Half way through writing this, Mascagni threw the manuscript in the bin but luckily his wife found it and told him to continue with it and not give up till he completed it. So glad she retrieved it from the bin. One of the most beautiful and yet haunting pieces of music you are ever likely to hear.
What a beautiful piece of music. It makes the hair's on your back tingle. My father used to whistle this all the time when I was young. It brings tears to your eyes. Amazing. It will definitely be at my funeral. Take care all. John
I've seen maybe 10 or 15 videos of this intermezzo, and I can say without doubt that this is the best. What makes it so special is the small silence before the crescendo and the maestro Lim Kek-Tijiam sigh. A masterpiece. 14 years later still resonates.
Exactly👍 I also adore Karajan's performance of 60s. Ive been obsessed with Intermezzo and Preludio for over 50 years and my strong adoration of Cavalleria is becoming even stronger❤️
Now I am a guy from the hood, Motown all the way R&B etc, yet.... Just to show the power of music to transcends one perspective I have listened to this piece 186 times with tears streaming each time! No one except those on this post will ever know.
Music... THIS kind of music is transformative! I feel (sad and) sorry for those who don't get an opportunity to experience the depth and complexity of classical music. GREAT to get your perspective
I got to hear this in person. I was playing in an orchestra but I did not play in this song. It really is like that. I play this song and think of the memory being in the cathedral with the music playing so beautifully. I highly advise you to one day find a concert where this song is being played. Hearing it in person is life-changing.
Larry, your post is the absolute reminder of how music touches our souls! Any music, its a pleasure to me as a proud italian/portuguese to read your words, watching this beautiful cavalleria rusticanna being played by this japanese orchestra! Being also a big fan of the motowon / RB having grown up listening to it! Fantastic and wish we can enjoy more of any form of art that makes us feel humans!
Back in the fifties when i was 15, much to my Dad's disgust I had bought a lot of rock and roll records.He asked me to buy some decent music. I had no idea what that was, but the old gentleman at the record store was a help. My Dad was a very tough bricklayer, but when I played this for him the tears were running down his cheeks. I had never seen my Dad cry before. Every time I hear it now it has the same effect on me.
My Dad introduced it to me and we played it at my Mum's funeral and my late wife's funeral and now I am playing Jean Valjean we are playing it throughout the last dying scene. I will be in tears giving my lines if no-one else is!!
What a touching story and memory. It's one of a few pieces that really moves me, both in a good way and sad, in remembering those I've lost. Thanks for posting
My Grandmother worked In service in a large house near Bristol when she was 12. Her hands were freezing going to work one morning so when she got in the kitchen she put her hands in warm water that was in the sink. This would be 1912. She was getting some relief when she heard what she said was the most beautiful music emanating from the living quarters upstairs...Years later she found out it was this piece. I love this version. It reminds me I'm standing on her shoulders🥰.
The Japanese seem to really like this piece a lot. I've heard it on several anime and even as insert music for like commercials and insert cards from their media. I also heard a Japanese HS symphonic band do it here in Texas just a couple years ago.
Whether it be the death of Michael Corleone, Lim Kek-tijang, Jake LaMotta fighting or even Hollis Mason getting beaten, can we all agree that this piece of music is stunning and that it doesn't matter how someone is introduced to this. It's just wonderful that they are.
Maestro Lim Kek-tjiang passed away 15 June 2017 in Melbourne, Australia. I too, am lost for words at 1:35. He knows it, he feels it, he appreciates it, and takes it into his soul. His expression of his love for his music will live on, thru us.
Incredible: I got the same impressions you did. The maestro's sight is evident, and so is the reason why: he feels, he hears, he appreciates, he is totally involved, he really loves it, and so do I. Unforgettable.
So eloquently put... I will also mention though it is not apparent in this video but Maestro Lim always bows to his orchestra before bowing to the audience, "first be grateful to your staff"
This was played at my sisters funeral chosen by her. I burst into tears as I have also chosen the same piece. Have loved this since the 1970s when I bought my first classical music LP.
I chose this intermezzo to be played at my grandmother's funeral, exactly when the coffin was accessing the room... I could barely hold my tears. Now, everytime I hear to this opera my grandma comes to mind. All the beautiful moments we shared along the 28 years we lived "together" on this earth. I will never forget her love, I will never stop loving her.
