Victor de Sabata: Beethoven 8th Symphony (1/4)

[Twayblade007]

it reminds me of Tom and Jerry

[Urepanny]

Can someone explain to me the narrative of beethoven's 8th symphony? please it would be really helpful

[TheMagicBolt]

@Urepanny It is for you to see.

[jOdieeeiLy]

how can it go on for so long..

[iBConnerWest]

Is this the one that goes... DUH DUH DUH... DUH DUH DUH DUUUUUUUUHH

[josepharchbold]

@iBConnerWest Lol I think you're talking about beethoven's 5th symphony. Da da da dumm..dadadadoomm.

Even though it looks terrible in words.

[eva520829]

@josepharchbold

[marksparklerocks]

@josepharchbold I call it bbc 2! also terrible in words

[Zanator1]

@iBConnerWest Seriously? You just asked this?

[smegmatrap]

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[1youngrizzal]

look it up he was mixed back then was black .....

[anim8ordude]

I prefer dubstep :D

[andromedarr]

The first sixteenth-notes where'nt correct, they where played rather sloppy

[harryschneider007]

Dis someone cough at 6:35?

[harryschneider007]

The first note(s) just blow me away!

[ItsSenko]

2:40 someone coughs haha

[1youngrizzal]

beethoven was black why is he white????google him

[TickTockJoe]

Beethoven wasn't black.

[hallowedbeeddie]

the power of beethoven´s music cannot be put into words. All I can say is that it´s an amazing feeling

[Pokenelle3000]

1:00-1:05 Listen to it lol, SOMEONE SNEEEEEEZED!! btw, bless yuh~

[2222554]

8th Symphony

[2222554]

Victor de Sabata (April 10, 1892 – December 11, 1967) was an Italian conductor and composer. He is widely recognized as one of the most distinguished operatic conductors of the twentieth century, especially for his Verdi, Puccini and Wagner. He is also acclaimed for his interpretations of orchestral music. Like his near contemporary Wilhelm Furtwängler, de Sabata regarded composition as more important than conducting but achieved more lasting recognition for his conducting than his compositions

[jorcy03]

creo que a los mexicanos no les gusta beethoven pero aqui esta el primer comentario de uno. en pocas palabras fue grandisimo ese hombre por crear esas canciones ademas q las canciones de ahora solo duran 2:30 min. bueno se despide un mexicano q osa de musica grande

[mtoussieh]

@jorcy03 A ver, a ver. ¿Alguna vez fuiste a la Sala Nezahualcóyotl, el Palacio de Bellas Artes o el Auditorio Nacional cuando dan una sinfonía de Beethoven? Déjame decirte que nací en el Distrito Federal con una sinfonía en la sala de parto por Beethoven (no es una exageración; es verdad)... y amo la música de Beethoven. México también tiene un gran folklore musical, mariachis, popurríes nacionales y música neo-clásica. Basura hay en todos lados pero México tiene muy buena música también.

[soloboy1991]

he was making all the fake wigs people around him headbang ! GENIUS!

[yobob62]

lol 1:04

[FellowTraveller]

SHort (as Sympathies go) but Sweet. very Sweet. five stars of course FT

[Flyboy4500]

Did someone sneeze at a minute and five? haha... Great piece of music and fun to play!

[jwrose4487]

@Flyboy4500 If they did it was covered well.

[yenrabaraho]

@Flyboy4500

Yes, someone did sneeze at a 1:04, either a nazi audience or New York.

[yenrabaraho]

@Flyboy4500

Yes, someone did sneeze at a 1:04, either a nazi audience or New York. (and in no way do i mean to imply that New Yorkers are nazi's, rather they are equally ignorant towards great artists, and sneezing like that in a Beethoven symphony warrants being taken out of the hall and thrown into traffic.)

[mtoussieh]

@yenrabaraho Gosh! Or just having an incontrollable cold! I definitely think some people who think they have a great comprehension of art lack one of human day-to-day situations. I sense a lot of anger in you, besides a total lack of understanding of what both New Yorkers and Nazis are, if you just smash them into the same category. It's quite offensive, you know?

[harryschneider007]

@yenrabaraho just listen to you!

[Zanator1]

@yenrabaraho Since when are nazis ignorants twards pieces of art?

[frostycold111]

Amazing!

[shaggybreeks]

Amazing quality of sound for something recorded over 50 years ago. This is Beethoven's more interesting symphonies. I hear it as a reflection on his deafness. Something strange creeping up, inconsistent sounds, fear, desperation, resignation, grace. Of all his symphonies, it is the least abstract to me. I see pictures in all his symphones, but this one seems to have a narrative.

[fadethetrade]

@shaggybreeks He wasn't deaf,he probably had the most awfull case of Tinnitus in medical record.

[Daejien]

Now this is real music!

[spinynorman230]

nobody will replace the classics

[jdsol1938]

theme, counter theme ,synthesis, then repeat on a new level, im not well educated in music,oddly enough this is the only beethoven i can follow the logic of the construction . the man was a giant

[spinynorman230]

HOLY MOTHER OF... LOL YOUR NOT "EDUCATED IN MUSIC???" you should go conduct the SF symphony-orchastra, I don't know HALF those words lol

[ggn1234]

NY Phil

[ipmoic]

Would love to know the name of the fine orchestra playing here.

[FabioPBarbieri]

This being Victor de Sabata in the early fifties, it is apt to be Orchestra of La Scala, MIlan.

[dwerter]

Could we agree this 8th is romantical classic or even a classical romantism?

[Douglas1102]

Peices don't have to be either Classical or Romantic... really they're just descriptions and subject to opinion.

Most historians would consider Beethoven the most important figure to inspire Romantic style... he was a real "turning point"... not so much his peers.

I wouldn't say he wrote anything that does not have at least some classical inspiration or "character".

[silentbugler]

yah, sehr gut...

[overlord2008]

It's ja, sehr gut =P

[cubsrule2040]

is this romantic or classical?

[imtrying119]

couldn't possibly be more Romantic in character. Leaves Classical in the dust. 8^)

[cubsrule2040]

I'd say it's cross-between classical and romantic, typical of Beethoven's second period, hard to tell if it's classical or romantic

[Fallansig]

It's a satirical piece in the classical sense. It's not romantic. Beethoven's showing his genius sense of humor here. Think 'musical joke', but with a Beethovenian twist!

[Z3R0M0N5T3R]

A great Orchestra.Today,it's Hard to find such a thing on the web.All I can hope for is

for people to stop changing there ringtones, updating there myspace pages, and put down the credit card long enough to find joy in the simplest of things.But dont give up being modern,Integrate the old and New just as this person has.

[brastoki]

Ds Sabata was a great musician, noble, colourfull, dynamic, poetic. Much better than many "sacred monsters" of that time. He did things with an orchestra that today one rarely sees.

[23danb]

Wonderful!

[mindgame115]

My most cherished part is when the cellos and basses have their moment of glory

[HHH2O]

Sabata's paformance is very fantastic!

I want to listein to another his conducting!

[JeanDagba]

Very good !!! ♫♪♫♪♫♪♫  ♥♥♥

[ggn1234]

I find the main climax in the development section absolutely electric in this performance.

[Nachtmarchen]

Indeed, that's one of the sections in Beethoven's symphonies that's rarely pulled off flawlessly, this is one of the best versions I've ever heard, up there with Barbirolli's, Scherchen's and Leibowitz's (who was a pupil of de Sabata).

[allanyip]

thanks for sharing!