I use Brave browser, it's free and suffered no commercials through the entire 54 minute performance. In fact I get no intrusive ads whatsoever. That's what kept me interested in UA-cam.
I just love reading the comments. It helps me to know there are others out there like me. Music like this is an experience and it gets better every time. Yes it’s emotion but it’s even more than that. It moves your soul! When I hear (and see in my mind’s eye) a piece like this I feel Beethoven was a conduit in which God leaked some of his beauty and greatness down to earth. It’s just monumental!
I think that Beethoven stricken by the tragedy of human beings on the battlefield defies even God or Fate at "heroic" moments in the first and second movement. This is not a contemplative music. You can feel the pain and the revolt of soldiers wounded and lost in the trenches.
@@gillesmichel5683 And yet, with the end of his ninth symphony Beethoven rejoices at the prospect of a universal bond of brotherhood between all mankind--something which cannot be achieved in this world but will be achieved in the next because of Jesus' victory over sin and death. It's impossible to know now whether Beethoven ever truly embraced Christ, but nonetheless his ninth symphony takes on an entirely new meaning when viewed through the scope of the Bible, which promises an end to all evil and all suffering. It's said that Schiller actually originally intended "Ode to Joy" to refer to freedom rather than joy but was forced to revise the poem to make it more "politically correct" in its time. It is interesting that this supposed nullification of the poem's meaning only ends up giving more power to its message, and by extension the message of Beethoven's ninth symphony. It transforms the text from a naïvely optimistic wish for earthly harmony to a profound yearning for the day when God's children will indeed be at perfect peace with him and each other.
@@BenjaminAnderson21 You spoke about the final movement only. Maybe it is just about the brotherhood of men, idealized not about religious beliefs. But the rest of the masterpiece is so tortured, notably the first movement so tragically beautiful. Beethoven 's music is definitely not contemplative. It is more focused about the perpetual fight between the good and evil in the mankind. And the good triumphed in the 5th and 9th symphony in the last movement impressively.
Dear Maestro Bernstein had not long lost his wife Felicia and during the funeral march the grief was plain to see as he moaned in sadness during this epic rendition of this traumatic movement. Bless him R.I. P. Maestro he really was the music....absolutely.
I was listening to another version and I had to stop. They were running through the funeral march like it was Andante. It’s supposed to be heavy and sad; that’s what Beethoven wanted to convey! I’m so sorry the Maestro experienced sadness close to the time of this performance but I’m glad he had the courage to let the music speak to that experience. It’s very moving.
Chin Chin Yes indeed they are right tempi, colours, phrasing the whole classic repertoire directed by Maestro Bernstein is a delight and I am totally spoilt by his renditions,do not accept less!
A a child my father introduced me to classical music , The Eroica or Beethoven's Third Symphony was the first symphony I ever heard , it is still today , after all these years , my most favorite !
I have listened to other versions of Bernstein conducting this like his magnificent 1953 version with New York. This is different. This is a lifetime love affair with Eroica pouring out in a one of a kind performance. This is creative genius intersecting with creative genius to make something new. It’s as if Bernstein unearthed layers of Beethoven’s soul I’m not sure Beethoven himself was aware of when he composed it
I love the small portrait of Herr Beethoven you put In the upper right corner. He Judges, even beyond the grave, the performers, the conductor, the live audience… He judges us watching, 40 years after this performance! I think he would find everyone involved Lacking.
Beethoven's s compositions are so exciting to listen to from the audience, it must be even more exciting to be playing it surrounding by all the other instruments.
