Iván Fischer about Ludwig van Beethoven

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  • Опубліковано 27 тра 2013
  • The Hungarian conductor Iván Fischer shares his love for Ludwig van Beethoven Beethoven. In words and music he explains his passion and tells how Beethoven changed the world. "Beethoven changed something essential in the function of music".
    Fischer: “At times Beethoven was an extreme introvert and at other times, he really just wanted to open up and express himself to people. If you come to all the concerts, I think you will go home with the feeling that you know Beethoven personally.”
    In 2013 Fischer stayed for some time in Amsterdam because he was working on a Beethoven symphonies cycle together wit het Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
    More music: www.vpro.nl/vrijegeluiden
    This video was recorded in Bimhuis Amsterdam for VPRO Vrije Geluiden: music program made by the Dutch public broadcast organization VPRO
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 157

  • @Transition333
    @Transition333 5 років тому +94

    I love Ivan! He not only is a great conductor but he explains music to the public in a beautiful, understandable way.

    • @gardikagigih5704
      @gardikagigih5704 3 роки тому +6

      totaly agree! so eduacative

    • @memattia3198
      @memattia3198 2 роки тому +3

      And he is a really kind person, you can see it in his eyes!

    • @brontaylor3481
      @brontaylor3481 3 місяці тому

      You cab see it when he conducts too.@@memattia3198

  • @Assalariado762
    @Assalariado762 5 років тому +42

    Now I know that I´m not a crazy man, I am just like Iván Fischer when listening Beethoven

  • @MeisterSegarra
    @MeisterSegarra 10 років тому +54

    He made me smile with every word he spoke

  • @adamdonovan5633
    @adamdonovan5633 4 роки тому +35

    This man is a miracle of vitality and musicianship...like Beethoven himself. He has taken us into the very heart of the great composer. Magnificent....!!

  • @murigius1
    @murigius1 3 роки тому +31

    Oh my gosh! I don't know what I enjoy more... watching Ivan Fischer explain why he loves Beethoven, or watching him artfully and lovingly conduct Beethoven's symphonies. Amazing man. Men. Both.

  • @johnoconnor8721
    @johnoconnor8721 6 років тому +33

    " if Beethoven where here you would be afraid of him". I love that.

  • @emilyla6415
    @emilyla6415 8 років тому +110

    I love someone as passionate about Beethoven as I am :)

  • @yolandevandenberg9037
    @yolandevandenberg9037 4 роки тому +22

    This gives me such a precious appreciation of boisterous Beethoven's genuineness, intensity, intimacy, humour, energy.

  • @babakashtari6470
    @babakashtari6470 Рік тому +8

    I have always said that Beethoven was the first film maker, use your imagination, open your mind and you will soon see what Beethoven pictured in his mind when wrote his music. Absolute genius.

  • @gokturkozge6171
    @gokturkozge6171 3 роки тому +13

    I am a huge fan of Ivan Fischer , what a passionate guy.

  • @lucagunetti7250
    @lucagunetti7250 4 роки тому +25

    And that's why I start to love Ludwig at the age of 7 and never stopped loving HIM

    • @catherineono3387
      @catherineono3387 Рік тому +1

      Me too

    • @katrinat.3032
      @katrinat.3032 Місяць тому

      The more I listen to LVB the more I love him. I can listen to the music so many times and never get tired of it

  • @vivekbammi5133
    @vivekbammi5133 4 роки тому +47

    How wonderful - two passions coming together in an incredible symphony! Wish we could've heard Ivan for two hours- he brings Beethoven alive like no one else. The "heroic" person in the Eroica is none other than Beethoven himself, my great hero!

    • @22triggy
      @22triggy 2 роки тому +1

      Mind blown.

    • @katrinat.3032
      @katrinat.3032 Місяць тому

      And the hero is all of us. Just like Beethoven had to overcome the worst possible thing that could happen to him, his deafness we all have to overcome the burdens and hurts in our life. Beethoven is the quintessential symbol of triumph.

  • @raf1651
    @raf1651 Рік тому +11

    How beautiful, I have never heard Ludwig van Beethoven explained like this. My favourite composer!

    • @katrinat.3032
      @katrinat.3032 Місяць тому

      On UA-cam Claudio Abbado also has great explanations about LVB

    • @raf1651
      @raf1651 Місяць тому

      @@katrinat.3032 I just love Claudio Abbado, a great conductor, he will be sorely missed, one of the greatest Italian musicians!!!

