Beethoven, Symphony 9, 2nd movement (complete), Molto vivace, Philharmonia Baroque

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  • Philharmonia Baroque playing the second movement (molto vivace) of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, accompanied by a scrolling bar-graph score.
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    • @randylaffy7679
      @randylaffy7679 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

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  • @Sebastian-uf3vr
    @Sebastian-uf3vr หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    On May 7, 1824, Ludwig van Beethoven premiered his 9th and last symphony called Chorale, in Vienna. Here we are, today May 7, 2024, some 200 years later, God Bless Ludwig, and what would be the most powerful, spiritual and brutal musical work taught to the world. But if that were not enough, every time in my life that I lose my reason, my conscience, the motivation to even live, I can never help but hear the Ode to Joy echoing. And although I don't express it, I always break into tears of happiness remembering every word and every letter that the choir makes great.

  • @johnoconnor1648
    @johnoconnor1648 2 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    The amazing thing is that Beethoven never heard this. It was all in his head. Fuckin' genius.

    • @searchingforfoodonyoutube2500
      @searchingforfoodonyoutube2500 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes at age 28 he lost his hearing

    • @paulanthony5274
      @paulanthony5274 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      He wasn't completely deaf,towards the end he was when he composed this,but it's easy enough,do you not hear music in your head,the genius was writing it..

  • @theimmortalcolasour
    @theimmortalcolasour 9 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    "I was cured, alright!"

    • @HumanAlein100000
      @HumanAlein100000 9 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Gets you ready for a bit of the old ultra-violence.

    • @thesillysadist3389
      @thesillysadist3389 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      oh I saw such lovely pictures. ..

  • @CosmicContrarian
    @CosmicContrarian 7 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    The greatest piece of music ever written.

    • @owlcowl
      @owlcowl 7 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      No. Greatest scherzo ever written, yes - like the adagio that follows it, an absolutely perfect piece of music. And the Ninth is the greatest symphony, no question. But the greatest composition ever written, in the consensus view of those very few connoisseurs qualified to judge (I am not among them) is Beethovens C# minor string quartet Op 131 - or his Grosse Fuge Op 133, another note-perfect piece of music. Of course, Bach lovers insist that the D minor Chaconne is the greatest music ever penned & they are also right. No point in arguing when dealing with such sublime products of incomparable genius.

    • @nicholaso2891
      @nicholaso2891 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Fancy seeing you here...

    • @mennokuipers5709
      @mennokuipers5709 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Samuel Araújo Medeiros modern film scores lol.

    • @incription
      @incription 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I consider Mass in B minor, (at least Bach's) greatest

  • @1SeniorSmurf
    @1SeniorSmurf 9 ปีที่แล้ว +156

    who would have known that beethoven composed a bill cosby sweater

    • @Dj2xP
      @Dj2xP 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      +1SeniorSmurf made my day

    • @1SeniorSmurf
      @1SeniorSmurf 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Dj2xP :) I'm glad. it made my day knowing I made a strangers day.

    • @dinoflame9696
      @dinoflame9696 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      +1SeniorSmurf i must say, it makes my day in it's own way to see someone's day made by making a stranger's day

    • @Dj2xP
      @Dj2xP 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It even makes my day know that somebody making made day made his/her day!

    • @Dj2xP
      @Dj2xP 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It's the notorious "made my day" loop

  • @greg55666
    @greg55666 10 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Jesus this song is amazing. At about 1:18, when the first section stops and then repeats, it's just amazing. That section ends in the middle of a thought then goes back to the beginning.

  • @collumww
    @collumww 10 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I've played hard rock lead guitar for 39 years and when I was young used to think that was high energy. Then I remembered always liking the closing theme for The Huntley Brinkley report. Then I bought Beethoven's symphonies. Then I started listening to the 9th. Hell, if you don't have seat belts, you'll be blown away by movements 1,2, and 4, and you just roll out weeping in the 3rd. If I could only have one Cd this is it.

  • @theoveranalyzingcinephile983
    @theoveranalyzingcinephile983 4 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    Oh it was gorgeousness and gorgeosity made flesh. The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets three-wise silverflamed, and there by the door the timps rolling through my guts and out again crunched like candy thunder. Oh, it was wonder of wonders. And then, a bird of like rarest spun heaven metal, or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now, came the violin solo above all the other strings, and those strings were like a cage of silk round my bed. Then flute and oboe bored, like worms of like platinum, into the thick thick toffee gold and silver. I was in such bliss, my brothers.

