On May 7, 1824, Beethoven shared his 9th Symphony with the world even though he could never hear it. On May 7, 2015 celebrate the anniversary of Beethoven’s most glorious and jubilant masterpiece with Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. An exhilarating testament to the human spirit, Beethoven’s Ninth bursts with brooding power and kinetic energy and culminates in the exultant hymn, “Ode to Joy.”The video is now available free on demand for all to enjoy! - See more at: cso.org/beethoven9
For additional videos of Riccardo Muti, visit riccardomutimusic.com.
September 19, 2014
Orchestra Hall at Symphony Center
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti, conductor
Camilla Nylund, soprano
Ekaterina Gubanova, mezzo-soprano
Matthew Polenzani, tenor
Eric Owens, bass-baritone
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Duain Wolfe, director
This quarantine changed me a lot
Omg. Why are we here? Lol
Ok practice well
SAME
Yeeee
Are you starting to wake up to the lies or..
Amazing how all this was inside a dude´s mind once.
That dude is Herr Ludwig van Beethoven, but I know right, for a guy who lost his hearing
Thanks for sharing my thought. That is beyond comprehention.
Yeah! That really is.
... and now all that is in people's head is OneRepublic, Taylor Swift and Beiber.
These youngsters will someday realise what great music is.
To the person reading this, Good Luck! Don't stress, everything will be fine. No matter what difficulty you are facing right now, you can overcome it! You are strong and brave
God bless you bro🙏❤️
Thank you!
God bless you all ❤
This is a fine reading from a quality orchestra in my old home town, Chicago. One cannot listen to this in entirety without hearing the Voice of God. As the Brits like to say, "Steady on."
Thank you. I needed to hear that.
Imagine hearing this for the first time in 1824. 200 years later still spine-tingling.
Especially since access to music was limited back then. To hear this live at the symphony would change your life I'm sure, you'd be buzzing with the emotion from it for weeks
Imagine writing this masterpiece completely deaf and never hearing it. Beethoven was completely deaf at this point.
"To play a wrong note is insignificant ; to play without passion is inexplicable " -- Ludwig van Beethoven
Beautiful quote❤
Not inexplicable but inexcusable - but thanks for the quote 🙏
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@@simonevans343which has been done (the bible) multiple times: either Ancient Hebrew or Aramaic & recopied; then into Koine Greek & recopied & changed many times; into Latin; recopied & changed many times; then translated into Elizabethan English & recopied & retranslated with opportunities for error at every turn, Don’t mind me, I’m not a purist. Quotes can be altered: it would be mind boggling if they weren’t.
@@simonevans343 No, he was correcting the quote. Beethoven said inexcusable; not inexplicable. Not that it matters but just pointing it out.
Beethoven : you guys want some symphonies tonight? crowd : *cheers loudly* Beethoven : I can't hear you.
+Alyssa Hightower Really?
+Sharvil Gandhi LOL
+AshleyRiotable he tragically became deaf late in life, by the time he composed this masterpiece he couldn't hear a thing.. it makes it all the more divine
kamiel verwer I already knew it I was ironic.
+AshleyRiotable I'm sorry... what?
Its March 2024. No matter how many times I listen to this , I never get tired of it....
It's like a musical time capsule that keeps getting better with every play
I'm listening in too, fabulous indeed but Karajan 1968 is beyond anything I've ever absorbed. ♥️
I listen the whole at least once a week since 5 years. And some time at a daily basis. And it still amazes me and shake me to the core 🥲
Yeah I'm not a classical guy but this is probably the best music ever @1:01:42 This the best part
0:49 🎉❤ @@TheClaptonisgod1
-1824: Wow, this song is amazing! -2024: Wow, this song is amazing! Happy 200 years
Composition*
@@eldarpezer11Imma touch u lil boy 😍😍
@@eldarpezer11 Piece**
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***sound***
It's so strange how I went from hip hop and pop music to orchestral pieces in just a year and now all I want passionately is to witness this live one day.
All music is incredible
I saw it on Saturday - QLD Symphony Orchestra. Totally blew me away ! and the best thing I have ever seen and heard. I love all music types too (exception Country and Western)
I heard it live with this exact orchestra and conductor, it was incredible
@@Michachel He is a fabulous conductor !
As great as it sounds on here, it must sound that much better live.
When this was over, the crowd was ecstatic and applauding wildly but Beethoven heard none of it. The first violinist went to him and turned him around so he could see their reaction to his masterpiece. There are a few things in history that I wish I could time travel back and see and one of them would be the first performance of this with Beethoven himself conducting.
What a MIND FUCK that would have been!
@@cdeeznutsLOL I had also heard, (can't speak to the truth of it but I think to think it's true) that after the first performance was the only time he smiled after a performance.
What's so amazing is when Beethoven wrote the 9th symphony he was completely deaf. Writing a sonata when your deaf is one thing, but writing a symphony with all the instrument parts for a whole 70 minute is quite something else. This man was a genius. Just amazing and magnifique and mind blowing!
