I've heard and seen this piece countless times, performed by untold numbers of performers, and I have never seen better than this. It led me to probe RUclips in search of more by Waltraud Meier, and all I can say is that I've wasted my life! Now in my 70's I have somehow only just discovered her! There are, fortunately, many renditions of this by her, in several performances around the globe, as well as numerous other snippets of her performing. What a voice?! What a presence?! She aches with emotion in this; Isolde, at the loss of her lover, Tristan.... I lost my dear wife to cancer three years ago, just two months after her initial diagnosis. I felt like that. She died in my arms, and I wanted to persuade myself and the family she was still there; still alive, still herself. Despite hearing this many times since, it was THIS video that brought it all back, and I relive her loss every time I watch it. Ably supported by the sensitive orchestration and the wonderful Daniel Barenboim; himself a legend, she presses all the right buttons. The music, of course is critical, as is the text, and Wagner - entirely self-taught - had a gift for emotion like no other. But it's the performance that matters. In lesser hands, this is droll and bland. In Waltraud's case, it is pure magic. Thank you so much for posting.
I agree Jon absolutely the best. Alas I too lost my wife and this is just so right about losing a loved one. I have listened to many great Liebestod's including many of Waltraud and this BEST. Bless her heaps
While my beloved husband Carlos was dying from Alzheimer, the last months of his agony (and mine too) every evening we listened to this Liebestod sung by Waltraud. It helped us, I believe...
Meier est adorable, et une des meilleures chanteuses de Wagner. Daniel Barenboim mérite le prix Nobel de paix pour son divan. L´académie norvégienne devrait le prendre comme candidat au lieu de tout les politiciens débiles, qui se montrent guerriers à la suite de la réception !
What Barenboim has done witth these Arab and Israeli kids is one of the most inclusive enterprises on the planet. For a man from a Jewish background to use music as a force for peace is a wonderful thing. Trully, as Lenny Bernstein said "it is the artists of the world, the feelers and thinkers, who will ultimately save us"!
Ho sentito e visto questo pezzo innumerevoli volte, eseguito da un numero incalcolabile di artisti, e non ho mai visto meglio di questo. Mi ha portato a sondare RUclips in cerca di altro da Waltraud Meier, e tutto quello che posso dire è che ho sprecato la mia vita! Ora, nei miei 70 anni, in qualche modo l'ho appena scoperta! Ci sono, fortunatamente, molte interpretazioni di questo da lei, in diverse esibizioni in tutto il mondo, così come numerosi altri frammenti della sua esibizione. Che voce?! Che presenza ?! Lei soffre per l'emozione in questo; Isolde, per la perdita del suo amante, Tristan ... Ho perso la mia cara moglie per cancro tre anni fa, appena due mesi dopo la sua diagnosi iniziale. Mi sono sentito così. È morta tra le mie braccia e volevo convincere me stesso e la famiglia che era ancora lì; ancora viva, ancora se stessa. Nonostante abbia sentito questo molte volte da allora, è stato QUESTO video che ha riportato tutto indietro, e rivivo la sua perdita ogni volta che lo guardo. Abilmente supportato dalla delicata orchestrazione e dal meraviglioso Daniel Barenboim; lui stesso una leggenda, preme tutti i pulsanti giusti. La musica, ovviamente, è fondamentale, così come il testo, e Wagner - interamente autodidatta - aveva un dono per le emozioni come nessun altro. Ma è la prestazione che conta. In mani minori, questo è buffo e insipido. Nel caso di Waltraud, è pura magia. Grazie mille per la pubblicazione. Ho tradotto quello che ha scritto e non c'è una virgola furi posto da quello che penso io...dannatamente bella.
This is the first time I have heard this German dramatic soprano, and am most impressed. What an emotive, yet wonderfully controlled, performance! This rendition is up there with the very best of them!
dsdfsdf dsfsdfds simply divine. Her portrayal of Isolde in these final moments is entirely believable to me. Such love. I’m transported to another world ....
Ich habe ihren Abschied von der Isolde gehört. Tränen .. Tränen wie nach dem Freitod der Mutter meiner drei noch sehr jungen Kinder. Dankbarkeit erfüllt mich. Habe ich doch durch ihre Isolde den Wunsch nach Erlösung erfassen, verstehen können. In Liebe...