  • @aphexlane
    @aphexlane 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    I had came home late from a friends house once tripping balls on mushrooms. I randomly had this on CD. I put it in and was taken on the wildest ride of my life. I was surfing around on beautiful crazy colorful waves of divine music.

  • @richardcollyer4353
    @richardcollyer4353 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Beethoven lost his hearing whilst composing this masterpiece ! When the 4 movements ended he had to be turned round to fave the audience and their raucous standing ovation ! Absolutely incredible !

  • @KittyCatComa
    @KittyCatComa ปีที่แล้ว +20

    2022 and this is still a banger. Imagine writing timeless pieces like this.

  • @sporty1701
    @sporty1701 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    It has often been said that Beethoven's 9th is possibly the greatest musical composition of all time.
    Appreciation of any art form is purely subjective...however, I would imagine there are many who
    would agree that this magnificent symphony is indeed the pinnacle of classical composition.

    • @EnterIntoDARKNESS
      @EnterIntoDARKNESS 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Maybe people won't not disagree, would that be the same?
      I'm glad you think so highly of this, I do too.

    • @TheLifeisgood72
      @TheLifeisgood72 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      One professor tried to tell me this was the incoherent ramblings of a long deaf composer...

    • @sporty1701
      @sporty1701 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@TheLifeisgood72 If Beethoven's 9th is an "incoherent rambling", I would love to hear
      some really GOOD music. That "professor" either needs to lay off the Prozac or
      greatly increase the dosage!

    • @desireerahman4897
      @desireerahman4897 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@sporty1701 don't make it about medication - Prozac isn't responsible for taste

    • @sporty1701
      @sporty1701 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@desireerahman4897 There are those who would disagree...but, whatever. Anyone who
      would describe this symphony as an "incoherent rambling" is most certainly
      not worthy of "professor" status...janitor, maybe.

  • @aiden_macleod
    @aiden_macleod 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Truly, the reason Beethoven was a Master of his craft. Completely deaf before its composition, and each instruments part written by hand in ink left no room for error. Absolutely genius.

    • @smalin
      @smalin  4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I can't believe that anybody who looked at the score would say that. It's true that he wrote in ink, but he made many, many, many corrections. And he didn't write out the parts himself; that job was left for a copyist.
      imslp.simssa.ca/files/imglnks/usimg/d/d5/IMSLP19389-PMLP01607-Beethoven-Op125mss.pdf

  • @ahtartersauce101
    @ahtartersauce101 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Beethoven writing:
    > great intro
    > amazing main theme
    >repeat that
    >amazing second theme
    >recap back into first theme
    > oooh nice cadenza, nice and smooth
    >> repeat ALLZ the themes
    >>> ???? 13:18
    >>>>PROFIT

  • @ijmr2005
    @ijmr2005 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Of all the songs Ludvig Van Beethoven composed, this has to be my favourite.

    • @Fe-yz9lx
      @Fe-yz9lx 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      *pieces but yes i agree this is one of my favourites

  • @WacoBurning
    @WacoBurning 10 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Thank you Clockwork Orange for introducing me to Beethoven...

    • @fathursoebono7857
      @fathursoebono7857 10 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      bliss and heaven... oh it was gorgeousness and gorgeosity made flesh

  • @caesarsneezer6992
    @caesarsneezer6992 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Beethoven ninth one of the most powerful pieces of music ever created. Hail to you Ludwig. Rest in peace.

  • @johnsecunda9535
    @johnsecunda9535 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Beethoven's creativity and range of expression were off the scale.

    • @peggyfranzen6159
      @peggyfranzen6159 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      When Dr.Angstrom MET the New World!Amazing!Thank you!

    • @brucewegmann183
      @brucewegmann183 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      No, they were not "off the scale". But, he certainly does define what may be the upper limit of it.

  • @saucedispenser9167
    @saucedispenser9167 7 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    It's awesome how a deaf man could create some of the greatest music in history.

    • @smalin
      @smalin  7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Beethoven could compose great music in his head (without hearing anything) long before he lost his hearing. If Mozart had gone deaf, he could have done the same thing ... as could many other composers.

  • @maiwei
    @maiwei 8 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Love the visual representation. It's a great way for those who don't really understand the music to see how amazing it really is. Thanks.

