Richard Wagner - Götterdämmerung - Twilight of the gods - AWESOME

[Wonocva15]

Wait, are people still this fucking ignorant about Germany?

Sweet balls yes, maybe I have a chance at that scholarship now.

[johnharlan100]

Like someone said, the music we will all hear when the world ends.

[Montblanc123456789]

greetings from bayreuth :)

[philospheros]

Does anyone remember the movie 'Excalibur'? ;)

[THEMGOROTH75]

@philospheros Yes!EEEEEPIC!!!!

[Joseprecasens1]

@philospheros BEAUTIFUL

[BVB09Fanatic]

Expertly conducted and played. Lucky to be able to watch this several years later with the advent of modern technology.

[Joachim010]

Great music.Very dramatic.Nevertheless a brilliant piece of craftsmanship by Wagner.

Also this conductor knows his way...

[Maggo309]

Is it possible to have a video with Wagner´s epic music without an idiot starting a debate about Hilter and Nazis? This music is the peak of civilized culture and every debate about Hitler reduces Wagners genius completely.

[wolverineaquajock2]

@Maggo309 Its called the theory of Reductio ad Hitlerium. That sooner or later, every argument is reduced to someone equating the other to Hitler or the regime of the NSDAP. So no, is the short answer. Lol

[GABYCONSTANZA]

@Maggo309 boy isn't that the truth!! Amen to that!!

[kilkolio]

the music that plays when the world meets its end

[kilkolio]

have ur baby listen to this and he will become a badass

[warjunky14]

Heil

[JewDavidBenGurion]

The genius of Wagner, Beethoven, Bach and Mozart is incalculable. If the Holocaust is the price the world paid for perfect Art and supreme Genius, then we have indeed received a bargain beyond human reckoning!

[xavmanify]

@JewDavidBenGurion The sheer idiocy of that statement has left me breathless. please just listen to the music and don't comment any more.

[xingsheng1]

Man, this piece makes my blood boil and freeze at the same time.

[Tomahawk2408]

5 jews dislike this vid

[ArcanePath360]

The power of this music is such that without it, Excalibur would have sucked

[alexuchiha666]

@Nolliminator everyone is a genius who greats such a awesome music that touch peoples hearts, so pls stfu :) FAP

[kionie1]

A great piece of music if I do say so myself.

[Bcpouf11]

Well, if all of Gotterdammerung were played at that pace, it would take a day to complete...BUT...I think this is an excellent rendition. Both massive grief for a lost hero and glorification of his memory are conveyed by this music, and I believe this conductor amplified both with great effectiveness.

I also say this...hang all the superlatives you care to on this unique and staggering product of a genius.

[danieldei]

4 people listen to Tokyo Hotel

[LINTUX2]

@danieldei Jajajaja 4 tokyo hotel, 1 rammstein or shit like that

[TieraArmos]

i dDEFINETELY MY FAVORITE CLASSIC EVER! iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiRICHA­RD WAGNER , ICH LIEBE DICH , ICH DANKE DIR {F.O.R. I.M.M.E.R.} !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MAGISIA TERWE-ISIÄ WOLFGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGANUSKJE IOGANNUSHKINU GOETHE ( ... Das Ewich Meinliche Zeit Uns Heran AKSÅ ) :) ;) <3<3<3 ;) :)

[23annababy]

omg this isnt boring at all! way to make a channel of the most retarded shit ever!

[DrJadeBalfour]

fucking raw

[NPDFremdsprachen]

Amazing!

[Cristo1007]

Music is nothing less than the most powerful language of manking. No words could describe such powerful emotions and exceptional imagination.

[domdeone]

Blow your socks off!

[winstondavies]

Incredible! Truly great music, such as this, is part of our human heritage. It almost makes me wish we had a few gods to whom we could dedicate our art.

[alphatotheomega7]

I have only seen one Wagner opera, and it was Die Walkure. The ride of the Valkyries was the only exciting part, everything else was slow, repetitive, and boring. Why weren't there any songs like this one in there?

[MrRadmob]

Ich sag es doch immer wieder.

Wir haben eine verdammt geile Kultur :)

[lulalely]

@MrRadmob pah, wagner ist keine kultur, wagner ist kitsch ;-)

[PenguinFromPluto]

Enchanting music, truly!

[824Yoyoyo]

Love it! I've always been drawn to Wagner's music masterpieces! One of the best composers ever.

[18grossdeutschland1]

war ein absolut großartiger mann!!!

[suopiskelija]

boorman's excalibur with wagner's music - simply brilliant...

[Utopia1901]

Such a GREAT version of this masterpiece! :)

[AliytStudios]

epic, just epic

[StAndAl0neCompl3x]

My poor little laptop's speakers can't handle it!!

[dynaflow74]

1 user here adores Justin Bieber ...

[xXvolhvXx]

I like the conductor's moves. He must be a passionate person; at least, when it comes to music, I guess.

[Fpinne]

...there is it again... the prickling in the back of my head. Always caused by such marvelous music like this!

[1bateleur]

berlioz must have disliked...