@Don P Yes and when the performance was done, the crowd was applauding and on their feet. But Beethoven didn't hear it and one of the musician had to turn him around so he could see it.
So majestic and impressive, eccellenti musicista and one of the best conductors all over the world.
Ode to joy is the greatest movement of all time.
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I cannot be the only one who was moved by that choir. Their singing supported by the lush, gorgeous, majestic sound of the orchestra was just DIVINE. It moved me to tears.
Hard to watch this without being brought to tears.
@@conormccaffery5821yup
Sure it brings tears to eyes...cannot understand feelings...
The choir is what makes this piece so great. Especially in the finale.
@@christian_sep42 @55:40
Imagine how lit the crowd was mustve been when this dropped like 300 years ago at a live concert.
There is a story that the performance received a standing ovation, but, since Beethoven was completely deaf, he couldn't hear it and the alto turned him around so that he could see the audience's reaction.
It was 200 not 300 years. More importantly it was highly unlikely the average citizen at the time would have heard that played more than a handful of times in their lifetime. Any one of us can have a full bore orchestra playing this beautiful music in our living room every night or on the subway on the way to the office. We take it for granted.
It was 200 years ago, but yeah, the crowd would have been lit all the same.
Idiot !!so now u want to go 300 years back. F***ing piece of sh*t,. Stop imagining something impossible and increase ur knowledge a little bit
@@vedantsinha6296 before he increases his knowledge you should increase your grammar skill
1st movement: 1:49 2nd movement: 19:34 3rd movement: 35:27 4th movement: 52:12 Ode to Joy: 54:48 Choral: 59:23
lakerman49 hey thanks man
lakerman49 Grazie per davvero. Dovrebbero fare sempre cio' che hai fatto tu, altrimenti sarebbe come andare all' o'pera senza il libretto.
Troy Stoner I think he got the last two timing segments wrong: doesn't the Choral come in before the Ode?
Belchmaster41 Well no, the Ode to Joy movement starts with the instruments, and then the chorus comes in, I actually meant to add in the "Stars" part, but couldn't accurately pinpoint it, oh but now I see what you mean
lakerman49
This is the peak of human music. Easily within the top 3 things ever written. Here I am, a grown man, properly tearing up from the sound of this magnificence. The passion, the depth, the harmony of all these people working together is truly overwhelming. Thank you Beethoven, thank you orchestra and choir. Literally awesome - in the true sense of the word.
Possibly within the top 3 things ever written. What would be the other two. For me its certainly the Mahler 2nd symphony
@@hillcresthikerMaybe also the Hammerklavier
@@hillcresthikermoonlight sonata... beethoven violin concerto... lizst transcendental etudes... Berlioz symphonie fantastiqiue... Stravinsky rite of spring... mozart magic flute... brahms 3rd symphony... Saint saens danse macabre, and introduction and rondo cappriccioso ... Wagner pilgrims chorus... bach toccatta and fugue, brandenburg concertos... chopin etudes... Verdi Aida... schubert erlkonig.... prokofiev violin sonatas....how many hundreds more am I missing
@@hillcresthikerHandel's Messiah #1 for me. Beethoven 9 #2. Mahler 8 (Symphony Of A Thousand) #3.
@@NeaonBHB Rachmaninoff 2nd piano concerto. I'm not a classical enthusiast, so it should carry extra weight when someone like me puts the 9th, and Rachmaninoff in their list of favorite music. I listen primarily to house/techno hip hop, classic rock, 90s rock, but to me, this symphony has to be best music ever made
This recording is flawless. Listen on good speakers or headphones and you will be there. The musicians are flawless, too. The timing and dynamics are amazing.
I totally agree!
Couldn't have put it better myself!
Muti il più grande direttore
So true!!
Just imagine how few people during Beethoven's lifetime could hear this? And what a gift it is to us.
Beethoven couldn't even hear it
Year year adere
He heard it in his mind!
xplain why only a few? were the census back in the 17th century Germany only 300,000?
@@automachinehead he was a type of deaf
It breaks my heart that Beethoven would not be able to hear his own beautiful work. That he could still hear it in his head makes him truly a one-of-a-kind composer.
Beethoven going deaf was a crime against humanity.
@David Roosemailer he's exaggerating. It's a hyperbole he doesn't really mean it. He's saying that it's an offense to nature and Society for someone so special to lose their hearing abilities which are so Central to their profession in the special things they bring to us. It's just a fancy way of saying how tragic it was for Beethoven to lose his hearing.
@@hankzumbahlen4180 Whom shall we indict?
Agree! I think about Mozart in a paupers grave without any notoriety. If HE only knew KBAQ has Mozart Buffet every day at lunchtime. If those composers only knew how We treasure their works in 2021!!
One of a kind? It's likely that Beethoven and many other famed composers, including Mozart, could imagine a symphony in their mind. They just needed paper and a pen to record it. I can "hear" tunes I make up in my mind. Translating these tunes into written form is another matter.