  • @RH-xs8gz
    @RH-xs8gz 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    This is an amazing piece of music. But the fact that Beethoven was completely deaf when he composed it makes this one of the most staggering feats of genius in human history.

    • @smalin
      @smalin  5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Beethoven wrote music "in his head" (that is, away from the piano, using only his ability to imagine what music would sound like without having to hear it through his ears) long before he went deaf. This ability is shared by many musicians. It's tragic that Beethoven went deaf, but composing music was one aspect of his life where his deafness made little difference.

    • @cwaller1151
      @cwaller1151 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I'd encourage you to check out Bedrich Smetana. He wrote his two string quartets and most (if not all) of his Ma Vlast cycle while completely deaf (and dying of Syphilis).

  • @patrikboij7560
    @patrikboij7560 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I heard this music as a child and still it has not left my mind. Such is the power of Beethoven

  • @08tnt80
    @08tnt80 9 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Beethoven is the man who can stretch the limits of a note.

  • @HerrDeutschBlood
    @HerrDeutschBlood 7 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    "Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeousity made flesh. It was like a bird of rarest spun, heaven metal. Or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship...gravity all nonsense now. As I slooshied...I knew such lovely pictures"

    • @lolafinch
      @lolafinch 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      TigerTrollUSA tolchock and alround horror shows for malenky petistas, my brother.

    • @williamcrowe2576
      @williamcrowe2576 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Viddi well, droog.

    • @christinemusselman5499
      @christinemusselman5499 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Alex, my dear droogi.

    • @t.j.payeur5331
      @t.j.payeur5331 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Horror show, droogie..real horror show...doobie doob..

  • @sapientisat8439
    @sapientisat8439 10 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    Impossible to believe that Beethoven wrote this music when he was completely deaf for almost 20 years! I wonder if he would change anything in it if he heard it?

    • @MrNick951
      @MrNick951 10 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      He slowly went Deaf over the Course of 10 years but He cut the legs to his piano so he could feel the vibrations of the notes so it felt right to him so he would write it

    • @Manintoga
      @Manintoga 10 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      Genius-level composers hear notes in their mind.

    • @artyvandelayed
      @artyvandelayed 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      MrNick951 that sounds like a myth

    • @smalin
      @smalin  9 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Art Vandalay
      I know it sounds like a myth, but I think it's true. He had lots of "hearing aids" (ear trumpets), and I think I remember reading (in reliable sources) that he did something special to hear his piano even as he was losing his hearing.

    • @SpartaanLoL
      @SpartaanLoL 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He placed his piano on the floor to feel its vibrations.

  • @Emmaggeddon
    @Emmaggeddon 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    the quiet parts are like a lullaby and then the sudden change of beat will wake you up for sure. Beethoven is easily my favorite composer.

  • @lorentzinvariant7348
    @lorentzinvariant7348 7 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    IMO one of the most extrordinary peicec of music ever written. What I find even more astonishing is, Beethoven had gone totally deaf before he ever wrote this!

    • @dcmsr5141
      @dcmsr5141 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Agreed wholeheartedly!!! Simply Amazing

  • @user-xz4gr8ru3p
    @user-xz4gr8ru3p 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    I used to listen to this channel a lot around the early 2010s
    To think that this channel's reaching 15 years is just mindblowing!

    • @smalin
      @smalin  4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      I wish all the people who were watching ten years ago were watching now. I have 186,000 "subscribers" but when I post a new video, it only gets a few thousand views (because TH-cam changed their algorithm so that subscribers don't automatically get notified when I post a new video). And it's a pity, because the animations I've been making in the last few years are a lot better than what I did ten years ago ... e.g. www.musanim.com/BeethovenStringQuartets/

    • @notusssj5322
      @notusssj5322 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@smalin Well then I have something to tell you! I remember when I was still a small kid (at about 10 years ago), one of the first times I heard the 9th Symphony was with this video. I distinctly remember being entertained by how the little blocks representing the melodies jumped around on the screen and also being fascinated by the music itself (Note that I was probably 6).
      Now by mere chance I stumbled upon your video of Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor and the next video that played was this one. I had a flashback to one of my oldest memories ever.
      Now like you said, probably many of your subs from 10 years ago might now be inactive but I just wanted to say that 10 years later, when my father first introduced me to Beethoven, I happen to be here on my own in the same video.
      Have a good day my fellow music maestro. :)

    • @smalin
      @smalin  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@notusssj5322 Your story lifts my heart.

