Richard Wagner - Elsa's Procession to the Cathedral (from Lohengrin)

[03333032]

Beautiful music and paintings, sad that Wagner is known from his connections with Adolf Hitler.

[zenbaby16]

Who is playing on this recording?

[mrcool1901]

master piece

[Waking2Dreams]

This song just grows in more in beauty as it progresses. One of my favorites; walked down the aisle to this song, played by a woodwind quintet. Wrote the parts myself! Wagner, you genius.

[againstAlexjones]

Heil Hitler

[TheMellizification]

This is difficult to play and it brings me stress.

[yeoldesammy81]

could someone tell me the exact recording of this so i can buy it...i have lohengin the opera but this instromental is awesome!

[Victasaurus]

Im playing this! In high school.

[WBDrumMajor2012]

This gives me chills every time I hear it.

[v0rt3x1705]

love the harp!!!!



[v0rt3x1705]

We (Southwest High School) Just finished playing this song!

[LPitcherDawg27]

after playing this, all i can hear is my part haha, but great performance! i get the chills every time, thanks for posting :)

[mrMusicmakr123]

Fantasia Independent :D <3 !!!

[stackedactor1]

Played this Senior Districts in Mass in 1994 (and I was in HS then.)

[JabeRaddle]

My high school symphony band plays this every year in the last concert of the year. I love it.

[poslednieje]

It's some time ago but I still believe Klimt is a better choice, both had a freaky mind about women

[LumBummyful]

We had this as our closer in our show this year. Best piece I've ever experienced.

[wtbvideofan]

We're playing this for a special honors band thing in my county. I wanted to hear what it sounded like. It's nice.

[kenenibe]

透明感がとにかく素晴らしい！！

[LJLiveLV]

I wanna play this!!!!

[ThinkOriginalThought]

I played this song in High School and WE we're crying in our seats.

[v0rt3x1705]

brings u to tears

[TooSaxy4MyOctave]

Who's arrangement is this?

[TheApostle344]

I played this song in Highschool and we had the audience crying in their seats

[beastdrummer555]

Suta!



[Haophil]

Absolutely great combination of music and art. Do you have this in a higher resolution?

[kuching401]

well done a perfect match of art and music thank you.

[mukraf]

We have the score to this piece in our music library. I need to request this from my director.

[Wagner6960]

demais

[TheDeepShell]

I PLAYED THIS IS HIGH SCHOOL TOO.

We took it to state and got superiors. No surprise.

Then we took it to Indianapolis.

Dominated.

[supa1kat]

am i seriously the first to notice the horn player to crack at 2:00??

[hobybobag3]

@supa1kat yeeep.. I'm a horn player and I didn't even catch that

[egomez234]

Regiments rendition on this was AMAZING.

[sholomanch]

I performed it on piano with a singer:)

[harryslide]

Beautiful? Yes! Also sublime, incredible, ethereal, gorgeous, heavenly, and

amazing!

Great montage! A thousand thanks!

I also played it in hs. Thank God it spurred me, much later, to explore the opera (music drama). The whole affair is fabulous. I never tire of it after ca. 50 years.

[ApolyonTheSoulRender]

Phantom. :D

[Caitiebelle00]

We get to play this in our marching show this year, it's beautiful.

[DblC3]

A perfect blend of art and music! I thank you for this video. I hope you come up with more works as sublime as this!

[teuton47]

I played this in junior jigh. I was the lead french hornist... most beautiful song ive ever played. each time, I played my heart out. I love it <3

[fountainhillwoman]

I also played this in high school, I played the French horn and thought this was one of the most beautiful pieces for that very difficult instrument. The Bouguereau portraits are a perfect match for the music. Thank you for all the work!

[shantanukhandkar]

What High School did you go to man?

[bigfishv5]

4 people never made it to the cathedral.

[luvchoclabs]

What painting is that at 2:02 anybody?

[foeuqui]

@luvchoclabs

The Young Shepherdess, 1885

[soo313]

ah, phantom.

