Richard Strauss liked to quiz people about the final chord in Act III. It uses all instruments except the English horn, which represented the love potion. Finally in the last bar, the curse was extinguished.
@carlharding53112 ай бұрын
Lovely chord. Makes me want to invade Poland.
@jocomend3 ай бұрын
Its actually not the chord alone but where (and from where) it moves...
@ajames2833 ай бұрын
Vivaldi Autumn...
@m.kostoglod79494 ай бұрын
It's nice to see Wagner discuss Wagner! )))
@jebsmith3235 ай бұрын
It sounds familiar today like the background music in a thriller or horror music.
@tarasubramaniam61915 ай бұрын
Perushka Chord??
@Klythemnaestra5 ай бұрын
kzread.info/dash/bejne/fIx_j7apg9uxpps.html Louis Spohr's TRISTAN CHORD 50 years before Richrd Wagner . . .
@krakatoapinatubo63625 ай бұрын
Heard this for the first time in a college opera class I took as an elective. My jaw was on the ground.
@Bacci966 ай бұрын
Stephen Fry is literaly Richard Wagner
@Edeskenney8 ай бұрын
Stephen Fry has a German soul.
@petermacleod571010 ай бұрын
Fry has the infinite skill of turning anything he comments on into dross. His pathetic Junior school standard Voice-overs on Wildlife programmes only serve to remind us that he did NOT read Nat Sci at Cambridge, and this reminds us that he is NOT a musician.
@waetos11 ай бұрын
It's the same exact chord that Felix Mendelssohn used at the start of his wedding march. It's a G# minor (or A-flat minor) with an F natural added a minor third below the G#. Try adding B- flat 7 followed by E- flat minor. From here you can go add a C natural (minor third below E - flat), followed by F 7 , then B- flat minor. Then add a G natural a minor third below the B- flat followed by C 7, then F minor. Keep doing this and you wind up full circle.
@anthonydecarvalho65211 ай бұрын
Wonderful
@normanzurich2781 Жыл бұрын
This man who plays by heart is a genius ❤❤❤
@johnmavin7501 Жыл бұрын
I agree.. unfortunately he committed suicide a year ago 😭
@normanzurich2781 Жыл бұрын
@@johnmavin7501 so sad ☹️ RIP ❤️❤️❤️
@marzdeep88 Жыл бұрын
The Interviewer kinda looks like Richard Wagner. Total Doppelgänger.
@alexanderweissvontrostprug4945 Жыл бұрын
best explanation of the Tristan Chord, Stephan we miss you
@robertpadgett4192 Жыл бұрын
"Extremely good music" is an epic understatement.
@Dylonely42 Жыл бұрын
Wow
@PeacePromissor Жыл бұрын
With due respect, Fry propagandizes often by appearing high-cultured, refined, yet when he debates with figures such as Bishops, his vicious liar atheistic persona comes out with the most uncivilized ingrate comments against God, country and Church. That could be an expression of self-loathing, as explained in further detail when you watch Fr. Ripperger's talk on Demons, Exorcism etc. Satan / Beelzibub / Lucifer are the same being, but with split personalities as part of punishment for the Lie. And Demons know this, their high intellect yet regret and self-loathing make up part of their psychology. One might take ligher moments like this Tristan session as flashes of Grace, or, alternatively, as posing for the audience, where the lie is that he is civilized, when in practice, via atheistic praxis, seeks to destroy civilization. Don't be fooled people.
@PeacePromissor Жыл бұрын
i.e. his 1/2 truths of enjoying the musical structure, and yet the 1/2 lie (unstated) by denying any gratitude or thanks to God for inspiring / starting the music. Wagner himself would've acknowledge thanks to God for music, but Fry et al, perhaps due to the complex psychology above, simply won't, for that would upset the lie they are living, that state of constant denial and ingratitude for the good things in life, as if they just "appeared" magically out of nowhere (or out of the composer's arse). When viewed in that perspective, that is being highly disrespectful not only to God, but to Wagner himself, who would have attested he could not have done it without God.
@InterPixelYoutube Жыл бұрын
Persuaded me to watch the full opera - thanks!
@Bronco541 Жыл бұрын
the internet will never cease to amaze me. Never knew Steven Fry ever did anything like this.
