Half way through writing this, Mascagni threw the manuscript in the bin but luckily his wife found it and told him to continue with it and not give up till he completed it. So glad she retrieved it from the bin. One of the most beautiful and yet haunting pieces of music you are ever likely to hear.
Now I am a guy from the hood, Motown all the way R&B etc, yet.... Just to show the power of music to transcends one perspective I have listened to this piece 186 times with tears streaming each time! No one except those on this post will ever know.
Music... THIS kind of music is transformative! I feel (sad and) sorry for those who don't get an opportunity to experience the depth and complexity of classical music. GREAT to get your perspective
I got to hear this in person. I was playing in an orchestra but I did not play in this song. It really is like that. I play this song and think of the memory being in the cathedral with the music playing so beautifully. I highly advise you to one day find a concert where this song is being played. Hearing it in person is life-changing.
Larry, your post is the absolute reminder of how music touches our souls! Any music, its a pleasure to me as a proud italian/portuguese to read your words, watching this beautiful cavalleria rusticanna being played by this japanese orchestra! Being also a big fan of the motowon / RB having grown up listening to it! Fantastic and wish we can enjoy more of any form of art that makes us feel humans!
Back in the fifties when i was 15, much to my Dad's disgust I had bought a lot of rock and roll records.He asked me to buy some decent music. I had no idea what that was, but the old gentleman at the record store was a help. My Dad was a very tough bricklayer, but when I played this for him the tears were running down his cheeks. I had never seen my Dad cry before. Every time I hear it now it has the same effect on me.
My Dad introduced it to me and we played it at my Mum's funeral and my late wife's funeral and now I am playing Jean Valjean we are playing it throughout the last dying scene. I will be in tears giving my lines if no-one else is!!
What a touching story and memory. It's one of a few pieces that really moves me, both in a good way and sad, in remembering those I've lost. Thanks for posting
This was played at my sisters funeral chosen by her. I burst into tears as I have also chosen the same piece. Have loved this since the 1970s when I bought my first classical music LP.
I've seen maybe 10 or 15 videos of this intermezzo, and I can say without doubt that this is the best. What makes it so special is the small silence before the crescendo and the maestro Lim Kek-Tijiam sigh. A masterpiece. 14 years later still resonates.
Exactly👍 I also adore Karajan's performance of 60s. Ive been obsessed with Intermezzo and Preludio for over 50 years and my strong adoration of Cavalleria is becoming even stronger❤️
I chose this intermezzo to be played at my grandmother's funeral, exactly when the coffin was accessing the room... I could barely hold my tears. Now, everytime I hear to this opera my grandma comes to mind. All the beautiful moments we shared along the 28 years we lived "together" on this earth. I will never forget her love, I will never stop loving her.
Maestro Lim Kek-tjiang passed away 15 June 2017 in Melbourne, Australia. I too, am lost for words at 1:35. He knows it, he feels it, he appreciates it, and takes it into his soul. His expression of his love for his music will live on, thru us.
Incredible: I got the same impressions you did. The maestro's sight is evident, and so is the reason why: he feels, he hears, he appreciates, he is totally involved, he really loves it, and so do I. Unforgettable.
So eloquently put... I will also mention though it is not apparent in this video but Maestro Lim always bows to his orchestra before bowing to the audience, "first be grateful to your staff"
The Japanese seem to really like this piece a lot. I've heard it on several anime and even as insert music for like commercials and insert cards from their media. I also heard a Japanese HS symphonic band do it here in Texas just a couple years ago.
I have found this piece again after a few years and what I have concluded is that this is as near to perfection as you will ever hear. This brings tears to my eyes every time I hear it.
I got married with this song I spreaded my parents ashes into the air, with this song I have baptized my children with this song I want to be remembered with this song I´m haunted with song....
I played it in my father's ear as he passed away from Alzheimer's. He was unconscious but somehow I hoped that the last thing he heard on this earth was beautiful music.
persevere and thrive through adversity of our own making. we make mistakes, but we try our best each time. music and all the joy's of life are the breaths of fresh air we reward ourselves with for overcoming our darkest moments
My mother loved that. She asked for a recording to be played at her funeral. We did and we cried when it was played. It still makes me cry now, every time.
RIP Lim Kek-tijang, Maestro. Your face as you hesitated for a second before the music carried on was a mirror reflecting the beauty of this most wonderful piece ever composed. Thank you, for the joy and tears.
