Sadly, Beethoven never heard it because he was completely deaf at the time he composed it. He'd written some sketches when he was a lot younger, and there's no doubt he knew what it was going to sound like. It's his gift of joy and hope to mankind :-)
My friend Bob at one of my previous workplaces, said he was never able to get a ticket at the RAH to see this due to the speed the tickets sold out at, but he knew they would be practicing at about 1 to about 2pm he was helping with delivery at the RAH, but he said that exact practice of Ode to Joy with the 127 piece quoir made him just fall to his knees and he was completely sobbing in the loading bay. His one dream was to hear the song played fully at the RAH live with a orchestra. His dream came true he passed away the next year from throat cancer, he was 68 years old the man loved his pipes, books, cups of tea and his Beethoven on his LP. Thank you Bob it was a honor and pleasure to have worked with you. RIP brother.
Holy mother of God, what stellar production values and attention to detail. The vocalists sound *amazing*. The French horns are delectable. Just shockingly great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is the Best version of Beethoven's 9th Symphony. I've listened to it over 20 times in the past 5 years. It was recently taken off UTUBE, but reinstated with a wonderful 5 minutes analysis by the great maestro Daniel Barenboim.
Elias, I probably listen to this symphony several times each month. It was the first symphony I ever listened to and was the beginning of my love for classical music. As the years have gone by I have grown to especially love the third movement in particular, listen with headphones if you get the chance.
I am with you. I discovered this incredibly beautiful performance two weeks ago and I have listened it more than 10 times. Always brings tears to my eyes. What an incredible composer Beethoven was. A marble of human kind.
This is....staggeringly beautiful and I've listened to this [Beethoven] 2, 3, 4 times a year for at least a decade. Whenever I feel empty (or at least recovered from despicable moments of emptiness) Beethoven pulls my heart apart and fills it with everything I'd temporarily forgotten and essentially need to remember.
1st movement 7:36; 2nd movement: 25:45; 3rd movement: 38:36; 4th movement "Chorale": 55:30. You might also enjoy the discussion of the Ninth with Barenboim that precedes the start of the music.
1:09:50: that's always the point that literally gives me goosebumps, when the quiet of the instruments erupts into the full choir. It's absolutely magnificent!
This orchestra performed all nine Beethoven symphonies in a period of slightly a week in this concert hall with this final piece being over an hour in duration. That had to be an incredible amount of work and endurance.
Also, this cycle was scheduled to time with the Olympics in London, with the Ninth performed just before the opening ceremony. The conductor here would later show up in that ceremony as one of the carriers of the Olympic flag.
Having heard and listened carefully to many conductors, I humbly think that Daniel Barenboim is the best, the deepest and the most faithful "Beethovenian" (forgive me for the adjective) conductor alive.
The most beautiful and amazing thing about this performance is all the young people performing it. I cannot imagine a piece of music the surpassed this symphony on all levels. Yes, there are pieces that are more personal to people on different levels, but surely on a musical and human level this piece should be able to speak and move to all of us. Transcend what divides us and bring us to unity and to realise and make us share our shared humanity.
That was a really special performance, the musicians, choir and soloists really seem to embody the spirit of the Ode to Joy. I'm lucky enough to have experienced something similar back in 2015 with the Melbourne Symphony, Australia.
The 9th symphony is probably the greatest piece of music ever written on Earth and really I am not sure if it's not in the entire Universe. What is truly sad about it is that the man who wrote it never heard one single note of its beauty. It was his gift to all of us.
"... never heard one single note of its beauty". Of course he did. The music resounded in his mind and soul. There is no way for him to be able to write a masterpiece, like this, without felling it. Maybe he didn't heard the crowd screaming and applauding, maybe he didn't enjoyed so much the glory, but who cares. He lived his madness in his own way.
He may have not heard it in the traditional sense but he felt it both through vibrations and emotionally. And you're absolutely right ,I don't think music gets any better than this.
Such a pinnacle of accomplishment! But look at us. in 200 years, we have moved from this sublime music to rhythmic shouting of obscenities. and we think we are getting better.
Ce qu'il y a d'extraordinaire, c'est que la musique est un langage universel, que l'on soit au,au sud,à l'est ou à l'ouest, chacun vibre de la même façon suivant la mélodie. C'est un moment de PAIX.
This music, this sublime performance, reconciles me a bit with the life of this earthly existence. Too much rationality is brought back into balance with this brilliant achievement by everyone who has contributed to this. I hope that one day humanity in all its parts will find the strength, the wisdom and the energy to make this music more peaceful and with much more respect to finally get a society here and now where everyone finds balance, can become happy and move forward.
