Beethoven, Symphony No 7, II Karajan, Berliner Phil

[MrLukeviolin]

Like Beethoven , Karajan will be alive forever ... wonderful

[pondeflouers]

Под эту мелодию 20 лет назад в СССР по ТВ транслировали противодействия ГКЧП политике команды Ельцина и участие в этом народа.

[Nunezapath]

I heard this recently in "The King's Speech" in the scene where the King has to make his wartime speech. This truly is beautiful.

[mochomoi22]

me asusta :S

[gonrolgonrol]

@mochomoi22 Why? What does the music mean to you?

[MrGoutetsu]

what a great recording

[2384539]

I don't think the word Masterpiece is strong enough to describe this piece. It's a Masterpiece and so much more.

[GeetarAdam]

@2384539 Agreed. This, to me, is the most powerful piece of music I've ever heard! It's like it contains elements of every human emotion, from greed to charity, lust to love, misery to utter joy! A piece like this tells me a lot about how the mind works. Ideas are conceived before language/words are assigned to them. In this music, I can hear words withouth the need for language. I can hear complex ideas and messages that don't mandate a pen.

[SvetlanaSSI]

Эта музыка потрясает до глубины души!

[hakanyetim77]

bu ne yaaa igrenc bence



[knfq]

one of the most incredible music... thanks Beethoven....

[SuperCorrea17]

I'm going to make a presentation about this masterpiece for my music appreciation class. I'm excited.



[bsettis]

What a common human being could say?

[MrVrexor]

@bsettis that is a good question, what could a common human being say?

[MrJohnnymontana]

@bsettis what's a common human being?

[caasiolf]

@MrJohnnymontana a human being who did not compose this

[MsUrhan]

Bunu hayatınızda bir kez dinlemeden ölmeyin...

[iheartbillywilder]

such a powerful, haunting melody. true genius, true music.

[hisarkutan]

so beatiful..

[lineardangerarea]

60 Justin Beiber fans have accidentally stumbled onto this wonderful performance.....

[obtica1]

see this nice version...

/watch?v=B6Mi3fcVd4M

[pentagonalman]

these people know so much about music...

[tacfoley]

Ths is THE defintive interpretation of this wondrous work. Unsurpassed.

tac

[klatu1956]

beetoven is of the ages! timeless and reflecting the hman soul for all etrnity!Cration without explanation is what this means to me.love and live all over and over ain in beatiful splendor!.

[tyrionoutrider]

This is such an angry yet wonderful interpretation. Karajan was the greatest.

[Nicov55]

By the wy, 60 should buy new ears

[Nicov55]

Sublime



[carlosaguayo69]

¿qué más profundo que esto? los inescrutables abismos del alma humana, con sus grandezas y mediocridades...con la misma posibilidad del hombre de crear esta obra como la de crear escenas como las de Hiroshima

[COMAMIERDASS]

@carlosaguayo69 Mira Carlitos, es que somos unos seres profundamente contradictorios aunque no debemos individualizar pues un tipo como Beethoven no oprimiría el botón de la bomba atómica.

[2009elzbieta]

magnifique sans commentaires...

[YAMARIA100]

É PARA SONHAR!!!!MAGNÍFICO!

[MrAlcides1611]

The symphony Nº 7 is a perfect jewel in the universe of classical music. Is sublime and is totally impossible to describe this beauty with words, then listen and enjoy it! In cd, I recommend the version with Carlos Kleiber and the Berliners by DG. Beethoven was a true Master!!!

[Abelito5509]

que buena la musica ¡¡¡¡

[jamajamabass]

mmm 5:40. that is one hawt spiccato.

[antoniodcz]

When I open my eyes I must sigh, for what I see is contrary to my religion, and I must despise the world which does not know that music is a

higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Beethoven, letter to Goethe, 1810

[fermixes]

escalofriante, malebolo, epico, magnifico, inmortal, sensacional, profundo, simplemente una OBRA DE ARTE!

