Felix Mendelssohn - Hebrides Overture (Fingal's Cave), Op. 26 London Symphony Orchestra - Claudio Abbado
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@lilwen40633 жыл бұрын
At primary school in the UK 1960s, late afternoon, we would close our eyes and rest our heads on our desks to have some quiet time. My teacher at the time, Mr Jones, would play classical music for us to listen to, this was always one, if not my favourite! I'm 65 now and have listened to and enjoyed classical music every day of my life since then! My children and grandchildren are devoted fans too having been brought up on such classical masterpieces.
@brunorossibonin7883 жыл бұрын
@Lil Wen You had a great teacher!
@marielouiseweeksb33attitud333 жыл бұрын
How amazing. I’m 62 and our Headmistress did the same in 1960’s. Miss Gayford (Primary school in the UK) played this and it has stuck ever since.
@ianskilton76413 жыл бұрын
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@MOGGS19423 жыл бұрын
On rainy days, we would gather in the hall at lunchtime and the Headmaster would play classical music for us. My introduction to such gems as Swan Lake, Peter and the wolf, etc. I still remember those occasions with great fondness.
@ClariceAust3 жыл бұрын
I'm 65; why on earth didn't they do that in Australia, too? It would have been brilliant. As it was, it took me decades to discover the joys of classical music.
@ProbablyYoghurt9 жыл бұрын
My mother said that this was playing when she gave birth to me, hence the reason why I decided to look it up. Seems pretty awesome to think that this was the first thing I would have heard.
@beaglybeagle7 жыл бұрын
Wow! That is quite an anecdote to share! Fascinating that this welcomed you into the world!!
@fanofnormalclips4 жыл бұрын
Unborn babies can already hear in their mother's womb.
@spikespa52084 жыл бұрын
But the strings don't come through very well underwater.
@firebert20004 жыл бұрын
you had to look it up? didn't you remember it?
@ProbablyYoghurt4 жыл бұрын
Nah my memory is pretty crappy haha
@deborahbateman4712Ай бұрын
I took a boat trip from the Isle of Mull to Fingal's Cave on Staffa in 2022. Dolphins accompanied us all the way, then as we slowly approached the cave which inspired Mendelsshon to write the Hebridean Overture the crew started playing the music. It was moving beyond words; I cried
@2Hearts3Ай бұрын
What a beautiful experience. Real?
@guilhermer.demoura4324Ай бұрын
Goddish experience, friend! Amazing!
@GringatTheRepugnant3 жыл бұрын
I headed out from the isle of Iona to Staffa where Fingal's cave is located yesterday. The Atlantic surge was too much to be able to moor at the island so we could only just hold on to the sides of the wooden boat while staring into the crashing darkness between the basalt pillars. Then the captain told us about the crashing of the surf is what inspired Mendelssohn when he came here in 1856(?) to write this piece, and it played over the tannoy while cormorants dived and guillemots swam around us, the sea heaved, the foam sprayed up around the rocks, and the grey seals watched us from their breeding ground around the island's side.
@maxgregorycompositions62162 жыл бұрын
1829.
@wadesaleeby21722 жыл бұрын
Yes! ☺️
@tarengo32 жыл бұрын
Wow... this man just managed to use the words tannoy, cormorant, and guillemots. in the same sentence... Let's take a moment to recognize his perspicacity whatever that means
@cminor30162 жыл бұрын
Lord have mercy. Thank you.
@rilke17912 жыл бұрын
@@tarengo3 i wish people still had the ability to speak like this. I love reading it and it's so much more interesting describing it like that
@kathleenogrady84595 ай бұрын
I named my oldest son after Mendelssohn because of this piece. You can't get more respectful than that!
@richt42854 ай бұрын
SO you're telling me your family name is Overture?
@Sheehan14 ай бұрын
Felix is a good historic name but your son *will* be mocked
@user-qr9uh1fd8g4 ай бұрын
Felix is a beautiful name @@Sheehan1
@Sheehan14 ай бұрын
@@user-qr9uh1fd8g Yes even Fingal would have been a good name
@kennethpalmowski-wolfe79233 ай бұрын
I too have a son named Felix. We had the most fortunate opportunity to meet his great-grandson Thomas Wach at the Mendelssohn Haus in Ried, Switzerland a few years ago. One of the most incredible moments of my life - to tell Herr Wach that it was "nicht aus Versehen" that our son was so named.
@nicholaskelly63753 жыл бұрын
Interesting Fact. Whilst on his way to Scotland Felix Mendelssohn stopped to inspect the Liverpool & Manchester Railway. The first locomotive worked Inter-City Railway in the World was in its final stages of construction. Robert Stephenson escorted the composer around the new railway. He became the first member of the public to travel on the line between the two cities!
@andymoore99773 жыл бұрын
Two 19th century geniuses together. I hope they had translators around. German to English.... English to Geordie.... Geordie to English etc... apparently Robert Stephenson's accent was so broad he really did have a translator with him when he traveled outside of the north east.
@oldenweery75103 жыл бұрын
@@andymoore9977 Wow, that's a neat fact! (I've been a model railroader since 1953 and a classical music fan before that.) Stay safe.