    • @notusssj5322
      @notusssj5322 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@smalin thank you, I shall hope that in 10 more years I will still be subscribed and active.
      See you around!

  • @Alexi7666
    @Alexi7666 9 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Love the bar-graph,too. Helps a non-musical person understand the complexities of music composition.

  • @Safinitzine
    @Safinitzine 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    30 years since my mum took me to see it live for my 6th birthday and all the emotions remain. Every time, like it's the first.

  • @Sweet2Rani
    @Sweet2Rani 7 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    my favorite movement of this symphony

  • @christopher19894
    @christopher19894 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    This movement moves me the most. Guaranteed goosebumps. If I'm not prepared for it, I'm caught off guard by crippling shivers.

  • @catherineblair5648
    @catherineblair5648 9 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    GENIUS TECHNOLOGY, mixed with the GENIUS MIND of BEETHOVEN = MAGIC!

  • @BNeller100
    @BNeller100 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I first fell in love with part of this music maybe around age 7 (1960?). It was used for the closing credits for NBC News Huntley-Brinkley Report. Anyone here remember that?

    • @tpickett1381
      @tpickett1381 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yeah good night David good night Chet and good night for NBC news

    • @rustybearden1800
      @rustybearden1800 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes, I do - I was six years old and it was my first moment of wonder as the beginning of my lifelong love of LVB - still my favorite, even over Ode To Joy and Eroica - it still moves me to this day as it did when I first heard it.

    • @Pexster
      @Pexster ปีที่แล้ว

      Absolutely!

    • @circusitch
      @circusitch ปีที่แล้ว

      And then Chet said, “Goodnight Ludwig”.

  • @derkavondangerkill7628
    @derkavondangerkill7628 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    My first introduction to Beethoven was my grandmother playing Moonlight Sonata on her grand piano. Clockwork Orange definitely made this one of my favorites as well. This song has a sense of mania to it that movie captures well. You can tell the movie is mostly a vessel for the score. Stanley Kubrick had wonderful taste in classical music.

  • @dazwazup1161
    @dazwazup1161 9 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    best piece of music ever written

  • @Ved000000
    @Ved000000 9 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    9:40 Cue Alex putting the mini cassette into the player...

    • @spartanace13
      @spartanace13 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      Don't forget the dancing Jesi figurines...

    • @prashunpcchakraborty70
      @prashunpcchakraborty70 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      Love that scene.

    • @WintersWar
      @WintersWar 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      Vedran Noneofyourbusiness another reference to that bad film. ugh.

    • @smartalek180
      @smartalek180 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      Julián Tovar The references are to the Kubrick movie A Clockwork Orange, based on the Anthony Burgess novel of the same name.Beethoven's music plays a pivotal role in the plot, and makes up a fair portion of the soundtrack.If you see the movie, you will never be able to shake the association.You've been warned.

    • @prashunpcchakraborty70
      @prashunpcchakraborty70 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It's the same thing with Alex until a very fateful and disturbing moment in the film.

  • @Danielcamron73
    @Danielcamron73 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    0:42
    oh bliss!
    Bliss and heaven!
    it was gourgeousness in gourgeosity made flesh.
    It was like a bird of rarest spun heaven metal.
    Or like silvery wine floving in a spaceship...
    ... gravity all nonsense now.
    As i slooshied...
    ... I knew such lovely pictures

    • @chipensemble
      @chipensemble 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Lol I was scrolling to see this.

    • @Danielcamron73
      @Danielcamron73 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@chipensemble thanks

    • @madjack821
      @madjack821 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Nicely done, brother. Real horror show!

  • @Gablesman888
    @Gablesman888 6 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    Normally, 2nd movements to symphonies of this era were the so called calmer quieter movements. But in the 9th, Ludwig decided some kick ass was in order, especially since this symphony also offered the bonus "Ode to Joy" 4th movement (rather than the usual three). Some of the best of Beethoven. A kettle drummer's dream come true (among other great features).

    • @oskarfunes2505
      @oskarfunes2505 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Gablesman888 the main reason why it's my favorite of all classical music. Love the combination of raw power and percussion with soft harmonics at the end.

    • @Gablesman888
      @Gablesman888 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Trivia question: What well known long running television program featured this work as its theme song?Bonus question: Obviously the television program did not have the time to play the entire movement each "episode". But on what occasion was it played in its entirety as the program ended?