[scheve7]

epic karajan

[Armando1735]

Genial e demasiadamente humano. Beethoven "proprietário de um cérebro", e que cérebro!

[daniel11076]

Falando sério, tenho verdadeira pena de quem ouve Teló, pagode, funk, ...

[sebcostes1]

grand moment...

[DomMoKei]

Magistral ..

[Irikon7]

Bliss and Heaven!

[rafael502]

Magnifico

[zolochnaya]

GO BPO!

[zolochnaya]

Beautiful.

[alex8704]

Increíble la forma de dirigir!! Karajan

[greencatsick]

anyone else heard this on Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe?

[Tinawashere1999]

this is the song i dance 2 its fun!! :)

[klstay]

Yeah, I always get a kick out of "it's too fast" comments from those used to hearing it played at the improper though more common tempo.

[MrChopinb]

@klstay Oh I hate that- it sounds crap slow. I guess people always prefer what they are familiar with- but this really does sound best at the correct speed imo...

[zacharycat]

Great conductor, though of course a Nazi

[nardmanman]

@zacharycat How? He died in 1827...the concept of Nazis wasn't even invented yet.

[lovezification]

@nardmanman really? Karajan died in 1989 and that's well after the fall of the nazi Germany. You probably misunderstood him and thout he was thinking of Beethoven. :P

P.S. not all nazies were bad people.

[nardmanman]

@lovezification Oh yes haha, I did misunderstand. Oh sure, I'm not politically correct. Nazi era is a lot more complex then history books tend to tell. Cheers :)

[robertchark]

I believe you have conductor and composer mixed up.

[Armada1588]

@nardmanman He was probably talking about von Karajan. I've heard it before.

[IghorGonzalez001]

what did this lucasHTMartins said?

[Balisticbrute]

how does somebody dislike this?????

[BalachninX]

JB fans pressed dislike

[uneedtherapy42]

I think this is IT... all music, all life, everything is heading to this.... I cannot really explain myself but this is IT...

[UpstairsMaid]

@uneedtherapy42 yes. a path was shown - no has been yet able to walk it. this may be the ultimate destination.

[obtica1]

See the complete version in my youtube channel. It's for you all...

[sam36044]

ya hooooooo

[sam36044]

fuck this i am going to fuck my cat

[rover1991fn]

@sam36044

roflmao

[sam36044]

shit he only filmes the fucking violens wtf ass holl

[obtica1]

/watch?v=7MqrBauptrE

[choao123]

Toca directamente na alma...Cumprimentos desde Portugal

[HamelinAccount]

@choao123 Sim, toca mesmo! O triste é ver comentários - em inglês - de pervertidos que nada entendem de música (como os que um cidadão postou mais acima) que nada tenham a ver com música em geral nem com esta em si.

[choao123]

@HamelinAccount Pensa que deve ser uma infelicidade não se conseguir disfrutar do melhor que já foi conseguido na música pelo Homem. Cheers, amigo :)

[JsusDI]

ok, here's the thing, i'm just a 12 yrl old kid... i think beer taste like shit and love playing CoD.

i really enjoy listening to this but please someone please tell me what is the purpouse of that man, "karajan" i know every move he makes stands for a cressendo or fortissimo or whaterver i't is, but does every one in the orchesta actually reacts to what he is doing?! or it's just an act... i`m confussed :\

[DevoidOfDirectionTV]

@JsusDI He is like the control center of the orchestra. His job is called the Conductor. The movements he make are to do with keeping time, dynamics, and bringing certain sections in.

[Getnill]

When me and my friend in the bassoon section are waiting the first few rests we act in slow motion frustration scenes with a lot of face palming. By the way this is too fast, sheesh.

[waalaman]

The 55 "dislikes" must be musicians who failed to make the cut for this orchestra. That is the only rational explanation for disliking this absolute musical triumph.

[ScimitarOfSyria]

Immortals do exist. They are those who discovered the secret of immortality, and were able to achieve the core of it. It's not about living forever. It's about giving the world something that is never to be forgotten.