When it comes to Beethoven and Mahler, Bernstein was the best; still he is the best, even when he is not with us anymore. I heard him with Brahms, but in my humble opinion, he doesn't felt him as he felt Beethoven and Mahler. I know many people talks about Beethoven's 9th as his best. I understand the importance of that one, but for me, this is THE ONE. There are many reasons, but from all of them, the main to me is the fugue in the second movement. At 25:18 it begins, and it is the most amazing fugue ever written. I know, Bach composed the most incredible fugues ever; but when it comes to this one, there is no comparison, at least for me: poignant, sad and lavish, and at the same time intimate and profound, lyrical and dramatic; a masterclass of its own of how to be new and creative and grounded in an old kind of composition. Also, I think the melody in the first movement is, maybe, one of the best ever written by Beethoven who was more a master in the development of a theme rather than a good melodic compositor; in that field we have to crown Mozart. Love Eroica with Bernstein, and love that second movement.
M A G N I F I C E N T ! ! Wow, the sound of millions and millions of dollars worth of fine instruments played by incredible musicians led by Bernstein. Rousing!
@@obonyxiam There's literally absolutely no reason to believe in the existence of a Hell other than Christian fear-mongering, which your brain mistakes as having significance due to cognitive social primate heuristics, aka popular hearsay.
Greetings from Finland. Vietin 12-vuotiaana viitisen viikkoa Wienissä. (When I was 12 years I was 5 weeks in Wien, when my father studied in Wiener University. ) Sain silloin käydä Beethovenin museokodissa ja kävimme myös Eroica-gassella. (I visited Beethoven home and in Grintzingen, Eroica gasse). The year was 1967 and from 1970 I have been Beethoven.fan. In my bedroom has been from 1970 the picture where Beethoven makes his Missa Solemnis. Almost every day I must hear Beethoven, now mostly from you tube. In concert I have heard here in Finland, Tampere, every piano sonata from Beethoven, played by (I dont remember his name but he is 1 day younger as I). En siis muista kuka 1954 syntynyt pianisti soitti kaikki Beethovenin 32 pianosonaattia Tampereella.. Tän verran nyt tässä vähän vetelen alkoa, etten tosiaan muista tuon pianistin nimeä!) Beethoven is my number 1, my happy, whit his music . I have written a little book about Jean Sibelius and there i have written also about Beethoven, why he was important for Sibelius. This Eroica is very good. In 1963 my father made in Tampere Theatre West Side Story / Leonard Bernstein. Se oli sensaatio ja vieraili Wienissä, Theater an der Wienissä 1965. West Side Story from Tampere Finland visited in Wien (Theater an der Wien) 1965 and was sensation. Beethoven is genius, "Prometheus"... (Tässähän sinfoniassa on lopulla tuo Prometheus-teema.. hänhän teki myös Prometheus-baletin. (Beethoven made balet "Prometheus".)
@@katrinat.3032 I like the Haitink version of Bruckner 8. Sort of grows on one. The fanfare is after 55 minutes or so I think, but you'll know it when you hear it..
I had listened to several of Beethoven's symphonies, but never this one. I had a chance to listen to it yesterday on Sirius-XM while driving up and down the road, and thought... "wow, this is good." So here I am today getting a followup listening session and its getting my stamp of approval.
What a thrill it must have been to see Bernstein conduct the Vienna Phil or the New York Phil! I'm thankful for all the YTube vids of him (and so many others!); they're the next best thing.
I got the chance to see one of Lenny's Young People's concerts at Lincoln Center in January of 1968, with other music students on a HS field trip. The program was ALL BEETHOVEN, and I was in heaven the entire afternoon. An added plus was the fact that the day was so overcast that the curtains were drawn back on the massive Chigall paintings in the front windows.
Bernstein's version is probably the most grandiose and most magnificent... I can listen to it 1000 times always with a love of Beethoven! Can someone perhaps tell me that this version was recorded in which year and on what occasion. Thank you very much!
SI QUE VERDAD LO QUE DICES ESTA SINFONIA ES MAGICA EN EL INSTANTE QUE PASADEL PRIMER MOVIMIENTO AL SEGUNDO ES UNA VIBRACION QUE ME ELEVA SIENTO ALGO INEXPLICABLE HERMANO DEL CAMINO ,,Y SOBRE EL DIRECTOR CONSIDERO ES MARAVILLOSO BERENSTEIN UNICO QUE CONMUEVE ES EL VERDADERO CREADOR CON MUCHO NIÑO Y JUEGA DULCE HOMBRE CARIÑOS DE INES SETUAIN DE CONCORDIA ERIOS ARGENTINA
I almost know every note of this symphony in my head, and have heard so many performances. Saying that, I have to agree with you. I do not think Beethoven would have done much better as conductor.
