Beethoven - Symphony No. 6 (Proms 2012)

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  • Prom 12: Beethoven Cycle -- Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6
    Beethoven - Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 (Pastoral)
    1 - Allegro ma non troppo
    2 - Andante molto mosso
    3 - Allegro
    4 - Allegro
    5 - Allegretto
    West--Eastern Divan Orchestra
    Daniel Barenboim, conductor
    Royal Albert Hall, 23 July 2012
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  • @nigelmaybury4362
    @nigelmaybury4362 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1014

    My wonderful father is 96 and about to die from the effects of deep dementia. He and I have listened to this beautiful symphony many times both together and apart. I am listening today in my Dad's honour and sending him my thoughts and appreciation of all that he taught me through my 73 years. I am one of the most fortunate men on this beautiful planet and echo the appreciation offered here to Beethoven by so many sensitive humans, who enjoy the work of a man who was, I believe, a genius. Vielen dank Ludwig :)

    • @smicksatusadotnet
      @smicksatusadotnet ปีที่แล้ว +29

      Nigel, my dad would be 85 this year if dementia hadn't already taken him 9 years ago.
      "Pastoral" was one of the gifts he gave me early in life, along with Led Zeppelin and Peter Gabriel!
      May yours have Peace.

    • @mrlion9279
      @mrlion9279 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      my heart ❤ with u from a millwall boy we ain't all nasty our team we born

    • @StimParavane
      @StimParavane ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Sending you compassionate thoughts for this difficult time. I appreciate your thoughtful comment.

    • @nigelmaybury4362
      @nigelmaybury4362 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@StimParavane Thank you for your kindness. It is much appreciated. May I recommend another beautiful piece of music to you? It is a marvelous piano duet by Schubert: th-cam.com/video/IiIabr2ymgs/w-d-xo.html I hope you really enjoy it.

    • @jeannecraig3388
      @jeannecraig3388 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      God bless you and your father

  • @paulocorreiafilho
    @paulocorreiafilho 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1785

    Have you noticed that there are no toxic people in the comments? Rare thing nowadays. Classical music only attracts good people.

    • @suhasg.r.6538
      @suhasg.r.6538 3 ปีที่แล้ว +137

      True, I have never seen a hate comment..... But that is only because this divine music cannot be hated!!!

    • @lunagoodhart5489
      @lunagoodhart5489 3 ปีที่แล้ว +110

      Recently I find myself tuning into the classical radio station when I'm driving my car because there's no crap, no advertising, when the radio presenter speaks its only about the music and the creation of it.

    • @valeriechapman1612
      @valeriechapman1612 3 ปีที่แล้ว +72

      Well said Pauli Correa. Only good natured people listen to Beethoven’s Symphony No.6 and realise that they can enjoy the beauty of the countryside from their own lounge. I’ve enjoyed ‘The Pastoral ‘ since I was a child and enjoy every movement. Beethoven was a lover of the countryside or else why would he compose something so perfect. What a genius he was.

    • @moksha8473
      @moksha8473 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      You've clearly never been in the comment thread of a Wagner video - it's a neo-nazi breeding ground for some reason . . .

    • @valeriechapman1612
      @valeriechapman1612 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Moksha - I love music not for its politics but to enjoy the composers talent of presenting beautiful music to people who appreciate it. I have no problem whatever with the composers background

  • @Tony-to5vy
    @Tony-to5vy 5 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    Arguably the most beautiful symphony ever written. Certainly in my opinion.

  • @chriskitson56
    @chriskitson56 ปีที่แล้ว +83

    I'm lying in my hospital bed listening to it again at 4.30 a.m. sleep deprived from the fellow patients noises, so I drown it with the most exquisite piece of music that could ever be. It is so extraordinary that tears roll. We talk about night and day, black and white, but this music is so far in the continuum of such things as to be the centre of the sun vs the surface of Pluto's moon. And then that's still not enough.

    • @Nello353
      @Nello353 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I am moved like you Chris, this music rips my heart out of my chest and sends it to heaven. Hope you have recovered from your illness.

    • @benjamindevesa29
      @benjamindevesa29 ปีที่แล้ว

      did you make it?

    • @chriskitson56
      @chriskitson56 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@benjamindevesa29 yes thanks. All good. Seems that we don't need such a big large intestine to function normally. Nearly half has been removed along with the tumor. Marvellous medics.

    • @henrydavis5259
      @henrydavis5259 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@benjamindevesa29😂4😅

    • @Titanium2w
      @Titanium2w 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​​@@chriskitson56I wish for you to be healthy again!

  • @dylhar
    @dylhar 4 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    Born in 1996, I remember being a mere age of 3 years old and always begging my Dad to constantly play this tape he had of this Symphony, whilst on long car journeys. I thought nothing of it at the time, it just put me into a pure state of happiness and clarity, now looking back I realise how well my parents raised me, and how good the music bloody used to be. Absolute proof that Beethoven was a masterclass even to my untrained, youthful, millennial ears. Thank you Dad, and thank you Beethoven.
    Absolutely sublime.

    • @mrlaw711
      @mrlaw711 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      You may be in the age group that has never seen the movie 'Soylent Green' from 1973. An odd piece of near science fiction where the crowded world of 2022 has the solution of making cookies out of humans. Crematoriums disguised as churches. It makes more sense today than 47 years ago because the world is at a crossroads. Beethoven's 6th plays a big role in the movie. Check it out. Often, the movie is free on TH-cam, Amazon, and other sites.

    • @shirleyrombough8173
      @shirleyrombough8173 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      tosh I was riding to the mall with my adolescent son while Beethoven's 9th symphony played on the radio. When we got to our destination he wanted to stay in the car to listen to the music until the end. I was so gratified.

  • @richmondstevenj
    @richmondstevenj 3 ปีที่แล้ว +214

    My favorite symphony. Every time I feel down, I listen to Beethoven and the world is a better place.

    • @serhattaskesen3635
      @serhattaskesen3635 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I don't know why but beethoven's music make me feel depressed. No matter if it's happy or not.

    • @carmenzafranco9147
      @carmenzafranco9147 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@serhattaskesen3635 969

    • @letuan9194
      @letuan9194 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Same with me

    • @Sunnysky4567
      @Sunnysky4567 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      My favorite!

    • @phillipbrown8346
      @phillipbrown8346 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Beautiful..NATURE SYMPHONY....

