Mine, too. How lucky can they be??? I'm in So. Cal. Let's see how many neighbors we can reach between the two of us. Mine also get to listen to the opening music from The Third Man, and especially we all enjoy that rousing version of the Marseillaise from the scene in Casablanca.
Ludwig van Beethoven A man who wrote countless pieces of music, each and every one a masterpiece in a class of its own A man who lost the will to live after the discovery he wouldn't be able to hear music, the only undisputed passion in his life, but gave up on suicide because "he couldn't bare to leave this world before he had left it with his work" A man whose composing remained as masterful during his deafness, some say it improved A man who restlessly broke the rules of music, even implementing choir in a symphony A man who has been dead for centuries, but is actually immortal and brought back to life every time his music is performed A man whose music is recognized by those that don't listen to him at all A man whose music is now considered boring by the majority and still manages to get 75 Million listeners A legend in all of its glory!
actually its pronounced Ludwig van Beethoven Ein Mann, der unzählige Musikstücke geschrieben hat, jedes ein Meisterwerk der Extraklasse Ein Mann, der nach der Entdeckung den Lebenswillen verloren hatte, konnte keine Musik hören, die einzige unbestrittene Leidenschaft in seinem Leben, aber er gab den Selbstmord auf, weil "er es nicht ertragen konnte, diese Welt zu verlassen, bevor er sie verlassen hatte mit seiner Arbeit " Ein Mann, dessen Komposition während seiner Taubheit ebenso meisterhaft geblieben ist, sagen manche, es habe sich verbessert Ein Mann, der unruhig gegen die Regeln der Musik verstieß und sogar Chor in eine Sinfonie einführte Ein Mann, der seit Jahrhunderten tot ist, aber eigentlich unsterblich ist und jedes Mal, wenn seine Musik aufgeführt wird, wieder zum Leben erweckt wird Ein Mann, dessen Musik von denen erkannt wird, die ihn überhaupt nicht hören Ein Mann, dessen Musik inzwischen von der Mehrheit als langweilig betrachtet wird und immer noch 75 Millionen Hörer erreicht Eine Legende in all ihrer Pracht!
Two things: First, I believe most people don't find the music boring; it's the pompous, elitist, stuffed-shirt attitude surrounding a lot of classical music that drives people away. When they hear it "in the wild" they tend to love it as much as ever. Secondly, I've said before and will say again that Beethoven going deaf didn't stop him from hearing the music. It only stopped him from hearing the distractions.
I was actually there when they performed this, volunteering some of my time to work backstage. (putting out food for the musicians lol) This is a pretty good recording, but I have to say, there is NOTHING like hearing this live. It doesn't matter where you live or who performs it, if you get a chance to hear Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, TAKE IT!!!
Imagine if you will, that Beethoven was almost completely deaf when he wrote this. The only way he could "hear" the music he was composing was to remove the legs from his piano, lay on the floor with his head on the piano, and pound on the keys as hard as he could. We truly stand on the shoulders of giants.
Even then it's known that he never heard this excellent piece. He was not able to properly conduct by the time this was first played in public and he couldn't hear the applause of the crowds (unknown to him someone else was conducting and they had to turn him round to see the reaction of the crowd for he was fully deaf).
I went looking for this comment. That lady is the figurehead for the orchestra and the choir; this entire performance an act of passion. Is she purely a performer or is she the director also? She is seriously invested in this (excellent) performance!
Sarthak Choudhary I already know this but I was just stating how a man who had lost all hearing could still brings something so majestic into this world.
agree. i listen to it every day, you take my 85 yr's in this world and add it up, that's how many time's i have heard this. toid my 4 children to play it when i die.
@@annalatter7098...and I thought the several hundred times I heard this piece in the last 40 years were impressive. I hope you can still enjoy it often.
Almost 90 and have listened to this since my late teens to lift my spirits when I'm emotionally down. The 2nd movement of his incredible adagio is another incredible piece.
The greatest masterpiece ever composed. On its debut, Beethoven's first violinist had to turn him around to see the adulation of the audience. He was stone deaf. He is the greatest musician who ever lived!
You will listen to Beethoven's 5th concerto performed by Pollini and Karl Böhm from 1979. Deutsche Welle gramophone. great piano sound!!! attention!! high quality !!!
I'm listening to this song on my Bose wireless Bluetooth headphones and it's like I'm right there in the audience listening to this masterpiece! Wonderful!
Im pure rock, like AC DC, Ozzie, even the Beatles. I was introduced to this ny my late wife and was pure majestic!! I had tears then and now that she has passed, I listen to this almost nightly with my headphones. Im absolutely sure mmy wife is listening woth mme, I geel her presence. Perhaps the brst piece of musice written.. I even enjoy the flash mob versions on UA-cam. Everyone should listen to any version of this majestic piece of heaven!
