Der Freischütz--Huntsmen's Chorus

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  • Опубликовано: 3 дек 2024

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  • @TheRuprechtKroenen
    @TheRuprechtKroenen 5 лет назад +15

    Dude, that was a time a time when hunting in Europe was an adventure...about 1890, you had to resort to Transsylvania and the Romanian Carpathians to feel that savage pleasure

  • @robertrstevens
    @robertrstevens 5 лет назад +8

    Victor Hugo particularly enjoyed the music of Weber. In Les Misérables, he calls the huntsman's chorus in Weber's Euryanthe "the most beautiful piece of music ever composed". WHO would refuse an opportunity to concur with Victor Hugo !

  • @jacfoudecountrymusic8176
    @jacfoudecountrymusic8176 5 лет назад +1

    Quelle Beauté ce choeur d'homme. C'est à pleurer, Dommage que l'on ait oublié Weber, merveilleux compositeur Merci pour cea

  • @preston9188
    @preston9188 6 лет назад +23

    The joy of the hunter on Earth all surpasses
    The fountain of pleasure for him doth abound
    Thro' wood and thro' flood, where the stag flits and passes
    He flies in pursuit while the horns gaily sound
    Oh, this is the pleasure that princes might envy
    For health and for manhood the chief of delights
    'Mid echoes replying, when daylight is dying
    To rest and the winecup our labor invites
    Diana by night doth illumine her bower
    Where oft we are sheltered from day's angry glare
    We know in what caverns the wolf flies to cower
    We follow the boar to his dark, wooded lair
    Oh, this is the pleasure that princes might envy
    For health and for manhood the chief of delights
    'Mid echoes replying, when daylight is dying
    To rest and the winecup our labor invites

    • @JEdge-e1y
      @JEdge-e1y Месяц назад

      Many thanks to the person who took the trouble to send in the words

  • @charlesbeall3965
    @charlesbeall3965 6 лет назад +5

    This is my theme song in the winter when I ski. I play it on the chair lift, on harmonica.

  • @idavo
    @idavo 10 лет назад +10

    I sang this in a mixture of German & English at eleven years old in my school choir, I need to find the German version now to see if I remember the words - I am now 47 years.
    This sounds like a good battle cry as Germany face Argentina in the World Cup Final on Sunday.
    Thank you so much for posting.

    • @idavo
      @idavo 10 лет назад +1

      DO you know this? It has brought back so many memories for me this evening. x

    • @idavo
      @idavo 3 года назад +1

      @Sonstiges - Thank you! 7 years later, I noticed I had a message, yours made me smile, laugh and sing!
      It is 05:28 hrs here & to hear that with the words was both exhilarating & bloody brilliant.
      I thank you so much..
      As the morning welcomes the day light & a suitable time to play music without upsetting my neighbours, Alexa will be working hard this morning, and I shall be singing with her.
      Thank you.
      David.

    • @sonstiges9950
      @sonstiges9950 3 года назад +2

      Watch here the lyrics in German (original) and English: ruclips.net/video/F-MH0a_6SlU/видео.html&ab_channel=Dr.Ludwig
      Have fun and enjoy my friend!

  • @jayhaar2440
    @jayhaar2440 6 лет назад +3

    I get goose bumps every time.

  • @martindavis6115
    @martindavis6115 10 месяцев назад

    Years ago my parents had a record with this on (it was on the Deutsche Gramphon label I think). Hadn't it for 30+ years so great to be able to have heard it again at last.

  • @edoedo8686
    @edoedo8686 8 лет назад +5

    Yes, I understand Victor Hugo's love of this music...and I concur...

  • @jameshorn270
    @jameshorn270 8 лет назад +3

    I used to use this as a warm up. A couple of years ago, I heard a horn player from the 28th Infantry Division Band warm up with it. I suspect there are lot of others.

  • @steveallen273
    @steveallen273 Год назад +1

    Victor Hugo thought this perhaps the most beautiful piece of music ever written

  • @jeannoelSadaoui
    @jeannoelSadaoui 11 лет назад +1

    je ne m'en lasse pas

  • @alinonymous
    @alinonymous 9 лет назад +22

    If I were a boar I'd take a nap before those hunters reach me.