  • @user-yj8kx4kx8x
    @user-yj8kx4kx8x 21 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    Огромная благодарность каналу за трансляцию этой прекрасной симфонии. Музыка...
    Оркестр... дирижёр - великолепны. БРАВО.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @shin-i-chikozima
    @shin-i-chikozima หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    No 6 will quench and moisturize the dryness of the soul and evoke comfortable feelings, and beyond description and has the immeasurable profound and off the charts

  • @claudetepossani1167
    @claudetepossani1167 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +59

    Beethoven is and always will be the best of all the composers of the planet. This 6th symphony deeply moves our soul, I`m so grateful to be a sensitive human and able to listen and enjoy this beauty! Blessings to all involved! Love and Light to all the nice People visiting here!

    • @fibber2u
      @fibber2u 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      That's true so long as you do not count a certain Austrian composer.

    • @alvarodesouzarosajr
      @alvarodesouzarosajr 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Esse também é o meu pensamento sobre essa música. Desde o filme o mundo de 2020, reafirmou mais ainda esse sentimento.

    • @fibber2u
      @fibber2u 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@alvarodesouzarosajr Ain't Google Translate useful.🤔Or should I pretend to understand Portuguese🤫

    • @claudetepossani1167
      @claudetepossani1167 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@alvarodesouzarosajr hi there, I know nothing about this film "Desde o filme o mundo de 2020," can u explain, tks

    • @alvarodesouzarosajr
      @alvarodesouzarosajr 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Soylent green 1973

  • @mongibaratli7750
    @mongibaratli7750 2 ปีที่แล้ว +731

    Beethoven's "Pastoral" is the only piece I listen to with the greatest pleasure at any time whatever mood I'm in. It's a blessing for the soul. Thank you Beethoven.

  • @AndySaenz
    @AndySaenz 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +36

    WOW, this is one of the most MAGNIFICENT, beautiful compositions ever written! Thanks to this orchestra for playing it so brilliantly.

  • @jalnuri
    @jalnuri ปีที่แล้ว +35

    Listening to Beethoven's 6th Symphony with a warm cup of vanilla latte on a Sunday morning with a clear and clean sky visible through the window, I am fully enjoying the best comfort that can't be compared to anything else in the world. It couldn't be better. I am very grateful. :)

  • @zdenekkopecny4928
    @zdenekkopecny4928 3 ปีที่แล้ว +393

    Beethoven was unhappy when doctors told him that his deafness would get more and more worse. He testified about this in his 5th Symphony. In the 6th Symphony, he detached himself from the torment of his soul and saw the beauty of the world and life. Beethoven in my soul forever! - Greetings from Czechia!

    • @rosslerfilip8983
      @rosslerfilip8983 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Opravdu skvělá hudba

    • @zaramayne2444
      @zaramayne2444 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Amen!!!
      💝♥️💝

    • @szechoi776
      @szechoi776 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      But did he have an angry young life?

    • @zaramayne2444
      @zaramayne2444 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@szechoi776 I know he always had a bad stomach
      problems even when younger ... but I think he was
      somewhat happier then, than when he got older as he was still socialising
      and playing in wealthy Salons his music 💞

    • @crgsn
      @crgsn 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Hurá do Čech, země mého dědečka!

  • @chrisholt1564
    @chrisholt1564 3 ปีที่แล้ว +135

    This was my dads favourite piece of music, sadly he is not here to listen on what would have been his 86th birthday. Chin chin dad hope you enjoy this x

    • @YoonMeeZhang
      @YoonMeeZhang 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      This was one of my dad's favorite too. He introduced me to it when I was 5 or 6. We played it most Sunday mornings, it's one of my most cherished memories with him.

    • @ET-bg8ru
      @ET-bg8ru 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      DItto!

    • @GiorgioBoccia
      @GiorgioBoccia 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      That was my dad's favourite music as well. I remember him listening it with an audio tape in his car. He would turn 88 this year. Hope is listening it where it lies now, dear dad

    • @alfredoviera2280
      @alfredoviera2280 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Sorry friend.

    • @alfredoviera2280
      @alfredoviera2280 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Mystery Rosebud sorry my friend.

  • @thomasjordan1687
    @thomasjordan1687 ปีที่แล้ว +68

    Daniel Barenboim is the last of a line of GENIUS conductors, notice no score in sight, he is 81 now and we have precious little time with his style of conducting which brings life and light to our most favorite composers. Thank God for recordings.

    • @garanceternoir8286
      @garanceternoir8286 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      thomasjordan
      Daniel Barenboim est un chef d'orchestre brillantissime !
      Et cette symphonie pastorale nous transporte dans les airs !

    • @johntriplett4470
      @johntriplett4470 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I’ll miss him terribly when he is gone. This is probably my favorite of his appearances on the stand.

    • @rbrtjbarber
      @rbrtjbarber 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I noticed how many times he just stops and lets the musicians carry the tempo.

    • @pix046
      @pix046 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yes, and he was married to the fantastic cellist Jacqueline Du Pre that played Elgar at the RAH and who died tragically young at just 46 years of age.

  • @ThePilpez
    @ThePilpez 2 ปีที่แล้ว +76

    One of the most beautiful pieces of music ever.

    • @johndean4765
      @johndean4765 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Pilpez agree it's so beautiful and has so much depth that no other composer can compare.This is so in tune with nature and mankind's emotions
      It takes the genius of Beethoven to a different level to any other composer.

    • @STEPHENSCHENK
      @STEPHENSCHENK 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

      This genius is beyond description. I know my beautiful wife is listening in heaven as we are enveloped together in peace😢 12:54

  • @moniquelanglois2572
    @moniquelanglois2572 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +39

    I'm in my 80's and Beethoven has been my favorite since my youth. What a gift for the soul and to humanity. When I despair for this world, he gives me peace and joy. When I die, I want to share that moment with him, listening to the Pastorale. This orchestra is divine and it's conductor a precious gem.

    • @barbieybarbie.grandessueno5794
      @barbieybarbie.grandessueno5794 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Así es. Cuando muera quiero que me la pongan a todo volumen de tal manera que no haya lugar para las lágrimas pero si para el regocijo.

    • @pavana2810
      @pavana2810 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Wow that was my thought exactly. I want Pastoral on my death bed too. Great way to go out. Pastoral is rarely played, even in NYC but I got tickets to NY Phil in March for Beethoven Fifth. No one rocks as hard as Beethoven and that coming from an old punk rocker.

