Wagner: Overtures and preludes 

in 1968 I was an eighteen-year old cellist playing in our home town Opera. One night we were playing the Tanhauser, opera completely unknown to me.When came the climax in the overture I was so overwhelmed, began sobbing. I still have this feeling, fifty years later, listening to this work.

My Dad would sometimes cry when he heard Lohengrin or Tannhäuser. I Love and Miss You, Dad. Danny

The paintings shown are : Arthur Hacker : The Temptation of Percival. Johann Heinrich Füssli : The Shepherd's Dream. Nils Blommér : Ängsälvor (meadow elves). Frederic Leighton : Tristan and Isolde.

In 1958, as a senior in high school, our above-average choir (mostly thanks to our superb teacher/director)sang Tannhauser. I was the accompanist and those triples on "Once more, dear home almost wore out my wrists! Such a beautiful sound, though, and I was playing through tears the whole time..

Tanhauser is the fantastic gate that leads to another world or dimension which makes us fly and get lost. It doesn't matter where we are. We just realize everything is light, calm, safe and we are finally happy...

Once Wagner has you, you have evolved into a greater musical level of understanding. Can't describe it, you just have to experience it. It took me 40 years to get there.

WARNING: this video may lead to intense feelings of awe.

Wagner's music makes me feel as though there is something in me that is eternal. As though I am part of a much greater power. The longer I listen the clearer I feel it. The feeling is celestial, mystical, heavenly.

Wagners Parsifal ist eines der wenigen Musikstücke, die mich mit einem großen Ausatmen in einen existentiellen Frieden versetzen.

Wagner's music is powerful. If anybody needs a soul uplifting, this is it. Listening to Wagner's music is sure a strong stimulant and a morale booster. I definitely love it.

TANNHAUSER EVOKES SO MANY EMOTIONS IN SO FEW MOMENTS SO AS TO BE PERMANETLY ETCHED IN MEMORY.

Archetypes shattered and scattered that our Spirits may Soar! In gratitude, Tannhauser.

Parsifal and Tristan and Isolde are sublime, out of this world. ❤

I never listened to Wagner...but now....wow!!!!

The essence of the German soul.

The Parsifal overture is on another level altogether.

So thankful for the great 80s movie "Excalibur" for introducing Wagner's music to me.... which I still love to this day.

Remember Ludwig II of Bavaria as you admire this music: as Wagner's patron and protector, the King made it possible to share these compositions with the world.

Wagner composed some of the best overtures/preludes ever in the history of music.

Upon finishing Parsifal (and it's premier in Bayreuth) and going on vacations Wagner decided he is finished with opera and it's about time to write some symphonies. It pains me greatly to think what miraculous, god tier music works we are missing due to his heart attack.

Lohengrin - Prelude - Music for the eternity. My imagination of going to heaven

Oui, la Magie Vraie existe....il suffit d'écouter et de se laisser envahir par ces sons Merveilleux.

Without a doubt, Wagner composed some of the most memorable music on record!

And for all lovers of Wagner, listen one time to the 7th symphony of Bruckner, the finale of the 2nd movement with S. Celibidache and you feel the same as Lohengrin: The pure power of music

Thank you Wagner, for changing my life with your fantastic motivation

The Magic of Great Music , Just Wonderful 💞🎶🎶👏✨✨

The Rienzi overture is SO beautiful it’s beyond description, thank you God !

In the movie 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould, the young Gould is completely mesmerized by Wagner's profound music.

The background paintings are amazing!

Musik für die Seele 🦢

Ravaged by the critics! Adored by fans of his music! Misunderstood? Definitely! Appreciated - not enough!!

Hervorragende Musik, ein phänomenaler Komponist, seine Preludies und Ouvertures haben mich sehr beeindruckt, eine fesselnde Musik, bei der man/frau seine Phantasien (im musikalischem Sinne) nachgehen kann-einfach ein Genie, Sehr hörenswert!!

BRAVO!!!

Parsifal et Tannhäuser sont les meilleures ouvertures de tous les temps.