    • @ze_rubenator
      @ze_rubenator 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      The Ode To Joy is more like a 5th movement, really. Symphonies usually had 4 movements, not 3, at least before and during Beethoven's time, and to some extent later. And yes they were usually in the order fast, slow, medium, fast. But there are many exceptions to this both in Haydn and Mozart's repertoire, so Beethoven did nothing new on that front. However, he was the first to use a choir in a Symphony, something which was entirely unprecedented until the premiere of the 9th Symphony.

    • @norwegianforestcat7471
      @norwegianforestcat7471 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Gablesman888 I remember it being used to creepy effect in "A Clockwork Orange," but didn't know it was in a tv show. Which one was it?

    • @Gablesman888
      @Gablesman888 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      NBC's Huntley Brinkley Report each weekday night featured the opening minutes of Beethoven's 9th Symphony, 2nd movement. Viewers really never got to hear much of it that way. However, on November 22, 1963, as they signed off for the evening, NBC played all of the movement.

  • @camilarossini2721
    @camilarossini2721 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I listen to this at maximum volume, and I can't help but march vigorously describing circles following the tempo of the music.

  • @unfrostedfortnite8133
    @unfrostedfortnite8133 6 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    This Piece possesses a musical representation of struggle, grandeur, peace and bliss. This truly is the pinnacle of Beethoven’s brilliance (not to mention he was fully deaf when this was written). The buildup starting at 5:30 and finally releasing at 5:42 is just otherworldly. This may be (in my opinion) the most beautiful symphony ever written.

    • @sparda461
      @sparda461 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      She is certainly entering the list of the best symphonies of all time. I consider it to be the best symphony of all, but it is very much for pleasure, right? Every part of her is spectacular and has been so elaborate, so detailed, so wonderful. I consider this scherzo as one of the best already made, not to mention the fourth movement that is fantastic (and of course the most impressive is that he was already deaf)

  • @kiri101
    @kiri101 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    My speakers don't appear to be loud enough, although my neighbour is helpfully banging their head against the wall in time with the music - how thoughtful.

  • @2500b3
    @2500b3 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I can barely imagine the joy of having a side-by-side split screen of this visualize with a traditional score next to it.

  • @str_q4362
    @str_q4362 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    used to have this as our school bell, absolute perfection.

    • @paulanthony5274
      @paulanthony5274 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yeah?? I think that's awesome!!

  • @davidpotter6873
    @davidpotter6873 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    How can anbody put a thumbs down to this absolute classic?!
    lol

    • @smalin
      @smalin  5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Lots of reasons: they might not like the performance as much as some other one, they might not like me, they might be having a bad day, they might be crazy ...

    • @accipiterignitus5123
      @accipiterignitus5123 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      They may have screen problem caused by virus which switches all the icon directions. MAYBE.

  • @qcislander
    @qcislander 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    You've taken a crystal-clear recording of true art.... and made another art of it.
    Bravo... and THANK YOU. :-)

    • @smalin
      @smalin  4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I hope you can check out some of my more recent work ...
      www.musanim.com/BeethovenStringQuartets/
      th-cam.com/video/jySFYoTu0Oo/w-d-xo.html (Bartok)

    • @zantonsus
      @zantonsus 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      well said sir!

  • @christinemusselman5499
    @christinemusselman5499 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Consider my mind blown! Happy Birthday, Ludwig Beethoven!

    • @smalin
      @smalin  4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      To celebrate, be sure to check out these: www.musanim.com/BeethovenStringQuartets/

  • @rockfrolic6249
    @rockfrolic6249 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Oh bliss...bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeousity made flesh!

  • @Xapheion101
    @Xapheion101 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I wish it hadn't taken me nearly 30 years to get into this stuff. Breathtaking work.

    • @smalin
      @smalin  2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I recommend this (you might want to start in the middle and work your way earlier and later): www.musanim.com/BeethovenStringQuartets/

    • @nickyreid9004
      @nickyreid9004 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Unfortunately many of us (myself included) didn't actually 'listen' to it and couldn't grasp its value. Good to be here now though lol

  • @nadel-fu4wz
    @nadel-fu4wz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    During quarantine, my ears and soul need classical music better than ever!

  • @lukeskywalker1840
    @lukeskywalker1840 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Sheer genius. Germanic perfection.

