Tannhauser Overture-Wagner/Leibowitz/Part-1 of 2

[pierrot79]

Compare 2:25 with the same by Karajan (h8VLYb3T3hs) : Leibowitz "hacks" the melodic phrase of the trombones. I happen to prefer the continuous phrasé of Karajan, but I admit this version sounds somewhat more martial, where Karajan sounds more lyric, (you'll notice he allows trombones to be slightly late, where Leibowitz enforces a stricter synchronization)

[matthewmch]

i imagine this song playing after a hero rises above the ruins of the apocalypse.

[dave53ize]

This was one of my Moms favorite Classical Pieces. Mom I Love @ Miss You Very Much. RIP.

[Syzygy60]

this means nothing to you? this is the most beutifull emotional music I can recall hearing,note I leave myself a way out

[LocuraImplacable]

O:

[Syzygy60]

shut up and listen hate me and learn if necessary

[Syzygy60]

because I cry u must cry also or I must eliminate u,eliminate can mean take off friends list

[Syzygy60]

I cry when I hear this Wagner knew emotion through music

[guspleite]

APOCALIPSE NOW plays WAGNER.But WAGNER was a good person,and one of the best --do not mix music and bad people who plays this music

[UWSdick]

Wonderful!

[guspleite]

this music shakes your soul,it remember the SECOND WAR,,,,,,THE VIOLINS are simply genoius,,,while violins plays,,,,,deep

[hopizuni]

If listening to Wagner makes you think of bugs bunny - you've been watching too many cartoons and not listening to enough great music.

[Syzygy60]

censorship in any form has no place

[Syzygy60]

I bet we weren't allowed to play it because of politics

[Syzygy60]

i played percussion throughout school,I played alotta classical music I forget some,i know i'd remember playing this

[Syzygy60]

I think I'd remember

[Syzygy60]

Bugs never did Tannhauser

[nemesis962074]

@Syzygy60 He did, it's an old cartoon made as American propaganda for WW2.

[Syzygy60]

Cartoons brought us culture :)

[Syzygy60]

this is epic,I love it,no discussion beyond this point

[Syzygy60]

Bugs did Barber of Seville

[3maedchen]

Einfach herrliche Musik

I grew up with listening to it

Hedi

[Samgurney88]

This is the first piece of conducting which has ever actually elicited any 'emotion' in me, without coming across as controlled and artificial. I'm impressed.

[rludders1]

'Oh Brunhilda, you're so wuv-ly!'

'Yes I know it, I can't help it....!'

[Pinkfacedmonkey02]

Whenever Americans think of Wagner, they think of Bugs Bunny.

[DarthRandall]

@Pinkfacedmonkey02 That cartoon was so epically funny that it is hard not to. No opera fan that I have ever met can watch "What's Opera Doc?" and not completely lose it.

[sssatrunnn]

Bugs bunnies are so small to understand Wagner.

[beatrixme]

Goosebumps...

[Adrillius]

When I hear this, I walk in slowmotion.

[manouchehr7]

Timeless

Wagner music is great with different quality

[Astrozombbie]

I don´t have idea what exist in the mind of 4 guys here, but really, they are wrong...

[arnoldzieffel]

Thumbs up if you think of Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd listening to this.

[clawpuss2]

I love the bit at 2.40 where the strings are descending, and the brass plays the melody - simply amazing. How the hell did he come up with that?

[djcandy1234]

why is everyone naked/nearly naked????

[Nach956]

@djcandy1234 because of beauty??? :-S

[ratnazafu]

@djcandy1234 because it's the mound of Venus where they have unholy fun fun fun

[shy69iskrazy2]

@djcandy1234

It's a drunken orgy or bacchanal, which when it's in the form of a musical composition it's called bacchanale . Look up bacchanal for more info pls.

[Emrgnci]

Oscar Wilde sent me here. :)

[sesrunner08]

every time I hear this. I think of bugs bunny

[whocaresjuajua]

@sesrunner08

LOL that´s what i was just thinking!

[wolvie14]

@sesrunner08 I saw Die Walkirie at the movies and almost winded up laughing when the famous Walkirie riding song came. I kept hearing '' Kill the Wabbit ! Kill the Wabbit '' in my head. But, Bugs Bunny ultimately made me a classical music fan.