I’m a big fan of the 9th and I had never heard this recording (I kind of collect them these days). This performance had a few unique qualities that I really enjoyed. Masterful performance!
Incredible just adding who Anna Samuil (soprano) Waltraud Meier (mezzo-soprano) Michael König (tenor) René Pape (bass) National Youth Choir of Great Britain West-Eastern Divan Orchestra Daniel Barenboim (conductor)
En esta sinfonia hay momentos que me generan como un TINNITUS ..muy probable es el qie que tenia BEETHOVEN en su cabeza en el padecimiento de su sordera...y en esos momentos desesperantes llega luego una resolución que es el tema resuelto de su sordera....seguramente el sufrio de algo que no podia aceptar lo que estaba oyendo .Un conflicto que se expresa como auditivo pero que es :" no poder creer lo que oigo" .Este director es un despegado total ! De memoria da el carácter de la obra en profunda interpretación con sus musicos....no es un :"marcador de tiempos" Otro argentino despegado como piazzolla como marta argerich ....admirable
It's a shame that even so much later in humanity's course, we still have yet to come close to the utopian ideal envisioned by Schiller. The latest mass shooting at an elementary school in the U.S. brought me here to listen again.
I call the movement beginning at 25:49 The Steeplechase. I envision a dozen or more mounted riders flying across the Virginia countryside, jumping the streams and fences, glorying in a fresh spring morning. Here they come!
In 1968, von Karajan filmed a performance in which both the large chorus as well as the four soloists sang without sheetmusic -- the result was a performance of powerful directness/immediacy. Kudos to the chorus here at RAH for also singing from memory (especially notable for members of the youth choir!), but did the four seasoned soloists here at RAH really need their sheet music for their relatively minimal vocal contribution?!
Classical music vocal soloists almost always use music when performing in a concert. It could be that they simply do not have the time to memorize the music with all of their performances. For instance, opera requires an enormous amount of memorization and it is not voluntary.
Beethoven's 9th symphony is the only "perfect" piece of music every written. It has everything one needs to understand music at a fundamental level. The only thing missing would be piano, but because piano is such a powerful instrument all on its own, Beethoven composed the "Emperor" piece which, much like the 9th, displays his mastery of composition. If you listen to the 9th and don't experience an emotional response, its because you are listening, but not hearing it.
Maestro Barenboim undoubtedly understands Beethoven better than Beethoven. This is the pinnacle of Beethoven's life. Also completely deaf to create a masterpiece such as this is without words the best. This performance is the best I've ever heard. BRAVO
A conductor is indeed the boss and has the authority to lead and dismiss any musucian who plays out of tune out of step or cant shut up before another section needs to play!
Comparing performances could be like comparing apples and oranges everybody has a favorite. Mine has to be the Bernstein Christmas concert from 1989. His pacing that night was perfect and everyone was at their best that night.
It is amazing, he was completely deaf when he wrote this. He had to listen to each instrument in his head. On opening night he was a half a dozen measures off when he was watching the orchestra on stage....
This simphony was first performed in Vienna on 7 May 1824. Today is 7 May 2024, Happy 200 year old birthday.
Sadly, Beethoven never heard it because he was completely deaf at the time he composed it. He'd written some sketches when he was a lot younger, and there's no doubt he knew what it was going to sound like. It's his gift of joy and hope to mankind :-)
Beethoven was a gift to mankind.
Anybody who says this isn't the best symphony of all time is nuts!
Beethoven + 9th + Royal Albert + Royal Philharmonic = Nothing gets better than this
It is in fact the West Eastern Divan Orchestra, not the Royal Philharmonic. But Beethoven + 9th + Royal Albert is definitely a winner.
If you can put into account the state in life of Beethoven, physical and psychological than you know which gift to mankind this truly is.
Ludwig van Beethoven!!!!
What a proper genius ❤
Look at Ludvig overseeing the proceedings. Love how the Proms do this.
That's a bust of Sir Henry Wood founder of the Proms
My friend Bob at one of my previous workplaces, said he was never able to get a ticket at the RAH to see this due to the speed the tickets sold out at, but he knew they would be practicing at about 1 to about 2pm he was helping with delivery at the RAH, but he said that exact practice of Ode to Joy with the 127 piece quoir made him just fall to his knees and he was completely sobbing in the loading bay. His one dream was to hear the song played fully at the RAH live with a orchestra. His dream came true he passed away the next year from throat cancer, he was 68 years old
the man loved his pipes, books, cups of tea and his Beethoven on his LP. Thank you Bob it was a honor and pleasure to have worked with you. RIP brother.