@tpaealio Жыл бұрын
3:30 Stephen Fry looks as if he had forgotten that it wasn’t the grandiose resolution being played
@dbproducelimitada Жыл бұрын
No
@metathoughts732 Жыл бұрын
Except it can also be found in Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 18, as well as in works by Mozart, Chopin, Liszt, G. Machaud, Gesualdo, and many other composers. No Wagner didn't invent this chord at all, and never claimed he did.
@dgbx6 Жыл бұрын
Jon Vickers, the great Canadian tenor sang the role of Tristan for thirty years. He did so by only singing eight performances a year which he gave for the highest bidder. He was the greatest Tristan in the world in his day, as well as a very wealthy man. He did the same for his signature role of Otello. Eight performances a year, that was it.
@jonnymatthews6707 Жыл бұрын
Absolutely fckng brilliant piece of musical genius. Does remind me of David Bowie's Boy from Freecloud on the Hunky Dory album. Anyone agree?
@balladin9200 Жыл бұрын
2:49 he really said Coitus Interruptus with a straight face
@margaritadubrovina7063 Жыл бұрын
Great ❤!!!!
@MMB.__ Жыл бұрын
There is nothing physical and erotic in this. Neither in Wagner's love with Mathilde Wesendonck. At the very moment you take this to a physical ground you lost it. This is something else. This is were the great passions live, in the soul. Probably a little difficult to understand for a materialist. Don't mix things and confuse people. This is no vulgar film.
@clarktrent8952 Жыл бұрын
The glory of the Prelude und Liebestod, from the inimitable pen of Richard Wagner... and oh that "Tristan Chord!"
@danielmark4869 Жыл бұрын
A musical edging session with permission to orgasm granted after nearly 4 hours of delightful frustration.
@stirlingblackwood Жыл бұрын
1:02 he didn’t miss a beat :O
@Mozart2Muse Жыл бұрын
I am so glad that I saw this.
@divinodayacap3313 Жыл бұрын
Love that Stephen Fry and old colleague Hugh Lurie are enthusiasts of music.
@cj52732 жыл бұрын
The ending of Tristan might be the greatest moment in all of music
@fringelilyfringelily391 Жыл бұрын
... are you talking about the liebestod or the whole opera? ... there is quite a bit of rather dreary music with King Mark after the liebestod.
@bingbongtoysKY2 жыл бұрын
YES!!! this is wonderful
@preblaum7002 жыл бұрын
He shouldn’t be leaning on Wagner’s Steinway like that
@garrysmodsketches Жыл бұрын
Do you realise how heavy and structurally robust this thing is? Leaning on it isn't gonna do anything.
@preblaum700 Жыл бұрын
@@garrysmodsketches hope so
@lublondon2 жыл бұрын
I learnt just yesterday that the magnificent man who plays on the piano, Stefan Mickisch, has died almost exactly to the day a year ago. Unmatched his ability to explain the Wagner-Universum… I am sure he will be missed by great many people who appreciated his genius, as I did. R.I.P.
@ceha9517 Жыл бұрын
Yes. He died. 🙁 I wanted to see him live so badly. And I never will. But there are audio cds on the market. He was such a great teacher and story teller of Wagner's music.
@annehart1945 Жыл бұрын
Heartbreaking. RIP dear man.
@fruzsimih7214 Жыл бұрын
Oh, I didn't know that he passed away.... He was so great.
@Hickalum Жыл бұрын
Stefan Mickisch killed himself after being cancelled, ie; shamefully, brutally, stigmatised, ostracised and destroyed by the German press. Why? Because he rightly characterised the German response to the pandemic as “Corona fascism”. He called out the manifestation of corporate totalitarianism and paid the ultimate price. RIP.
@lublondon Жыл бұрын
@@Hickalum ich weiß…. An absolute tragedy… an unforgivable attitude the press and many of his colleagues displayed towards this highly sensible man.. shameful.. and no one ever apologised (never mind being prosecuted) it’s very very sad
@AlexanderWill19702 жыл бұрын
Whenever I listen to "Isoldes Liebestod" I automatically start to cry.
