Wagner Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; Prelude to Act I; Solti

[CyberDave35]

Ah,... this is one of my favorite pieces. It is music to the heart; I love it.

Cheers!

CyberDave

[EdEditz]

Thumbs up if Inspector Morse got you here :p

[MrDts1907]

Thumbs Up if Jenseits Von Gut und Böse (Nietzsche) Brought You Here

[bigmanpigman]

Boogiepop and Larry David ~(:

[Diantrempo]

Larry David brought me here !

[nickmaestro]

Some things in this world are just too beautiful, this overture transcends that. I've had the luxury of performing this on viola at least three times thus far.

[TrombonePlayah]

I'm playing this piece for my high school orchestra and I'm the only tuba player, as well as only a freshman. So I get to play the tuba solo ( 6:30 ) and I'm really excited.

[lwzable]

@TrombonePlayah sorry to burst your bubble, but its with double bass as well, as i have this piece to play for an audition

[KV4671]

Solti is een goed dirigent

[arielpiano]

By far my favorite performance. So much polyphony... contrasts and dynamics... a true work of art

[JHJennings]

I can tell this is Solti conducting. He knew how to hook the audience with vivid contrasts. But isn't this overture one of the best things you've ever heard? It's just terrific!

[Beaches0nNeptune]

I have to do a project on Wagner. Its funny the frist time i heard his name was in a wolverine book....

[Iliketorave1]

Want this on very good vinyl?

Go on ebay.co.uk and search wagner lxt and see the top link!

[strukhoff]

Wow, Solti makes the Vienna brass sound almost as good as Chicago :-)

[MKA829]

@strukhoff Back in these times, I don't think chicago's orchestra was as good as it is now.

[TubaSmaug]

@MKA829 wow obviously youve forgotten the great mistakeless concert done by the CSO at this time. I mean they had Arnold Jacobs, Phillip Farkas, and of course one of, if not the greatest, trumpet players to ever walk the earth: Bud Herseth. I mean listen to the Tuba at 6'32". Flawless.

[GDhaenens]

Amazing when it reaches it's high point

[ferrigraph]

I was in die miestersinger von nunburg at glyndebourne oprea house playing a child super

[stepheng1483]

Great music, great man.

[TheNatedagreat4]

star wars music starts at the end haha jk bt great strength in this music!

[TRUEBLADEKP]

My back hurts from playing this on the bass.

[angela44ize]

Breath taking, it reverberates in one's spine, so gloriously Triumphant & Beautiful! Sir George Solti is legendary, immensely talented...In my opinion Richard Wagner remains an honorable, dramatic & brilliant classical music composer & his music in Die Meistersinger is indeed a testimony & legacy of Wagner's great genius! In a way, Art remains impartial as to whether one is a theist or not...Michaelangelo controversially was partial to his enemies & friends in his "Last Judgement", God blesses!

[bryonyrocks]

This does nothing for me. Not his best

[Blaiken90]

sentirlo mentre gioco a cod.....what else???

[devilxhlywood]

fuck off with all the over analysis. all european countries had national pride then, even still today to some extent and many artists expressed it. only thanks to hitler's love of wagner has this ridiculous discussion continued to this day. here's a fact: hitler was not unique. He wasn't the first person to try to rule the world, he wasn't the first to order genocide, wasn't even the first to order genocide against Jews. He wasn't even the worst person of his generation. get over it.

[bryonyrocks]

@devilxhlywood True, but he was an openly massive anti-Semite. No that I really give a fuck you're right people need to get over that shit

[ModellMeister]

Fave part 6:34

[alvaropstn]

Poland invasion. Kristallnacht. Blitzkrieg. The Phoney War and France's surrender. The Wehrmacht in Paris under the Arc de Triomphe. Stukas. Panzerdivisionen. The Holocaust. Operation Barbarossa. Stalingrad. Afrika Korps. General Winter. Kursk. The SS. Bombardment of Germany. Drang nach Östen. Focke Wulf. Spitfire. Churchill, Hitler and Stalin. Fall of Berlin. Rheingold. Beer.

How many romantic concepts for a simple Opera!!!