RIP Lim Kek-tijang, Maestro. Your face as you hesitated for a second before the music carried on was a mirror reflecting the beauty of this most wonderful piece ever composed. Thank you, for the joy and tears.
It makes me inexplicably sad to know that he died. Just looking at how happy he was conducting this masterpiece makes me believe he was a great person with a golden soul. That smile made this video all the more powerful and that man is now dead. Jeez, that makes me sad.
I only discovered this version early in 2018. :( But I'm floored with this Chinese orchestra's version. It's so pure the way he conducted it. These guys play this Italian composer's music better than the Italians!
14,000 TIMES just in Italy: For those who were moved by Mascagni's music... I will post this from Wikipedia! Although Mascagni had started writing 2 other operas earlier, Cavalleria rusticana was his first opera to be completed and performed. It remains the best known of his 15 operas and 1 operetta. Its success has been phenomenal ever since its first performance (with 40 curtain calls). At the time of Mascagni's death in 1945, the opera had been performed more than 14,000 times in Italy alone.
persevere and thrive through adversity of our own making. we make mistakes, but we try our best each time. music and all the joy's of life are the breaths of fresh air we reward ourselves with for overcoming our darkest moments
I have found this piece again after a few years and what I have concluded is that this is as near to perfection as you will ever hear. This brings tears to my eyes every time I hear it.
My mother loved that. She asked for a recording to be played at her funeral. We did and we cried when it was played. It still makes me cry now, every time.
I got married with this song I spreaded my parents ashes into the air, with this song I have baptized my children with this song I want to be remembered with this song I´m haunted with song....
I played it in my father's ear as he passed away from Alzheimer's. He was unconscious but somehow I hoped that the last thing he heard on this earth was beautiful music.
This piece of music has got me through my whole life, first heard in as a young boy on TV in a Kleenex advertisement and it really touched me, used to come home from Saturday night mass to the house to myself and turn off the lights in the living room and just close my eyes and listen to it . Definitely one of the most beautiful pieces of music every written . Thank you Pietro Mascagni .
It just lifts me up to great heights. Keeps listening to it. What a good idea to play it at my funeral..not v v far away. Ok ' probably w/o awake yo listen to it
this song is exactly how it feels to fall in love when you’re slowly settling into it and it’s almost bittersweet and there’s no big eureka moment but a gradual realization that they mean so much more to you
i agree, when i saw this opera at Sydney Opera House the conductor actually sighed as well.......along with the audience who were hanging onto every note ohhhh i love so much
This is really a lovely song, so deep, so immensely sad... so beautiful. it seems that it speaks from inside of someone who looks back on life, its joys, its sorrows, its travails, and finds it all so profound that no words can describe... lovely.
this song has probably saved my life. it used to play every morning when I woke up, and it'd give me the strength to face each day. I finally watched cavalleria rusticana and that feeling has only strengthened, seeing santuzza's quiet strength even though she feels such endless pain.
Recuerdo la última noche que estuve con mi hijo, antes de que su madre se lo llevará de mi lado,llorando lágrimas tan grandes como la luna y diciendo que se quería quedar a mi lado.pero la ley siempre dando el lado a las mamás,cuando no siempre es lo correcto....TE AMO soujiro no importa donde te encuentres, mi pensamiento y mi corazón están contigo...
Víctor nuestros hijos siempre serán nuestros son nuestra huella el paso en esta vida,todo a su tiempo,solo el cariño comprensión y ternura de jados en tu hijo darán su fruto.
Yo también oía esta maravillosa pieza con mi papá, ahora el ya no está, pero la escucho y vuelvo a llorar... sublime!! Cómo El Padrino 3 x esa peli conocimos está obra maestra. El director de la Orquesta tan pequeño y tan inmenso
I remember playing this piece for my mother in her later years that was on a compilation CD that I have, and as soon as it started her eyes immediately lit up! She told me that she fell in love with this piece when she was a young girl. She had arrived early for choir practice at our church, & the pianist was playing an arrangement of it. She was enthralled! When I played it for her that evening it transported her back to that moment from her childhood. She has since passed on. At her funeral I insisted that they play the recording, and they used it for when the family entered the church. I can't explain how surreal that moment was. I know she was there, and it's wonderful to know that this was the final piece in the soundtrack of her life!