  • @flaviocruciani8563
    @flaviocruciani8563 3 роки тому +8

    look at his face how much he loves it when the third sinphony starts

  • @viragosildiko2
    @viragosildiko2 8 років тому +33

    the best and most enthusiastic comments about a person, music. My favorite artist /conductor the Hungarian Ivan Fischer!!

  • @thesupper9984
    @thesupper9984 9 років тому +22

    It is always wonderful to see such enthusiasm.

  • @riteshajoodha4401
    @riteshajoodha4401 6 років тому +13

    I love this man's enthusiasm! Beethoven is my hero.

  • @didinachtergaele
    @didinachtergaele Рік тому +3

    This is Love ..... (music is Love - feelings - being touched)

  • @raquelguerrero4443
    @raquelguerrero4443 3 місяці тому +2

    Me gusto muchisimo su explication. Mi imagen de Bethoven se aclaro de una manera sorprendente. Thank u so much.

  • @apusapus71
    @apusapus71 Рік тому +4

    Beethoven was the first composer to attempt to connect with me (and this was before I was even born). I'm still waiting for the second.

    • @donaldallen1771
      @donaldallen1771 Рік тому

      Listen to the last 20 minutes of the Bach St. Matthew Passion. Then listen to the whole thing.

  • @andreasandreotti4492
    @andreasandreotti4492 4 роки тому +4

    I like Ivan´s enthusiasm to put words in music as if he exclaims a poem out of heart!

  • @Talmovies
    @Talmovies 2 роки тому +3

    This intervieuw is so wunderfull. I love him and Beethoven ♥️

  • @peymannoor5820
    @peymannoor5820 5 років тому +8

    Wow thank you.
    Loving Beethoven in a far far distance to every beloved one. And loving you for these works

  • @nandinirao6035
    @nandinirao6035 11 місяців тому +1

    What an utterly brilliant dissertation on the genius of Beethoven ! Maestro Fischer has in this video superbly analysed some of the works of the Master, his style his other worldly sheer genius, Fischer understands him so well and takes us laymen through all the nuances of the music and helps us to understand why he wrote the music he did and what he wished to convey. He was revolutionary, his music was so revolutionary, a wake up call to us slumbering mortals totally unafraid , unparalleled grandiosity, heart rending pathos, infinite romanticism, he wrote it all, all the colours of the musical spectrum in all its magnificence . Thank you Maestro for helping us to understand , to put into words and describe so beautifully , the moods and nuances of the genius of Beethoven!👏👏👏👏

  • @sakrrdiedei6857
    @sakrrdiedei6857 4 роки тому +5

    Happy 250. birthday Ludwig van ❤️

  • @scheepalicious
    @scheepalicious 11 років тому +9

    IMMENSELY entertaining and educational.

  • @mrnarason
    @mrnarason 9 років тому +9

    extremely insightful, the history lesson was amazing

  • @pianistadanielseixas
    @pianistadanielseixas 5 місяців тому +1

    O maior intérprete de Beethoven vivo! Bravo Maestro! ❤

  • @SuPeRNinJaRed
    @SuPeRNinJaRed 7 років тому +16

    The interviewer is just like... aw fug, I dont really need to be here. Just do your thing Ivan!

  • @tarisaimuchineripi4472
    @tarisaimuchineripi4472 10 років тому +16

    amazing explanations!!!

  • @katrinat.3032
    @katrinat.3032 2 роки тому +3

    I love this! Now I know I’m not the only one who sees things like sprouting crocus during Beethoven 😁. I LOVE the 4th symphony

  • @McIntyreBible
    @McIntyreBible 3 роки тому +3

    Fisher’s description of Beethoven and his music draws a person to the genius!

  • @wertherland
    @wertherland 2 роки тому +5

    Awesome! Absolutely loved every minute of this interview.

  • @Interspirituality
    @Interspirituality 2 роки тому +2

    Fischer is a LEGEND. This is lovely.

  • @andrejansen5699
    @andrejansen5699 4 роки тому +2

    This is so inspiring on the eve of my visit to Bonn to the Beethovenhaus in the 250th year of the commemoration of his birth. Thank you Iván Fischer.

  • @prairiecollectors
    @prairiecollectors 3 роки тому +3

    fantastic summary about Beethoven. Thank you Ivan. I truly enjoyed this.

  • @catherineono3387
    @catherineono3387 Рік тому +2

    I cannot remember a time of my life when Beethoven was not there. As a child I would put on a record of one of his symphonies, and in the dark conduct it.

  • @McIntyreBible
    @McIntyreBible 3 роки тому +4

    When you listen to Fisher you can sense his passion for music!