@aaaaaeiou6273 ай бұрын
kkk
@briars-d6251 Жыл бұрын
I remember playing this at music camp while it was pouring rain outside. One of the best experiences of the summer.
@doddsino5 ай бұрын
I remember seeing a Mynah bird walk to this song.
@robertgage81639 жыл бұрын
As a 16 year old i played this with the Lafayette, Indiana symphony in 1966. I have loved it ever since......beautiful overture.
@doylestownstew9 жыл бұрын
+Robert Gage Amen for music education in High School!
@reconote8 жыл бұрын
+Robert Gage Hmm. I was 18 in 1966 here in Lafayette, IN. I think I might have been there for the performance. At that big meeting house (I forget the name) a block north of Main St.? Not at Mars theater?
@cassierexroad21545 ай бұрын
I just heard it done at the indianapolis symphony orchestra!! It was stunning!
@luvbach18 жыл бұрын
Perhaps the most underestimated of the great composers. And he was nothing less than great.
@burkewhb8 жыл бұрын
Definitely agree. My favorite is his Italian Symphony.
@Peter09558 жыл бұрын
I'm sure you love the Scottish. So uplifting and saying Yes to Life!
@AlexandrosDeligiorgis7 жыл бұрын
One of my 5 favourites.
@sherlockholmeslives.16057 жыл бұрын
Sheer GENIUS! The quintessential romantic sublime!
@steveschwieterman91097 жыл бұрын
I agree with all of you that he is underestimated, and so is Dvorak, to some degree. But they both have composed some beautiful pieces, this one among them.
@krypticth2 жыл бұрын
I've been to the actual cave. Unbelievable beauty. Music is the only way to describe it, because it's beyond words.
@Kayem9677 ай бұрын
Thats impressive. Im from the west coast, and like many people from an area, we are the worst tourists and don't explore as we should. That cave, from pictures, I would describe as a natural cathedral, so it must be something in reality.
@doddsino5 ай бұрын
I wonder if there are any Mynah Birds in that cave?
@richardweil88135 жыл бұрын
Went to the Hebrides in a heavy rainstorm. Mendelssohn definitely caught the feeling of those islands on the edge of the North Atlantic.
@HouseClubber753 жыл бұрын
Went there back in '95, beautiful weather... It was August. I miss the Atlantic... Greetings from Italy
@philipwilliams58082 жыл бұрын
I went from Mull to Iona and then on to Staffa, on a fantastic August day when the sky was blue with fluffy white clouds, the sea was a fabulous azure and the sand as white as snow. It is the most beautiful memory matched by this beautiful music.
@doddsino Жыл бұрын
@WastingMyLifeInGlasgow The only other place in the world would have Mynah Birds.
@chelamcguire2 жыл бұрын
Such joy! I could taste the salty sea air. majestic. Moving me to tears before that baton was laid aside. I am actually the proud owner of this powerful piece on a 78 which was recorded in 1928. My maternal grandfather was the previous owner of this 78 which, when played on the old gramophone, he would conduct his invisible orchestra! Ordinarily, his 'conducting' was carried out on a Sunday morning before we all set off to church. I would call into my grand parents house which was on our farm, and I'd find my grandfather wearing his pyjama's and a bow tie. The perfect outfit for all conductors! After he performed this energetic form of art, he'd quickly shower, get properly dressed and before we knew it we were in the church. A brilliant start to a Sunday for any young child!
@philipwilliams58082 жыл бұрын
That's lovely. I have been to Fingal's Cave it is a magical place, like the house of your Grandfather obviously was for you!
@Volcano-Man2 жыл бұрын
@@philipwilliams5808It is indeed. I visited it yonks ago, the music coursing through my mind as I oggled the basalt columns - that's the trouble with being a geologist we 'consume' the rocks.
@philipwilliams58082 жыл бұрын
@@Volcano-Man Hi Gerard, It must be very gneiss to be a geologist!
@kithughesx Жыл бұрын
That is such a wonderful story.
@chelamcguire Жыл бұрын
@@kithughesx Bless you - thanks! Just a wee trip down memory lane and music does tend to draw us there. Enjoy your day.
@maddy30904 жыл бұрын
i was supposed to play this for my final concert of the session for my youth orchestra and it was cancelled because of the covid-19. this was my favorite piece out of everything we played :(
@dpagain21674 жыл бұрын
You will always remember that just as I remember that the school puppet show I was to take part in at Christmas 1957 was cancelled because half the class, including myself, contracted the Asian Flu. Of course at that time we all stayed in school until sick.
@tonybologna44894 жыл бұрын
LOL GET REKT
@lovinescu72604 жыл бұрын
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@jacksmales49734 жыл бұрын
Really sorry to hear that:(
@spicymeatball38074 жыл бұрын
Oof
@nickwright60343 жыл бұрын
So many appreciative comments here... And I, too, have much to recognise, acknowledge and appreciate. My reception teacher, Miss Irwin, in 1959, was an outstanding teacher and musician. Sadly, long gone, I pay public tribute to a truly lovely lady who helped to shape my life and life-long interest in music. RIP Miss Irwin.
