This is one of the best interpretations I've heard of this particular piece. All too often the Alegretto is played too fast and hurried. This version is contemplative, almost stately. I love the way it speaks of hope in the face of determined opposition. It is truly one of my favorite pieces of music.
...also, the redheaded cellist is really cute, too.
This is my favorite piece of music ever written. I was turned on to it when I was assigned Beethoven's Seventh in an analyzation project in a music theory class. I've loved it ever since. I think this is as fast as the piece should be taken, I cannot stand it when conductors take this piece too quickly.
It the most intense part,I cried a few tears.Not becouse I was sad,but I was just filled with emotion.What a experience to have,just sitting in my bed.
ARGHHHHHHHHHH for all the people who think this is still too fast you are wrong! In fact, according to Beethoven, it is too slow! It is a damn Allegretto not an Adagio!!!
I prefer the tempo in this video...the beginning is haunting, chilling and has alot of anticipation. Im not a classically trained person but i know a feeling and thats the feeling i get when i hear this song at this tempo.
You know theirs three great musicians in our history, Rachmaninov, Mozart, and then Beethoven, I can see why people say Beethoven was the best of the three, I'm a pianist my self and when it comes to classical music he is my favorite, then Rachmaninov is second and Mozart third, I like all three of them but that's my favorites from greatests to favorable
@morningcoffey12345 I love Beethoven because of his in your face attitude (or so books and biographers have told us). You can really feel it from the music sometimes though, they're so in your face..
Beethoven wrote some of the most beautiful music ever. I,m 67 and I learned to love his music when I took a music appreation class in high school. I have loved it ever since.
I would have to say the more deliberate pace is better, I just wish there as a version like this in a better recording...the violins could really render SOOO much more impact with more fidelity and in keeping with this pace :P
Does it mean im special if my imagination soars and my hair stands up and i feel alittle teary eyed when i listen to this piece? Or is that for ever classical music lover? LOL
This performance is perfection. I keep coming back to it over my library options. Maestro Latshaw, you truly accomplish the shimmer, depth and passion of this masterpiece with restraint, and flawless articulation of detail -- as was (no doubt) the intent of LvB. Too many groups breeze through those opening bars. Thank you.
I too enjoyed it at the end of the kings speech , though I couldn't help thinking a German composer was an odd choice to gave playing while the king is launching his country into war ... Against the Germans.
@michendo it was a german who composed this music but he did so a few hundred years ago. his work is part of our cultural roots in europe and the western civilisation. that is why beethoven now (and about 73 years ago) belongs to the british as well as shakespear belongs to the germans. it is what we share. and it also is what we have to give up (and mourn) when in war with each other.
that is why i thought that it was a brilliant idea to play that piece in that moment.
@shrjo: You Germans keep claiming Beethoven. Beethoven's parents were Belgian. His surname is: 'van Beethoven' Later he changed it to 'von Beethoven'. He'll be Belgian forever. ;-)
@michendo Or you could think of it as ironic and sad. In other words, Germany produced great art in the time of Beethoven, but in the time of Hitler it produced atrocities. Just as George V's death in that movie marks the end of an era, the launching of WWII later in the movie marks the end of the era of civilized German culture and art.
magical performance. Such a delightful surprise that a young conductor should perform at such a slow tempo... to my mind the tempo is absolutely right. Love this performance.
@moonblossom15 Agreed 100% this is the pace this piece should keep. I don't understand why other conductors insist on racing trough, as if they can't wait to get it done. It's the single most beautiful piece of music I know of, but only at this slower pace, imho.
@frankmorley3rd you are absolutely correct! Race through it and it's just another piece of music.....but....paint each note as a brush stroke of a musical painting and it comes alive and stirs the soul. IMO.....this version is still too fast......but better than most
This Movement brings tears to my eyes, no rap,rock,country nor rave music has ever made me cry, I'd think they were tears of joy but I feel it's more a sadness over the lost beauty that we once called music.
Beethoven is, in my opinion, the greatest composer of any era. Every one of his symphonies is simply amazing, and his ideas were revolutionary for the time period he was in. This symphony is probably my favorite, I could listen to it every day. Beethoven makes me very jealous as a composer!
You know, traditionally, one stands during the Hallelujah Chorus (started by another George...the III one...) but, listening to this, long about ohhhhhhhhh 2:34, I am more compelled to stand than I have ever been during Messiah.