[abehammy]

I'm Jewish and I know Wagner was an antisemite but weren't other composers that came before (Mozart, Beethoven, etc) potentially antisemites cause of the time period?

[firestartertwistedfi]

@abehammy I don't know about Mozart and Beethoven, but I think you're right to the extent that Wagner was a product of his time - it would have been remarkable if he had not been an anti-semite. In any case, it's the music we should be interested in. Mozart was crude and vulgar, Yeats was a fascist - but I'm not going to stop listening to the Magic Flute or reading 'When you are old and gray and full of sleep'.

[1984ekul]

@abehammy I'm Jewish too, and am currently writing a PhD thesis on the reception of this piece in the Third Reich. It's a complicated issue. Above all else, beware of over-simplifying. Yes, Wagner was an anti-Semite; yes, his anti-Semitism was embedded in Die Meistersinger; and yes, he was a favourite composer of Hitler's. *But* none of this means that he prophesied the Holocaust; or somehow enabled it; or even that he would have condoned it. The Holocaust would have happened without Wagner.

[abehammy]

@1984ekul Yeah, I mean I think it's good to some extent to know he was anti-semitic but like I said beforehand probably many European classical composers were prejudiced before his time. I think we should enjoy his work instead like we do with composers such as Mozart and Beethoven

[1984ekul]

@abehammy Yes, I agree. Wagner's music is far too good to be abandoned! I'm waiting for the day that a complete performance of Der Ring is given in Israel. Then he will have finally been reclaimed.

[stepheng1483]

@abehammy They weren't anti semites because of the "time period", but because of what Jews were doing in our countries, in fact the same thing they are doing to us now, controlling our countries and ruining them. Listen to Jew Benjamin Freedman's 1961 speech if you don't believe Jews control our governments, this is why our governments don't work for our people (unlimited immigration, needless wars, etc.).

[rsr789]

@stepheng1483: Do you recall whn sanity left you and was replaced with insane drivel?

[rsr789]

@rsr789 when*

[cinanhakkee]

As I remember It's Wagner who said that only music can honour the place we exist in.

[WAMEDJO]

Now that's what I call filling a space with the sounds ! Extatic

[juliodelcanto]

Simplemente hermoso ....

[mahlerite]

@venmago17

Read Wagner's essay, "Das Judenthum in der Musik."

[rssucksnow]

im playing this piece right now in my high school orchestra

[xXlolxtechXx]

@rssucksnow haha we used the for sightreading practice in mine lol

[rssucksnow]

@xXlolxtechXx wow!

[RecognizableNAme]

@rssucksnow yeah me too, we just had a concert yesterday

[deskoeneoke]

no, piękny to on nie był! ale jaka muzyka!!! <3

[marcofranco63]

Simply Wonderful.

[LiztheCellist]

I played this piece with my symphony and my arms hurt playing it, there was just so much effort needed to produce the sound.

[DottoreJojo]

When I first heard this live... feeling it reverberate in my bones, I had fainted by the third minute...

[onewayheart]

Boogiepop brought me here.

[FredKnut]

yeah, me too (great book, Boogiepop & Others)

[AsianGamer1]

playing this in a youth orchestra.

[steven1250]

Amazing

[101clockman]

FANTASTIC

[Shogunmiyuchan]

............and you cut it off exactly when the chorus starts.....you MEANIE!!

[301250]

Wagner's music represents the apotheosis of German pomposity at its worst....but delicious nonetheless. So it's not suprising that he was the Fuhrer's favourite composer as he needed such music to boost his fragile ego, and what was the ensuing result for the world...Gotterdammerung.

[bobsuruncle789]

This is the intro for der fuhrers face in the donald duck cartoon.

[fliptheegg]

This piece.

This very piece.

I played whit a handful of other musicians somewhere in Jutland, Denmark.

To put it simply, the greatest piece of music i have ever played.

Great, great ,great experience.

Thank you Wagner.

[goatlps]

Not as good as the London Symphony Orchestra version conducted by Barry Tuckwell, on the Innovative Music Productions (IMP) label, 1987. I like Solti with Chicago, but some of the recordings are ruined by Solti making grunting noises! Thanks for upload.

[ashvsj]

This is the best overture of Wagner.One of the most beatiful pieces of the music. Its great.