Holy mother of God, what stellar production values and attention to detail. The vocalists sound *amazing*. The French horns are delectable. Just shockingly great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is the Best version of Beethoven's 9th Symphony. I've listened to it over 20 times in the past 5 years. It was recently taken off UTUBE, but reinstated with a wonderful 5 minutes analysis by the great maestro Daniel Barenboim.
Agree. I listen to it while reading....it’s so beautiful and Daniel Barenboim is a superb conductor of this symphony.
Elias, I probably listen to this symphony several times each month. It was the first symphony I ever listened to and was the beginning of my love for classical music. As the years have gone by I have grown to especially love the third movement in particular, listen with headphones if you get the chance.
@@kevinmckeever6163 Thank you. My first symphony I listened to in my youth was Beethoven's Fifth, at the shop of my eldest brothers, and I got hooked.
I agree. Better than Herbert von Karajan.
I am with you. I discovered this incredibly beautiful performance two weeks ago and I have listened it more than 10 times. Always brings tears to my eyes. What an incredible composer Beethoven was. A marble of human kind.
This is....staggeringly beautiful and I've listened to this [Beethoven] 2, 3, 4 times a year for at least a decade. Whenever I feel empty (or at least recovered from despicable moments of emptiness) Beethoven pulls my heart apart and fills it with everything I'd temporarily forgotten and essentially need to remember.
Same here..❤ Beethoven is cosmic. There's no words to describe How big Beethoven is. I love him since childhood from the bottom of my heart.❤🌌
I feel exactly the same in my soul.
1st movement 7:36; 2nd movement: 25:45; 3rd movement: 38:36; 4th movement "Chorale": 55:30. You might also enjoy the discussion of the Ninth with Barenboim that precedes the start of the music.
Thanks Anne
Ode to joy :D
Why do they call it movements.?
Thanks! This is really helpful
1:09:50: that's always the point that literally gives me goosebumps, when the quiet of the instruments erupts into the full choir. It's absolutely magnificent!
Very good, but I prefer the prelude to that moment, starting 1:08:10.
Yes, and after that, from 1:18:57 onwards, until the end, were my favourite parts.
I always tell my EDM & techno loving friends that Beethoven invented the "Delayed Drop" and let them hear that buildup
@@renshiwu305
I agree the best version of Beethoven's 9th Symphony
1:03:42 "Freude! "
1:05:01 "Seele"
1:05:49 "Kusse"
1:09:49 Best part
This orchestra performed all nine Beethoven symphonies in a period of slightly a week in this concert hall with this final piece being over an hour in duration. That had to be an incredible amount of work and endurance.
Also, this cycle was scheduled to time with the Olympics in London, with the Ninth performed just before the opening ceremony. The conductor here would later show up in that ceremony as one of the carriers of the Olympic flag.
@@VV_PaVria Thank you! I didn’t know that.
Makes me wonder what Beethoven went through and had to do to end up writing such a piece!
@@ZachDrake5960 Watch the movie "Immortal Beloved" starring Gary Oldman for a perspective.
The stairs to heaven!
Having heard and listened carefully to many conductors, I humbly think that Daniel Barenboim is the best, the deepest and the most faithful "Beethovenian" (forgive me for the adjective) conductor alive.
This truly is the best piece of music ever written...
And probably one would be hard pressed to find a better recorded performance of it.
yes, but the third movement still sucks an egg it's slooooow and booorrrrring
5th first movement is the best
@@mandellelithere's only 4 movements. Unless you mean the last part of the finale?
@@Dravianpn02 They mean the 1st movement of the Fifth Symphony.
there are many versions on TH-cam, but this is exceptional.
This is exceptional. The musicians engagement, mastery, and focus is so captivating. The videography and editing is also done impeccably.
The most beautiful and amazing thing about this performance is all the young people performing it. I cannot imagine a piece of music the surpassed this symphony on all levels. Yes, there are pieces that are more personal to people on different levels, but surely on a musical and human level this piece should be able to speak and move to all of us. Transcend what divides us and bring us to unity and to realise and make us share our shared humanity.
Happy 200th anniversary to the eighth wonder of the world
I don’t know how many times I slide back to make this symphony never end. I think this music is the summation of all that is good about our humanity.
That was a really special performance, the musicians, choir and soloists really seem to embody the spirit of the Ode to Joy. I'm lucky enough to have experienced something similar back in 2015 with the Melbourne Symphony, Australia.