[daytraderfbf]

@sesrunner08 Kill the Wabbitt ; Kill the Wabbitt. Elmer Fudd was a scream.

[trevpr1]

@sesrunner08 "Wee-tuurn my wove"

[thinkingrequired]

@sesrunner08 Must be because someone spiked your lemonade with lsd...

[xXthescarykidXx]

@sesrunner08

Haha. Same, though I came here because of Roy Batty.

[TomhetDoomOcculta]

imho Leibowitz is the biggest interpreter of Wagner

[tex4392]

MUSICA MERAVIGLIOSA!!!

[DarkVampress]

One of the japanese cartoons (ANIME) I was watching introduced me to Wagner`s work and this song. The anime`s was called, "Fujimi Orchestra." I also, love the feelings I feel in this song it makes me feel happy and relaxed.

[zouzounexoula]

I just watched it in Berlin, Deutsche Opera,19.12! It was an extraordinary performance! So lucky to feel it so close! What a composition! Music! Music! Bravo! logiagymnna

[zouzounexoula]

I just watched it in Berlin, Deutsche Opera,19.12! It was an extraordinary performance! So lucky to feel it so close! What a composition! Music! Music! Bravo!

[CalumJambo]

good tune shame all the fans seem to be a bit pretentious.

[ek13king]

@CalumJambo If that's your reaction to the above comments, you clearly don't appreciate great expressive writing!

[robbyvasena]

God and his angels listens at Wagner s music in heaven.- be sure of that.-

[Gneto8385]

Just magnificent !!!

My hearts explodes with a music like that.

Thanks Wagner.

[enfinlaretraite]

@Gneto8385 Exact !! Me too...

[sanfrancisco27]

Music just does not get any better than this.

[PazPanda]

Bravo Wagner, Bravo!

[supersymbiotic]

personally i would have preferred the John Colier painting of tanhauser, but this will suffice :p'

[AnticosmosOverload]

UNA OBRA MAESTRA!

[liveontheedge1]

Bernstein version is far superior. Although this is good the brass outways........

[ogbobbydee]

The Russians have a right to be proud; great composers, authors, philosophers and scientists have come from Russia, as well as from Germany! The Tannhauser Overture still brings tears to my eyes and makes chills run up and down my spine every time I hear it.

[ovsergeev]

@BonnieBlueFlag1314

You say what i'd like to say. We in Russia are definitely proud. Beautiful music, beautiful German culture!

[guitars2112]

@BonnieBlueFlag1314 Let his country be proud of him; let it be proud, but, at the same time, worthy of him.

[kravanema]

KILL THE WABBIT! lol

[h2opolodan11]

@kravanema omg exactly, I've been looking for this piece ever since hearing it in "What's Opera Doc?"... love those cartoons with brilliant classical pieces!!!

[nycolas1712]

Excellent.

[TheLoyalSpartanFilms]

@BonnieBlueFlag1314 I have to agree with this comment, I can't thing of any classical song that did not come out of Germany, Three cheers for Germany and long live Great music till the end of time!

[MrExtremerightwing]

@TheLoyalSpartanFilms Then your knowledge of classical music is poor indeed, i can think of thousands of pieces.

[333begemot]

benito e adolfo, che avete COMBinato di nuovo??

[tattleboad]

what can be said other than i like this

[DanTheMan31415]

The best part of this is that this is what they used for the tune of "Return My Love" in "What's Opera, Doc?" It's one of the best cartoons ever. Trust me.

[piligriming]

Потрясающая глубина человеческих страстей!!!

[GingerJoberton]

Beautiful, but this version contains the most abhorrent brass section.

Anyway, thanks for uploading.

[superfebs]

Thank you VERY much for posting and sharing!

I overall prefer the Bernstein version, but that's my personal taste and this is a lovely resource, too.

[VargFarkas]

Yesterday I put this on the CD-player in my bathroom... Never thought brushing my teeth could be so epic.

[superfebs]

@VargFarkas LOL!