  • @philbrown8181
    @philbrown8181 10 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Absolutely fascinating to see what's going on - very interesting!

  • @Lilbunnialice404
    @Lilbunnialice404 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Oh, I was cured alright

  • @Coaching-is3pz
    @Coaching-is3pz 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Beautiful job visualizing the score! Being able to follow the instruments without necessarily reading music adds a whole new dimension to the piece. Thank you!

  • @adrianmonk4440
    @adrianmonk4440 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    “Good night, Chet. Good night, David. And good night, for NBC News.” From the very first edition in 1956 until the last in 1970, that is how the Huntley-Brinkley Report signed off.
    ///
    The music that played underneath the closing credits was the second movement (scherzo) of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. This is the original 1952 recording with Arturo Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra that was used on the Report. The music always started with the six notes and was faded out when they ran out of time.

    • @TodLauer
      @TodLauer 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Haha - that's one of my earliest memories! It lent a wonderful sense of gravitas to the news. In early childhood I had no comprehension at first about what was going on in the news, but I knew that is was very serious stuff for grownups. The music underscored that.

    • @spikespa5208
      @spikespa5208 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      As a kid, i was curious about the end credits piece on the NBC news. So I wrote them a _letter_ (that's how old I am) and got a nice letter back from a producer . Just another brick in my classical music house.

    • @eatonuter7113
      @eatonuter7113 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      KO used this on 'Countdown' on MSNBC at the time and even today, he still uses this song. Very fitting!

  • @lumenpraetorius4592
    @lumenpraetorius4592 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    By far the most brilliant piece of music ever composed. Bravo maestro!

  • @neeltheother2342
    @neeltheother2342 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    The idea that his music was written 200 years ago and people still talk about it and analyze it is astounding. Some parts feel more powerful than even your heaviest metal guitar or loudest bass drop. Pure genius.

  • @bradgrady7497
    @bradgrady7497 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Awesome piece of music. It really gets into your head. I watched the entire thing. And, when it finished I pressed pause and my computer monitor kept moving to the right.

    • @smalin
      @smalin  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_aftereffect

    • @bradgrady7497
      @bradgrady7497 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@smalin Oh, I thought it was the music still in my head making the monitor move.

  • @petarpetrov1026
    @petarpetrov1026 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    5:03 gotta love the timpani in this part

  • @silvestrodevita8770
    @silvestrodevita8770 6 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Genio mostruoso

  • @rheiagreenland4714
    @rheiagreenland4714 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    It amazes me that Beethoven made this final piece when he was completely deaf... poor Ludwig couldn't hear his own beautiful music.

    • @smalin
      @smalin  4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      I think you need to distinguish between "couldn't hear his own music" and "couldn't hear other people playing his music." Can you "hear" somebody singing "Happy Birthday" in your head? For Beethoven, the sound of music in his head was more vivid than the sound of it in your ears. Not that he didn't suffer as a result of his deafness --- he very much did. But he was not living in silence in the way you imagine.

    • @melkiorwiseman5234
      @melkiorwiseman5234 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Like smalin said, he couldn't hear but he could still imagine. And besides that, he would have been able to sense vibrations through his skin. Quite a few deaf people still enjoy music by "hearing" through the skin, although it works far better when you have an amplifier and can make direct skin contact with a loudspeaker, neither of which Beethoven would have had access to. He was still a brilliant composer.

    • @aiden_macleod
      @aiden_macleod 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Beethoven didn't need to hear it with his ears, I'm sure he listened to it years before he put quill to vellum.

    • @christinemusselman5499
      @christinemusselman5499 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Beethoven was such a great musician (piano) that he knew how music sounded without having to physically hear it. Not to say it wasn't tragic that he went deaf, but ordinary people couldn't have done what he did.

    • @t.j.payeur5331
      @t.j.payeur5331 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Every single flash of light in that video Beethoven saw and heard in his head...where it remained unsullied...

  • @beem4248
    @beem4248 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I have been searching for this piece for 4 years and I finally found it and I am soo happy

  • @loganfruchtman953
    @loganfruchtman953 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    0:32 and 3:33 mosh pits in 1824 went crazy.

  • @nikkia3d
    @nikkia3d 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Such a motivating piece for difficult times...