I lost my wife, Linda, to cancer almost exactly 3 years ago - it feels like yesterday.... As she died, cradled her in my arms, I felt all the same emotions that Isolde describes in this tragic song: disbelief, denial, heart-rending loss and bitter grief. I can perfectly relate to the desire to persuade everyone around that he (/she) was still alive, still breathing, still among them... and then that he (/she) was in eternal, heavenly light. Though it brings back that tragic moment even to think about it, I just adore Waltraud Meier's performance of this. I only recently stumbled on this performance on RUclips, and it's so poignant that Linda and I visited Ravello a few years before she died. It sometimes feels like I was meant to find this clip, and Waltraud Meier brings such pathos, dignity and sensuality to the role that my heart aches to hear it. Yet, simultaneously, it is wonderfully therapeutic and heart-warming. Linda would have loved this, I just know. And while I will always love and miss Linda, I find myself loving Waltraud, too. She is simply perfection. Pure art and talent, as you say.
Meier and Barenboim are a trustworthy couple. They completely understand Wagner´s intention of poisoning our senses with the most beautiful music ever written.
I love the beautiful expression on the young violinist's face right around 4'12". She seems to be experiencing a moment of "verklarung," as Wagner might have wished.
Ms Jessye Norman was and is still the best, technically and emotionally, with an hypnotic interpretation of this song, as well as all Wagner I've heard over the years. May that super woman's soul rest in peace. 😇🙏🏾🙏🏽🙏🎶🎵👏🍃
Sumptuous! By the end I was madly in love with her. Great voice and the intelligence to go with it. Wonderful performance by the orchestra and conductor.
Waltraud Meier siempre emociona y conmueve ! Y con el soporte del gran y admirado maestro Baremboin, Waltraud despliega las alas de la poesía. Gracias a ambos y a quien subió compartiendo este video.
Ravello festival 2008. Barenboim with his orchestra of young musicians. Ravello is the picturesque little coast town where Gore Vidal bought a cliffside house which he used for 30 years (1973-2004).
Lo que ha logrado Daniel con la orquesta West-Eastern Divan es una creación asombrosa. En cuanto a precisión y claridad, es simplemente irreprochable. Y con respecto a Waltraud Meier que encarna a Isolda, es la mejor soprano wagneriana de los últimos años sin lugar a dudas. Los wagnerianos muy agradecidos por este verdadero regalo visual y auditivo.
Amo la voz de ella también, pero tenemos que hablar de cantantes como Kirsten Flagstad, Birgit Nilsson y Jessy Norman que son fantásticas cantantes también como Isolda... 😀
Waltraud Meier is amazing. Incredible. Almost beyond belief. Beyond perfection. Orchestra is very good in parts. Not Szell/Cleveland or Furtwangler/Berlin, but how could they be?
Gestalterisch, musikalisch wie auch optisch, liegen zwischen Waltraud Meier und Birgit Nilsson Welten. Nilsson mag das perfektere Organ für die Isolde gehabt haben, aber wie Meier aus dieser Figur wirklich alles an Emotionen und psychologischem Verstand herausholt, ist unfassbar.
really? Try listening to someone who can really sing this. She sounds like she is strangling. Only Birgit Nilson and Kirsten Flagstad have any control over this aria.
Not every day we are blessed with such an amazing performance in such a beautiful locale. Does anyone know where this was filmed? Meier's voice is mesmerizing and Barenboim's directing is distinct and precise. Not much compares to this outstanding performance. Schone Perfektion.
The Ravello Festival, also popularly known as the "Wagner Festival", is an annual summer festival of music and the arts held in the town of Ravello on the Amalfi coast in the Campania region of Italy.
Filmed at Ravello, in Itali: on the Amalfi coast. An annual festival there. Yes, the setting enhances the fabulous music that is unsurpassed in Waltraud Meier's Isolde. Some of her critics have described her as irascible, others as delightfully mad. Either way, she captures the passion that Wagner poured into the music, and fills it with sensuousness and sex appeal. I could perfectly understand any leading masculine role falling madly in love with her... I have!