[ek13king]

@VargFarkas I can SO picture the scene you describe! I would love it even more if it didn't seem like such a great concept for a toothpaste commercial. ;)

[colmadina]

@VargFarkas 8 Minutes brushing ones teeth I think my gums would bleed! That'd be quite EPIC! :D

[timmypage44]

@VargFarkas That was a year ago, but it made me lol pretty hard.

[cogermax91]

wonderful music !bravo !!!!

[buttermilkbread]

Wagner was not a true racist. He just couldn't stand foreign culture merging into his. Had he lived in Hitler's Germany, he would have condemned them!

[pytko3]

True, it was his wife who pushed him into racialism in the first place.

[Prestobongus]

Wagner was a rebel, he transformed music, he was indeed anti-semitic, but paradox wise, insisted that Jewish conductors and musicians handle his music!!! He needed their talent, expertise, understanding for his difficult productions!!!!

[supraludwick83]

@Prestobongus not truth at all, where do you invent this things, I am a Wagnerian... I have read all his catalogues and his book "the Jew in Music", you are just inventing things my friend, I dont have anything against jewish people heck! my girlfriend is Jewish, and my favorite chess player Mikhail Tal, and director Woody Allen are my favourite, but dont invent things please? thank you.

[AlxAlice]

who cares who has commited atrocities god tunes are good tunes...getalong already

[385Mercedes]

What a dichotomy!

[MetalMan837]

I don't belive that wagner make reference to anti-semitism in your compositions, but wagner was nationalist and loved your country, sometimes we exposes our nationalism with music, that it is very important. Wagner wanted preserve your culture against the semit culture

[catalonian1714]

De aquí a 500 años, la gente recordará más a Wagner que a los crímenes de Adolf Hitler... Igual que nosotros recordamos las grandezas de los imperios pasados y no sus miserias. El arte, la música supera a cualquier ideología... Esta ópera es Fantástica !

[spentonmediocrity]

"Every ethnic group has committed atrocities"

Exactly my point...think about that.

I don't deny some ethnic groups are more advanced than others but why take people as a whole when you can take them as individuals?Why not associate in *that* sense,as progressive individuals?

Cull the progressive and neuter the violent and selfish I say.

[VictorLepanto]

I think that Bugs Bunny has ruined this music for me. Every time I hear this I start thinking of that Warner Bros. cartoon where they make fun of Wagner. Especially in that scene where Bugs is in drag as Brumhilda.

Elmer sings to Bugs/Brums: Brumhilda, you are so beautiful!

Bugs: Yes I know, I can't help it!

It is where I 1st heard this music as a child.

I am sure that Wagner would have cursed the WARNER Bros. for mocking him so. I think Goethe would have loved the send up.

[somthingbrutal]

bugs bunny ruined nothing the music is still great

and the cartoon is my favourite b bunny

with my sword and magic helmet i will kill the fearsome wabbit

[Napoleontas]

Devine Wagner

[CaptainBluebear08]

Leibo seriously rulezzz

[raticida123456]

amazing this orchestra

[SuperTemplars]

Just saw the famous castle in Austria. Perfect for this music

[TheTristan1954]

Neuschwanstein in Schwangau? I was there a few (30) years ago and still its on my mind

[Wagnerian52]

Perhaps you mean in Bavaria..???

Neuschwanstein Castle in Fussen, Southern Germany..

Incredible..!!! An engineering feat..!!!

and they say Ludwig was crazy..!!

Rubbish..!!! He was just in the way..!!!

[RadicalAwesomeness]

One of the most beautiful overtures that I've been blessed to listen.

[sanfrancisco27]

@RadicalAwesomeness - I totally agree with you.

[fishblade2]

amazing song but what is with all the static and sound in the background...

[Organiste06]

ARS GRATIA ARTIS.

[spentonmediocrity]

I agree,being proud to be a particular race is silly.

That said I think some of this "white pride" is a response to big white guilt pushed by the left.Calling a kid trash for being white and from a trailor park(among other things) and there's bound to be a response.

Anyhow Wagner's music will transcend and outlive no matter the politics of our times.

