Felix Mendelssohn - Hebrides Overture (Fingal's Cave), Op. 26 London Symphony Orchestra - Claudio Abbado
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@kathleenogrady845910 күн бұрын
I named my oldest son after Mendelssohn because of this piece. You can't get more respectful than that!
@richt42853 күн бұрын
SO you're telling me your family name is Overture?
@Sheehan12 күн бұрын
Felix is a good historic name but your son *will* be mocked
@user-qr9uh1fd8gКүн бұрын
Felix is a beautiful name @@Sheehan1
@Sheehan116 сағат бұрын
@@user-qr9uh1fd8g Yes even Fingal would have been a good name
@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.
@brunorossibonin7882 жыл бұрын
@Lil Wen You had a great teacher!
@marielouiseweeksb33attitud332 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.
@ianskilton76412 жыл бұрын
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@MOGGS19422 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.
@ClariceAust2 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.
@briars-d625111 ай бұрын
I remember playing this at music camp while it was pouring rain outside. One of the best experiences of the summer.
@doddsino19 күн бұрын
I remember seeing a Mynah bird walk to this song.
@jillchaney7086 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 😢
@cindytartt40485 күн бұрын
I feel you sister!
@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.
@doylestownstew8 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?
@cassierexroad2154Ай бұрын
I just heard it done at the indianapolis symphony orchestra!! It was stunning!
@nickwright60342 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.
@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
@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.
@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.
@Kayem9672 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.
@doddsino19 күн бұрын
I wonder if there are any Mynah Birds in that cave?
@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
@GringatTheRepugnant2 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
@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.
@davidosorio49803 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.
@doddsino19 күн бұрын
I'm a mynah bird lover.
@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.
@beaglybeagle6 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
@starrosborne783918 күн бұрын
This is my favourite piece of classical music
@gravecactus8 жыл бұрын
nothing made me feel more whole than playing a piece like this in class. i miss those days.
@lynnharris29347 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
@jamesa901 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!"
@vinyltapelover 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:).
@StimParavane9 ай бұрын
Wow. He conceived of the internet at the same time as writing this piece. Extraordinary...
@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-Man 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.
@philipwilliams5808 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.
@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...
@katypagemusic12602 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.67702 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
@alicemilne1444 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.
@louiseturner98112 ай бұрын
Favorite classical tune EVER ❤❤❤😊😊😊👍👍👍
@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
F
@jacksmales49734 жыл бұрын
Really sorry to hear that:(
@spicymeatball38074 жыл бұрын
Oof
@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.
@medwaybusinessawards84962 ай бұрын
Playing this at full volume whilst sailing in a yacht up the west coast of Scotland is memorable.
@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. 🤓
@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.
@neilbriscoewhite49534 жыл бұрын
It's a wonderful work, Mark. Allow me to suggest you listen to "La Mer" (The Sea) by Debussy. With closed eyes.
@petersmith90773 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
@petersmith90773 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.
@songsmith31a3 жыл бұрын
@@neilbriscoewhite4953 Thanks Neil. I know Debussy's La Mer and agree with your point about its quality in thsi regard.
@songsmith31a3 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.
@julianl63699 ай 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 😊
@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!
@katrinafelixmiaw21 күн бұрын
Muy cierto , buscando ese cartoon y por un comentario sobre el autor de esta pieza de arte estoy aquí
@deborahpeniket6631 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?
@PlasmaCoolantLeak6 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.
@dingo4ever3696 жыл бұрын
Rusty Walrus theme sounds beautiful😍
@davidwright84324 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.
@blendernoob644 ай бұрын
I can’t help but think of a hungry walrus chasing me when I hear this song lol
@egorvodopoev77563 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?
@TejoNegroАй бұрын
I think the appreciation of music its pretty subjective . Many people out there would discard classical music all together.
@alexgabriel56504 жыл бұрын
This and the Scottish symphony make me miss Scotland and I've never even been there.
@jacquelinelockeline50614 жыл бұрын
I have the same feelings about Scotland, but I've been there twice and it's breathtakingly amazing!