Norbert Zwang Supposedly, the ruined gardens of a villa in Ravello were the inspiration for Klingor's magic garden. A precious town clinging. To the cliffs.
Waltraud Meier is my favorite living opera singer. Just as a side note (and hopefully not one which will offend too many people), the best in 20th century classical music, by which I mean that written by Arnold Schoenberg and those who followed in his footsteps and used his compositional techniques, descended and evolved directly from Wagner, who more than any other 19th century composer opened the way for atonalilty. I once heard a scholarly authority on Schoenberg and Wagner state that no one had ever attended more performances of Wagner's operas than Arnold Schoenberg -- not even Wagner himself. So there is a direct lineage.
Yes but with the elegance of controlling it very well. Perhaps a bit too much for my taste. I think she is a very intellectual singer and after all, why not!!!!
I supposed that I am just a stupid fool but it seems so many times that Barenboim's conducting gestures are ahead of the music -- he conducts a high moment and then the high moment happens. But, he is the genius, so who am I too say?
Oui malheureusement les allemands devraient avoir plus grande conscience de leur histoire. Que le parti neonazi et antisemite d'extrême droite fasse quasi 15 % des intentions de vote est IMMONDE.
Isolde’s Verklarung (Coming to Clarity) Mild und leise wie er lächelt, wie das Auge hold er öffnet …Mildly and gently, how he smiles, how the eye he opens sweetly …Seht ihr's, Freunde? Seht ihr's nicht? Immer lichter wie er leuchtet,Do you see it, friends? Don't you see it? Brighter and brighter how he shinesstern-umstrahlet hoch sich hebt?illuminated by stars rises high?Seht ihr's nicht? Wie das Herz ihm mutig schwillt, voll und hehr im Busen ihm quillt?Don’t you see it? How his heart boldly swells, fully and nobly wells in his breast?Wie den Lippen, wonnig mild, süßer Atem sanft entweht ---How from his lips delightfully, mildly, sweet breath softly wafts ---Freunde! Seht! Fühlt und seht. ihr's nicht?Friends! Look! Don't you feel and see it?Hör ich nur diese Weise, die so wundervoll und leise,Do I alone hear this melody, which wonderfully and softly,Wonne klagend, alles sagend, mild versöhnend aus ihm tönend,lamenting delight, telling it all, mildly reconciling, sounds out of him,in mich dringet, auf sich schwinget, hold erhallend um mich klinget?invades me, swings upwards, sweetly resonating rings around me?Heller schallend, mich umwallend ---Sounding more clearly, wafting around me ---Sind es Wellen sanfter Lüfte? Sind es Wogen wonniger Düfte?Are these waves of soft airs? Are these billows of delightful fragrances?Wie sie schwellen, mich umrauschen,How they swell, how they murmur around me,soll ich atmen, soll ich lauschen? Soll ich schlürfen, untertauchen? Süß in Düften mich verhauchen?shall I breathe, shall I listen? Shall I drink, immerse? Sweetly in fragrances melt away?In dem wogenden Schwall, in dem tönenden Schall, in des Welt-Atems wehendem AllIn the billowing torrent, in the resonating sound, in the wafting universe of the World-Breathertrinken, versinken --- unbewußt --- höchste Lust!drown, be engulfed --- unconscious --- supreme delight!
Waltraud Meier is the best Isolde ever. Barenboim is no great conductor, but he has done a lot of great things, like bringing Arabs and Israelis together.
The orchestra plays the Melody. The sopranos the accompaniment . Stunning lovely
I have loved this for 68 years. This is the best perfprmance !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Waltraud Meier mit Daniel Barenboim! Dann diese Atmosphäre am Mittelmeer, einfach genial!
I've heard and seen this piece countless times, performed by untold numbers of performers, and I have never seen better than this. It led me to probe RUclips in search of more by Waltraud Meier, and all I can say is that I've wasted my life! Now in my 70's I have somehow only just discovered her! There are, fortunately, many renditions of this by her, in several performances around the globe, as well as numerous other snippets of her performing. What a voice?! What a presence?! She aches with emotion in this; Isolde, at the loss of her lover, Tristan.... I lost my dear wife to cancer three years ago, just two months after her initial diagnosis. I felt like that. She died in my arms, and I wanted to persuade myself and the family she was still there; still alive, still herself. Despite hearing this many times since, it was THIS video that brought it all back, and I relive her loss every time I watch it. Ably supported by the sensitive orchestration and the wonderful Daniel Barenboim; himself a legend, she presses all the right buttons. The music, of course is critical, as is the text, and Wagner - entirely self-taught - had a gift for emotion like no other. But it's the performance that matters. In lesser hands, this is droll and bland. In Waltraud's case, it is pure magic. Thank you so much for posting.