Unreal. Beethoven must have been from another planet to create something like this. Gave me chills
And from one where music must be their only language. After 200 years this still holds up above the rest and is not even considered outdated.
Indeed! From a heavenly realm! A true gift of magnificent proportion.
I had intended to get some work done this morning, but once i started listening I couldn't stop. Wishing everyone peace & joy
Lindo né
4:49 AM on a cold 03/27/2024 in Saint Paul MN. I was gonna listen to the First movement. Ended up listening to the whole damn thing it was so good!
I can't listen to the first two movements without hearing the rest, if it plays on a commercial or movie it pisses me off so much. Also they play terrible version on the tv or movies, nothing compares to an uncompressed live version of it. I used to have a Vinyl of this I'd crank in my basement bar stereo as a teen. I miss that house so much. The accoustics and that oldschool Sony source entertainment system went hard. Cd's were there but after I learned the science behind the compression of CD's I opted to collect vinyl. My step dad had a really sick vinyl double single of ozzy's mr crowley. I had Ozzy as himself and him as Crowley Printed on the actual grooves of the record.
If you watch this, it is the culmination of millions of hours of human effort. From the creation of the instruments, to the contours of the hall. Every bow string pull and push, pulsing to a set of notes from a long dead genius. It resonates now as it will in 200 years, a marvel of human creation. Thank you to Charlie and your family to allow the rest of us to experience 90+ minutes of the joy of being human
U nailed the nail
Excellent just marvelous
I have no words, but yours were quite good enough... I hope all of this survives what's coming for us. Even if the original written music somehow doesn't make it, some of the digital copies undoubtedly will. I just made one and so should we all.
Wow it is amazing the effort that goes into a thing like this....A bargain tho!
It is the absolute meaning of JOY.
I watched this entire thing with a friend high as a kite and we didn’t say a word the entire time, we were just mesmerised by the entire performance. I still remember the sensation this gave me to this day
this is the definition of EPIC
@@grittykitty50 needed some B A S S
glad im not the only high person here
@@adog3129 😆
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
That moment at 57:58 where Riccardo Muti seems to have forgotten the world around him for a few seconds, fully absorbed by the full impact of the melody played with Tutti for the first time
Do you know which symphony that is?
During this moment he uses to let the orchestra plays by itself. It happened several times. Chicago will miss him a lot
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You will never listen to this symphony the same way, when you will know that the genius compositor was completely deaf by the moment he produced it. His only remaining instrument was his memory remembering how illustrative the music can be without hearing it ... every note...every shade. The most beautiful and sad picture of him I could imagine is : Van Beethoven turning to (not hearing) the applaude of people when he finished orchestring this master piece for the first time. Imagine composing/playing a symphony you never listened to in front of a selective and informed public. Rest in Peace Sir Ludwig. You are and have been a blessing to our ears.
Thank you...Gary Oldman for...
He started it when partially deaf and finished it when he was fully deaf. Without perfect pitch, he would have never made it to the end. An absolute genius mind
I imagine composing while deaf is like painting while being blind. The gift he had is unimaginable.
He had such a perfect imagination so that he could write his music notes without hearing them at all. A real music genious! Cheers!
There is none like him, there probably never will be.
Not exactly....Beethoven could hear and knew the sounds of each instrument, note, nuance, etc. intimately. While I'm sure it was difficult, torturous and it clearly influenced his work, it is not an impossible task because he could imagine the sound. I'm sure conducting would have been a nightmare, since he couldn't hear if it was being played properly, but it wasn't impossible like painting while blind. Even if you had sight before, not being able to see would make painting impossible because you could not see the colors on your palette. It would be impossible to mix the paint to recreate what you saw in your mind in the same way a deaf person could pen the music they heard in theirs.
@@blasiodonatohillebrand8788 and also perfect intonation and rhythm, just imagine composing a piece without hearing the actual note 💀
I believe you cant be born deaf and compose music and paint when you where born blind
I haven't seen a comment yet saying things about the musicians, but I sure do think they deserve all the claps and praises! Bravo Chicago Orchestra! Bravo! All of them!
The musicians are great. Too much camera time for the man with the little stick
Not to digress or argue but, as I get older, I continue to search (the internet and, alas, KZhead) for the "perfect" Beethoven's 9th performance. Aside from the number of "claps and praises' and the tally of KZhead's views and comments my search shall continue.
@@davidignatiusbalestreri1737 The man with the little stick is himself a quite accomplished musician, but yes the orchester requires more attention.
@@bradearly9689 || I agree, Brad. He is. The "perfect" 9th Symphony was in Beethoven's head when he wrote it. All performances since its publication are someone's interpretation of what Beethoven wrote. Since humans are incapable of perfection, we can only hope that performances such as this one by the CSO are as close as humanly possible to what Beethoven had in mind.
