Wagner: Götterdämmerung (final scene) / Maazel · Berliner Philharmoniker 

He was an American that truly made the Berlin Philharmonic perform to its top potential. Mazel, who passed away, along with Valery Gergiev, are the top 2 conductors. Listen to Gergiev conduct Prokofiev's The Firebird and it makes your skin stand up. Truly magnificent.

@@fthornberry3032Stravinky’s Firebird? Or another piece by Prokofiev?

viena philharmonic can do better

Too fast for me. Not in concert but in the opera house when youve been waiting for this for 5 hours, ut should be savored. LONG pause before the final Brunhilde theme. This is still great!

You are so right Kenny Ishi. If you are going to play Wagner well, you must have a great brass section..and they do!

Brass is the thing at this point in the opera. Barenboim knows that well, also.

I'm one of them

@@lalalalelele1189 Poor you!

Well I absolutely love classical music but for me there's not much worse than classical singing unfortunately. There are only a few exceptions from that...

@@lalalalelele1189 Well I used to be like you. Operatic singing was the bane of my existance. I still think it is rather ridiculos to sing the same 4 verses of a stanza more than once and for the life of me cannot find much enjoyment in operas where the singers haver to constantly repeat how "furious, furious, fffuuuuhohohohohrrious, fuhuhurious, furioooooooooooos" they are. But thank god for Wagner inventing the music drama, which is more like a sung play where usually no one repeats any phrase, and the orchestra is equally if not more important than the singers.

Same kind of people who won't try an ethnic restaurant, who won't try a new destination for vacation, won't try anything other than General's Chicken in a Chinese restaurant and asks why they didn't bring fortune cookies, 😜 thinknLiberace was a great pianist, think Barry Manilow is great music, and Friends is the height of television.

Nietzsche oder nichts ! Ob Nietzsche mit dem Götter Part einverstanden wäre ? ;-)

"O heilige Götter" aus dem ersten Aufzug ist auch toll.

How did you think of that 😂

when it comes to music, nationality means zero

that we can all recognize that the Berliner Philharmoniker is one of its best streaks and also that it is one of the best philharmonic orchestras of the world.

No problem. Un fraternal saludo desde Colombia 🇨🇴🖑

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vb_g8GXrZPc.html That glorious snippet is first heard in Die Walküre at the 1:25 mark. Then again in Götterdämmerung - Redemption through love

@@GreBunTristanundIsolde Wow. I am SO impressed that (1) you knew this, and (2) that you took the trouble to respond. Thank you so very much! You have done your good deed for the day.

@@michaelbailey790 It's also worth noting that this is the only time this motive gets repeated in the entire ring. It only appears in "Die Walküre" at that specific moment and is never heard again until the very end of "Götterdämmerung".

It’s also the only motif that Wagner ever gave a name too. In the early 2000s a letter of his was published wherein he called it “In Praise of Brunhilda.” Probably the most important motif in the whole Ring Cycle

@@CapnKV Thanks for the information

Nate Johnson try to find James Levine and the met.

George Szell also conducted Cleveland in a fantastic recording of Siegfried's Funeral March and the final scene in the album "Wagner Without Words"

You may find a million versions of it if you search for "Zürück vom Ring", which is the last line of this opera and of the Ring cycle, and leads directly to this orchestral finale. An opera's "song titles" are often the first line that is sung in that particular segment -- it makes more sense in older formats built on Arias and Recitatives, and it's a pattern used for CDs of Wagner even if it makes less sense for the 'music drama' format. This is useful knowledge if you ever need to search for highlights: "Leb' wohl", "Winterstürme" and "Hojotoho!" in Walküre; "Sorglose Schmiede", "Bin ich nun frei?" and "Heda! Heda, hedo!" from Rheingold; "Heil dir, Sonne!" and "Nothung! Nothung! Neidliches Schwert!" for Siegfried; "Heil dir, Günther!", "Brünnhilde, heilige Braut!" and of course "Zürück vom Ring!" from Götterdämmerung. Pardon the garrulous answer. I like this music.

vesteel I guess it is a part of it.

vesteel The last Part has no words in it 👍🏻

vesteel, it is. Jonas, you're right, but Maazel edited the Ring to be an hour long and not require any voices. That's the Ring without words. That's vesteel's question. But anyway, the last part does have words: Hagen shouts 'zurück vom Ring'.

Yes, this is Ring ohne Worte.

Jep!

Tony Barde it made me think exactly to the same. Final destruction of the Earth and delievering it from sin, then to create anew new heaven and earths....that sweet melody at the end is the final creation

@@kenandigrazia13 When I listen to this, I imagine the Last Judgement and final victory over Satan

Hermann Bäumer

This video was probably set up that way to concentrate on the electronic recording because they may have had more than one take, and they would not have wanted to be distracted by a continuous performance with an audience.

It doesnt take too much to be' better than Maazel.what a overrated conductor

@@armandogabba1364 that's not so wrong

"Z" not" c".

Wagner wrote it before Nazis 😉

Stupid guy: Get your facts right. Wagner lived before the Nazis. You Left-Wings are so dump like hell!

The Conductor is important in this... not even well practiced bands would coordinate well with each other without the conductor, especially if it is as big as this...

Can you elaborate on that statement? And why are you always commenting in the BPO comment section about conductors are not useful. And I'm sure the BPO doesn't all consists of idiots and they know more than us if their conductor is useful or not.