[dundo17]

I hate the fact that I have to hear this on the King's Speech to know it!

[micronationcreation]

55 people just love the taste of fluoride.

[ViccardXViccc]

Karajan, forever the best.

[griffirvin]

most perfect music ever compsed

[atilaluiz55]

É muito lindo.

[eliana6916]

Realmente é de arrepiar.Minha alma agradece.

[Shotreal]

<3

[luandabm1]

mto boooom



[hassammahmoodq]

"No Description Available" Kind of sums it up :)

[Renata4290]

não importa se tava surdo ou não,

o que importa é que ele foi um grande compositor ,

e hoje quando suas composições são executadas da um arrepio e a gente se emociona.

[aguarius100]

охуенное исполнение (симфония)

[aznzeratul]

chills at 6:15 always... just for that 15 seconds

[nenagamba]

This is LIFE!!!!!!!

[ZHKVE]

Huh, no description available, how appropriate

[cmikex2]

It just washes over and cleanses the soul.

[MrGoffagoffa]

ooh Karajan always scaring me ! <3

[Mixxathon]

Whenever I feel robbed or cheated by the music of today, I can always depend on Bach 7th. The second movement must be one of the most beautiful pices of music ever written, For more contemporary composers I tend to turn to Mike Oldfield - right now it is his earlier works, Hergest Ridge or Ommadawn or his latest Symphony of the Spheres.

[IlersichProductions]

@Mixxathon Bach 7th? Wrong video...

[loredanagg]

genio puro, stato di grazia.

[bookeater94]

But I'll admit it. I wanted it slower.

[PetitCapital]

@bookeater94 watch?v=W7TTHhkwbcA

[bookeater94]

@PetitCapital Thank you!!! Beautiful rendering!!!

[bookeater94]

6:10 eargasm!!!!!!

[11111111andrey]

анархизм и всеобщая демократия.

Интеллектуальная свобода, равенство возможностей, братство всех людей

[MrThreshold2009]

I could be doing the most disgusting stinking shit after eating a dodgy Big Mac, literally so bad even I would find the stench of fecal matter too much (cos you tend to like the smell when you shit yourself, even thou no one admits it- but then if you go back in the room after then you find the stink to much. weird that isn't it), but this music would make it acceptable.

[OoompaaLooompaa]

@MrThreshold2009 nice

[rancelt]

Beethovens Consecration of the House is also magnificent.

[tangalanga]

What an orgasm for my soul!!!!

[PeryelZanusso]

Harmonia !!!! Fantástico !!!!!

[andreacameriere]

il bello dell'ascoltare Beethoven è che nelle sue composizione esiste ogni tipo di sentimento..a seconda dello stato d'animo di ki ascolta..adoro la sua "carnalità" nello scrivere,il sentimento viscerale ke è chiuso dentro ogni sua opera..

[rojoskar]

increible!!!!!!!

[obtica1]

Beethoven's 9th, complete

youtube.com/watch?v=EmV35VPRT9­s

[leefeboi]

Haunting

[workersandpoets]

elitist... arrogant... joined nazi party twice... but I still love you karajan.

[DerPampa]

@workersandpoets I really don't mind wther Karajan was this or that... The point is, were his renditions good? Did they reached my mind, my heart? In my case, the answer is "yes!". Then, I don't give a damn for his personal life...

[workersandpoets]

@DerPampa You can't justify all of these just by saying "personal life"... This is nothing about personal life, this is about life itself. Music is not only music... That's a long story.... Anyway youtube is not a suitable place to argue I believe. Talented as hell, but he is a jerk. That's my opinion.

[Lereonka]

@workersandpoets what does him being a jerk have to do with his music?

[workersandpoets]

@Lereonka oh nothing.

[Lereonka]

@workersandpoets then why bring it up?