@annielukesylvan ...because they haven't finished! :) This symphony is in 4 parts - 'movements' - and this is the second of the four. Well-deserved applause can be heard at the end of the 4th movement - this may appear in the list to the right, or simply search on "Latshaw Beethoven 7"
@annielukesylvan This piece is just the second movement of a four movement. Traditionally the audience does not applaud until the end of the entire symphony.
In Immortal Beloved this is the scene where he is stuck in the mud & cant get to his love in time & she thinks he has abandoned her. The tragedy of the moment is carried by the melody to foreseen unfortunate end.
The first piece of music that I ever stopped !! to listen to on the radio. I was very small and it was to quite a few years before I found out what it was.
The fiest piece of music that I ever stopped !! to liston to on the radio. I was very small and it was to quite a few years before I found out what it was.
I am a heavy rock fan from Zeppelin to Tool but I heard this in a movie 15 years ago and ended up singing it for the guy in the record shop (to my humiliation and his torture) but he got it!
Exit signs have reasons to be there. Emotion sparks might cause wood instrument to burn. Someone might have to leave the building suffering from an angina pectoris.
True genius, of course. This movement is used to great dramatic in the recent film "The King's Speech" as the stuttering King George VI has to make a wartime broadcast. It's integrated marvelously in the film. However, the music is so compelling in and of itself, I had a hard time switching back and forth between the speech and the music!
@Paules8460 same thing happened to me! i recognized the first two notes immediately, and began to pay more attention to the piece rather than the speech! great movie though...firth definitely earned his golden globe
@faramirsmaiden@faramirsmaiden Wow, ditto. I went to see the movie a second time, simply to hear this piece of music again. I can barely remember a word of the speech, but this use of music just threw me. And the BAFTA tonight for the music was well deserved.
@Paules8460 lol, same thing happened to me! once i heard those first two notes, i got more caught up in the music than in the speech. great movie though! firth has definitely earned himself an academy award.
Say what you want! But this and other masterpieces will be heard even in 1000 years! This music is really immortal! And nothing can be compared to it! Sure, nowadays there is good music too, but classical music is incomparable!
sad thing about this piece is that people noticed it just after movie "Knowing"...you have no idea what you are missing if you don't give classical music a chance...
@Rusvi1 tru but contrarily i belive that it was the film that give this piece the sort of amazing energy ideas and images that people now associate with it -- the same reasons which contribute to their liking of it. Thats why im a soundtrack nut -- i belive that music is incomplete without film or images and vice versa. when they come together something greater happens then when they're apart. but lets just say i should start listeneing to the greats, whats your hitlist for begginners classical?
@Rusvi1 I agree -- some classical music is so great that I wonder why I've never heard it before. Also, just this past May I was watching Tron on my laptop, then after I was done I clicked on a YouTube video that I had open on a tab but hadn't watched yet, and the music was this, which I immediately recognized as the theme from Tron, which is why I'm listening to it on this video! How ironic is that?
@Rusvi1 Actually it's a wonderful thing that movies are getting people into classical music. I had heard this song before knowing but I never knew what it was, so the movie helped me out.
im 12 years old and i just played the whole piece in a concert in the majestic theater where the san antonio symphony performs :D played second violin....amazing
"Music is the answer to the mystery of life. It is the most profound of all the arts; it expresses the deepest thoughts of life and being; a simple language which nonetheless cannot be translated."
If memory serves, I first heard this on Performance Today, and the guest described it as a dance, rather than a funeral march. Personally, I combine the two. It's a dance with death, destruction, or some other abstracted negative force. There's something really macabre about it though.
Bottom line: Beethoven could write some really good music.
I'm studying this piece in my music class...and procrastinating on my music homework. So i'm loading this video and an unrelated rock music video. Guess which one buffered first? For once, YouTube wants me to do my homework...
My Anthem in reflection!! let the thunder cry!! and the winds unravel!! and my feet touch the wet grass of an uncontrallable storm, in a cold autum afternoon in which the winds whisper in my ear stories of audacity..
@fauxphoenix that's a little harsh, isn't it? I think it's great to hear someone is finding similarities between different kinds of music and appreciating both, sounds like a pretty mature way to look at things to me, the particular band they like doesn't really matter when you think of it that way.
