¡Cuán difícil no quedar hipnotizado ante semejante joya! Wagner, incluso en los lúgubres momentos de la guerra, incluso tergiversado por la estética nacionalsocialista, se ha develado ante mí una vez más como el ángel tutelar que siempre fue. Este video tiene una esencia documental de valor infinito. Es un pedazo de historia que hoy tuve el privilegio de descubrir.
And captured the players: The sound is interesting, for example at 7:18 you can hear the first violins with a clear sound that might be completely drowned out by blaring brass in any other recording. At 3:20 onward the camera catches the second violin bottom left on the screen monitoring a player to his left (the principal second violin next to him or the concertmaster, and I don't know why there) but obviously that kind of care all around the orchestra is what adds up to the best orchestra sound.
99% it's not real time reactions. Check Leni Riefenstahl movies and similar to them. Even today it is a lesson for filmmakers and marketing staff. Others did the same (propaganda of the USSR, former USA, UK etc.)
This is great. Nazi wagner with swasikas and miserable audience and spaz furtwangler. This beats movies of 1984. you can't make this up. As orwell said, "don't let it happen."
You nailed it. Naive, certainly, but he believed, even as the world was crashing in. A mini-Schindler? I'm not sure, but certavily the cultural equivalent.
You have been manipulated by a Nazi propaganda piece, mate! Those cuts to audience members were done intentionally to stimulate such an emotional reaction from you.
Ich habe einen Auszug dieser Veranstaltung in einer Deutschen Wochenschau gesehen, in der die Berliner Philharmoniker unter der Leitung von Wilhelm Furtwängler das Vorspiel zu den Meistersingern von Nürnberg während einer Werkspause vor den Mitarbeitern der AEG-Werke in Berlin spielten. Nun das vollständige Musikwerk hören und sehen zu können hat mir umso mehr gefallen. Tief beeindruckt bin ich auch von den Aufnahmen der Zuschauer, unter denen auch viele Nahaufnahmen der Gesichter vieler Werksangehörigen jeden Geschlechts und Alters und in deren Mienen Sorgen und Nöte dieses dritten Kriegsjahres zu sehen sind. Gesichter und Musik bilden im Film eine visuelle und akustische Einheit. Diese Aufnahme kann zurecht als Ehrung der Menschen in der Heimat gesehen werden für die stellvertretend jene Belegschaft der AEG-Werke und die Berliner Philharmoniker stehen. Eine großartige musikalische und filmische Leistung!
Danke, für Ihre Beschreibung. Jedesmal mal wenn ich dieses Konzert anhöre und sehe, werde ich tiefberührt, fühle mich verbunden mit den Menschen. Dank und Respekt dem unerreichbaren Dirigenten Wilhelm Furtwängler, für das Schöne, Wahre und Gute, das er verteidigte mit seinem Dableiben.
Que horrible la guerra ,los asistentes deben estar pensando en algún hermano,hijo,esposo,amigo ,vecino que está en el frente de batalla ,dando la cara por unos políticos cobardes. Que bella la música ,,que horrible la guerra .
Everyone in the audience looks very stressed….The new year would see the industrial might of both the United States and Soviet Union brought to full use as the Allies were finally in a position to move to the offensive. Key campaigns became the Battle of the Solomons, Kharkov, Midway and El Alamein among others and set the stage for the second half of the war that would follow. Regardless a superb performance
Yes it's masterly propaganda. You couldn't show the German people looking anything but serious at that point inthe war, but hope rises eternal especially at the turning of the musical tide (just after 6.00)
Con razón !!!!!. Leni Riefenstahl captaba y editaba maravillosamente todos los detalles en sus películas. ¡¡¡¡ Una de las mejores directoras de cine documental de todos los tiempos.!!!!!
In April 1942, the German people were recovering from the shock of defeat at the gates of Moscow in December and the British were starting to bomb German cities. I sense great anxiety on the faces of the workers and wounded veterans in the audience. Furtwangler is brilliant and the music has a tone of defiance. Note that the musicians appear to be too old for active military service....at least yet.