Stunning performance of one of the most beautiful pieces ever written. My old Dad was always humming this as we grew up and it still brings me to tears. ❤
The Evergreen Symphony Orchestra is a Taiwanese orchestra founded by Chang Yung-Fa Foundation of Evergreen Group in 2001. The orchestra is featured by bringing up talented Taiwanese players........ And this version is the best I’ve ever heard...........superb!
This one piece of music that I insistently have to close my eyes for, allowing for those brief few minutes to ‘escape’ the troubles and craziness of life.❤
I always liked this piece from Caballeria Rusticana. So did my father. Seven years ago, while he was facing death, already sedated, I put the headphones in his ears and he listened, exactly, to this interpretation of these musicians. With the last chords, he breathed his last. Every time I listen to it, I get emotional. When I die, I will let it be said that I will put on headphones with this same piece of Caballeria Rusticana.
I’m 80 y/o and still remember my mother attempting to hum this absolutely beautiful piece of music. It was her favourite piece but I just wish that she were alive today to hear this version. It is ,in my opinion, the absolute best.
Masgagni wasn't happy with the Intermezzo, so he balled up the score and threw it in the trash. His wife, who had heard him writing it, pulled it out and put it back on his desk. She eventually convinced him to keep it. For which I am grateful.
this is quite simply one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written. And to think that it was an afterthought so that Mascagni could join the two acts of his newly written opera into a single act so as to be able to enter it into a contest. Needless to say - he won.
@@ms.annthrope415 “Never really caught on”. What planet are you on Ms Thrope? It is one of the most popular short operas there is, often combined with Pagliacci in a double bill.
Una de las mejores interpretaciones del intermezzo de Pietro Mascagni que he escuchado, se nota como disfruta el Sr. director y como se embeleza con ciertos pasajes de la pieza musical, !nótenlo¡
Lim Kek-tjiang conducts Evergreen Symphony Orchestra A most passionate and beautiful piece, it really is lovely to share and appreciate this level of exquisite music! Lovely to share to enrich the lives around us for the young generations to enjoy too!
I played this recently whilst walking by the Sea at the plaza mascagni in Livorno . I've always loved this piece but the experience by the Sea was soul stirring. My lovely granddaughter was with me ... I said this is my Funeral music, she was so kind and smiled...
This music has such a bitter sweet melancholic emotion to it. It makes me lament and rejoice for past lives I might of lived and people I might of loved..
This is a most beautiful piece, this was played at myums funeral a month ago, it was a piece she had chosen to be played, she always said when you listen to it think of it as the highs and lows of life, the low notes are there and still sound beautiful then they lead to a more beautiful lead of highs, it's true when I think of it lows then highs lows then highs but it's all beautiful, amazing
Toro Salvaje luego El Padrino III y por último Samurai X, en cada uno de estas películas y Anime, fueron los momentos cumbres de su desarrollo, un pieza que se unta coma la mantequilla para las obras Audiovisuales, sin duda te traslada a los recuerdos más bonitos de tu vida y termina devolviendo al presente, una obra maestra.
The profoundness of this little piece of music is beyond words ... That makes life so awesome, mystic and wonderful! Words are lacking depth in front of this music: blissful, sad, enchanted, melancholy, ecstasy, sorrowful, noble, graceful, humble, dignified, gracious, elegant, benevolence, yet helpless, longing, and disquieting ... If a 5-min-short piece of music must be picked to depict the profundity of human emotions... This must be the one!
1:34 that sigh exhaled by the conductor accentuated the entire atmosphere ....that's a touch of gold :-) --- At 1:34, the conductor's wistful sigh permeated the entire atmosphere, infusing it with a touch of golden magic. Truly, a moment to cherish and savor with a smile! 😊 I wish that Maestro Lim Kek-tjiang smiles in his tomb in knowing this complement! 😊 Rest in peace and serenity in Heaven Maestro! You had done it and it was really a Blast!!! 🤭
Quando la ascoltai nella piazza di Lentini, accompagnata dai fuochi artificiali, mi commossi così tanto, che ancora oggi, sentendola, non riesco a fermare le lacrime. Inoltre fu proprio l'Intermezzo della Cavalleria Rustica a il primo brano di musica operistica suonato da mio figlio al suo esordio nella Filarmonica del nostro paese!
I wish I could give another thumbs up every time I heard this beautifully played piece. The members of the orchestrar were immaculately dressed, and very pleasing to look at as well as to listen to. Credit to the conductor.