@dModer101 Listen to Bach, when you listen closely you'll discover that Rock'n'Roll started with Bach. Not only because he was accused of writing "devil's music", but because of the joy he had playing with harmonies and scales. Metal is the modern expression of the tradition Bach, Beethoven, Mozart and the others were parts of.
This piece always reminds me of Carl Sagan's Cosmos when he discusses the world which destroyed itself... I think it was included in Knowing as a subtle homage to Sagan's great production.
It's so odd, how is it humanly possible to to create such emotion and genius. I can hear a cry for help in this piece, I hear despair, I hear love lost, I hear the deepest most honest pain, I hear truth in character, I also hear hope, and to think he was almost completely deaf when he composed this. unbelievable.
this music has a slow growth, start with a simple melody, then start growing, slowly, like a pleasure, called bit by bit, like something u know that gonna come. Beethoven or Mozart? Hard choice, but LvB is, imho, deepest than WAM..
I agree..this is the best tempo for this piece...some conductors rush through it and miss it's beauty..i have watched some terribly rushed-through performances where you think..where is the emotion in this??...let the orchestra feel this....
This is one of the best interpretations I've heard of this particular piece. All too often the Alegretto is played too fast and hurried. This version is contemplative, almost stately. I love the way it speaks of hope in the face of determined opposition. It is truly one of my favorite pieces of music.
...also, the redheaded cellist is really cute, too.
CatManDEW 1 month ago
CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP
genesis820 2 months ago
This is my favorite piece of music ever written. I was turned on to it when I was assigned Beethoven's Seventh in an analyzation project in a music theory class. I've loved it ever since. I think this is as fast as the piece should be taken, I cannot stand it when conductors take this piece too quickly.
DforDrums 2 months ago 2
THIS is coming from another universe, another time, a f**king emotions from Space, it's beyond the beyond!
makn0 2 months ago
My favorite Beethoven creation. A beautiful mix of joy laced with melancholy. It speaks to my soul.
mrcocheta 2 months ago
Excellent!!!
marian444 2 months ago
this guy and his music is a sort of incarnetion of magnificence.
Danke L.V.Beethoven
makn0 2 months ago in playlist Classique
Der schönste Satz einer Symphonie überhaupt. Die Verwendung im Film King Speech hat das auf eindrucksvoller Art bestätigt.
kanadaauto 3 months ago
for the video of all my life in my funeral C:
lordvampyr555 3 months ago
Go Viola!!
linkendog 3 months ago in playlist linkendog's favorites
This song makes me think. I guess that is why I like Viola class so much...
linkendog 3 months ago in playlist linkendog's favorites
It the most intense part,I cried a few tears.Not becouse I was sad,but I was just filled with emotion.What a experience to have,just sitting in my bed.
PaulThePuppetier 4 months ago
It's got a good beat and I can dance to it. I give it a 9.5! ;^)
The2020Watcher 4 months ago
ARGHHHHHHHHHH for all the people who think this is still too fast you are wrong! In fact, according to Beethoven, it is too slow! It is a damn Allegretto not an Adagio!!!
missm0zart 4 months ago
SI EN VERDDAD QUE ES UNA MARAVILLA!!!!
solouyo 4 months ago
When played faster it almost sounds angry to me. At this pace, it is much more beautiful and sounds kinda sad.
CaptainShadowKilo 5 months ago
Yeah I'm in 7th grade band and we had to play part of this song and some1 said that this is on The Knowing so I just had to make sure. Btw it is
nathanaldenlibby 5 months ago
I think this is conductor is just amazing no idea who is but this is one of the best interpretations of this piece I've heard IMFHO.
juaneco1980 5 months ago
chelo: 1:47 - 2:32: mental hospital.
juaneco1980 5 months ago
This piece is so fucking creepy! Feels like my skin becomes invisible and I can see my blood running through my veins.
juaneco1980 5 months ago
I prefer the tempo in this video...the beginning is haunting, chilling and has alot of anticipation. Im not a classically trained person but i know a feeling and thats the feeling i get when i hear this song at this tempo.
lc08kb08 5 months ago
One of the sexiest pieces of music ever. Coming to this is mind-blowing. :-)
Lynleyland 5 months ago
Amazing
adrianeitor92 6 months ago
You know theirs three great musicians in our history, Rachmaninov, Mozart, and then Beethoven, I can see why people say Beethoven was the best of the three, I'm a pianist my self and when it comes to classical music he is my favorite, then Rachmaninov is second and Mozart third, I like all three of them but that's my favorites from greatests to favorable
morningcoffey12345 6 months ago
@morningcoffey12345 I love Beethoven because of his in your face attitude (or so books and biographers have told us). You can really feel it from the music sometimes though, they're so in your face..
asdfuogh 1 month ago in playlist Beethoven Symphony 7
Best thing he wrote. Or at least I think so right now xD Love that tune.