The 9th symphony is probably the greatest piece of music ever written on Earth and really I am not sure if it's not in the entire Universe. What is truly sad about it is that the man who wrote it never heard one single note of its beauty. It was his gift to all of us.
"... never heard one single note of its beauty".
Of course he did. The music resounded in his mind and soul. There is no way for him to be able to write a masterpiece, like this, without felling it. Maybe he didn't heard the crowd screaming and applauding, maybe he didn't enjoyed so much the glory, but who cares. He lived his madness in his own way.
Forget music, this is the greatest single piece of art ever thought of by mankind.
They put this piece of music on the disk aboard the Voyager spacecraft. It is now among the stars.
He may have not heard it in the traditional sense but he felt it both through vibrations and emotionally. And you're absolutely right ,I don't think music gets any better than this.
He heard this symphony in his mind much better. And he feels the vibrations of this applauding.
What an absolutely inspiring performance....I wish I could have been there!
Did Beethoven edited this Performance? It sure looks like he did.
38.46 is the start of of one of the most beautiful pieces of music in history.
Such a pinnacle of accomplishment!
But look at us. in 200 years, we have moved from this sublime music to rhythmic shouting of obscenities. and we think we are getting better.
Gran gran gran director ! Maravillosa interpretacion
When the conductor waves his hands to applause at the musicians he
Presenting them to you!
Best ever performance of the 9th.
One of the most powerful pieces of music in the entire history of music. Thank you LVB.
Best creation on Earth done by man!
No scores for singers, and all four sections interspersed with one another. EXTRAORDINARY!
A triumphant performance.
Premiered 200 years ago (1824) today 🎉
The 9th symphony always and ever alleviates my mood and spirit. It refreshes and removes stress. It cuts through the soul.
Espectacular, mis respetos a Daniel Baremboim
Classical music is some of the best stuff to come out of Western culture. Beautiful.
Out of all 9th symphony, I find this work by Daniel Barenboim the best of all.
Ja assisti esse vídeo umas 100x, me emocionei em todas. Magnífico!!
Estupendo!Assisti inteiro pela primeira vez graças ao seu comentário🤝.🇧🇷🇩🇪
Barenboim tempos were exciting…entire ensemble performed brilliantly!
這是人間音樂嗎？聽了多場演奏，這是我最喜愛的版本，如果我是現場聽眾，我相信我會感動掉淚的，
Ce qu'il y a d'extraordinaire, c'est que la musique est un langage universel, que l'on soit au,au sud,à l'est ou à l'ouest, chacun vibre de la même façon suivant la mélodie. C'est un moment de PAIX.
This music, this sublime performance, reconciles me a bit with the life of this earthly existence. Too much rationality is brought back into balance with this brilliant achievement by everyone who has contributed to this. I hope that one day humanity in all its parts will find the strength, the wisdom and the energy to make this music more peaceful and with much more respect to finally get a society here and now where everyone finds balance, can become happy and move forward.
BEETHOVEN we love you❤
Ludwig my soul forever!
Extra credit points 'cause your last name is Bach!! 😉
CONNIE YOU ARE SO BEAUTIFUL ADORABLE SEDUCTIVE RAVISHING SENSUAL SEXY CAPTIVATING AND PASSIONATE MARRY ME ❤
Übermenschliches Meisterwerk.
Simply awesome
Masterpiece!!!!!!!
I can't imagine this performance being surpassed by another. So moving. Thank you Danny and WEDO and NYCofGB thank you.
Starts at 07:48
Thank you!
Thanks
Just Beautifull and in my opinion very emotional.
A moment in time at the climax of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, with vocals from memory! Amazing ! PaH
I’m a big fan of the 9th and I had never heard this recording (I kind of collect them these days). This performance had a few unique qualities that I really enjoyed. Masterful performance!
I listen to this at least 4 to 5 times a year !
Sublime. Thank you for sharing.
Absolutely Brilliant! Thank you!
Incredible
just adding who
Anna Samuil (soprano)
Waltraud Meier (mezzo-soprano)
Michael König (tenor)
René Pape (bass)
National Youth Choir of Great Britain
West-Eastern Divan Orchestra
Daniel Barenboim (conductor)
Top Class. Well Done All. Well done 'National Youth Choir'.
simplemente hermosa!
Amazing, deep and powerful.
Immortal Beloved !
Excelente. Las pausas, los silencios. El 2° movimiento es genial. Excelente además el bajo Rene Pape.
I love L.V. Beethoven and Germany for such an excellent composer. For me once and the greatest! His 9th symphony in particular - unattainable!