[thatpinaychiki]

@soo313 fantasia 2011 winterguard my friend. :) and phantom.

[texaslonghornsfan79]

IMO, this is the most beautiful piece of music ever written! I played this in HS. The end literally gives me goosebumps whenever I hear it.

[avgustinR]

I got to play this three times  in high school & it was amazing. Once even in Carnegie Hall<3 :) idk when i hear this song it just gives me chills

[mukraf]

WTFF?!?!?!? YOU GOT TO PLAY THIS IN HIGH SCHOOL?!?!??! LUCKY SON OF A BITCH

[borntoplay9993]

@mukraf I played the wind ensemble version my senior year with my university's wind ensemble

[walkerogden]

@mukraf Over 50 years ago I had the privilege of playing in a great high school band in Andrews, Texas. It was my senior year & I 1st horn when we played Elsa. I still vividly remember playing the final measures at contest with our great band director, Everett Maxwell, asking for more and more although we in the horn section were blowing our hearts out, we managed a bit more! What a fabulous moment in time. I never listen without tears. At the very top of my favorites list! Thanks for sharing.

[walkerogden]

@mukraf Over 50 years ago I had the privilege of playing in a great high school band in Andrews, Texas. It was my senior year & I 1st horn when we played Elsa. I still vividly remember playing the final measures at contest with our great band director, Everett Maxwell, asking for more and more although we in the horn section were blowing our hearts out, we managed a bit more! What a fabulous moment in time. I never listen without tears. At the very top of my favorites list! Thanks for sharing.

[beat3331]

@mukraf im playin this in high school as well

[ikurasake]

@mukraf Same! Totally gonna be hipster, but I played this before it was "cool" haha.

[4566l]

@mukraf I did as well, one of my favorite peices ive ever played!

[mrMusicmakr123]

@mukraf Doesn't everyone?.... 

[Olamtir]

Beautiful.

And HH - Wagner should be topping the charts instead of the shit we have today.

[insertdelete080]

Elsa

[VcktorAlvarez]

HH!

[bomberman479]

Nah its all about the trombones at the end of the piece :) I played this piece twice in hs since it was my band directors favorite piece and ever since then I fell in love with the music of Richard Wagner. It helps that he writes great trombone parts as well. Listen to Tannhäuser, Ride of the Valkyries, Prelude to Act 3 of Lohengrin just to name a few. Regardless though, he is my favorite composer from the Romantic Era and is only close followed by Gustav Mahler.

[mamonycabron]

@bomberman479

I didin't know Gustav Mahler.

Could you recommend something in particular?

cheers

[bomberman479]

@mamonycabron his First Symphony for starters! If you like that then listen to 2,3, and 5 as well!!

[GoddessKnives]

Beautiful

[brunoblood]

Fantastic..

[volkishreich]

Heil Hitler

[WahooAviator]

SUTA!

[KeatonIsFTW]

crazy key signature

[TheJezzikahhhh]

Like this if you think that the French Horns make this piece in the end :)

[20woody11]

3:42 This chord gives me goosebumps every time.

[Texbrocko26]

If this doesn't give you goose pumps then you are not alive.

[RockiBalboa101]

Only one word for that: Beautiful. Shame Wagner was a racist nutter. Still the music is beautiful

[astronomicat]

This is an interesting combination: Wagner and naked fairies. We're playing this in our marching show (as well as william tell and Bohemian rhapsody) it's gonna be awesome.

[THEEExONEEE]

@astronomicat

I hope itll be awesome.

[papajohn5656]

@astronomicat sigh. overplayed bohemian rhapsody, good way to ruin a marching show.

[Zentredius]

my speakers couldnt take this beautiful music



[ArchiducDeBelgrade]

Amazing opera amazing composer amazing version of this amazing piece of music..simply amazing..

[Chizpurfle52595]

Hitler liked Wagner because Wagner is fucking great, and you can be evil and insane and still appreciate fine music.. Hitler also liked Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and drew Disney fanart for it.

[NovalisimBergwerk]

@Chizpurfle52595

...and additionaly you can be good, calm and friendley and like this music without remorse 

[sarahizzahsum]

Brilliant.