  • @KyotoMelody
    @KyotoMelody Рік тому +1

    How great Fisher talks about Beethoven! I thought I was listening to Beethoven in words, facial expression, and gestures! I wish the talk were much longer! Thank you!

  • @erpollock
    @erpollock 5 місяців тому +1

    I also love Ivan Fisher. He signed my program years ago and said he must get back home (in Hungary?) where his wife is preparing Passover. So I felt an attachment to him. He confessed to all he was a Jew.

  • @erdalonurhan8056
    @erdalonurhan8056 Рік тому +2

    I am speechless...

  • @ericeric-gy3xq
    @ericeric-gy3xq 3 роки тому +3

    Bravo , je vous admire ! Quelle leçon de vie au travers de Beethoven....

  • @themaskedviolinist1075
    @themaskedviolinist1075 6 років тому +4

    Great Ivan!!! Thank you so much Maestro! I love Beethoven too :)

  • @manik92015
    @manik92015 4 роки тому +4

    Best video on music.he is fiery 6:56

  • @muzgash
    @muzgash 3 роки тому +5

    Out of nowhere - A Wild Beethoven emerged!

  • @waggawaggaful
    @waggawaggaful 2 роки тому +10

    For me, Beethoven introduces unbridled emotion into formal music that didn't exist in earlier classical and baroque periods. He was the first to incorporate *any* emotion - anger, despair, grief, passion, jealousy, horror, fear - and not just the pleasant, pretty, tranquil, soothing and safe sounds and emotions of his predecessors.

    • @22triggy
      @22triggy 2 роки тому +4

      Wow just wow, I always wondered why as a 6 year old I was drawn to Classical. I grew up in a very poor area 50 yrs ago on a council estate in the NW of England, and Classical music was unheard of. It always set my heart pounding, it was so unusual that my Dad drove me to my mothers uncle who was a proper audiophile to see what he thought, I sat in his front room just me and him for about 3 hrs with his headphones on, going through his huge collection to see what it was that fired me up, some of it I didn't get at all but there was a lot I did. We stayed another 2 or 3 hrs while he made me a ton of tapes for me to take home. I was fascinated how you could make music from a record jump onto a tape😆. "Uncle Alf' was fascinated by my reactions, he said I was showing complete Joy in my face and body language. I was very traumatised as a kid and Classical took me somewhere else for a short time. I now know why.

    • @waggawaggaful
      @waggawaggaful 2 роки тому +1

      @@22triggy I was fairly traumatized as well and music was a huge escape for me as well.

    • @grafplaten
      @grafplaten Рік тому

      Listen to Monteverdi's Orfeo (1607), and then reevaluate your statement.

    • @annedwyer797
      @annedwyer797 Рік тому +2

      I agree! For me, Beethoven has an emotional power and intensity that no other composer has.

    • @rsr789
      @rsr789 Рік тому

      ​@@grafplaten I've seen the opera... it's not even close to Beethovens level of music. The last impressive thing in regards to art in the Renaissance is music. It took the middle and really the late Baroque era to make a real breakthrough. Monteverdi whilst excellent for his time, was far less of an influence to future composers Bach and others, until the very late 18th century, and even then rather slowly.
      There is a reason why in their lifetime and continuously after their deaths, Bach and Beethoven have been paced at the top of the pantheon of music.

  • @dinaschirripa95
    @dinaschirripa95 2 роки тому +1

    LUDWIG BEETHOVEN IS MY FAVOURITE COMPOSER - BUT AFTER THE LECTURE OF THIS WELL KNOWLEDGED MAN - I LIKE BEETHOVEN EVEN MORE ------

  • @jrbleau
    @jrbleau 3 роки тому +1

    "Isn't it wonderful?!!!" - almost superfluous given his enthusiasm over the previous 15 minutes!

  • @newenglandartiste
    @newenglandartiste 4 роки тому +6

    I love his enthusiasm and his expression as the end of the 3rd movement builds into the 4th movement of the 5th symphony. I can definitely
    relate to his explanation. "Wait, heartbeat, like it would search for something, heartbeat, where is it, look, look, here is comes! Then
    arrival" Got to love it!

  • @samuil_maxim
    @samuil_maxim 11 місяців тому +1

    Passion painted with words...!!!

  • @JBorda
    @JBorda 2 роки тому +1

    It made me weep

  • @jettjaguar8150
    @jettjaguar8150 2 роки тому +2

    OUTSTANDIBG WORK SIRS , thank you for this !!!

  • @ekaterinakozlovskaia8082
    @ekaterinakozlovskaia8082 9 місяців тому

    Such an awesome explanation from Ivan Fischer! Thank you for posting!

