Ode to Freedom, Bernstein, Berlin

Ode to Freedom, Bernstein, Berlin

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[db7178]

nobody asked the poor guy if he can do all of the voices on the violin. :P Since posting this I've discovered any Furtwangler recording blows away any Bernstein recording.

[luis bilbatua]

0:31 the look of Joyfulness

[Partha Chakrabarti]

I am so glad that you took Furtwangler's name. Indeed, both of his recordings from 1944 and 1951 are mindblowing. However, we can't avoid the historic significance and the subtle change made in this recording.

Live performance with a strong history always makes the 9th special, something that Karajan et. al. never understood..

[palesurfer1972]

pure joy in song like a rapture.

[Hevenken]

Nice, it should have more views

[grobanista]

The real title to this masterpiece.

[Constantino Hernandez]

There's somehing else. The original poetry by Schiller, wich was the author of the poem from which Beethoven took the lyrics for this part of the Symphony, was Ode to Freedom, but because of political reasons at the time this poetry was written, Schiller had to change the word freedom into Joy. Those words are almost similar in german. That was the reason why Berstein used this title: Ode to freedom

[tennotes]

Dr. Johnize: To clarify your intellect and your foul mouth, Bernstein renamed it for this special occasion to "Hymn of Freedom" instead of Ode To Joy for the people on both sides of the former Berlin Wall.

[MrElmobn]

This was a special version done to commemorate the fall of the Berlin wall: It wont let me link it but look up Leonard Bernstein on wikipeda and read the last few paragraphs in the 1980s section.