You know how sometimes you get a tune "stuck" in your head, and you sometimes can't seem to get rid of it? Well, from what I have read, Beethoven had this tune "stuck" in his head since he was nine or ten years old. He doesn't write it down until he's old and completely deaf.
Tell you what..i heard this tune when i was around 9. My dad bought a casio electronic piano and it was one of the auto playing melody in it. I liked it very much. Growing up i forgot it and one day accidentally come across a video on youtube 'girl drops a coin' and there you go. Then i found all history behind it.
He s so lucky to go deaf with this masterpiece in his head. These days it would be a pepsi or coke jingle that would drive you mad. Read the story of its first performance. It ll bring a tear to your eye
I have had this stuck in my head for two weeks now. The way to get rid of an ear worm is to hear it end. You brain wants it to end. Beethoven had the extra challenge of having to write it. If you look at music as math, Beethoven resolved Pi with this. By the way he died at 56, not young but not old either. He did write it at 53.
Isabel, Beethoven certainly used the Mozart riff as inspiration, but Beethoven completed it, expanding the ending. Hearing the Mozart piece now, it sounds like something is missing.
Arguably the best piece of music written....ever. True story: as a metalhead, I gained massive appreciation for the depth and “heaviness” of this piece from a music class decades ago. The back story just makes it that much more majestic. It still gives me goosebumps.
I absolutely agree! It adds even more to it when you add some contex. Image yourself living in this era where you don't have access to music as you do now. Hell, it may have been a month since you've heard a good violin. And you sit there, among all those other people, hanging on to each note. Imagine how hard that chorus would have hit when that's the first music you've heard in weeks?
My favourite part is watching the soloist in the blueish dress looking at the other soloists sing with SO MUCH APPRECIATION and genuine joy. She really knows how to appreciate music! I absolutely adore her. And I agree with another commenter - any chance one gets to listen to this symphony live, we ought to take it! I haven't had the luck yet. Some day!
I'm a rock musician but absolutely mesmerized by the talent and flawless perfection of classical musicians. I write simple music I'm just in awe of these great compsers and their ability to write the score for dozens of instruments.
Even with many of those instruments playing the same part, there are *still* so many moving parts to create the classical homophony. Mesmerizing is the perfect word
Imagine if you will, that Beethoven was almost completely deaf when he wrote this. The only way he could "hear" the music he was composing was to remove the legs from his piano, lay on the floor with his head on the piano, and pound on the keys as hard as he could. We truly stand on the shoulders of giants.
There are reports that perhaps in the very distant future we will become fatter and sadder, we will have longer arms and legs and big heads for small brains! 17:01
Im listened to this tune when I was younger. And Dads from Hamburg Germany. And has told me about the past in Europe. It's our pleasure to have a great man who was ahead of his time. I live in Australia and at school no teacher ever talked about this man. So lovely to listen to. 👌
I have been blessed to be in 2 chorus groups years ago. Have sung this twice with the The Cincinnati Orchestra & once with The Lexington (Kentucky) Orchestra; twice in German & once in English. The uniting of our vocal instruments with the orchestra instruments is beyond measure! Goosebumps everytime I hear it, mixed with tears of joy! God's masterpiece by way of Beethoven's immense talents. I am thankful! 🎵🎶🎵
He teaches me that man can reach undreamed of heights if he dedicates himself to his passion and pursues it through all the ups and downs of life. May I find that depth my tiny life
What an iconic piece of music that symbolizes our idea of an inclusive, utopia world, with the irony that one person excluded from it being the composer himself, Ludwig van Beethoven.
This entire symphony is staggering in its beauty. The Ode to Joy adds an ethereal element and we are transported to a far better place. The fact that this was written by a man who was deaf is mind-blowing in its implications of the ability of man to overcome disabilities..
I'm fascinated by the lady in the white gown ,her facial expression as she watches everyone else sing..you can tell shes just enjoying this immensely. I've always been fascinated by the body language of a Classical Orchestra..So serious. Master Chess players have more animation.
I'll tell ya, I get goosebumps everytime I listen to this version of "Ode to joy" just so majestic and epic. It is probably my favorite classical piece of music that I've ever heard! Beautiful!!
cette symphonie est un chef-d'oeuvre sans contestation et la jeune femme à la robe blanche ajoute un plaisir , à la voir sourire à la performance des autres solistes !****
Well, Beethoven was always a creative composer of real genius and the Man lives forever in his music and in his fans around the face of our world. Beethoven, the immortal one!
This masterpiece is divine intervention and the DIVINE is everywhere because we’re a part of ALL THAT IS anyway☀️and this masterpiece reminds us to be joyful 🎉
I was going to let it go but I just had to comment, the lady in the beautiful white dress, she really enjoys what she is doing, no, she it seems loves to sing Beethoven, and I mean nothing in a bad or negative way about this, she has a kind of wide eyed joy about what she is doing, and I have just too much free time.