I have not yet
How on earth a man with impaired hearing make something wonderful like this… Amazing
Beethoven was guided in his work by Angels. What other explanation could there be?
a deaf man
My aunt played the piano and she played it well. She was not on the level of a concert pianist but she could play as well as a typical high school music teacher could. My aunt learned to play as a young child. Then she got sick and lost her hearing. By the time I knew her she was profoundly deaf and could hear nothing but the loudest of noises and only slightly. She described it as wearing ear plugs with everyone whispering. I remember crying when I fully realized the ramifications of this fact. It meant that she could never hear her own beautiful music. I was a very young child when she and my uncle, who played violin, took me to a rehearsal of this piece and he was in the orchestra. The piece was so beautiful it brought me to tears, especially the choral in the last movement. For years, knowing that I loved classical music, my family would give me albums of the music created by the man whose birthday I shared and I was always so delighted to get them. As a young boy I always insisted that before we cut the cake we sing happy birthday to Beethoven as well. Then one day in middle school music class our teacher played moonlight sonata. I was probably the only student who had heard it before and more than one time. I had in fact been present for more than one live performance. When the teacher was done we talked about Beethoven's life. That is when I found out he was deaf for the later part of his life. I was devastated. I understood the implications. To me, it was like Moses being denied entry into he promised land. It was like Michelangelo being struck blind before painting the Sistine Chapel. For years I called it God's evil miracle. I still get a tear when I hear Beethoven played.
Something so tragic but amazing about deaf musicians. Like a blind painter. Lovely story
Deutsche composer, Italian conductor, finnich soprano, usa orchestra and universal language...the music is life
Yes my friend. Well said.
Parole sincere, amico mio. Molto bravo. I migliori auguri a te.
Giuseppe Giuseppe 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻absolutely 👍🏻!...
totally agree! not forgetting Schiller, one of the greatest poets, who's written the lyrics
Giuseppe Giuseppe in orchestra half from chine
the fact that Ludwig composed this after losing his hearing makes its even more amazing
he could probably still hear and imagine it in his mind,
He could hear. Only a little bit.
Imagine the inner organization and memory that takes, regardless or the ability to hear the harmonies in his mind without use of piano. Add that he can feel so poetically deeply. Greatest composer/artist of all time, arguably.
he bit down on metal rods to hear later in life
It is, but more. Fact this is most influential piece in whole symphonic art makes it almost an miracle. It matches that Einstein sat in a room alone and imagined universe with black holes in his mind. Human mind is incredible, and these guys are the proof :)
After listening to this and other versions of Beethoven’s Ninth on KZhead for years, I finally had the immense pleasure one year ago to take part in this transcendental experience at the Royal Albert Hall in London, conducted by Toby Purser. The fact that arguably the best piece of music ever was composed by a person who was almost completely deaf at that time still haunts me. Beethoven is infinite. ❤️
How lucky you are!Wish I will also be able to listen to this masterpiece live!
Something’s cannot be taken away by technology, it’s so wonderful watching an orchestra😊
I really hope I can watch a live orchestra in my lifetime
Live orchestras are beautiful it's like you can feel the music in your heart.
The first time I played my violin during a worship service of the Free Methodists in Toddville, Iowa, few or probably none of the members had ever heard a violin "live". I later played in a Nazarene orchestra for a couple of years. Later still, in a baptist orchestra for a couple of years. The level of "musicianship" wasn't nearly what you hear here but please ask around to see whether there are any "church" orchestras near where you live. You might like the experience of hearing them live, even if they don't play "classical" music like this.
@@mattiasdanieldamsgaardwood1315 You just spelled "loser" wrong . . . It's only one "o."
If you can make it, go for it. I went for New Years concert and they had Beethovens 9ths and Karl Orf. It was stunning, absolutley phenomenal. Hearing it here is great, but it's only 10% of the experience live. I'am a hard guy, but I ahd to blink away tears during Ode to Joy.
Why can't you?
Beethoven was completely deaf when he composed this, every single instrument, every sound he heard in his own soul and put it down on paper! He was a true marvelous Genius!>>< The bible speaks of heavenly JOY, THIS IS IT!!!
you can't don't agree
Not actually completely about 80 percent deaf i think
@@troyaustria3857 What does it matter? 80%, 100%? whatever, he was a genius. Lets not quibble over crumbs.
@@troyaustria3857 Ninth was composed between 1822 and 1824; Beethoven was 52 in 1822; by the time he was 44 or 45, he was totally deaf. When the ninth premiered, "Beethoven stood by the conductor Michael Umlauf during the concert beating time (although Umlauf had warned the singers and orchestra to ignore him), and because of his deafness was not even aware of the applause which followed until he was turned to witness it."
I was thinking the same thing as I listened to the intricacies woven into so much of the work.
God surely guided Beethoven's hand as he wrote this.
ما قدمه بيتهوڤن للفن والموسيقى هو المعنى الأمثل للإعجاز البشري تحفة فنية هي الأفضل بالتاريخ حسب رأي الخبراء ولم يستطيع حتى سماع ماذا يكتب وما هي نتيجة عمله ولا حتى رأي جمهوره عمل يخلد قدرة البشر لا محدودة 👏👏
أتفق
You're only 250 once. Happy birthday to the greatest Western composer of all time.