Thanks to RU-vid I have discovered Wagner.

listening to Wagner as outside in the dark the wind blows a cold rain the trees wave and shake lights go off and on the walls creak and the cats run under the bed… Wagner battles the agonies, he’s emotional but solid, he’s the supreme fighter, a giant in a world of pygmies, he takes it straight on through, he breaks barriers an astonishing FORCE of sound as everything here shakes shivers bends blasts in fierce gamble yes, Wagner and the storm intermix with the wine as nights like this run up my wrists and up into my head and back down into the gut some men never die and some men never live but we’re all alive tonight.

"I've fallen (for Wagner) and I can't get up!"

01. Rienzi: Overture 00:0002. Parsifal: Prelude 12:2603. The flying dutchman: Overture 24:2704. Lohengrin: Prelude 35:0005. Tristan and Isolde: Prelude 44:5506. The Meistersingers of Nurnberg: Prelude 56:4807. Tannhauser: Overture 01:06:53 (For Smartphone :) )

I've got this on in my headphones, drowning out the sound of the actual rain hitting the roof in my office.

❤Wagner's work TANNHAUSER is absolutely great.

Wagner speaks to my soul! How I love his music...

I'll never cease to regret not having a full studio recording of Lohengrin by Böhm... How could that not happen!

Beautiful!!!!

Linda canção. oo:o4 de 22/02/2023, uma quarta feira. Ouvindo com o fone de ouvido. Estou em Porto Alegre/RS.

OHHHHHHHHHH , FANTASTIC , AMAZING , WONDERFUL ABSOLUTELY DIVINE BEAUTY ........... I LOVE VERY VERY VERY ........ FOREVER .

this music makes you want to share the potencial of our own existence. the wonders... this is what music is about, a question, an objective. Feelings come next, they are the curls in the wind, we need to feel the sweetest breeze and the most thunderous tornado through music, not get curled up in our worlds. In this wretched modern world, the hardest part is remembering... to remember you must have understood already

I had all the opera and simphony with Wagner, even His book The Art work of the Future ! Even the 🖼️ with Wagner I had on my room! Because of Him, I've started to read Nietzsche and Schopenhauer Die Welt also Wille und Vorstellung..

I read a comment here that says: “Wagner's music is powerful. If anybody needs a soul uplifting, this is it. Listening to Wagner's music is sure a strong stimulant and a morale booster.” It had me thinking and better understanding Nietzsche's take on Wagner. He said that the music of Wagner does actually not come from strength, but from a lack of it. That the music is not made from and not made for those that have strength but lacks it. Because in it, they get a sense of getting that which they inherently lack, rather than affirming of what they already should have. I don't know anything of the person who wrote that comment, but it had me thinking about what Nietzsche said. It just perfectly expressed the exact sentiment that he warned about and said was his own mistake when he at first did like the music of Wagner. I myself do like the music of Wagner, but I'm torn because I also very much enjoy and respect what Nietzsche has said about it.

If only I could touch that painting to feel the pulse of Beauty! The magnitude of an artist's spirit is immeasurably great: I say this in awe of Wagner.

Beyond the anarchies, Wagner denounced the apparent order and the paradoxes of an insensible world. Spiritual, sensory and rebellious, this poet for once not so cursed, reveals secret impostures, explores serene enjoyments, a world of rekindled dreams !

¡¡¡Qué maravillosa y grandiosa la música de Wagner!!!

Semplicemente mi affascina e vengo rapito dalla sua musica. ❤❤❤

Tonalidades suaves como cantos de ángeles le oigo a este señor Wagner con esa cara de el tan agria y altanera. Alabado sea Dios 🙏

Música monumental, con una gran energía y dramatismo. Más allá de su vida tumultuosa, su música es excepcional.

Karl Böhm was such a great musician, from Mozart to Wagner ... wonderful.

Solo para sensibilidades altamente desarrolladas... Excelso.

Bellissimo, Wagner il più grande.

15:30 "Arthur... You Brought me back. Your love brought me back."

Das ist Göttlich!!!