What a beautiful comment. Agree with you about Waltraud Meier, as well.
Yes, great music, as all great art, makes our souls resonate with all their load of emotions, joys and sorrows, that make our life experiences.
I agree Jon absolutely the best. Alas I too lost my wife and this is just so right about losing a loved one. I have listened to many great Liebestod's including many of Waltraud and this BEST. Bless her heaps
I agree wholeheartedly. No one does Isolde better than Meier. She's truly in a league of her own.
While my beloved husband Carlos was dying from Alzheimer, the last months of his agony (and mine too) every evening we listened to
this Liebestod sung by Waltraud.
It helped us, I believe...
Meier est adorable, et une des meilleures chanteuses de Wagner. Daniel Barenboim mérite le prix Nobel de paix pour son divan. L´académie norvégienne devrait le prendre comme candidat au lieu de tout les politiciens débiles, qui se montrent guerriers à la suite de la réception !
What Barenboim has done witth these Arab and Israeli kids is one of the most inclusive enterprises on the planet. For a man from a Jewish background to use music as a force for peace is a wonderful thing. Trully, as Lenny Bernstein said "it is the artists of the world, the feelers and thinkers, who will ultimately save us"!
Does my heart good to read such an enlightened comment.
Thank you John.
@@Magnu_Horse I miss his dear friend, Edward Said.
Music written by an anti semite
Wooonderful
Ho sentito e visto questo pezzo innumerevoli volte, eseguito da un numero incalcolabile di artisti, e non ho mai visto meglio di questo. Mi ha portato a sondare RUclips in cerca di altro da Waltraud Meier, e tutto quello che posso dire è che ho sprecato la mia vita! Ora, nei miei 70 anni, in qualche modo l'ho appena scoperta! Ci sono, fortunatamente, molte interpretazioni di questo da lei, in diverse esibizioni in tutto il mondo, così come numerosi altri frammenti della sua esibizione. Che voce?! Che presenza ?! Lei soffre per l'emozione in questo; Isolde, per la perdita del suo amante, Tristan ... Ho perso la mia cara moglie per cancro tre anni fa, appena due mesi dopo la sua diagnosi iniziale. Mi sono sentito così. È morta tra le mie braccia e volevo convincere me stesso e la famiglia che era ancora lì; ancora viva, ancora se stessa. Nonostante abbia sentito questo molte volte da allora, è stato QUESTO video che ha riportato tutto indietro, e rivivo la sua perdita ogni volta che lo guardo. Abilmente supportato dalla delicata orchestrazione e dal meraviglioso Daniel Barenboim; lui stesso una leggenda, preme tutti i pulsanti giusti. La musica, ovviamente, è fondamentale, così come il testo, e Wagner - interamente autodidatta - aveva un dono per le emozioni come nessun altro. Ma è la prestazione che conta. In mani minori, questo è buffo e insipido. Nel caso di Waltraud, è pura magia.
Grazie mille per la pubblicazione. Ho tradotto quello che ha scritto e non c'è una virgola furi posto da quello che penso io...dannatamente bella.
This is phenomenal - no more words !
The most magnificent interpretation of Liebestod by the best Isolde ever. Simply sublime!
Non ci sono abbastanza parole per questa eibizione, Meravigloso, Sublime, Immortale. Grazie Daniel Barenboim.
Bless you maestro. Bless you frau meier. Thank you from a Cuban in exile!
This is the first time I have heard this German dramatic soprano, and am most impressed. What an emotive, yet wonderfully controlled, performance! This rendition is up there with the very best of them!
Himmlische Musik ! Herrliche Diva und Dirigent !! Sicherlich ein Höhepunkt der Musik !!!