Teardrp
Western? You mean greatest composer of all time full stop!
Mozart is a best !!
@@nicatzeynalli3150 couldn't agree more.
@@nicatzeynalli3150 Oh My God !!!....There's Always The Mozart Fan Lurking in The Shadows !!!.....
To think we can enjoy such an epic performance for free while others some centuries ago had to pay fortunes to see, this is something that I am grateful for!
That would've gave us the real satisfaction , paying to watch the maestro and then just remembering the tune in your head all your life. Thats how things should be , watching live by paying
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@@user-xb7uv4bu3s drugs?
@@olivierf1632 No, he is Binary!!
If you ever get the chance, you should attend performance. KZhead will never compare to the physical sensation of having this music played live for you.
What is immortality? To create a work so profound and impactful that it can withstand time itself. On 7 May, 1824 Ludwig Von Beethoven gifted us such a work, almost 200 years later we continue to perform and enjoy it.
Classical music at its finest. What an epic finish. Beethoven's Ninth Symphony conveys feelings of hope, joy, and peace.
I. Allegro ma non troppo, un poco maestoso 1:43 II. Molto vivace 19:45 III. Adagio molto e cantabile - Andante moderato 35:41 IV. Finale: Ode to Joy 52:13
Thanks!
@@niyahbowens6215 No problem! The original timestamps were from Sauriano.
tyvm!!
real mvp right here
why ode to joy is longer than Spotify version?
I’m Japanese . In Japan, most of them said “ classical music is very old and not interesting.” I’m sad but when I saw this comment list and this movie, world is more big than we think. I want to spread classical music.
Me too! I’m French and it’s exactly the same thing in my school everyone says « Classical music is annoying » but I’m like no !! I love listening orchestra and the next year I want to incorporate a music conservatory.
There are many boring classical music's. But that's the same for everything, they are just not looking hard enough to find things like these.
My Mother was absolutely insistent that my siblings and I had to participate in children's choir, take piano lessons, and try at least one other instrument. As a kid, it definitely bothered me at times. But, it opened up a lifelong appreciation for many forms of music. I have commented at other times that mood and music are tied together rather tightly for me. In the right mood, I can listed to opera. In another mood, I might be listening to hip-hop. Pink Floyd fits into almost any mood. As for classical, it is a go to for me in several moods. Certain pieces are fantastic at soothing me when I've got anxiety going out of control. Others pieces are great for when I'm needing to work on a project. It saddens me when I hear people write off entire genres of music. It is fine to not like certain composers/artists as we all have preferences. But classical covers such a massive range of compositions and composers. Beethoven's 9th Symphony is a good example because it includes vocals that aren't used in his famous 5th Symphony. With a little effort, I think many could find something they really enjoy. Ultimately, it is their loss when they close their minds to such a rich genre.
It's a sad fact that modern culture revolves around pop culture .... ie that which requires no effort to understand it. People dismiss classical music, Shakespeare, abstract painting .... all because people have become lazy and don't want to have to study to be able to appreciate these things.
@@cliffordmaddox6532 I agree with you there. While I have an observational bias, I see it as more than just lazy with my fellow countrymen in the USA. Large swathes of the population prides itself on being ignorant. Being dumb is sexier than being a scientist. The latest gossip on some Hollywood clown gets far more attention than an event demonstrated in this video. It is more than just being lazy, it is a willful effort to dumb down the culture.
I remember my parents took me to hear this. I was SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO BORED!! I now understand that I'm listening to a 200 year old master piece that still blows people away.
...one of the most beautiful pieces in music...ever written...
Interesting myth: the length of a CD is what it is because of this piece of music. Sony wanted this music to be able to fit on a CD without any breaks
It's a part of the reason a CD is 74 minutes long, but commercial and technical aspects played an even bigger part in determining the size of the CD.
Urban myth, this is the real story: The story that Sony Vice-President Norio Ohga insisted on the new medium being able to accommodate Wilhelm Furtwängler’s reading of Beethoven’s Ninth - at the time, the longest recorded performance of the piece - has passed not only into legend, but into many official histories. However, according to former Philips researcher Kees Immink, the 120mm diameter and 74-minute running time of the CD were actually the result of undignified horse-trading between Sony and Philips, whose relationship as co-developers of the format was sometimes rocky. Until quite late in the development process, the disc was to have been 115mm in diameter, but this would have given Philips a competitive advantage, as their subsidiary Polygram already had a plant set up to produce 115mm discs. To level the playing field, Ohga insisted on a late change in the size of the disc.
I prefer the urban myth.
@@maverik15j Yeah. Myths are more fun.
no way really?
Should be doing school work but cant stop watching. Thank you Beethoven and the chicago orchestra
If you are beholding the works of Beethoven instead of doing your homework, then you are already more intelligent than most, don't worry about it. You are already a fast study.
I have a presentation tomorrow, but I can't stop either XD
Though it's helpful to be able to listen to great music while working; it provides much more listening time than one would have otherwise.
You can just listen to the sound while you're working. I often do that.
