Tannhauser Overture-Wagner/Leibowitz/Part-1 of 2

Rare. Rene Leibowitz conducts The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (1962)
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Rene Leibowitz (1913-1972) was born in Warsaw but moved to Paris in his teens and there began a long, illustrious conducting career. Particularly interested in contemporary music, he studied with Webern and Schoenberg and wrote a detailed analysis of twelve-tone music. A keen ear for instrumental coloration (Ravel was his orchestration teacher) was evident in his kaleidoscopic transcriptions of such works as Bach's Passacaglia and Fugue in C (for double orchestra!). But he is best known for his often highly personal renditions of many staples of the Classical and Romantic repertoire.

Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSARntvmVAM&feature=related

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Music

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• classical
• tannhauser
• overture
• wagner
• rene
• leibowitz
• conductor
• royal
• philharmonic
• orchestra

[sesrunner08]

every time I hear this. I think of bugs bunny

[Astrozombbie]

I don´t have idea what exist in the mind of 4 guys here, but really, they are wrong...

[xXthescarykidXx]

@sesrunner08

Haha. Same, though I came here because of Roy Batty.

[thinkingrequired]

@sesrunner08 Must be because someone spiked your lemonade with lsd...

[pierrot79]

Compare 2:25 with the same by Karajan (h8VLYb3T3hs) : Leibowitz "hacks" the melodic phrase of the trombones. I happen to prefer the continuous phrasé of Karajan, but I admit this version sounds somewhat more martial, where Karajan sounds more lyric, (you'll notice he allows trombones to be slightly late, where Leibowitz enforces a stricter synchronization)

[trevpr1]

@sesrunner08 "Wee-tuurn my wove"

[matthewmch]

i imagine this song playing after a hero rises above the ruins of the apocalypse.

[daytraderfbf]

@sesrunner08 Kill the Wabbitt ; Kill the Wabbitt. Elmer Fudd was a scream.

[dave53ize]

This was one of my Moms favorite Classical Pieces. Mom I Love @ Miss You Very Much. RIP.

[Syzygy60]

this means nothing to you? this is the most beutifull emotional music I can recall hearing,note I leave myself a way out