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
Have you noticed that there are no toxic people in the comments? Rare thing nowadays. Classical music only attracts good people.
True, I have never seen a hate comment..... But that is only because this divine music cannot be hated!!!
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.
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.
You've clearly never been in the comment thread of a Wagner video - it's a neo-nazi breeding ground for some reason . . .
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
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 :)
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.
my heart ❤ with u from a millwall boy we ain't all nasty our team we born
Sending you compassionate thoughts for this difficult time. I appreciate your thoughtful comment.
@@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: kzhead.info/sun/fM2Ckcaqaaujmqs/bejne.html I hope you really enjoy it.
God bless you and your father
Arguably the most beautiful symphony ever written. Certainly in my opinion.
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i agree
totally agree
Not arguably…absolute!! Love that you share my affinity for it! Blessings to you.
Es bellísima, pero hay mucha música maravillosa que gracias a Dios nos han legado los grandes maestros.
This piece is so full of beauty, calm and musical description. A wonderful interpretation and a smooth calm tempo . A Barenbohem masterpiece in conducting.
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.
that is such a beautiful memory
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.
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.
did you make it?
@@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.
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@@chriskitson56I wish for you to be healthy again!
I am listening at a time of conflict between Israel and Palestine in the Gaza Strip. My heart is bleeding for the innocents on both sides. Thank you to Maestro Barenboim and the late Edward Said for trying to reconcile this horrible tragedy through music.😢
There are no innocents on the Israeli side. It is not a normal conflict between 2 countries, it is a conflict between the owners of the land and the tyrannts, oppressors and thieves. How do you think that a thief is innocent even if he doesn't carry weapon?
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.
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.
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.
@@pavana2810 You better bring some paper tissues with you. I can't listen to the 5th without crying. Enjoy !
Yes a masterpiece of music to enjoy for generations
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.
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 KZhead, Amazon, and other sites.
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.
Mi afecto y afición por Beethoven,, nació enlazado con la literatura y la poesía.Deleite indescriptible leer los clásicos y escribir y crear poesía escuchando la Pastoral y los conciertos para Violín, chello y clarinete de Beethoven y Mozart. La miel de la inspiración y la memoria se destila en cada acorde, limpia y serena la voz interior desgrana sus acentos. El espíritu de los genios de la música universal deviene del Espíritu creador de la vida. La música es el lenguaje del Verbo eterno, Dios en su fascinante Armonía, en el Allegro de su Amor infinito, en la Sinfonía de su Gloria Eterna.
Did you become a musician? If not why? Such an early understanding and upbringing?
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
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.
DItto!
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
Sorry friend.
@Mystery Rosebud sorry my friend.
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!
That's true so long as you do not count a certain Austrian composer.
Esse também é o meu pensamento sobre essa música. Desde o filme o mundo de 2020, reafirmou mais ainda esse sentimento.
@@alvarodesouzarosajr Ain't Google Translate useful.🤔Or should I pretend to understand Portuguese🤫
@@alvarodesouzarosajr hi there, I know nothing about this film "Desde o filme o mundo de 2020," can u explain, tks
Soylent green 1973
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.
thomasjordan Daniel Barenboim est un chef d'orchestre brillantissime ! Et cette symphonie pastorale nous transporte dans les airs !
I’ll miss him terribly when he is gone. This is probably my favorite of his appearances on the stand.
I noticed how many times he just stops and lets the musicians carry the tempo.
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.
Maestro Barenboim: Citizen of the World - Should be nominated for, and awarded, the Nobel Peace Prize.
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!
Opravdu skvělá hudba
Amen!!! 💝♥️💝
But did he have an angry young life?
@@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 💞
Hurá do Čech, země mého dědečka!
Beethoven is and will forever be one the greatest composers who has ever existed. I first listened to The Pastorale when I was 9, and was devastated by the sheer beauty ever since. Daniel Bairenbom is superb, just superb. He brings so much peace in this fenomenal performance.
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.
Un enchantement pour le si jeune enfant que tu étais jadis. 😊
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The main reason I love classical music today is that the comment threads for classical pieces on KZhead are notably hate-free and celebratory rather than simply trolling strangers. Hurrah for classical music!!
Yes, when I discovered a year ago how much classical music there is on KZhead, 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.
Nah sorry, go to any Wagner piece and there's a bunch of neo nazis.
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
@@annedwyer797 Very well said, Anne
@@anyideas_ 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.
My favorite symphony. Every time I feel down, I listen to Beethoven and the world is a better place.
I don't know why but beethoven's music make me feel depressed. No matter if it's happy or not.
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Same with me
My favorite!