@@tonydurack6841 I have a PhD in Chemistry, not English. My sincere and unadulterated apologies. I hope you have no sleepless nights on my behalf. Bless you.
This is my favorite symphony of Beethoven. The guy was enlightened by God in his music. No one wrote stuff like this i think he's better than Mozart. They both amazing but Beethoven never heard his master pieces till he died now he can hear them in his glorified body.
The Bernstein VPO Eroica is quite good with gorgeous playing but I prefer his earlier version with the NY Philharmonic. It simply has more electricity. Music lovers like myself have multiple versions of most warhorses.
Would it be correct to say the sound he gets here from the Wiener Phil is democratic? None of the instruments seem to be favored, although the bass strings are viscerally clear. The sound seems, to my humble ears, to be blended and silky. What would some other words be to describe Bernstein's conducting? Smooth, as opposed to the sharpness of Szell, for instance? (forgive me, a non-musician seeking understanding).
Beethoven HAS to be played with passion, and the sensitivity to what I call the Beethoven beat with its alternating rises and falls in temperament. His music is quite flat when played pedestrianally. I always turn to Leonard Bernstein, he seems to understand the mind of Beethoven,
I had the same question and was surprised that the date wasn't contained in the information provided. Frustrated as you were I scoured the internet and came up empty. I then checked to see if the Wiener Philharmoniker had a website. They did and I wrote to their historian who emailed me within a few hours with the dates of this concert series--February 5th and 6th, 1978. Without the date you've lost the historical context of the event.
I wish some analysts could tell you why this piece of .music knocks me sideways. Maybe it was Beethoven's safe channel for his violent temper. Whatever it's Brilliant and a 'go to' that does the trick for me every time. Enjoy
I wish to thank Miss Walters, my junior high music teacher back in the late 60's for introducing us to the audio pleasures of concert music (please don't call it "Classical Music..." that term only applies to music from the "Classical Period," from 1750 to 1827, from the death of Bach to the death of Beethoven). She initiated a life long love of the music of our past, from the "plain chant" of the Medieval Church to the more contemporary music of Ives, Copland, and Bernstein.
Sorry, but "classical music", or maybe more accurately "Western classical music" is generally accepted as including the Baroque, Classical, Romantic and Modern periods of Western orchestral music.
@@annedwyer797 No it's not, and I have been told that by an accomplished composer and teacher like Robert Greenberg, the music historian at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. (When he gave a talk in Pittsburgh several years ago) Lumping Baroque, Viennese Classical, Romantic and Modern together under the term "Western Classical" is simply being sloppy and lazy. I believe the term you are looking for is the "Western Concert Repertoire." It's just as easy to use the proper terms.
Please, could you take off the figure of Beethoven always present on the screen ? If it is your trade mark, it is not better than Bernsteins's !!! t is really unforgettable, and the vidéo should be meuch better. Thanks.
I posted a new video explaining how Beethoven's loss of hearing made created a massive increase in his capacity to process variables between Symphony #2 and Symphony #3, making him the world's greatest composer
Bernstein is perfection - unfortunately the video is not. The sound lags the picture by a slight amount. Someone would do the world (OK, me) a big favor by syncing it back up. I ain't got no skillz.
The commercial breaks right in the sets for several times and prolonged durance are a disgrace! What is culture become? Everything is about selling useless crap. That here is music on highest level, but you have to cut in commercials. Not between the sets, no, no! Right into the movements!
Lenny was always good, especially with B. Don't overlook here that there is not one female in the orch=it wasn't til 1997, that they allowed that, not that it matters to Beethoven.