+Eric Day Yeah, I noticed that too, and it made me smile. :) It's almost like she would be singing the words along with the bass and tenor if she could, and she's trying really hard not to!
Around the 5:00 minute mark always brings tears to my eyes. It is a celebration of the human experience, the yearning for freedom and liberty. Absolutely stirs the soul!
As Nietzsche said, life without music, would be a mistake. There’s a reason it’s the anthem of the European Union. Music is the great unifier. After 80+ years of Franco-German tensions and wars that brought Europe to ruin twice over (and the rest of the world too), the ECSC and European Community ensured that it’d never happen again. All that aside, what a fkn banger
This TENOR is a GEM! I have heard numerous recordings of the 9th by great orchestras of the world, and wow, he sings this piece better than most of them. There are lots of potential pitfalls in this music but he handles them well without losing the operatic quality of his voice. I certainly hope to hear him again. Thanks for posting.
Yeah, most of them that have commented are complaining that it wasn't performed well But it was a volunteer orchestra of amateurs that knew how to play their instruments Also, the critics never seem to be able to produce anything even remotely close to the "critiqued" work
Now thats music, true music, what we listen to nowadays is rubbish it hurts the ears and conveys no feelings .. this music stimulates all your senses, man you encounter various feelings mixture of emotion yet its fabulous !!
Golden Era This is great music no doubt, but... have you ever listened to PinkFloyd? Scorpions? Eric Clapton? Queen? etc. I'm not talking about rap kind of shit... I'm talking about music... actual music. We have it too nowadays...
Golden Era there's no such thing as good or bad music, just what you like and don't like...there are however shades of complexity and subtlety, that's objective.This is complex and wonderful without being tight-assed or boring, IMO. As far as Mr B, Moonlight Sonata is one of the most amazing and unique things I've ever heard...never gets old, that mixture of beauty, and utter, crushing desolation and tragedy
To the Greatness of Mankind, to the miracles We are yet ought to achieve, and to the Beauty that underlies in each and every of our realisations... AMEN !
Having seen many orchestras and choral singers performing this piece, I have to say that what makes this performance stand out above all the rest is quite simply the conductors’ collar...pure Beethoven🎼
Never have a chance to attend the real concert. This piece is one of my favorite over the last 4 decades. It is really uplifting. When I need a spirit boost, I turn to this one. Thanks for the upload.
I don't know why but when I listen to "Beethoven's Ode To Joy" I think Christmas. Maybe I just watched Die-hard to many times. From the bottom of my heart a sincere thank you goes out to Michael Kamen for bringing me here. As one of the most epic majestic classical pieces there is. But this full version of "Ode To Joy" is just nothing short of "WOW."👏 PERIOD.
Ludwig van Beethoven You are such an AMAZING musician. Thank you for your works. I kiss the hands of the conductor and every musician of the magnificent orchestra...
When he composed he saw in his minds eye the score/ book finished with All parts written at the same time and formatted like a full score like this conductor is using .Maestro .Ty Johann S Bach for influencing him 🌹
I am reminded that this GLORY was scored to be a triumphant shout... this is the first time that I've heard the angelic chorus and I wept for the joy of it. BRAVO!
Anyone who hasn't seen a full orchestra play live is missing out, it doesn't even really matter what music they are playing. Even the best recording played on the best sound system falls so far short that it fails comparison. The experience, for me, is as transcendent as, in my youth, watching the sun rise from the top of table mountain while on acid. Ignore the stuffy image that orchestral concerts evoke, smoke a dooby, book your ticket and prepare to be blown away.
Very uplifting composition to which the orchestra have brought each and every note to life. The voices individual and jointly add that "wow"-factor to the score.
I haven't given myself a "me" moment for ever-so this AM--I sat and played this and was moved to tears! I had forgotten just how beautiful and moving BEETHOVEN could be. Only very ignorant people could put thumbs down on this joyous musical celebrating the Brotherhood of MANKIND! BUT in this era of hate and violence in USA against our "fellow citizens" where secret conspiracies are believed and tolerated I can believe THOSE people would give a thumbs down. WE need MORE BROTHERHOOD and less hatred in our world!
Beautiful. I cried when I first listened to this masterpiece. Even now, I still have goosebumps every time I listen to it. Beethoven was really a master of his art. 😍
What a fabulous performance! The Conductor, the Orchestra, and the Choir were all absolutely magnificent. And I would marry the soprano at the drop of a hat! Well done everyone!
I love the enjoyment that the alto soloist seems to take from the baritone and tenor soloists in this video. The soprano seems to be in her own little world.
Encore…encore…Fantastic, fantastic. I thank you! My ears have thirsted for this for some time considering this modern era. Once again I thank you and am so glad to have had the opportunity to hear this.
For those of a certain spiritual vibration this music links them directly with god. I have personally heard this symphony several hundred times and the more I hear it the greater it moves me, in recent years consistently moving me to tears.