[sarahizzahsum]

Who in the heck would dislike this? 4 people with no lives.

[worksforfood]

for the 4 of you who disliked this...you might as well just stop listening to music. if you cant appreciate this piece of music then i have a hard time thinking you appreciate music at all.

[LaLaRC]

this song makes me want to cry

it reminds me of when i was in band last year

and it's so beautiful

[Bandman630]

YESSSS Phantom is going to rock this piece like before!!

[AbhishekPratapa]

Beautiful musicality

[xJoey426x]

played this piece at carnegie hall last night. one of the most amazing moments of my life!

[dippyitsale]

Why are the first three comments i see about Hitler?

[smellincoffee]

@dippyitsale Same reason someone mentions that kid who looks like a girl on every music video...

[scarwarsnow]

Heil Hitler

[VivienHERO]

our top two bands are playing this piece for out theme concert in may.

[DRGgang2]

I love german culture :D

[MsWesternRider]

*sniffles* This brings back so many memories... I miiiiiss baaaand!! *cries* It was only two years ago I quit to... But I can't go back now that I'm graduated... Oh, what I would give...

[Roner101]

<3 4:35-4:39, 5:40end, yee brass line

[Fasolt100]

Eccellente!

[golflover0311]

I remeber playing this in Symphonic Band back in my days at Morgan. It was my first year playing Tuba after swithing from Trombone(the best thing I ever did musically)It was always one of my favorite pieces. I actually saw thew opera Lohengrin years ago and this piece always stuck in my mind. Close you eyes and you can envision her as she arrives at the cathederal steps..Just beautiful..

[golflover0311]

I remeber playing this in Symphonic Band back in my days at Morgan. It was always one of my favorite pieces. I actually saw thew opera Lohengrin years ago and this piece always stuck in my mind. Close you eyes and you can envision her as she arrives at the cathederal steps..Just beautiful..

[eviltreemonster]

I think this would sound good if it was played just with a piano.

[yengacnuahs]

@eviltreemonster part of what makes Wagner so wonderful is his use of orchestration and color. it would sound like a good song, but it wouldnt have the same depth as Wagner's work

[nragins1]

BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[pshsa5]

I played this in high school too! I played the Bass Sax part. Really powerful at the end. :)

[podx990]

Wonderful. Very nice artwork too! Thanks for posting.

[eviltreemonster]

This was one of Hitlers favourite pieces.

[coolcardboard]

@eviltreemonster so? doesn't make it any less beautiful.

[eviltreemonster]

@coolcardboard

I know. Its just a historical fact.

[maestrojimbo]

Here;s another good performance on youtube (copy and paste) ....

BEST Elsa's Procession? You decide...(Univerersity of Michigan Symph. Band)

[greenstboy]

My favorite Bouguereau paintings (@ 1:03 & 3:28) are both at the Clark Museum in Williamstown, MA. A must see.

[redwoodferrari]

now this is music.

[913861]

A French Horn cracked a note at 2:00. CUT CUT....start over..

[scarwarsnow]

Brilliant, absolutely brilliant!

[Shadowstodreams]

Wonderful montage; what's the picture at 4:15?

[Acoustics7]

severunner@globo.com

Fantastico

[strwberryfields4]

this was the last piece of music my high school band ever played with our beloved director before she was killed in a car accident. 7.5 years later and the music still moves me as much as it ever has.

[darthnozo]

Our university's trombone choir played this last year at a tick or two slower. Love this piece now. Great montage to fit the song.

[mariagrazia1949]

Splendida musica da ascoltare in assoluto silenzio

[ZZBZ5000]

We are using this song as part of our marching band show!

[Jakesonaplane]

Simply outstanding. What else can compare?

[badata69]

I have played this piece....and although slow.............NOT ANY WHERE near easy!!!!! It is beautiful!!!! LOVE the oboe!!!

[EricBowman25]

French Horn fail at 1:59

[kkjelt]

@EricBowman25 So? It's still a nice piece of music, and also a quite nice performance. Enjoy the music!