    • @moniquelanglois2572
      @moniquelanglois2572 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@pavana2810 You better bring some paper tissues with you. I can't listen to the 5th without crying. Enjoy !

  • @krischan67
    @krischan67 3 ปีที่แล้ว +371

    Beethoven: To play a wrong note is irrelveant. To play without passion is unexcusable!
    And those who play with passion and without any wrong notes are totally awesome! This is the greatest 6th I've ever heard!

    • @falamimire
      @falamimire 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Likewise for ALL THE SYMPHONIES Barenboim conducted in this proms.

    • @dddinah9456
      @dddinah9456 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      I have tried watching video of other symphony orchestras who are supposedly so much more “mature” than these young artists and i keep coming back to the proms Beethoven series. I never get tired of these. TY Yall who were involved in any way.

    • @falamimire
      @falamimire 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@dddinah9456 I have the same feeling-These "conductors" are nothing but ""buzz-seekers"

    • @maurocoimbra9624
      @maurocoimbra9624 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Your own comments were fabulous, as well!

    • @krischan67
      @krischan67 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@falamimire You got it a bit wrong, but I agree that more of the applause belongs to the musicians. A symphony orchestra needs organization, but the individual efforts is greater then the efforts of the conductor.

  • @kaleidiatrikos
    @kaleidiatrikos ปีที่แล้ว +74

    I was a child musical prodigy. The first music I sang, age 2, was the opening melody of a Beethoven symphony. Beethoven will always live in the natural rhythm of my heart. To hear his music is to know heaven.

    • @patricefauvette1651
      @patricefauvette1651 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Un enchantement pour le si jeune enfant que tu étais jadis. 😊

    • @calvanuFerru
      @calvanuFerru ปีที่แล้ว

      @@patricefauvette1651maravilloso

  • @mel63613
    @mel63613 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    My first wife was a Ballet dancer, and she would dance to this tune. It became "our song",, and when I hear it, I think of her.

  • @lukaskiss7857
    @lukaskiss7857 4 ปีที่แล้ว +80

    I love classical music. Each time you listen to it, you can find something new: new melody, tone you have overhearted. I can listen to it limitless time and still find something enjoying, uplifting and amazing. Even If I get old, there is no way I can get tired of this music.

    • @dankaradakovic3218
      @dankaradakovic3218 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I love Beethoven’s Music to.

    • @Hemant-yj9rp
      @Hemant-yj9rp 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Can't agree with you more...you always find something beautiful when you listen to it again

    • @L29S2069
      @L29S2069 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      You and me @Lukas !

    • @englishrose47
      @englishrose47 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      So true. I’ve been listening to classical music since my schooldays. I’m still discovering things in music I first heard decades ago

  • @josephzondo3498
    @josephzondo3498 6 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    what a marvelous piece, i listen over and over and i cant stop. Beethoven was a real genius

    • @CamiloArnaldo
      @CamiloArnaldo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yes, he was

    • @johndean4765
      @johndean4765 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Beethoven elevated genius to a new level.

    • @RayScott-ci5uq
      @RayScott-ci5uq 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yes that's true Hello 👋 how are you feeling this beautiful Sunday 🌄

  • @bigl5343
    @bigl5343 2 ปีที่แล้ว +269

    This symphony is my favorite of Beethoven's nine symphonies. All his symphonies are extraordinary, but the programmatic nature of the "Pastoral" describes the nature of the countryside perfectly and is an absolute pleasure to listen to.

    • @almalopes6616
      @almalopes6616 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I’m still at mood of tearing when I listen to this “Pastoral” Beethoven’s when I hear 2nd movement particularly, it was my teens how I couldn’t stop tearing, too beautiful to
      Not to cry! Hear I’m over a Six decades more than when I was teens! One of my favorite Beethoven’s Symphony 6 in me.

    • @stipojozic6417
      @stipojozic6417 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@almalopes6616 jjn8j

    • @stipojozic6417
      @stipojozic6417 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@almalopes6616iijiiii888i8iiii
      I
      8

    • @patricefauvette1651
      @patricefauvette1651 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Je suis exactement de ton avis. Cette Pastorale est ma préférée depuis de très nombreuses années parmi toutes les œuvres de Beethoven. On la rencontre dans "Fantasia" de Walt Disney et dans "Soleil vert" avec l'acteur américain Charlton Heston. C'est la plus merveilleuse des symphonies ! 😊

    • @comesahorseman
      @comesahorseman ปีที่แล้ว

      👍👍

  • @Dylonely42
    @Dylonely42 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    I love Barenboim’s conducting. That’s a so joyful symphony…

  • @paulwoods4710
    @paulwoods4710 9 ปีที่แล้ว +74

    absolutely outstanding, it is clear that Barenboim loves his orchestra and they love him back.a piece written by a genius and conducted by a genius.

  • @kishorebajaj4353
    @kishorebajaj4353 4 ปีที่แล้ว +59

    The pastorale is a culmination of spirit, octane feeling, tenderness and atruism toward all things living. Wonder how many tears Beethoven shed when composing this truly emotional piece. Beethoven is forever.

  • @JoseGonzalez-rq5ic
    @JoseGonzalez-rq5ic 2 ปีที่แล้ว +110

    I just stumble to this wonderful rendition of Beethoven's 6th Symphony and by far is the best out there. These gifted musicians squeezed Beethoven's soul in each and every note of this wonderful symphony. Masterful just masterful. Thank you.

    • @denisebrucato9073
      @denisebrucato9073 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      So true

    • @Annoyance1969
      @Annoyance1969 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      no the 9th is better

    • @marve23
      @marve23 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      The interplay between the flute, oboe and clarinet at the end of the 2nd movement is sublime

    • @NikoHL
      @NikoHL 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​​​Nope, it's just more well known/famous... The 9th is more familiar to you...

    • @NikoHL
      @NikoHL 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Bernstein with the Weiner Phil is pretty good too 😂... It's on here.

  • @davidblades236
    @davidblades236 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    I discovered this Symphony when I was 16 years old and 50 years on I love it even more, it's more than just music to me, it's part of my life. This is a stunning performance so thank you to Daniel Barenboim, The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra and to the Maestro, Ludwig van Beethoven

  • @gurlgenius11
    @gurlgenius11 3 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    This piece has soothed and healed my nerves and brain through my illness with COVID. I never would have survived without it. God Bless you East-Western and Maestro.

    • @therezakodera1955
      @therezakodera1955 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      gurlgenius11 tenor mariolanza

    • @brianjenkins8699
      @brianjenkins8699 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hope you are feeling better!!