LuckyApplehead 6 months ago
Beethoven wrote some of the most beautiful music ever. I,m 67 and I learned to love his music when I took a music appreation class in high school. I have loved it ever since.
glassman426 7 months ago 2
I'm 16, but I really like this music, even if it's not what I'm listenning usually. :)
TheSunset0 7 months ago 2
The King's Speech, anyone?
SycrosD4 7 months ago
I would have to say the more deliberate pace is better, I just wish there as a version like this in a better recording...the violins could really render SOOO much more impact with more fidelity and in keeping with this pace :P
felix7991 7 months ago
This is one of the most magnicent pieces of music ever written. I am stil in awe when i frully absorb each note
iamawhosoever 7 months ago
Nothing wrong with the timing. For wrong timing, try von Karajan.
hans030858 7 months ago
Most Excellant...
snodds88 8 months ago
This is the result of pure genius. I also agree about the pace. It's nice and slow so one can enjoy every note.
iamawhosoever 8 months ago
LOVE this piece.
Jhensy2012 8 months ago
Does it mean im special if my imagination soars and my hair stands up and i feel alittle teary eyed when i listen to this piece? Or is that for ever classical music lover? LOL
MusiClariety 8 months ago
They couldn't have chosen a better piece of music for the speech scene in THE KING'S SPEECH.
Detectivefiction 8 months ago
I dont remember a door slammed in the song!
Zorock456 8 months ago
Best rendition ever. I want to die to this piece because I"ll be in Heaven already.
kimp401 8 months ago
wow they do a great job with this piece.
crazymagicification 8 months ago
BEAUTIFUL
AKAHowitzer 8 months ago
This performance is perfection. I keep coming back to it over my library options. Maestro Latshaw, you truly accomplish the shimmer, depth and passion of this masterpiece with restraint, and flawless articulation of detail -- as was (no doubt) the intent of LvB. Too many groups breeze through those opening bars. Thank you.
hollyie8h 8 months ago 2
i watched the king's speech the night before i am about to play this in an orchestra concert tomorrow. perfect timing, and now i love it even more :)
magspags999 9 months ago
this is the best performance of the 7-th symphony i've ever heard
1945erde 9 months ago 6
loved it.thumbs up to Alexandre Desplat from the kings speech and of course the great beethoven.:)
Rougnaleht 9 months ago
i love this piece and if any body says anything bad about it i'll get mad.this is so awesome.thumbs up to Alexandre Desplat
Rougnaleht 9 months ago
I'm going to die to this music.
Tedsonification 9 months ago 8
great dirigent great orchestrea great song
netfilm 9 months ago
i find this song to be deeply moving. i can feel it in my whole body when the melody crescendos into the climax of the movement. oh beethoven...
alisiapaig 9 months ago 2
fug the exit sign... I can't believe you even have your eyes open listening to this!
jimicarlo 10 months ago 4
im playing this at my school concert except this is a band class and i plgay the flute
toomuchtohadel 10 months ago
Preheat your Beeth-oven to 525. This track is hot.
VforVideo 10 months ago 2
This is fantastic
BasicsForYou 10 months ago
I don't know what I would do without music.
jonjo12321 10 months ago 7
EPIC
Raoul1990 10 months ago
I too enjoyed it at the end of the kings speech , though I couldn't help thinking a German composer was an odd choice to gave playing while the king is launching his country into war ... Against the Germans.
michendo 10 months ago 7
@michendo Beethoven would have hated Hitler, as he did Napoleon once his true colors unfolded.
negativekind 10 months ago
@michendo it was a german who composed this music but he did so a few hundred years ago. his work is part of our cultural roots in europe and the western civilisation. that is why beethoven now (and about 73 years ago) belongs to the british as well as shakespear belongs to the germans. it is what we share. and it also is what we have to give up (and mourn) when in war with each other.