@medwaybusinessawards84967 ай бұрын
Playing this at full volume whilst sailing in a yacht up the west coast of Scotland is memorable.
@jillchaney70862 жыл бұрын
I also listened to this at primary school in the 1960’s,we used to lie down and close our eyes to listen.Magical,a distant time now 😢
@cindytartt40484 ай бұрын
I feel you sister!
@goldkhw2 жыл бұрын
When I was a child of 7 in England and my brother was 9, we loved this piece of music whenever it was played on the radio. That's the only place we heard it. We'd sit there transfixed. So beautiful.
@marshallhackett9905 жыл бұрын
There is no tune that so invokes the sea as this one. I must have been a seaman in a past life, because I long for this life...
@katypagemusic12603 жыл бұрын
I remember having the little mermaid audio tape when I was a kid each chapter started with this. Always makes me think of plunging to the depths of the ocean!
@leonj.e.67703 жыл бұрын
listen to the first movement of Shahrazade by Rimsky Korsakov who was a captain in the Czar's navy.
@jaakkokeskinen2 жыл бұрын
What about beginning of 3rd act of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde? That is, to me, the best sea description ever in music.
@jackpinekid12 жыл бұрын
FTN
@alicemilne14442 жыл бұрын
@@jaakkokeskinen The sea has many faces. The prelude to Act 3 of Tristan and Isolde sounds like a powerful but largely calm sea, such as the Baltic. Listen to Wagner's prelude to The Flying Dutchman to get an impression of a stormy sea, such as that which Wagner and his wife experienced on a crossing to England after they had fled Riga in the eastern Baltic. Or listen to the Sea Interludes in Benjamin Britten's opera Peter Grimes. Mendelssohn is describing sea passages around Hebridean islands in the eastern Atlantic. I grew up close to the North Sea coast in Scotland and have seen the Atlantic in Scotland, Ireland, France, Spain, Portugal, Iceland and Norway. It can be a very, very wild indeed. I've been on ferries in a Force 10 gale. The Baltic just doesn't get gales like that.
@graemeleary97963 жыл бұрын
Having twice been in the actual Fingal's Cave in the island of Staffa, this has particular significance both for the peerless music and the natural grandeur of the Cave itself. No wonder Mendelssohn was moved to compose this superb piece.
@fulgore115 күн бұрын
I'm on a bus in the hebrides listening to this while looking at majestic mountain formations. Yes I hear the voice of God through this song
@davidsnyder942410 жыл бұрын
"That's the beauty of music. They can't get that from you... You need it so you don't forget...there are places in this world that aren't made out of stone. That there's something inside... that they can't get to, that they can't touch - that's yours." -- Andy Dufresne, "The Shawshank Redemption"
@lambbone83025 жыл бұрын
YUMMY FRESH MEAT FOR MY POT
@davorinflis38254 жыл бұрын
You told what I would have if I had had the inspiration to express that in words...
@robertoa.m.39843 жыл бұрын
Wonderful!!
@mauritamoore10212 жыл бұрын
beautifully expressed!
@philipwilliams58082 жыл бұрын
Ah, but, Fingal's Cave is completely made of stone!
@harryandruschak28437 жыл бұрын
I have been inside this cave. One little known fact...if you are well inside the cave, and look towards the entrance, you can see the entrance framing the Isle of Iona.
@gracedirocco80497 жыл бұрын
Staffa.
@marciep35355 жыл бұрын
Where is this cave?
@alexgabriel56505 жыл бұрын
@@marciep3535 It's on the island of Staffa, in the Inner Hebrides, Scotland.
@marciep35355 жыл бұрын
@@alexgabriel5650 Thank you
@alexgabriel56505 жыл бұрын
@@marciep3535 You are welcome :)
@jamesa9012 жыл бұрын
I wonder if Mendelssohn was freaking out when he wrote this, thinking "This is really good. It's going to be a classic. 200 years from now, people will download this from the internet and leaving comments on how good it is. This is great!"
@vinyltapelover2 жыл бұрын
James A ""This is really good. It's going to be a classic. 200 years from now, people will download this from the internet and leaving comments on how good it is." , and that darn Mynah Bird:).
@StimParavane Жыл бұрын
Wow. He conceived of the internet at the same time as writing this piece. Extraordinary...
@davidosorio49804 жыл бұрын
Both a Tuba Player and a Crash fan at the same time i love it.
@johndsimmonsdds87043 жыл бұрын
Tubas rule!
@jesselotspeich49363 жыл бұрын
I a Tubaist also loved the transcription we played in college. Hard Hard Hard but twice the fun. Never got to play it with the Symphony.
@doddsino5 ай бұрын
I'm a mynah bird lover.
@maximus4765 Жыл бұрын
There are two people who listen to this song. Classical music enjoyers And Crash twinsanity fans.
@doddsino Жыл бұрын
Or those who appreciate the Mynah Bird
@edwardcarberry10953 ай бұрын
Former . two thumbs up. I started in about 1972.
