Richard Wagner - Prelude "Lohengrin" act 1 - conducted by Toscanini

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Uploaded by on Jul 4, 2009

Arturo Toscanini conducts the NBC Symphony Orchestra, playing the ouverture to act 3 of "Lohengrin" by Richard Wagner.

Recorded October 22 1951.

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  • This is amazing!!!! I always cry while listening to this!

    Just one question: isn't this the prelude to the 1st act? I'm asking because you wrote it's to act 3. Or did I get it wrong?

  • @feuip Yes, that's my mistake, I just corrected it, thanks for the remark!

  • Excellent, I have a 1936 recording of this and you can actually hear the Maestro humming along to the music, like he often did. I'll post it if I have time.

  • Yes, you can even see him humming in the video recordings of the Walkürenritt and the Lohengrin prelude to the 3rd act, do you know those ones?

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  • Yes I've seen those, lot of people find it annoying when they hear him humming in the recordings, but that's what makes them historic!

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  • @GermanOperaSinger

    No, what makes them historic is that they're really good and by a famous conductor.

  • Lovely playing.TY herblich1 for posting.

  • @jetzt0844 -He was immoral as well. A bigot who avoided paying his bills as well. An admitted anti semite.

  • @GermanOperaSinger -Glenn Gould hummed what he was playing on piano almost always.

  • @rerakoke: Doesn't bad taste deserve to be criticised?

  • @LJBSasha these remarks remind me of von Buelow's reaction to the cymbal crash in the Adagio of Bruckner's seventh. Who needs all this pedantry!

  • That's right !

  • @wks1978: It's not that it shouldn't be there at all - the score specifies it. However, it should be just barely audible, whereas it's very strident here!! [Perhaps it might be an idea - although it likely's unorthodox - to have one cymbal played with a sponge-head mallet instead of being crashed with a second cymbal.]

  • @LJBSasha I agree -the cymbal crash sounds like it belongs in a Verdi overture!

  • For me, the best Preludio in the history of music: pure light sound's, rising harmony.

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