[MyTheDarkKnight]

To think that this is based on Norse mythology

[KanoSozaburo]

5:49 somebody shot the guy next to him because he was talking

[okenta3ei]

@KanoSozaburo ahhhhaahhaahahah

[maitreyalux]

Wow I must celebrate and head on down to the Beer Hall!!

[Dilip122S]

Magnificent. To hear this music is to feel a greatness, a nobility of vision, a majesty that seems alien in our modern world . Thank you for uploading.

[vladtepes1099]

I want this to be played at my funeral

[Spetsnazcollector]

There is only one word left to describe this masterpiece: EPICNESS. Thank you for uploading the video!

[rmrgm521m]

Sorry, but NOBODY does it like Bayreuth!

[duterium1]

Catchy tune there, Rick.

[slamminsammy35]

Wagner is my favorite composer of classical pieces its so dark and eerie.

[ashvinthambyah]

at 4:44 it appears Ennio Moricone sampled for this bit for his The Untouchables score.

[iempire45]

La Gloire par le sacrifice ultime, pour son idéal, pour l'Honneur.

[ricinct]

A fitting funeral march for the WEST...Imperialism is the crack cocaine of powerful nations...as the child of the world's biggest junkie..the British Empire..America has lost its New World soul and is nothing but the reactionary pitbull of old British and French colonial policies..led by a half-American Obama and NATO puppets like Merkel we are going over the cliff..where is the Savior of the West???

[E100Omega123]

I love classical music. Wagner, Beethoven, and Nikolai Rimsky are my favorite! Too bad kids today are saturated with shit like Justin Beiber.

[ardealmare]

To all of the soilders that gave their lives from ancient times to present; eternal be their memory!!

[cattlexing]

0 people don't like this

[wittgenstein86]

@cattlexing

Ich glaube mittlerweile hat sich ein Jude dieses Lied angehört ;-)

[thejuggernautbitch7]

people will have their opinions about other people.... it's been that way forever and there's no changing it. no matter how much it may divide people though, the important thing is what brings us together - like this music which we all agree is amazing.

cheers.

[ArchiducDeBelgrade]

This is sooo amazing..Wagner is I dunno I dont have words to describe how great composer he is..

[joao975ca]

Wagner: the God of Music!

[TheDucciano]

I wish people would speak about the composition and its compositional merits as opposed to spewing out tired and played out superlatives:

Wagner must have been a God!

I'm crying!

He's nuts so that's why he's a genius!

All you have to say is: I really like this piece.

And Wagner himself had nothing to do with Nazi's incorporating his

music into their regime. The mutherfucker was dead before WWI.

[Nolliminator]

@TheDucciano, wagner wasn´t a god, because he was an Anti-Semite not a nazi, but an Anti-Semite and that´s bad enough. And i think Handel, Beethoven, Bizet, Schubert and Johann Straus the 1st were much more a genius than wagner .

[upajos]

@TheDucciano That was worth a thumbs-down for the use of "mutherfucker", where "man" would have done quite nicely.

[TheDucciano]

@upajos Nah, I choose "mutherfucker" specifically and I think its usage fits the tone of my post appropriately. Also, I don't know where you get off criticizing how I choose to express myself either.

[upajos]

@TheDucciano Kids visit this site. I listened to this kind of music when I was 6 years old. Slobs like you leave filth and graffiti all over the world. That's where I "get off" criticizing punks like you.

[TheDucciano]

@upajos Your objection to me using the word "mutherfucker" is because kids visit sites like Youtube?...and you wish to protect them?! I find that strangely amusing. It's naive (maybe down right stupid) of you to think that way, but it is certainly amusing. If anything, Wagner's anti-Semitism, anti-Catholicism, and misogyny is more offensive than the word MOTHERFUCKER is in my opinion. So my filth will continue worldwide...

Your values are admirable but you lack perspective, dipshit.

[LLdude1]

@TheDucciano The dude has written theories and states that they had to eliminate the whole jewish race, or in German die Endlösung der Jüden. So actually his theories were the cause and the base of the Nazi-regime.

[TheDucciano]

@LLdude1 His theories are not the fucking cause of Naziism, you moron. Anti-semitism in Europe was around long before Dick Wagner was. Adolf Hitler is responsible for popularizing Naziism, not Wagner. Dont get me wrong: Dick was a dickhead anti-Semite. But believing he's the foundation of Naziism when German Anti-Semitism was established before his existence, is faulty historical scholarship.

[LLdude1]

@TheDucciano I never said he was the founder of Naziism, but Hitler is well known for his characteristic of using other people's theory he abusively adapted Nietzsche's übermensch/untermensch theory and he used theories of wagner, that's not my opinion that's just plain fact. Wagner was a great composer but don't deny his part in the anti-semitism. Which the holocaust is also part of.

[wolverineaquajock2]

@LLdude1 Which Holocaust? The Holocaust, holocaust, or the Shoah? Also, Anti-Semitism didn't cause the Holocaust. Hitler did. There were lots of Anti-Semites who didn't cause a mass murder of 9 million Jews and 12 million others. Good Example: FDR.