    • @radguurl
      @radguurl 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I hope you heal up! Good luck!

  • @nadialoewke5713
    @nadialoewke5713 5 ปีที่แล้ว +272

    I simply love everyone's comments on the beauty and majesty of this piece and how it makes you feel. You are all sensitive, intelligent, creative, and true appreciators of the sublime. Thank you all...

    • @armanzbahrani291
      @armanzbahrani291 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I second this comment.

    • @johnvanineveld9655
      @johnvanineveld9655 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Indeed misses Nadia Loewke !!

    • @philippemaymard3990
      @philippemaymard3990 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Sure Nadia. It definitely lifts our spirits and raises awareness about the approachability of sublimity.

    • @rebeccarix8851
      @rebeccarix8851 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Et tu, Nadia!

    • @alanchalloner2473
      @alanchalloner2473 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I know this is going to seem bizarre, but the first time I heard this music was when it was being whistled by one of my colleagues when were doing our National Service with the RAF in Egypt in 1952. It has become my Beethoven favourite. What strange places in which we find the first musical pleasure of this wonderful composer.

  • @HossIsDaBoss100
    @HossIsDaBoss100 ปีที่แล้ว +87

    This is so beautiful it's difficult to listen without tearing up.

    • @freemandiaz5123
      @freemandiaz5123 ปีที่แล้ว

      😭😭😭😭😭

    • @Nello353
      @Nello353 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I heartily agree, it stirs in me so many emotions.

    • @dennisokeefe9255
      @dennisokeefe9255 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Exactly the same. What a combination of power and beauty.

    • @lesliehoard8085
      @lesliehoard8085 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It's the first time I've ever heard it, and I'm listening because it's part of the curriculum for my Kindergartener to listen to the first 5 minutes of it, and it made me cry! It sounds like what I imagine I'll hear if I go to Heaven.

  • @heather8307
    @heather8307 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    My late Fathers favorite music. I'm crying as I recall the joy this brought him.

  • @livium9184
    @livium9184 5 ปีที่แล้ว +358

    "Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine"
    -Ludwig Van Beethoven

    • @jglenn2282
      @jglenn2282 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Thank you.

    • @omni3630
      @omni3630 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      So true!

    • @angelesfuentescolomina2965
      @angelesfuentescolomina2965 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@omni3630 de ni de

    • @acash93
      @acash93 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      He was also rejected by all the women he suited :/ I guess that's another reason he dwelved into his music

    • @johnlawrence2757
      @johnlawrence2757 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      acash93 ha ha ha! It wouldn’t make any difference to his life as a composer. Women don’t like the idea of being second priority in their husbands’ lives. But if you marry an artist that’s the way it is: you both serve your art

  • @michaelcurrea9778
    @michaelcurrea9778 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Maestro Barenboim: Citizen of the World - Should be nominated for, and awarded, the Nobel Peace Prize.

  • @StimParavane
    @StimParavane ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Arguably the greatest symphony ever written.

  • @jrr3613
    @jrr3613 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    I'm not a musician but I love classical music, every time I listen to this wonderful symphony I discover something new!

    • @englishrose47
      @englishrose47 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Me too.

    • @Thomasdcat1940
      @Thomasdcat1940 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yeah like the woodwind solo at 21:27 which is one of my favorite parts

    • @jrr3613
      @jrr3613 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Thomasdcat1940 yes, and the music playing in the background in what in layman terms i would describe a “second layer” of sound from 3:11 which then merges with, and overtakes the music in the foreground. Same at 4:05. Highly likely i haven’t used right terms to express the technicalities of what I’m trying to say but this is how it sounds to me. And there are many other hidden gems i have “discovered “ in this particular rendition, the sound quality and the balance of the instruments is particularly good in this rendition in my opinion. Again, this comes from a man that takes some time off to enjoy beauty from time to time and claims no technical knowledge of composition or music whatsoever.

  • @arneekstrand2765
    @arneekstrand2765 5 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    My favourite symphony of Beethoven, touching, beautiful performance, thank you.

    • @curtusdanton61
      @curtusdanton61 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Arne, you got me! I love the 9th also, but this is my favorite.

  • @ellibogdan5342
    @ellibogdan5342 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    This music brings comfort and joy to my 95 year old mother in long term care when little else does.

    • @siddharthsijoria3490
      @siddharthsijoria3490 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Beautiful . I have seen someone (close and at old age) who would just fall asleep while sitting on chair while Beethoven symphony is being played . He would wake with a sudden jerk and smile ( I would say the most beautiful and meaningful smile of a life well lived ) and then again return to his siesta. I think watching him always brought joy . After reading your message , I am fondly recalling those moments and smiling to the pure joy those moments brought then. Thanks

    • @maurocoimbra9624
      @maurocoimbra9624 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      All the best to your beloved mom. From Brazil

  • @dlitton123dan9
    @dlitton123dan9 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I'm 70, and I still mimic the clarinet fingerings of this beautiful piece . I'm so grateful.

  • @rayjohnson6463
    @rayjohnson6463 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    Barenboim really gets involved, class conductor, conducts every note, love it!

  • @gunnarstenger
    @gunnarstenger 6 ปีที่แล้ว +800

    0:00 I. Allegro ma non troppo
    10:51 II. Andante molto moto
    22:40 III. Allegro (Peasant's merrymaking)
    28:29 IV. Allegro (The storm)
    32:30 V. Allegretto

    • @agustinpayad1041
      @agustinpayad1041 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      dd

    • @kinuux
      @kinuux 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      the conductor pushes me to watch another performance, so shitty

    • @radoslavradosavljevic7980
      @radoslavradosavljevic7980 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      What I was looking for

    • @rudolfhild2024
      @rudolfhild2024 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Dr EK Perfect!

    • @lorestraat8920
      @lorestraat8920 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Thank you so much! You saved this music student minutes of study time.

  • @helenapowell1
    @helenapowell1 9 ปีที่แล้ว +340

    The main reason I love classical music today is that the comment threads for classical pieces on TH-cam are notably hate-free and celebratory rather than simply trolling strangers. Hurrah for classical music!!

    • @annedwyer797
      @annedwyer797 5 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Yes, when I discovered a year ago how much classical music there is on TH-cam, the other (mostly) pleasant surprise was that there are so many other fans out there to commune with via comments. It's reassuring to me that there are so many people all over the world who listen to and love classical music. 🎶 There is the occasional troll, or someone who puts down one performance in lieu of another, but mostly it's pretty positive.