Beautiful..NATURE SYMPHONY....
Beethoven's greatest symphony. Many will, and have, disagreed, but I still believe it.
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. :)
"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
Thank you.
So true!
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He was also rejected by all the women he suited :/ I guess that's another reason he dwelved into his music
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
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!
Likewise for ALL THE SYMPHONIES Barenboim conducted in this proms.
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.
@@dddinah9456 I have the same feeling-These "conductors" are nothing but ""buzz-seekers"
Your own comments were fabulous, as well!
@@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.
A "once in a century" masterpiece. Beethoven has made 5 symphonies like that, so don't expect many more anytime soon!
I bet you're talking about 3, 5, 6, 7 & 9 😊😁🙏
@@brandonmartin5650 Exactly.
I loved Beethoven's 6th symphony ever since my childhood.
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.
So is his Egmont Overture. It's on a par w/The Pastoral - shorter, 2!! 😉
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Agreed!
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
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the conductor pushes me to watch another performance, so shitty
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Dr EK Perfect!
Thank you so much! You saved this music student minutes of study time.
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.
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.
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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 ! 😊
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1 - Allegro ma non troppo - 00:00 2 - Andante molto mosso - 10:53 3 - Allegro - 22:41 4 - Allegro - 28:29 5 - Allegretto - 32:30
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.
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!
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
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
whats happened to 1812 overture. beethooven
@@miroslavcambel239 Yes
Thank you.
@@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.
Music that just is. Perfection. No need to add a commentary. Just to live it. To be. In it. Mankind at its finest. Making something for the purpose of interpreting beauty. And this is beauty.
One of the most beautiful pieces of music ever.
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.
This genius is beyond description. I know my beautiful wife is listening in heaven as we are enveloped together in peace😢 12:54
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...
I second this comment.
Indeed misses Nadia Loewke !!
Sure Nadia. It definitely lifts our spirits and raises awareness about the approachability of sublimity.
Et tu, Nadia!
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.
This symphony was my first experience with Beethoven. The fourth movement sealed the deal.
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...
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
"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
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.
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/
This music brings comfort and joy to my 95 year old mother in long term care when little else does.
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
All the best to your beloved mom. From Brazil
Arguably the greatest symphony ever written.
BEETHOVEN IS MAGNIFICENT. HE ACHIVES THE IMPOSSIBLE - CALMING THE MIND WHILE EXCITING THE HEART AND THE SOUL. Nothing else matters but the music.
Wow, so true
My biggest regret in life is that I never met a partner who could sit and listen to this with me, enthralled with tears in his eyes.
Hey, I'm down if you're still looking for someone
Dear Hanle, I am another partner of yours just totally overwhelmed again of the whole scene and sound, having in my heart and imagination the coming AGE OF PEACE ON EARTH under the rule and reign of no one else than my LORD and GOD and SAVIOUR JESUS, the CHRIST OF GOD ALLMIGHTY!!! HIS KINGDOM is going to last 1000 years and this rotten and totally ruined creation of HIS is going to blossom and cherish to the TOTAL SATISFACTION OF GOD the FATHER of JESUS, HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON from ETERNITY on! And there will be peace governing worldwide, because satan, the old enemy and hero of all evil and suffering of mankind in untold variation, will be kept in chaines in God's dungeon, where he will suffer in unimaginable pain for all his evil on earth from very early times (roughly 6000 years) on! May therefore everyone reading these poor lines take this in consideration and, if not yet accomplished, come to my LORD JESUS in tears of repentance and confession of sins with the objection of full redemption from JESUS, THE SON OF MAN ! May HE bless this weak witness of faith in HIM for 35 years now!
lol plenty out there
Sincerely hope you find someone. Best wishes.
Hanle de Beer I’m single. Are you still looking for someone? I love classical music. 😘❤️
Reading your comments makes me feel that i'm not a weirdo who listens to beethoven in 2021
We got you, bro ❣ Not anyone would appreciate this marvelous.
Beethoven is immortal. He is forever. - (CZ)
Never feel like a weirdo for listening to Beethoven!
This was probably my very first classical experience as a small child , I used to listen to it every single morning on the radio as an intro ...I knew even then I wanted to study this music and I didn’t even know what it was....then came the opera....now after 40 years i get the same chills every time i listen to it....it reminds me of my childhood ....
Not at all!!!
I'm 70, and I still mimic the clarinet fingerings of this beautiful piece . I'm so grateful.
I am struck by how young the members of the orchestra actually are. Wonderful to see.....and hear.
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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]
@@ellyvanveen1856 a fine orchestra indeed!
makes me cry to see how they LOVE playing it...