@ryster222013 күн бұрын
Both a graduate of music school and an avid crash fan here
@chrisbaker29037 күн бұрын
Wouldn't that be more correct to say "two types of people"?
@DarylSykes-x2iКүн бұрын
You left out Bugs Bunny fans... :)
@nyrokushii2 жыл бұрын
I played crash twinsanity years ago and I DIDN’T EVEN RECOGNIZE THIS MUSIC BUT I SAW THE NAME OF THE SONG
@Pepe-pq3om Жыл бұрын
So this is where the walrus chase song from crash twinsanity comes from!
@maryalegado3036 Жыл бұрын
In high school in Greenock Scotland beginning 1956, we had an amazing music teacher named Mrs.Waldron. I appreciate her for giving me an introduction and love for good classical music.Also studying the life and times of composers. She taught us to listen to what was going on in each piece. This overture won hands down for effect.......Yes Mrs.Waldron you were a great lady and I know you are in a happy place. Never forgotten.
@empireentertainmentevents13536 жыл бұрын
Mr Felix Mendelssohn ... you composed many breath taking Masterpieces. I admire and have always thought of you as among the all time great composers in the same level as Bach, Handel, Schubert, Schumann, Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Mozart and Beethoven.
@CIMAmotor3 жыл бұрын
Lennon, McCartney...
@agenziapagano49282 жыл бұрын
i love Mendhellsohn. It's underrated.
@wovenfur67112 жыл бұрын
@@agenziapagano4928 he’s*
@epicaunleashed87642 жыл бұрын
@@agenziapagano4928 Mendelssohn...
@celiamantovani3484 Жыл бұрын
Likewise! I grew up listening to everything in Classical music, and Mendelssohn has been always among my dearest composers. Playing the piano, I asked my father his book for piano Romance without Words, which I got for one of my birthdays as a teen. Such a joy to be able to play his wonderful compositions.
@johnnydutchman10 жыл бұрын
Tears in my eyes- this is what music is all about - emotion
@curioustruth6 жыл бұрын
Lenny V so very, VERY true! 😎
@kristine69966 жыл бұрын
Lenny V ... and mathematics and instruments and people ...
@clownia60246 жыл бұрын
it's all about the crash twinsanity remakes for the song and fresh meat for my pot
@John-qj2xi5 жыл бұрын
Further proof that the best music is composed by whites.
@Hithere-ek4qt4 жыл бұрын
@@John-qj2xi Ha ha ha ha ha - what a ignorant remark, Mr White Supremacist.
@PilgrimVisions6 жыл бұрын
"Now from the gray mist of the ocean the white-sailed ships of Fingal appear. High is the grove of their masts, as they nod, by turns, on the rolling wave. Swaran saw them from the hill. He returned from the sons of Erin. As ebbs the resounding sea, through the hundred isles of Inistore; so loud, so vast, so immense, returned the sons of Lochlin against the king. But bending, weeping, sad, and slow, and dragging his long spear behind, Cuthullin sunk in Cromla's wood, and mourned his fallen friends. He feared the face of Fingal, who was wont to greet him from the fields of renown! ... Fingal, tall in his ship, stretched his bright lance before him. Terrible was the gleam of his steel: It was like the green meteor of death, setting in the heath of Malmor, when the traveller is alone, and the broad moon is darkened in heaven." (Epic of Fingal III from the Poems of Ossian)
@katewilmot43754 жыл бұрын
I have to find that , thank you 😊
@loricichowic85173 жыл бұрын
This masterpiece of literature is echoed in the masterpiece of a musical work! Thanks for your comment!👌👍
@Lighthazzles2 жыл бұрын
Thankyou. This transported me away from all the idiocy and madness and onto beautiful landscapes of legends and myth with mountains and storm lashed coves.
@corsairman1956 Жыл бұрын
Did not make it to The Hebrides on our recent Scotland tour. Yet made it to Skye, and couldn’t help but whistle this masterpiece upon which our tour guide said, “You whistle that quite nicely.” 🎶
@The-Real-Blissful-Ignorance Жыл бұрын
The Isle of Skye is part of the Inner Hebrides, so technically you did make it to the Hebrides. 🤓
@alexgabriel56505 жыл бұрын
This and the Scottish symphony make me miss Scotland and I've never even been there.
@jacquelinelockeline50615 жыл бұрын
I have the same feelings about Scotland, but I've been there twice and it's breathtakingly amazing!
@DanceCommandant5 жыл бұрын
I feel the same way about "Donald Where's Your Troosers?"
@denisewilliams94055 жыл бұрын
DanceCommandant oh you bloody heathen😂😂
@geenadasilva92875 жыл бұрын
amazingly beautiful country. pity it has the worst weather on earth... oh and my horrible, toxic mother lives there, so i will make do with memories... why does this overture make me think of Luis Buñuel?
@1evonvielen5 жыл бұрын
Same, bro, same. I feel some weird kind of patriotism for this country without ever having been there :'D
@bigbenbuckaroo197611 жыл бұрын
I love this piece. It moves me and inspires me. Mendelssohn was indeed one of the greatest composers of his time and one of the greats of the ages. Thank you for loading this wonderful work of art for the world to enjoy!