Whether it be the death of Michael Corleone, Lim Kek-tijang, Jake LaMotta fighting or even Hollis Mason getting beaten, can we all agree that this piece of music is stunning and that it doesn't matter how someone is introduced to this. It's just wonderful that they are.
It makes me inexplicably sad to know that he died. Just looking at how happy he was conducting this masterpiece makes me believe he was a great person with a golden soul. That smile made this video all the more powerful and that man is now dead. Jeez, that makes me sad.
I only discovered this version early in 2018. :( But I'm floored with this Chinese orchestra's version. It's so pure the way he conducted it. These guys play this Italian composer's music better than the Italians!
This piece of music has got me through my whole life, first heard in as a young boy on TV in a Kleenex advertisement and it really touched me, used to come home from Saturday night mass to the house to myself and turn off the lights in the living room and just close my eyes and listen to it . Definitely one of the most beautiful pieces of music every written . Thank you Pietro Mascagni .
14,000 TIMES just in Italy: For those who were moved by Mascagni's music... I will post this from Wikipedia! Although Mascagni had started writing 2 other operas earlier, Cavalleria rusticana was his first opera to be completed and performed. It remains the best known of his 15 operas and 1 operetta. Its success has been phenomenal ever since its first performance (with 40 curtain calls). At the time of Mascagni's death in 1945, the opera had been performed more than 14,000 times in Italy alone.
this song is exactly how it feels to fall in love when you’re slowly settling into it and it’s almost bittersweet and there’s no big eureka moment but a gradual realization that they mean so much more to you
Many years ago, Noel Edmonds did a xmas thing surprising people. One of them was a man from north east fife that made violins, and Noel surprised him by taking him to a church where the orchestra was playing HIS violins, and that was the tune. I've loved it ever since
This music has such a bitter sweet melancholic emotion to it. It makes me lament and rejoice for past lives I might of lived and people I might of loved..
This one piece of music that I insistently have to close my eyes for, allowing for those brief few minutes to ‘escape’ the troubles and craziness of life.❤
It just lifts me up to great heights. Keeps listening to it. What a good idea to play it at my funeral..not v v far away. Ok ' probably w/o awake yo listen to it
Stunning performance of one of the most beautiful pieces ever written. My old Dad was always humming this as we grew up and it still brings me to tears. ❤
I remember playing this piece for my mother in her later years that was on a compilation CD that I have, and as soon as it started her eyes immediately lit up! She told me that she fell in love with this piece when she was a young girl. She had arrived early for choir practice at our church, & the pianist was playing an arrangement of it. She was enthralled! When I played it for her that evening it transported her back to that moment from her childhood. She has since passed on. At her funeral I insisted that they play the recording, and they used it for when the family entered the church. I can't explain how surreal that moment was. I know she was there, and it's wonderful to know that this was the final piece in the soundtrack of her life!
i agree, when i saw this opera at Sydney Opera House the conductor actually sighed as well.......along with the audience who were hanging onto every note ohhhh i love so much
Masgagni wasn't happy with the Intermezzo, so he balled up the score and threw it in the trash. His wife, who had heard him writing it, pulled it out and put it back on his desk. She eventually convinced him to keep it. For which I am grateful.
Quando la ascoltai nella piazza di Lentini, accompagnata dai fuochi artificiali, mi commossi così tanto, che ancora oggi, sentendola, non riesco a fermare le lacrime. Inoltre fu proprio l'Intermezzo della Cavalleria Rustica a il primo brano di musica operistica suonato da mio figlio al suo esordio nella Filarmonica del nostro paese!
this song has probably saved my life. it used to play every morning when I woke up, and it'd give me the strength to face each day. I finally watched cavalleria rusticana and that feeling has only strengthened, seeing santuzza's quiet strength even though she feels such endless pain.
I’m 80 y/o and still remember my mother attempting to hum this absolutely beautiful piece of music. It was her favourite piece but I just wish that she were alive today to hear this version. It is ,in my opinion, the absolute best.
Lim Kek-tjiang conducts Evergreen Symphony Orchestra A most passionate and beautiful piece, it really is lovely to share and appreciate this level of exquisite music! Lovely to share to enrich the lives around us for the young generations to enjoy too!