  • @patriceavarvara2854
    @patriceavarvara2854 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    My favourite movement of the symphony and possibly the best musical piece in history so far. If we were to classify people by their preference to movements of Symphony No.9, I'd say there are the people who prefer Movement IV - Ode to Joy and there are people who prefer this glorious 2nd Movement. Needless to say, I'm the 2nd Movement most devoted, adoring fan!

    • @janpeterschafermeyer6219
      @janpeterschafermeyer6219 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The third movement is also very beautiful. th-cam.com/video/Kri2jWr08S4/w-d-xo.html

    • @Larknok1
      @Larknok1 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Synthesis: the fourth movement is considerably improved by the second movement's preceding it!

    • @AnimeKingKaz
      @AnimeKingKaz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I really don't want to play favorites with the entirety of the composition but I concur with your sentiment.

    • @annbogden2847
      @annbogden2847 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Me too

  • @iberius9937
    @iberius9937 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This is probably the best recording of this immortal work by Beethoven I've ever heard. This orchestra really gives it life and clarity!

  • @billperez1141
    @billperez1141 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    This puts me in mind of those school field trips a long long time ago, going to see and hear The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra.....I really loved those field trips....

    • @annbogden2847
      @annbogden2847 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I went to the Buffalo Philharmonic with my class when I was very young. I've never forgotten. I believe it was in the beginning of the 60s!!!!

  • @sirdook2761
    @sirdook2761 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The sheer genius behind this makes my whole body shiver. Pure master class.

  • @gorillazfan_vt
    @gorillazfan_vt 10 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    "I approve of this song." - Alex DeLarge

    • @raffaelevitodassisti237
      @raffaelevitodassisti237 10 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      "When Walt Disney listened for the first time the 9 Symphony he said: "Damn, this Beethoven will hit the big time!" " - Marshall McLuhan

  • @cjjc1221
    @cjjc1221 10 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This is quite amazing. I am mesmerized by the visual representation of my favorite movement in 9th.
    "Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeousity made flesh... And then, a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal, or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now..."

  • @probium2832
    @probium2832 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Still the number one classical movement I remember and know basically everything by heart.

  • @wijlaarsje
    @wijlaarsje 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Perhaps the best symphony ever written, incredible..

  • @roderickfemm8799
    @roderickfemm8799 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    The graph work is nice, but one thing it doesn't show is dynamics, how loud or soft a note or set of notes or passage is. That would really be interesting.
    If we're talking 2nd movements of Beethoven symphonies, I prefer the 7th. That's something I would like to see with this treatment.

    • @smalin
      @smalin  4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      th-cam.com/play/PLtj_HurkS7ZwcYB4CAqCxhOeM-gf8olUl.html

    • @christinemusselman5499
      @christinemusselman5499 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      The 2nd movement of the Seventh has been given a similar treatment. Do some internet searching and you'll find it.

  • @jakedakong3393
    @jakedakong3393 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I completely agree this is one of the greatest pieces ever written. Beethoven will always remain one of the greatest composers of all time. Thank god for the classical period!!!!

  • @clientone4632
    @clientone4632 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Lived my life as a rock and roller . Doesn't touch this!!!

  • @bernardolira
    @bernardolira 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Great and marvelous! I actually SAW notes my ears didn't listen... LOVED IT! Thank you for the effort. I wish I could find more of this :) THX!

    • @smalin
      @smalin  4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      www.musanim.com/TH-camHighlights/

    • @bernardolira
      @bernardolira 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@smalin went there! Thank you!

  • @michaelc.4321
    @michaelc.4321 6 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! It was gorgeousness and gorgeousity made flesh

  • @Andrewwhite1996
    @Andrewwhite1996 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeousity.

    • @sunkintree
      @sunkintree 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Made flesh

  • @BNeller100
    @BNeller100 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I fell in love with this music back in the 1950's and 1960's as it was used for the closing music of the Huntley -Brinkley NBC News

    • @blueschewy2558
      @blueschewy2558 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      And at the beginning of Countdown with Keith Olbermann.

  • @Brother_Mouse_
    @Brother_Mouse_ 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    This is straight fire. Ludwig is litty af.

  • @altareggo
    @altareggo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    At the beginning there was a little notice saying "No mature content." I think it should have read no IMMATURE content: this music is just about the most mature stuff ever written!!!

    • @coltrainemonaque8793
      @coltrainemonaque8793 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      "He hums this...CHILDISH TUNE... I think he is going MAD..."