Não sou fã de Wagner, mas está interpretação de Waltraud Meyer e do maestro Daniel Barenboim e simplesmente fantástica e sublime.
She is the greatest.
OMG.....what a setting in which to hear such a beautiful rendition of this piece.
Waltraud Meier is fantastic...one of my favorites.
dsdfsdf dsfsdfds simply divine. Her portrayal of Isolde in these final moments is entirely believable to me. Such love. I’m transported to another world ....
her voice is perfect for Isolde and Kundry...
Divine - I was lucky to see Meier and Barenboim at Bayreuth - endless standing ovation......wonderful performance soaring through your soul !
Ich habe ihren Abschied von der Isolde gehört. Tränen .. Tränen wie nach dem Freitod der Mutter meiner drei noch sehr jungen Kinder. Dankbarkeit erfüllt mich. Habe ich doch durch ihre Isolde den Wunsch nach Erlösung erfassen, verstehen können.
In Liebe...
How are you and the children, these days? I have read your so sad posting several times, and my heart went out to you. Best Wishes.
Schöne Frau mit wunderschöner Stimme!
I think I never had cried that much with a song as I did with this one. Pure art and talent.
Even the conductor had to wipe away tears at 01:58.
Try with Lohengrin... like a child.
I lost my wife, Linda, to cancer almost exactly 3 years ago - it feels like yesterday.... As she died, cradled her in my arms, I felt all the same emotions that Isolde describes in this tragic song: disbelief, denial, heart-rending loss and bitter grief. I can perfectly relate to the desire to persuade everyone around that he (/she) was still alive, still breathing, still among them... and then that he (/she) was in eternal, heavenly light. Though it brings back that tragic moment even to think about it, I just adore Waltraud Meier's performance of this. I only recently stumbled on this performance on RUclips, and it's so poignant that Linda and I visited Ravello a few years before she died. It sometimes feels like I was meant to find this clip, and Waltraud Meier brings such pathos, dignity and sensuality to the role that my heart aches to hear it. Yet, simultaneously, it is wonderfully therapeutic and heart-warming. Linda would have loved this, I just know. And while I will always love and miss Linda, I find myself loving Waltraud, too. She is simply perfection. Pure art and talent, as you say.
BTW, I'm REALLY impressed with your own Classical Playlist! Eclectic and enthralling! Wonderful!
Superb singing. Transcendent.
Meraviglioso, tocca l'anima, commozione massima !!!
Unbeschreiblich schön! Einfach perfekt!
This was a gorgeous performance. Stunning.
Meier and Barenboim are a trustworthy couple. They completely understand Wagner´s intention of poisoning our senses with the most beautiful music ever written.
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Amazing aria, voice, accompaniment and locale.
Ah, Ravello, la Costiera Amalfitana ... e Wagner. Non c'è null'altro al Mondo di più squisito per l'anima e la felicità. Magnifica Meier.
That place is Heaven on Earth and Meier's voice is the magnificent Heavenly Host calling us all home...
I love the beautiful expression on the young violinist's face right around 4'12". She seems to be experiencing a moment of "verklarung," as Wagner might have wished.
Einfach Wunderschön!!
Maravilloso
Ms Jessye Norman was and is still the best, technically and emotionally, with an hypnotic interpretation of this song, as well as all Wagner I've heard over the years. May that super woman's soul rest in peace. 😇🙏🏾🙏🏽🙏🎶🎵👏🍃
This is not a song, but an aria
Waltraud is impressive. Very beautiful.
@oblong, I suspect outdoor venues are tricky for both singers and capturing the applause.
Søren Frederiksen Lohengrin prelude
Fantastica esecuzione. Brava!
Sumptuous! By the end I was madly in love with her. Great voice and the intelligence to go with it. Wonderful performance by the orchestra and conductor.
Brava !!
So beautiful!
Bellísima despedida de amor, emociona
Very, very moving.
Cuanto daría por estar en semejante escenario con tan bella música.
She is really good 👍👍👍👍👍
Heaven
Un frisson permanent qui va en s'élevant... sublime ..
Magnificent. She is a marvellous artist.
Simply beautiful
Marvellous, even the dogs started listening. Woff, woff.