[DerPampa]

@workersandpoets You're right: we may argue for ages about this or that being or not music... And you are also right when you write "Talented as hell, but he is a jerk". So, what can I say? You've got a point there, and even if I see in Youtube some sort of a forum where we can argue, perhaps it's better if we just leave things as they are and we both enjoy this wonderful piece of music...

[MARIEP0]

LE CHEF D'ORCHESTRE A L'AIR D'UN TROLL... MAIS MON DIEU QUE LA MUSIQUE EST DOUCE À MES OREILLES...

[kibirocks]

I love Karajan's interpretation of this piece!

[JAL845]

Para mi el andamiento esta perfecto. Karajam lo sabe hacer como nadie, muy bien hecho ! JAL, desde Brasil

[KazziKolorZz]

This song always evokes such major emotion when I hear it sometimes it even brings me to tears. The song alone brings me to tears alone but God damnit when they put this song in a sad part of a movie it makes me bawl. It's just not fair.

[Cerberusnekros]

Estoy acostumbrado a escucharla un poco mas lenta.... Pero me sigue erizando la piel :)

[ILraganella]

perfetta... ma un poco più lenta..

[lastardo]

Está muy rápida para mi gusto...

[newFranzFerencLiszt]

@LucasHTMartins maybe you all don't know this is an ALLEGRETTO, not an "Adagio" or "Lento" as the most of conductors understand. His conduction is one of the rightest ones, and your critics is one of the most common and ignorant too.

[thatparkourkid]

@newFranzFerencLiszt watch out guys!! top comment beef!

[newFranzFerencLiszt]

@LucasHTMartins I imagine: in fact for me this mvmt is a great enigma... btw I think and I'm pretty sure this is rightest. Don't use brain or musical knowledge, but try to consider only the fact this should be "allegretto": at this tempo sounds more like it. And I also think it's more "moving" in this way.. so restless.. Anyway "slow" doesn't mean necessarily "more expressive": I remember a masterclass with Kovacevich on Schubert's Op.90/3... watch it.

[newFranzFerencLiszt]

@newFranzFerencLiszt in addition, if you listen to "old" recordings of beethoven piano sonatas, you'll notice that pianists played much faster than nowadays, almost everything. Take Backhaus, take Schnabel. They're so fast! "slow down, what the hell!"... but were they wrong?

[UlfenDaddy]

@LucasHTMartins Beethoven was fascinated with a "recent" invention at the end of his life, which was Maazel's METRONOME. Both Thayer and Schindler, as well as William Mann, cite the fact that B'ven Himself re-edited his works and Gave specific metronome markings. There is no reason to doubt his intentions or his calculations; authoritative editions of B'ven contain those indications. Check your sources and compare, but his works are Faster than a lot of players think...

[UlfenDaddy]

@UlfenDaddy Wm Mann in fact, in the sleeve notes to the Seventh (Klemperer-Philharmonia, 1955,) says he must conclude that Beethoven's "Metronome was FAULTY!" He ASSUMES that the later styles of slower playing are correct and that B'ven's own markings thus wrong. I have always found that an utterly preposterous statement... listen to the Neville Mariner SMIF performance on period instruments: LIGHTNING quick and gives op 92 and entirely different character, which B'ven Wanted!

[SCOPEDWTF]

@newFranzFerencLiszt I agree, though I don't know anyone who would call this at a BPM of 60 or 72. I could see this as 96-104.

[newFranzFerencLiszt]

@SCOPEDWTF it's difficult to understand because we cound each bar, 2/4, half note. That sounds lento, if each quarter, a sort of allegro.

[deusprogrammer]

@newFranzFerencLiszt Righest? You mean "most correct"? =)

[newFranzFerencLiszt]

@deusprogrammer i thought it was the same... (i'm not english spaking)

what's the difference?

[deusprogrammer]

@newFranzFerencLiszt Oh dear, I'm sorry ;_;. I didn't mean to come off rude. In English with some words you don't add "-est" for indicating this idea. In some cases, you add "more or most" to the beginning. Right and correct are two examples of this. When in doubt, just use "most correct" or "most right".

