Richard Wagner - "Tristan und Isolde", Prelude

[ICUcreativegroup]

You 9 people dislike this because you suck and you dislike yourself. Plz for the love of living grow your blue ass up.

[bavinivram]

ja gut!!

[kostikpuh]

Бля)охуенно))огоонь вообщее)

[xIlpox]

Melancholia.. I always associate this with Hitchcock's Vertigo. Of course, the film doesn't include this directly but the score has very strong references. Furthermore, the story is very similar.

[ShogoYahaagi]

I actually remember this from "Excalibur".

[15Starlily]

Outstanding music.

[MrDailywhigne]

In my personal opinion, the most beautiful music is written by the nationalist composers. Tchaikovsky's music is all-round great. Handel's is triumphant and glorious. Elgar's is rousing and celebratory. And Richard Wagner brings a tear to my eye.

Bravo for Victorian politics for giving us these beautiful compositions.

[DullMetalJacket]

SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME THE NAME OF THIS PAINTING.

[snowpealove]

@DullMetalJacket it's in the description...

[DullMetalJacket]

@snowpealove

Wow, my bad. Thanks.

[PeterAndersonn2]

who thought that melancholia was his worst film, and, at worst, could be compared to a pretentious piece of shit revolving around an obvious, and therefor un-bombastic, conclusion? don't refer me to the character development, we all know that was vapid. i also like wagner.

[McPfoot]

@PeterAndersonn2 on the contrary, i liked it.

[djfakt]

@PeterAndersonn2 "UN-BOMBASTIC"?! Speaking of shit, the word "UN-BOMBASTIC" is pure shit...Also, just because you know the ultimate fate of those involved doesn't mean the film is automatically "shit'.

The most I'll give you is this: without the Wagner piece I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have enjoyed it...

[icaruskidJB]

Jumped out of my freaking skin at 1:35. This song is terrifying...

[HeelPower200]

Reminds me of Dunst's screen shattering performance.Its so very unfair that she isnot going to win an Oscar...oh Wait lets hope she does ^_^

[rhoetaupsilon]

piratebay brought me here

[windstorm1000]

Most music historians agree that this magnificen music is one of the 4 revolutionary sign posts in music history--Tristan introduced chromatic music and started dissolving chordal structure. Wagner, a genius of course. The other three pieces: Eroica Sym. (Beet.)--forever expanded the sym in emotion/structure, Prelude to an Afternoon (Debussey)--dissolved 500 years of chordal structure; and Schoernburg's 2nd string quartet, last movement (1st intro to atonal music)

[DrDeist]

@windstorm1000 Shoenberg was a good composer in spite of his beliefs. The theory behind atonalism is arbitrary and slightly insane.

[windstorm1000]

@DrDeist John Cage took it a step further creating tonal clusters based purely on chance from the I Ching and dice games.  Where does musical evolution end? It goes beyond our preconceptions and musical prejudices......

[EnLugal]

Oh! So Melancholia is where I heard this song.

[Propagacija]

internet brought me here.

[nonsens8]

i love you dali

[Swico]

I heard Nikolas Schreck speak of this man who in his opinon made satanic music.. is this really the same guy he mentiond?

[DimaKats2]

@Swico How can music be satanic? Just asking

[rayadhd]

@DimaKats2 it just might be. So tempting...

[Swico]

@DimaKats2 i don't think u got my question. I never said it was satanic.I said that Nikolas Schreck Spoke of this man who in his opinion made Satanic music that he listens to. So take a good look at the question next time

[DimaKats2]

@Swico Ok

[valerpng]

melancholia..

[asasscd]

I think this piece is tragedy materialised in music

[gklcgr]

Death/Death/Death you Wagner you

[luiscarl24]

Nietzsche brought me here too

[dunecigar]

Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd brought me here. Think about it.

[asasscd]

6:17 PERFECTION!

[newton296]

melancholia, I will never hear this music the same way again!

[TheLawlicious]

Ok so who here actually found this song not because of melancholia but because they actually know of good music?

[pstrauss89]

@TheLawlicious Pretentious. It's a great thing that a movie can make people aware of things like this rather than the latest Linkin Park song or toy line.

[windstorm1000]

@pstrauss89 We should all be able to write music that is so 'pretentious'. By the way, your reasoning is in reversee: it is immortal MUSIC like this, rather, that invites us to the movies and other art forms. The movie will be long forgotten in 500 years and Tristan will still be riding the air waves.

[Bubo25]

@TheLawlicious Actually, just like Siegfried's Funeral March, I first heard this piece in the movie Excalibur almost 20 years ago. After I heard them both I decided to find out more.

