Wagner's Siegfried-Idyll

[czudor59]

So schön.

[sizzle224]

thumbs up if you're here because of curb your enthusiasm

[horsemad1670]

A job very well done for a 30ish piece orchestra. A delight. Thank you, faberoni , for posting it.

[TobiCute]

i like this song!

[pligana]

meraviglioso

[debjess3]

wagner was Hitler's favorite composer

[liquidfire213]

Wow, you have HBO, gtfo bitch

[higherdenali]

@debjess3 Even Hitler had some class. :)

[AtheneNikephoros]

@debjess3 And that's relevant because...?

[Rehtor]

@debjess3 So what???

[Giunone85]

stupenda...mi è entrata dentro l'anima

[simariato]

It s not the entire Siegfried Idyll...

[swanningaround]

Listen at 2:10. This is the Superman theme! I wonder if he got it from here!

[NailI3unny]

1:35 - 2:11 is one of those impossibly gorgeous moments that is at the pinnacle of beauty of all of Western music.

[handsomechuck1]

@NailI3unny No need to qualify music with 'Western.' This is among the best music any human has composed, anywhere, ever.

[AkBeringer7]

actually, not even that spectacular, nor is it western...

[lhrlyc]

@AkBeringer7 ... errr not western? Is Germany not in "the west" ?

[lhrlyc]

... errr not western? Is Germany not in "the west" ?

[rocinante88]

@AkBeringer7 Western Culture or Western Civilization means from European origin, and not the East or Far East such as Asia. Before the New World there was Asia in the East connected to Eurpoe in the West. The term Western has nothing to with John Wayne unless you are talking about movies. You will see when you get to college and perhaps take Western Civ(civilization)

[peanutbuttajellytime]

@NailI3unny That's the part I favor the most also.

[florianchurch]

Great!

[florianchurch]

Great, as Richad Wagner's music.

Thankas for positing.

[imjennyyeh]

WAGNER FTW!

[opusalibaba]

Cosimas 33. birthday 25. Dezember 1870

"Ewig war ich, ewig bin ich"

[loeckchen181188]

Darf ich dich bitte verbessern!?

Cosima Wagner hatte am 24.12.Geburtstag. Allerdings feierte sie ihn immer am 25.12. daher war die Uraufführung dieses Stückes am 25.12.1870! ;)

aber das Zitat ist toll! :D

[3tristan]

You may doubt that. Read the history.

[3tristan]

Very beautiful played and in the real good tempo (about the same as by Bruno Walter and Georg Solti).

Originally written for 15 instruments, based on a part of a stringquartet, a nursery song and themes from the musicdrama "Siegfried".

First performance on Christmas Day (birthday also of Wagners wife Cosima) 1970 in the asylum "Tribschen" near Luzern in Switzerland. It was Wagners present for Cosima as a remind of the birth of their son Siegfried. Also F.Nietzsche was present that day.

[FILIGREE1]

He should have just bought her hat or something. If it was my wife, on every subsequent birthday she would be pestering me,'where's that orchestra that you got me before?'

[madero111]

I've never heard this before.

It's Wagner and i love anything written by Wagner

[Shota871]

Hail Wagner! And screw Brahms!!!

[TheLastPictureShow]

They're both great- but Brahms mastered many things and Wagner only one thing. The composers who wrote great symphonies belong in a class of their own.

[christopheschuwey86]

Well, but Brahms wasn't able to master an opera, as Wagner, in his opera shows is mastery for nearly evertything

[NailI3unny]

It's not that Brahms wasn't able to master an opera...it was well within his capabilities to do so (ever listened to ein deutsches requiem?)...he just excelled so much in absolute music that the vast majority of his works were just that...instrumental and absolute.

Plus...if he ever were to put an opera out it would've been completely overshadowed by Wagner's operas and his own absolute music.

[31micho]

That's right! To hell with Brahms! Wagner is non plus ultra among both musicians AND artists

[Necrobutcher999]

Hey, don't go dissing mah homey brahms, nigga. I'm gonna go pop a cap in yo ass!

[simariato]

I don't think it s too slow... We ve just to take our time to listen to it!

[coco64007]

I think that Wagner composed this slow melody to show all the width of its feelings to its beloved :D

I found this melody so beautiful and romantic... and I love this partition because after so much of time, the expressed feelings always feel with the same force.

I think... :D

^^

[freshMan1983]

He composed it for his wife, when she gave birth to his son Siegfried

[hypocrita]

Wasn't a birthday gift to his wife?

I saw in 'curb your enthusiasm'.

[imjennyyeh]

i can't find the part of this song that he's whistling in that episoe

[mzthisuseristaken]

i know, i listemed to the whole thing (very enjoyable) but i was still waiting for that part.

[samdon815]

I think that it is a bit slow but I love it anyway.

[chrshammer]

I agree, I heard one version that was played at the propper tempo and it was awesome. One other Wagner song that I wish an orchestra would get right is "entrance into the hall of the gods" Every version I have heard is so weak, drives me nuts. Put some electric guitars in the orchestra, give it some power, it's the hall of the GODS!!! for crying out loud, not the hall of the faries. I'm sure Wagner would if he was around today. Maybe Trans Siberian Orch. please somebody