Lohengrin: Prelude Act III -- Arturo Toscanini/NBC Symph
Loading...
Uploaded by TheGreatPerformers on Jun 2, 2007
Richard Wagner, Prelude to Act III of his opera "Lohengrin"
Arturo Toscanini with the NBC Symphony Orchestra, at Studio 8-H, New York City.
from TV broadcast of March 20, 1948.
Toscanini (born 1867) first performed "Lohengrin" with his school friends in Professor Carini's violoncello school at the conservatory of Parma.
He collected a few nicknames at school--"genius" and also "scissors" due to his sometimes sharp criticism.
Toscanini received excellent grades and left the school in 1885. The conservatory kept and display a few orchestral scores, plus a romance for vocalist and piano, he composed while there.
- 325 likes, 7 dislikes
-
Link to this comment:
Top Comments
All Comments (139)
-
@xnightreaperx Imagine how the sound would "impact" the listener's ear differently if we used this configuration more today... I suspect much of the music could have been written with this configuration in mind by the composer, in effect, creating something of a "stereo" effect, that we might be missing out on with the present configuration of musicians.
-
@wiseass2147 of course the culture is declining when white people become the minority in this country wagner will be forgotten
-
i just never get tird of this piece!
-
@al1936ful Don't know your age, but you might recall parts of this music being used in the "Buck Rogers" serial TV shows.
Usually the "Space ship" on the visible wire, with the sparkler shooting out its' butt...
-
@xnightreaperx ... Yes, I have always wanted to play some pieces in this configuration... I feel that the composer "felt" the music physically as well as hearing it, and we now may be missing a vital component. It would have been the days' equivalent to stereo, as the themes moved from instrument to instrument!
-
@BigBadBill2323 If no-body has said it already, it's a classical style configuration, rather than the later configuration [prior to Stokowski]. It creates a better balance of sound from left to right.
-
@fudbot They didn't play this music in the original "Clash of the Titans".
-
Excellence...
-
Sinbad :)
-
Toscannini is cool ! Too bad they did not shave the entire bald head like they do now !
- 8:05Das Rheingold (Entrance of the Gods) - Wagner S...by DjangoMan196379,162 views
- 4:13Wagner - Lohengrin, Prelude to Act IIIby killck4,892 views
- 9:59Götterdämmerung, Siegfried's Death And Funeral,...by TheGreatPerformers178,284 views
- 10:00Richard Wagner: Lohengrin - Overtüreby TheRenardeau308,806 views
- 4:25Beethoven Symphony No. 5, 3rd mvt--Arturo Tosca...by TheGreatPerformers160,986 views
- 7:43Arturo Toscanini "Overture Tannhauser" 1/2by Onegin65158,601 views
- 1:29Bugs Bunny Franz Lisztby raybrownsfan555,058 views
- 10:29Wagner - Götterdämmerung - Hoi-ho! - Bayreuth F...by violinthief230,701 views
- 9:30Furtwangler conducts Die Meistersinger in 1942by franciszhou253,002 views
- 2:48EVGENY MRAVINSKY--WAGNER-LOHENGRIN Prelude act 3by jacquesurlus5,965 views
- 8:33Wagner Lohengrin - Bridal chorusby Stravinsky9156,079 views
- 7:09Suppé - Light Cavalry Overture - Karajanby CristianFMemoli192,585 views
- 6:01Richard Wagner - Tannhauser "Pilgrim's Chorus" ...by violinthief226,833 views
- 3:56Wagner - Lohengrin (Bridal Chorus) [Easy Piano ...by youcanplayit203,622 views
- 0:59Lohengrin's Wedding Marchby AaronTheHarpist102,955 views
- 9:02Toscanini mangia l'orchestraby volodya2100,797 views
- 8:18Richard Wagner - Lohengrin - Prelude to Act IIIby TheWickedNorth254,027 views
- 4:18Giuseppe Verdi - 'La Traviata'by peppopb274,220 views
- 9:52Lohengrin: Prelude to Act I - Wagnerby ItzhakRoxMySox180,943 views
Sounds pretty good for a 60 year old television recording. Can't imagine NBC airing something like this now; they'd rather show fat people being yelled at on a treadmill, lol. By the way 8-H is where they do Saturday Night Live now.
wiseass2147 2 years ago 46
Interesting Orchestra configuration. First and second violins opposite each other... celli on his left...
BigBadBill2323 2 years ago 3