When I listen to "Ode to Joy" so do my neighbors...
Mine, too. How lucky can they be??? I'm in So. Cal. Let's see how many neighbors we can reach between the two of us. Mine also get to listen to the opening music from The Third Man, and especially we all enjoy that rousing version of the Marseillaise from the scene in Casablanca.
Same. This piece really takes off at high volume.
I’m on the East Coast-half the county hears when I play the Ninth Symphony.
Hell yeah
On how many decibels do you play it on?
Does anyone else cry happy tears listening to the sections of this movement? Absolute perfection even 200 years later
Me too, everytime.
Somebody said to me have you been crying, I said no I have been listening to Beethoven!
The piece, yes, absolute perfection. This rendition of it, not so much.
Hell yeah! One of the most stirring music pieces ever written.
Same🥺
Ludwig van Beethoven
A man who wrote countless pieces of music, each and every one a masterpiece in a class of its own
A man who lost the will to live after the discovery he wouldn't be able to hear music, the only undisputed passion in his life, but gave up on suicide because "he couldn't bare to leave this world before he had left it with his work"
A man whose composing remained as masterful during his deafness, some say it improved
A man who restlessly broke the rules of music, even implementing choir in a symphony
A man who has been dead for centuries, but is actually immortal and brought back to life every time his music is performed
A man whose music is recognized by those that don't listen to him at all
A man whose music is now considered boring by the majority and still manages to get 75 Million listeners
A legend in all of its glory!
actually its pronounced
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ein Mann, der unzählige Musikstücke geschrieben hat, jedes ein Meisterwerk der Extraklasse
Ein Mann, der nach der Entdeckung den Lebenswillen verloren hatte, konnte keine Musik hören, die einzige unbestrittene Leidenschaft in seinem Leben, aber er gab den Selbstmord auf, weil "er es nicht ertragen konnte, diese Welt zu verlassen, bevor er sie verlassen hatte mit seiner Arbeit "
Ein Mann, dessen Komposition während seiner Taubheit ebenso meisterhaft geblieben ist, sagen manche, es habe sich verbessert
Ein Mann, der unruhig gegen die Regeln der Musik verstieß und sogar Chor in eine Sinfonie einführte
Ein Mann, der seit Jahrhunderten tot ist, aber eigentlich unsterblich ist und jedes Mal, wenn seine Musik aufgeführt wird, wieder zum Leben erweckt wird
Ein Mann, dessen Musik von denen erkannt wird, die ihn überhaupt nicht hören
Ein Mann, dessen Musik inzwischen von der Mehrheit als langweilig betrachtet wird und immer noch 75 Millionen Hörer erreicht
Eine Legende in all ihrer Pracht!
Beautifully said.👍
Two things:
First, I believe most people don't find the music boring; it's the pompous, elitist, stuffed-shirt attitude surrounding a lot of classical music that drives people away. When they hear it "in the wild" they tend to love it as much as ever.
Secondly, I've said before and will say again that Beethoven going deaf didn't stop him from hearing the music. It only stopped him from hearing the distractions.
75 million views. My favorite dinosaur was alive back then!
Heroes are remembered.
Legends never die.
The choral bit breaks me every time. Something inside me goes hot, like I'm feeling true love of humanity expressed musically.
Thought it was just me. 😊
The man was deaf when he wrote this, pure genius
Kevin Hosking what do you mean he *was* deaf? Beethoven was deaf his whole life
Jonah Reed no he wasn't. He started deafening in the later years of his life.
I was going to say that - his hearing deteriorated.
Although dear by the time he wrote this masterpiece he was not always deaf.
Most of us now that Beethoven was deaf and this is not filmed when beethoven was around
Beethoven was never totally deaf, but he needs to be very close to the object to hear the sound.. besides, you can create a musical piece with MATH
All of someone like me. Playing our hearts out. When we are from not knowing. Frustrated that's me. I am breathing.
English please
I was actually there when they performed this, volunteering some of my time to work backstage. (putting out food for the musicians lol) This is a pretty good recording, but I have to say, there is NOTHING like hearing this live. It doesn't matter where you live or who performs it, if you get a chance to hear Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, TAKE IT!!!
Totally agree. I attended it 3 years ago at the Cairo Opera House in Egypt. It was unforgettable.
I did!!! I was touristing in Vienna at the time the Berliner Phylarmonic presented the 9th. Unforgettable, priceless moments!
I wish I can😥
Noted
Okay... i will if i can.. ❤️
Imagine if you will, that Beethoven was almost completely deaf when he wrote this. The only way he could "hear" the music he was composing was to remove the legs from his piano, lay on the floor with his head on the piano, and pound on the keys as hard as he could. We truly stand on the shoulders of giants.
Even then it's known that he never heard this excellent piece. He was not able to properly conduct by the time this was first played in public and he couldn't hear the applause of the crowds (unknown to him someone else was conducting and they had to turn him round to see the reaction of the crowd for he was fully deaf).
