Tristan and Isolde (Richard Wagner) - Prelude to Act 3 - Conducted by Leopold Stokowski

Richard Wagner
Tristan and Isolde
Prelude to Act 3
Mässig Langsam
Conducted by Leopold Stokowski in 1960
Symphony of the Air

[@Augustus.73.]

"The Dionysian Truth About The World" is captured in the first 30 seconds of this masterpiece!

[@Poeme340]

Ha! Brilliant comment!👌

[@Fuzznator]

Its not even dionysian, its hellish, pure suffering

[@Poeme340]

The pain of unfulfilled longing-endlessly yearning for connection with the beloved-waiting, hoping and then… nothing… but loneliness and isolation. Such music!

[@arthurlecomte8950]

If I'll ever see our world burn, I will play this as I cry my eyes out

[@BearMtl]

Mind blowing recording! So powerful and dark and...sublime!

[@augustus_73]

The Dionysian truth about the world ... Powerful, intoxicating, breath-taking. The best version I've ever heard. The genius of Wagner and Nietzsche.

[@arthurchinaski3736]

Not so much h Nietzsche as Schopenhauer.

[@abrahamlincoln9758]

Isolde: Can't live with her, can't die without her.

[@vinteui1]

...loss that can never be overcome, longing that can never be appeased... Only Wagner. Only Stokowski.

[@bobingliss]

Henry Schuman played the English horn on this recording. Stokowski wasn’t even in the room for the solo. He trusted Henry enough to make the right decisions.

[@mottetar]

Wonderful piece, great recording, the best performance I've heard, by far: very deep, intense and yet peaceful at the same time.

[@stephanehuchet7981]

I remember a program on France Musique, a sunday of the seventeens. They qualified this music as Sehnsucht, The Melancholy of Desire, Tristan exiled from Isolde and his soul suffering; extreme tension of the strings, sad melody of the sheperd. Stokowski's interpretation is the most intense we can wish for such an absolute human music.

[@bartsanders1553]

So tortured was his soul that the afterlife sent him back for Isolde. They would not abide his suffering.

[@jeanphilippevasseur5277]

Le cor anglais est exceptionnel.tout est exceptionnel d’ailleurs. Vivre après cette écoute paraît si fade.

[@suzannelabrie]

Je pense que c'est la plus grande interprétation que j'ai entendue.

[@luiginoriello6829]

Grandissima e bellissima interpretazione!!!

[@waqasahmed3422]

Most sombre and deep sounds!

[@Poeme340]

Yes.👍

[@JesusMartinez-qk9hr]

Conmovedora música.....................es imposible no estremecerse.

[@kazbob3862]

omg, this is so beautiful

[@stefanmuller1269]

the horn solo sounds like composed by Strawinsky... shows how much ahead of his time Wagner was

[@raffamon1946]

Queste prime battute di questo preludio hanno una intensità ed una profondità di una tragicità sconvolgente, segue un po' di dolcezza ma poi si ritorna al dolore... la pace del corno inglese è solo un'attesa... eccezionale!

[@lincoln9345]

Com nítida intencionalidade, Wagner transfere para orquestra , em melodia de rara beleza, o drama, a solidão e o mau prognós tico físico de Tristão. Então, todos são envolvidos por esta dimens são de ... " nostalgia incurável , pro funda comoção e desalento. Tudo isto e mais ainda, apenas a orquestra nos diz . Fantástico !

[@abrahamlincoln9758]

That's what I said!

[@MrTimber101]

Stokowski had last recorded with the Philhadelphia Orchestra late in 1940, for RCA Victor. When he returned in 1960, he made stereophonic recordings for Columbia Records. Typically, the sound is outstanding. Stokowski always sought the best possible sound in his recordings, whatever the technology.

[@thony2021]

sublime...

[@fatbatman5648]

dark and epic

[@Tigerofthenight]

I believe I had this recording back in the 70s

[@foldsfissures2397]

Thank you !

[@emanuelschweikert]

In Wagners Wesendock-Lied "Das Treibhaus" können wir die gleiche Musik hören. Nur im Dreiertakt.

[@schaerffenberg]

The most sorrowful music ....

[@gregsilveira]

um genio.

[@steverlfs]

Oh yeah- this is the good stuff!

[@tomab17]

Watching the burning world.

[@joseluisgonzalezherguedas7308]

No me importaría morir, si lo que viene después es esta música

[@JesusMartinez-qk9hr]

Eso me recuerda al genial Baudelaire que pidio en su lecho de muerte un poco de musica de Wagner.

[@Juicio87]

7:03 Star Wars Leit Motiv....thank you Wagner!

[@Ivan_1791]

Juicio_final xD

[@bobsmith8942]

John Williams only stole from the best.

[@raffamon1946]

Tutti i musicisti sono stati influenzati da quelli che li hanno preceduti. Bernard Herrmann, ha sicuramente seguito l'esempio wagneriano, ma indubbiamente l'idea dei soli archi che ha avuto per Psycho è stata favolosa ed originale, se ne sono accorti anche i Beatles in Eleanor Rigby.

[@michelacogoi5311]

la disperazione nella disperazione

[@clavados.-229]

Like ost for finale boss

[@kubekbeta5]

sorry, misunderstood you. i read "music" where you wrote "this music"

[@Conoror536]

Reminds me of the score from Psycho

[@sapper4711]

You mean the Psycho Score reminds you of this; just to put it in perspective of precedence.

[@MG-fh4ed]

Wagner is beyond this planet

[@matycee]

I bet Planet Wagner has rings

[@Alexandreznt]

Wagner é muito foda.

[@kubekbeta5]

you are wrong - check wikipedia

[@davegreen6435]

ahh fook it is happening

[@davegreen6435]

we gotta go all tye way back to the nineteen thirties

[@JagerFrostTroll]

@@davegreen6435 "My spirit will rise from the grave and the world will know that I was right."

[@sadr9189]

Где блять, Наши комментарии? Не нашлось Наших ценителей?

[@carloscaberoelpropioy.7032]

Stokovski, aunque britanico de nacimiento, no le da la grandeza que otros directores wagnerianos calificados.