  • @Fuliginosus
    @Fuliginosus 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I find it interesting that this has been viewed over three million times, which is twice as many views as the famous 4th movement.

    • @ze_rubenator
      @ze_rubenator 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I think 2 million of those views are from me.

    • @Ggeorgiev89
      @Ggeorgiev89 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      This is the best of Beethoven

    • @abigailsaoirsefinnegan
      @abigailsaoirsefinnegan 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      A million might be from me

  • @teletubetodd
    @teletubetodd 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Magnificent! Like the old piano rolls of yore, this really gives a sense of the "architecture" of the music! (As they say, "architecture is frozen music.") Thanks for posting!

  • @ravinmarokef
    @ravinmarokef 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I first discovered this piece (the 2nd movement) around 2011 and found your version in 2013. I was immediately captivated by the scrolling bar-graph score as this is how I tend to visualize music and this piece is my all time favorite. Anyway I know this comment is 6 years late but thank you so much for this channel and choosing this piece to score!

    • @smalin
      @smalin  5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      You're quite welcome.

    • @caesarsneezer6992
      @caesarsneezer6992 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I can not read music. This is visual eye candy for me.

  • @chiquillo2477
    @chiquillo2477 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeousity made flesh...

    • @bdf2718
      @bdf2718 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine
      flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now. As I slooshied, I knew
      such lovely pictures!

  • @jacobrunkel7131
    @jacobrunkel7131 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    I cannot even tell you enough how much I love these videos. Thank you for the time you have out into them.

  • @annbogden2847
    @annbogden2847 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Oh my gosh. This is magical. Thank you🎼🎵🎶🎵🎼🎶

  • @n.jurenic
    @n.jurenic 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    sometimes when i'm immovable, this kind of movement is enough for me to be movable again.

  • @muskatmendelssohn2707
    @muskatmendelssohn2707 6 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    5:36 , genius. I am can't believing he wrote this when he was deaf. the dinamic, the harmony, the music! everything is perfect!
    And of course 2:52 - the "game" between the timpani to the orchestra.

  • @jasonmeadors3524
    @jasonmeadors3524 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I love this. Very nicely done. Gives me chills, seeing the visual analog of this masterful work.

  • @andres65080
    @andres65080 9 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Have you ever heard anything more beautiful? This is the definition of the triumph of music.

    • @gustavramirez2891
      @gustavramirez2891 9 ปีที่แล้ว

      *****
      Beethoven truly is an incredible composer, but I daresay that some of Mozart's pieces are at least equal to this in both beauty and emotion! :))

    • @smartalek180
      @smartalek180 9 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Gustav Ramirez To me, Mozart is not comparable; he has a completely different vibe -- not as wild or willing to give in to darker or grander passions.Mozart sounds to me like the music of the angels -- but Beethoven's is like hearing the voice of God Himself, accompanied by not only all the angels of heaven, but of Satan and all his demons as well.

  • @MicheleBohmke
    @MicheleBohmke 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Why do I like watching these videos, is it because it makes my brain happy or what?

  • @swiftfox3461
    @swiftfox3461 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Who heard this for the first time with the default music samples for Windows XP? ;) Really like it.

  • @TestTubeBaba
    @TestTubeBaba 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I love the highlighting of the notes that are being played. Well made!!

  • @StephenWells707
    @StephenWells707 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love your work on these animations. Bravo! A whole new way to appreciate their beauty.

  • @Si-Al-Ti
    @Si-Al-Ti 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    i wonder what beethoven would feel if he saw this, its a really cool way of visualizing music

    • @lisztomani4c
      @lisztomani4c 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      kungmat I guess the invention of phones would suprise him more

  • @brucewegmann183
    @brucewegmann183 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Change one note, and there would be diminishment; alter a single phrase, and the entire divine architecture shudders and crumbles to mediocrity. Listen and bear witness to the awesome beauty and perfection of transcendent genius....

    • @SethingtonIII
      @SethingtonIII 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I recall Mozart writing that. Or was is Beethoven?

    • @eliass596
      @eliass596 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@SethingtonIII in the movie Amadeus salieri says this of mozarts music

    • @SethingtonIII
      @SethingtonIII 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@eliass596 Its not just in the movie. Salieri actually wrote this in a letter talking about hearing Mozarts composing.

  • @talister106
    @talister106 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Within the complexity a pattern of genius emerges and I stand in awe and thankfulness. Bravo.