Waltraud Meier siempre emociona y conmueve ! Y con el soporte del gran y admirado maestro Baremboin, Waltraud despliega las alas de la poesía. Gracias a ambos y a quien subió compartiendo este video.
Ravello festival 2008.
Barenboim with his orchestra of young musicians.
Ravello is the picturesque little coast town where Gore Vidal bought a cliffside house which he used for 30 years (1973-2004).
Absolutely Fabulous, and the band aint bad
Meier was born to sing Isolde
The best Isolde ever ...
Beauty of absolute
I love this music it's just bloody amazing
Perfect
Beautiful!
Le talent et la beauté associés à la musique de Wagner : extarordinaire !
so transcendent! no longer merely music! music of the spheres!!
Höchste Lust! Einfach himmlisch.
This is so beautiful!
Sublime !
Waooooooooooooooo!
Lo que ha logrado Daniel con la orquesta West-Eastern Divan es una creación asombrosa. En cuanto a precisión y claridad, es simplemente irreprochable. Y con respecto a Waltraud Meier que encarna a Isolda, es la mejor soprano wagneriana de los últimos años sin lugar a dudas. Los wagnerianos muy agradecidos por este verdadero regalo visual y auditivo.
Amo la voz de ella también, pero tenemos que hablar de cantantes como Kirsten Flagstad, Birgit Nilsson y Jessy Norman que son fantásticas cantantes también como Isolda... 😀
@@Alexmeister25 totalmente.. las demás se asemejan un poco nada más.
Une ISOLDE merveilleuse dépassant le sublime
Absolutely Perfect! A gift.
no it is not.
Agreed
The most beautiful music every time were the Deat is sweet and DIViNE
Gorgeous
Waltraud Meier is amazing. Incredible. Almost beyond belief. Beyond perfection. Orchestra is very good in parts. Not Szell/Cleveland or Furtwangler/Berlin, but how could they be?
Ottimo! Grazie
Lucky audience. Magnificent.
sensationell!!!
Bravissimo!!!
Meister Opera. Prächtig !
❤
Excelente
Gestalterisch, musikalisch wie auch optisch, liegen zwischen Waltraud Meier und Birgit Nilsson Welten. Nilsson mag das perfektere Organ für die Isolde gehabt haben, aber wie Meier aus dieser Figur wirklich alles an Emotionen und psychologischem Verstand herausholt, ist unfassbar.
bravo！
superb!
WALTRAUD MEIER...
Eine wunderbare deutsche Sängerin.
I like this very much. She seems to act as she sings.
Bellissima❤
Probably, this music is the explanation of art..
really? Try listening to someone who can really sing this. She sounds like she is strangling. Only Birgit Nilson and Kirsten Flagstad have any control over this aria.
BRAVAA!!!
Not every day we are blessed with such an amazing performance in such a beautiful locale. Does anyone know where this was filmed? Meier's voice is mesmerizing and Barenboim's directing is distinct and precise. Not much compares to this outstanding performance. Schone Perfektion.
The Ravello Festival, also popularly known as the "Wagner Festival", is an annual summer festival of music and the arts held in the town of Ravello on the Amalfi coast in the Campania region of Italy.
Filmed at Ravello, in Itali: on the Amalfi coast. An annual festival there. Yes, the setting enhances the fabulous music that is unsurpassed in Waltraud Meier's Isolde. Some of her critics have described her as irascible, others as delightfully mad. Either way, she captures the passion that Wagner poured into the music, and fills it with sensuousness and sex appeal. I could perfectly understand any leading masculine role falling madly in love with her... I have!
Norbert Zwang Supposedly, the ruined gardens of a villa in Ravello were the inspiration for Klingor's magic garden. A precious town clinging. To the cliffs.
Waltraud Meier is my favorite living opera singer.
Just as a side note (and hopefully not one which will offend too many people), the best in 20th century classical music, by which I mean that written by Arnold Schoenberg and those who followed in his footsteps and used his compositional techniques, descended and evolved directly from Wagner, who more than any other 19th century composer opened the way for atonalilty. I once heard a scholarly authority on Schoenberg and Wagner state that no one had ever attended more performances of Wagner's operas than Arnold Schoenberg -- not even Wagner himself. So there is a direct lineage.