[sakraye]

@ashvsj dont' wanna be a troll or anything...but i've heard much better imo :P

[DeamonicSnowman]

Antisemitic ass hole; why does his music have to sound so good.

[marcusantonius90]

@DeamonicSnowman You are the asshole. Jerk.

[brendonian]

@DeamonicSnowman You don't have to like the artist to appreciate the art itself.

[chapellefan2]

our orchestra will perform this in febuary at the Moody Music Hall in Tuscaloosa!

[championofcathay]

@FuerstMetternich ignore that neo-nazi troll

[KarstenKriwat]

Sehr gut! Sehr schön! Meine liebste Overtüre!

[KarstenKriwat]

Unser Meister, unser Vorbild - unser Wagner!

[marcusantonius90]

Aryan music! At its very best.

[CrazyCatMan13]

My orchestra audition piece for college. Fun stuff!

[yvesvangelre]

I never liked the tempi of Solti. This Meistersinger is too slow.

[reydeloshunos3]

Uno mas de los randes de la música y ademas ALEMAN, toda la obra de Wagner es impresionantemente bella como solemne

[SkinnyMc]

Played this a couple of years ago... God, what a tuba part!

[nestersg]

My second favorite conductor

[bananapark14]

wow. that is so so SO gorgeous.

[kurzelukdaniel]

Magnificent !!!



[wlbili]

This song just proves Wagner is the first class artist.

[ClassicHolic]

they should have played the concert version shouldn't they

[v10lini5t19921993]

Around 8 min 0 sec of this work...the precision alluded to earlier recurs. It is very good, and I can say, technical in part

[egmies]

wow, the precision from 1:37-1:40!

[Soundofmusic777]

The noblest celebration of the spirit of knighthood!

Thanks for posting and good quality.

[billace90]

That piece is just an apotheosis of musicality! Bravo!

[Limmoore]

Love listening to it with my eyes closed and visions of rushing down the autoband

[cms331]

@Limmoore and with hands open, standing up

[FromUSAwithLove]

@Limmoore Yes, Wagner can do that to you. Unmistakably German!

[SlyFox616]

marvelous and triumphant

[pablononescobar]

This has got to be one of the highest quality audio tracks on YouTube.

[dromemaster7]

agreed

[VyvienneEaux]

@pablononescobar

Is that sarcasm? 

[cjsuljic]

@pablononescobar YA IK!!! i clicked play and it started blasting but it wasn't fuzzy or anything- at all! and no VyvienneEau, im pretty sure it wasn't sarcasm... i love this song!

Wagner is the type of composer that will remain in history forever.

[disneyluver14797]

its is so beautiful =) i love listening to it with my eyes closed. My mind goes wild! =)

[Lw365]

we played this in our county orchestra, it was hard!! but it was fun to play :)

[qrzef4173]

I　think that this is the true essence of the culture of Deutschland.

[MrAlexKeaton]

This is one of the most powerful pieces ever written.

[guinguette07]

Conductors go and pass...Wagner remains.

[TheMuffinSamurai]

It's just so wonderful, makes me happy every time I listen to it. Such simple in structure, but bombastic and heroic in execution

[cubs12day25]

Check and Mate

[billace90]

Ausgezeichnet!!! Wagner ist der mann!!

[billace90]

Ausgezeichnet! Wagner ist der Mann!

[wezmo15]

who's the bald asshole now? ;)

[championofcathay]

post man, post man, this guy sleeps with the wife of a guy in a wheelchair!

[Tubarulz64]

6:16. Im just jusing that as a reference point for looking at a section of music for a tuba audition

[WYiXiang]

I hated playing the song, but it's quite enjoyable when you listen to it!

[laqerhill]

I totally loved playing the work, and I was fourth horn. It was fun!

[RKIRCHDO]

Solti was the man..............what a performance!

[JPJP001]

da fehlt ja der Schluss :-(

[Opoczynski]

Versuche Fritz Reiner und die Sympnieorchester von Chicago. Die best aussfuhrung.