I always liked this piece from Caballeria Rusticana. So did my father. Seven years ago, while he was facing death, already sedated, I put the headphones in his ears and he listened, exactly, to this interpretation of these musicians. With the last chords, he breathed his last. Every time I listen to it, I get emotional. When I die, I will let it be said that I will put on headphones with this same piece of Caballeria Rusticana.
The Evergreen Symphony Orchestra is a Taiwanese orchestra founded by Chang Yung-Fa Foundation of Evergreen Group in 2001. The orchestra is featured by bringing up talented Taiwanese players........ And this version is the best I’ve ever heard...........superb!
This is a most beautiful piece, this was played at myums funeral a month ago, it was a piece she had chosen to be played, she always said when you listen to it think of it as the highs and lows of life, the low notes are there and still sound beautiful then they lead to a more beautiful lead of highs, it's true when I think of it lows then highs lows then highs but it's all beautiful, amazing
Una de las mejores interpretaciones del intermezzo de Pietro Mascagni que he escuchado, se nota como disfruta el Sr. director y como se embeleza con ciertos pasajes de la pieza musical, !nótenlo¡
This is really a lovely song, so deep, so immensely sad... so beautiful. it seems that it speaks from inside of someone who looks back on life, its joys, its sorrows, its travails, and finds it all so profound that no words can describe... lovely.
Recuerdo la última noche que estuve con mi hijo, antes de que su madre se lo llevará de mi lado,llorando lágrimas tan grandes como la luna y diciendo que se quería quedar a mi lado.pero la ley siempre dando el lado a las mamás,cuando no siempre es lo correcto....TE AMO soujiro no importa donde te encuentres, mi pensamiento y mi corazón están contigo...
Víctor nuestros hijos siempre serán nuestros son nuestra huella el paso en esta vida,todo a su tiempo,solo el cariño comprensión y ternura de jados en tu hijo darán su fruto.
Toro Salvaje luego El Padrino III y por último Samurai X, en cada uno de estas películas y Anime, fueron los momentos cumbres de su desarrollo, un pieza que se unta coma la mantequilla para las obras Audiovisuales, sin duda te traslada a los recuerdos más bonitos de tu vida y termina devolviendo al presente, una obra maestra.
The profoundness of this little piece of music is beyond words ... That makes life so awesome, mystic and wonderful! Words are lacking depth in front of this music: blissful, sad, enchanted, melancholy, ecstasy, sorrowful, noble, graceful, humble, dignified, gracious, elegant, benevolence, yet helpless, longing, and disquieting ... If a 5-min-short piece of music must be picked to depict the profundity of human emotions... This must be the one!
1:34 that sigh exhaled by the conductor accentuated the entire atmosphere ....that's a touch of gold :-) --- At 1:34, the conductor's wistful sigh permeated the entire atmosphere, infusing it with a touch of golden magic. Truly, a moment to cherish and savor with a smile! 😊 I wish that Maestro Lim Kek-tjiang smiles in his tomb in knowing this complement! 😊 Rest in peace and serenity in Heaven Maestro! You had done it and it was really a Blast!!! 🤭
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Half way through writing this, Mascagni threw the manuscript in the bin but luckily his wife found it and told him to continue with it and not give up till he completed it. So glad she retrieved it from the bin. One of the most beautiful and yet haunting pieces of music you are ever likely to hear.
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Great story Mr. Haslam, gives so much more depth to the piece! Thanks for sharing it!
Andy that just blows my mind!!!
where did you read this? I´ve been searching the whole internet and found nothing about it
@@Tom85746 Scroll down the list to the comment by Jeffrey Rutter who says the same.
My Mum used to play this in an Orchestra.
She's been gone nearly 5 years now and it still makes me think of her and cry.
Love you Always Mum xx
ManUtdMrs 💕
She will continue to play this piece in heaven
ManUtdMrs I’m sorry for your loss
No, no. Don't you cry, celebrate her life. And the beautiful music she performed, not many can play such magnificent pieces.
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Quite possibly the most beautiful 4 minutes of music you'll ever hear
Sensational.
Now I am a guy from the hood, Motown all the way R&B etc, yet.... Just to show the power of music to transcends one perspective I have listened to this piece 186 times with tears streaming each time! No one except those on this post will ever know.
Hey Larry, tell someone you actually know.With best wishes from the Emerald Isle.