I did work and listen
You have to experience this masterpiece in person.
Tears coming down my face at the thought that I can't help but get the feeling Beethoven composed Ode to Joy as a way to bring light to himself and his audience from the fact that he was deaf, and losing his mind. So tragic, yet wonderful.
This piece never fails to restore my faith in humanity again.
Der Kuttelmann ní nó min, V IV
fuck you
Trai Đẹp No u
Trai Đẹp that was uncalled for
So true! Some people care about life after all C,':
It’s amazing that when this was written only kings and nobles could enjoy this but now I’m watching this on my phone enjoying Beethoven. What a blessing
Not quite. The audience at the time were mainly comprised of the recently grown wealthy middle class. But it is surely a bless that we are still keeping this art in 2022
Very good point. Amazing what the passage of time can do.
On phone? :-) forget it! Do you now what is classical music like live? (today a concert ticket prises is also for nobles!) As a teacherI I can't afford to go to Opera...
@@Egon_Nordwint Don't say that, just spend it. Don't live your life without that extraordinary experience. The universe will bless you later.
@@jasoncummings7052 awful point, completely historically inaccurate
Maart 2024. Ik ben nu 62 en heb nog nooit een life concert van ons volkslied kunnen bijwonen. March 2024. I am now 62 and have never been able to attend a live concert of our national anthem. It gives me chills every time. Whether it's played by half of Japan, or by Chicago.
And THAT ladies and gentlemen is the true spirit of Chicago!
Yehok.😂
One of the world's great orchestras.
Would that it was so, brother. Hope it may be so soon. (Chicago is my old home town.)
Man, Netflix really needs to make a show about Beethoven.
Слушаю и благоденствую!
Chess check out the movie Immortal Beloved kzhead.info/sun/krWmXbOEm5aHfHA/bejne.html
@@__cypher__ I've watched it before. It's nothing to write home about.
"Immortal Beloved" a movie
I would love it, but I also know that it’d be really depressing
Red wine and this, best way to quarantine
Davide Dalco my man!
your a man drinking wine
Was wondering who else was watching this in quarantine! Best way to feel as if you are "going out" - or just have music and visuals while working from home ;)
Corona 2020 was here
Vous avez compris la vie !
This extant piece of music created by a legally deaf man is the exact example of what it means to lose one’s sense but still be considered an expert in your field. Music is love!
Imagine... he composed this without being able to hear it. Genius.
@@ursulaschumann7698 "flow of his being"? wtf is that even supposed to mean. He had been creating music for his entire life, he didn't need to hear to write music because he knew how it would sound without actually hearing. Yes, he was a genius, but quit that "flow of his being crap".
Biasa aja ahh.. lebay ahh lau brayy 😔😩
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@@aspect795 Dear friend: I'm so sorry you don't understand what "flow of his being" means. It means "flow of his soul" because only in the very moments you listen to your soul guinding you, you can be a genius. I regret you are not able to.
@@hastequick1618 wow you use vague words and say abstract shit, you’re so smart. No one asked for your opinion you pretentious fuck.
Okay , It's December 16th , 2020 Just a Little Pass Midnight in Detroit , At the Very Beginning of Beethovens 250th Birthday Anniversary Celebration !!!...Who's Watching in 2023 !!
9.20am in the UK, overwhelmed and overcome by joy and beauty.
2:30am in Arizona, So Beautiful
I didn’t even know it was his birthday! What a wonderful surprise!
7:47 in charlotte... amazing!
14h05 in Belgium ... :)
After listening to this and other versions of Beethoven’s Ninth on KZhead for years, I finally had the immense pleasure one year ago to take part in this transcendental experience at the Royal Albert Hall in London, conducted by Toby Purser. The fact that arguably the best piece of music ever was composed by a person who was almost completely deaf at that time still haunts me. Beethoven is infinite. ️
These are some of the best musicians in the world. And hearing them perform The Ninth is magnificent.
If you've lost your faith in humanity, all you have to is listen to Beethoven, and you'll realize God touched us with a few great blessings.
more like real artist not God.
I've rather lost my faith in humanity because there are people who believe in God.
So true, Andy! We just found out that this is what our chorus will be singing when we finally return in the winter after having our spring concert canceled. What a joy it was for us!
@@late8641 and do you have a problem with that🙃
@Mister Brookes only if it collapses due to the Second Coming of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
Well done, Herr Ludwig Van Beethoven. Two centuries later we are still captivated.
it will be a sad day if we are not captivated by this anymore
Hear, hear!
愛変わらない？
1:11:17 the prep for the joy section!! wonderfully done.
Had the opportunity to visit Vienna recently -had to go to Vienna's Central cemetery to pay my respects to this Master of Masters. Being close to his mortal remains was a really humbling experience. To pay respects to this genius - even though calling him genius is an understatement - he is surrounded by a few other music greats. Humbling - to say the least
I am a Noob! This was the first time in my 37 years I have watched a complete symphony orchestra. The kids were put to bed and I put some headphones on and the rest is history. I am now changed forever and will never look at music the same! It’s wildly impressive and I can’t wait to watch some live symphonies! Why? - why did I wait this long to listen to this masterpiece 🤦 oh well I am grateful to have personally discovered real music for the first time! I’m hooked and am now going to get to know Beethoven through some documentaries!