I can't stop crying since it started!
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
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.
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.
George Miller is not the most typical Japanese name lol
@@steampunknoodles Of course, it's a nickname. I use a brand account for KZhead.
@@georgemiller2255 aha I see lol
The tempo of this 6th is spot on perfect hence how it brings tears to my eyes
@@jeffv103I agree with you. My first impression of this performance, gentle and soothing, has much to do with its skillfully-set slow tempo.
Y'know how a school of fish all turn at the same time? That's what musicians in a symphony orchestra do. lncredible. No end zone dances. So beautiful.
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.
Likewise, incredible beauty! I'm so sorry about your husband's loss!
That sounds awesome!
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I hope you are ok now.greeting from jordan.
This orchestra made up of young people from the Middle East plays with an vigor rarely heard from conventional ensembles. Particularly impressive is the singing musicality of the splendid wind players. This performance and others from that year at the Proms capture the rhythmic vitality of Beethoven. These old warhorses come alive!
Exactly, music transcends earthly squabbles of ethnicity.
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.
Indeed!!
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.
Bach wasn't a genius??????? Your comment is a little sweeping
I'll not disagree with you. Genius is a word that applies so well!
@@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.
WOW, this is one of the most MAGNIFICENT, beautiful compositions ever written! Thanks to this orchestra for playing it so brilliantly.
I love Barenboim’s conducting. That’s a so joyful symphony…
The first movement is absolutely beautiful!
Adriannaoki First movement perhaps the most beautiful music ever written.Would have preferred it to have been the last movement.
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.
Playing this helps my anxiety & depression
I hope you will be healthy soon
Younger generations have come out of the music war period that went on in the 1960s 70s till now people are again appreciating real genuine classicals!!!
Tired of modern pop and rock? Want a new to you change? Let's go back to the classics!!
Of all Beethoven's symphonies, this is my favourite.
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.
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Baremboim's interpretation of this symphony will surely be approved by Beethoven! :))
He is conducting by heart! Basically he is a pianist.
Very true!!
Imagine composing this when you are deaf. SHEER GENIUS that is all.
Symphony music is enjoyed by people who operate in a special dimension and once you get there there's no turning back❤❤❤
The whole point is that Daniel Barenboim has achieved the most marvellous and unique thing with young players from the Middle East. The miracle is that he has Palestinians, Israelis, Jordanians, Lebanese, Syrians, Germans and probably Spanish all playing together. Beethoven is Barenboim's speciality and he does it brilliantly. All credit to the East Western Divan project. May Edward Said rest in Peace.
May Said rot in hell
Idiot
Yes the European borders should be completely open for anyone to come if they want--even Africa.
The point isn't 'open borders'. The point is that this orchestra shows Arabs and Jews can work together. Try again next time idiot troll
@@reneesoryu3650 I guess the "Africa" word triggered you?
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.
I love Beethoven’s Music to.
Can't agree with you more...you always find something beautiful when you listen to it again
You and me @Lukas !
So true. I’ve been listening to classical music since my schooldays. I’m still discovering things in music I first heard decades ago
This is so beautiful it's difficult to listen without tearing up.
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I heartily agree, it stirs in me so many emotions.
Exactly the same. What a combination of power and beauty.
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.
I never weary of listening to No6 Whenever I listen to No6, I always remember my birthplace , which is beautiful and inspiration and comfortable and memories with my late beloved mother
"Prince, you are what you are only by birth. I am what I am through my own efforts. There are and will be thousands of Princes. There is only one Beethoven"
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
Almost inconceivable that one human being could contain and then write out such music as this.
Probably THE most creative genius that was ever born.
Barenboim smashes this so hard, it's the best No. 6 on youtube imo.
Beethoven is one of the three or four people that have ever lived that makes me proud to be a member of the human race! So many others make me ashamed!
Very well said! Joseph Knecth
I second that emotion
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@@williamnorton1113 Although many find these traits undesirable they seem to work well for Mr. Trump.
@@williamnorton1113 Paranoid? They *are* out to get him
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.
gurlgenius11 tenor mariolanza
Hope you are feeling better!!
I hope you heal up! Good luck!
somewhere Beethoven is bowing to thank you !
I'm not a musician but I love classical music, every time I listen to this wonderful symphony I discover something new!
Me too.
Yeah like the woodwind solo at 21:27 which is one of my favorite parts
@@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.
G e n i u s B E E T H O V E N 🌑🌟🌘🌟🌗🌟🌒🌟🌑🌟🌘🌟 Thank You for Your heavenly music!