@jackporter9257 Жыл бұрын
Just beautiful;
@doddsino Жыл бұрын
@@jackporter9257 It is the Mynah Bird that is truly beautiful.
@gravecactus9 жыл бұрын
nothing made me feel more whole than playing a piece like this in class. i miss those days.
@lynnharris29348 жыл бұрын
I am 67 And I just love this maybe because I am scottish
@jasonvinton16125 жыл бұрын
50 years old and just joined a symphony orchestra in my area. Never played this before and I love it. @@lynnharris2934
@devin33783 жыл бұрын
Cook
@dingo4ever3696 жыл бұрын
Rusty Walrus theme sounds beautiful😍
@songsmith31a5 жыл бұрын
Was there ever a piece of music that so perfectly captured the ebb and flow...the constant rise and fall of the ocean in all its moods? I think not. A top orchestra and conductor do it justice here.
@neilbriscoewhite49535 жыл бұрын
It's a wonderful work, Mark. Allow me to suggest you listen to "La Mer" (The Sea) by Debussy. With closed eyes.
@petersmith90774 жыл бұрын
I can think of at least 2 composers who had storm passages(pardon th pun)in their music. BEETHOVEN the Pastoral Symphony and KORSAKOV'S Scherezade
@petersmith90774 жыл бұрын
They were pretty good yes? They really are exactly like natural storms. Beethoven th thunder& th storm moving on. Korsakov's sea storm - u can imagine th swell of waves growing taller & more violent! PJS.
@songsmith31a4 жыл бұрын
@@neilbriscoewhite4953 Thanks Neil. I know Debussy's La Mer and agree with your point about its quality in thsi regard.
@songsmith31a4 жыл бұрын
@@petersmith9077 Peter - absolutely right. It requires not only a musical skill but the necessary imagination to write music of this sort. In more modern times Richard Rodgers wrote some fine music in a similar nautical vein for the 1950s TV series "Victory at Sea" (arranged by R.R.Bennett, I seem to recall). The title theme "Song of the High Seas" was a good example.
@JaveyEL6369 Жыл бұрын
I first heard this on that 1943 film, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, when the main character went to the POW camp after WW1 to find his prewar German friend. That music was playing in the background, and I liked it so much, I looked it up 😊
@PlasmaCoolantLeak11 ай бұрын
I love this piece. I always think of a windy, cloudy day at the beach when I hear this, the cold air biting.
@bomagosh4 ай бұрын
If you haven''t seen it, look up Fingal's Cave. It's a stunning cave made of basalt columns in the Inner Hebrides.
@davidwright84325 жыл бұрын
I had the great good fortune to be invited to go to Fingal's Cave, on an island off Mull, when visiting the Hebrides. Mendelssohn's musical imagination captures the place wonderfully, down to the surging tides and eddies by the cave mouth. Listen, and you're there! Promise.
@jackfletcher10004 жыл бұрын
Staffa one of the Inner Hebrides.
@aaronjorgefridman56624 жыл бұрын
El re"descubridor" de J. S. Bach. Uno de los más grandes compositores del romanticismo
@jeffreyburger52554 жыл бұрын
My absolutely favorite piece of music. Something majestic and airy about this emotional experience absorbing this performance. I wish Mendelssohn had a larger library of compositions. But ill settle for this small piece of perfection
@palmermonsen90984 жыл бұрын
His violin concerto is amazing though
@XY-ke5mj4 жыл бұрын
@@palmermonsen9098 @jeffrey burger His Octet for Strings is one of the greatest pieces of chamber music ever written and he wrote it when he was....wait for it....16.
@doddsino Жыл бұрын
This small piece of perfection is made better by a small walking Mynah Bird.
@alancumming640715 күн бұрын
He has a pretty large number of compositions but if you like the Scottish tone of this then you'll enjoy his symphony no' 3.
@alexmustata40896 жыл бұрын
My favourite classical piece. Criminally underrated, and pure genius.
@alancumming64073 жыл бұрын
In what way is it criminally underrated?
@alicemilne14442 жыл бұрын
@@alancumming6407 That's just a turn of phrase for saying that the person who likes the piece thinks that others who don't or don't even know it are philistines for not appreciating it.
@alancumming64072 жыл бұрын
@@alicemilne1444 Yes that's it. Well said.
@ct92404 Жыл бұрын
@@alicemilne1444 No, unfortunately I had never heard of this until just recently. When I was a kid, they never taught anything in school about Felix Mendelsohn and whenever anyone plays classical music it's always the same old Mozart and Beethoven stuff over and over again.
@alicemilne1444 Жыл бұрын
@ct6502 That's a pity. There's so much more than those two, isn't there? Still, it means plenty to discover.
@egorvodopoev77564 жыл бұрын
How can one dislike such a masterpiece?!
@lusilva99113 жыл бұрын
Not everyone can truly comprehend a masterpiece. Totally understand your reaction tho!
@bt91242 жыл бұрын
Go figure?
@VetusBarbatus6 ай бұрын
I think the appreciation of music its pretty subjective . Many people out there would discard classical music all together.