Same. I feel like I've wasted so much time. Beethoven is just the best.
me too but i am 22
right on, good for you :) hearing symphonies live is incomparable, I pray we are all able to do so again soon
Me too but 17
Curiosity is the key.
THIS IS MY NEIGHBORS FAVORITE SYMPHONY, WHETHER THEY LIKE IT OR NOT!
Mine too 😂
@@lesley5387 Let's make it the neighbourhood favourite ;-)
😂😂😂😂😂😂
I wish I had neighbours like you.
@@concerned1 Same here
If aliens come to earth one day, this is the first song we have to show them
1:11:05 You know it's the beginning of the best part
Sometimes, you just have to come back to the greatest piece ever written.
Dave Smith lp
May 7th, 1824 this masterpiece debuted. Happy 195th birthday
Yay for chance Webster
What will they do on the 200th birthday of this piece?
Yay
Dang, I was just a kid back then
I’m surprised by all the meme bro comments
Overwhelmed by this particular performance. Special applause to the soloists who were all spectacular. I’ve sung this puppy and there is almost no good place to breathe. They found the place and sounded glorious. Could go on, but I might cry. Thank you so much!
My brother (horn) and daughter-in-law (soprano section leader in the chorus) both in this recording. I am blessed.
I cry. Every. Single Time.
Me too
me too! Fortunate enough to have played this 3 times in my lifetime as 2nd flute and 2 years ago piccolo with the Carmel Bach Festival - blowing my brains out at the end with tears streaming down my face knowing it could possibly be the last time I play it.... ahhh sweet memories.
Asmik Stepanyan that’s music 🎼
Me too ... like a baby. I cry because it is just beautiful, because he gave it to us ("this kiss is for the whole word"), and out of sadness because he himself never got to hear it.
Oops, for the whole world*
In a million years someone will find this and might think we'd have been nice ppl.
Beethoven was a musical genius, but not so nice...
A hearing impairment as severe as his, particularly if one needs to try to hide it, will compromise most people's social skills.
beethoven was in deep depression ofc he wasnt nice his life was music and he went DEAF imagine that
in a million years there will be no people idiot.
In a million years people all over the universe will still be performing and listening to Beethoven! It's, Universal!
I just listened to half of this with my 2.5yo rambunctious toddler, who didn’t utter a single complaint, but rather enjoyed her snack time quietly listening and watching. (She is usually hyper, can never sit still and is only entertained by Cocomelon, Baby Shark and the likes.) I don’t know if I’m more impressed by the whole production of this orchestral symphony or by the power of timeless music to capture even the youngest of minds.
The best therapy ;-))
1:06:51 probably the most iconic music moment in all of human history
Your disrespecting Michael Jackson
@@kirosasher you're disrespecting your english teacher
this deserves more likes
looking for this, thanks
@@kirosasher this is HISTORY
Bro this truly blows my mind how one man wrote a symphony as grand as this
Wrote it deaf too
You would love Mahler
@@vespid8960 yeah especially the iconic mahler 5
@@ArtPath11 I think Mahler 2 may be the best the best though Mahler 5 is my absolute favorite, it’s epic and beautiful at the same time, and Mahler really mastered counterpoint at that time, those transitions always give me chills
He also wrote while he was deaf. Beethoven was deaf by his fifth Symphony.
The complexity of classical compositions never ceases to amaze me. It's a reminder of the boundless potential of human imagination. 🎹
Maestro Riccardo Muti, italian pride. 🇮🇹
Surely I'm not the only one here fake conducting to my screen along with this masterpiece
Yep! I did it too. Feels good don't it.
@@henrynorris8138 lol i was just doing that!
Even I am
No, I was trying to wack a fly! Lol
Hands only! No baton 😂
Beethoven's final great gift for humanity, his celebration of the noblest aspects of the human spirit.
Actually, the final gifts were the late quartets, especially the b-flat, C# and c. So is this piece with Muti.
Yes.🌳
love what you said.. :) HEART
Its past 2 am and I really need to go to sleep. But I just cant stop listening. Its just too beautiful.
Marvelous and glorious! Chicago has never sounded better.
Hearing the 9th for the first time caused a massive paradigm shift in my life, as it does for most people who hear it and truly appreciate it’s significance. There’s no going back once you hear this symphony in it’s full glory. I’d argue that it’s saved me from being engulfed entirely by the void of depression and for that I owe Beethoven more than I could ever offer as gratitude for his art. Everyone should be able to hear this work.
Genius and he may never know his works impact on humanity
Ironic, considering how he himself wasn't able to hear it. Fun fact! The first time Bethoven presented his 9th symphony, conducting the orchestra himself, he wasn't able to hear the applause of the audience, and the first violonist had to turn him around to show him the crowd's reaction to the masterpiece.