    • @thomasbainbridge4365
      @thomasbainbridge4365 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Nah sorry, go to any Wagner piece and there's a bunch of neo nazis.

    • @abbybroadbent9864
      @abbybroadbent9864 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      this is certainly true, but it wouldn't have been so if these composers were alive today. the comments would be boiling with controversy and theories and whatnot! this music has had the benefit of time cooling down most opinions

    • @johntestelin4051
      @johntestelin4051 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@annedwyer797 Very well said, Anne

    • @johntestelin4051
      @johntestelin4051 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@thomasbainbridge4365 Yes, Tom and it's worrying. Wagner operas are more or less based on "Rhenish Mythology". Mythology of tribes living in what we call now Germany. They were not Christianized before around 800 A.D. Carolus Magnus or Charles the Great did it "manu militaty". However what we kept from these pagan tribes of this area of Europe is the Christmas tree! Pagan tribes living in "Germany" were burning a pine tree at the Winter Soltiste to give back life to the Sun. You might infer that nazism and the far-right are inspired by paganism and not christianism. I experienced that a few decades ago. But that's another story.

  • @davidpersky2663
    @davidpersky2663 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    This has become my favorite of .Beethoven's 9 symphonies! I could listen to it every day.

  • @petertalkenberger1890
    @petertalkenberger1890 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    Its Beethovens greatest Symphony if not his greatest single work, as it is a walk in Nature by pure music. I love it and cannot ever get tired of listening to it, and I love Barenboim as one of the best Beethoven interpreters since decades, The performance is soft, with lots of empathy and not giving one any hurry or rush about it like some directors I have heard. And the thunderstorm in minute 28 onwards is absolutely authentic!

    • @CarlosMesa-mk1vp
      @CarlosMesa-mk1vp 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Hi jeje "?jua.jua..jua mas dificil pero hasta rara claro bregue el maestro hizo mas fuerza pero descanso terminando jua ..jua .jua " ? Tire hasta caja thank you" the charly"?

    • @user-ss8po2tp5r
      @user-ss8po2tp5r 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Beautifully played and rxcellently conducted by Daniel Birenboim. I wonder what orchestra is it but anyway real masterpiece of Beethoven ,forever a bliss to the mind and the soul.

  • @livium9184
    @livium9184 5 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Barenboim does the best job of conveying Beethoven's music with all of its emotions.

  • @ericfrazier2736
    @ericfrazier2736 7 ปีที่แล้ว +74

    OH MY GOD! They got it right! I have heard so many performances where they rush through the 6th and it strains my ears. This is Beautiful.

    • @javierroa396
      @javierroa396 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      1

    • @karlangeloorcine9092
      @karlangeloorcine9092 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Baremboim's interpretation of this symphony will surely be approved by Beethoven! :))

    • @emc499
      @emc499 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He is conducting by heart! Basically he is a pianist.

    • @aramuses
      @aramuses 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Very true!!

  • @sylviasinclair4181
    @sylviasinclair4181 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Surely no-one can ever get enough of this music. The opening bars immediately bring calm to my soul and the beauty just keeps coming. Barenboim is a master of music to be able to translate all that I think Beethoven must have been feeling when he wrote this spectacular symphony. Simply lovely - thank you Proms for continuing to bring classical music to us in spite of COVID, death of our Queen and all other difficulties people everywhere endure nowadays. Thanks

  • @gerdawalz-michaels6782
    @gerdawalz-michaels6782 2 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    We played exactly this performance of Beethoven’s symphony at the memorial service for my husband, David Michaels. He passed away in May of this year. The service was held in the backyard of our house, surrounded by nature. I can ‘t imagine a more beautiful setting and more breathtaking music for him at that moment in time and space.

    • @josephxavier8636
      @josephxavier8636 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Likewise, incredible beauty!
      I'm so sorry about your husband's loss!

    • @saldana7395
      @saldana7395 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That sounds awesome!

    • @chardlee472
      @chardlee472 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@josephxavier8636 0lw,

    • @jamalbana5193
      @jamalbana5193 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I hope you are ok now.greeting from jordan.

  • @adriannaoki
    @adriannaoki 8 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    The first movement is absolutely beautiful!

    • @johndean4765
      @johndean4765 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Adriannaoki First movement perhaps the most beautiful music ever written.Would have preferred it to have been the last movement.

  • @emilianoelhalem1626
    @emilianoelhalem1626 8 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Beethoven's best work. an excellent performance. My favourite movement is the 2nd!

  • @comesahorseman
    @comesahorseman ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Beethoven's greatest symphony. Many will, and have, disagreed, but I still believe it.

  • @lidavanbers6344
    @lidavanbers6344 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    To me, classical music by Beethoven, Mozart etc, is the most soothing for body and mind !
    It brings you to a place of peace, calm and beautiful dreams!
    Thank all the musicians for their dedication!

    • @leodesterke5001
      @leodesterke5001 ปีที่แล้ว

      Wat jij zegt is helemaal waar,deze muziek is een oase vanrust

    • @janetledbetter8029
      @janetledbetter8029 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      This is greatly amazing. You are so right about the conductor's interpretation of the music. He as well as the composer are absolute genius.

  • @georgemiller2255
    @georgemiller2255 3 ปีที่แล้ว +258

    I am a Japanese old man with experiences of listening to classical music for long.
    As to Beethoven's symphonies, several conductors have fascinated me through records, tapes, CDs, and internet so far. (My favorite conductors are Böhm, Bernstein, A. Cluytens, P. Kletzki, R. Leibowitz....) I have long thought I am quite familiar with both Pastoral Symphony and Barenboim, but this one is just different and marvelous. This one sounds gentle and soft far and wide, at the same time keeping vividness all the way, which produces the effect of calming every listener down. The way Barenboim conducts here is totally careful and thorough. I also feel much love of his for the young orchestra.

    • @steampunknoodles
      @steampunknoodles 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      George Miller is not the most typical Japanese name lol

    • @georgemiller2255
      @georgemiller2255 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@steampunknoodles Of course, it's a nickname. I use a brand account for TH-cam.

    • @steampunknoodles
      @steampunknoodles 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@georgemiller2255 aha I see lol

    • @jeffv103
      @jeffv103 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The tempo of this 6th is spot on perfect hence how it brings tears to my eyes

    • @georgemiller2255
      @georgemiller2255 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@jeffv103I agree with you. My first impression of this performance, gentle and soothing, has much to do with its skillfully-set slow tempo.