¿En qué mes se hizo la filmación?. Creo que es de Marzo del 42. Nada de derrota. El ejército se paró allí. El pueblo Alemán no fue informado entonces, de una derrota en el Frente del Éste. El pueblo ha muerto, perduran las masas, en fermentación.
This is why we didn't tear down aushwitz and why relics of the confederacy should be left alone. This is one of the saddest and bravest films of ww2. furtwangler is not happy yet the show must go on.
The remarkable thing about this otherwise startling piece of propaganda - the German peoples, however war-weary, however disparate, supposedly enthused by this supreme expression of German musical genius - is that to a man and woman the audience, supposedly entranced by this startling performance, all look utterly fed-up, wishing they were almost anywhere else, however earnestly Furtwangler frowns and the orchestra plays. The camera work and the lighting are brilliant, the music beyond description. But rant and rave though he might, Herr Dr Goebbels with his club foot was here presiding over yet another doomed attempt to assert the racial wonder of the Aryan race. It is a remarkable record of how and why the Nazis always got it wrong.
So many comments talking about history, politics and the war. Nobody talks about the beaty of this music. This clip should have been shown without the moving picture or reference to when it was recorded - so people can enjoy Furtwängler and Wagner.
@@rst7243Not in this video, I don’t think it would be a good idea to ruin a good concert with political discussions about the Nazis, not to mention this is no ordinary concert, but a concert given by the great Furtwängler!
the last 1/5 is - for me- quite sad. No-one can read minds, but by this time (1942) major events were happening around the globe as the Allies gained victories and the Germans saw that their Fuhrer was not infallible. You hear this German masterpiece of happiness (Wagner's most joyful work), and you see so many faces... wondering, what will the future hold for us?
Every time I hear the end starting at 8:17.. I expected a rather eccentric Romanian Count from Transylvania to show up (A reference to an old 1931 Universal classic film). That was the first time I heard this music.
No kraft der freude in the whole audience. Factory workers listening by compulsion. Overture to an opera they personally never would have dropped a Reichsmark to have heard.
Those with understanding realized that the war was already lost by the time of this performance. Hence, the need for a spirit-lifting propaganda film such as this.
This was 1942...As far as the German population is concerned, the war is going well....It was not until 1943 After the Battle of Stalingrad was concluded that they started to realize that the war is lost (The Reich Propaganda for the first time had to acknowledge the fact they lost a major battle).
Even if Riefenstahl did not direct this, it is very obvious that the film makers followed her example in making artistic propaganda films. This is a work of art. I have never seen classical concert audiences look so attentively and, almost poetically, at a performance. I bet all of the audience was ordered on how to look. I could see fear in all of their eyes.
@@AFE1312 I didn't realize that "Forever Trumpers" listened to real music. I guess you are moving up in the world. Talk about losers, your leader is the all-time loser.
@@searchers He did lose a war, nothing more. He pointed the way to a perfect humanity, and we will follow that path to the grave if necessary. This music is in danger of disappearing like the rest of western culture, you are not worthy of listening to this.
AEG - das ist die (weltbekannte) deutsche Firma. Diese Aufnahme stammt aus einer AEG Werkshalle in Berlin. Wenn du die Videobeschreibung öffnest, steht ganz am Ende auf deutsch zu lesen: "Wilhelm Furtwängler dirigiert ein KdF-Konzert im Berliner AEG-Werk, 1942"
1883 gründete Emil Rathenau in Berlin die Deutsche Edison-Gesellschaft für angewandte Elektricität. Im Jahr 1888 wurde diese in Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft (AEG) umbenannt. War vor dem 2. WK eines der größten deutschen Unternehmen. Und auch weltweit eines der größten in dieser Branche.
As far as Furtwangler was concerned, it is he who determined what tempo the Great Masters should be conducted at. And he was widely variable, switching tempos as the spirit of the piece struck him, even in the same performance. That is what makes his work so sublime.
Amazing propaganda while there was still vague hope despite Stalingrad, with the set pictures of intently listening volk. Notice even a Fuhrer loolalike appears at 6.10, as the music's uncertainty gathers before the resolution. Poor sods, they had another 4 years of war ahead. AEG was elbow deep in the Nazi state with contracts for Auschwitz and a slave labour camp. Furtwangler, well, Menhuin recorded with him after the war so I take that as positive, but I bet there werent any Jewish musicians in this performance, correct me I'm wrong.
