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Where is the MSND ballet?

Absolutely beautiful, great music to go jogging to!

To Aristopus. Correction: Mendelssohn was born in 1809; Chopin & Schumann in 1810; & Liszt in 1811. What a galaxy! Kingsott

kingsott 1 year ago

What a hideous advert you have rolling across the screen. Quite ruins the music.

ajsmashy 2 years ago

Music is there to be listened to. The video doesn't matter.

RHutton2710 2 years ago 6

so rimsky-korsakov heard those opening chords and then wrote Scheherezade?

bordaz1 2 years ago

Mendelssohn and Chopin were both born in 1810, way ahead of Rimsky. Even so you can't copywright opening chords.

aristopus 2 years ago

Why can't we all just enjoy the music? We don't need to know certain languages to listen to this masterpiece

apocalypse123 3 years ago 8

Beautiful music!! Thank you Mendelsohnn, and Berliner!

ocramizz 3 years ago 12

@ocramizz and furtwangler

deandusk 2 years ago

Thank you soooo much for this! I have always loved Furtwangler's warmth and musicality, and this is yet another great treasure of his. Thanks for posting.

picmeco 3 years ago 10

AAAA.011655Z NOV 2008 Thank you for posting, very nice indeed....What on earth these idiots are having a slanging match for I do not know ? Just listen to the music.......AR.

fourwayscottage 3 years ago 7

So eine Frechheit,dass Furtwängler-der Nazi!!- Mendelssohn dirigiert!!Er sollte Wagner dirigieren,was zu seiner Ideologie besser passt.Wenn er Mendelssohns Musik so sehr geliebt hat,dann sollte er den Mitglieder der Familie und den Juden helfen und nicht mit den Nazis zusammen arbeiten.Und übrigens,es gibt bessere aufnahmen als die hier.

Janklavier1997 3 years ago

furtwängler war kein nazi, hat sich selber als apolitisch bezeichnet und wollte die musik von all dem nazischeiss freihalten, bzw. die ganze kunst.. er hat sich auch fuer juden eingesetzt und war grundsätzlich ablehnend gegenueber dem dritten reich eingestellt, jedoch war er auch vize der reichskammer, die goebbels ministerium fuer propaganda untergeordnet war .. ausserdem ist er einer der bedeutendsten dirigenten deutschlands.

IAMWONDER 3 years ago 2

@IAMWONDER Du hast vollkommen recht ueber F., die Nazis, und seine attempts um die Juden seines Orchesters zu helfen. Wie Sie sehen, kann ich nur schlecht auf Deutsch schreiben, so I will continue in English. I think his failing was his remarkable political naivete in not understanding that compromise was impossible with the Nazis. Most Germans had to stay in Germany regardless of their beliefs, but F. was in a position to get work elsewhere. Non-Jewish Germans such as Lehmann and Dietrich

Raggedy9 1 year ago

@Raggedy9

In Fact Furtwängler tried to get work in USA but was rejekted in the last moment.

He was dismissed as Chief for the German Opera in Berlin because of his support to the jews.

Greetings -

Furtwängler versuchte Arbeit zu bekommen in USA aber wurde in letzter Augenblick abgewiesen.

Furtwängler war Leiter der Deutschen Oper in Berlin, aber wurde von den Nazis gefeuert als er sich weigerte jüdische musik aus dem Program wegzunehmen - es handelte sich um die Oper Matthis der Maler.

Gruss

larsbrp 8 months ago

@IAMWONDER . . . who refused to work under the Nazis provided hope and comfort to the enemies of fascism; famous artists who remained were useful propaganda for the Nazis whatever their beliefs. I find it strange to hear F. referred to as "one of the most important GERMAN conductors." Art transcends nationality; he was one of the great conductors, period. If F. thought of himself as a German first, it betrays how insidious nationalism is, and explains his (lack of) action.

Raggedy9 1 year ago