that is why i thought that it was a brilliant idea to play that piece in that moment.
shrjo 9 months ago 17
@shrjo: You Germans keep claiming Beethoven. Beethoven's parents were Belgian. His surname is: 'van Beethoven' Later he changed it to 'von Beethoven'. He'll be Belgian forever. ;-)
Leviwosc 8 months ago
@michendo Or you could think of it as ironic and sad. In other words, Germany produced great art in the time of Beethoven, but in the time of Hitler it produced atrocities. Just as George V's death in that movie marks the end of an era, the launching of WWII later in the movie marks the end of the era of civilized German culture and art.
Detectivefiction 8 months ago
i can listen to this all day haha
PierreLombardini 10 months ago
I work in a cinema, love greeting customers on their way out as I get to listen to this at the end of The King's Speech!
friedlung 10 months ago 8
magical performance. Such a delightful surprise that a young conductor should perform at such a slow tempo... to my mind the tempo is absolutely right. Love this performance.
hidrigin01 10 months ago 2
@hidrigin01 I agree, I've noticed a lot of renditions of this piece seem to go way too fast- it really kills the drama, don't you think?
moonblossom15 9 months ago 2
@moonblossom15 Agreed 100% this is the pace this piece should keep. I don't understand why other conductors insist on racing trough, as if they can't wait to get it done. It's the single most beautiful piece of music I know of, but only at this slower pace, imho.
frankmorley3rd 8 months ago 45
@frankmorley3rd the reason some conductors play this to fast is Beethoven used a tempo notation that today's musicians are confused by.
chrisgosnell1 6 months ago
@frankmorley3rd you are absolutely correct! Race through it and it's just another piece of music.....but....paint each note as a brush stroke of a musical painting and it comes alive and stirs the soul. IMO.....this version is still too fast......but better than most
deepwaters6969 6 months ago
Beethoven rules!
robcas631 10 months ago 2
This song is so beautiful, it makes me want to cry! They used it at the end of The King's Speech and it was just perfect!!
katieroth 10 months ago 3
@katieroth *laughs* I'm sure that's what brought a lot of people here.
But you're absolutely right. It's a gorgeous piece.
GoldenFlither15 10 months ago
This song is a paradox it's both ere and grand.
Braeden123698745 10 months ago
This Movement brings tears to my eyes, no rap,rock,country nor rave music has ever made me cry, I'd think they were tears of joy but I feel it's more a sadness over the lost beauty that we once called music.
KamiKazeKujo 10 months ago
Beethoven is, in my opinion, the greatest composer of any era. Every one of his symphonies is simply amazing, and his ideas were revolutionary for the time period he was in. This symphony is probably my favorite, I could listen to it every day. Beethoven makes me very jealous as a composer!
jsmaster94 11 months ago 2
I looked up this piece after watching "The Fall." The movie adds a whole other dimension to the beauty and splendor of this masterpiece.
seasaint72 11 months ago 2
I just love the richness of this music. It captivates me!
gaillovesbooks1 11 months ago
also featured in the movie "The Fall"
7thBOSS 11 months ago
it takes me to another world
skoolsuxalot 11 months ago
so moving..
skoolsuxalot 11 months ago
its weird nowadays noone is this type of a genius anymore.
seercom 11 months ago 2
there's something so solemn and noble about this song, but so romantic- it's just a perfect piece
moonblossom15 11 months ago
You know, traditionally, one stands during the Hallelujah Chorus (started by another George...the III one...) but, listening to this, long about ohhhhhhhhh 2:34, I am more compelled to stand than I have ever been during Messiah.
randeman 11 months ago
I played an arrangement of this on the viola for a concert a month before the Kings Speech was released!
The2000millenium 11 months ago
Why does no one clap??!
annielukesylvan 11 months ago
@annielukesylvan ...because they haven't finished! :) This symphony is in 4 parts - 'movements' - and this is the second of the four. Well-deserved applause can be heard at the end of the 4th movement - this may appear in the list to the right, or simply search on "Latshaw Beethoven 7"
TheBowlOfPetunias 11 months ago 2
@annielukesylvan because you have to wait until all movements finish to clap... this is the second, and this symphony has 4.
rever22 11 months ago
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bighairtosh 11 months ago
@annielukesylvan This piece is just the second movement of a four movement. Traditionally the audience does not applaud until the end of the entire symphony.
