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!
Ja, das Intermezzo ist wunderschön. Ohne meine liebe Freundin hätte ich es nicht kennengelernt. Als sie jung war, hat ihr Vater sie damit bekanntgemacht.
The most beautiful piece of music in the world, I play it every night it calms me before I sleep and helps me cope with the loss of my son last year.It will be played at my funeral when hopefully we will meet again ❤
I have goosebumps. It's so beautiful it makes me want to cry. I don't understand why there aren't more young people enjoying this instead of reggaeton or trap.
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.
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
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❤️
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.
My Grandmother worked In service in a large house near Bristol when she was 12. Her hands were freezing going to work one morning so when she got in the kitchen she put her hands in warm water that was in the sink. This would be 1912. She was getting some relief when she heard what she said was the most beautiful music emanating from the living quarters upstairs...Years later she found out it was this piece. I love this version. It reminds me I'm standing on her shoulders🥰.
I was 17 in 1962 when I first heard this piece of music, After all these years I never tire of listening to it. Most wonderful and a lovely conductor who loves what he is doing
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.
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.
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.
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
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 .
What a beautiful piece of music. It makes the hair's on your back tingle. My father used to whistle this all the time when I was young. It brings tears to your eyes. Amazing. It will definitely be at my funeral. Take care all. John
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.
Music lifts my soul, especially fine music with beautiful melodies. The beauty was so thrilling that I had to restrain myself from crying. I danced with a ballet company and a major opera company, so this program brought back memories almost forgotten. Thank you.
Livorno is known in English as "Leghorn," home of the Leghorn chicken, which became famous due to the cartoon character Foghorn Leghorn. I wonder if the kids (and adults, for that matter) who watch the cartoon know of Foghorn Leghorn's "Italian connection!"
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. ❤
Thank you kind stranger, wherever you are, thank you for bringing until me such beauty mastered by so many talented musicians through years of vocational sacrifice, I am deeply touched for what all this video implies ❤
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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
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¡
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 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.
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.❤
I played this recently whilst walking by the Sea at the plaza mascagni in Livorno . I've always loved this piece but the experience by the Sea was soul stirring. My lovely granddaughter was with me ... I said this is my Funeral music, she was so kind and smiled...
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
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!!! 🤭
Yo también oía esta maravillosa pieza con mi papá, ahora el ya no está, pero la escucho y vuelvo a llorar... sublime!! Cómo El Padrino 3 x esa peli conocimos está obra maestra. El director de la Orquesta tan pequeño y tan inmenso
this is quite simply one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written. And to think that it was an afterthought so that Mascagni could join the two acts of his newly written opera into a single act so as to be able to enter it into a contest. Needless to say - he won.
@@ms.annthrope415 “Never really caught on”. What planet are you on Ms Thrope? It is one of the most popular short operas there is, often combined with Pagliacci in a double bill.
I don't know what excites me more, the Intermezzo or Lim Kek-Tijiam sigh. Thank you both, goodbye forever Master Lim
Absolutely! At 1:35 the sigh got to me...his passion shows so visibly, so beautifully. I have watched this hundreds of times.
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.
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!
Bellissima musica di P. Mascagni, Intermezzo, grazie , è fantastico ❤🎶💯💫🔥✨♥️
Ja, das Intermezzo ist wunderschön. Ohne meine liebe Freundin hätte ich es nicht kennengelernt. Als sie jung war, hat ihr Vater sie damit bekanntgemacht.
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 ;-)
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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The most beautiful piece of music in the world, I play it every night it calms me before I sleep and helps me cope with the loss of my son last year.It will be played at my funeral when hopefully we will meet again ❤
Its booked to play at my funeral so beautiful
Cara signora. YVONNE SPERO PROPIO CHE QUESTA MUSICA LE dia. Un pò di pace. per la terribile. Perdita di suo figlio ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I have goosebumps. It's so beautiful it makes me want to cry. I don't understand why there aren't more young people enjoying this instead of reggaeton or trap.
Pienso lo mismo que tú. 👍💥
This is Definitely my favorite song.
Most beautiful piece of music
The decay of society or should I say it’s degeneration of societal values & morays. Music is the expression of society’s values !!!
This was my Grandma's favourite . She used to play it on the piano ..it upsets everyone to hear it now 😢♥️
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
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
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.
Inspiração divina. O homem não tira isso de si próprio...
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 :)
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
My Grandmother worked In service in a large house near Bristol when she was 12. Her hands were freezing going to work one morning so when she got in the kitchen she put her hands in warm water that was in the sink. This would be 1912. She was getting some relief when she heard what she said was the most beautiful music emanating from the living quarters upstairs...Years later she found out it was this piece. I love this version. It reminds me I'm standing on her shoulders🥰.
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Wow, thank you so much for sharing this moving story of your grandmother. ❤
Sends a shiver down my spine every time, beautiful. This was played at the end of Godfather 3, just when Miichael Corleone died.
Do you mean Mary Corleone?
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.
One of the most Beautiful sounds ever ❤
Bellisima!! Excelsa!! Mascagni Pietro es un GENIO!! Maravillosa Obra!!!!😂😂😂😂❤❤❤🌟🌟🌟
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.
Also Mozart's Concertos 🎶🎵"move" to tears.