Music... THIS kind of music is transformative! I feel (sad and) sorry for those who don't get an opportunity to experience the depth and complexity of classical music. GREAT to get your perspective
I got to hear this in person. I was playing in an orchestra but I did not play in this song. It really is like that. I play this song and think of the memory being in the cathedral with the music playing so beautifully. I highly advise you to one day find a concert where this song is being played. Hearing it in person is life-changing.
You and me too. I have never listened t this song and not cried. It just cuts to the heart.
Larry, your post is the absolute reminder of how music touches our souls! Any music, its a pleasure to me as a proud italian/portuguese to read your words, watching this beautiful cavalleria rusticanna being played by this japanese orchestra! Being also a big fan of the motowon / RB having grown up listening to it! Fantastic and wish we can enjoy more of any form of art that makes us feel humans!
This could be the saddest or the happiest composition you've ever heard, depending on the mood.
For me is always the saddest
Matias Mejias I totally agree
True say
Elton jonh povarotti
@@Mejias95 happy days do come, just remember to listen to this on those days.
Bellissima musica di P. Mascagni, Intermezzo, grazie , è fantastico ❤🎶💯💫🔥✨♥️
This must be one of the most beautiful pieces of music every written. Always brings me to tears.
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Succede la stessa cosa anche a me!! Adoro quest'Opera!! Ma il sospiro del direttore d'Orchestra?.....Meraviglioso!!
Esecuzione perfetta!!
Me too, since i was a child i love this music❤
Pietro Mascagni war ein Faschist
El suspiro del director es perfecto.Hermoso intermezzo.
Back in the fifties when i was 15, much to my Dad's disgust I had bought a lot of rock and roll records.He asked me to buy some decent music. I had no idea what that was, but the old gentleman at the record store was a help. My Dad was a very tough bricklayer, but when I played this for him the tears were running down his cheeks. I had never seen my Dad cry before. Every time I hear it now it has the same effect on me.
It is beautiful. Thanks for sharing.
It is beautiful. Thanks for sharing.
My Dad introduced it to me and we played it at my Mum's funeral and my late wife's funeral and now I am playing Jean Valjean we are playing it throughout the last dying scene. I will be in tears giving my lines if no-one else is!!
Douges1 Beautiful.
What a touching story and memory. It's one of a few pieces that really moves me, both in a good way and sad, in remembering those I've lost.
Thanks for posting
It's the year 2016 and it'still the best piece of music I've ever heard...
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Its good and I also like Gabriel Fauré - Pavane, Op. 50
also Albinoni Adagio in G Minor, these are music pieces that transport to a different dimension.
Pienso lo mismo! Esta canción es Dios (o todo lo que esa palabra signifique).
Beethoven's 5th - pure genious as well ;-)
This was played at my sisters funeral chosen by her. I burst into tears as I have also chosen the same piece. Have loved this since the 1970s when I bought my first classical music LP.
Your sister will listining to this in heaven.
My condolences on your loss. I too have chosen this for my funeral.
Yo también lo eligiria para mí funeral
I've seen maybe 10 or 15 videos of this intermezzo, and I can say without doubt that this is the best. What makes it so special is the small silence before the crescendo and the maestro Lim Kek-Tijiam sigh. A masterpiece. 14 years later still resonates.
I totally agree
@@kanjakanjadabahia me too! The best !
Igualmente es la mejor interpretación de esta obra. La he escuchado… no se cuantas veces, me encanta. Estoy de acuerdo con el suspiro.
Exactly👍 I also adore Karajan's performance of 60s. Ive been obsessed with Intermezzo and Preludio for over 50 years and my strong adoration of Cavalleria is becoming even stronger❤️
the sigh at @1:36? I loved the reassuring smile, too :)
I chose this intermezzo to be played at my grandmother's funeral, exactly when the coffin was accessing the room... I could barely hold my tears. Now, everytime I hear to this opera my grandma comes to mind. All the beautiful moments we shared along the 28 years we lived "together" on this earth. I will never forget her love, I will never stop loving her.
I also choose this some years ago to be played at my funeral.. beautiful and so solemn. and sad.