@BloggerMusicMan2 жыл бұрын
This was my favourite part of the documentary. I really shared in Stephen Fry's delight. :)
@Alexhoodmeister2 жыл бұрын
Was für zwei wunderbare Menschen, vereint in der Liebe zu Richard Wagner.
@zogzog10632 жыл бұрын
The sad thing is that the Tristan Chord is crap. Fry's presence adds noting except to perpetuate the myth. The good news is this: just listen to the chord. It is like a chicken being run over by a car. It is crap. It does not matter if this chicken came from the royal family, or the killer was a knighted member of the house of lords. The people prevail: It is crap. HOWEVER: the ending to Tristan und Isolde is one of the high points of Western Civilization. (Think Hamlet, or the Pyramids). The Tristan Chord is just an aberration and should be treated as such.
@Muzakman372 жыл бұрын
It's when you read the biographies of nearly every great composer born in the 2nd half of the 19th century that you realize just how powerful a hold Tristan had on classical music at that time. So many of them who'd been to see Tristan were mesmerized by it, how Wagner had changed the game completely with what he had achieved in this work and what was possible now because of it. The hold was so strong that it eventually led to a reaction *against* it and against Wagnerian dominance of so much being written at that time and for years afterwards, with fine composers striving to find their own voices free of Wagner's spell, many went in more nationalistic directions and down paths that led to numerous folk music revivals and plenty of composers trying to forge a style native to where they came from as opposed to just sounding like post-Tristan Wagner but the different directions classical music went in at this time still, somewhat inevitably, charted a path to the very edge of tonality starting with Debussy in the early 1890s before the cracks in tonality finally gave way completely in the next decade in Russia and Vienna. Who knows if they'd have still arrived at that point at that time if Tristan hadn't existed but I think the chances are someone else would've challenged the conventions of tonality in the 2nd half of the 19th century had Wagner not done it, although possibly not in the course of such an extraordinary work as Tristan is.
@lernprofiduisburg2 жыл бұрын
Den Suizid Stefan Mikisch ' hat unsere Gesellschaft zu verantworten. Sie trieb den Künstler und Wagner Kenner in den Freitod! Ein schlauer Mensch, der einem klassische Musik und Wagner im speziellen nähergebracht hat. Wie destruktiv und kaputt unsere Gesellschaft ist, zeigt dieser Fall deutlich auf....
@BerndSchnabl2 жыл бұрын
whenever it says Stephen Fry in the title you know it's really good. The most charming person alive !
@michaelmiller12152 жыл бұрын
Glorious!
@annehart19452 жыл бұрын
Heartbreaking in every respect.
@mr.thickey18202 жыл бұрын
I really really have to make comment! "Extremely good music" he says? Way way MORE than that!!! Beyond belief or even imagination! This music is easily as "FINE" a piece of music ever composed!!! If one really loves the greatest of all the "great music", this music by Wagner should "choke you up" to the point of at least tears, as it does me!!! IT HURTS to hear it! HOW can audible sound do this to the human emotion??? But it does! I have NOT heard all or most of the great performances of this work, but I'm sure the ONE I'd love the most would be that of JESSYE NORMAN singing & HERBERT Von KARAJAN conducting!!! Herbert's last performance too!! Why smoke "POT" when you can get an "ultimate HIGH" from hearing this? "WOWSA"!!! "Ach du lieber, mein schatz"!!!
@irrefudiate3 жыл бұрын
Wagner was a breath of nurturing oxygen after the minuets and waltzes and endless running up and down major scales when Mozart reigned.
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Richard Strauss liked to quiz people about the final chord in Act III. It uses all instruments except the English horn, which represented the love potion. Finally in the last bar, the curse was extinguished.
Lovely chord. Makes me want to invade Poland.
Its actually not the chord alone but where (and from where) it moves...
Vivaldi Autumn...
It's nice to see Wagner discuss Wagner! )))
It sounds familiar today like the background music in a thriller or horror music.
Perushka Chord??
kzread.info/dash/bejne/fIx_j7apg9uxpps.html Louis Spohr's TRISTAN CHORD 50 years before Richrd Wagner . . .
Heard this for the first time in a college opera class I took as an elective. My jaw was on the ground.
Stephen Fry is literaly Richard Wagner
Stephen Fry has a German soul.