@edwardcarberry10953 ай бұрын
Can I ask, how many know of/about the "" Schumann Resonance """ I think, I Suspect that those who do , who have learnt know more about music?? It has always been an addition for me!!!!!!!!!!! What is the lowest tone of Singing??
@YseaSumera2 ай бұрын
They were chased by a walrus when listening to this
@hojoinhisarcher Жыл бұрын
There was a cartoon that featured a snippet of this when I watched as a kid.Never bothered to listen to the entire piece till now. Genius. Artstry. Combined.
@manuel2cinco6 Жыл бұрын
Inki and the Minah bird
@hojoinhisarcher Жыл бұрын
@@manuel2cinco6 ha!
@katrinafelixmiaw5 ай бұрын
Muy cierto , buscando ese cartoon y por un comentario sobre el autor de esta pieza de arte estoy aquí
@deborahpeniket66312 жыл бұрын
I visited Fingal's Cave on Staffa last week with my family and little dog. Oh my goodness, it was amazing. It was particularly poignant as Staffa tours play this music as they enter the cave before you get off the boat to explore. It is really worth the journey and so moving to listen to this piece of music.
@doddsino Жыл бұрын
Did a little Mynah Bird walk by?
@breesevere7 жыл бұрын
I had the pleasure of hearing this live in LA and I cried like a baby.
@michaelangelus73555 жыл бұрын
Lovely Shrew::: At least you're honest. Most beautiful women lie habitually.
@Hithere-ek4qt4 жыл бұрын
Why?
@wille.22155 жыл бұрын
There are two types of people: “This is a truly beautiful classical masterpiece” *“YUMMY FRESH MEAT FOR MY POT”*
@msfwb5 жыл бұрын
I am both 😂
@pixpinguino5 жыл бұрын
Rusty Warlus of Crash Twinsanity x)
@KingKRool-xr2ei5 жыл бұрын
I’m the second one.
@stefanoferi18425 жыл бұрын
C'è qualcuno italiano
@maximus47654 жыл бұрын
NAUGHTY MEAT
@Romulus9808 жыл бұрын
This the kind of music that sets the imagination and emotions, perhaps it will entice the other music lover to classical music..
@feestor56602 жыл бұрын
We had a teacher in 1970. Miss Lamb. She taught us well and exposed us to this early. Her father was the choir master at the Cathedral. I remember those days from the 70s well.
@dr.stuartcantor9325Ай бұрын
Good she wasn’t a baaaaaaaad teacher
@johnbisby28504 жыл бұрын
After visiting many of the islands it's quite moving to hear this music again capturing the mood and rugged beauty of such an outstanding part of the world We live on a planet with some extraordinary stunning places and the inner and outer Hebrides counts as one of them
@avandyke10 жыл бұрын
Fantastic tone poem and an amazing way of tuning into the life all around. Mendelssohn was a true artist.
@doddsino Жыл бұрын
Indeed, much like the sacred Mynah Bird.
@juliadavis307210 ай бұрын
I love reading the comments below,, you all teach me so much. Thank you for your memories and your happiness with this wonderful overture.
@sukualderson55175 жыл бұрын
Absolutely love Mendelsohn - his music gives serenity to my soul and heart- especially this particularly...
@VladykaTeofano7 жыл бұрын
Nada mas brillante que empezar la mañana con esta hermosa obra de Mendelssohn
@philipwilliams58082 жыл бұрын
Si, tienes razon
@kirbyquintanilla45895 ай бұрын
No si te persigue Rusty Warlus 😵💫
@katewilmot43754 жыл бұрын
I am going to hear this tonight at the Sydney Town Hall - Sydney Symphony orchestra and I am so excited ...never heard it live and I think this is one the most evocative pieces of music of all time.
@ecologygarden4 жыл бұрын
A truly great composer and yet many people pass over him without a glance he deserves more recognition. Only true connoisseurs of music recognise this man's genius.
@drc41682 ай бұрын
My favourite composer since my teens!! ❤
@shin-i-chikozima3 жыл бұрын
Just by listening to this masterpiece , the worries of this fleeting life will be blown away From Tokyo of the Land of the Rising Sun 🇯🇵
@davidbarber47093 жыл бұрын
We are living in extremly strange times and the world is in stress factor but listening to classical music seems to take the worrying pressure away if only for a short while to the people of Japan be careful keep safe take care love as always Dave ENGLAND a land next door to heaven
@shin-i-chikozima3 жыл бұрын
@@davidbarber4709 Thank-you Take care of yourself Good luck ! For the second year in a row , we have refrained from the banquet under the cherry blossoms in full bloom in the parks of Tokyo , which is a very pity .
@cdog95593 жыл бұрын
Yes these are stressful times and good wholesome music helps. And watching Baby Sea Otter Joey & Friends also provides hours of relaxation. Hope you are well.
@shin-i-chikozima3 жыл бұрын
@@cdog9559 Thank-you so much to your wonderful comments Which is your country ?
@rodparisst6 жыл бұрын
I've never been to the Hebrides and most likely never will, but this music helps imagine those islands. Thank you.