Most beautiful piece of art ever, with superb execution
Probably just when mankind needed most
¡Cuán difícil no quedar hipnotizado ante semejante joya! Wagner, incluso en los lúgubres momentos de la guerra, incluso tergiversado por la estética nacionalsocialista, se ha develado ante mí una vez más como el ángel tutelar que siempre fue. Este video tiene una esencia documental de valor infinito. Es un pedazo de historia que hoy tuve el privilegio de descubrir.
It's fantastic that they captured the reactions of so many listeners, in person and over the radio
And captured the players: The sound is interesting, for example at 7:18 you can hear the first violins with a clear sound that might be completely drowned out by blaring brass in any other recording. At 3:20 onward the camera catches the second violin bottom left on the screen monitoring a player to his left (the principal second violin next to him or the concertmaster, and I don't know why there) but obviously that kind of care all around the orchestra is what adds up to the best orchestra sound.
99% it's not real time reactions. Check Leni Riefenstahl movies and similar to them. Even today it is a lesson for filmmakers and marketing staff. Others did the same (propaganda of the USSR, former USA, UK etc.)
This is great. Nazi wagner with swasikas and miserable audience and spaz furtwangler. This beats movies of 1984. you can't make this up. As orwell said, "don't let it happen."
Maybe they thought the audience was showing "grim determination," but from this distance it looks like people scared sh*tless of what's coming next.
It was a propaganda film
What a man, Furtwängler, Staying behind and keeping the light on during during the dark days. A survivor
You nailed it. Naive, certainly, but he believed, even as the world was crashing in. A mini-Schindler? I'm not sure, but certavily the cultural equivalent.
Person who took this video is brilliant. Recording people’s reaction while listening to music create huge impact to me.
Don't be naive, those were set pieces filmed separately, it's a masterpiece of propaganda and you were taken in!
You have been manipulated by a Nazi propaganda piece, mate! Those cuts to audience members were done intentionally to stimulate such an emotional reaction from you.
este video vale su peso en oro
Ich habe einen Auszug dieser Veranstaltung in einer Deutschen Wochenschau gesehen, in der die Berliner Philharmoniker unter der Leitung von Wilhelm Furtwängler das Vorspiel zu den Meistersingern von Nürnberg während einer Werkspause vor den Mitarbeitern der AEG-Werke in Berlin spielten. Nun das vollständige Musikwerk hören und sehen zu können hat mir umso mehr gefallen. Tief beeindruckt bin ich auch von den Aufnahmen der Zuschauer, unter denen auch viele Nahaufnahmen der Gesichter vieler Werksangehörigen jeden Geschlechts und Alters und in deren Mienen Sorgen und Nöte dieses dritten Kriegsjahres zu sehen sind. Gesichter und Musik bilden im Film eine visuelle und akustische Einheit. Diese Aufnahme kann zurecht als Ehrung der Menschen in der Heimat gesehen werden für die stellvertretend jene Belegschaft der AEG-Werke und die Berliner Philharmoniker stehen. Eine großartige musikalische und filmische Leistung!
Were you alive in 1942? This is masterly but it is masterly propaganda.
Danke, für Ihre Beschreibung. Jedesmal mal wenn ich dieses Konzert anhöre und sehe, werde ich tiefberührt, fühle mich verbunden mit den Menschen. Dank und Respekt dem unerreichbaren Dirigenten Wilhelm Furtwängler, für das Schöne, Wahre und Gute, das er verteidigte mit seinem Dableiben.
Probablemente El mejor director del Siglo XX
Que horrible la guerra ,los asistentes deben estar pensando en algún hermano,hijo,esposo,amigo ,vecino que está en el frente de batalla ,dando la cara por unos políticos cobardes.
Que bella la música ,,que horrible la guerra .
I can't find that wallpaper at IKEA.
Hahaha!
Ha!
Look harder
Magic Wagner's music and brilliant Furtwangler!!!
What a magnificent performance! Thank you so much for preserving this! No one today can equal this.