It pains me to know that as wonderful as the VPO was/is, its formal policy was that it did not hire female musicians until abt 25 yrs ago. That's really kind of medieval thinking!
The commercials are an affront to aching Humanity.
you need ad blocker
@@courtneygardner6334 you have to pay for it now.
I totally agree ~ that's why I have the CD (and vinyl record I bought at 15 ~67 yo now!)
I use Brave browser, it's free and suffered no commercials through the entire 54 minute performance. In fact I get no intrusive ads whatsoever. That's what kept me interested in UA-cam.
No need to pay for ad blockers. I’ve been using free ones for a long time.
I just love reading the comments. It helps me to know there are others out there like me. Music like this is an experience and it gets better every time. Yes it’s emotion but it’s even more than that. It moves your soul! When I hear (and see in my mind’s eye) a piece like this I feel Beethoven was a conduit in which God leaked some of his beauty and greatness down to earth. It’s just monumental!
Well appreciated and God Bless you for such a description.
I think that Beethoven stricken by the tragedy of human beings on the battlefield defies even God or Fate at "heroic" moments in the first and second movement. This is not a contemplative music. You can feel the pain and the revolt of soldiers wounded and lost in the trenches.
@@gillesmichel5683 And yet, with the end of his ninth symphony Beethoven rejoices at the prospect of a universal bond of brotherhood between all mankind--something which cannot be achieved in this world but will be achieved in the next because of Jesus' victory over sin and death. It's impossible to know now whether Beethoven ever truly embraced Christ, but nonetheless his ninth symphony takes on an entirely new meaning when viewed through the scope of the Bible, which promises an end to all evil and all suffering.
It's said that Schiller actually originally intended "Ode to Joy" to refer to freedom rather than joy but was forced to revise the poem to make it more "politically correct" in its time. It is interesting that this supposed nullification of the poem's meaning only ends up giving more power to its message, and by extension the message of Beethoven's ninth symphony. It transforms the text from a naïvely optimistic wish for earthly harmony to a profound yearning for the day when God's children will indeed be at perfect peace with him and each other.
"...God leaked some of his beauty and greatness down to earth." We are made in His Image, so yes, you are absolutely correct. Thank you, Jesus!!
@@BenjaminAnderson21 You spoke about the final movement only. Maybe it is just about the brotherhood of men, idealized not about religious beliefs. But the rest of the masterpiece is so tortured, notably the first movement so tragically beautiful. Beethoven 's music is definitely not contemplative. It is more focused about the perpetual fight between the good and evil in the mankind. And the good triumphed in the 5th and 9th symphony in the last movement impressively.
Dear Maestro Bernstein had not long lost his wife Felicia and during the funeral march the grief was plain to see as he moaned in sadness during this epic rendition of this traumatic movement. Bless him R.I. P. Maestro he really was the music....absolutely.
Wow thanks for sharing!!
Loved Watching Bernstein, his whole body and soul went into his work.
@@Artislife-x4r Pleasure, L.B loved sharing facts and music God Bless him dear soul.
I was listening to another version and I had to stop. They were running through the funeral march like it was Andante. It’s supposed to be heavy and sad; that’s what Beethoven wanted to convey! I’m so sorry the Maestro experienced sadness close to the time of this performance but I’m glad he had the courage to let the music speak to that experience. It’s very moving.
The most moving funeral march ever penned. Bernstein gets right to the emotional core of this epic movement.
Bernstein's versions are always something special...
He always makes a piece a bit more exciting than other conductors, but he never cheapens the music
Chin Chin Yes indeed they are right tempi, colours, phrasing the whole classic repertoire directed by Maestro Bernstein is a delight and I am totally spoilt by his renditions,do not accept less!
You are right ✅
You mean this version is normal and others are special
@@katrinat.3032 I agree karayan always make an exciting version more than bernstein
I think the "finale" is the best one in the history of music.