[upinarms79]

Why should one not revel in the achievements of one's own cultural heritage and ancestry? Personal accomplishments are all fine and good but people cultural heritage also shape who we are and how we think. As long as you aren't using it as a point to propagate fascism, I personally don't see a problem with being "proud" of one's own cultural background. Every ethnic group has committed atrocities but they also have their own merits. It's part of being human.

[spentonmediocrity]

"Why should one not revel in the achievements of one's own cultural heritage and ancestry?" It has always been the individual that differed sharply from the main that has pushed any culture forward...usually at his expense. Likewise I have no use for Afrocentrism or Jewish ethnocentrism,etc...the latter are pushing us towards WW3 and serve as a good point.

Neither is mine isn't an endorsement for globalization's problem child - multiculturalism.

I simply believe in merit.

[emi76]

Nessuno puo' capire il nazionalsocialismo, senza capire Wagner.

[cvvvvvvvvvvv]

Me  estremece y más cuando pienso en una Walkirya alemana, completamente desnuda.

[andresgualdron]

This is as beautiful as it gets.

[blopcup]

music has no colour, no nationality, it belongs to humanity as a whole

[PetertheBBD]

Music is an expression of nationality and culture.

[wilhelmschumann]

you are right indeed!!

music is music !

[cvvvvvvvvvvv]

All the World should be proud,  Not Euurope.

[SaraOcampo]

Es la versión que más me ha gustado de todos los video que he visto. Muy, muy hermoso

[Mathilda90]

From 2:06 I'm just stunned every time I hear it! So strong and emotional..and brilliant:) Great!

[autr727]

es una lastima que lo hayas interrumpido en la mejor parte...

[norv87]

beautiful

[cvvvvvvvvvvv]

Sé que Kandisky, cuando escuchaba esta Obertura, tuvo un arrebato . Y una mezcla de luces, colores y sombras se presentó ante sí. Y , a partir de ahí, comenzó  a pintar su pintura abstracta.

[zuckerkrank]

명쾌하다. 훌륭한 앙상블... 르네 라이보비츠는 역시 최고의 지휘자입니다. 12음기법의 음악뿐만 아니라, 모든 고전 낭만 레파토리에서 최고의 실력을 보여주신 거장이라고 할 만합니다. 좋은 동영상 감사합니다.

[BeauJames59]

I couldn't have said that better myself. Actually, myself, I couldn't have said that at all. Go Korea!

[sarita1692]

What are you saying?

[Erazmus72]

This is one of my favs. I've heard it over a hundred times. It never gets old.

[389Rodolfo40701]

Verdaderamente es una maravillosa interpretación, la más sublime interpretación de la música de otras dimensiones, escrita por ser humano. Muchas gracias.

[Matthewcoakley08]

NOTHING!!!! Beats a Wagner Orchestra

[jackylen57]

Magnifique interprétation !

Merci

[Organiste06]

Grandiose ! Je sens bien que Wagner et moi, on va bien s'entendre...

[captnunziatella]

Wonderfull... My favourite composer is J.S.Bach, but I think that the overture to Tannhauser is the best piece of music ever created.

[mefeetbecold]

Ahh, I never realized how much I like Wagner. He's going on my list of favorite classical composers.

Tchaikovski

Beethoven

Chopin

Greig

and now, Wagner!

[partmaudite]

Mefeetbecold: Welcome. Personally, putting him on a list of great composer does not go far enough. Wagner is the greatest artist who ever lived.

[mefeetbecold]

I'd have to disagree with that. Has Tchai ever brought you to tears? I think that's what qualifies composers to go on lists.

[aaronginn]

To me, Tchaikovsky's music has emotional pull but little depth. Every time I listen to Wagner, I hear something new. While I think Bach ranks as the greatest composer, Wagner ranks as the greatest artist among the composers.

[Backfire76]

Wagner and Tannhäuser is one of the greatest. Especially this one has so much feeling in it. There's something very pompous, militaristic and still gentle all together. Just simply Wagner - and great.

[simariato]

@Backfire76 Militaristic? YOU see somthing militaristic because of your ignorance.

[mirgoes]

MERAVIGLIOSO

[Davinho87]

stupendoooooooooo

[cake5000]

Bravo, this song completes me.:)

[Adirondaque]

I went to see it with one of my friends... my first classical concert ever...