  • @noidear7216
    @noidear7216 7 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    Of all Beethoven's symphonies, this is my favourite.

  • @redthepost
    @redthepost 2 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    Here’s to the young, beautiful, talented and passionate musicians who make us feel joyful, especially at times like now.

  • @mauroscotti2577
    @mauroscotti2577 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    One of the best masterpieces of the german master, well performed 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🇧🇷

  • @richardjuster9522
    @richardjuster9522 6 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Probably the best of his symphonies. I bought the Berlin Philharmonic when I was sixteen and it still brings me to tears.

  • @Dmichoacan
    @Dmichoacan 7 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    This symphony was my first experience with Beethoven. The fourth movement sealed the deal.

    • @annedwyer797
      @annedwyer797 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Since you've dipped your toe into the Sea of Beethoven, I hope you'll jump in and discover more of his music! I suggest his other Symphonies, his Violin Concerto (he only wrote one!) and his five Piano Concertos. I hope you become addicted to him...

  • @user-qk7gn5rf6e
    @user-qk7gn5rf6e หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I'm in my 50s, I've listened this masterpiece for 40 years. This music has provided with a great healing to me. What a gift from Beethoven. So much thanks to you.

  • @wayneanderson7443
    @wayneanderson7443 2 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    I am in awe with all Beethoven's symphonies but this is up there with the very best ❤

  • @DREAM284
    @DREAM284 10 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    What a privilege. To be able to share the pleasure with the musicians, the conductor and the audience of this wonderful music. Probably, less than 5 years ago it would not have been possible to listen and view such performances so easily and with such clarity, such joy.
    To take time to criticise these artists only goes to show how that the point has been missed. Enjoy life, appreciate beauty, or learn how to use the OFF switch.

  • @israeldiegoriveragenius2th164
    @israeldiegoriveragenius2th164 4 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    This is Beethoven's greatest symphony , so perfect and complete and full of emotion.

    • @robertszvetics210
      @robertszvetics210 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      you are correct

    • @edwincorrales6562
      @edwincorrales6562 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ALL THE 9 SYMPHONIES OF BEETHOVEN ARE MARVELOUS BUT NO. 6 SHOWED THE HUMAN ITY IN HIM AND HIS MUSICAL GENIUS ENDOWED TO HIM FROM THE ALMIGHTY

  • @chrisway8232
    @chrisway8232 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    When I need to be uplifted and have my soul nourished I come back to Beethoven’s 6th...a great warm hug of a piece, Beethoven’s gift to nature becomes a gift to all mankind....and this is a masterful turn from Barenboim and his Orchestra..👏👏👏👏

    • @ranjithranasinghe6315
      @ranjithranasinghe6315 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      .

    • @CarlosMesa-mk1vp
      @CarlosMesa-mk1vp 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Hi señoras y señores si bay no desfigure la piesa jua.jua.jua piensa " the charly"?

  • @gilaschannel1855
    @gilaschannel1855 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    My favourite symphony. Kudos to Daniel Barenboim for seeking to promote peace through his orchestra. Wonderful rendition, thank you.

  • @georgewu5
    @georgewu5 5 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    In 1950, I was in the 7th grade, Hong Kong. The lady music teacher had us listened to this symphony in the assembly. From then on, I began to love classical music. Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Bach, Mozart ..... George Wu, ARCHITECT, A.I.A., 2018-12-14

  • @silvavelozo9050
    @silvavelozo9050 6 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    In my opinion this is the most beautiful of all the synphonies.

  • @shin-i-chikozima
    @shin-i-chikozima 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    The comfort of No.6 this orchestra plays with exquisite skills is irreplaceable , and out of this world.
    The nostalgy and melodies of my countryside are my treasure

  • @earlfriedman5329
    @earlfriedman5329 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    What a glorious piece. We can marvel at not only its beauty, but that humankind has the capacity to love it to the point of bringing utter pleasure or tears of joy.

  • @richardkessinger7290
    @richardkessinger7290 3 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    From the very sublime to the most majestic and powerful, Beethoven could express the entire extended range of emotions and feelings all in wordless music!!!! How utterly incredible!!! One of the truly great gifted geniuses of all time. The 6th is just amazing.

    • @nancyayers7669
      @nancyayers7669 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      My fav ... even more than his 9th!!! It's almost unworldly in its beauty of unnamed ecstacy!!

  • @robertmutis4410
    @robertmutis4410 4 ปีที่แล้ว +73

    Consider that by the time Beethoven conceived this magical composition, his hearing had already failed by about 50 percent - such was the power of his mind, and the awesome heights of his talent to be able to overcome this devastating physical challenge.

    • @nelsonluizterrellferrari1284
      @nelsonluizterrellferrari1284 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      But anyway he did something even deeper in meaning than this symphony. Incredibly he wrote the 9th Symphony which he himself never had the chance to listen to. He was '100% DEAF by that time. And he was able to listen to the 9th symphony only in his mind. By the opening of the 9th symphony he had a standing ovation on the part of the public at the theater. The magic brain he had simply overdid all the fields of classical music those days, including Rossini!

  • @richarddobell5851
    @richarddobell5851 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Daniel Barenboim gives a rock star performance conducting. He knows every phrase and passage of every instrument and the combined effect the orchestra as a whole must present throughout. No wonder he was exhausted at the finish. Thanks to all who made this beautiful post, including LvB.

  • @stuartrussell4041
    @stuartrussell4041 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    BEETHOVEN IS MAGNIFICENT. HE ACHIVES THE IMPOSSIBLE - CALMING THE MIND WHILE EXCITING THE HEART AND THE SOUL. Nothing else matters but the music.

  • @jeffrymellinger2807
    @jeffrymellinger2807 3 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    Beethoven was known to love nature and walking in the countryside. You get the sense that this tormented man felt great joy when he wrote the Pastoral symphony.

    • @BlauerBooo
      @BlauerBooo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yeees, around Bonn and the Rhine valley, in Siebengebirge, Vorgebirge and so on, as you can see here:
      www.arte.tv/de/videos/095000-000-A/das-rheinland-die-heimat-eines-genies/

  • @Aa0bcchh
    @Aa0bcchh 2 ปีที่แล้ว +94

    Beethoven walking in the fields and the woods. He really knew how to put his emotions into music and we can enjoy with him what he felled on his many walks in the countryside. Great art.