Otherwise...isn't it great that people across the world can all experience the same beauty when they hear this music. It is universal and it transcends language =D.

[newFranzFerencLiszt]

@deusprogrammer you're not rude, I just asked...

i know that fact, and they thaught us to use -est with "short" words, "most" with long ones. Right is short.

btw on the net you find rightest

[Bshow1212]

@newFranzFerencLiszt Bravo friend.

[JaymarkRadio]

@LucasHTMartins word!

[ALexJGD]

The best, the most beautiful, romantic, painfull, and emotional theme ever written!!!!!!

as said before me, the work of pure genious......

never was never will be anything like it, and thank god for that.....thank god there was beethoven!!!!!!

[Mastermax345]

Ah, my good old friend Ludwig Van.

[felipeghiraldelli]

Isso que é genialidade ! As musicas do mundo moderno não se comparam as clássicas !

[nanabexhoeft]

Glorious.

[xenag0s]

i'm 23 and i'm loving this piece of work too =)

[KevinATOR57]

im 16 and im in love with this. I sure hope more teenagers would come to appreciate masterpieces such as this.

[Pollux1198]

Am i the only teen who likes this kind of music? It is so relaxing. I need to hear it in person.

[mw2god1234]

@Pollux1198 No, I am 15 and pretty much all I will listen to (happily anyways) is classical and opera. It's just true music, not silly beats and autotune and synthesizers like most of today's popular "songs". This music actually conjures emotions, I am inspired, saddened, and enraged by the music of Beethoven's era.

[negativekind]

@mw2god1234 as open minded as you're trying to sound, you still come off very close minded.

[commanderfairfax]

@Pollux1198 I loved it when I was a teen and surrounded by the pop of the sixties. I still love it nearly 50 years later. Pop comes and goes; this will stay with you for the rest of your life.

[pramodbabu007]

@commanderfairfax I could her Beethoven when I was at the class 5 in the school..now

I am at the evening of my youth...the way it comforts me and shows the vast area of

loveliness is still remarkable for me since I am a painter..and all the way to experience

my heritage..I feel my roots through "such music.." It is a great pleasure..

[hernantoro]

Esos 51 a los que no les gustó tienen que tener mierda en el cerebro.

Those 51 who disliked it must have shit instead of brains.

[ScreamsFromTheAbyss]

The ecstasy........ahhhh the ecstasy!

[cccdemora]

Maravilloso¡¡¡¡ no hay palabras¡¡¡

[blqkvo]

He was completely deaf when he composed this. And a lot of people cannot determine whether it is a sad or a cheerful composition. This is because it was designed to influence a much deeper part of the mind. Absolute beauty.

[coffee1422]

@blqkvo He wasn't deaf when he composed this. He was deaf when he composed symphony 9

[blqkvo]

@coffee1422 Thanks for the info. I should get my facts straight next time...

[frankomay]

@blqkvo he was only partly deaf, and only when he composed the final movment of the 9th symphony.. it is beautiful thoug

[asdfuogh]

@blqkvo Right, it's not everything has to be sad or happy.. This piece is awesome, like a wave slowly building up before it surges past you and knocks you on your ass.

[OWN12S]

@blqkvo How can someone be completely deaf and compose music? Its like being blind and creating construction blue prints of a building.

[madclef]

@OWN12S technically, you can compose without hearing anything, I have done it myself by wrinting and not having speakers to hear the result. You will just hear it in your mind, but you can still put it on paper. (just a practical example)

[tinkthetrue]

@blqkvo The seventh is from 1811 and he became completely deaf by 1813 or 1814.

[Chuck201]

@blqkvo He was not completely deaf until 1814 and He composed his 7th symphony in 1811-1812. This changes nothing the the "grandeur" of the piece. It flows right into the listener's mind and heart. A very great experience

[micronationcreation]

Bravo, i will have to re-arrange my top 10

[Spems22]

I cried

This will always and forever be my