  • @jasonwright7513
    @jasonwright7513 3 роки тому +5

    Who in the world could downvote this. People who hate music? Thank God for Beethoven, a shining light on a world that going straight down the drain.

  • @fccr6909
    @fccr6909 3 роки тому +1

    My favorite director !!!Iván greath☘️☘️👍👍👍

  • @michelangelomulieri5134
    @michelangelomulieri5134 3 роки тому +1

    Very well done talk! Fully agree!

  • @ameldgashgari
    @ameldgashgari 3 роки тому +1

    You are wonderful. Very sensational, expressive & passionate . I fully enjoyed every word you said and every move you made.

    • @waggawaggaful
      @waggawaggaful 2 роки тому +1

      "sensational, expressive & passionate" - like beethoven!

  • @francoiscouture2011
    @francoiscouture2011 2 роки тому

    So convincing...Thanks maestro!

  • @beatrixvantil8623
    @beatrixvantil8623 Рік тому

    wonderful !

  • @elenibakanikolovska238
    @elenibakanikolovska238 3 роки тому +14

    the journalist was not up to such a conversation with a man who has a lot to say

    • @alexplatjadaro-yx2nn
      @alexplatjadaro-yx2nn 3 місяці тому +1

      I think he did well
      And listened

    • @isqueirus
      @isqueirus Місяць тому

      When you have someone who has a lot to say, just let him speak. That's what the journalist did

    • @tonyfluxman7596
      @tonyfluxman7596 Місяць тому

      No not at all! He allows the conductor to show the genius of the composer. He is unlike most Jo who talk to much and know very little

  • @perserkatzehaarig01
    @perserkatzehaarig01 Рік тому +1

    Was für ein Poet! Ein ganz großer Musiker!

  • @giandomenicogalluzzi7015
    @giandomenicogalluzzi7015 2 роки тому

    BRAVO !!!

  • @antoniosilva7083
    @antoniosilva7083 Рік тому

    Grande Iván!

  • @SkillerDee
    @SkillerDee 11 років тому +1

    Ik word helemaal blij van die man

  • @scottmclennan6114
    @scottmclennan6114 2 роки тому +4

    "Isn't it wonderful?" Yes Ivan it certainly is.

  • @lawrencetaylor4101
    @lawrencetaylor4101 Рік тому +1

    Beethoven needs to have passionate people conduct his symphonies.
    My Radiology Professor loved to tell the story of Beethoven and Paget's Disease, in which his bones started growing after adulthood. A patient will complain that his hat is getting smaller. (We lived in different times back then). The bones of his auditory canal crushed the nerves, rendering him deaf.

  • @wilsonshields6769
    @wilsonshields6769 Рік тому

    A master musician. What a brilliant man

  • @AnthonyStJohn1
    @AnthonyStJohn1 3 роки тому

    Bravo! Bravo!! Bravo!!!

  • @JustThesis
    @JustThesis 10 місяців тому

    Isn't it wonderful? It's wonderful!

  • @redbrian3655
    @redbrian3655 4 роки тому +4

    I just listened to Fischer conduct the RCO in the 7th ua-cam.com/video/-4788Tmz9Zo/v-deo.html and thought "Now THIS is a conductor who understands Beethoven"... and then I see this interview. It all comes together. 6:53 Beethoven displays his sense of humor!

    • @mcbm000
      @mcbm000 3 роки тому

      The same here. Exactly the same!

  • @lawrencetaylor4101
    @lawrencetaylor4101 5 місяців тому

    Ivan Fischer is full of life.

  • @montymonto6430
    @montymonto6430 3 роки тому +4

    As clear as Beethoven's music itself. No Mumbo Jumbo!

  • @Nobilangelo
    @Nobilangelo 3 роки тому +1

    13:00 In the finale of the Eroica the oboe leads the way into the great and grand version of the little pizzicato theme that began the movement.

  • @omarrafik2422
    @omarrafik2422 7 років тому +26

    He can't seem to control himself when the music is on.

  • @84Bevin
    @84Bevin 2 роки тому

    Fischer's talking about the 5th symphony 3 movement is great

  • @orlandomendez2753
    @orlandomendez2753 2 роки тому +1

    It is just Beethoven, yes it is beautiful
    I give thanks to God for that incredible chance, the chance of having Beethoven on earth

  • @marleneorein9484
    @marleneorein9484 10 місяців тому

    Beethoven: my beloved Immortal ❤🥰💗💞💞💞

  • @VallaMusic
    @VallaMusic Рік тому +1

    i maintain Beethoven 3rd symphony created the biggest tectonic shift in all of music - Stravinsky Rite of Spring being a close second

  • @BrucknerMotet
    @BrucknerMotet 10 років тому +4

    6:53 someone has a sense of humor (whoopie cushion!)

