Title: Venusburg music [finale] from Tannhäuser - Richard Wagner
Description: 'Liebestod' from "Tristan und Isolde" Music by Richard Wagner (1813-1883) Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra/Michael Halasz

Title: Tristan - Isolde Liebestod
Description: Tristan - Isolde Liebestod

Title: Richard Wagner - Siegfried's Funeral Music
Description: A commento delle splendide immagini tratte dal documentario BBC Earth

Title: Richard Wagner - Walkürenritt
Description: Wilhelm Richard Wagner (22 May 1813, Leipzig, Germany - 13 February 1883, Venice, Italy) was a German composer, conductor, music theorist, director, and essayist, primarily known for his operas (or "music dramas", as they were later called). Unlike most other great opera composers, Wagner wrote the scenario and libretto for his works. Wagner's compositions, particularly those of his later period, are notable for contrapuntal texture, rich chromaticism, harmonies and orchestration, and elaborate use of leitmotifs: musical themes associated with particular characters, locales or plot elements. Wagner pioneered advances in musical language, such as extreme chromaticism and quickly shifting tonal centres, which greatly influenced the development of European classical music. He transformed musical thought through his idea of Gesamtkunstwerk ("total artwork"), the synthesis of all the poetic, visual, musical and dramatic arts, epitomized by his monumental four-opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen (1876). To try to stage these works as he imagined them, Wagner built his own opera house.

Title: Bridal Chorus from Lohengrin - Richard Wagner
Description: 10-Dec-2007, Alfred's Basic Adult Piano Course Book 2 Page 7

Title: RICHARD WAGNER TANNHÄUSER
Description: Wilhelm Richard Wagner (22 May 1813 -- 13 February 1883) was a German composer, conductor, music theorist, and essayist, primarily known for his operas (or "music dramas" as they were later called). Unlike most other great opera composers, Wagner always wrote the scenario and libretto for his works himself. Wagner's compositions, particularly those of his later period, are notable for their contrapuntal texture, rich chromaticism, harmonies and orchestration, and elaborate use of leitmotifs: musical themes associated with specific characters, locales, or plot elements. Wagner pioneered advances in musical language, such as extreme chromaticism and quickly shifting tonal centres, which greatly influenced the development of European classical music. He transformed musical thought through his idea of Gesamtkunstwerk ("total artwork"), the synthesis of all the poetic, visual, musical and dramatic arts, epitomized by his monumental four-opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen (1876). Wagner even went so far as to build his own opera-house to try to stage these works as he had imagined them...

Title: Richard Wagner - Elsa's Procession to the Cathedral (from Lohengrin)
Description: Montage - Recently, I was revisiting some instrumental sheet music I had the privilege of playing in high school - Elsa's Procession to the Cathedral was one of them. As I got listening to it again, it came to me that the perfect images to grace a montage is actually one of Wagner's contemporaries, William Bouguereau. (Both from the Romantic era.) A perfect 'marriage' of sound and artistry - well, at least I thought so :) The only other Bouguereau montages I see on youtube use music like bach, which doesn't make sense to me - wrong time period. eh.

Title: Apocalypse Now - The Ride Of The Valkyries
Description: One of the best scenes from cinema. The helicopter attack in the beach against the vietcongs while The Ride Of The Valkyries is played. (Without credits)

Title: Wagner - Die Walküre Act 3 - Ride of the Valkyries
Description: The opening of act 3 of 'Die Walküre', the "first day" of Richard Wagner's epic cycle of operas 'Der Ring Des Nibelungen'. The greatest, grandest, most revolutionary music drama you will ever encounter! The Valkyries gather on the rock where they await Brunnhilde. When she arrives, they disover she is fleeing from Wotan after disobeying his orders. A concert performance from the BBC Proms in 2005, from the Royal Albert Hall. Lisa Gasteen is Brunnhilde. Waltraud Meier is Sieglinde The orchestra of the Royal Opera House is conducted by Antonio Pappano.

Title: Wagner- Parsifal - Act III - Good Friday Music (Kurt Moll)
Description: from Parsifal's "Du salbtest mir die Füsse" to the peal of bells in the distance before "Mittag". Parsifal, opera, WWV 111, Karfreitagszauber (Good Friday Spell) Kurt Moll (Gurnemanz), Siegfried Jerusalem, and Waltraud Meier - Levine conducts. go here to see this performance continue at "Mittag": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RX5f0ZYO7d8 A warm and sunny Good Friday, with its mood of sacred solemnity, once inspired me with the idea of writing Parsifal; since then it has lived within me and prospered, like a child in its mother's womb. With each Good Friday it grows a year older, and I then celebrate the day of its conception, knowing that its birthday will follow one day. [Letter from Richard Wagner to King Ludwig, 14 April 1865] Barry Millington writes: In his searching essay, "The Sorrows and Grandeur of Richard Wagner", Thomas Mann comes closer than most commentators to describing the sublime, monumental effect of Wagner's music. It is marked by "pessimistic heaviness and measured yearning", he says, and speaks of "forces struggling out of dark confusion to find deliverance in beauty". Nowhere is that sense of a weighty tread allied to unearthly, exalted eloquence more evident than in the composer's last, most masterly score, Parsifal (1877-82).. Parsifal, after many years of wandering, appears with the spear that will heal Amfortas's wound. Gazing on the beautiful meadows, Parsifal says that on Good Friday every living thing should only sigh and sorrow, and the radiant Good Friday Music is a poignant meditation on the chief themes of the opera: suffering, compassion and redemption.

Title: DISCOVERING MUSIC. RICHARD WAGNER. PRELUDE AND LIEBESTOD. 1
Description: BBC RADIO 3. DISCOVERING MUSIC. RICHARD WAGNER. PRELUDE AND LIEBESTOD. TRISTAN AND ISOLDE.

Title: Wagner: Lohengrin, "Bridal Chorus"
Description: Culture Studies: Classical Music: Wagner (A series of well-known classical music pieces one should known about.) Wagner, Richard (1813-1883) Style/Period: Middle German Romantic (New German school; German Nationalist); German Wagner Lohengrin, "Bridal Chorus"

Title: Andy Warhol meets Richard Wagner
Description: This is who Andy Warhol would direct an opera from Richard Wagner

Title: Richard Wagner~Tristan und Isolde~Liebestod~Waltraud Meier~Music (live)~Patagonia pics, Argentina
Description: Richard Wagner Tristan und Isolde Liebestod Mezzo-soprano Waltraud Meier (live). Do I alone hear this melody, which wonderfully and softly, lamenting delight, telling it all Sólo yo escucho esta melodia...? que maravillosa y suavemente como delicioso lamento que lo cuenta todo.... Hör ich nur diese Weise, die so wundervoll und leise, Wonne* klagend, alles sagend,.... Liebestod Mild und leise Isolde's aria from Tristan und Isolde West-Eeastern Divan Orchestra Director: Daniel Barenboim with Angela Denoke, René Pape, Burkhard Fritz, Waltraud Meier Chor der Deutschen Staatsoper Berlin My own ancestral Wagner family were born in Leipsig....the same city where Richard was born. Thank you very much to my models: cousin baroque soprano Olga Nazaykinskaya and to Romina. http://www.geofoto.tk

Title: Music play inside Richard Wagner House
Description: Fur Elsie