@parsmanjim73664 жыл бұрын
You are seriously missing out, these islands are wonderful, just like the music !
@pammillerhoward77853 ай бұрын
I hope you do. I never thought i would either, but after surviving cancer and recently pnuemonia, I am returning at nearly age 73. Keep dreaming. You can make it happen. ( We travel cheaply).
@gwendolynfish21024 жыл бұрын
We are going to Scotland, hopefully in May. One of our stops will be Iona, the Ferry to Staffa and Finns Cave the inspiration for this masterpiece is there!
@augustinebekaert27005 жыл бұрын
Ik heb een grote bewondering voor Mendelsson, voor het vele mooie werk dat hij in zijn korte leven verwezenlijkt heeft. Hij ligt bij mij in de bovenste plank!!! uit het diepste van mijn hart : vele dank !
@markjpope10 жыл бұрын
Wow- amazing! Such a beautiful, haunting melody to listen to on a cold evening huddling in a warm room.
@louise-yo7kz5 жыл бұрын
So true Mark Pope
@elainecristinaneri74222 жыл бұрын
I totally agree
@sarahjones-jf4pr2 жыл бұрын
If you have a warm room..
@AszrayelLawgiver7 жыл бұрын
This moved me a lot when I first heard it played on a BBC micro in 1984. I still listen to it now when I cannot sleep to relax. Masterful, exilerating and relaxing at the same time.
@ScottC99988 жыл бұрын
Trivia: What Warner Brothers cartoon character used this music for their theme song. Answer: the Myna Bird. Okay it's not a classy comment but interesting because that studio introduced a host of children to the classics.
@bassetttahoe38457 жыл бұрын
Not classy?... perhaps, but it was cartoons and the mynah bird cartoon in particular, that introduced me to classical music when I was 4 years old!
@bassetttahoe38457 жыл бұрын
p.s. - Combs is one of my family names.
@muirnemaccool75277 жыл бұрын
Haha! I remember that one!
@kkampy40527 жыл бұрын
As a kid, I thought all this music was written for the cartoons. Still bring back memories of those saturday mornings.
@bhaigeniushoon6 жыл бұрын
A comment was supposed to be about expression. not "classiness"
@acekelis5943 Жыл бұрын
First time ever hearing classical music I was 7 and absolutely enthralled. Love other forms, but my classics are my home.
@TomGoymour4 жыл бұрын
Listening to this very late one Sunday night - (well, easily Monday morning now ...) I am just reminded of what an underrated genius Felix Mendelssohn was. There is something about this piece of music that takes you right to the place the inspired him ... I feel like I am in that cave on that Scottish isle looking out on to the world with different eyes ... perhaps, sharing his eyes of the time? I feel connected. In fact, about twenty five years ago I did just that very thing - I have piece of paino music that I wrote, it's stashed away somewhere, and it was provisionally entitled 'Scottish Isle piece' It doesn't bear much resemblance to this Mendelssohn masterpiece other than the mood and the concept. But over a couple of days in the mid nineties I was completely taken with a theme I had in my head and I fleshed out a piece for piano ...i must dig it out sometime soon.
@lambyl6955 жыл бұрын
One of my favorite pieces... Performed this in high school orchestra at state competition with a 10/10 from all judges. Our orchestra was very, very good at the time, I was a violist and performing this in a very well put together group is intense! One of my best memories.
@katrinat.30324 жыл бұрын
That's so awesome
@plantsoda7 жыл бұрын
I'm studying Classical Music and felt I'd lost all love for the subject, but this piece ALWAYS rekindles it. It's so beautiful.
@doddsino Жыл бұрын
I'm studying Mynah Birds.
@joytaylor67842 жыл бұрын
One of my favourite pieces of classical music
@marcosmartinezcortes81866 жыл бұрын
What in Gods name mendelssohn was a genius!!**
@exessex35222 жыл бұрын
My old school friend Bill had this played at his funeral. He spent every summer holidaying in the Scottish isles.
@pathawkins93023 жыл бұрын
I was introduced to this in school, aged 11, and it remains a favourite,
@denisehamlett22752 жыл бұрын
Me to loved it ever since
@indy_go_blue60484 жыл бұрын
I first heard this sometime in the '80s in an old "Don Winslow of the Navy" serial; it was the main theme of the show IIRC. Anyway the music wasn't attributed; it took me some 20 years to finally learn the name and composer, but I never forgot its haunting beauty. Nor have I forgotten since.
@g.k.failla93893 жыл бұрын
The "Don Winslow Of the Navy" serial was the first time I heard this too. The main theme played when the enemy submarine appeared. Took a long time to discover the entire piece. Then I found Otto Klemperer's recording of it. (That record also had Mendelssohn's "Scottish" and "Italian" symphonies).
@mrspenn161110 жыл бұрын
this is the piece of music which got me into classical symphonium music........still love this, just about my fave piece.....
@andrearock67665 жыл бұрын
I'm the very same, this is the first life of classical music I ever heard. I was 12 and in school and I fell in love with it.