Germany produced this Genius. And yet,... Germany.
Sehr schöne beeindruckende Musik, wunderschön vorgetragen.
En esta sinfonia hay momentos que me generan como un TINNITUS ..muy probable es el qie que tenia BEETHOVEN en su cabeza en el padecimiento de su sordera...y en esos momentos desesperantes llega luego una resolución que es el tema resuelto de su sordera....seguramente el sufrio de algo que no podia aceptar lo que estaba oyendo .Un conflicto que se expresa como auditivo pero que es :" no poder creer lo que oigo" .Este director es un despegado total ! De memoria da el carácter de la obra en profunda interpretación con sus musicos....no es un :"marcador de tiempos" Otro argentino despegado como piazzolla como marta argerich ....admirable
glorious music!
Wonderful!!!
It mindblow that People who wnt on the first concert lived to tell the storys late in 1900 on radik or television.
I'm sorry to have to say this, but, yes, your mind is blown....
@@timmartin6274 why?
천하의 명곡입니다 !
Stunning! Superb.....
Que maravilla!!!!!
It's a shame that even so much later in humanity's course, we still have yet to come close to the utopian ideal envisioned by Schiller. The latest mass shooting at an elementary school in the U.S. brought me here to listen again.
Was Schiller that utopian when he commands millions to bow down before a father beyond the canopy of stars?
Daniel Barenboim i Orkiestra - kocham Was 😘😘😘
Can we just say it... Beethoven was an alien. Not of this world! I have to go with the alien theory.
I call the movement beginning at 25:49 The Steeplechase. I envision a dozen or more mounted riders flying across the Virginia countryside, jumping the streams and fences, glorying in a fresh spring morning. Here they come!
In 1968, von Karajan filmed a performance in which both the large chorus as well as the four soloists sang without sheetmusic -- the result was a performance of powerful directness/immediacy. Kudos to the chorus here at RAH for also singing from memory (especially notable for members of the youth choir!), but did the four seasoned soloists here at RAH really need their sheet music for their relatively minimal vocal contribution?!
Classical music vocal soloists almost always use music when performing in a concert. It could be that they simply do not have the time to memorize the music with all of their performances. For instance, opera requires an enormous amount of memorization and it is not voluntary.
Amazing beetho ji sir
Divine
Magnificent
That looks like an elderly Daniel Barenboim.... now there's a man who really knows music and how to extract the best from a good orchestra
Best music, heavenly. Beethoven is gift from creator.
One of. These movements was used for introduction for a news broadcast!!
Beethoven's 9th symphony is the only "perfect" piece of music every written. It has everything one needs to understand music at a fundamental level. The only thing missing would be piano, but because piano is such a powerful instrument all on its own, Beethoven composed the "Emperor" piece which, much like the 9th, displays his mastery of composition. If you listen to the 9th and don't experience an emotional response, its because you are listening, but not hearing it.
cf. Choral Fantasy
Magnifique !!!!!! DE NICE COTE D AZUR
1:14:16 most triumphant moment of the whole symphony.
The first time that the two themes of the movement are played together in an overwhelmingly glorious double fugue. Definitely up there.
My favorite
Maestro Barenboim undoubtedly understands Beethoven better than Beethoven. This is the pinnacle of Beethoven's life. Also completely deaf to create a masterpiece such as this is without words the best. This performance is the best I've ever heard. BRAVO
I dont rate Barenboim as you do , good yes but he has many peers
@Chetok Thank you for your comment. By the way, where are you located? I'm in Mexico.
❤❤❤Bravooooo!!!
Barenboim an expert in beethoven musics!!
Beethoven so Nice
TH-cam comments so stupid
A conductor is indeed the boss and has the authority to lead and dismiss any musucian who plays out of tune out of step or cant shut up before another section needs to play!
Playing music is no joke it's very serious what you do up there!
Keeping a tight orchestra wagon as they used to say is important!!!
Sometimes there is interlude when a former section quiets down at the same time the latter is coming in!
The best sound of blend has a lot of interlude!
Hey that's the great hymn" joyful joyful we adore thee!!!
this is art! no more comment
Comparing performances could be like comparing apples and oranges everybody has a favorite. Mine has to be the Bernstein Christmas concert from 1989. His pacing that night was perfect and everyone was at their best that night.
It is amazing, he was completely deaf when he wrote this. He had to listen to each instrument in his head. On opening night he was a half a dozen measures off when he was watching the orchestra on stage....
1:08:10 ....this is out of this world...just listen....
So many people are there...
astute observation
greeaatt...
Grandiosa