It takes a special kind of person to give Beethoven's Ode To Joy a thumbs down.
***** Most likely some troll though.
M1A1cavalryman Mozart fans
M1A1cavalryman Yeah, "special".
M1A1cavalryman Man wrote the whole thing completely deaf. I'm openmouthed.
M1A1cavalryman Great composer, not a great performance especially the soloists ... therefore thumbs down.
I love how the alto soloist looks at the other soloists with her undivided attention - it's incredibly respectful.
She was saying "you gone get it TONIGHT!!"
I went looking for this comment. That lady is the figurehead for the orchestra and the choir; this entire performance an act of passion. Is she purely a performer or is she the director also? She is seriously invested in this (excellent) performance!
Eh?
Agreed. The other one, meanwhile, is making eye contact with people she knows in the audience.
I was thinking the same thing about her. I could feel her singing in her head, and supporting him. I half expected her to tell him he had nailed it.
This piece of art was written by a Deaf man.............this gives testament to the capability of what humans can achieve.
What if I told you... He knew how to read and write music, so it didn't really matter, he could hear it in his mind
Sarthak Choudhary I already know this but I was just stating how a man who had lost all hearing could still brings something so majestic into this world.
+R. Kidd yeah you're right
+Sarthak Choudhary Before I enter in the magnificent world of classical music I thought that Beethoven was born deaf
Makes me cry not the meme
Who else gets goosebumps and the big happy from this masterpiece?
Same here
If you don't I fear you have no soul.
Everyone.
I do.
I do.
This song is the greatest piece of music known to mankind and it will be like that forever.
agree. i listen to it every day, you take my 85 yr's in this world and add it up, that's how many time's i have heard this.
toid my 4 children to play it when i die.
@@annalatter7098...and I thought the several hundred times I heard this piece in the last 40 years were impressive. I hope you can still enjoy it often.
Amen
Almost 90 and have listened to this since my late teens to lift my spirits when I'm emotionally down. The 2nd movement of his incredible adagio is another incredible piece.
Not a song...
The greatest masterpiece ever composed. On its debut, Beethoven's first violinist had to turn him around to see the adulation of the audience. He was stone deaf. He is the greatest musician who ever lived!
there are thousands of princes!!!! Beethoven is the only one!!! 😊😊😊
You will listen to Beethoven's 5th concerto performed by Pollini and Karl Böhm from 1979. Deutsche Welle gramophone. great piano sound!!! attention!! high quality !!!
12:51 this next part always gives me goose bumps, that’s when I crank the volume even higher and get a spine tingling sensation!!
early 19th century beat drops lol
My fav part (& has been since 6th Grade, ~30yrs ago), starts at the 3:40 mark. ^_^
(I can even play that on the piano)
The crescendo beforehand.....😢😢
Germans were dropping the bass 200 years ago
Vay be porçayı burada görmek snbdkhs
Germans? This piece was produced and played in Vienna.... back 200 years ago.
SFW
@CloudyDaze007 this isn't even opera
@@PyroShiz why are there so many idiots here? this piece was composed by ludwig van beethoven, who was born in köln. he is german.
I'm listening to this song on my Bose wireless Bluetooth headphones and it's like I'm right there in the audience listening to this masterpiece! Wonderful!
Im pure rock, like AC DC, Ozzie, even the Beatles. I was introduced to this ny my late wife and was pure majestic!! I had tears then and now that she has passed, I listen to this almost nightly with my headphones. Im absolutely sure mmy wife is listening woth mme, I geel her presence. Perhaps the brst piece of musice written.. I even enjoy the flash mob versions on UA-cam. Everyone should listen to any version of this majestic piece of heaven!
You know how sometimes you get a tune "stuck" in your head, and you sometimes can't seem to get rid of it? Well, from what I have read, Beethoven had this tune "stuck" in his head since he was nine or ten years old. He doesn't write it down until he's old and completely deaf.
Tell you what..i heard this tune when i was around 9. My dad bought a casio electronic piano and it was one of the auto playing melody in it. I liked it very much. Growing up i forgot it and one day accidentally come across a video on youtube 'girl drops a coin' and there you go. Then i found all history behind it.
He s so lucky to go deaf with this masterpiece in his head. These days it would be a pepsi or coke jingle that would drive you mad. Read the story of its first performance. It ll bring a tear to your eye
I have had this stuck in my head for two weeks now. The way to get rid of an ear worm is to hear it end. You brain wants it to end. Beethoven had the extra challenge of having to write it. If you look at music as math, Beethoven resolved Pi with this.
By the way he died at 56, not young but not old either. He did write it at 53.
Maybe because he had heard it already ua-cam.com/video/u5dGgwydwG4/v-deo.html minute 0:55 :)
Isabel, Beethoven certainly used the Mozart riff as inspiration, but Beethoven completed it, expanding the ending. Hearing the Mozart piece now, it sounds like something is missing.