    • @gerdahennig1115
      @gerdahennig1115 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      By

    • @pega17pl
      @pega17pl 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      There is expression "leicht beschwingt" (slightly lively) in German, maybe like a child with little jumps over puddle and one more. That's my imagination of Beethoven joyful walking full of inspirations to his 6th. - Heinz

    • @yergrannyonbongos5422
      @yergrannyonbongos5422 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes, apparently he always took his axe with him and chopped down at least six trees on every walk he took. The Vienna woods were looking a little bare by the time he'd done.

    • @nofirstorlast8405
      @nofirstorlast8405 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      When was in Germany, I brought my tape (it was years ago) of the 6th and blasted it while driving on the autobahn through the German countryside. You could FEEL the music in the countryside. You could FEEL what Ludwig felt as he enjoyed it. What an amazing experience.

    • @dietmarsulzberger3000
      @dietmarsulzberger3000 ปีที่แล้ว

      Seit wann sind wir per Du?

  • @gailhausmann1329
    @gailhausmann1329 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Awesome!! .....
    Always love listening to this while I'm reading...
    My mom was a piano teacher, & grew up listening to this beautiful pieces.......
    Very moving & stirring....
    Great orchestra...
    Many thanks for posting this!!
    🙏😄

  • @englishrose47
    @englishrose47 ปีที่แล้ว +52

    The final movement when those notes at the very end just soar and soar then descend - gets me every time. Thank you LVB.

  • @brianrodney712
    @brianrodney712 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    Music that never dates, it is as fresh and new as when it was first written . A performance such as this is an absolute joy to the ears.

    • @Robbie521000
      @Robbie521000 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That was beautifully stated Brian!

  • @butterflipmanny
    @butterflipmanny 7 ปีที่แล้ว +271

    We don't know what the future holds but for certain Beethoven will be played for as long as human civilisation lasts. He is a high point of human creativity and a genius with no equal.

    • @annedwyer797
      @annedwyer797 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Indeed!!

    • @burkewhb
      @burkewhb 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Beethoven was indeed a genius for the ages and this was I think his best work. However, I think that Mozart was as great a genius as Beethoven, it's just that his music was different. Beethoven's music was deeper and more serious, Mozart's music was lighter, like the Overture to the Marriage of Figaro, my favorite, and his operas Don Giovanni and Abduction from the Seraglio. Handel I also feel deserves to be mentioned as close to Mozart and Beethoven's genius, but his music was more baroque, like the Watermusic Suite and Music for the Royal Fireworks, and, of course, his Messiah are all incomparable as well.

    • @simontaylor2319
      @simontaylor2319 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Bach wasn't a genius??????? Your comment is a little sweeping

    • @arthurkagle2083
      @arthurkagle2083 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I'll not disagree with you. Genius is a word that applies so well!

    • @paullewis2413
      @paullewis2413 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@burkewhb Your comments are valid of course but represent the standard view over the past 100 years or more which is entirely centred on the Austro-Germanic tradition of so-called classical music. Today thank goodness we have a wider perspective and realise that there other composers outside that sphere that are the equal of those”Gods”. Hector Berlioz is a case in point, Jan Sibelius another , both as gifted as Beethoven or Mozart in their own fields.

  • @whortle
    @whortle หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    For me this is a moment of emotional peace and satisfaction. I’m truly at peace.

  • @wissen5779
    @wissen5779 21 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Von allen Sinfonien Beethovens ist die 6. Sinfonie für mich die am meisten zu Herzen gehende. Die Krönung aller Interpretationen dieser Sinfonie lassen mich der geniale Herr Barenboim und das West-Eastern Divan Orchestra erleben. Ich bin jedesmal völlig überwältigt von meinen Gefühlen, immer wenn ich diese Aufführung anhöre.
    Tausend Dank auch an Ludwig van Beethoven, den für mich großartigsten Komponisten aller Zeiten.

  • @geoffp326
    @geoffp326 9 ปีที่แล้ว +377

    It's the most amazing piece of music ever written. It makes me want to run outside and embrace nature. It makes me cry like a baby.

    • @peterszigeti7476
      @peterszigeti7476 9 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Okay! You will embrace the nature, I will embrace the oil refineries! :-)

    • @geoffp326
      @geoffp326 9 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Pet Öregmaci lol good for you!

    • @ErasmusBMountain
      @ErasmusBMountain 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Wow - Beethoven wouldn't even have dreamed to create such a wonderful effect! But I agree - those things happen.

    • @pix046
      @pix046 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Geoff P If you cried like a baby it would have been out of fright.

    • @CanelaAguila
      @CanelaAguila 8 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Yeaaah that's my feeling exactly, especially the part in which you run outside in sound of music style and just wonder why the world is so amazing

  • @kishorebajaj4353
    @kishorebajaj4353 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Beethoven, you make me laugh and you make me weep with just emotions. In the interim my senses go afloat in a never ending journey thru bliss and introspection. What would the world be without the likes of you. Beethoven forever !

  • @edscottaz
    @edscottaz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    I am struck by how young the members of the orchestra actually are. Wonderful to see.....and hear.

    • @eternafernandesdecastro9329
      @eternafernandesdecastro9329 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      .

    • @ellyvanveen1856
      @ellyvanveen1856 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      This is the West Eastern Divan Orchestra, set up by Daniel Barenboim (conducting). The musicians are indeed young. They come from many Middle Eastern countries.
      "The Divan is not a love story, and it is not a peace story. It has very flatteringly been described as a project for peace. It isn't. It's not going to bring peace, whether you play well or not so well. The Divan was conceived as a project against ignorance. A project against the fact that it is absolutely essential for people to get to know the other, to understand what the other thinks and feels, without necessarily agreeing with it. I'm not trying to convert the Arab members of the Divan to the Israeli point of view, and [I'm] not trying to convince the Israelis to the Arab point of view. But I want to - and unfortunately I am alone in this now that Edward died a few years ago - ...create a platform where the two sides can disagree and not resort to knives."[9]Daniel Barenboim.
      One of the young musicians of the orchestra reinforced this point:
      "Barenboim is always saying his project is not political. But one of the really great things is that this is a political statement by both sides. It is more important not for people like myself, but for people to see that it is possible to sit down with Arab people and play. The orchestra is a human laboratory that can express to the whole world how to cope with the other."[10]

    • @lindadavies6109
      @lindadavies6109 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@ellyvanveen1856 a fine orchestra indeed!