[zukavatar]

@EricBowman25 You have a good ear, That was hard to notice lol.

[GioBeaner]

Damn I have to play this in high school right now, and it gets pretty high as first clarinet.

[Altoclarinets]

1:06 the picture is scary realistic

The master for this recording was a tape- I can tell by the distortion in the clarinet solo, which *always* happens with mag. tapes... drives me INSANE

[kevinhart51]

5:40 to the end has got to be one of my favorite passages of music. Great.

[Biamedici]

The artist is the 19th-century academic sentimentalist William-Adolphe Bouguereau.

[OperaBaritoneJoe]

Can someone tell me the artist who painted these paintings?

[mildchoco1]

いい曲ですね～



[OperaBaritoneJoe]

can someone tell me every famous artist.

[Anazilla08]

I LOVED playing this in high school. I got the privilege of performing the flute solo and it was my favorite that i've ever done. =]

[Fritz66ify]

Lohengrin...great  german piece of one of our greatest patriots..hail to Richard Wagner and to the german nation...

[richardxbt]

An excellent montage. Thank you for taking time to create such a beautiful meld of classical art and music; one of my favourite discoveries on YouTube!

[theXNtric]

The music is pretty nice, but the paintings, well, there are different opinions on William Bouguereau.

The prelude to Tristan und Isolde is currently my favorite Wagner song.

[failedequation]

excellent excellent work, its truly amazing the sheer volume of work that Bouguerau produced and each one a master peice.

[rheingold50]

Who's playing? Conducting?

[bikeman11865]

Anyone who has ever played a brass instrument (trombone in my case) will tell you what this piece (and most of Wagner's music) will do to your lip. Even the most "in shape" players struggle getting thru this piece. I was in the Marine Band in Wash DC and this piece was always a real challenge for the brass section even though we loved every second of it.

[basstrom188]

Many years ago I remember playing a brass band arrangement of this piece. One of the few pieces that make the hairs on the back of the neck stand on end.

Yes I was playing the bass trombone part.

[coolman4393]

They should have played Wagner when I was at the mental hospital. This helps me so much more than prozac.

[dave2thegr8]

I'm playing this right now at my high school. But i wish it was easier to play. My lips always hurt after pressing so hard for the high notes on the Eb clarinet. Overall, I enjoy playing it. =D

[DoubleBasschick2]

@dave2thegr8 I'm telling you! my lips feel like crap and i'm all out of breath trying to stay in it. but it is waaaay beautiful and worth it =3

[mikegraddy]

i don't know who elsa was, but they sure did like it when she went to church! lol!

[Xanormin]

Oklahoma State played this at a concert (last night)and it was AMAZING.

[zukavatar]

You know a song is good when you need deoderant to listen to it. :)

[genmaicha3]

Cool. Played this in youth orchestra and during the final rehearsal most of the kids were in tears.

Whatever your political views are, music is universal and transends controversy and history.

For instance, did you know that Hitler loved drinking wine? So should we all stop drinking wine to protest against Hitler?

[ClappedWolf]

@genmaicha3 Definetly yes, i'd send all these wine lovers strainght into some camp!

[Lolux1701]

@genmaicha3 hitler didn`t drink anything he didnt even smoke. (sry for bad english)

[mfilip62]

@genmaicha3

Actually not,Hitler didn't drank any kind of alchohol but he loved Wagner,especialy music like this piece.

I think that he was personally a great man,destiny just turned against him.

[avgustinR]

@mfilip62 couldnt disagree more, im pretty sure the 6million jews would disagree too :) haha

[breadclock01]

hitler was a mean, but everyone has a reason for doing things that they do. so probably hitler had a reason too:/ but anyways just because hitler was so mean, doesn't mean that ppl should diss this wonderful piece of music.

[ikariam777]

richard wagner war der größte!

[gwhp9321]

is this the Lucien Caillet arrangement of this piece?

[nivekclarinet]

is the original orchestration for this piece is for winds only? i don't hear any strings except for the double bass?