Arguably the best piece of music written....ever.
True story: as a metalhead, I gained massive appreciation for the depth and “heaviness” of this piece from a music class decades ago. The back story just makes it that much more majestic.
It still gives me goosebumps.
I absolutely agree!
It adds even more to it when you add some contex. Image yourself living in this era where you don't have access to music as you do now. Hell, it may have been a month since you've heard a good violin. And you sit there, among all those other people, hanging on to each note.
Imagine how hard that chorus would have hit when that's the first music you've heard in weeks?
Beethoven was the OG headbanger.
My favourite part is watching the soloist in the blueish dress looking at the other soloists sing with SO MUCH APPRECIATION and genuine joy. She really knows how to appreciate music! I absolutely adore her. And I agree with another commenter - any chance one gets to listen to this symphony live, we ought to take it! I haven't had the luck yet. Some day!
I loved it when they all started singing together and the whole orchestra came alive
I'm a rock musician but absolutely mesmerized by the talent and flawless perfection of classical musicians. I write simple music I'm just in awe of these great compsers and their ability to write the score for dozens of instruments.
Even with many of those instruments playing the same part, there are *still* so many moving parts to create the classical homophony. Mesmerizing is the perfect word
Imagine if you will, that Beethoven was almost completely deaf when he wrote this. The only way he could "hear" the music he was composing was to remove the legs from his piano, lay on the floor with his head on the piano, and pound on the keys as hard as he could. We truly stand on the shoulders of giants.
i'll never forget the first time i heard this at Lincoln Center. i cried it was so beautiful :')
Paul Becker me too !
I'm happy for you
Lincoln Center is an amazing place, especially to witness a performance like this!!!
Champion perform❤❤❤
It never ceases to amaze me that no matter which version I watch, the conductor is always disheveled at the end - must take a lot of energy to do this
They all become Beethoven-like to the end! 🙂
LOL!
As long as Beethoven and Mozart are still played, there is hope for the future of humanity.
To me all the composers did a great job but the problem is some composers music is not played enough like the prominent ones we hear all the time
There are reports that perhaps in the very distant future we will become fatter and sadder, we will have longer arms and legs and big heads for small brains! 17:01
Some scientists believe that within the next few decades, it could be possible for humans to live 1,000 years or more.
But we may not be able to mitigate the threat posed by asteroid and comet collisions. 17:18
Undoubtably one of the greatest pieces of music ever written.
Im listened to this tune when I was younger. And Dads from Hamburg Germany. And has told me about the past in Europe. It's our pleasure to have a great man who was ahead of his time. I live in Australia and at school no teacher ever talked about this man. So lovely to listen to. 👌
One of the greatest works of art in the known history of mankind. Humanity is so amazing.
I have been blessed to be in 2 chorus groups years ago. Have sung this twice with the The Cincinnati Orchestra & once with The Lexington (Kentucky) Orchestra; twice in German & once in English. The uniting of our vocal instruments with the orchestra instruments is beyond measure! Goosebumps everytime I hear it, mixed with tears of joy! God's masterpiece by way of Beethoven's immense talents. I am thankful! 🎵🎶🎵
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Who ever you are how ever old you are this is the music you should be passing on to your children don't deprive them of culture.
7:47 I love when all the soloists sing together and then the choir comes in full swing! UGH, MY HEART! The rest is so impowering!
Same!
I always fire this up during the holidays. An eternal treasure.
Mozart was a genius and Beethoven a miracle. Two most precious gifts to humanity.
He teaches me that man can reach undreamed of heights if he dedicates himself to his passion and pursues it through all the ups and downs of life. May I find that depth my tiny life
What an iconic piece of music that symbolizes our idea of an inclusive, utopia world, with the irony that one person excluded from it being the composer himself, Ludwig van Beethoven.
This entire symphony is staggering in its beauty. The Ode to Joy adds an ethereal element and we are transported to a far better place. The fact that this was written by a man who was deaf is mind-blowing in its implications of the ability of man to overcome disabilities..
I'm fascinated by the lady in the white gown ,her facial expression as she watches everyone else sing..you can tell shes just enjoying this immensely.
I've always been fascinated by the body language of a Classical Orchestra..So serious. Master Chess players have more animation.
I haven't given the whole of the 9th Symphony a listen, but thank God I did, thank you Beethoven, you have blessed my listening ears 😊
Beethoven's music transcends the Milky Way. 13:24
Thank you Beethoven. Thank you Mr. Neumann. Thank you Folsom Symphony. Thank you soloists. Thank you to whoever posted this. Freude!
The sheer joy of the conductor at the end is so very rewarding. Hands down the best performance of this song I have ever seen.
12:52 You're welcome.
