Jaap Van Zweden/HK Phil - Die Walküre Act 3 (The Ride of the Valkyries)

From Concert 2 in Hong Kong January 2016 - two concerts plus three days of patching. A stellar cast: Matthias Goerne, Michelle DeYoung, Petra Lang, Stuart Skelton, Heidi Melton, Falk Struckmann, Sarah Castle, Okka von der Damerau, Karen Foster, Katherine Broderick, Anna Burford, Elaine McKrill, Aurhelia Varak, Laura Nykänen. It's a fantastic recording! Released on Naxos in November 2016

[@bga9388]

This really cracked my glasses. Well done ladies!

[@jermainejr11]

THIS WHOLE ENSEMBLE NUMBER IS CENTERED AROUND THE BOMBASTIC AND EXCITING ELECTRICITY OF THE ORCHESTRA AND THOSE FIRST TWO SINGERS, AND BABYYYYY THOSE QUEENS DID NOT MISS WHATSOEVER! THANK GOD!!!! IT JUST GOT MORE EXTRAORDINARILY BEAUTIFUL! BRAVA TUTTI! YES, BRAVAAAAA TUTTI!!!!!!!!!

[@rosshart9514]

Your caps lock is kaput

[@jimblevins1442]

Can’t call yourself a First Soprano until you can do this

[@benjirespect5818]

Prácticamente 😅😂......

[@shin-i-chikozima]

This masterpiece is the lullaby of the braves , and the cradle of the soull

[@Lewisevans1618]

Absolutely amazing singers the human voice really is quite extraordinary

[@pilouetmissiou]

Il y a vraiment de très belles voix dans ce groupe de Valchiries... cette version concert les met bien en valeur ❤❤

[@alanjohnson6398]

Absolutely astounding. Ladies who may properly and rightfully refer to themselves as 'Divas'.

[@marireed2678]

Excellent camera work and editing. I love being able to watch the orchestra so close up.

[@johnschmid2453]

Fabulous Conductor! Some of these comments are unwarranted. I don't see your ass up there singing it-Dude! I have dealt in opera business all my life and to assemble the 8 Valkyries is a task unto itself! It requires big -solo -top level-level voices-3 sopranos -4 mezzos and a contralto. I agree, 5 harps and watch them go!! Chorus master-IO

[@harrynking777]

6 harps. One is dark coloured.

[@popeclementine9429]

Such profound racist music!

[@wotan10950]

I think this is quite marvelous! As Verdi and other composers said, you cannot have ffff if you don't have pppp. There must be a contrast. Solti just blasts away. The Valkyries are quite fine, not shouting, and the differentiation in voice types from contralto to soprano is well-noticed.

[@osvaldofe]

Verdi?

[@wotan10950]

Osvaldo Fernández De la Maza Yes, Verdi. What’s your question? Wagner was a great admirer of Italian tradition, especially Bellini. He didn’t write his works to be played with bombast, known today as the Wagner tradition. I think he’d be horrified at the admiration some people have for decibels.

[@jmballestra7607]

Musique splendide !!! Représentation intéressante de la célèbre " Chevauchée " , où les walkyries sont bien mises en valeur dans cette version de concert !!

[@marinacastro.5475]

Son maravillosas, me emociono al escuchar esta obra genial.

[@abrianacarrascomateos3597]

Genial. Emocionada....aplausos

[@Michael-ke9nt]

沒有聽过這麼精彩的表演，希望我能在現場❤❤❤❤❤

[@majedal-mouhammed4895]

God bless Richard Wagner for the fabulus musical heritage that he gave to humanity. Wagner's leitmotifs touch the heart and awaken the mind. Musicdrama resonates in the diversity of sensation and emerge in the absolute values of justice and beauty. As a Muslim I praise Allah to bless Richard Wagner and allow him in his paradise as one of the best of humankind.

[@popeclementine9429]

Richard Wagner wouldn't have a problem to smoke your infidel azz.

[@timothyball7502]

9-9-2022. Hogan's Heroes and the cast sent me to this video. But they had zero orchestra to play the music.

[@ramonriera4714]

Que original y majestuoso Wagner....es unico ...porque no era solo musico......era mas cosas.... ......😮😮😳😳

[@reginaltedbrown]

BRAVO ! BRAVO !!!

[@AnaClara0071]

Awesome conductor

[@rienspies5212]

AnaClara0071 you are stupid. He is the best

[@jettcarlburg356]

I Love This!!!! It is incredibly rare to hear Die Walkure performed with the vocals!!!!!! To all the punk bitches hating on this performance:

[@user-ez9qs3sj9z]

圧倒的な声が意識と感覚を幻想世界に連れていく

[@fernandodepaula8091]

Bravoooooo!!!!