Beethoven assures me that the human potential is magically infinite in this beautiful universe
Edna
Ouvir concerto n 1
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Beethoven loved nature and the countryside. He spent a lot of his time on walks in the country. His 6th Symphony consists of five movements - finaly the weather clears up and comes the shepherd's song. Cheerful feelings after the storm. That is why it was called Pastoral. I first heard it fifty years ago and recorded it on my tape recorder. - Beethoven was still not just gloomy. Towards the end of his life, he composed music "Ode to Joy" based on Schiller's poem. Friedrich Schiller was the Poet of words - Ludwig van Beethoven was the Poet of tones. Both are greats of art. Huge respect! 💖 💞 (CZ my country)
This has become my favorite of .Beethoven's 9 symphonies! I could listen to it every day.
Огромная благодарность каналу за трансляцию этой прекрасной симфонии. Музыка... Оркестр... дирижёр - великолепны. БРАВО.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Beethoven was a genius. Any other comment would be useless. Thanks for existing!
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+Harshita Kaushal Beautiful music cannot exist without him.
you never know when it's going to end he is just a genius
Mara Iapoce indeed he was
That is it! Period. Thank God for having put Beethoven on Earth for us. Imagine living in an era when Beethoven's music is available to so many. Had we lived a hundred years ago this would not have been possible.
what a marvelous piece, i listen over and over and i cant stop. Beethoven was a real genius
Yes, he was
Beethoven elevated genius to a new level.
Yes that's true Hello 👋 how are you feeling this beautiful Sunday 🌄
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!
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"?
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.
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.
The universe was created for this symphony to be made.
Yes
Indeed!
Im afraid that no one knows why the universe was created, but you COULD be right! 😉
Ein Traum! Man müsste in der ersten Reihe sitzen !
@@Noaxe_Tegrinde some do know
This performance of the Andante needs UNESCO status, Maestro Barenboim the peace prize, and the wind section deserve a window in the sistine ceiling. "I don't see the problem" said my dad when we struggled to play this at school. Sublime.
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I was going through a very difficult time in my marriage when this song came out, and I was feeling distraught, hopeless, and alone. It seemed like every time I got in the car and turned the radio on, this song was playing and tears would steam down my face. It was the perfect reminder to me that no matter what happened, my hope was in Christ alone and He would never let me down. Eventually, God restored my marriage and He continues to be my hope no matter what I have to face in this life.
A great creation. Thank you. Pure pleasure
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.
Barenboim does the best job of conveying Beethoven's music with all of its emotions.
This symphony is divine but what else do you expect from the greatest composer. He walked much in the countryside and it's reflected in this piece.
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.
So true
no the 9th is better
The interplay between the flute, oboe and clarinet at the end of the 2nd movement is sublime
Nope, it's just more well known/famous... The 9th is more familiar to you...
Bernstein with the Weiner Phil is pretty good too 😂... It's on here.
*falls in love with Beethoven's music*
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.
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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
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.
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.
Seit wann sind wir per Du?
Barenboim really gets involved, class conductor, conducts every note, love it!
I checked my blood pressure. It's all time low. Thank you.
In my opinion this is the most beautiful of all the synphonies.
A brilliant advertisement for a Beethoven season in my city: 'Beethoven wrote this before he turned 30; make sure that you hear it before you turn 30'. That was bringing Beethoven to a new audience. Years back, Disney's 'Fantasia' did that too, in its own way, and succeeded. It also covered other famous composers. My major live-theatre and recital venues also run youth ticketing and performances: the early-evening session, at reduced prices. That is a technique which works admirably.
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Adding to my post, and not music. I was at at 6 pm performance of 'Grapes of wrath', with a senior-secondary audience (16-18 yo). They were the most angelic audience which I have ever experienced. They were spellbound: no mobiles; no crackling cellophane; no movement; they were barely breathing.
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
That seamless transition from 4 to 5 at 32.06 is awesome.
Beethoven gets all his props for the "5th", but I feel his 6th/Pastoral is his greatest symphony.
Thank You Disney for Fantasia that introduced me to THIS music!!
He didn't exactly get them from the fifth. He worked on the works simultaneously.
OMG haha same I was on a disney cruise and they played this music.
Nay! Hhis best work was in the String Quartets. Every composer's best works are the string quartets. Especially Ricky Wagner.
It does not really matter. Enjoy what you really like. Rankings are useless in music. Nando from Venezuela
Probably the best of his symphonies. I bought the Berlin Philharmonic when I was sixteen and it still brings me to tears.
One of the best masterpieces of the german master, well performed 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🇧🇷
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!
Wat jij zegt is helemaal waar,deze muziek is een oase vanrust
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.