@DanceCommandant4 жыл бұрын
I feel the same way about "Donald Where's Your Troosers?"
@denisewilliams94054 жыл бұрын
DanceCommandant oh you bloody heathen😂😂
@geenadasilva92874 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?
@1evonvielen4 жыл бұрын
Same, bro, same. I feel some weird kind of patriotism for this country without ever having been there :'D
@luvbach18 жыл бұрын
Perhaps the most underestimated of the great composers. And he was nothing less than great.
@burkewhb7 жыл бұрын
Definitely agree. My favorite is his Italian Symphony.
@Peter09557 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.
@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-xr2ei4 жыл бұрын
I’m the second one.
@stefanoferi18424 жыл бұрын
C'è qualcuno italiano
@maximus47654 жыл бұрын
NAUGHTY MEAT
@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.
@ecologygarden3 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.
@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.
@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. 👍
@elionaidgranados10053 жыл бұрын
Hi from Los Angeles
@billybabu3 жыл бұрын
@@elionaidgranados1005 I've subscribed to your channel
@billybabu3 жыл бұрын
@Kit I've subscribed to your channel
@empireentertainmentevents13535 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.
@CIMAmotor2 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.
@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?
@maryalegado303611 ай 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.
@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 !
@alexmustata40895 жыл бұрын
My favourite classical piece. Criminally underrated, and pure genius.
@alancumming64073 жыл бұрын
In what way is it criminally underrated?
@alicemilne1444 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.
@alancumming6407 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.
@indy_go_blue60483 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.failla93892 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).
@zuhaansariiii_2506 күн бұрын
iam inn primary school and when we are doing an asssesd piece of writing my teacher ms Anson would pla y this piece for us this is y favorite and I nearly listen to it every day
@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.
@luisbreva61223 жыл бұрын
This was my gateway drug for classical music
@teller69108 ай бұрын
1x speed: what lovely music i'm listening to 1.5x speed: AHHH YUMMY! FRESH MEAT FOR MY POT!!
@HAMZA_OLYMPUS8 ай бұрын
😂
@LinGoosyGooseMX2 ай бұрын
I precisely came for that game and I didn't expect to find any comment referencing it
@galatheumbreon686223 күн бұрын
confusion
@kakarot26862 күн бұрын
@@galatheumbreon6862they're referencing crash twinsanity, a game that features this song in an acappella style
@VladykaTeofano6 жыл бұрын
Nada mas brillante que empezar la mañana con esta hermosa obra de Mendelssohn
@philipwilliams58082 жыл бұрын
Si, tienes razon
@kirbyquintanilla458918 күн бұрын
No si te persigue Rusty Warlus 😵💫
@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 ?
@paulinebrowaeys52523 жыл бұрын
Imagine floating on this music, crossing the Hebrides, can we ever come closer to heaven?
@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 ...
@clownia60245 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.
@exessex35222 жыл бұрын
My old school friend Bill had this played at his funeral. He spent every summer holidaying in the Scottish isles.
@jeffreyburger52553 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
@palmermonsen90983 жыл бұрын
His violin concerto is amazing though
@XY-ke5mj3 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.
@aaronjorgefridman56623 жыл бұрын
El re"descubridor" de J. S. Bach. Uno de los más grandes compositores del romanticismo
@acekelis5943 Жыл бұрын
First time ever hearing classical music I was 7 and absolutely enthralled. Love other forms, but my classics are my home.
@bomagosh3 күн 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.
@patricktetteroo99502 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"
@sukualderson55175 жыл бұрын
Absolutely love Mendelsohn - his music gives serenity to my soul and heart- especially this particularly...
@michaelrimmington49816 жыл бұрын
This was the piece that introduced me to classical music at the age of 14.
@dudleydevine82642 жыл бұрын
I am coming to 66. I remember unable to sleep but loving this music. Sleepytime after midday grub. Childhood, wow, magic. Nice one.
@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.
@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
@harryandruschak28436 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.
@gracedirocco80496 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 :)
@juliadavis30726 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.
@cminor30162 жыл бұрын
Thank you! So important to keep this genre going strong- mendelssohn and Sebelius are like superheros
@davidsnyder94249 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"
@lambbone83024 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!