Fry has the infinite skill of turning anything he comments on into dross. His pathetic Junior school standard Voice-overs on Wildlife programmes only serve to remind us that he did NOT read Nat Sci at Cambridge, and this reminds us that he is NOT a musician.
It's the same exact chord that Felix Mendelssohn used at the start of his wedding march. It's a G# minor (or A-flat minor) with an F natural added a minor third below the G#. Try adding B- flat 7 followed by E- flat minor. From here you can go add a C natural (minor third below E - flat), followed by F 7 , then B- flat minor. Then add a G natural a minor third below the B- flat followed by C 7, then F minor. Keep doing this and you wind up full circle.
Wonderful
This man who plays by heart is a genius ❤❤❤
I agree.. unfortunately he committed suicide a year ago 😭
@@johnmavin7501 so sad ☹️ RIP ❤️❤️❤️
The Interviewer kinda looks like Richard Wagner. Total Doppelgänger.
best explanation of the Tristan Chord, Stephan we miss you
"Extremely good music" is an epic understatement.
Wow
With due respect, Fry propagandizes often by appearing high-cultured, refined, yet when he debates with figures such as Bishops, his vicious liar atheistic persona comes out with the most uncivilized ingrate comments against God, country and Church. That could be an expression of self-loathing, as explained in further detail when you watch Fr. Ripperger's talk on Demons, Exorcism etc. Satan / Beelzibub / Lucifer are the same being, but with split personalities as part of punishment for the Lie. And Demons know this, their high intellect yet regret and self-loathing make up part of their psychology. One might take ligher moments like this Tristan session as flashes of Grace, or, alternatively, as posing for the audience, where the lie is that he is civilized, when in practice, via atheistic praxis, seeks to destroy civilization. Don't be fooled people.
i.e. his 1/2 truths of enjoying the musical structure, and yet the 1/2 lie (unstated) by denying any gratitude or thanks to God for inspiring / starting the music. Wagner himself would've acknowledge thanks to God for music, but Fry et al, perhaps due to the complex psychology above, simply won't, for that would upset the lie they are living, that state of constant denial and ingratitude for the good things in life, as if they just "appeared" magically out of nowhere (or out of the composer's arse). When viewed in that perspective, that is being highly disrespectful not only to God, but to Wagner himself, who would have attested he could not have done it without God.
Persuaded me to watch the full opera - thanks!
the internet will never cease to amaze me. Never knew Steven Fry ever did anything like this.
3:30 Stephen Fry looks as if he had forgotten that it wasn’t the grandiose resolution being played
No
Except it can also be found in Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 18, as well as in works by Mozart, Chopin, Liszt, G. Machaud, Gesualdo, and many other composers. No Wagner didn't invent this chord at all, and never claimed he did.
Jon Vickers, the great Canadian tenor sang the role of Tristan for thirty years. He did so by only singing eight performances a year which he gave for the highest bidder. He was the greatest Tristan in the world in his day, as well as a very wealthy man. He did the same for his signature role of Otello. Eight performances a year, that was it.
Absolutely fckng brilliant piece of musical genius. Does remind me of David Bowie's Boy from Freecloud on the Hunky Dory album. Anyone agree?
2:49 he really said Coitus Interruptus with a straight face
Great ❤!!!!
There is nothing physical and erotic in this. Neither in Wagner's love with Mathilde Wesendonck. At the very moment you take this to a physical ground you lost it. This is something else. This is were the great passions live, in the soul. Probably a little difficult to understand for a materialist. Don't mix things and confuse people. This is no vulgar film.
The glory of the Prelude und Liebestod, from the inimitable pen of Richard Wagner... and oh that "Tristan Chord!"
A musical edging session with permission to orgasm granted after nearly 4 hours of delightful frustration.
1:02 he didn’t miss a beat :O
I am so glad that I saw this.
Love that Stephen Fry and old colleague Hugh Lurie are enthusiasts of music.
The ending of Tristan might be the greatest moment in all of music
... are you talking about the liebestod or the whole opera? ... there is quite a bit of rather dreary music with King Mark after the liebestod.
YES!!! this is wonderful
He shouldn’t be leaning on Wagner’s Steinway like that
Do you realise how heavy and structurally robust this thing is? Leaning on it isn't gonna do anything.