If a find this has not been played at my funeral al never speak to my family again
Rest in peace to your grandmother my friend❤ I hope you've found peace
Hugs from Tuscany, thank you. Kisses to mom/grandmother
I chose the same piece at dad's funeral 3 weeks ago. he loved it always
Maestro Lim Kek-tjiang passed away 15 June 2017 in Melbourne, Australia. I too, am lost for words at 1:35. He knows it, he feels it, he appreciates it, and takes it into his soul. His expression of his love for his music will live on, thru us.
Incredible: I got the same impressions you did. The maestro's sight is evident, and so is the reason why: he feels, he hears, he appreciates, he is totally involved, he really loves it, and so do I. Unforgettable.
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So eloquently put... I will also mention though it is not apparent in this video but Maestro Lim always bows to his orchestra before bowing to the audience, "first be grateful to your staff"
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I didn’t know that he has passed away; I regret my ignorance and I am so sorry and sad.
This song was used in Rurouni Kenshin. It was so perfect and I had to find it. What a masterpiece.
I was looking for this comment! Brilliant composition placed at such a heart wrenching scene. It was so parallel to the actual opera.
@Hawking Chair Can you remind me the name/number of the episode? Just remember it a moment ago and wanna revisit it.
@@edgarleon2647 i believe its called a wish unrequited ep 31
The Japanese seem to really like this piece a lot. I've heard it on several anime and even as insert music for like commercials and insert cards from their media. I also heard a Japanese HS symphonic band do it here in Texas just a couple years ago.
perfection best version iv heard
Has a piece of music ever made you cry?
This one moves me in places I forget sometimes.
Yes, music like this for sure. My parents now gone loved this.
One of the most beautiful pieces in the world.
HoH SiS no l live in Australia 🇦🇺
This and Albinoni’s adagio does it for me!
I have found this piece again after a few years and what I have concluded is that this is as near to perfection as you will ever hear. This brings tears to my eyes every time I hear it.
That conductor and his "Ahh-hh" gave a visual cue to the awesome change and it brought a tear to my eye because it showed he loves it as well!
I got married with this song
I spreaded my parents ashes into the air, with this song
I have baptized my children with this song
I want to be remembered with this song
I´m haunted with song....
Even if its not a song
It’s happiness, sadness, all the moments in life you treasure
You got married with a PIECE
I played it in my father's ear as he passed away from Alzheimer's. He was unconscious but somehow I hoped that the last thing he heard on this earth was beautiful music.
@@michaelaholroyd8614 you can be sure his soul felt all, restored in heaven surely he could hear it. Blessings to him and you from Italy Elisabetta
what has humanity done to deserve a masterpiece like this
Succeeded... at least, in one way or the other,
Mercy is not earned, it is granted.
Throughout listening I assume it still does not deserve such precious things, does it?
persevere and thrive through adversity of our own making. we make mistakes, but we try our best each time. music and all the joy's of life are the breaths of fresh air we reward ourselves with for overcoming our darkest moments
What is man that you are mindful of him or the son of man that you visit him
Probably the most beautiful thing I have ever heard, after my childrens' first cry
Really
Amen to that xx
that is the most beautiful thing i ever heard.
Muy bella composición incorporada en la banda sonora de la película Ragging Bull.. con Robert de Niro.
Life seems beautiful again.
Never heard any orchestra play this better than these guys. Stunning and so moving. Beautiful.
Paula Harris certainly is a masterpiece.
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So I think. It is just perfect.
I don't know what excites me more, the Intermezzo or Lim Kek-Tijiam sigh. Thank you both, goodbye forever Master Lim
No written words can aptly describe the beauty of this piece
Scott Furey it’s heaven in musical
No these words can: intermezzo sinfonico
Agree!! Hugs from Livorno, Tuscany. Mascagni's City!
My mother loved that. She asked for a recording to be played at her funeral. We did and we cried when it was played. It still makes me cry now, every time.
RIP Lim Kek-tijang, Maestro. Your face as you hesitated for a second before the music carried on was a mirror reflecting the beauty of this most wonderful piece ever composed. Thank you, for the joy and tears.
Fucking wonderful
Viva Mascagni! Viva l'Italia
This piece of music is one of the most beautiful things ever created by man, or to have existed in this universe
Agree! Its somtimes called the most sad music piece.😢
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Some men create bombs to kill millions of people yet this man wrote one of the most beautiful pieces of music you will ever hear.
...And Lord God is listening.