@@lucianopanini9092my parents gone too❤❤ I'm Sorry for your loss
موسيقي رائعة من البلد الرائعة ايطاليا الجميلة ومايسترو فريد. تحية عظيمة
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.
I was 17 in 1962 when I first heard this piece of music, After all these years I never tire of listening to it. Most wonderful and a lovely conductor who loves what he is doing
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
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.
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
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!
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!
My beautiful mum passed away today. She loved this so much. Sleep peacefully mum
Thoughts and prayers with you...
RIP
Mis sentidas condolencias
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seriously who cares? I am here to enjoy the song, there are millions of people dying every day
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.
THIS IS THE KEYNOTE OF ARCHANGEL GABRIEL
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Quite possibly the most beautiful 4 minutes of music you'll ever hear
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!
Arguably, this is one of the most beautiful compositions in all of opera.
How can you not be in love with this masterpiece
magnificent music moved to tears.
Yes😢
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!!!
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.
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 .
What a beautiful piece of music. It makes the hair's on your back tingle. My father used to whistle this all the time when I was young. It brings tears to your eyes. Amazing. It will definitely be at my funeral. Take care all. John
Those Italians! They know beauty and how to express it. For me this music captures the feeling of a deep love and longing for home country
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.
Impossibile non piangere😢😍la musica più bella che io abbia mai sentito
Music lifts my soul, especially fine music with beautiful melodies. The beauty was so thrilling that I had to restrain myself from crying. I danced with a ballet company and a major opera company, so this program brought back memories almost forgotten. Thank you.
To me the most beautiful piece of music ever written. It never fails to move me.
Pietro Mascagni from the beautiful city of Livorno Italia 🌹
W LIVORNO ♥️🇮🇹, wl' ITALIA forever
Livorno is known in English as "Leghorn," home of the Leghorn chicken, which became famous due to the cartoon character Foghorn Leghorn. I wonder if the kids (and adults, for that matter) who watch the cartoon know of Foghorn Leghorn's "Italian connection!"
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.....
Sono di Livorno mi chiamo Davide è un regalo infinito! GRAZIE!!
Maestro Lim, may the peace and love be with you. Rest in Peace, sir. You are my mentor. I miss you.
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.
this piece and tchaikovsky's andante cantabile could let me float for long hours submerging in memories without too much regret or bitterness...
One of the best written pieces of music ever
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. ❤
This is my favourite piece of classic music. It's just beautiful
Thank you kind stranger, wherever you are, thank you for bringing until me such beauty mastered by so many talented musicians through years of vocational sacrifice, I am deeply touched for what all this video implies ❤
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
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.
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.
Sensational.
Absolutly the most beautiful piece of music in the world.
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.
If only we could save this orchestra for this beautiful music.
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
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
The version of this symphony by the Andrei Reiu Johann Strauss Orchestra is gorgeous. Am trying to locate it on RUclips.
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
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 internet was made for music like this to live on.
When he sighs, my heart skips a beat 🥹
The look on the conductors face says it all , wonderful
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.
music is the international language on earth.
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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¡
Es la mejor interpretación que he escuchado del Intermezzo de "Cavalleria Rusticana". Y he escuchado unas cuantas. Soberbia! Maravillosa!
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.
Jamás me cansaré de escucharla!!!
My headmaster at junior school used to make us listen to this at least once a week. I never forgot it
He was right .
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
I think I'll never be able to listen to this piece of music without crying. It's automatic.
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.
The most exquisite performance of this beautiful piece!
This music is just one of the most beautiful creations ever... everytime I hear it I feel free
The wish of my father to be played on his funeral. ..
Still makes me cry.
Voorwaar briljant...2024 en tot op hede geen gelyke.
Bravo
Of all the renditions, for me this takes the biscuit, sublime.
One of the most beautyful and most favorite classics of the world!
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
Viva Mascagni! Viva l'Italia
I played this recently whilst walking by the Sea at the plaza mascagni in Livorno . I've always loved this piece but the experience by the Sea was soul stirring. My lovely granddaughter was with me ...
I said this is my Funeral music, she was so kind and smiled...
Gracias por compartir. Emocionante. Si bien transmite tristeza, dolor, es una pieza de música realmente hermosa.😢😊❤
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
Une merveille !!! Merci Maestro Merci à tous vos prodigieux musiciens.❤
That was played so beautiful, thank you. Almost all women playing, great.
Thank God for the mother of Pietro Mascagni. Forever.
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!!! 🤭
Dio creò il paradiso e lo chiamò Italia. Italiani, Compositori di musica e
Vita.☀️
Yo también oía esta maravillosa pieza con mi papá, ahora el ya no está, pero la escucho y vuelvo a llorar... sublime!! Cómo El Padrino 3 x esa peli conocimos está obra maestra. El director de la Orquesta tan pequeño y tan inmenso
this is quite simply one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written. And to think that it was an afterthought so that Mascagni could join the two acts of his newly written opera into a single act so as to be able to enter it into a contest. Needless to say - he won.
Una grande musica da un grande toscano
I did not know the latter. Totally echo your first sentiment. That it's the intermission makes me shake my head in awe.
Unfortunately, Cavalerica Rusticana never really caught on and Pietro Mascagni has his one hit wonder.
@@ms.annthrope415 “Never really caught on”. What planet are you on Ms Thrope? It is one of the most popular short operas there is, often combined with Pagliacci in a double bill.