+Chess Minutes Good moment, but so is the vocal solo at 7:01
+Chess Minutes thank you!
thanks you very much
+Chess Minutes Thanks! I was looking for that part!
i love you
I'll tell ya, I get goosebumps everytime I listen to this version of "Ode to joy" just so majestic and epic. It is probably my favorite classical piece of music that I've ever heard! Beautiful!!
cette symphonie est un chef-d'oeuvre sans contestation et la jeune femme à la robe blanche ajoute un plaisir , à la voir sourire à la performance des autres solistes !****
I'm very fond of Beethoven's "Ode to Joy". It's an eternal work of art.
Kudos to the Folsom Symphony for their performance of this masterpiece.
OMG, if you thumbs down one of the GREATEST COMPOSERS IN HISTORY, then you're just messed up or really hate good music.
this is very good music
i know, right
Thanks for keeping Beethoven alive
Well, Beethoven was always a creative composer of real genius and the Man lives forever in his music and in his fans around the face of our world.
Beethoven, the immortal one!
This masterpiece is divine intervention and the DIVINE is everywhere because we’re a part of ALL THAT IS anyway☀️and this masterpiece reminds us to be joyful 🎉
Beautiful stuff. No choir of a million, no orchestra of a zillion. Competent artists is all it takes. Beautiful!
this song makes me cry with joy
I was going to let it go but I just had to comment, the lady in the beautiful white dress, she really enjoys what she is doing, no, she it seems loves to sing Beethoven, and I mean nothing in a bad or negative way about this, she has a kind of wide eyed joy about what she is doing, and I have just too much free time.
+Eric Day Yeah, I noticed that too, and it made me smile. :) It's almost like she would be singing the words along with the bass and tenor if she could, and she's trying really hard not to!
+AkumuKarasu Really funny right, but you have to love her.
The lady in the white gown is really into the entire performance and you can see the joy in her face Bravo
The Alto? Yes damn what an artist, hellova Woman, too.
Why are you so apologetic about it?
Listening to songs by Beethoven after a long hard day is peaceful and makes my day
I can never get enough from the 9th symphony
This is what an epic classical piece is meant to sound like! Beethoven would have been proud!
I doubt so.
The best there was and the best there ever will be. This is the pinnacle of music and the ultimate artistic comeback. Epic.
Around the 5:00 minute mark always brings tears to my eyes. It is a celebration of the human experience, the yearning for freedom and liberty. Absolutely stirs the soul!
As Nietzsche said, life without music, would be a mistake.
There’s a reason it’s the anthem of the European Union. Music is the great unifier.
After 80+ years of Franco-German tensions and wars that brought Europe to ruin twice over (and the rest of the world too), the ECSC and European Community ensured that it’d never happen again.
All that aside, what a fkn banger
Just wondering if you know the reason behind Beethovens reason of making this piece of music?
I know the reason already.
Masterpiece, absolutely.
My heart soars every time I hear it.
This TENOR is a GEM! I have heard numerous recordings of the 9th by great orchestras of the world, and wow, he sings this piece better than most of them. There are lots of potential pitfalls in this music but he handles them well without losing the operatic quality of his voice. I certainly hope to hear him again. Thanks for posting.
As for the thumbs down to this immortal masterpiece remember this....critics are to art what pigeons are to statues.
Yeah, most of them that have commented are complaining that it wasn't performed well
But it was a volunteer orchestra of amateurs that knew how to play their instruments
Also, the critics never seem to be able to produce anything even remotely close to the "critiqued" work
and pigons to conan are LUNCH As he hangs on the tree of wooo
Face it, THEY HAVE NO SOUL!!!
@@halperin9109 I think a middle school orchestra playing this couldn’t ruin it. They’d have to hit some good parts, as it’s so beautiful!
That Asian tenor soloist absolutely killed it. Sensational.
So relaxing! I love it!
Amazing no matter how many times you've heard it...
Can anyone tell me the name of the soprano
Now thats music, true music, what we listen to nowadays is rubbish it hurts the ears and conveys no feelings .. this music stimulates all your senses, man you encounter various feelings mixture of emotion yet its fabulous !!
You are really close-minded.
Golden Era I concur! I find classical music invigorating, calming and beautiful! Beethoven forever!
Golden Era
This is great music no doubt, but... have you ever listened to PinkFloyd? Scorpions? Eric Clapton? Queen? etc.
I'm not talking about rap kind of shit... I'm talking about music... actual music. We have it too nowadays...
Golden Era there's no such thing as good or bad music, just what you like and don't like...there are however shades of complexity and subtlety, that's objective.This is complex and wonderful without being tight-assed or boring, IMO. As far as Mr B, Moonlight Sonata is one of the most amazing and unique things I've ever heard...never gets old, that mixture of beauty, and utter, crushing desolation and tragedy
Golden Era Well said!
Always listening on this great great masterpiece
Greatest piece of music EVER.
To the Greatness of Mankind, to the miracles We are yet ought to achieve, and to the Beauty that underlies in each and every of our realisations... AMEN !
