Toscanini - Beethoven Symphony No.9 (3/7)

[jivamoksha]

Beethoven and Toscanini make cry so much!!!!, I listen this music since I was child in Mexico City with my father, Toscanini is the best, precise, powerful, simply amazing and awesome.

Powerful a Great Maestro !!!!!!!

[schiolde]

I must say I really enjoy how the bad recording quality makes every forte sound completely wild!

[SIMONCOWELD]

thats bloody good and a match to furtwanger

[GarisMom]

Isn't it incredible to realize that Beethoven was DEAF when he composed this?

[sdspokane]

>_< not so good

[jso6116]

托斯卡尼尼,本世紀最偉大的指揮家....一舉手一揮棒,大師就­是大師....如果也和我一樣喜歡他的風格,請上YouTube­搜尋Toscanini....看完之後就會發現: 我要更努力,更熱愛自己的工作~~

[sincaps100]

Toscanini: basta la bacchetta!

[Marxfan58]

did anyone else notice the guy wearing sunglasses?

[princetrumpet]

Check out Maestro's reaction to the timpanist coming in too loudly for his taste at around 7:40. It's priceless. Proof that Toscanini wasn't about missed notes. His issues were always about what he considered to be anti-musical offenses.

[Kurremkarmerruk1]

@princetrumpet That's right, very amusing! And Toscanini is right, too (no wonder...). The error occurs at 7:43.

[Gorboduc]

I notice that with Toscanini the tension *between* the movements is almost as highly charged as it is during them.

[Julian9ehp]

This section terrified me as a small child listening to the end of Huntley Brinkley. Don't tell me this isn't beautiful and terrifying.

[am4516]

@Julian9ehp It took me forever to find this as I too remember it from the news... a piece of trivia not too many remember!

[DoctorJ82]

When you think about Italy, think about Toscanini

[mozpiano2]

Interestingly Beethoven marked the trio as minim = 116, and not semibreve = 116

[nakamichiguy]

Can you believe that this was broadcast live out of Studio 8H...the exact same space where Saturday Night Live has been produced for the past 35-years. The spot is historic beyond words.

Oh to have a video tape machine that could record this concert as it looked going over the air!!! Luckily these films survive, but they're mere ghosts of the actual signal.

[MrHanMi]

@nakamichiguy At least be grateful that NBC made high-quality audio recordings of these concerts. (If you're wondering why this clip sounds better than it looks, it's because someone had the good sense to "marry" the superior audio to the kinescope recording.)

[al1936ful]

@MrHanMi The sound on this release (I'm not sure from which country, but I see Asian characters on the video) is not as good as that on the American release. The American release doesn't distort at high volume.

[PeacfullEasyFeeling]

lol look at that guy, waving his stick in the air

[betokkikke]

After reading a lot about Wilhelm FURTWÄNGLER this is a great moment for me to be wtching a real challanger of the german beloved director, now Arturo TOSCANINI is beautifully here in front of our eyes. It's a real pleasure (now Youtubers, I just obliged to invite you to see TAKING SIDES film by István SZABO), but before September 15th just let me praise 4'22 minutes on, strings are a miracle in this vid and my pleasure to be sharing this director greatness!

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[1401JSC]

The strings don't play the dotted rhythm as it's written.

The wind ans percussion do!

the trio is absolutely marvellous. (Balance, lightness, soupleness, balance, dynamics...)

[RepenDave]

Fora de lui e un mito ---he is a genius and ludvic is the king of classical music

[billyguns2]

I've always been fond of Toscanini's Beethoven because I find it modern, timeless, and so close to Beethoven's heaven storming and wildly contrasting spirit. This is great! Toscanini's recordings of the First, Third, Sixth, and Ninth Symphonies are among the greatest things he left us IMO.

[Cusseboy]

3:20 to 3:35 is my favorite part, what is the instrument we hear ?

[billyguns2]

This is the French horn.

[francy1976]

Che dire del grande Ludovico Van... diretto da Toscanini poi...! Grazie del regalo a chi l'ha postato! Oggi sarà nel complesso una brutta giornata per me ma almeno adesso esco di casa più carica e combattiva!!!

[loybillyrock]

Grazie Francy1976!

[tarazod]

Now that's real!!!

[tmmmviii]

Very nice. Very, very nice.