[@user-xr7le9st5h]

日本語で失礼します。この曲は、「映画・地獄の黙示録」で有名ですね。ワーグナーは、好き嫌いがハッキリしていると思います。私には、この３／４拍子に込められた思いが強く伝わります。

[@douglasyiuchinglok307]

Why were the trumpets put behind the trombones and tuba?

[@johnburrows1179]

Wow😳👍👍👍👍

[@Ghostcat0723]

They played this in an episode of Charmed

[@noahrademacher4791]

4:30 If you ever feel useless, watch those harps

[@TheRealCantaraBella]

um......

[@maakmakmak]

I almost wonder what’s the point of having them there. There’s no way they can be heard over the rest of the orchestra.

[@alexsandroalvesartecultura5116]

The need for six harps does not reside primarily in these bars. In its 16-hour duration, The Ring, especially in Das Rheingold, the need is clearly shown: the music gains a lot of color, shine and enchantment. Your analysis is limiting.

[@alexsandroalvesartecultura5116]

@@maakmakmak I listen!

[@matthewgiuliano7102]

Would love to know the words....

[@rohan212121]

I've got the shits.

[@simonetom]

0:34

[@burromtz1327]

Según Ford coppola los asiáticos se asustan con wagner y aquí están ante asiáticos. Ya no es así

[@bevaconme]

5:55. german humor is no laughing matter. q.e.d.

[@shin-i-chikozima]

函館競馬場は閑散としていた。突然いななきとともに数知れない馬たちが空に駆けてあがっていくのをみた。 私はあたり馬券を握りしめて筆舌に尽くし難い感動と恐怖に襲われた。 あの馬たちは函館競馬場で亡くなったのだろうと思った。 函館ラーメンを食べて新幹線で春日部市に帰ろう。

[@irenemitchell3407]

,

[@WTH1812]

The Beatles put the screaming women facing the band

[@brianwillson9567]

Where are the helicopters? This piece was written specifically for gunships detonations, flames and explosions. Various warbling sopranos do it no justice at all.

[@michaelthomas-cq9xv]

pitch wobble,no one is defining PITCH !

[@peterdegroff7318]

I prefer the preceding version with the Berlin Phil conducted by Simon Rattle. More powerful~

[@pega17pl]

Zu zaghaft. Das Orchester tobt nicht und die Walküren singen nicht am Anschlag. - Heinz

[@michsturge671]

The Valkyries are not very good.

[@pega17pl]

+mich sturge You are very polite. - Orchestra itself plays max fff not ffff or fffff. Ride of Valkyries has to be bombastic not chamber music.

[@yveslecoz1618]

mais si !

[@skymarshallmarz5573]

Frankly, bombastic is one thing, but this is played lighter, which i prefer. Better than the lumbering, fat horsey women i often hear portrayed.

[@rohan212121]

They are, in musical terms, shit.

[@harryplummer6356]

@@rohan212121 That's because you don't understand the Die Walkure and the context.

[@dudeforcaster8630]

So much ugly singing, sort of in tune screaming is not singing, this is why people hate opera.

[@dudeforcaster8630]

@WIDLEY1000 Thank you, I usually get a lot of s**t for my accurate albeit harsh comments. I'm not a troll, just a professional orchestral musician who has difficulty dealing with the fallen standards in my profession, especially singers and screaming into the void is cathartic on some level.

[@tedmulthauf7434]

@@dudeforcaster8630 so you’re a professional pretentious twat.

[@vol.145]

@@tedmulthauf7434 but he is right, this is awful, listen to Kirsten Flagstad, she was a superb singer

[@johnoleary5293]

Yes, you only have to listen to the great recordings to know that this music should be SUNG, not shrieked the way it is here. Sadly this is what Wagnerian singing has become.

[@popeclementine9429]

Forget the ugly singing, it's just racist music, which is exhilarating by the way

[@rohan212121]

Too many errors from the orchestra, and the Valkuries are awful. About the usual standard from Naxos.

[@PhilRowlandsDotCom]

Haha - what a twat

[@py8554]

This Walkure recording got a lot of favourable reviews and some even put it as among the best ever. If by the usual standard of Naxos you mean something not to be looked down upon just because it’s a budget label then you’re right on spot.

[@cootumrebel]

The shrieking women greatly detract from the marvelous orchestral music. For concert purposes, this number is best performed by orchestra ONLY.

[@pega17pl]

Not inside a opera house.

[@Lewisevans1618]

I find this message offensive and passively aggressively mysoginistic in it's tone. Only joking. 😁

[@Moshmorenko]

Even if one agreed with your "shrieking women" comment (I don't), this is from a concert performance of the whole opera. What other vocal parts would you like to dispense with?

[@Porn05Mouth]

Don’t be daft. Wagner considered the voices as instruments and scored his works accordingly. Doing this excerpt without voices is like doing Daphnis et Chloe without the woodwind section.

[@portman8909]

Crap.

[@BucurEST1989]

Eh. I was disappointed in the opening vocals & techniques