  • @flaviocruciani8563
    @flaviocruciani8563 3 роки тому +1

    his face at 02:21 🧡

  • @elisabethlooijschelder4974
    @elisabethlooijschelder4974 Рік тому

    ❤Indeed.

  • @elisabethlooijschelder4974
    @elisabethlooijschelder4974 Рік тому

    ❤Wonderful inreed.

  • @sfbirdclub
    @sfbirdclub Рік тому

    I loved this. But I really wish one of the titans of modern symphonic music would include the Pastoral in their explication. The very definition of changing moods, but with no battles--other than nature-- and it tuns out to be lit-giving.

  • @FirstGentleman1
    @FirstGentleman1 8 років тому +7

    I don't understand if people can say that their favourite composer is Grieg or Rachmaninov (nothing against them) when we have Beethoven or Bach.

    • @RodCorkin
      @RodCorkin 8 років тому +5

      Beethoven's favourite was Handel. :)

    • @SpaghettiToaster
      @SpaghettiToaster 7 років тому +1

      It means that other people have different tastes from yours. This is easy to understand for a lot of people.

    • @FirstGentleman1
      @FirstGentleman1 7 років тому +1

      Yeah, I can respect that. It is not their fault. My problems only starts when they insult great composers because they don't feel them.

    • @dimitrigiok
      @dimitrigiok 3 роки тому +3

      Rachmaninov is marvelous, but I think there is no composer to match Beethoven’s diversity and genius

  • @v3le
    @v3le 11 місяців тому

    Iván Fischer: trust me bro
    Vrije Geluiden:

  • @sesh7357
    @sesh7357 Рік тому

    What articulation!!

  • @colinboyd9121
    @colinboyd9121 5 років тому +4

    Really eloquent guy.

  • @DS-yg4qs
    @DS-yg4qs 3 роки тому +1

    Slavoj Žižek of conductors.

  • @22triggy
    @22triggy 2 роки тому +1

    9.56 Floodgates opened the dam has burst.

  • @davidstein1376
    @davidstein1376 Рік тому

    Vudda guy!!!!!!!!

  • @SuPeRNinJaRed
    @SuPeRNinJaRed 7 років тому +4

    6:56 wtf is that noise he is making btw???

  • @mckernan603
    @mckernan603 Рік тому +1

    And Beethoven's opinion of Bonaparte wasn't theoretical: The French bombarded and occupied Vienna in 1809, he took cover in a cellar.

  • @br4nigan
    @br4nigan 2 місяці тому

    I popped an edible before finding this and it's blowing my mind

  • @jlaurson
    @jlaurson 9 років тому +3

    A little more entertaining than educational, as it is willing to embrace the cliche for the sake of making a point (the aristocracy wasn't actually or even metaphorically dead, during Beethove's time, rather it paid his bills... and the orchestra of the premiere of the Eroica [there's a recording of the same size orchestra in the place it was premiered on NEOS (www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B001C58N60/nectarandambr-20) with Daniel Grossmann, for those interested] was rather smaller than that used for late Mozart Symphonies or Haydn's Paris or London symphonies... but yes, Fischer Iván is entertaining to watch and listen to. The same sparkle and enthusiasm that can be heard on many of his recordings.

  • @shivshankarmenon2160
    @shivshankarmenon2160 4 роки тому +2

    A wonderfully illuminating and inspiring interview. But it isn’t entirely correct to say that Beethoven severed all connection between his Third Symphony and Napoleon. True enough, on hearing of Napoleon’s coronation, he tore up the title page - with its heading “Buonaparte”- in a fit of fury. But when the symphony appeared in print , the title (in Italian) still referred to Napoleon , though without naming him - “ Heroic Symphony in memory of a great man “.

  • @user-su4qz8zp9u
    @user-su4qz8zp9u 2 роки тому

    What is the name of the mozart divertimento?

  • @jaimebernalromero9394
    @jaimebernalromero9394 Рік тому

    Porfavor traduzcan o pongan títulos no todos sabemos idiomas y si nos interesamos en el querido betito

  • @pedroortegon9378
    @pedroortegon9378 10 років тому

    Video de triple concierto

  • @josephclarkclassicalandfaith

    Aka while everyone hated him while he was alive. Now they love him . Ironic

  • @imfernemland4294
    @imfernemland4294 Рік тому +3

    Shame for the interviewer, he's not feeling it at all.