[foxyfaefife]

This is absolutely fucking incredible. I think I prefer this Toscanini's style to Karajan's.

[Aventao]

Have you heard Furtwangler?

[02342678]

Grande Toscanini!!! mais uma magistral interpretação da música do genial Ludwig Van Beethoven...Bravo!!!

[Ushoy]

toscanini is fantastic, and beethoven was a genius!

[Ironmaiden3p]

I love it

[aidsgz]

i like the tempo.

i think conductors play it too slow sometimes.

[bluesishere]

i saw Beethoven the other day, he was tearing up sheet music..I said..what are you doing?

He said..I'm De-Composing !

hahahaha..the old ones are the best !!

[missrepo]

Fantastic!!!

[manutd107]

very nice video quality, but the sound, while good quality, has a distinctly "aged" sound to it.

[checkmatefritz]

this suck fukin balls!!!!

[DMS412]

Checkmatefritz, You obviously have no appreciation for the finer things in life. I guess Momma didn't teach you much.

[missrepo]

Bravo!! I love it.. very nice... thanks for this posting.. Peace!!

[YoungApologist]

A mere time beater; Furtwrangler was better.

[leeganstrad]

agreed...bayreuth?

[YoungApologist]

Good luck on getting tickets to that!

[pepseman]

Better than sex! Almost

[HumbleYankee]

Of course, it s not the only piece I've heard, obviously.

[HumbleYankee]

I believe an Ode to Joy is beautiful as well, one of my favorite pieces as well as the first one I've ever heard from Beethoven.

[LgClarinet]

Beethoven's 9th symphony is incredible.

The movement appeals to your sense of wonder with the shimmering strings.

Then of course there is the raw energy of the second movement. Anticipation, playful adventure even.

The third is simply beautiful. Beethoven was amazing. The drowning emotions cannot be placed into words. So masterfully written.

Now, the fourth. A piece that gives us the image of a world where each man is in peace with each other.

Schuller's words can only depict this work.

[jdmmxbth]

i thought this was called ode to joy, or is that 7th or 5th or something. i always loved beethoven but now techno and pop and rock are taking over today's youth. i can't find anyone interested in classical except in my band.

[LgClarinet]

Ode to Joy is by a German composer named Schuller. Beethoven was a close friend of Schuller incorporated the Ode to Joy into his 9th.

Now, If you really love classical music, here's what needs to be done:

Buy, in any way, the 9th symphony by the LSO (London Symphony Orchestra) conducted by Bernard Haitink. By all means listen to the entire thing, but, pay special attention to the time at 3:07 when the bass soli comes in. There is a bassoon counter melody and string melody that is incredible.

[zappasaurus]

It's Schiller. And it is a great poem.

[charliechrisian56]

Imagine writing something like this when you are deaf. I have often wondered if those rest/repetition cycles especially at the beginning were Ludwig's way of communicating to his audience what he was going through. It is so triumphant at the end. My all time favorite piece of music.

[zappasaurus]

That's what has always amazed me about Beethoven. And especially the 9th. It's rather like Igmar Stenmark skiing the slalom ... while blind. Unfathomable. Just terrific.

[Bulldogmack3]

But he wasn't deaf to the sounds he had learned! And, not hearing anymore, he was free to imagine sounds, and write them, that would not be heard again until 20th century composers.

[parabat7]

Too bloody true old tosh. Beethoven 5 uses two new instruments Ludo baby had never heard - piccolo - not hard same as flute but up an octave - and trombone. He used both. Listen to start of Sym 9 - Mov 3 - don't get that again until Mahler, Sibelius and Richard Strauss.

[camposi]

Ejaculation!!!

[savagemermaids]

Bravo! Bravo!

[Disprofuse]

5:35-9:15 are so intense. I had goosebumps and shivers down my spine. Amazing piece of music, brilliant performance.

[ipmoic]

He memorized everything. No score.

[jcurtis4082]

He never looks at the score.  Masterfull performance...

[tysgodhi]

Furtwaengler does it better.

[davidoves]

Està bien chido ese movimiento PRESTO.

[VitoCorlione22]

Supremo, espero que le estes dirigiendo la novena Sinfonia a Diox en el cielo amigo Toscanini, Bravo Toscanini Bravo

[freshhh1994]

I lol'd at 2:40.