A a child my father introduced me to classical music , The Eroica or Beethoven's Third Symphony was the first symphony I ever heard , it is still today , after all these years , my most favorite !
Me too!
It was the first record my father ever bought me.
My first live Beethoven performance was the 7th Symphony and it remains my favorite, but Eroica is right behind it, especially the 4th movement.
You and your father have a great taste - even the composer himself picked Eroica as his best symphonic work!
@@jeanparke9373 Thank you very much for your comments. It's so nice to know there individuals in this world who appreciated
good music !
the more I listen the more I like
Never get tired of watching this performance. Thank you Lenny. Love you.
I have listened to other versions of Bernstein conducting this like his magnificent 1953 version with New York. This is different. This is a lifetime love affair with Eroica pouring out in a one of a kind performance. This is creative genius intersecting with creative genius to make something new. It’s as if Bernstein unearthed layers of Beethoven’s soul I’m not sure Beethoven himself was aware of when he composed it
the scherzo is the best music I've ever heard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LB living his dream is inspirational.
I love the small portrait of Herr Beethoven you put In the upper right corner.
He Judges, even beyond the grave, the performers, the conductor, the live audience…
He judges us watching, 40 years after this performance!
I think he would find everyone involved Lacking.
I played this on viola with the Bakersfield Symphony. Absolutely adore it.❤❤
Beethoven's s compositions are so exciting to listen to from the audience, it must be even more exciting to be playing it surrounding by all the other instruments.
Lucky you!
I find his face to be entertaining and expressive, and movements blend with the music, more so than any other conductor
When it comes to Beethoven and Mahler, Bernstein was the best; still he is the best, even when he is not with us anymore. I heard him with Brahms, but in my humble opinion, he doesn't felt him as he felt Beethoven and Mahler.
I know many people talks about Beethoven's 9th as his best. I understand the importance of that one, but for me, this is THE ONE. There are many reasons, but from all of them, the main to me is the fugue in the second movement.
At 25:18 it begins, and it is the most amazing fugue ever written. I know, Bach composed the most incredible fugues ever; but when it comes to this one, there is no comparison, at least for me: poignant, sad and lavish, and at the same time intimate and profound, lyrical and dramatic; a masterclass of its own of how to be new and creative and grounded in an old kind of composition.
Also, I think the melody in the first movement is, maybe, one of the best ever written by Beethoven who was more a master in the development of a theme rather than a good melodic compositor; in that field we have to crown Mozart.
Love Eroica with Bernstein, and love that second movement.
Thank you for this comment. Insights like this helps me to understand more of the music.
I agree. Many who are not classical music lovers are familiar with the 5th and 9th, but 3 and 7 are def my favorites!!
I never think as what is the best of Beethoven, all what I know well, up to now, is always amazing and full of Soul
Again on UA-cam 👍. My favourite interpretation of this symphony.
L aura adorna di paradiso in fiore ove si accende una meriade di stelle pe Bernstein e dico gloria e onore Al Grande Maestro .
Magnificent performance of monumental symphony!!Marcia funebre is sublime,the best part of symphony..Thrilled me. ..
The Marcia Funebre is the masterpiece of a Pure Genius!
In Berstain la musica entra nella dimensione di eterna celestiale e Angelica musicalità .
Il tema con variazioni del movimento finale è uno stupendo,sublime ,miracolo di orchestrazione. Eccezionale!
I just love the passion..
M A G N I F I C E N T ! !
Wow, the sound of millions and millions of dollars worth of fine instruments played by incredible musicians led by Bernstein. Rousing!
Priceless sound
What a marvelous proformence the woodwind and brass section's are played especially, the third movement is absolutely wonderful.
There is a special place in hell for the advertisers who interrupt this. Hit the X and go back to listening to CDs.
Truth. Except Hell doesn’t exist.
@@redtree732 well, who knows really? can't exactly ask the dead
@@obonyxiam I know.
@@redtree732 huh, didn't realise you were dead, what's life post-mortem like?