BillF1967 11 months ago 2
@dModer101 SO true. I find myself transported to another era. In tears, of course.
valhoff3 11 months ago
Is the the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra?
rockyj74426 11 months ago
KING SPEECH!!! MUST SEE !!!
In very importent moment this part of Symphony 7 was there !
AMAZING
joziana55 11 months ago 3
Been searching for this piece of music for so long, can't stop listening to it.
SirFerrito 11 months ago
In Immortal Beloved this is the scene where he is stuck in the mud & cant get to his love in time & she thinks he has abandoned her. The tragedy of the moment is carried by the melody to foreseen unfortunate end.
KurtRussell1963 11 months ago
I dont even like classical music and i still think this is a bloody masterpiece, some very well made music. Thumbs up beethoven.
NoWorries97 11 months ago
My favorite song of all time
josephas 11 months ago
for me, best thing ludwig ever composed, and its a second movement!
chekurupi 11 months ago
It's the marvellous crescendo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
bsdtector 11 months ago
this was in Knowing! :D (movie with nicholas cage)
sithmaster61 1 year ago
The first piece of music that I ever stopped !! to listen to on the radio. I was very small and it was to quite a few years before I found out what it was.
YoItzSMD 1 year ago
The fiest piece of music that I ever stopped !! to liston to on the radio. I was very small and it was to quite a few years before I found out what it was.
YoItzSMD 1 year ago
I believe Ludwig is now DE- Composing
MrGoldsable 1 year ago 6
Also the theme tune from the film ZARDOS
MrGoldsable 1 year ago 2
This piece has always sounded so epic and romantic to me- I can just picture Mr. Darcy galloping up on a horse in a long coat to this music!
moonblossom15 1 year ago 6
Much better than the version of Karajan( who is a lot too fast)! Latshaw hit the original tempi of Beethoven exactly! I love it.
sammaeldeath 1 year ago
aah this was waay better in the fall than in the king'a speech!! who agrees
facecheek 1 year ago 4
Divine and wonderfully used in The King's Speech. Brings tears to my eyes whenever I hear it.
CherylCaves 1 year ago 2
I am a heavy rock fan from Zeppelin to Tool but I heard this in a movie 15 years ago and ended up singing it for the guy in the record shop (to my humiliation and his torture) but he got it!
MsGudrian 1 year ago 4
im 14 i learn this in ggcse music this is so amazing its stuck in my head and im a heavy rock fan xD
neenee6664 1 year ago
Watch 'Photographing Faeries' Never was a piece more appropriate for a scene.
GARYSPARKSROCKS 1 year ago
its so odd that this music is just repeats of the same notes again and again...
instruments combine makes such a wonderful and weird and possibly unique way of sounds
aznfire31 1 year ago
i play this song for orchrastra and i love this song!!!! VIOLA RULES!!!!
dancelover1430 1 year ago 3
@dancelover1430
Yeah VIOLA's! I used to play the viola, too!!
threekninepm 1 year ago
just seen the king's speech. use of this was sublime. i don't like classical music.
soysaucegirl2007 1 year ago
Exit signs have reasons to be there. Emotion sparks might cause wood instrument to burn. Someone might have to leave the building suffering from an angina pectoris.
maricahn 1 year ago 2
One word, EPIC.
GuitarmanIeuan 1 year ago
I first listened to this almost 30 years ago, in a darkened room, with a superb set of headphones on. It still evokes the same emotions!
Amazing! Thanks for posting.
billaholic 1 year ago
True genius, of course. This movement is used to great dramatic in the recent film "The King's Speech" as the stuttering King George VI has to make a wartime broadcast. It's integrated marvelously in the film. However, the music is so compelling in and of itself, I had a hard time switching back and forth between the speech and the music!
GO SEE IT!