Beautiful words. I tend to feel the same way and I think at least part of it is because when you hear this you are hearing some kind of proof that what is good in our reality will always always eventually triumph and what is evil will one day perish and fail spectacularly it will be almost pathetic, and that there's an enduring purpose to life that is far greater than all the evil in the world would have us believe- and that evil is so utterly utterly USELESS as an idea and given enough time WILL fail so completely it's a wonder it hasn't happened already. Ok that's a little deep to get from a few notes I know and I can't explain it scientifically nor am I even religious but when I hear the great works this is something I feel beyond intellectual understanding. Maybe I'm going to deep with it but it's what comes to me. My faith in existence is always restored by the great works. And not just classical - ANY great works. I feel like there's a bigger message than simply the notes - or maybe I'm just high. But either way this is what I take from it. I believe it is true.
Beauty will save the world. -Dostoyevsky
Same here
No commercials I love it
Oop! My bad! We interrupt your favorite Beethoven piece randomly at 1:15:00 with these commercial messages from your local Ford dealer. Drive home a Ford today.
@@theultimatereductionist7592 HAHAHAHA THAT WOULD BE AWFUL 😂
@@layoutgames-boris3481 LOL in fact both would be awful..... the commercial interruption AND driving a Ford home.
I can just imagine a zomato ad when the 3rd movement is on track
@@_shivesh_12 hahaahahaha that would be awful xD
Just want a cup of tea and sit in the balcony enjoy the moment.
I've listened and watched many orchestra performing this piece and although all of them were amazing, this one is above every single one I experienced. Riccardo Muti is a superb conductor and wish I could see his performance live one day.
The highest quality version of the Ninth Symphony I have ever heard.
True. The tempo is perfect,not too fast. And the soprano, alto, tenor and bajo are probably one of the best too.
The Chicago symphony is one of the best in the world, and generally considered the best in the states.
the same - the best I've heard
I prefer the Barenboim-West Eastern Divan performance at the 2012 Proms - awesome
The best version of this great symphony.
I'm half deaf but i can feel the sounds touch my heart
It is truly jaw-dropping to think that the most beautiful piece of music ever created was composed by a man who had gone fully deaf by that point. Beethoven never heard this performed for real. Only in his head.
Together with Beethoven, we fight COVID-19.
The Chinese communist whom Beethoven by bike against
Xihao Liang 👍🏻👍🏻🇺🇸🇨🇳
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Yes fren!
Leezzggooo
1:06:51 one of the greatest moments in music history
*human race history
*meme history
yes
u right
EU?!?!?!?!
Masterful performance of one of the greatest works of music ever.
As someone who moved from rap to this, let me say that this keeps my heart beating!
Yup I was just doing tribal house/techno The 4th movement of this is the best music ever made. @1:02:19 When the full chorus comes in. Beethoven da GOAT
@@stevencoardvenice Thank you.
If you ever feel impatient or bored, remember that the choir had to sit there ready to sing for an hour before they got their moment of glory.
but what a moment. damn.
unless if they're enjoying themselves sitting there waiting.. while watching the orchestra performs..
I’ve done this personally singing for Beethoven’s 9th and I gotta say the anticipation and excitement is unparalleled. I mean, this is the greatest piece of choral music in history and the significance is never lost on the choir singing it. We all considered it a privilege and will be able to sing it from heart for the rest of our lives. I know I never felt bored for even a second.
I can think of worse ways to spend an hour!
@@nabila1710 We're even listening as well!
Merry Christmas to everyone who loves Classic music!
like wise
This has been a year when we could all use the inspiration of great human potential and achievement. Let us not forget who and what we are, and what we are capable of, and how close God is to us, guiding us to our great destiny.
Happy New Year)))
Peace, calm and joy with Classic music in 2021
love u
This work has had a profound impact on my life. It connects me to the Divine and fills me with gratitude for living in a world that lets me experience something as magnificent as Beethoven's Ninth.
He was truly inspired when he made this. I don't normally listen classical
They should be really proud of that performance. That's a very lucky audience.
1:06:50 eargasm
1:09:34 _Ihr sturzt nieder, Millionen?_ (goosebumps... I love this part)
Ironically, my cellphone battery ended and it turned off right on this part, that was so unpleasant and unsatisfying xD
Thank u so so so much
Instant goosebumbs and tears in my eyes. It's so powerfull !!
@@layoutgames-boris3481 Me too, it's so emotional...
At the age of 9, I was a violinist in This Orchestra. What memories I now have now , at 66 years of age.
R A You were not a member at age nine. Don't buy it.
You were in one of the most prestigious orchestras at age 9? Do you see any 9 year olds up there?
@@colinmurphy2214 its 66 years back
Bhawar Dhabai Do you think they let 9 year old in back then? Or ever? Seriously
@@colinmurphy2214 i said they could make an band of school
Next year, it will be 200 years since Beethoven composed this magnificent composition! And it’s still popular today! Talk about enduring the test of time!