At 4:11 the expression of that girl says it all of the wagnerian rapture.
BRAVA
She has a huge voice!
Yes but with the elegance of controlling it very well. Perhaps a bit too much for my taste. I think she is a very intellectual singer and after all, why not!!!!
@@theogoldberg8919 Very few sopranos can sing Wagner very long. Birgit Nielson was the exception that proves the rule.
very nice
Cuando muera esta música me acompañará.
Wonderful voice .... the great Waltraud Meier .... But I hardly understand the lyrics - is that because of my hearing - or are others here too?
Wunderbare Stimme ....die große Waltraud Meier....Aber ich verstehe den Text kaum - liegt das an meinem Gehör - oder geht es anderen hier auch so ?
Fantastica, assieme alla Verrett le più toccanti interpretazioni della morte di Isotta!
😇😇😇😍🤩🥰😇😇😇
Sound is a quarter second behind the visuals.
I supposed that I am just a stupid fool but it seems so many times that Barenboim's conducting gestures are ahead of the music -- he conducts a high moment and then the high moment happens. But, he is the genius, so who am I too say?
That's the way of perfect conducting. You have to be before.
That makes it sound like good/perfect conducting means that they should not be insync with each other.
A beautiful masterpiece and, a prescient reminder of what would be happening in Germany. Sadly!
Oui malheureusement les allemands devraient avoir plus grande conscience de leur histoire. Que le parti neonazi et antisemite d'extrême droite fasse quasi 15 % des intentions de vote est IMMONDE.
Est ce vraiment vous sur la photo ?
Isolde’s Verklarung (Coming to Clarity) Mild und leise wie er lächelt, wie das Auge hold er öffnet …Mildly and gently, how he smiles, how the eye he opens sweetly …Seht ihr's, Freunde? Seht ihr's nicht? Immer lichter wie er leuchtet,Do you see it, friends? Don't you see it? Brighter and brighter how he shinesstern-umstrahlet hoch sich hebt?illuminated by stars rises high?Seht ihr's nicht? Wie das Herz ihm mutig schwillt, voll und hehr im Busen ihm quillt?Don’t you see it? How his heart boldly swells, fully and nobly wells in his breast?Wie den Lippen, wonnig mild, süßer Atem sanft entweht ---How from his lips delightfully, mildly, sweet breath softly wafts ---Freunde! Seht! Fühlt und seht. ihr's nicht?Friends! Look! Don't you feel and see it?Hör ich nur diese Weise, die so wundervoll und leise,Do I alone hear this melody, which wonderfully and softly,Wonne klagend, alles sagend, mild versöhnend aus ihm tönend,lamenting delight, telling it all, mildly reconciling, sounds out of him,in mich dringet, auf sich schwinget, hold erhallend um mich klinget?invades me, swings upwards, sweetly resonating rings around me?Heller schallend, mich umwallend ---Sounding more clearly, wafting around me ---Sind es Wellen sanfter Lüfte? Sind es Wogen wonniger Düfte?Are these waves of soft airs? Are these billows of delightful fragrances?Wie sie schwellen, mich umrauschen,How they swell, how they murmur around me,soll ich atmen, soll ich lauschen? Soll ich schlürfen, untertauchen? Süß in Düften mich verhauchen?shall I breathe, shall I listen? Shall I drink, immerse? Sweetly in fragrances melt away?In dem wogenden Schwall, in dem tönenden Schall, in des Welt-Atems wehendem AllIn the billowing torrent, in the resonating sound, in the wafting universe of the World-Breathertrinken, versinken --- unbewußt --- höchste Lust!drown, be engulfed --- unconscious --- supreme delight!
Waltraud Meier is the best Isolde ever. Barenboim is no great conductor, but he has done a lot of great things, like bringing Arabs and Israelis together.
Kirsten Flagstad, Birgit Nilsson, Jessy Norman and others too... 😀
Barenboim is an inspired (genius) musician which is 90% of what being a conductor is. In that, he is a great conductor (in my book, anyway).
Lindo, mas pra mim Norman com Karajan ainda é a mais magnífica interpretação de Liebestod!
Son gustos, pero creo que sabrás que Meier es considerada la mejor Isolda de las últimas décadas