Paules8460 1 year ago 6
@Paules8460 same thing happened to me! i recognized the first two notes immediately, and began to pay more attention to the piece rather than the speech! great movie though...firth definitely earned his golden globe
faramirsmaiden 1 year ago
@faramirsmaiden @faramirsmaiden Wow, ditto. I went to see the movie a second time, simply to hear this piece of music again. I can barely remember a word of the speech, but this use of music just threw me. And the BAFTA tonight for the music was well deserved.
soysaucegirl2007 11 months ago
@Paules8460 lol, same thing happened to me! once i heard those first two notes, i got more caught up in the music than in the speech. great movie though! firth has definitely earned himself an academy award.
faramirsmaiden 1 year ago 2
Beethoven is God. Wunderbar.
parklanefenn 1 year ago
SNOW IN YOUR MIND
metsaintiaani 1 year ago
This make me cry
bufonoise 1 year ago
This has got to be my all time favorite Beethoven piece!
TheGameTagers 1 year ago
Say what you want! But this and other masterpieces will be heard even in 1000 years! This music is really immortal! And nothing can be compared to it! Sure, nowadays there is good music too, but classical music is incomparable!
MOTU4everr 1 year ago
love the crescendo at the 6:35 mark
adesbien1 1 year ago
Isn't Beethoven a dog?
shizeninho 1 year ago
A majestic marriage of mathematics and art!! Unvergleichlich!!
Phiz192 1 year ago 4
sad thing about this piece is that people noticed it just after movie "Knowing"...you have no idea what you are missing if you don't give classical music a chance...
Rusvi1 1 year ago 23
@Rusvi1
One has got to get it somewhere..................better then staying ignorant!
Did you know that the dixie car horn tune is from Schubert?
tltanla 1 year ago
@Rusvi1 Funny, I don't remember this playing in that movie. Really?
NeverAloneForever 1 year ago
@NeverAloneForever The last scene when everyone is swarming outside in the heat wave, right before that massive wall of fire consumes everything.
aperpetualsuffering 1 year ago
@Rusvi1 Cool kids discover this piece after seeing the movie "Zardoz".
bottlezone 1 year ago
@Rusvi1 tru but contrarily i belive that it was the film that give this piece the sort of amazing energy ideas and images that people now associate with it -- the same reasons which contribute to their liking of it. Thats why im a soundtrack nut -- i belive that music is incomplete without film or images and vice versa. when they come together something greater happens then when they're apart. but lets just say i should start listeneing to the greats, whats your hitlist for begginners classical?
dirosaga 7 months ago
@Rusvi1 yeah ZARDOZ beat gibson to it :-)
metagordian 7 months ago
@Rusvi1 I agree -- some classical music is so great that I wonder why I've never heard it before. Also, just this past May I was watching Tron on my laptop, then after I was done I clicked on a YouTube video that I had open on a tab but hadn't watched yet, and the music was this, which I immediately recognized as the theme from Tron, which is why I'm listening to it on this video! How ironic is that?
DoctorNociceptor 6 months ago
@Rusvi1 Actually it's a wonderful thing that movies are getting people into classical music. I had heard this song before knowing but I never knew what it was, so the movie helped me out.
OboePirate 6 months ago
no necesito drogas para darme el mismo efecto solo buena musica como lo es esta ...
lordvampyr555 1 year ago 3
thumbs up if you cant help staring at the exit sign
comfortablynumb4 1 year ago 242
@comfortablynumb4
I would never have noticed the Exit sign if I hadn't read your comment! Now I can't stop looking at it.....
threekninepm 1 year ago 5
@comfortablynumb4 i didn't notice it until you mentioned it lol too busy listening to this awesome piece of music.
northforge 10 months ago
truly a great piece by a great master
jes1able 1 year ago 4
I can't get enough of Beethoven's 7th....Genuis!!
mmcoopstar 1 year ago
yo I remember these times at IU...
periola 1 year ago
im 12 years old and i just played the whole piece in a concert in the majestic theater where the san antonio symphony performs :D played second violin....amazing
LoneRuler76 1 year ago 7
do you notice the EXIT sign on the back??
esquenoquiero 1 year ago 6
@esquenoquiero hehehe yup i noticed it.....i reckon Beethoven wouldn't have minded the sign in the background...lol
mmcoopstar 1 year ago
@esquenoquiero yea its for all the people that dont like this piece
jes1able 1 year ago
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screamingmandrake1 1 year ago
"Music is the answer to the mystery of life. It is the most profound of all the arts; it expresses the deepest thoughts of life and being; a simple language which nonetheless cannot be translated."
- Schopenhauer
GordonMorrice 1 year ago
This I love! And how it perfections The Fall is fascinating.