Impossibile non piangere😢😍la musica più bella che io abbia mai sentito
Whether it be the death of Michael Corleone, Lim Kek-tijang, Jake LaMotta fighting or even Hollis Mason getting beaten, can we all agree that this piece of music is stunning and that it doesn't matter how someone is introduced to this. It's just wonderful that they are.
I do! Thank you Mr. Jameson
This. Exactly this....
The use in Raging Bull (Jake LaMotta's decline) is absolutely heartbreaking.
Arguably, this is one of the most beautiful compositions in all of opera.
Lim Kek-tjiang (1928-2017)
R.I.P.
It makes me inexplicably sad to know that he died. Just looking at how happy he was conducting this masterpiece makes me believe he was a great person with a golden soul. That smile made this video all the more powerful and that man is now dead. Jeez, that makes me sad.
This Asian conductor knows his Italian, genius.
I only discovered this version early in 2018. :( But I'm floored with this Chinese orchestra's version. It's so pure the way he conducted it. These guys play this Italian composer's music better than the Italians!
God Bless him
When he sighs, my heart skips a beat 🥹
This is my favourite piece of classic music. It's just beautiful
Maestro Lim, may the peace and love be with you. Rest in Peace, sir. You are my mentor. I miss you.
This piece of music has got me through my whole life, first heard in as a young boy on TV in a Kleenex advertisement and it really touched me, used to come home from Saturday night mass to the house to myself and turn off the lights in the living room and just close my eyes and listen to it . Definitely one of the most beautiful pieces of music every written . Thank you Pietro Mascagni .
14,000 TIMES just in Italy: For those who were moved by Mascagni's music... I will post this from Wikipedia! Although Mascagni had started writing 2 other operas earlier, Cavalleria rusticana was his first opera to be completed and performed. It remains the best known of his 15 operas and 1 operetta. Its success has been phenomenal ever since its first performance (with 40 curtain calls). At the time of Mascagni's death in 1945, the opera had been performed more than 14,000 times in Italy alone.
My headmaster at junior school used to make us listen to this at least once a week. I never forgot it
He was right .
this song is exactly how it feels to fall in love when you’re slowly settling into it and it’s almost bittersweet and there’s no big eureka moment but a gradual realization that they mean so much more to you
Always makes me think of Michael Corelone's sad lonley death at the end of Gofather III
Me too buddy such a powerful sad ending.
Many years ago, Noel Edmonds did a xmas thing surprising people. One of them was a man from north east fife that made violins, and Noel surprised him by taking him to a church where the orchestra was playing HIS violins, and that was the tune. I've loved it ever since
A moment of silence for people can not find this masterpiece 😂
One of the best written pieces of music ever
I think I'll never be able to listen to this piece of music without crying. It's automatic.
This music has such a bitter sweet melancholic emotion to it. It makes me lament and rejoice for past lives I might of lived and people I might of loved..
This one piece of music that I insistently have to close my eyes for, allowing for those brief few minutes to ‘escape’ the troubles and craziness of life.❤
"Ditto" heartbreaking ❤
Maravilloso
One of the ten most beautiful songs ever wrote in the history of music !!!
Absolutly the most beautiful piece of music in the world.
One of the most Beautiful sounds ever ❤
The absolute joy on the conductors face
Possibly the most beautiful Intermezzo of all time, and that is coming from a Verdi fan !!!!
It just lifts me up to great heights. Keeps listening to it. What a good idea to play it at my funeral..not v v far away. Ok
' probably w/o awake yo listen to it
Mario Tabone
Still valid. It's allowed
Agree!!!
Thank God for the mother of Pietro Mascagni. Forever.
Stunning performance of one of the most beautiful pieces ever written. My old Dad was always humming this as we grew up and it still brings me to tears. ❤
Bellisima!! Excelsa!! Mascagni Pietro es un GENIO!! Maravillosa Obra!!!!😂😂😂😂❤❤❤🌟🌟🌟
2020 anyone with me listening to it ? I grew up with classic music. 67 years now and still love it more than I did when I was a kid.
The wish of my father to be played on his funeral. ..
Still makes me cry.
Jamás me cansaré de escucharla!!!