[revolutionarymen]

@TheDucciano dont cry you pussy

[TheDucciano]

@revolutionarymen LOL when people whose 1st language isn't English try to accost me. I can tell you don't speak English well because your reply has no coherence to the conversation at hand. So do me a favor, shut your faggot ass up, doos.

[KevinVonKluger]

@TheDucciano In Actuallity he is relationated with Nazism because he was a declared Antisemite, Of course he wanst a Natzi.

[fastborzoi]

Beautiful! World class rendition -- so wish I knew the conductor & orchestra & year! thank you!

[donde2k]

@fastborzoi I believe the conductor is Willhelm Fürtwangler.

[1bateleur]

When he composed this, Wagner must have had the feeling of being a god.

[Lionsden65]

At least I am not the only one who cries when listening to Wagner music

[scorpios814]

dont call me names mate.acivilsed procedure on your behalf would be to try to give a responsible response to my comment.the rockefellers(jewish elite family) from the usa supported the eugenics research.in fact they founded nazism.jewish supremacists were behind the nazi ideology.it has been documented by american historians.the germans were beguiled by hitler s robotic propaganda.hitler hid information and documents about his origin.some claim still to this day that he was half jew..

[rlibos]

Too bad he was a grotesque anti-semite.......

[scorpios814]

@rlibos anti-semitism was a cunning game that the zionist elite used against the germans.Most factories in germany were owned by zionist jews who were against the jews of the lower classes.The jews of the elite supported anti-semitism and used hitler and his propaganda.It is wrong to call a person anti-semite without justifying your comment.If someone is proud of his nation,his history and his background it is his right to believe so.Not to mention that this video is about music,not ideology.

[rlibos]

@scorpios814 Listen you condescending oaf, Wager was afflicted with the same German sickness that led to the Nazi takeover. Remember, you can love the art but hate the artist.....

[MrBluerizlas]

@rlibos Ludwig van Beethoven was a nut too. I guess its the price you pay for genius.

[eadora]

In which Act & Scene does this appear in the Gotterdammerung ?

[wowbobwow37]

@eadora

If I'm not mistaken, it's the overture.

[JGRumohr]

just as he meant it to be. beautiful............

[helvet666]

I want to use this to open a black metal song. that would be amazing.

[ericson69]

I heard this for the first time as a child when I watched the movie Excalibur.

Beautiful! Awe inspiring!

[miljenko1]

2:12: the conductor wipes off the tear. He is completely immersed.

[fissionchips303]

For those of you listening to this for the first time, don't skip ahead.

I have a tendency to skip through things but I decided that I would put this on for the full 9 and a half minutes, start to finish.

It was worth it.

[89murph]

Awesome and win.

[alldaytubin]

I always get emotional when I hear this. 

[Tailback]

This is the best version I've found ever. I would buy a digitally remastered version in a heartbeat (minus the stand falling) if it were available.

[tigduh09]

Fantastic!

[Zombiestewstudios]

The opening makes me think of the mafia moving in to attack a bank...

[masterofpuppets717]

SO MUCH BASS! MY ROOM IS TREMBLING IN TERROR!

[vinylosaur]

Tennstedt's desk goes down with a bang at 5.50 - and he continues to play it by ear! Very cool!

[samirkilachand]

I think the conductor is Klaus Tennstedt

[007strauss]

@samirkilachand

Yes, you are right, it's Klaus Tennstedt.

Wasn't it a wonderful performance?

[blakefish80]

One word..... STUNNING!

[Harno3]

Thanks for sharing.

[scorho42]

Proof that I am not annoyed by ALL things twilight.

[Thraxxus]

Beyond a shadow of a doubt one of the most powerful pieces of music ever created by man. If this does not grab you, nothing will.

[alexsekander]

Wonderful music that surpasses it's period of usurpation.

[SilentWingsOfFreedom]

Apocalyptic masterpiece!!!

[BBmatic]

thanks.

i missed this when it was taken down.

flawless

[Werner312]

excelente video ,musica muito marcante.obra prima.

[TheSpiritofSweden]

Thankyou for this exellent video. My 15 yaer old son came rushing into the room when he heard it and looked like he had been struck by the lightning. He thought it was marvelous!

You have opend a new world to him, Thankyou.

[mitjanus]

Thank you for your words, this music can only be composed by a genius touched by gods...

Your son would enjoy with the movie "Excalibur" where there are this fantastic piece and others.

[IRONMAIDENfreakDANI]

probably 1981

[IRONMAIDENfreakDANI]

Klaus Tennstedt as Director, with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, year unknown

[samirkilachand]

This is by far the best recording I have heard of this particular piece. Better even than Maazel or Solti. This is IMHO of course.

[newdor]

Thank you so much for placing this on YouTube. Superb.

[Depressed1981]

Terrific. I think the conductor is Klaus Tennstedt.

[Demonicronos]

Awesome upload. I had missed this one since it was taken down. Great version. Favorited. Thanks.