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"Zur Burg führt die Brücke, leicht, doch fest euren Fuß. Beschreitet kühn ihren schrecklosen Pfad!" This is the most magical moment of the whole Ring cycle. Epic!

This is among my favourites of epic music. Bravissimo!

I don't cry that easily, but I guess I would if I stood at the graves of all that titans of classical music in Vienna!

Grillparzer's words at Beethoven's funeral (from memory): "There he stands among the giants of all time, untouchable forever!"

Dann mal los. Was war denn nun so dumm an meinen Postings? Ich habe die antisemitische Einstellung von Wagner nur nebenbei erwähnt, er ist nichtsdestotrotz ein genialer Komponist. Ich kann sehr gut das eine vom anderen unterscheiden.

The greatest piano sonata ever. It's the only piece of music which I love every single note of and I mean all three movements.

I'm not on a high horse at all. I am a complete amateur with respect to classical music, I don't think that I have much knowledge about it. When hearing a random piece of music from the Ring operas, I might identify it as being from Wagner, but not much beyond that,

Maybe most people in the US k...

This ouverture is *pure*, it rips the heart out of my chest! If I didn't know better, I could have said that you could end performing Lohengrin right after it. Could it get any better? But yes, it can!

This particular piece of music makes me weep.

Yup, playlist found!

And yes, the fabulous pictures are from Arthur Rackham.

THE best song! And I know it since the 80s when Master of Puppets was released.

Second is Phantom Lord BTW.

Damn, where are my line breaks? Youtube, CHANGE THAT!

I couldn't add it to my previous posting (partly because my typos used up too many letters): The finale can be summarized with a single word:

GLORY!

Even Haydn, the godfather of symphonies, was overwhelmed by that single movement of the 3rd: "He gives us a glimpse into his soul. (...) Everythin...

Epic!

I would really love to see a version with the music being in sync with the visuals, however...

It's not the creation of the universe, just the sound of the Rhine, the legendary German river :). The innocent and naive Rhinemaidens are playing with the gold, as it's a heap of shine baubles for them. Then they turned down Alberich's advances and things run their course...

Epic! The Silmaril...

Kempff was in his own world when he played that, a world of pure satisfaction and bliss. The gods looked down on him and they were envious!

Maybe the 4-1 (okok, it was actually a 4-2) versus England was sweeter, but THAT was the most glorious victory of the German team! Ever!

I particularly like it that instruments from the 19th century were used to play it. The drums inparticular had a harder sound.

Haydn made the impression that he felt that his time was over, but he was fine with it being like that (or he even was happy at that!)... although he wrote THE CREATION ...

" Zur Burg führt die Brücke,

leicht und doch fest euerm Fuß

beschreitet ihr ihren schrecklosen Pfad"

Epic!

Except Haydn, of course!

Damn, Many of the good cites have already been made:

"HORNS!"

"All students are idiots. It's tradition."

But it seems this one hasn't been brought up:

"I'm not very good at restraint."