Mendelssohn: Overture 'The Hebrides' | Sir John Eliot Gardiner 

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I had the honor of playing lead clarinet with the Union Symphony Orchestra in 1977. My closest friend played second clarinet. I had to move a few short years later and, like life and distance too often does, it separated us and we eventually lost contact. I tried to contact him years later to resurrect our friendship. I learned that, tragically, he had passed away, a young man. I cannot hear this masterpiece work and the clarinet duet without being swept out to sea in tears.

Oh the swells of the sea, the storm, those beautiful clarinets. Exquisite

I first heard this music as part of a Merrie Melodies cartoon when I was about 5 years old...have loved it ever since. Never knew what it was called until some years after that; I asked my Dad for the music and he bought me a 78 speed record with some of Mendelssohn's music on it. I played it on my Roy Rogers/Dale Evans record player. So many, many years ago. Good memories!♥.

This is not only beautifully played but beautifully filmed. The youth of the musicians gives one hope for the future.

I`ll never stop loving this piece,EVER

I made a special trip to Staffa which inspired Mendelssohn to write this and when visiting, it's very easy to see why it did. The uninhabited chunk of rock rises dramatically from the sea with the basalt rock surrounding the mouth to Fingals cave which looks as though it's man-made rather than a natural geological fault. Approaching the lsland to land is an incredible skill itself and I watched in admiration at the way the young skipper handled the boat, timing his move to go forward on the "right" wave, then reversing the engines to "brake" just at the right point. I'd heard the overture many many times before i'd actually visited Staffa.....but it was a truly memorable trip which brought the music alive. It really is a very wild place.

This was a beautiful rendition of a beautiful piece. I’m not one to often cry these days in my life but there were tears streaming down my face half of the performance. The climax was wonderful.

you can tell that the composer is purely enjoying the beautiful masterpiece.

Wunderschöne und dramatische Aufführung dieser romantischen Ouvertüre mit gut harmonisierten und perfekt synchronisierten Tönen aller Instrumente. Der unvergleichliche Dirigent leitet das ausgezeichnete Orchester im gut phrasierten Tempo und mit möglichst effektiver Dynamik. Echt überzeugend!

OMG what music! and what a conductor. incredible.

Ich war noch nie auf den Hybriden, aber ich sehe wie das Wasser an die schroffen Felswände klatscht, sich zurückzieht und neuen Anlauf nimmt. Grandios gespielt.!!!

It really is inspiring to watch/listen to incredibly talented people play such amazing music... I am genuinely in awe of every member of LSO. Amazing

I'm convinced John Eliot Gardiner is one of the finest conductors ever

Wonderful,thanks Mendelssohn for lifting me up from the crap that`s going in this world.

5:20 is such a strange, moving little flourish. gets me every time

1:48 is the best part of the piece

There is only one way to hear this music - on the ferry from Ullapool to Stornaway on a windy and rainy day, with your noise reduction headphones on at full blast especially during the storm sequence. It reduced me to tears.

A hopping little myna bird brought me here. Thanks once again Mr Jones.

Wonderful performance by the LSO, beautiful cello sound and basses suave and incisive (probably from bowing overhand), and excellent wind phrasing with the horns. Varied and beautiful sound. John Eliot Gardiner really understands and conveys this music with the orchestra.

The layers of musicality and crashes of stiff waves on the rocks, here. Unparalleled. Or so it feels.

BBC Radio 3 brought me here. Funny story coz caught this brilliant piece, listening to the radio, randomly. I was amused instantly and starting to discover who composed that. I rejected Beethoven (music was too soft and gently), than after considering Schubert, Schumann and Mendelssohn, I've cancelled first two and stayed at last one. After short investigation on net has been confirmed, I was right, I felt the style and magic orchestration of Mendelssohn. It's shocking for me that me, ignorant never been educated in the cosmos of music, I could recognize composer.

London Symphony Orchestra: Super!!!

Does anybody remember the the imperturbable myna bird who would hop in rhythm to The Hebrides symphony on a handful of the old 50s Inky cartoons? The music was mesmerizing and the melody stuck with me all these years. Serendipitously, I realized the music from the cartoon was Mendelssohn. Please, do a RU-vid search for the cartoon. #Inky cartoon, magic myna bird. I promise, it will be worth your time.