[windstorm1000]

@Bubo25 Well, its not 'just like' Siegfried"---that piece is much darker/violent in a way. But certainly they are cut from similar fabrics and from the same composer---

[Bubo25]

@windstorm1000 Nah, you misunderstood. I didn't mean they're just like each other in terms of music, I said that I first heard both of them in the same film because they were both featured in the movie Excalibur.

[adrsya]

@TheLawlicious Yes, I actually know of good music. No, I did not this prelude by Wagner before watching Melancholia. Nevertheless, I am grateful the movie introduced to this marvelous piece of music.

[SeriousBasements]

I hope von Trier uses the rest of this opera in Melancholia 2.

[reginacelividal]

Nietzsche brought me here.

[MellowMink]

Found this song via Melancholia. Beautiful.

[marco1507able]

Struggente, fantastico...definitivamente profondo nella sua bellezza.

[Siberiaeterna]

Fucking shit advertising!!! THIS IS THE BEST VERSIONOF PRELUDE and I can't have it on my playlist because of a fucking 10s advertising..

[Fthagen]

@Siberiaeterna Get AdBlock or a similar addon. It removes absolutely all ads everywhere. I personally couldn't live without it.

[Hamgammy]

why was only the prelude featured in that stupid melalcholia movie? was the director afraid people don't like opera and would not take to the other non-instrumentals as kindly as they did to the prelude. shame. he played it too safe, the prelude was played in the film over 20 times. how repetitive and boring.

[bluethanatos]

@Hamgammy if the prelude is played 20 times, maybe it's because he didn't need the rest of the opera, as when you hear this along with the movie, with no words, it creates that atmosphere that is needed to the movie!

people who like von trier, can surely appreciate this kind of music! for what the director and the music can give to the people!

maybe you missed something in that movie, that is: shut up, listen to music, and think to your futile existence!

[Hamgammy]

@bluethanatos no i didn't miss anything you twat. i just have a problem when watching a film (any film) and the same music is used over and over again. 20 times, that is kind of ridiculous.

[bluethanatos]

@Hamgammy I think that if it used properly it's good. I also like listening to songs in loop :D

just opinions :)

[CaptainKadmos]

When i hear this music i can only think a funeral.

[SuperPondguy]

This is a Furtwangler, it wanglers furts

[HolbergEM]

Many thanks to Lars von Trier to popularise this piece so dramatically. Well deserved.

[Rivvil]

@HolbergEM, this piece was in Excalibur as well, no? I was watching Melancholia's prologue and my mind kept linking it to Excalibur.

[HolbergEM]

@Rivvil Yes, thank you for reminding me. In fact, one my favorite OST with great pieces perfectly welded in the movie's story.

[HolbergEM]

Wagner is Great.

[MrDzeska]

OMG. So pessimistic.

[DiogoCysne]

I've watched "Melancholia". Now I can't stop hearing this without imagining the world exploding...

[AltaicPride01]

@DiogoCysne what was lars von trier trying to do using this great music to his dumb pretentious movie? it doesn't even go together

[vocarvajal]

@AltaicPride01 You either have no recognition or no respect for artwork. I can't tell which. Lars Von Trier's Melancholia was one of the best pieces of cinematic artwork i have seen in quite some time. And this piece fits the film very nicely. I would like to see YOU produce a film that is anywhere near as good as Melancholia. Until then, learn to appreciate beautiful pieces of artwork!

[windstorm1000]

@vocarvajal No, the film FITS the music--not the other way around. Trier's film will be long forgotten in 50 years while Tristan will be triumpant for generations to come.

[gwirgalon]

yes, this is truly beautiful....Fürtwängler was from a time when people took time with their hearts and ears and thoughts and Love......

[FunOfTheChase]

Furtwangler dwarfed the rest in the 20th century.

The only reason he wasn't recognized for the genius he was after the war, was political reasons. There are video clips (like the ones you see on youtube now) of him playing Beethoven in front of the swastika = enemy of the victors.

This generation foolishly cares about all that, but in 200-300 years, they'll look back at a very media-blinded/controlled world that sacrificed their free thought to 'standardized thought' in the 20th century.

[MrGunterguerrero]

In ' Tristan and Isolde ' , Wagner led a full concept of spontaneous lyric theater as a fusion of music and poetry.

[elvispresley718]

why is it just fine for jazz musicians like miles and others to be nation of islam but wagner is the bad guy? jews are the source of most of the bullshit in this world!