[fdr100]

does anyone know where i can find Wagner Overture - Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Mässig im Hauptzeitmass

Sehr zart und ausdrucksvoll i just need from bar 97-112 i've been listening to this one but i don't know where it is i need it for an audition please help

[cerzule]

Absolutely glorious. You feel like you can acheive anything when you hear music like this.

[cetaceos100]

alucinante!!!!!!!!!!!!, como es Wagner. Puro sentimiento y energía...

[chokedad]

What a fantastic performance. I rather like Klemperer and the Philharmonia with this piece too.

[Beullah1]

Our daughter walked down the isle to this glorious piece of work. Wagner, even though we may not understand you, we embrace you.

[mahlerite]

Perhaps your daughter is a turtle? I'm just kidding. That's actually magnificent.

[Beullah1]

A turtle? Not hardly! We also bred one of our Trakehner mares to a wonderful stallion whose name was Meistersinger. Our Trakehners; along with Wagner, are true classics.

[kmgerhart]

@mahlerite hahaha hopefully not to the part at 6:34

[captainpiepants]

@mahlerite Only comment that has ever had me laugh aloud.

[lolaziegler]

@Beullah1 We just came to this page because we want to have this be our entrance music too!!

[StokesDaddy]

@Beullah1 How can you not understand Wagner? lol I dont get it, his songs were truly magical, and about magic and nordic gods. Not for the Christian Mind. You would have to be A normal civilized Christian/Americanized person to not understand Wagner, That comment made my day!! lol

[entfaltet]

@StokesDaddy I think Beullah1 might have been referring to the fact that he was an anti-Semitist.

[Shahrouz528]

@entfaltet anti-Semite.*

[requiemaeturnum]

This particular version seems a lot more marcato then the Karajan version that I am used to. It is still nice though.

[MrMss4]

Do you know if we can find that version on Youtube?

[requiemaeturnum]

It used to be on Youtube (you can probably find a link a few pages back in my favourites) but last time I checked, it was removed for some reason. It was really nice, a historic recording of the Berlin Philharmonic in Japan.

[MrMss4]

Haha, you really like to make sure every movement gets into your favorites. The least respect we could pay!

[requiemaeturnum]

Or we can continue their legacy and compose our own music!

[eoghdes18]

This is one of the best recordings I've heard of this, aside from a few dodgy triplets that're simply a matter of interpretation.

[SonicSteppah]

we are playing this in band..lol

but the trumpets play the flute meoldy...

i am only an eighth grader

[mingweicello]

which recording is that? As I know Solti at lease recorded three times, two complete opera with VPO and CSO, another overture with VPO.

[mahlerite]

He recorded this with Vienna in 1975.

[Baldgol4]

Powerful and beautiful.

[94David]

My favourite song! Love it!

[mrjag]

Thank you for uploading this video!

[truefakeness]

Probably the greatest overture that ever was, or ever will be written.

Wagner's music penetrates into the deepest crevices of your soul. I have often found that superficial people blush in the presence of his music, and cannot endure it for very long.

Only the deep, only the courageous have the right to enjoy Wagner.

[sshuck]

"Only the deep, only the courageous have the right to enjoy Wagner."

Blast, I'm a shallow coward. Please grant me equal rights someday, big strong man....Please?

[eoghdes18]

I think you should more correctly say

'Only the deep,only the courageous have the ABILITY to FULLY enjoy Wagner'. :)

[twilight4125]

=D love da song!!!!!!!

[mahlerite]

6:33 - 7:40 is one of the greatest passages in music that I have ever heard. The counterpoint is sublime, and I feel as though I've been raised to a higher plane of existence after hearing this piece. It isn't surprising to me that this work was often played at the inceptions of Nazi party rallies. (Wagner was Hitler's favorite composer.)

[egmies]

@mahlerite:

COMPLETELY agree! i played this yesterday and felt so uplifted at this section.

[gerardbedecarter]

@mahlerite It sure is !!

[DiLassu]

@mahlerite i couldn't have found better words for that, a great piece.

It's a shame that in israel, it's still impossible to perform wagners music, because hitler abused it for his party rallies, (wagners own antisemitism is neglegible in that case) greetings from germany

[luvcutebirds]

@mahlerite well this must be because its when the lovely cello finally gets the melody!

[ShredRedemption]

@luvcutebirds and the bass...