Beethoven - Missa Solemnis (D-Dur, opus 123) Gloria I

[lebannerfan65]

I like Bernstein's interpretations of Beethoven the most. The are more about the wall of sound that Karajan, in my opinion, and I like that.

[Cocoheadedcannibal]

if there is a god he took away beethoven's hearing because he got scared. Beethoven said to hell with you anyway.

[Lassannn]

Do people just cruise YT disliking every video they can watch? For the fun of hurting someone's feelings? Because I can't think of another reason why this one was disliked.

[luckyoldme785]

I saw Georg Solti conduct this at the penultimate night of the Proms at the Royal Albert Hall in the early 1980s. It was the most fantastic live performance I have ever been to. I had tears streaming down my face and I looked round, and so did everybody else. Bravo Beethoven and thank you!

[SirGlennGould]

I WANT KARAJAN !!!!! ç________ç 

[TrevRockOne]

@SirGlennGould Karajan sucks ass.

[BlitzMoonlight09]

Gloria in excelsis deo!

[mmmjjjyyynnnhhhttt]

gmh952...

Unfortunately you're right...

too many chorus singers wouldn't have a CLUE

as to how to F-E-E-L the music and ENJOY it.

I'm envious of you, as you've thus gotten to do this GREAT Work...

one beautiful passage after another.

Maybe showing / teaching people how to FEEL the music

is tough, perhaps impossible.

What's your opinion?!?

[rgmatos2]

Bernstein looks like Mel Brooks ON CRACK! =P

[thehornconcertoking]

@gmh952 + @richstout :The orchestra is not playing with anymore 'passion' than the singers are singing with. This isn't a musical. Bernstein is THE source when it comes to bringing music to life. If they chorus was meant to be more animated, the would have been. And if they didn't do what Bernstein wanted, they would have been shot. Or fired. Or both.

[AntiProUltra]

try listening to the Gloria from Hummel's Missa Solemnis (also on youtube) then this. the contrast between mediocrity and genius could not be more extreme

[gmh952]

Orchestra plays with energy, passion, fire, and brilliance, the chorus, on the other hand is so pedestrian and boring. Such a shame, it makes for a very uneven performance.

[richstout]

@gmh952 You should try singing it.

[gmh952]

@richstout I have sung it many times, conducted, and prepared choruses, so I believe I know what I'm talking about.

[richstout]

@gmh952 Well, my apologies, then, 'cause I've never tried to sing it. I just respectfully disagree. They didn't look terribly animated to me, but for a smallish-looking number of singers, I thought they did a very creditable job and sounded good. Whose performance (choir-wise) do you like, then? Curious.

[tisaacso3625]

Beethoven created God.

[outtaker]

@tisaacso3625 And Beethoven is dead.

[schuf1]

Beethoven sure did great music, eh?

[Phineas1996]

Things are good! "Gloria I" excites and relaxes my soul.

[WilliamHW]

I had the opportunity to sing Ludwig von Beethoven's Missa Solemnis in its entirety, Bass Baritone member of a Chorus who performed in what was called the Schubert theater, now the Merrium Theater, in Philadelphia, PA. The experience, including the rehearsals, and the concert before a theater audience with a life, full orchestra was awe inspiring, and exciting! I've always preferred Beethoven's 9th Symphony's "Ode to Joy," as wells "Gloria" from Missa Solemnis, over Handel's Messiah.

[MrPurple6996]

thanks for all the praise, but there is no reason to gush over me

[Lassann]

For You are the only Holy One, the only Lord, the only Most High, Jesus Christ, with the Holy Spirit in the glory of God the Father, Amen.

[toptrump890]

are these the lyrics?

[Lassann]

Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men of good will. We praise You, we bless You, we adore You, we glorify You, we give thanks to You for Your great glory, Lord God, heavenly King, almighty God the Father. Lord Jesus Christ, only begotten Son, Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father, who taketh away the sins of the world, Have mercy on us. You who take away the sins of the world, hear our prayers. Who sits at the right hand of the Father, have mercy upon us.

[Lassann]

Quoniam tu solus Sanctus, tu solus Dominus, tu solus Altissimus, Iesu Christe, cum Sancto Spiritu in gloria Dei Patris. Amen.

[Lassann]

Gloria in excelsis Deo et in terra pax hominibus bonae voluntatis. Laudamus te, benedicimus te, adoramus te, glorificamus te, gratias agimus tibi propter magnam gloriam tuam. Domine Deus, Rex caelestis, Deus Pater omnipotens. Domine Fili unigenite, Jesu Christe, Domine Deus, Agnus Dei, Filius Patris, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis; qui tollis peccata mundi, suscipe deprecationem nostram. Qui sedes ad dexteram Patris, miserere nobis.

[haad666]

iz crap !!

[kelsiejackson]

One of the most uplifting, triumphant blazes of glory ever written--Bernstein is in top form.

[kelsiejackson]

0:12 - Ladies and Gentlemen, fasten your seatbelts.

[Killmajoro]

This iss excellent...one of the greatest musical works in history...but Bernstein looks like Mel Brooks hahaha

[TIBUIN]

What is the best record of the missa?

Any suggestions?

Ich bin ein Fan!

[luckiekevin]

I think the Karl Bohm version on Grammophon is the best.

[thegoddescomposer]

i the best record is from otto kelmer something like that i have the whole work

[brettyfxu]

I wish all people in the world spoke/wrote in English, so that I could understand what they're saying!!!

[vegetablet]

they have english translations for this :3

[tombaker1222]

Gloria In Excelsis Deo - Latin for "Glory to God in the Highest".