[rideformystery]

oh finally a peaceful place on youtube without theese thumbs up guys

[lilianaasancheez]

is perfect! :D

[rebekahsmith00]

It's the best soundtrack for a film like Melancholia

[boykitten87]

ghuh! its musical cholic! cannot stand wagner...("V"agner) its so slow, long drawn out, and in chords....a 5 year old could probably play this on a harmonium. If you want to hear something that moves your soul out of this reality and into another listen to Liszt!!!!!!

[sahandaman]

@boykitten87 now now, everyone has different tastes ... to each their own :)

[Maggo309]

This piece changed music history. Remind that!

[SingHouse]

It's all about 1:35 for me.

[TheRagazza2008]

thank you so much Lars Von Trier for introducing me to this. I would have never listened to this had i not seen Melancholia

[geooooolah]

@TheRagazza2008 same here, i only just watched it. its so beautiful.

[killerwaz88]

OMG this is incredible. It would have been the perfect music played at the creation of the Universe. And what's more, I can't believe I have to thank Lars Von Trier for helping me find it !

[LivinJoke84]

The bit at 1:36 actually frightens me a little!

[TDMThais]

Diga isso para Nietzsche, um declarado adorador de Wagner.



[AnaChemale]

Para quem ainda tem alguma dúvida sobre Deus, é só fechar os olhos e perceber que quem imagina uma música assim tem o toque Dele. É a melodia de Deus nas notas de Wagner!!! Divino!!!!

[LordMgls]

If this is really Furtwangler (I couldn't say), this a very good quality record :-)

[neuIlaryRheinKlange]

@LordMgls It is a remastered version, that's why the sound quality is so good.

[distrattox]

@LordMgls Slow as it is, it's likely Furtwängler's.

[distrattox]

@LordMgls Slow as it is, it's likely Furtwängler's.

[Siberiaeterna]

For sure Wagner himself would have like the Lars von Trier movie pictures Melancholia with his divine prelude.

[vitalsenise]

Maybe his Music has reached into the 21st century? Many who don't understand the magic or ignore it are only lost in the complexities of the compositions. We call him a Facists but he was a Nationalist demonstrating the powers endowed to those worthy of receiving the power of the Music as well as the Sagas that helped make Germany more then a dream but a reality that delved deep into the truths whitewashed over as fiction.

[Bubo25]

@vitalsenise Funny you should say that, because Tristan und Isolde isn't even a German story, but rather a part of the British Arthur legend. And ironically it was the German Saxons who Arthur fought.

[vitalsenise]

@Bubo25 @Bubo25 ...True Tristan was one of Arthurs Knights. However if you look at historical Saxon practices and this is derived from the Scandinavian custom we can see the Lady Of The Lake giving up Excalibur was derived from the Nordic and Saxon who are of Nordic migrations, of throwing Swords of the fallen into lakes.

Remember most of Britania was conquered and ruled & assimilated by the Vikings. So many of their legends are derived from Scandinavian as well as Saxon legends.

[blueberryskii]

Ugh! Glorious! So passionate!

[ViggoBanditto]

It saddens me that a fascist could compose such emotionality and beauty..

[sorrysonofa]

@ViggoBanditto for all I know Wagner was an outspoken antisemite. Why do you call him a fascist?

[nielstenbrink]

@ViggoBanditto Wagner was not a fascist since the concept of fascism hadn't been thought of in his days. He was a nationalist, yes, and, seen from today, held some politically questionable views. Still he was not a fascist and it does not make him one retrospectively that Hitler liked his music. Hitler was also a supporter of the German football club Schalke 04 - does that make the club a fascist club?

[Bubo25]

@mguelai83 Excalibur!

[Marinelovesny]

Perfect in Melancholia <3

[KTBEverlasting]

Melancholia brought me here and I thank it for introducing to me such a beautiful piece of music. It moves my soul.

[Endoom76]

This piece... It's haunting me... I can't get it out of my head... I feel so strange... I just...

It's just impossible to describe such beauty...

[HopeWithPandora]

Thank-you Ana...for the direction : )

A beautiful piece of music!

[VitalSigns1]

This is music in its purest form. 

[CynicalVaudeville]

melancholia

[ANGELBOSS00]

All love classical music <3

[Napoleontas]

Unbelievable description of feelings in musical terms

[jaguar5962]

Cet opéra est bouleversant j'en frissonne , quelle merveille , que de sentiments transcrits dans cette musique ...

[DunDeagh25]

When I listen to this, I think of a person standing on a cliff with waves, and the person is reflecting on finding and falling in love with their soul mate and then suddenly losing the one that person to a tragic accident.  It is so powerful and intense.