Favourite classical piece ever makes me proud to be Scottish

mendelesson was absolutely original and no copy cat. pure creativity and beauty.

Nothing wrong with this.Thanks for making my Sunday morning>

"Ah! Fresh meat for my pot!" -Rusty Walrus

In tears; so beautiful. Thank you.

Simply divine.

what can i say...? definitely underrated piece...

Wow! Crystal clear and exciting performance! Thank you for sharing this

Absolutely brilliant.

This ranks with the same composer's Midsummer Night's Dream overture among the top dozen short (8-12 mins.) pieces ever composed. Not a note is wasted, not a bar superfluous.

생동감있는 연주입니다.

This is my favorite instrumental.

The best version 👍👍👍

Sterling, superb music and performance!

The setup is quite spontaneous

Exciting interpretation. A lot more rubato than I'm used to hearing. I like it.

What a journey!

Maravilloso compás.

amazing

An amazing music . The best performance I ever heard . This music was played when people were taken to gas chambers during the Second World War . Maestro Sir Gardiner and orchestra are excellent . This music is unbelievable . Spasibo . Danke .

excellent interpretation

Amazing.

The original Victor Davis Hanson podcast hosted by Troy Senik. Long live the Republic!

7:40 😍😍😍

By far the best Pikaichi in Japanese

Bravisimo!!!

This is too perfect for me to handle

這是民視新聞的片頭曲,好像也是長榮的登機音樂,有誰在長榮的飛機上也聽過這首?請舉讚

Beautiful music, I can even dance the waltz with the music, I just need my partner

Walkin' bird music, from the walkin' bird cartoon.

A GRUTA DE FINGAL (OU AS HÉBRIDAS), FOI COMPOSTA POR UM MENSAGEIRO DE DEUS AQUI NA TERRA CHAMADO MENDELSSOHN, PARA EVOCAR POR MEIOS MUSICAIS, TODA A POESIA DO MAR E DO LUGAR CHEIO DE ENCANTO MÍSTICO.

Orchestra and Maestro: 10 (k)! Camera: 3,4

Perfect !

Awesome

There is a God!

Wow!

Damn fine reading. Well recorded.

what a camera work.

Как чудесно!

BRAVO‼️👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

Does anyone feel that the Barbican has almost deadpan reverberance? Certainly takes away some enjoyment of this incredible music

Beautiful ❤️ Today Iwas practiced After a long time along with my Clarinet 🎉❤

İt is very interensting and beatuful

One of the best Overture in Mendelssohn composition, so far what's yours?🤔

8:30 bass excerpt

Rusty Walrus: Ah, yummy! This is original than Spiralmouth ones!

❤

What gives it its power is Mendelsohn's - and the orchestra's - total control over this stormy material.

The Minah Bird approves.

Came here because I read that Wagner claimed that this was the only good composition my Mendelssohn. I have yet to listen. Well, here goes . . . everything . . .

5:40 Crash twinsanity Rusty walrus chase

Inki and the woodcock bird cartoon...

Esta cancion esta en crash twinsanity. Rusty la morsa 😆👍

Amazing. I dont know what to say. I love it

Mendelssohn turned out to not be another Mozart as some thought early on..he was just Mendelssohn which works like this demonstrate was good enough.

this jih good

Amazing! The colors are great

Very beautiful. ✨

첼로00:00 바이올린00:18 오보에00:58

This is lovely, so good

Crash bandicoot twinsanity

Serial movies Don Winslow of the Navy or Coast Guard, the bad guys theme.

All-Region violin excerpt 3 0:19

Ital 4 la plus grande want it back now

Time stamp for my audition material don’t mind me 🙃 2:12 8:19

X1.5 rusty theme Ty

Am I the only one waiting for Minah the hopping bird?

Okay but like the violas were barely shown in the video 😔

Does the set-up ever change, or do the Second Violins always stay on the right?

Minah

Is that Celine Moinet playing principal oboe?

everyone has nice cuff links

someone PLZ tell me the name of the concertmaster

Mynah

Apart from the terrible acoustics I’m guessing from the Barbican centre, it’s a stonking performance. Loved it!

Theme of thrift shop? Yes or no?