@@obonyxiam There's literally absolutely no reason to believe in the existence of a Hell other than Christian fear-mongering, which your brain mistakes as having significance due to cognitive social primate heuristics, aka popular hearsay.
Greetings from Finland. Vietin 12-vuotiaana viitisen viikkoa Wienissä. (When I was 12 years I was 5 weeks in Wien, when my father studied in Wiener University. ) Sain silloin käydä Beethovenin museokodissa ja kävimme myös Eroica-gassella. (I visited Beethoven home and in Grintzingen, Eroica gasse). The year was 1967 and from 1970 I have been Beethoven.fan. In my bedroom has been from 1970 the picture where Beethoven makes his Missa Solemnis. Almost every day I must hear Beethoven, now mostly from you tube. In concert I have heard here in Finland, Tampere, every piano sonata from Beethoven, played by
(I dont remember his name but he is 1 day younger as I). En siis muista kuka 1954 syntynyt pianisti soitti kaikki Beethovenin 32 pianosonaattia Tampereella.. Tän verran nyt tässä vähän vetelen alkoa, etten tosiaan muista tuon pianistin nimeä!) Beethoven is my number 1, my happy, whit his music . I have written a little book about Jean Sibelius and there i have written also about Beethoven, why he was important for Sibelius.
This Eroica is very good. In 1963 my father made in Tampere Theatre West Side Story / Leonard Bernstein. Se oli sensaatio ja vieraili Wienissä, Theater an der Wienissä 1965. West Side Story from Tampere Finland visited in Wien (Theater an der Wien) 1965 and was sensation.
Beethoven is genius, "Prometheus"... (Tässähän sinfoniassa on lopulla tuo Prometheus-teema.. hänhän teki myös Prometheus-baletin. (Beethoven made balet "Prometheus".)
Simply The Best Performance in the World!!
번스타인과 비인필하모니의 만남은 인류에 축복이었습니다.
@27:45 One of the greatest moments in orchestral music. I don't think I've heard any recording where the dissonances was so enduring.
the trumpets crazy fanfare starting at 28.47 reminds me of Bruckner 8th symphony fanfare.. also makes my hair stand on end.
@@justsoification I’ve never listened to Bruckner or Mahler, any suggestions of where to start with these 2 ?
@@katrinat.3032 I like the Haitink version of Bruckner 8. Sort of grows on one. The fanfare is after 55 minutes or so I think, but you'll know it when you hear it..
@@justsoification thank you! Im trying to expand what I listen to
@@mellonclarinet4303 thank you!
I had listened to several of Beethoven's symphonies, but never this one. I had a chance to listen to it yesterday on Sirius-XM while driving up and down the road, and thought... "wow, this is good." So here I am today getting a followup listening session and its getting my stamp of approval.
The second movement is by far and away my favourite in this "Eroica" Symphony!
Lenny unique, magnificent.
Bradley coops, you’ve done it again
The fugue always gets me. Just out of this world.
And that is which part?
@@johna7564 26:00
Nothing mozart and Bach haven't done
@@beethovenlovedmozartso does that mean this one is less powerful just because someone else has done it already?
@@beethovenlovedmozartstupid comment
Stupid name too while we’re at it
The way the 6th variation starts(45:50) is just out of this world
Thank you.
Love your YTube user name!
Apesar da nona,quinta e da pastoral essa é Minha sinfonia favorita do genial,magnífico rebelde,LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN! !!
This is so great!
I love to listen to Berstein's versions of Beethoven with Wiener Philarmoniker 😍
Me too! I can't get enough of Lenny'; he had so much joy in the music!!
What a thrill it must have been to see Bernstein conduct the Vienna Phil or the New York Phil! I'm thankful for all the YTube vids of him (and so many others!); they're the next best thing.
I got the chance to see one of Lenny's Young People's concerts at Lincoln Center in January of 1968, with other music students on a HS field trip. The program was ALL BEETHOVEN, and I was in heaven the entire afternoon. An added plus was the fact that the day was so overcast that the curtains were drawn back on the massive Chigall paintings in the front windows.
