Isolde's Liebestod "Mild und leise"(Ger/Eng/Spa subtitles)-Waltraud Meier,1995

[@christopherrubicam4474]

She sings this as spellbindingly beautifully as Martha Mödl. I can give no higher praise.

[@clemteetonball1250]

Many thanks for posting. I played this to a friend who's not into 'classical' music and she was utterly transfixed. To be honest it went beyond what I hoped, a life changed. That moment when the Tristan Chord is resolved !!! She's getting the Szell / Cleveland Wagner Orchestrations recordings for Christmas.

[@Xingqiwu387]

The greatest Wagnerian soprano ever. Simply phenomenal!

[@hermesnoelthefourthway]

"Hochste Lust" like never ever before. Thank you, Herr Wagner, for something far beyond all human price or conception 🌹🎇

[@katarzynanitecka9148]

Wagner pisał to kiedy był prawdziwie zakochany w Matyldzie Wessendonk.

[@elisabeth8798]

And thank you, wonderful, amazing and brilliant Waltraud Meier for the “höchste Lust” listening to your incredible singing always offers; and guarantees. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@samu76407]

Uno de los finales mas sublimes del mundo operístico

[@vocalchords3609]

I am so grateful you have uploaded these 7 minutes of deepest connection with humanity via the art and artistry of RW, DB, the Orchestra - and the uniquely divine voice and expression of WM. Totally off any scale I have ever seen. Thank you!

[@vincentlombardo9797]

Fortunate indeed to have seen this production various times in Bayreuth, beginning in 1999.

[@Wuxotu]

Couldnt imagine myself sitting there and hearing this 4:37. That must have been glorious.

[@librenow1]

I get emotional every time I hear aria.

[@aneraadamik8089]

The most powerful music by my opinion as well as the lirics

[@ginabataille1796]

What a voice! Thank you for not inserting any ads.

[@auntiedondon]

Just extraordinary! Listening to Meier one feels lifted up to the heavens. Thank you!

[@theogerdener1475]

she is a legend

[@companiademo]

Absolutamente fantástico, bravoooooooo 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@karinwijnberg9489]

Lost for words. It doesnt get any better. Éver

[@crayondecouleuvre5622]

Bravoooo !!!!!!!!! 💓

[@vforvendettaMA]

So sad and incredible

[@Luciarella]

SHE'S THE BEST

[@agricolaurbanus6209]

Eine Legende aus dem Umkreis unseres kleinen gallischen Dorfes, das nicht aufhört, Widerstand zu leisten...

[@ivicaloncar2147]

Beautiful and subtle!

[@FranciscoFerrerGaliana1930]

Simplemente maravillosa.!!!

[@JK-xz6mj]

Tears yes... but not sadness... it's happiness

[@atoms-to-atoms]

tears

[@hanswutzas4812]

oh, how I love my german language - in this romantic art

[@fritztheted]

Wunderbar

[@mariawimmer4541]

Das ist einfach schlicht Vollkommenheit in jedem Aspekt.

[@radiogremar]

Eternal Sublime !!

[@friedrichcapelutto7815]

hermoso!!!!!!!!!! una belleza Bravo bravo bravo

[@lacufd]

Sublime.

[@hermesnoelthefourthway]

This is no longer music. Noel "The love that moves the sun and the stars". Paradiso, Dante "It is of value because it is not for everyone". In search of the miraculous, P. D. Ouspensky

[@josevillela6439]

Excelsa

[@katanapop]

Sublime y conmovedor.

[@Foulball0206]

Bravo

[@marcoaureliosilvio8719]

"Höchste Lust", no doubt Wagner depicted musically a woman's (multiple!!) orgasm. Such a piece of ART!! What a Genius!!

[@dragmio]

Yeah, art was so much better when it wasn't acceptable to speak openly about sex...

[@randomchannel-px6ho]

Wagner wasn't very subtle about his obsession with such things. Funnily enough the anti-Wagnerian Debussy also loved to depict such things with musical gestures as well. That being said the way Wagner treats sex as something more cosmically grandeous wasn't new at all. Early Christians like Tertullian also had similar ideas of cosmic sex. Life is weird

[@lubosschelepak7032]

​@@dragmioIt has nothing to do with it. The art wasn't better and wasn't worse. And there is no reason why it shoudn't be told about it in such a polite way. Another thing is, this opera is showing as much more philosophy and musicality with all its components and technics, about eternal love and passion. Not only multiple orgasm, that is rather the question.

[@padiwari62]

OR .... maybe it's just the higher octave of orgasm: ascension ;) ?!

[@Tautusian]

Jetzt noch Isoldes Verklärung statt Liebestod und alles ist gut. Wagner selbst nennt es Verklärung und macht keine Anzeichen auf ihr Sterben.

[@randomchannel-px6ho]

Not the biggest Wagner fan but damn

[@DGJ-gq6kj]

I've used extracts from the complete recording from which this is taken in my 'Introduction to Tristan und Isolde'. Here's the link: kzbin.info/www/bejne/anK3m5xtfKp_e7M

[@eugeniobarrancoperez8718]

Wagner und Sie

[@eugeniobarrancoperez8718]

Perdon sie (waltraut)

[@Muffffin]

I thought this was the liebestod.

[@DaSerratos]

TheVortiguant I know technically the liebestod is the vorspiel of the opera and this aria is actually the transfiguration of Isolde but nowadays it's known like this. I made this video so this wonderful music would get to as many people as possible so I put tje common name.

[@jwh6185]

Petty and naive comment; self-serving righteousness.

[@Muffffin]

@@jwh6185 ?

[@Moshmorenko]

@@DaSerratos It was Liszt, when creating his piano transcription, who originated the practice of referring to Isolde's closing aria (which Wagner called Verklärung, or transfiguration) as the Liebestod (which was what Wagner called the prelude to Act 1).

[@hermesnoelthefourthway]

Meyerbeer disliked this. Twice

[@eugeniobarrancoperez8718]

No queria reconocer que era mas que el

[@eugeniobarrancoperez8718]

Mediocre,envidioso

[@orion8835]

Of course it is a professional performance I just do not care for the boy soprano jiggly voice of Meier in this role. It’s pale as well. And many feel this is “the” Wagner sound. I don’t.

[@Bumblebeebeebee]

Well, maybe you are just wrong...😋

[@jeanluccapri-b8w]

Fantastic masterpiece! This aria is prescient of the catastrophic ocurrence that is going to destroy my beloved Germany, during Nazism.