Toscanini - Beethoven's Fifth Symphony 4th Movement (Finale)

[MrDragoniteTrainer]

Playing viola on this song is so BORING! All we play is B, D, E, and #F!!!! Oh well, great song, just boring playing it. Of course, not as boring as Rolling in the Deep on Cello, but......

[SuperExtremePanda]

@MrDragoniteTrainer 1st violin is hellish, though it's fun to play.

[Sithdisturber]

Simply glorious.

[Moses8110]

terrible sound quality

[qw3rtydud3]

@Moses8110 Well if you realised when it was recorded, you may not be so ignorant.

[astrogirl1231]

playing an arranged version of this in chicago youth symphony... the real version is AWESOME. :)

[GuppyOdyssey]

As close to perfect as art can get.

[peace4111]

I'm playing this for my out of school orchestra and I'm sooo excited! Idk how I'm gonna play it though! I'm 13 btw (:

[simplegifts91]

@peace4111 Me too. I'm almost 13. I play clarinet. U?

[peace4111]

@simplegifts91 Violin! I love this song!

[Dustlandindie]

@peace4111 high five for being a violin player ! WE ACTUALLY GET THE TUNE :D

[angela44ize]

Amazing...Toscanini is incredibly but seriously great as conductor & will remain a timeless legend!! His musicians are fantastically gifted too, those playing the violins, violas, bass's cellos, all the Strings, the tuba, trombone & windpipes...it's indeed an awesome experience to view this Magnificent & my fav Classical Creation so profoundly putting feelings & thoughts in art...thank you very kindly for uploading & sharing, qw3rtydud3 & YT...it is always sublime to listen to Genius Beethoven!

[Cancrizans]

Anyone know when this was recorded? I remember listening to this on my parents records when I was a kid, it always struck me as having a very "restricted" sound, is it the technology here or does Toscanini prefer this kind of sound for Beethoven?

[ieldarb123]

we're playing this in Honor Orchestra, i play the tuba so im really looking forward to this, hungarian dance no. 5 and the theme from "1941"

[walkingIpodGurl]

@LyricalAddict97 I play this to in Orchestra, it's not like the video though cause it's only Violins, Violas, Bass's and Cellos (what I play) when we play it but still!!! :D

[MrAsd0910]

great

[SilverKhondji]

This movement doesn't get nearly enough credit. A pure joy to play. I play trombone, so I got to really play out on some low G's ;]

[jebus0000000]

Rest in peace genius! It's allready 2010 and we're still listeing to your wonderful music!. We always will!

[Cancrizans]

Ya hey here is another thing. Quit the "I played this at bandcamp" BS, you did NOT play this at bandcamp, Not only is there not a damned group of bandcampers who could even get close to pulling it off technically, you wouldn't have any shot at an interpretation that made it sound anything else but something coming from a hurdy-gurdy!

[DramaticPretzelDog]

"I'm 2 and I played this in my youth orchestra.... I played bass AND 1st violin at the same time!!"

^It's only a matter of time before brag posts get this bad...

[Cancrizans]

@DramaticPretzelDog lol high five. I know there are a lot of really talented people out there but...most of them don't have the time or lack of intelligence to sputter about it on Youtube. All I can say is...if even a small fraction of the people who claim to be prodigiously talented on Youtube ever make anything of themselves we are in for a true effing Renaissance....>.> (short version: quit the "I am 5 yers old an Play the mephisto waltz backwords wit 1 handz" BS) Post a vid or shut it.

[kandyluva]

played this over the summer at music camp xD and i LOVEEE it!!! absolutely :) love love love love it!!!!!!!!!

[tetrisclock]

Has someone posted Karajan's rendition of this on YouTube yet?

[qw3rtydud3]

@tetrisclock Probably, if not I'll get round to it sometime soon.

[smileyblackbelt15]

I played this song in orchestra.... not as good as these guys and shorter, but it is like the best song evaaa! I LOVED TO PLAY IT!! SOOOOO FUUUUNNNNNNN!!! :)

[bonnyrabidvideos]

I'm playing this in a youth symphony I'm in.

//is a proud cello player

[Nguli34689]

Entrance of the Gods and Kings. This is a god finale. Please enjoy. "I'd love to turn you on" to Arturo Toscani.

[angodamango]

i had to play both the bass trombone and contrabassoon parts for my orchestra on tuba because they had neither and thought tuba would work... it does but tuba really isnt suited for beethovens work

[alisareed]

Ohhh man I remember playing this in high school <3

[LyricalAddict97]

played this in orchrastra..im 12..WHOOT!! :) ♥ SOOO FUN TO PLAY!!

[qw3rtydud3]

@LyricalAddict97 Awesome, what do you play?

[18clairejacqui]

@LyricalAddict97 does it make a difference that ur 12 ?

[18clairejacqui]

@LyricalAddict97 why does it matter that ur 12? seriously..

[tommo3141]

@LyricalAddict97 absolutely wonderful to play and listen to

[Mikimoriarty]

Played this in orchestra.