Il tanhauser così come i maestri cantori di Norimberga e il Lohengrin hanno entrambe qualcosa di magico ,belle ,struggenti solo per chi le ascolta ,per chi suona invece entra nel vivo delle note ,dei piano e dei crescenti ,in pratica wagner non tralascia nessuno particolarmente esigente ,dai violini ,dai violoncelli etc .per non parlare della sezione degli ottoni ,qui vuole il massimo .che emozione

Amo esta música de épica hermosura, rica textura y múltiples tonalidades. Saludos desde Honduras.

Wagner has much nobility and emotional depth in his music, but let's not forget the influence of his predecessors, especially Weber and Louis Spohr - who wrote the "Tristan" chord into his overture to Der Alchymist in 1815! Hear how Spohr leads music from Mozart on to Wagner through his operas Faust and Jessonda. Wagner also learned a lot from Weber, perhaps especially from Euryanthe (released on DVD in 2018), but even Freichütz is full of harmonic innovations when he's not writing new German folk songs (just as Verdi did for Italy!). Fave Wagner opera? Hard to beat the massive emotional scope of Siegfried

This is a fine and moving selection of some of Wagner's very greatest pieces of orchestral music. Thank you.

Incroyable se que me fait cette musique je n est pas de mot pour l exprimé

THE LAST PRELUDE WAS SO BEAUTIFUL. GOD TALKING TO US THRU WAGNER .

absolutely beautiful music.

Beautiful ⚡⚡

This is a great collection!

Truly glorious music from a Master composer.

Niemand muss Wagner mögen, aber seine Musik muss man lieben!

wonderful, thank you!

Beautiful

01. Rienzi: Overture 00:0002. Parsifal: Prelude 12:2603. The flying dutchman: Overture 24:2704. Lohengrin: Prelude 35:0005. Tristan and Isolde: Prelude 44:5506. The Meistersingers of Nurnberg: Prelude 56:4807. Tannhauser: Overture 01:06:53

Karl Bhöm, one of the greates in Music History. Bravo und Danke.

Love this music🤗Thanks.

Some of the best music ever composed.

I revel in this sumptuous music while reading Oswald Spengler's " the decline of the west", this is lockdown at its best!

The most wonderful human creation. Wagner the greatest creator. The sublimation of every human feeling transformed into a divine elixir through music.

Excellent

Beautiful ambience and great music, love it 🧘‍♂

Wagner trabalhava com uma textura contrapontística, orquestração cromática e harmonia. Era possível perceber em suas obras temas musicais que tinham relação direta com fontes específicas ou elementos dentro da trama, técnica que os artistas chamam de 'leitmotivs'. A influência do compositor se estendeu à literatura, filosofia, teatro e artes visuais. Os temas mais comuns em seus escritos eram música, teatro e política. (Katharyne Bezerra)..

it is so different from the beautiful emotional expressions of Mozart or Beethoven. They are more like a garden dream and this is the deep beauty of the wild and mysterious forests.

Kick back, light one up and let the great one take you on a musical journey.

So good.

Wonderful paintings!

Sublime. Gracias.

beyond sublime

In my clinic I often listen to the Wagner while working with patients- Beautiful, Powerful and Noble

About the time he releases his new mixtape.

I wish I could paint, I wish I could write music, I wish I could play an instrument.... I wish. I have said in other music areas that if the music you listen to doesn't move you to tears or give you goosebumps once in a while, you are listening to the wrong music. Wagner does both for me.

I think that the overtures were the VERY best parts of this great composer's operas. Completely SUBLIME!!

Wonderful

My love for Music brought me here.

Parsifal is radical. It's modern even by today's standards. Probably not the best introduction if you're new to Wagner but man, once you understand the genius it's like a portal to a whole new dimension in music.

Upon hearing the first few notes and chords of the Prelude to Tristan & Isolde when I 10 years old I was hooked. Hearing those later at Bayreuth was at another level of consciousness.

I wish I could listen to Wagner on bent knees, but am too old. Worthy of worship

Wagner was a GIGANT! That´s for sure!

Impresionante!

Thanks

I only came here to cry.... for joy!