You can probably buy a vocal score of this with the english written in italics underneath the latin.

[IbnAlnafer]

Lovely music, but the conductor is a bloody show-off. Look at Furtwangler, he certainly knows how to impress with the music og not with his gestures

[sagosoosmar]

Past 50, Beethoven found himself deaf, eluded by true love, rejected by the nephew for whom he had assumed a paternal role, plagued by myriad illness. And yet, at that point in his life, the composer wrote on the score of his Missa Solemnis, "to my God, who has never deserted me."

[beethomozart]

2nd part of this masterpiece, the gloria, crossed from beginning to end by a jubilee shouting, the genius started working on his mass with high passion but suddenly was filled with big uncertainties, long live ludwig van

[Hypocamparis]

watn scheiss

[taviona]

Wie kommst du dann dazu, es dir anzusehen?

[chrisibzu]

Me fascina la irreverente, flexible y expresiva dirección del maestro Bernstein... algunos otros son demasiado flemáticos; otros, demasiado esquizofrénicos... Bernstein simplemente "vive" con plenitud cada nota de la orquesta y el coro... m¡agnífico!

[robertocordero]

Tremenda pieza... una de las mejores creaciones de Beethoven, aunque la mas criticada a nivel sacro, por los altos registros de voces, y otras cosas... se ha dicho que es la Mejor Misa compuesta por algun musico... algunos la superan a la Misa de Coronacion de Mozart y otras... Pero en verdad es Excelente.. es solemne, es bella.... Viva Beethoven!

[anagimenezb]

Una de las obras magistrales de Beethoven dirigida nada mas y nada menos que por Leonard Bernstein...Excelente...!!!

[debartzen]

Esto transciende la religión,es simplemente patrimonio de la humanidad.Leonard Bernstein director-conductor excepcional.

[joboy1992jesto]

never hv i heard such music in my life and never will i.....and even if i do, it wldnt b from someone who was deaf and still cld write an EXTREMELY AWESOME piece of music. so solemn and so powerful!!!

[Heraopera]

Sexy conductor and sexy soprano and this great Hanna Schwarz ---Great times of german opera and concert after the war! La Moser is unique like every time

[chrish12345]

how nice of Elizabeth II to have made up the numbers in the choir (see .32)

[mathistle]

It is so sad to think that some people believe that God had an influence in this. Beethoven was a humanist and to consider God is to remove this humanity. Unless you are an Evangelist, haha! " Without religion there would be good people doing good things, and bad people doing bad things. But for good people to do bad things it takes religion (Professor Wineburg)!"

[chrish12345]

Good people don't do bad things because of religion, it just gives a focus for the bad people.

[owelsford]

Beethoven wasn't a humanist he was a palladian-he saw God as a creative being in everything. He never attended Church true, but he did look to the Ancient Church for inspiration in composing the Creed and Agnus Dei. The Gloria is him giving glory to the ultimate creative being, not necessarily the Christian God.

[haruwan21]

some say Beethoven was a Hindu. Does it matter? God truly transcends our silly attempt to put God in a box.

[Killmajoro]

Beethoven was a church organist at a very young age, unless you meant he did not attend church as an adult.

[Alphacramed]

Erm.. except that it is a christian requiem mass?

[silvr94]

just because he composed a christian mass doesn't mean he was a christian.

[occultdestroyer]

He was a christian -_-

[MarkoKassenaar]

It is not Requiem Mass (which is a mass for the dead), this is the standard Catholic Mass, with the texts that are sung or spoken every Sunday during the services. "Gloria" being the second part, in which God and Jesus are glorified.

[iambananananananana]

I can't believe he composed this while he was deaf. It's impossible to even compare Beethoven with any of those so called 'musicians' of our time.

[92kemicar]

I agree with you!

[aynohohohola]

@iambananananananana Beethoven is great, but I think there are also good composers and musicians in this time!

[NSAnegrean]

@iambananananananana really?! and how do you come to that conclusion (i am so bad:)) )

[mathistle]

God has nothing to do with this! This is pure human excellence at its most triumph. Beethoven is to me the greatest human ever to exist!!! End of sentence!

[iambananananananana]

Everything has to do with God. Beethoven's genius itself was a gift from God. And his music DOES prove God's existence, especially for me.

[songblam]

In Beethoven's time I was once a bead of sweat on his brow;

I came back as a bass chorister who has had the privileged wealth of singing this work with three great choirs....

Impossible to know which was greater....

[iambananananananana]

What was it like living as a bead of sweat?

[berredorel]

Que coisa mais linda!

MARAVILHOSO!

Coro e Orquestra estão de parabéns!

Muito lindo mesmo!

[myyellowshirt]

Astounding, even if the recording sounds like it looks (you must admit this is old) the music still sounds as terrific, awesome, earthshaking. The magnitude of praise, a humbling experience indeed.

[HalWeller]

I so clearly remember Bernstein opening Philharmonic Hall at Lincoln Center in 1962 with this movement of the Missa Solemnis! I was 21 at the time, but it one of those singular occasions which made such and indelible imression, that even 45 years later the memory of it inspires me still.

[greve]

This transcends all other human creations!

[albertscerri]

Words other than FABULOUS would be superfluous.

Works like this should NOT be split in two parts - they deserve a special allowance surely.

A.Scerri

[owelsford]

The most incredible piece of musical exaltation; painfully beautiful; music like this proves the existence of God!

[lebannerfan65]

@owelsford Nope, it proves the existence of human kind. Man has no need for a deity to write this, inspiration is still distilled by human endeavour.