  • @krischan67
    @krischan67 2 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    "He whom you mourn is now among the greatest men of all time, unassailable forever. (...) we were there when they buried him, and when he died we wept!"
    Final words at Beethoven's funeral speech, by Franz Grillparzer

  • @sylviafarese9546
    @sylviafarese9546 2 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    Brilliant performance of Daniel Barenboin . THANKS for sharing

  • @davidfoster2043
    @davidfoster2043 2 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    Thank you Beethoven for the joy shared by all who listen over and over

  • @dgeh6564
    @dgeh6564 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    My favorite all time Beethoven Symphony , just simply unique and beautiful !!!

  • @samwilkins3145
    @samwilkins3145 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    I could listen to the opening alone for 20 years and still not be sick of it. Truly beautiful.

    • @aramuses
      @aramuses 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yeah. One of the best movements of all time!

  • @bobvance3277
    @bobvance3277 3 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    makes me cry to see how they LOVE playing it...

    • @aversinosenteramos
      @aversinosenteramos 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I can't stop crying since it started!

    • @coniston3106
      @coniston3106 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      the good thing about this is that most of these people love what they are doing. if they hadnt put love while playing music, they wouldn't have reached this level

    • @waynehowells6301
      @waynehowells6301 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Right. I love seeing the passion in their movements all together as one. I’m playing cello learning as I go and to watch the body movements with the control is just amazing. It’s like you can’t just stay still as your playing, everything has to be moving to play it correctly. I love this piece and the orchestra playing. Cheers.

  • @josephmartin6219
    @josephmartin6219 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    I could listen for all eternity to this; a musical representation of the beauty in nature; so sublime, arguably the best of Beethoven's Symphonies!, incredible. Thanks Beethoven!

  • @peterbudd6160
    @peterbudd6160 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    To me this is Beethoven's best symphony and I love the youth of the orchestra. Lovely interpretation.

  • @LYPhere
    @LYPhere 5 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    Was really sad before listening to this wonderful symphony.. I feel good now.. Simply felt like a sweet medicine is being given to me 😇

    • @pablo-sh4qd
      @pablo-sh4qd 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Nada pode ser mais belo!

    • @clecio540
      @clecio540 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Guando a melodia é original em suas nuances de beleza;então eu também sou original e em alguns momentos raros como esse tento meditar .

  • @Tibursia84
    @Tibursia84 6 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    Fantastic. I love to watch the conductor and musicians in their body language as they perform. JUst magnificent

    • @samterian7694
      @samterian7694 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      would it sound much better if conductor had no clothes on?

  • @konradnibler5024
    @konradnibler5024 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Grazie per la presentatione.
    Che bella musica, fantastica interpretazione.
    Grazie tutti
    Grazie Maestro, ottanta anni !
    Auguri, grazie

  • @AbdiPianoChannel
    @AbdiPianoChannel 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I checked my blood pressure. It's all time low. Thank you.

  • @kevinmckeever6163
    @kevinmckeever6163 6 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    The most beautiful music ever created.

  • @JeanColbert
    @JeanColbert 4 ปีที่แล้ว +165

    1. Awakening of cheerful feelings on arrival in the countryside. 0:00
    2. Scene by the brook. 10:51
    3. Merry gathering of country folk. 22:40
    4. Thunder, Storm. 28:29
    5. Shepherd's song. Cheerful and thankful feelings after the storm. 32:30

    • @miroslavcambel239
      @miroslavcambel239 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Nr. 5: anyone else hear the theme from Beethoven's violin concerto in D major, 1st mvt?
      Edit: it's actually a bit earlier - 32:05

    • @sheilakimmelman654
      @sheilakimmelman654 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      whats happened to 1812 overture. beethooven

    • @neerajchandekar9250
      @neerajchandekar9250 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@miroslavcambel239 Yes

    • @susanaescriba977
      @susanaescriba977 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank you.

    • @rodericksmith8218
      @rodericksmith8218 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@sheilakimmelman654
      The Russian composer Rachmaninov
      Wrote music in which he let cannon off.
      No, that was Tchaikovsky,
      He let them ovsky,
      Rachmaninov played the pianonov.
      I am a regular at 1812 theatre company, which opens all nights with 1812 overture, then the 'turn off your mobile phones' message, then the curtain goes up.

  • @eliosanciolo2844
    @eliosanciolo2844 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Beethoven and Barenboim..What a pair! Reminds me so much of my mother who would wake me with this symphony every Sunday as a child. How I miss those times.

    • @tinekebo
      @tinekebo 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ❤ Yes. Be comforted.

  • @jenniferbarratt-ch3wl
    @jenniferbarratt-ch3wl 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The finest of all the symphonies. I grew up with this particular piece of music, and it is part of my soul. The last movement is sublime. I used to hum this to my children. It is a link to my father who died not long ago. He loved this symphony

  • @StevePedersonOfficial
    @StevePedersonOfficial 4 ปีที่แล้ว +428

    I'm listening to this during the coronavirus pandemic and it has completely overwhelmed me with hope to the point of tears. Seriously, this has moved me in an incredibly powerful way like nothing else has been able to do. Everything is going to be alright! Such a beautiful rendition of this masterpiece! It seems a tad bit slower than most versions I've heard, but I like it better this way!

    • @shirleyrombough8173
      @shirleyrombough8173 4 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      Steve Pederson - I am listening to it I the midst of the corona virus as well. I have no words. Someone, Beethoven, a human, put these notes on paper and they are immortal. And we have them now to help us to survive these perilous times. God help us all.

    • @oONodokaOo
      @oONodokaOo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      I share your enthusiasm! This symphony is beautiful beyond words, it is heavenly. It is perfect and it moves me to tears too. This pure celebration of the power and beauty of nature makes me feel at home. It's a wonderful meditative guide. It is a peaceful oasis that makes me forget the crazy world we're living in for a while. It's a comfort blanket in case of emergencies. It gives me strength, courage and hope. I LOVE this piece!

    • @MrCool-qi7cy
      @MrCool-qi7cy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      Isn’t it cool how Beethoven turned all of his suffering into something beautiful for all to enjoy. I think we can all have the same influence everyday with the people around us in our lives. Go compose your life’s symphony everyday.

    • @jorgeschneider803
      @jorgeschneider803 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Me too!!!

    • @gurlgenius11
      @gurlgenius11 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      I'm right there with you. I've played it at least once a day. This piece has soothed my anxiety in the last three weeks, like none other and I like the pace as well.