Having seen many orchestras and choral singers performing this piece, I have to say that what makes this performance stand out above all the rest is quite simply the conductors’ collar...pure Beethoven🎼
12:54 is the critical moment separating a carefully approaching introduction and a wonderfully joyful line following. A delicacy!
Never have a chance to attend the real concert. This piece is one of my favorite over the last 4 decades. It is really uplifting. When I need a spirit boost, I turn to this one. Thanks for the upload.
This is beyond BRILLIANT ---Bravo
Can't wait to give Beethoven ANOTHER Go!!
this is perfection in music. heaven on earth. thank you for give us this diamant
It’s rare to find a good performance of this live. Well done, sir.
I don't know why but when I listen to "Beethoven's Ode To Joy" I think Christmas. Maybe I just watched Die-hard to many times. From the bottom of my heart a sincere thank you goes out to Michael Kamen for bringing me here. As one of the most epic majestic classical pieces there is. But this full version of "Ode To Joy" is just nothing short of "WOW."👏 PERIOD.
Ludwig van Beethoven You are such an AMAZING musician. Thank you for your works. I kiss the hands of the conductor and every musician of the magnificent orchestra...
Fabulous! My choir is singing this soon (16th November 2019), and it's so good to hear the last movement in its entirety.
This is stirring on so many levels.
The stars in the night sky can't
Add up to be more than the sum of the this intense beauty
When he composed he saw in his minds eye the score/ book finished with All parts written at the same time and formatted like a full score like this conductor is using .Maestro .Ty Johann S Bach for influencing him 🌹
I am reminded that this GLORY was scored to be a triumphant shout... this is the first time that I've heard the angelic chorus and I wept for the joy of it. BRAVO!
Anyone who hasn't seen a full orchestra play live is missing out, it doesn't even really matter what music they are playing. Even the best recording played on the best sound system falls so far short that it fails comparison. The experience, for me, is as transcendent as, in my youth, watching the sun rise from the top of table mountain while on acid. Ignore the stuffy image that orchestral concerts evoke, smoke a dooby, book your ticket and prepare to be blown away.
Bos Hagedash ten bucks says a slayer concert is better than a live orchestra
@@jacobklug7816 you've got to be kidding me...
Jacob Klug :/
Jacob Klug shame on you
Beyond BRILLIANT ---Bravo to all
This 4th movement of Beethoven's 9th symphony is my favorite! I LOVE the "0de to Joy" and the music accompanying the singing of this piece!
Beethoven is my favorite composer. He touches the soul like no other. He was truly the master and still is💕
Very uplifting composition to which the orchestra have brought each and every note to life. The voices individual and jointly add that "wow"-factor to the score.
I haven't given myself a "me" moment for ever-so this AM--I sat and played this and was moved to tears! I had forgotten just how beautiful and moving BEETHOVEN could be. Only very ignorant people could put thumbs down on this joyous musical celebrating the Brotherhood of MANKIND! BUT in this era of hate and violence in USA against our "fellow citizens" where secret conspiracies are believed and tolerated I can believe THOSE people would give a thumbs down. WE need MORE BROTHERHOOD and less hatred in our world!
Beautiful. I cried when I first listened to this masterpiece. Even now, I still have goosebumps every time I listen to it.
Beethoven was really a master of his art. 😍
This made me cry, I just want to be okay and understand what joy is. They seem so happy. The music is intensely happy. I want to feel like that.
absolutely AMAZING !!!
It brings out surreal emotions in one being.
Watching in the middle of pandemic 2020, this music brings hope for humanity being as one. Alle Menschen werden Brüder :)
Again, Michael, thank you for inviting me to play this great work. And thank you for all the work you do to make the world a better place.
This is the most beautiful expression of the culture that Europe has given the world.
Yes. And the anthem of our European Union. 🇪🇺
I thank god to be alive every time I hear this MASTERPIECE👏👏👏. Thanks to all performers of this great symphony.
What a fabulous performance! The Conductor, the Orchestra, and the Choir were all absolutely magnificent. And I would marry the soprano at the drop of a hat! Well done everyone!
I love the enjoyment that the alto soloist seems to take from the baritone and tenor soloists in this video. The soprano seems to be in her own little world.
Encore…encore…Fantastic, fantastic. I thank you! My ears have thirsted for this for some time considering this modern era. Once again I thank you and am so glad to have had the opportunity to hear this.
Beautifully done.....my favorite Beethoven music.
Que chato bosta que chato!!!!
Vai acabar,acabou chato essa melodia
@@raioxdeborboleta Don't listen if you don't like it.
For those of a certain spiritual vibration this music links them directly with god. I have personally heard this symphony several hundred times and the more I hear it the greater it moves me, in recent years consistently moving me to tears.
Pressed my headphones into my ears.....Eargasm.
I don't know how one could dislike this