@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.
@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..
@gwendolynfish21023 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!
@marcosmartinezcortes81866 жыл бұрын
What in Gods name mendelssohn was a genius!!**
@joytaylor67842 жыл бұрын
One of my favourite pieces of classical music
@drb_physix10 жыл бұрын
Beautiful, and beautifully rendered by a master conductor.
@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 😊
@loricichowic85172 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.
@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-jf4pr Жыл бұрын
If you have a warm room..
@kwmitchell5 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.
@pathawkins93023 жыл бұрын
I was introduced to this in school, aged 11, and it remains a favourite,
@denisehamlett2275 Жыл бұрын
Me to loved it ever since
@user-lt6rz7ws6k3 ай бұрын
forever masterpiece in music history~!!👍👍
@fontainemusique724810 жыл бұрын
C'est MAGNIFIQUE!!!
@oldenweery75103 жыл бұрын
Oui, c'est vrais! Bon chance!
@ItzGrassy2 жыл бұрын
Oui!!!!
@sherlockholmeslives.16057 жыл бұрын
Sheer GENIUS! The quintessential romantic sublime!
@tomcondie9918 Жыл бұрын
Such BEAUTIFUL music. Absolutely BEAUTIFUL and so enchanting. A wonderful composer.
@hangarmonkey39534 жыл бұрын
6:48 , I m pretty sure Wagner take inspiration of this part for beginning of walkyrie theme
@hitrapperandartistdababy4 жыл бұрын
*COME BACK HERE NAUGHTY MEAT*
@quickworks97203 жыл бұрын
Totally agree!
@CL-bs7vr3 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.
@fernandomazzini43264 жыл бұрын
Que composición más bella! De gran majestuosidad evocando prados y pastizales de un día luminoso
@doddsino Жыл бұрын
Yes. Yes. Mynah Bird.
@xaviermena20333 жыл бұрын
Mendelson, es genial su música te da una paz infinita
@MilciadesAndrion5 жыл бұрын
This music is universal and eternal. You feel the legend.
@brianbela12 жыл бұрын
Mendelssohns masterpiece.Definitely my favorite piece of his,hands down.What grandeur!
@maryflorsuarezgarcia45643 жыл бұрын
Maravillosa!!! Escuchar esta música eleva el espíritu.
@michapoepriel6202 жыл бұрын
Si
@paulodanese8999 Жыл бұрын
Na minha opinião, a mais perfeita abertura jamais composta. Obra prima de Felix Mendelssohn.
@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
@elionaidgranados10053 жыл бұрын
Sends shivers every time!!!
@mr.tomasiorubinshtein2 жыл бұрын
You can say that this song will never get... rusty.
@eustacebagge38692 жыл бұрын
Crash Twinsanity
@CookiesTheDove Жыл бұрын
Rusty Walrus ;-)
@EagleEye-vm9gf Жыл бұрын
Clever. :)
@lukegoodwin4936 Жыл бұрын
“Ah! Yummy fresh meat for my pot!!
@aleksamrkela8319 ай бұрын
Thank goodness I'm not the only one!
@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.
@philipkelly46285 жыл бұрын
I love mendelssohn overtures stirring and romantic, wonderful uplifting music.
@quaidrowan10 жыл бұрын
If I had to name my favorite classical composition, it would be this.
@peaceharmony41158 жыл бұрын
+Joe Hargrave May I suggest you check out his Violin Concerto? You won't regret it. :)
@beaglybeagle6 жыл бұрын
Wow! That is really saying a lot...with all the music over the centuries!!
@grindlessenior6 жыл бұрын
i agree with peace harmony, and get an earful of his third symphony if you have a mo, second movement (starts at about 17 min): kzbin.info/www/bejne/fJOramijhMSiaaM
@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.
@Selcuk.Aytimur2 жыл бұрын
A masterpiece by the great Abbado R.I.P sir.
@happycommuter35236 жыл бұрын
I had the pleasure recently of hearing this performed live by the Boston Symphony Orchestra. It's lovely.