The best!!! Always!
Indimenticabile e intramontabile Lenny...
I love this track. It just makes wanna jump up and dance with the flute.
Un genio assoluto
Beautyfull
26:35 so good
I watch and listen today again..👏
Bernstein's version is probably the most grandiose and most magnificent... I can listen to it 1000 times always with a love of Beethoven! Can someone perhaps tell me that this version was recorded in which year and on what occasion. Thank you very much!
Good job Beethoven!
Karajan 1962 (remastered, 2014) ❤❤❤❤❤
A la maravilla de Beethoven y su 3ra se le suma esta impecable versión de uno de los más grandes directores sinfónicos del sigli XX
SI QUE VERDAD LO QUE DICES ESTA SINFONIA ES MAGICA EN EL INSTANTE QUE PASADEL PRIMER MOVIMIENTO AL SEGUNDO ES UNA VIBRACION QUE ME ELEVA SIENTO ALGO INEXPLICABLE HERMANO DEL CAMINO ,,Y SOBRE EL DIRECTOR CONSIDERO ES MARAVILLOSO BERENSTEIN UNICO QUE CONMUEVE ES EL VERDADERO CREADOR CON MUCHO NIÑO Y JUEGA DULCE HOMBRE CARIÑOS DE INES SETUAIN DE CONCORDIA ERIOS ARGENTINA
The intermittent commercials ruined the continuity of this wonderful piece!
Bernstein's version of this masterpiece is the best
It's certainly bloody good!
... and Bernie's pretty hot!
I almost know every note of this symphony in my head, and have heard so many performances. Saying that, I have to agree with you. I do not think Beethoven would have done much better as conductor.
@@malcolmabram2957 'almost know' or 'know almost' 🙄🤭
@@tonydurack6841 I have a PhD in Chemistry, not English. My sincere and unadulterated apologies. I hope you have no sleepless nights on my behalf. Bless you.
14:52 is the climax of composition
This is my favorite symphony of Beethoven. The guy was enlightened by God in his music. No one wrote stuff like this i think he's better than Mozart. They both amazing but Beethoven never heard his master pieces till he died now he can hear them in his glorified body.
to be COMPLETELY honest i did do and/or PROBABLY will really LOVE beethoven
26:00 TO 28:30
MY GOD
Charles Nelson Reilly on cello?
Pretty close, but no cigar. 😂
The fugue at 26:00 is so beast
Comment Beethoven a-t-il pu un tel chef-d'œuvre ??
44:25 stairsway to heaven
Symphony 3, dedicated to the memory of a great man.
44:25 IS BEETHOVEN TRYING TO PULL THE BACH CARD?!?!?!?!?
The Bernstein VPO Eroica is quite good with gorgeous playing but I prefer his earlier version with the NY Philharmonic. It simply has more electricity. Music lovers like myself have multiple versions of most warhorses.
Would it be correct to say the sound he gets here from the Wiener Phil is democratic? None of the instruments seem to be favored, although the bass strings are viscerally clear. The sound seems, to my humble ears, to be blended and silky. What would some other words be to describe Bernstein's conducting? Smooth, as opposed to the sharpness of Szell, for instance? (forgive me, a non-musician seeking understanding).
Bellisima
Considero uma das maiores invenções do homem : a música 🎵
I agree! Sometimes I think the music of the great composers (Beethoven is my "desert island" music) is one of mankind's greatest achievement.
The conductor be exercising
Although a mere mortal ~ Bernstein was conducting with a higher power.
A mí me une. Bernstein e Ichele Amor sin barreras
Beethoven HAS to be played with passion, and the sensitivity to what I call the Beethoven beat with its alternating rises and falls in temperament. His music is quite flat when played pedestrianally. I always turn to Leonard Bernstein, he seems to understand the mind of Beethoven,
Yes, love Bernstein.