[wozniacki15]

startin from 4:46 to the end just really touches me!!

[PeterB013]

Yes, Hitler was a beast.

Yes, Wagner was a political fascist.

But this doesn't change the sheer beauty of this piece!

[Napoleontas]

hitler was a "Beast" but canada was the country that invaded and killed germans and europeans without any reason or previous provocation

I think that "beast" is a very silly characterization from the one who was the person who was holding the gun against expecting victim

[maestrojimbo]

I have 3 different recordings of the U of Mich Symphony Band playing this...I'm pretty sure this is Revelli conducting. The tempo is identical and the inner voices are projected similarly. Let me know if it sounds like the same group. I'll send along the professional recording they made in 1961 (now out of print) after they returned from en extensive tour of USSR and Middle East. Thanks for posting this slideshow!

[kamshamm]

Wonderful collab, I enjoyed the art as much as the music :)

[shoulderkolibri]

You can't help but feel moved even while your playing this piece. I mean, with all the damn brass section blasting behind you in the climactic end, it can get pretty overwhelming. I also can't believe how long we worked on deconstructing and fully piecing together every little detail in the scores (or the little things not* written on the page). One can spend more than a few hour just to perfect one score's excerpt that may be only less than six to eight measures long lol

[mainlandq]

@shoulderkolibri it's even better being in the brass section!

[minasgekos]

both paintings and music are very beautiful. Nice work.

[radlikewhoa]

I played it in the tenth grade (2006-2007) for the Mississippi All-State Band on the first clarinet part. It's so hard to get in tune, especially for four clarinets on first part in the stratosphere, but the clarinet solo gets me. This song seriously made me bawl I was so moved, right after the key change into the horrid C# key, where we have the runs. Amazing. I love this song so much.

[koolakalle]

Beautiful.

[Asylumwillgetyou]

Nixon High School from Laredo,Texas played this song in Washington DC, back in 92 for a National Competition. People stood and cried at the end of this awesome song. Nixon took 2nd place.

[ruben9182]

Cool story bro!

[amiheartspie]

this is an amazing piece for oboe. lovely solo at the beginning. though for flute the frasing gets a little annoying though if your good enough you can make it.

[atoman88]

this song makes me want to cry

[crazzydeano]

hitler loved this wagner music

[schef75]

He also loved dogs and no one tells it to dog owners.

[Wedihadr11]

Good comeback schef75.

[Napoleontas]

Hitler loved wagner and i dont know why there are so many thumbs down cause you mentioned that FACT. It is ridiculous . Hitler was passioned with wagner

[foxygermangirl123]

@Napoleontas

[foxygermangirl123]

@Napoleontas yes, u are right about that...but why not enjoy this beautiful paintings with this beautiful music on background -.-. Or are we watching WW2 documentary? ^^ on this beautiful video theres no room for that monster.

[Napoleontas]

for you is a monster, for me is a glorious leader.

2 different views. The one is a view that was created from the media and the other a view that was created after years of examination

[Napoleontas]

You are from germany and you call Hitler a monster?

Poor germany what they have done to you

[UK2WKfan2]

Elsa's Procession to the Cathedral is the BEST song for the French Horn. The ending is SO EPIC to play! We raise our bells and let every note ring.

[thegubbie]

I played this at uni.... Never blown so hard through a cornet before, or since. The way it builds is awe inspiring. Such an emotive piece of music. Think I might run it a few times now actually.....

[rshdrumlinefreak]

The wind symphony at my university placed this a few semesters ago. I played the bass drum and gong at the end. I remember hearing the sound of the brass filling the hall, and bawling my eyes out, I could hardly see the conductor. After the cut off and the sound stopped reverberating, I remember hearing my heavy breathing and thinking "wow, that was my life's most intense music moment"

[666MusicIsLife666]

yeah im the only baritone player at my high schools wind ensemble and i have to fuckin blow so much air to even be heard over the trombones and tubas!!!

We're gonna play this piece at NYSMAA this year and hopefully we'll get a good grade =)