@kwmitchell6 жыл бұрын
The opportunity to visit Fingal's cave as I did recently and experience first hand where the young Mendelssohn envisioned this wonderful overture was sublime. It perfectly translates the beauty and tumult of this remarkable place.
@paullittle5200 Жыл бұрын
Totally agree,a beautiful piece that captures that emotion.
@paulinebrowaeys52524 жыл бұрын
Imagine floating on this music, crossing the Hebrides, can we ever come closer to heaven?
@echristinebirzgalis652519 күн бұрын
Inspired for the last 60 years by this piece of music. To the point, to go and visit the Hebrides myself in the last month. Felt, the majesty of what Felix wrote. An awesome experience.
@michaelrimmington49817 жыл бұрын
This was the piece that introduced me to classical music at the age of 14.
@patricktetteroo99503 жыл бұрын
A great masterpiece! I often listen to this beautifull music.. close my eyes and imagine I am at the Hebrides.
@alexandermenzies99542 жыл бұрын
"..And we in dreams behold the Hebrides"
@kallidaihari3 жыл бұрын
Possibly one of the greatest pieces of music ever written. Brilliantly capturing the varied tunes - akin to the whirlwind of emotions one might feel driving up the winding roads of the desolate Hebrides Islands on a winterstorm at dusk.
@BreeWorthington-Eyre10 күн бұрын
I studied this piece in high school 25 years ago and still remember every note!
@sammysamdon Жыл бұрын
Got to play this on double bass many years ago and as difficult as it was, I still look back with fond memories of playing this piece. That was at least 10 years ago
@baronusher82444 ай бұрын
That beautiful overture!! his strength, passion and depth cannot be described with words...
@CL-bs7vr4 жыл бұрын
I can hear this over and over. With this I can dream myself to the sea, I always assume it must be autumn. This is my favorite recording of this.
@DrCrabfingers3 жыл бұрын
Last night I had a dream...I heard the most wonderful music, multi layered, passionate, romantic, it was music I'd never heard before or at least music I didn't know, it was majestic and immense. I have no idea where that music came from, but in my dream it was as though I was at a concert or listening to a recording of new music, every instrumental layer of the symphony was clear and filled me with awe. I had the impression that the music was Mendelssohn for some reason, so here I am! Trying to find that piece of music....but perhaps it was of my own making?? How amazing. The wonder of the human mind.
@luisbreva61223 жыл бұрын
This was my gateway drug for classical music
@dr.stuartcantor9325Ай бұрын
U should listen 2 in the hall of the mountain king -Grieg & pictures at an exhibition- Mussogorsky then u will be higher than a kite
@happycommuter35237 жыл бұрын
I had the pleasure recently of hearing this performed live by the Boston Symphony Orchestra. It's lovely.
@fernandomazzini43265 жыл бұрын
Que composición más bella! De gran majestuosidad evocando prados y pastizales de un día luminoso
@doddsino Жыл бұрын
Yes. Yes. Mynah Bird.
@Amourtendresse4 ай бұрын
Tout le déchaînement de l'océan, c'est rempli d'énergie, mais tout en élégance 🎶❤️🎶
@ParDiss-e4i2 ай бұрын
Vrai ❤
@drb_physix10 жыл бұрын
Beautiful, and beautifully rendered by a master conductor.
@TomasioTV2 жыл бұрын
You can say that this song will never get... rusty.
@eustacebagge38692 жыл бұрын
Crash Twinsanity
@CookiesTheDove2 жыл бұрын
Rusty Walrus ;-)
@EagleEye-vm9gf2 жыл бұрын
Clever. :)
@lukegoodwin4936 Жыл бұрын
“Ah! Yummy fresh meat for my pot!!
@aleksamrkela831 Жыл бұрын
Thank goodness I'm not the only one!
@elionaidgranados10054 жыл бұрын
Sends shivers every time!!!
@MilciadesAndrion6 жыл бұрын
This music is universal and eternal. You feel the legend.
@philipkelly46285 жыл бұрын
I love mendelssohn overtures stirring and romantic, wonderful uplifting music.
@tomcondie99182 жыл бұрын
Such BEAUTIFUL music. Absolutely BEAUTIFUL and so enchanting. A wonderful composer.
@billybabu4 жыл бұрын
Enjoying this beautiful music while in Lock down here in the UK. Love and blessing from Wolverhampton England to you all.
@billybabu4 жыл бұрын
@Kit stay safe and blessed Kit. 👍
@elionaidgranados10054 жыл бұрын
Hi from Los Angeles
@billybabu4 жыл бұрын
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@elizabethverdesca2532 ай бұрын
I'm living in Italy and it is 6pm now, sun thankfully going down. I took heard the Hebrides overture at school in the 60s. We were told that the composer wrote this whilst sitting Fingal's cave. The waves were crashing in and I still imagine that and enjoy the music.
@annettegiannini704710 жыл бұрын
We're playing Hebrides in our University concert next Friday! So excited!
@darrenbrown3007 жыл бұрын
I'm listening to this and there is a strange bird following me.
@AdrianoOliveira-jr1hw6 жыл бұрын
Deve ser um alienigena querendo ouvir a musica extraordinaria que você está oivindo.