    • @rexcaliburn
      @rexcaliburn 7 лет назад

      This version is slowed down to make it easier to sing in English. At full speed its extremely difficult

    • @theamericaneaglepatriot9673
      @theamericaneaglepatriot9673 7 лет назад

      Where May I find lyrics?

  • @MichFonder
    @MichFonder 5 лет назад

    magnifique, beau, superbe, merci merci !

  • @TheRealChewbaccaBC
    @TheRealChewbaccaBC 11 лет назад +15

    Dude, we don't care what age you are and if you dislike today's music. Just enjoy music.

  • @carljuvy
    @carljuvy 8 лет назад +3

    Sounds catchy!

  • @vonmazur1
    @vonmazur1 13 лет назад +1

    "What on earth can compare to the joy of the hunt?"

  • @iangray5407
    @iangray5407 5 лет назад +4

    In the novel "Les Miserables", Victor Hugo has Cosette playing and singing "Hunstmen Astray in the Woods" from Weber's "Euryanthe" and calls it the most beautiful music ever written. Surely this isn't it? I can't imagine a 16 year old ingenue playing and singing this. Is there some other piece he could be referring to?

    • @OutragedPufferfish
      @OutragedPufferfish 3 года назад

      I don't really like this either

    • @OutragedPufferfish
      @OutragedPufferfish 3 года назад

      Hugo also calls it "Weber's sombre and majestic chorus" it appears this really is what he meant 😕

    • @OutragedPufferfish
      @OutragedPufferfish 3 года назад

      I mean, I also looked up "Weber hunters" and got the same music

    • @iangray5407
      @iangray5407 3 года назад +1

      @@OutragedPufferfish Maybe Hugo got the name of the piece wrong - this sounds more like a drinking song than the sort of thing you would imagine Cosette playing and singing!

    • @OutragedPufferfish
      @OutragedPufferfish 3 года назад

      @@iangray5407 Yes, I don't get it either

  • @jonathanbreton123
    @jonathanbreton123 9 лет назад +6

    I like much the german version

  • @ForeverEva
    @ForeverEva 4 года назад +7

    Who else is here because they’re reading Les Mis?

    • @TheUrbancenter
      @TheUrbancenter 2 года назад +1

      Guilty. I had to stop reading and hear this song for myself. If I was a 16 year-old french girl living around 1830, I would be blasting this song and singing it at 10 o'clock too. Did she sing it in german or french? Definitely not in English.

  • @Rodolfo2882
    @Rodolfo2882 13 лет назад

    @Hayzoosrlaem I fully agree with your comment. I miss a version by Carlos Kleiber. I can't find it...

  • @RadioactivFly
    @RadioactivFly 11 лет назад

    No need. I found it. Thank you.

  • @sibusisorich1119
    @sibusisorich1119 11 лет назад

    reminds of my high school days choir songs eish those days

  • @hartmutschmid1822
    @hartmutschmid1822 2 года назад +2

    Perfect tempo! This is so often performed much too fast.

  • @Milordvega
    @Milordvega 9 лет назад +8

    I don't mind that it's not in the original German, but why is the tempo a bit too slow? This is supposed to be real vigorous and lively.

    • @rexcaliburn
      @rexcaliburn 9 лет назад +2

      Ed Vega lots of performers slow it down. having actually sung it in the original its very tricky. i have heard even slower versions than this. but i do enjoy it more when it is at full speed. also singing the english at full speed is very hard to do.

    • @Milordvega
      @Milordvega 9 лет назад

      Thanks for that clarification! Yo ho! Tra la la!

    • @himanv
      @himanv 8 лет назад +3

      +Ed Vega I was thinking perhaps it also has to do with the reverberation, echos, and acoustics of the performance hall it is being performed in. Philly's Academy of Music was infamous for not being good acoustically and to combat that the long-time conductor (also conducting this piece) and very famous musician, Eugene Ormandy, came up with the "Philadelphia Sound" which is more rounded and longer.

    • @Milordvega
      @Milordvega 8 лет назад +2

      Wow, that's an interesting angle indeed. The acoustics! Thanks for that input.

