interprétation des Hébrides (ouverture) par l'orchestre L.S.O.de Londres avec comme chef Caudio Abbado, nous avons une ampleur quasi cosmique palpable dans la masse sonore voluptueusement et finement répartie.
The most sublime melody ever written
More sublime than the Mynah Bird?