Rule Britannia Overture

Rule Britannia Overture by Richard Wagner

[@Rojalisten]

This is my all time favourite version of Rule Britannia! So mighty!

[@bernhardbohm9035]

danke lieber Richard ,für die schöne Musik

[@benbrochu1]

This is magnificient

[@LudovicusRex83]

Just: WOW!!!! Hail to the King of music.

[@TheHollandHS]

Beethoven, Wagner, name on these composers. They love Britain's old patriotic music.

[@_Anato_]

Great, great grand parents on both, and great great's parents on one side.

[@_Anato_]

I can agree with this. I tried tracing my family history back as far as I could on both my parent's sides. They hardly ever left the same area and they all worked the land.

[@jeavjuaf]

There are quite a few of them.

[@spiderlime]

@WiggaMachiavelli i'm right there with you! i know several orchestral works based on rule britannia but this is the only one i've never found to my liking. this has nothing to do with germany (beethoven, for example, loved the song and adapted it twice with great talent, as did 3 other german contemporaries of his) but actually with wagner's approach, which is almost comical.

[@jeremiaas15]

Fry is a massive fan of Wagner, I recall he made an hour-long TC programme about him some time ago.

[@richkingb01]

Am i the only one who thinks he looks a bit like james may?

[@TheMrSomecheesyname]

-_-, we used to own 1/3 of the world which is not most, and at this moment in time, we only own the island...

[@lindenmanmax]

I was thinking Brigham Young.

[@Cristiano070Beckham]

Thanks for the information .. Shame they fought against each other in the WW ..

[@HugoStrangeVideos]

He does look like Stephen Fry!

[@Rotebuehl1]

@DrLeavingsoon Richard Wagner had lots of humour and he wasn't a Jerry at all! Never had a weapon in his hand! Hang on! Wait! Yes he did, once, during the 1848 revolution! Back then, he was one of the revolutionaries, against king, against country, against everything! Later on, he lived totally at the expenses of another king that admired and adored him for his work, while Wagner despised him. Jerry Wagner surely had lots of sense of humour, that genious old tart, to say the least....

[@Rotebuehl1]

@Gruenkreuz100 "Ach was", würde Loriot sagen...

[@antoniofabi9721]

Wagner va proprio bene in questa forma pomposa. Vedere e sentire anche Beethoven

[@MrChitoast]

Something fishy is in this music...suddendly wanna conquer poland o.O

[@Cristiano070Beckham]

I believe that the British and the German come from the same blood .. That's why I love those two nations :))

[@MenwithHill]

I'd feel patriotic if I was British. Rule Britannia !

[@Rotebuehl1]

@HerrWagnerfreund I think you are talking about other things...

[@xXTheGlueXx]

Is it just me, or does Richard Wagner have some similarities to Stephen Fry?

[@kiriupipe]

BRI-LLI-ANT!!!!!!

[@jeavjuaf]

How far have you traced that?

[@KriechenderHouden]

lolno (citation needed)

[@Bakuninite]

Good gravy, Wagner was a pompous piece of work, wasn't he?

[@fairplaynationalist2]

Yes, the Scots are a fearfully independent minded people, in fact only recently in a poll a staggering 17% said that Scotland would be better off outside of the union. As for the Empire, ZAmerica was the one worth having and the English got that before the Scots had finished their porridge. Getting involved with India and Africa is a mistake we are still paying for

[@darthkarr]

well technically he was anglo-saxon, who were descended ffrom danish-german angles from around holstein-schelswig area....theres no such thing as "english" tbh, until the modern age when states and nations started to become more predominant

[@MrSquidman007]

@WiggaMachiavelli I wouldn't lick a German if he was glazed in honey!

[@danishpride1]

Gets me in the mood to invade Pol....Nah that joke is getting too old anyway

[@PrachandParshuram]

I hope the British played this work by Wagner during the Battle of Britain in WW-II along with Beethoven's Wellington's Victory, as the Nazi fighter planes attacked Britain, after all the British Royal family is of German descent. :)

[@allancerf9038]

Hard to fathom that Wagner reviled for being an anti-Semite wrote this piece; not musically hard to fathom but it's just ... an oddity. Great piece of music. Is it just me or is Wagner strikingly modern in appearance?

[@Garrison446]

QUEEN MOTHER ELIZABETH WAS OF PURE SCOTS-ENGLISH DESCENT. THE PRESENT QUEEN AND PRINCE PHILLIP HAVE SOME GERMAN DESCENT. THEY ARE NOT "MERE ENGLISH" AS WAS THE GREATEST MONARCH OF ENGLAND, ELIZABETH I.

[@DrLeavingsoon]

who says the Jerries have no sense of humour

[@TheHKY09]

What are you talking about? Language diversity still exists in India...

[@hulking_presence]

Ошибаешься.

[@franklygren9057]

It is an island ...

[@WilfredIvanhoe]

Well... England is an island, separated from the mainland, and no one has conquered it after the Normans in 1066. Knights and nobles were moving around during wars and stuff, but they didn't form a large percentage of the population; otherwise the average people have been pretty much restricted on the British isles.

[@truefalse207]

No it's not, Britain is an Island, England is not.

[@Tulaenelorto]

Leave South America alone you pirate!

[@thepittstop]

racist

[@florinsbirdsnature4861]

The most terrible and pathetic piece of music ever created by the greatest composer in history !

[@kenalebla]

Florin, I'd like you to check out a little piece Wagner wrote for the United States's 100 year anniversary, the American Centennial March. It may change your opinion.

[@florinchirila9573]

Alexander Blanton Sorry, Alexander, I am already familiar with the Centennial March and I'm afraid it is not much better than Rule Brittania. In the Centennial we can see indeed a more mature Wagner than in RB, but that's about all. In fact, Wagner himself was not happy with any other aspect related to this work than the $5,000 commission he was paid, while Theodore Thomas, the German-born American conductor who highly recommended Wagner as the one who should be assigned the task of creating a festive work for the American Centennial Festival in Philadelphia, was disappointed with the outcome too. And I thing both Wagner and Thomas were right :)

[@florinchirila9573]

***** My friend, I was just expressing my free opinion on a piece of music, that's all. Why are you taking this to the point where you feel the need to blame your own people ? Just stick to the music, stick to Wagner (if you feel 'literate' enough to listen to his music). Then we can debate about American Centennial, Karfreitagszauber, Isoldes Liebestod, Eine Kleine Nachtmusik or whatever else.

[@Tulaenelorto]

Leave South America alone you pirate!