    • @paddy864
      @paddy864 8 лет назад +1

      +Ed Vega Agreed, but look up the Regimental March of the Kings Royal Rifle Corps which is a medley of the Huntsman's Chorus and Lutzow's Wild Hunt, I think you'll find that pretty vigorous and lively!

  • @eunaekim9216
    @eunaekim9216 4 года назад

    If this has words to it in any language, its effects are multiplied by ten over the Suzuki version!

  • @CorvettePilgrim
    @CorvettePilgrim 12 лет назад

    That is the men of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. An old recording.

  • @HoratiaJ
    @HoratiaJ 3 года назад

    Who else is here because Cosette played this on her piano-organ?

  • @rexcaliburn
    @rexcaliburn 10 лет назад

    Great song.... not that I am bias or anything.

  • @RadioactivFly
    @RadioactivFly 11 лет назад

    Anyone have a transcription of this English translation? It's kind of hard to pick out the lyrics by hearing it.

  • @bag3lmonst3r72
    @bag3lmonst3r72 2 года назад +2

    Was expecting the original German and was pleasantly surprised to find this is in English! Sure the original is best but it's nice to hear a version you can actually understand :)

    • @josemafabian5601
      @josemafabian5601 10 месяцев назад

      It is an aesthetic and intellectual ABERRATION to change the original German

  • @jbelme1
    @jbelme1 3 года назад

    The Victoria Rifles of Canada brought me here.

  • @Rikitocker
    @Rikitocker 8 лет назад +7

    Regimental March of the 60th - King's Royal Rifle Corps until from 1820 -1905 ...

  • @barcalonga
    @barcalonga 12 лет назад

    the translation is quite good for a text, but I think it pales to the German when sung - but far be it form me to criticise the great and legendary musicianship of Eugene Ormandy and Philadelphia!

  • @OutragedPufferfish
    @OutragedPufferfish 3 года назад +1

    Who's here because of Victor Hugo

  • @barcalonga
    @barcalonga 11 лет назад

    If you want the English sung here - it will take me some time to write it out, which I don't have at the moment, but will gladly do....

  • @RadioactivFly
    @RadioactivFly 11 лет назад

    You understood the lyrics? I can never understand opera lyrics. Would you please send me the lyrics for this translation in a PM?

  • @RadioactivFly
    @RadioactivFly 12 лет назад

    Is there a transcript of this? It's a bit hard to understand, and I can't find a translation.

  • @verdew8181
    @verdew8181 11 лет назад

    This is like the "Toreador Song" from "Carmen", a great song but the words are about someone who likes to hurt or kill animals. I'd rather it have other lyrics.

  • @valky666
    @valky666 13 лет назад

    'was gleicht wohl auf Erden dem Jaegervergnuegen. Wem sprudelt der Becher des Lebens so reich?'
    Blasphemy! hearing it in english... :P (though the translation is quite perfect)

  • @barcalonga
    @barcalonga 11 лет назад

    It's just an opera.

  • @francoismarcot9758
    @francoismarcot9758 2 года назад

    Toute l’Allemagne en 3 minutes …

  • @JEdge-e1y
    @JEdge-e1y Месяц назад

    Most enervating music
    10.15 am

  • @lucrombach5461
    @lucrombach5461 11 лет назад

    On s'y croirait

  • @HipHopNobby
    @HipHopNobby 13 лет назад

    in English,cool!

  • @myoriginalmusic6739
    @myoriginalmusic6739 7 лет назад

    Apparently motzart helped him with this

  • @evamurati38
    @evamurati38 9 лет назад +2

    Victor Hugo called this the best piece of music ever created. Not to disagree but there's a lot better...

    • @MissBliss.
      @MissBliss. 6 лет назад

      Nope; he refers to Euryanthe's hunter's chorus. This is Der Freischütz's hunter's chorus ^.^

  • @ultrajn25
    @ultrajn25 11 лет назад +1

    YUCK why is this is in English??

  • @WildwoodClaire1
    @WildwoodClaire1 6 лет назад +1

    Rather flaccid performance.

  • @voltaire1377
    @voltaire1377 8 лет назад

    very bad tempo!just boring!

    • @mountainrover3119
      @mountainrover3119 7 лет назад +2

      only if you need ritalin to sustain your attention