I remember playing this piece for my mother in her later years that was on a compilation CD that I have, and as soon as it started her eyes immediately lit up! She told me that she fell in love with this piece when she was a young girl. She had arrived early for choir practice at our church, & the pianist was playing an arrangement of it. She was enthralled! When I played it for her that evening it transported her back to that moment from her childhood. She has since passed on. At her funeral I insisted that they play the recording, and they used it for when the family entered the church. I can't explain how surreal that moment was. I know she was there, and it's wonderful to know that this was the final piece in the soundtrack of her life!
The exhalation of conductor at 1:37 is aligned with the deep feelings he demonstrates in the summit of the performance
I completely agree. That is why I keep on getting back to this piece.
Pedro Sánchez Palma Lim breathes his music! And he lives for his music! This moment is absolutly epic!
Pedro Sánchez Palma So true, so true.
Wonderful classical music. Remind me of the Movie - Godfather as well.
i agree, when i saw this opera at Sydney Opera House the conductor actually sighed as well.......along with the audience who were hanging onto every note ohhhh i love so much
Masgagni wasn't happy with the Intermezzo, so he balled up the score and threw it in the trash. His wife, who had heard him writing it, pulled it out and put it back on his desk. She eventually convinced him to keep it. For which I am grateful.
Jeffrey Rutter best thing she ever did
Great story, bro. Utter horseshit, but great story.
Mascagni*
it was probably the second half he disliked; the opening is great
For which WE are deeply grateful
Quando la ascoltai nella piazza di Lentini, accompagnata dai fuochi artificiali, mi commossi così tanto, che ancora oggi, sentendola, non riesco a fermare le lacrime. Inoltre fu proprio l'Intermezzo della Cavalleria Rustica a il primo brano di musica operistica suonato da mio figlio al suo esordio nella Filarmonica del nostro paese!
this song has probably saved my life. it used to play every morning when I woke up, and it'd give me the strength to face each day. I finally watched cavalleria rusticana and that feeling has only strengthened, seeing santuzza's quiet strength even though she feels such endless pain.
I'm brought to tears every time I hear this. Beautiful version!
That exhale at 1:35 breaks my heart every time
Me too
Simply beautiful. .
Very same effect to me: hardly ever a classical piece of music is so profound as Mascagni's "Intermezzo".
Marvellous piece. Beautifully interpreted. Never have enough .
Same here.....
Seriously, who can dislike this?!
1,1 million ignorant people
Catalans people
Unbelievable!!
@@Alienapiano fortunately only 1,100 people. Still, 1,100 too many.
Those with empty heart and brain ! 🤔🙂
I hear this and know.. there is still beauty in this world.
I sent for this to be played for my mother in 1960 when I was a young soldier in Germany, miss you mum , loves you
Thank you for your service.
The most beautiful piece of music ever written.
The theme from a series about Oscar Wide, seen on tv
Grazie infinite❤ perla preziosa della preghiera quotidiana!
I’m 80 y/o and still remember my mother attempting to hum this absolutely beautiful piece of music. It was her favourite piece but I just wish that she were alive today to hear this version. It is ,in my opinion, the absolute best.
We played this at my Grandmothers funeral the 3rd of May 2018 she loved this but always cried when she heard it. We miss her badly 💔
Thanks to Samurai X, for bringing me here. What a masterpiece.
Lim Kek-tjiang conducts Evergreen Symphony Orchestra
A most passionate and beautiful piece, it really is lovely to share and appreciate this level of exquisite music! Lovely to share to enrich the lives around us for the young generations to enjoy too!
we as a 'world' sometimes don't hear the magnificence of majesty in maestro Lim Kek-tjiang
I always liked this piece from Caballeria Rusticana. So did my father. Seven years ago, while he was facing death, already sedated, I put the headphones in his ears and he listened, exactly, to this interpretation of these musicians. With the last chords, he breathed his last. Every time I listen to it, I get emotional. When I die, I will let it be said that I will put on headphones with this same piece of Caballeria Rusticana.
I have come to believe that beautiful music is like a glimpse of God's joy!
The Evergreen Symphony Orchestra is a Taiwanese orchestra founded by Chang Yung-Fa Foundation of Evergreen Group in 2001. The orchestra is featured by bringing up talented Taiwanese players........
And this version is the best I’ve ever heard...........superb!
This is a most beautiful piece, this was played at myums funeral a month ago, it was a piece she had chosen to be played, she always said when you listen to it think of it as the highs and lows of life, the low notes are there and still sound beautiful then they lead to a more beautiful lead of highs, it's true when I think of it lows then highs lows then highs but it's all beautiful, amazing
R.I.P Lim Kek-tjiang. Glad you lived. I don't think I will ever stop to listening to this.
