Prelude - Das Rheingold - Wagner - Solti

Prelude to Das Rheingold

Der Ring des Nibelungen
Richard Wagner

Sir Georg Solti
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Decca

[paulwien]

I heard the ring once in Bayreuth. Inside the Festspielhaus you don’t see the Orchestra or the conductor .. after the lights go down you do not know when it’s start.... then came this glorious music and starts from everywhere in the house because the acoustic is unique.. it is an unbelievable experience.. never heard it more emotional as in Bayreuth ...one of the biggest moments in my musical life

[lindsaydenman]

51 years on this planet and I have never heard this masterpiece. How is that possible? jaw drops

[dabedwards]

The sustained chord is now so commonly used in feature films to create atmosphere and tension, that it's difficult to imagine how utterly alien and overwhelming this must have sounded when first performed.

[cathrinrehder]

There is a wonderful saying in German: "Der Rhein fliesst in Es-Dur" = "The Rhine flows in E-flat major" ... so true ! 🎵

[Alan-cohu]

amazing how Solti racks the tension up note by note surely the master of Wagners music

[julieparisot]

i love how classic music conveys visuals like no other, and here I am picturing a copper sun announcing it's rising from the depth of an obsidian mountain...

[tresaq]

Really astonishing that such a simple melody can arise such a feeling of anxiety and then consummation. Almost orgasmic.

[simoneemili]

Every time i listen to these piece i get goosebumps. Fantastic!

[jftierdor]

so... why does the feeling of perfection conveyed by music make me cry ? Edgar Poe said in the Poetic Principle that beauty can't be felt without sadness

[johnthornhill]

Difficult to convey the beauty of this in words. A genius!

[omarpartida]

The movie (nosferatu 1979) brought me here and such a sublime piece

[frederickmuller]

The Overture recreates the Rhine River in music from a little stream beginning in the Swiss Alps to a torrent at its mouth in the North Sea.

[beckr]

I'm so lucky to have performed this once. Double Bass player. I did NOT care that I had to play that single note.

[brendan]

The most beautiful and powerful note ever written. He was genius.

[keithnaylor]

The pairing of truly awesome music and images!

[colinmontgomery]

Used to great effect in "The New World", 2005.

[yepyep]

This is transcendentally beautiful. Ineffable, frankly...

[perlfarben]

Already one of my favourite videos in YouTube <3

[johnkilrainblackstone]

These sounds accompanied the birth of the universe.

[actfray]

I've been looking for this prelude for years, but I couldn't remember the name of it. It's still as glorious as the first time I heard it. Thank you for posting!