Anyone know when this was filmed
I had the same question and was surprised that the date wasn't contained in the information provided. Frustrated as you were I scoured the internet and came up empty. I then checked to see if the Wiener Philharmoniker had a website. They did and I wrote to their historian who emailed me within a few hours with the dates of this concert series--February 5th and 6th, 1978. Without the date you've lost the historical context of the event.
💘
The 1960 movie 'Physcho' brought me here.
What year was this performance recorded?
27:20
Premiered #otd in 1805 💐💐💐
The Amazing Fugue starts at 25:55
19:01
I wish some analysts could tell you why this piece of .music knocks me sideways. Maybe it was Beethoven's safe channel for his violent temper. Whatever it's Brilliant and a 'go to' that does the trick for me every time. Enjoy
Werbeunterbrechungen mitten in der Eroica sind zum K. !!
Like bacon, everything is better with Bernstein.
I wish to thank Miss Walters, my junior high music teacher back in the late 60's for introducing us to the audio pleasures of concert music (please don't call it "Classical Music..." that term only applies to music from the "Classical Period," from 1750 to 1827, from the death of Bach to the death of Beethoven). She initiated a life long love of the music of our past, from the "plain chant" of the Medieval Church to the more contemporary music of Ives, Copland, and Bernstein.
Sorry, but "classical music", or maybe more accurately "Western classical music" is generally accepted as including the Baroque, Classical, Romantic and Modern periods of Western orchestral music.
@@annedwyer797 No it's not, and I have been told that by an accomplished composer and teacher like Robert Greenberg, the music historian at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. (When he gave a talk in Pittsburgh several years ago) Lumping Baroque, Viennese Classical, Romantic and Modern together under the term "Western Classical" is simply being sloppy and lazy. I believe the term you are looking for is the "Western Concert Repertoire." It's just as easy to use the proper terms.
The Elephant Music is at 45:50
Please, could you take off the figure of Beethoven always present on the screen ? If it is your trade mark, it is not better than Bernsteins's !!! t is really unforgettable, and the vidéo should be meuch better. Thanks.
Интересно, сам Бернстайн это видел?
46:58 Somebody farts
I posted a new video explaining how Beethoven's loss of hearing made created a massive increase in his capacity to process variables between Symphony #2 and Symphony #3, making him the world's greatest composer
C'est la Révolution Française en musique.
Bernstein is perfection - unfortunately the video is not. The sound lags the picture by a slight amount. Someone would do the world (OK, me) a big favor by syncing it back up. I ain't got no skillz.
First movement with no problems:
ua-cam.com/video/jMebWqEcSZg/v-deo.html
unfortunately video and audio not in synch 🥱
Looks fine to me...maybe it's your internet service?
44:16 fugue
The video being out of sync with the sound is infuriating 😂 the sound is late by about a beat lol (at least at the beginning - haven’t watched it all)
It's perfect on my screen...
Half speed
who's the concertmaster?
Gerhart Hetzel
@@mieyo1606 thanks for the response. I love UA-cam videos of Berlin philharmonic. I’ve seen him and other members at different ages
@@mieyo1606 ty!
The commercial breaks right in the sets for several times and prolonged durance are a disgrace! What is culture become? Everything is about selling useless crap. That here is music on highest level, but you have to cut in commercials. Not between the sets, no, no! Right into the movements!
Lenny was always good, especially with B. Don't overlook here that there is not one female in the orch=it wasn't til 1997, that they allowed that, not that it matters to Beethoven.
It pains me to know that as wonderful as the VPO was/is, its formal policy was that it did not hire female musicians until abt 25 yrs ago. That's really kind of medieval thinking!
Commercials right in the middle!! Uuugh
Ужасающий асинхрон. Нельзя такие видео выкладывать. Звук опаздывает на целую долю. Это дискредитирует дирижерское искусство.
Great performance, of course. But did anyone notice that all the musicians in the orchestra are the same gender? Times have changed.