Everyone in the audience looks very stressed….The new year would see the industrial might of both the United States and Soviet Union brought to full use as the Allies were finally in a position to move to the offensive. Key campaigns became the Battle of the Solomons, Kharkov, Midway and El Alamein among others and set the stage for the second half of the war that would follow. Regardless a superb performance
Yes it's masterly propaganda. You couldn't show the German people looking anything but serious at that point inthe war, but hope rises eternal especially at the turning of the musical tide (just after 6.00)
Das ist wundschön zu hören Danke.
1942-04-15 - Die Deutsche Wochenschau Nr. 606 im Rahmen einer KDF-Veranstaltung der DAF. Gefilmt durch Leni Riefenstahl
Con razón !!!!!.
Leni Riefenstahl captaba y editaba maravillosamente todos los detalles en sus películas.
¡¡¡¡ Una de las mejores directoras de cine documental de todos los tiempos.!!!!!
2:09 this guy was alive when Wagner was alive.
In April 1942, the German people were recovering from the shock of defeat at the gates of Moscow in December and the British were starting to bomb German cities. I sense great anxiety on the faces of the workers and wounded veterans in the audience. Furtwangler is brilliant and the music has a tone of defiance. Note that the musicians appear to be too old for active military service....at least yet.
¿En qué mes se hizo la filmación?. Creo que es de Marzo del 42.
Nada de derrota. El ejército se paró allí.
El pueblo Alemán no fue informado entonces, de una derrota en el Frente del Éste.
El pueblo ha muerto, perduran las masas, en fermentación.
UN TESORO , GRACIAS TOTALES POR COMPARTIR !!!
6:47 ♥
Furtwängler and Wagner, does it get anymore quintessentially German?!
Knapperstbusch.
@@aliena2979Und Karajan😊
This is why we didn't tear down aushwitz and why relics of the confederacy should be left alone. This is one of the saddest and bravest films of ww2. furtwangler is not happy yet the show must go on.
The remarkable thing about this otherwise startling piece of propaganda - the German peoples, however war-weary, however disparate, supposedly enthused by this supreme expression of German musical genius - is that to a man and woman the audience, supposedly entranced by this startling performance, all look utterly fed-up, wishing they were almost anywhere else, however earnestly Furtwangler frowns and the orchestra plays. The camera work and the lighting are brilliant, the music beyond description. But rant and rave though he might, Herr Dr Goebbels with his club foot was here presiding over yet another doomed attempt to assert the racial wonder of the Aryan race. It is a remarkable record of how and why the Nazis always got it wrong.
This is what we had, and now look at what we've got.
If we could turn back time ....
Absolutamente extraordinario.
Wonderful 👏
Love the conducting. Much better than what just came out if madrid, though that was decent cast.
So many comments talking about history, politics and the war. Nobody talks about the beaty of this music. This clip should have been shown without the moving picture or reference to when it was recorded - so people can enjoy Furtwängler and Wagner.
No, this is an important historical document. It's important to see both the bad and the good. And yes, the music is great.
@@rst7243Not in this video, I don’t think it would be a good idea to ruin a good concert with political discussions about the Nazis, not to mention this is no ordinary concert, but a concert given by the great Furtwängler!
the last 1/5 is - for me- quite sad. No-one can read minds, but by this time (1942) major events were happening around the globe as the Allies gained victories and the Germans saw that their Fuhrer was not infallible. You hear this German masterpiece of happiness (Wagner's most joyful work), and you see so many faces... wondering, what will the future hold for us?
This is our history. Learn from it never supress it. Knowledge is strength.
I came here from a Curb your enthusiasm vid😅
Nothing says Orwell like this film clip
Years ago i saw a nutzi now i see a great soul in great pain who survived.
Every time I hear the end starting at 8:17.. I expected a rather eccentric Romanian Count from Transylvania to show up
(A reference to an old 1931 Universal classic film). That was the first time I heard this music.
I expect King Ludwig II to arrive.
Grossartig. Der beste Dirigent
Sublime
No kraft der freude in the whole audience. Factory workers listening by compulsion. Overture to an opera they personally never would have dropped a Reichsmark to have heard.