@@garrysmodsketches hope so
I learnt just yesterday that the magnificent man who plays on the piano, Stefan Mickisch, has died almost exactly to the day a year ago. Unmatched his ability to explain the Wagner-Universum… I am sure he will be missed by great many people who appreciated his genius, as I did. R.I.P.
Yes. He died. 🙁 I wanted to see him live so badly. And I never will. But there are audio cds on the market. He was such a great teacher and story teller of Wagner's music.
Heartbreaking. RIP dear man.
Oh, I didn't know that he passed away.... He was so great.
Stefan Mickisch killed himself after being cancelled, ie; shamefully, brutally, stigmatised, ostracised and destroyed by the German press. Why? Because he rightly characterised the German response to the pandemic as “Corona fascism”. He called out the manifestation of corporate totalitarianism and paid the ultimate price. RIP.
@@Hickalum ich weiß…. An absolute tragedy… an unforgivable attitude the press and many of his colleagues displayed towards this highly sensible man.. shameful.. and no one ever apologised (never mind being prosecuted) it’s very very sad
Whenever I listen to "Isoldes Liebestod" I automatically start to cry.
This was my favourite part of the documentary. I really shared in Stephen Fry's delight. :)
Was für zwei wunderbare Menschen, vereint in der Liebe zu Richard Wagner.
The sad thing is that the Tristan Chord is crap. Fry's presence adds noting except to perpetuate the myth. The good news is this: just listen to the chord. It is like a chicken being run over by a car. It is crap. It does not matter if this chicken came from the royal family, or the killer was a knighted member of the house of lords. The people prevail: It is crap. HOWEVER: the ending to Tristan und Isolde is one of the high points of Western Civilization. (Think Hamlet, or the Pyramids). The Tristan Chord is just an aberration and should be treated as such.
It's when you read the biographies of nearly every great composer born in the 2nd half of the 19th century that you realize just how powerful a hold Tristan had on classical music at that time. So many of them who'd been to see Tristan were mesmerized by it, how Wagner had changed the game completely with what he had achieved in this work and what was possible now because of it. The hold was so strong that it eventually led to a reaction *against* it and against Wagnerian dominance of so much being written at that time and for years afterwards, with fine composers striving to find their own voices free of Wagner's spell, many went in more nationalistic directions and down paths that led to numerous folk music revivals and plenty of composers trying to forge a style native to where they came from as opposed to just sounding like post-Tristan Wagner but the different directions classical music went in at this time still, somewhat inevitably, charted a path to the very edge of tonality starting with Debussy in the early 1890s before the cracks in tonality finally gave way completely in the next decade in Russia and Vienna. Who knows if they'd have still arrived at that point at that time if Tristan hadn't existed but I think the chances are someone else would've challenged the conventions of tonality in the 2nd half of the 19th century had Wagner not done it, although possibly not in the course of such an extraordinary work as Tristan is.
Den Suizid Stefan Mikisch ' hat unsere Gesellschaft zu verantworten. Sie trieb den Künstler und Wagner Kenner in den Freitod! Ein schlauer Mensch, der einem klassische Musik und Wagner im speziellen nähergebracht hat. Wie destruktiv und kaputt unsere Gesellschaft ist, zeigt dieser Fall deutlich auf....
whenever it says Stephen Fry in the title you know it's really good. The most charming person alive !
Glorious!
Heartbreaking in every respect.
I really really have to make comment! "Extremely good music" he says? Way way MORE than that!!! Beyond belief or even imagination! This music is easily as "FINE" a piece of music ever composed!!! If one really loves the greatest of all the "great music", this music by Wagner should "choke you up" to the point of at least tears, as it does me!!! IT HURTS to hear it! HOW can audible sound do this to the human emotion??? But it does! I have NOT heard all or most of the great performances of this work, but I'm sure the ONE I'd love the most would be that of JESSYE NORMAN singing & HERBERT Von KARAJAN conducting!!! Herbert's last performance too!! Why smoke "POT" when you can get an "ultimate HIGH" from hearing this? "WOWSA"!!! "Ach du lieber, mein schatz"!!!
Wagner was a breath of nurturing oxygen after the minuets and waltzes and endless running up and down major scales when Mozart reigned.