One of the most beautyful and most favorite classics of the world!
I salute you Mr. Lim. I was in the orchestra in Hongkong conducted by you in the late 70s. Thanks for the inspiration and guidance.
I envy your experience, including having lived in Hong Kong in the 70s as it was starting ro come into its glory days
I was also playing in the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra in 1970-71. Mr. Lim was the conductor.
The Beauty of this music has kept me going through some real dark days. I never tire of hearing it,
Beautiful 😅
Semplicemente meravigliosa
Una de las mejores interpretaciones del intermezzo de Pietro Mascagni que he escuchado, se nota como disfruta el Sr. director y como se embeleza con ciertos pasajes de la pieza musical, !nótenlo¡
Moving. Extraordinary. Rest in peace this great conductor. He is in Heaven now.
Pietro Mascagni from the beautiful city of Livorno Italia 🌹
W LIVORNO ♥️🇮🇹, wl' ITALIA forever
The internet was made for music like this to live on.
This is really a lovely song, so deep, so immensely sad... so beautiful. it seems that it speaks from inside of someone who looks back on life, its joys, its sorrows, its travails, and finds it all so profound that no words can describe... lovely.
Very well said and so true
that's why this masterpiece was used in the end of The Godfather part 3, no other song could take us to that moment like this one
I could not be more agree with you !!!
Oh yes, I agree
girlfromipanemauai
Not a song. But it'll do.
This music is just one of the most beautiful creations ever... everytime I hear it I feel free
I listen to this and feel that the gates of heaven have been left ajar, for surely this is listening to the breeze in paradise
What a perfect rendition of this very moving piece. Excellent performance.
Italy my country 🇮🇹❤️❤️
is this not the most beautiful intermezzo ever? in the opera it gives us a chance to breathe.......and in my everyday
Yes, is probably the best interpretation i ever heard. The piece itself is sublime.
Recuerdo la última noche que estuve con mi hijo, antes de que su madre se lo llevará de mi lado,llorando lágrimas tan grandes como la luna y diciendo que se quería quedar a mi lado.pero la ley
siempre dando el lado a las mamás,cuando no siempre es lo correcto....TE AMO soujiro no importa donde te encuentres, mi pensamiento y mi corazón están contigo...
Víctor nuestros hijos siempre serán nuestros son nuestra huella el paso en esta vida,todo a su tiempo,solo el cariño comprensión y ternura de jados en tu hijo darán su fruto.
Poesia... pura poesia.. la voce di Dio... GRAZIE MAESTRO.. GRAZIE ITALIA!!
Grazie Italia
Da lontano lontano
Argentina
Tierra de inmigrantes
Molto gratzie!
Toro Salvaje luego El Padrino III y por último Samurai X, en cada uno de estas películas y Anime, fueron los momentos cumbres de su desarrollo, un pieza que se unta coma la mantequilla para las obras Audiovisuales, sin duda te traslada a los recuerdos más bonitos de tu vida y termina devolviendo al presente, una obra maestra.
Lim Kek-tjiang's is the best live version among all others uploaded on RUclips. Beautiful Performance ! Bravo !
For you old man,I’m struggling without you.
Nothing is easy but this is beautiful as it was the day you passed.
25/11/17
The profoundness of this little piece of music is beyond words ...
That makes life so awesome, mystic and wonderful!
Words are lacking depth in front of this music: blissful, sad, enchanted, melancholy, ecstasy, sorrowful, noble, graceful, humble, dignified, gracious, elegant, benevolence, yet helpless, longing, and disquieting ...
If a 5-min-short piece of music must be picked to depict the profundity of human emotions...
This must be the one!
Sam Shen 💕
Bravo
1:34 that sigh exhaled by the conductor accentuated the entire atmosphere ....that's a touch of gold :-) --- At 1:34, the conductor's wistful sigh permeated the entire atmosphere, infusing it with a touch of golden magic. Truly, a moment to cherish and savor with a smile! 😊 I wish that Maestro Lim Kek-tjiang smiles in his tomb in knowing this complement! 😊 Rest in peace and serenity in Heaven Maestro! You had done it and it was really a Blast!!! 🤭