Boy, did I fall in love.

I cried, I had goosebumps, I laughed, I climaxed...

Thank you for the wonderful renaissance image too ;-)

This piece will always be special to me... cause I saw it live...

[simariato]

I understand, I hate to see operas from Wagner, it s too much strong, too much intense and personal. Wagner gives a kind of grandeur with generosity, he s not scared about representing love with an infinite imagination ;)

[woodstockswims]

I love this piece so much!  Especially the trombone part at about 2:23 I think. :)

[bojman]

I am still addicted to this thing, listening it on a daily basis. Really good thing. Did not know that Wagner composed such emotional pieces. I must investigate it further.

[jasminesimplebutcute]

wonderful

[bojman]

Great masterpiece, very emotional but still Tsckaikovsky is better :)

[drubend]

Precioso, me ha encantado

Beautiful, i love it

[Lepeods]

You know, I'm not sure I would even know this beautiful piece were it not for Elmer Fudd and Bugs prancing about to it. Such fond memories...

[CloudStrife5671]

And the sad thing? Those great cartoons are hard to come across in modern days.

[flostinparadise]

Beautiful Version. It still brings back memories Of Elmer Fudd. Kill the Wabbit.

Thank you Milt Franklyn for making this my favorite Opera.

[soleross]

il avait raison woody allen

"ah vraiment! quand j'écoute du wagner j'ai envie d'envahir la pologne"

c'est orgasmique ce truc

[zmov1]

Mon Français n'est pas bon mais je pense que je suis sûr pour dire que je suis heureux que vous appréciiez cette version spéciale.

[figaro92]

Can you translate me this allen's sentence, please?

[geraldbgeraldb]

He means it's a good soundtrack to invade poland :)

[shasahazza]

It means something like "Ah truly! When I listen to Wagner I want to invade Poland" It's a long time since I studied French.

[figaro92]

Ok, thanke you :)

[Elvuz]

I wouldn't mind if such invasion really take place - but only if it would be invasion of Wagner's music. I'm a Pole :)

[figaro92]

eheh :)

[simariato]

@soleross Wagner n'a rien a voir avec Hitler. Cette remarque stupide que tu fais répands l'idée absurde que Wagner fut nazi avant meme que le nazisme existe.

Allen était juif et devait avoir une dent contre tout ce qui pouvait etre scandinave ou germanique, je peux comprendre que ca l'ait bouffé toute sa vie.

[parisienaa]

@simariato wagner n'était bien sûr pas nazi avant leur appartition, mais il était bel et bien un anti-juif d'une famille d'anti-juif. ça n'empêche pas que sa musique est belle. elle ne lui appartient pas.

[vHumboldt77]

@parisienaa --c'est vrai, c'est Dieu, l'univers entier qui lui a insipré cette musique, de même que pour le reste de grands artistes de toute époque...quand la beauté d'une création artistique est aussi sublime que celle de cette musique, elle n'appartient bien sûr pas a une nation, mais a l'Humanité toute entiere! Et, ils sont aussi fanatiques les nazis qui l'ont utilisée que les israeliens qui ont critiqué Daniel Baremboim pour avoir osé émmener la musique de Wagner a Tel-Aviv....

[SteveAndrewLangford]

@soleross ah, mon ami! tres orgasmique!

[firestartertwistedfi]

@soleross woody allen is still funny in french :)

[nubuu]

bellisimo, Muchas gracias por el video

[orinocojones]

Shame the brass drowns out those eerie violins... still, 5/5

[zmov1]

Maybe I'm too used to this version but it's my favorite one. Variety is such a splendid thing.

[orinocojones]

Oh hell yeah, I still thoroughly enjoyed it... thanks for posting it : D

[barjblk55]

si es posible pasa toda la cancion n mp3 y envíalo a mi correo xfas

[nubuu]

ai dios, pero si en el emule encuentras todo hombre... te puedes bajar la opera al completo si kieres

[vdemurray]

lo mejor de youtube es este video

[zmov1]

Soy muy feliz que disfrutaste del vídeo. Excusar por favor mi mán español

[barjblk55]

Bella esa obertura gracias por este video

[zmov1]

Es mi placer! Gracias!