Gillinn 1 year ago 2
There's a classical novel in the music...it has its own plot, rising action, climax, and conclusion which cover a range of themes. Simply superb!
nani5555 1 year ago
simply love it! Great version! Beautiful, painful and sad!
007koko007 1 year ago
This movement was so beautiful it almost made me cry. Thank you Beethoven.
maeflower86 1 year ago
If memory serves, I first heard this on Performance Today, and the guest described it as a dance, rather than a funeral march. Personally, I combine the two. It's a dance with death, destruction, or some other abstracted negative force. There's something really macabre about it though.
Bottom line: Beethoven could write some really good music.
Oathblivion 1 year ago
Beethoven you hopeless romantic you...i love him for it
moneyonthegrill 1 year ago
I'm studying this piece in my music class...and procrastinating on my music homework. So i'm loading this video and an unrelated rock music video. Guess which one buffered first? For once, YouTube wants me to do my homework...
crystalclearwolf 1 year ago
this song is the story of my live
5600981 1 year ago 6
¡¡No me canso de oirla , es tan bella !!Gracias maestro , por dejarnos su bella musica, grande BEETHOVEN!!
INGRIDECV 1 year ago 3
My Anthem in reflection!! let the thunder cry!! and the winds unravel!! and my feet touch the wet grass of an uncontrallable storm, in a cold autum afternoon in which the winds whisper in my ear stories of audacity..
Kalvin40 1 year ago
I love Depeche Mode.
I love Rammstein.
I love Metallica.
I love Slipknot.
But this piece of music gives me goosebumps! It's called a "movement" because it's moving, utterly fantastic!
dModer101 1 year ago 126
@dModer101 It's not that unusual for people to like all kinds of music. You're not a unique snowflake. Also slipknot blows.
fauxphoenix 1 year ago 88
@fauxphoenix thumbs up for "also slipknot blows" i lol'd
blacknwhite6969 11 months ago 2
@fauxphoenix that's a little harsh, isn't it? I think it's great to hear someone is finding similarities between different kinds of music and appreciating both, sounds like a pretty mature way to look at things to me, the particular band they like doesn't really matter when you think of it that way.
moonblossom15 9 months ago
@dModer101 they don't make it like they used to
larssonk22 10 months ago
@dModer101 Listen to Bach, when you listen closely you'll discover that Rock'n'Roll started with Bach. Not only because he was accused of writing "devil's music", but because of the joy he had playing with harmonies and scales. Metal is the modern expression of the tradition Bach, Beethoven, Mozart and the others were parts of.
tmafkap 6 months ago
It's very good.
amadeuswebern 1 year ago
This piece always reminds me of Carl Sagan's Cosmos when he discusses the world which destroyed itself... I think it was included in Knowing as a subtle homage to Sagan's great production.
saberblock 1 year ago 2
I usually like my music made with guitars and drums but this piece reduces me to tears nealy every time!
sdensley 1 year ago
It's so odd, how is it humanly possible to to create such emotion and genius. I can hear a cry for help in this piece, I hear despair, I hear love lost, I hear the deepest most honest pain, I hear truth in character, I also hear hope, and to think he was almost completely deaf when he composed this. unbelievable.
ricochet712 1 year ago 6
this music has a slow growth, start with a simple melody, then start growing, slowly, like a pleasure, called bit by bit, like something u know that gonna come. Beethoven or Mozart? Hard choice, but LvB is, imho, deepest than WAM..
FrenzyFaust 1 year ago
I have listened to this video so many times:)
fcdog555 1 year ago
amazing music
morykantevader 1 year ago
Who here was staring at the "Exit" sign the whole time? XD
Come on! They couldn't find an other place to shot the video?
P.S. I love this guy's speed!!!! To many people go to slow!
TalkingFoxGoddess 1 year ago
Mmmmmm, just wonderful...!
501Bazzer 1 year ago
well done, but how bout showing the symphony?
Sage80 1 year ago
this song, a personal favorite, never gets old for me
fcdog555 1 year ago
im 13 years old and just played measures 75-98 on my violin... i feel so accomplished!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
countryismypassion 1 year ago
I agree..this is the best tempo for this piece...some conductors rush through it and miss it's beauty..i have watched some terribly rushed-through performances where you think..where is the emotion in this??...let the orchestra feel this....
dalymc 1 year ago