Those with understanding realized that the war was already lost by the time of this performance. Hence, the need for a spirit-lifting propaganda film such as this.
This was 1942...As far as the German population is concerned, the war is going well....It was not until 1943 After the Battle of Stalingrad was concluded that they started to realize
that the war is lost (The Reich Propaganda for the first time had to acknowledge the fact they lost a major battle).
that is exactly what I thought , thank you
Nonsense. German victory appeared inevitable this early in '42
This is a full steo too high, therefore speeded up.
Grandioso
Before Nazis regime collapsed.
you are so smart
A Leni Riefenstahl film?
No
Even if Riefenstahl did not direct this, it is very obvious that the film makers followed her example in making artistic propaganda films. This is a work of art. I have never seen classical concert audiences look so attentively and, almost poetically, at a performance. I bet all of the audience was ordered on how to look. I could see fear in all of their eyes.
@@searchers You need to see an oculist, or a psychiatrist. Loser.
@@AFE1312 I didn't realize that "Forever Trumpers" listened to real music. I guess you are moving up in the world. Talk about losers, your leader is the all-time loser.
@@searchers He did lose a war, nothing more. He pointed the way to a perfect humanity, and we will follow that path to the grave if necessary.
This music is in danger of disappearing like the rest of western culture, you are not worthy of listening to this.
❤❤❤❤❤
Genial
Peak society
Really directed by leni or rumor?
0:12
No one Jew in orchestra, perfect
Woman nods off at 7:55
音楽が共同体構築にこれほど力を発揮するのを見たことない
ナチ政権下でもフルトヴェングラーの音楽は比類がない、ったく
Was bedeutet AEG ?
AEG - das ist die (weltbekannte) deutsche Firma. Diese Aufnahme stammt aus einer AEG Werkshalle in Berlin.
Wenn du die Videobeschreibung öffnest, steht ganz am Ende auf deutsch zu lesen: "Wilhelm Furtwängler dirigiert ein KdF-Konzert im Berliner AEG-Werk, 1942"
Vielen Danke. Mein Deutsch ist nicht gut aber I verstehe seinr Antwort.@@MrsAdely
1883 gründete Emil Rathenau in Berlin die Deutsche Edison-Gesellschaft für angewandte Elektricität. Im Jahr 1888 wurde diese in Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft (AEG) umbenannt.
War vor dem 2. WK eines der größten deutschen Unternehmen. Und auch weltweit eines der größten in dieser Branche.
Leni....really?
they’re thinking: „I should have voted SPD last time I had the chance“.
Not sure about that😂
Fwrt never was nazi !
He helped jewish artists !
And ne loved his germany homeland...!
Not Naxi !
Germany son !
This is in the wrong key! And too fast,
It has to do something with the recording technique.
applecake122
I think it is the video frame rate, probably going from 44.1 to 48K
Best restoration on YT! Good Job
no no, is original.
As far as Furtwangler was concerned, it is he who determined what tempo the Great Masters should be conducted at. And he was widely variable, switching tempos as the spirit of the piece struck him, even in the same performance. That is what makes his work so sublime.
El mejor de todos los tiempos
no woman in the Orchestra
Very disappointing Nazi Germany.
Das ist gut,
No need for those cry-baby nullities!
@@ednorton47Genau! Leistung zählt und Disziplin, Hingabe und Einheit.🙌
a camera não mostra os S.S. por trás.....quem sequer tossisse seria torturado
Furtwangler was the marionette of the nazis.
😂😂😂 you dumb?
Schwachsinn!
Amazing propaganda while there was still vague hope despite Stalingrad, with the set pictures of intently listening volk. Notice even a Fuhrer loolalike appears at 6.10, as the music's uncertainty gathers before the resolution. Poor sods, they had another 4 years of war ahead. AEG was elbow deep in the Nazi state with contracts for Auschwitz and a slave labour camp. Furtwangler, well, Menhuin recorded with him after the war so I take that as positive, but I bet there werent any Jewish musicians in this performance, correct me I'm wrong.
Me gusta su versión con el inigualable Max Lorenz❤❤❤❤❤❤
Bravooo MAESTRO 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