[alexander0403100]

Breahtaking



[Mirani2]

10:26- wicked scary!

[GilbertoFerLuis]

Melancholia.

[Yachieightthousand]

Everything in this video ties into this song. The orchestra that played beautifully and even one of Caspar David’s moving paintings really expresses the raw emotion in this miraculous master piece! Welches schönes Musik!

[BFL0W]

6:15 the new little motif in the strings, of two 32nd notes and the 32nd quintuplets leading to the lower chords in that chromatic manner... UGH get's me EVERY TIME. very romantic voicings

[j16j43t01]

Je m'insurge contre l'attitude du CRIF de demander à Monsieur le Ministre de la Culture d' interdire Wagner à l'Opéra de Paris en 2012 lors de la célébration du 200 èm anniversaire de la naissance de cet immense compositeur. D'accéder à une telle demande, ce Ministre de la Culture passerait à être une simple girouette au service de l'inculture.

[LaPersonaNonGrata]

when I listen to this - now, for the first time - I get the impression as if I am growing from infancy to adolescence through my twenties, thirties and so on until I pass away. Not only that, but I feel all the emotions possibly felt by a human in an entire life time.

What splendid music. Classic. Transcending. Eternal.

[ronthejazzcat]

Gotta love the "Tristan" chord. So full of emotion!

[ArchiducDeBelgrade]

Well Its Furtwangler..he is.. i dont have words to describe him..

[italianguerrilla]

Dam it... it's unbearable what i feel when i listen to this tune... man, how's it possibile a human composed somethin like this... so perfect, so perfect that hurts me... how dare i to be a musician? how dare i to be a man??

[TimKGrimes]

@italianguerrilla Beautifully said.

[tyrannicaltoranth]

@italianguerrilla The perfect combination of cheesy and going way overboard. Congrats =)

[fweebrotwosday]

@italianguerrilla we'd all be fumbling around with marbles and whipped cream if we compared our creations to Wagner : )

[italianguerrilla]

@fweebrotwosday

I don't care about me as musician... the problem is that i feel small compared to this music... but i always thought that "small" should be a size! For example: we're small compared to universe... How's it possible that i feel my life essence small compared.. to a composition'??!??!?!?! lol (sorry for gramm mistakes)

[seukfuhi]

@italianguerrilla Wagner composed this during a painful love affair (he had a few across his lifetime). You can feel it in the music.

[truvianni]

@italianguerrilla In my opinion only humanity is capable of creating such things

[saffonia]

@italianguerrilla The beauty of German romanticism prior to expressionism, he found the music from a lyric of a German poem and the beauty of love, and betrayal so maligned but love is such, and even now, men and women suffer with loss but such passion that he has so encapsulated in his music. And, I thought reading Stephen Fry's biography - upper class twaddle, yet know now as a poet - and having loved - this BLISS of Wagner. You man, I women in in equality )

[mrcotocloftoclo]

@italianguerrilla damn, chill out dude...

[gusmarr1]

Increible la orquestación, MAGISTRAL!!!!!!!! Es una obra perfecta, conmovedora, es el triunfo del espiritu sobre el materialismo sonóro, tan vanagloriado en tantos autores. Muy buena la obra y la orquesta.

[gusmarr1]

Increible la orquestación, MAGISTRAL!!!!!!!!

[daSaboriGuitars]

Backbeat the word is on the street: This was based of a love affair?

[yourforte]

Beautiful piece. So chromatic that it changed the face of music.

[fitobal]

@yourforte is so really! Shoenberg and his dodecafonic music go after!

[gusmarr1]

@fitobal la música de Shoenberg, es NADA en comparación a la música de wagner. Shoenberg, es "lo material ". Carece de espiritu e imaginación compositiva.

Es "el materialismo en la música", Wagner es "el espíritus en la música"!!! El dodecafonismo es "el sonido por el sonido mismo", Wagner es "el sonido como medio para expresar lo espiritual". El dodecafonismo es "SOLO UNA TÉCNICA COMPOSITIVA", No significa nada, en cuanto a la calidad de la música en si misma. Shoenberg, es "la anti-música"

[neuIlaryRheinKlange]

@Hypercheiria I agree with you, this is definitely the best recording of Wagner's "Tristan" I've ever heard, maybe even better than Karajan's version :)

[paulostroff99]

@neuIlaryRheinKlange -Easily better.As was the case with Furtwangler I find him vastly superior with Wagner.than ever was Karajan.