^.^ Viola power.

[wildliongirl]

@Mikimoriarty high five~ I play the viola and played this song too!

[beaglelover1992]

@wildliongirl Yay violists!!! This song has a really great viola part. Especially around 1:39-ish.

[wildliongirl]

@beaglelover1992 Hooray for viola~ and I know, I love this song :3

[islumachoca]

STURM UND DRANG.

VIVA MAESTRO.

[ChimpDisorder]

i just listened to carlos kleiber's much praised recording of this and i have to say that this toscanini's recording is very impressive too. top class.

[deja2052]

more balls less brains than mozart.

not as elegant and precise more

turgid but more audacious theme.

touches mozarts genius at 6:06

and follows thru after 7:30 with

musical theme uniquely beethoven

in a way mozart was too early to be.

[bookkeeper57]

More visceral than Mozart: you can hear Beethoven's idealism and native pugnacity in nearly everything he wrote. Pastorale #6 ranks right up there with

the best in the elegant and precise category Beethoven's music was always

precise, no matter what the theme was.

[hsmddr]

this is good shit man!

[jaebcommakayla]

Playing this in my HS full orchestra =]

[majorpain856]

play this in high school, First Chair Trombone

[kwuzie]

playing this in orchestra right now. its a lot of fun but we have to play it really slow because the 2nd violins are incompetent.

we violists are the best ;)

[helljumper1893]

viola all the way.

check out the 3rd sympony, its way cooler

[TheSmallSparrow]

my orchestra has to play a simplified version of this. I think

this sounds a LOT cooler.

[crazy01girl]

my orchestra is playing the last movement in our concert

i love this :)

[WaltersQuincy]

I'm playing this in the Tampa Bay Youth Orchestra! 1st part! Awesome!

[EstefanDedalus]

I played the timpani part this tour, was awesome.

[ShawDAMAN]

Wow that sounds like fun :D timpani rocks :P

[MonsterMeteor]

i am playing an arrangement of this in the seattle youth symphony orchestra . very very fun song. 2nd chair trumpet.

[islumachoca]

This piece was originally written for the heroica finale (3rd)

But after Napoleon betrayed everyone, beethoven took this piece and put it in the 5fth.

[Iamkoty]

i played the first violin part with my schools orchesta. it was nowhere near as good but still fun to play

[roosta0013]

wtf?!?!?!?!

[Iamkoty]

what do you mean wtf?

i played it and liked to.. nothing more

[brainwasher9876]

i was always curious listening to the 5th symphony. for me the 2nd, 3rd and 4th movements were all more enjoyable than the first, and yet the first always insists on being the most famous because of its "death knocking on the door" motif. the 4th really should be made the most well known.

[EstefanDedalus]

I definitely agree with you. I love the 4th, 2nd and last bars of 3rd more than the first movement.

[brainwasher9876]

Thank you. It's not often when people agree with each other over youtube.

[mina8596]

Wow i finally found the right vid!!! I played the 2nd violin part in our honor orchestra on feb 2009! Cool!!!!!!

[JoJoKenn94]

wow, cool on you bro

[gerardlover11135]

music like this is supposed to make you nicer and smarter. well done.

[jbraun4790]

what i like to call

classicalCORE!

=]

[doomy]

Thanks for this. We're learning about Beethoven right now in my music class and the teacher's going to play a movement from this and we have to tell which it is. It's a lot easier to study when I can hear them separately. =)

[rocoso060606]

Ahora estoy seguro que estas en el cielo componiendo obras para el Señor, gracias por haber pisado este planeta y dejarnos este lagado que vivirá hasta el final de los tiempos estoy seguro. Excepcional este cuarto movimiento.

[thedesperate4eva]

love this song!!!

[ruthiechan]

ROCK ON! Thank you so much! I love being able to listen to all the movements in order. Too often the last three are left out on CDs as if they're not important. <3 :)

[qwertyz15]

we're playing this song in orchestra/symphony. how cool!

[Mizzles240]

me2

[Korhanne]

I love the oboe. It sounds quite nice to me.

[DHWOO]

Gotta love all the V to Is at the end :D

[Freefallfelixrulz]

Nowhere else on youtube will you find comments about musical cadences.

Well done.

[roosta0013]

yes because beethoven by this time was going deaf, so a perfect cadential motion eg chord V to I could proceed for much longer than expected!

[tetrisclock]

What?

[GOOOFYDUDE10]

i played this at carnegie.

[HockeyNHL11]

i can almost do it this fast playing 1st violin on my viola!

[hemajestic]

holy moly this is fast! i better go practice...

[qw3rtydud3]

haha, yeah well, you won't have Toscanini conducting you, he is unique and quite legendary.

[MegaDocalex]

@qw3rtydud3 You don't know Karajan? :)

[qw3rtydud3]

@MegaDocalex Karajan is also excellent...there's just something magical about how Toscanini conducted

[HockeyNHL11]

We are working on this in my orchestra class!

[Stferdinanddhalifax]

Owns everyone else in music.