Beethoven: Missa Solemnis (Benedictus)

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra,
Conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt

[@NEM24780]

an absolute beauty, nothing has been composed like this before or after. It is said that the violin part represents Christ, starts with a very high note and comes down to earth, ends going up to high notes again.

[@josephmosikili1902]

I am hundred percent agreed with you....nothing else is as good as this...

[@chuckgviolin3538]

I defy anyone to find a more beautiful piece of music than this. Solo violin, soprano, chorus, God, and Beethoven. Doesn't get any better.

[@DrRoberts66]

It’s impossible to find anything more beautiful than this. Beethoven is incomparable.

[@rainbowcrystaluk]

And the alto ;-)

[@jonguirl3942]

I am going to unlike it just so I can like it again :-D

[@ensifer329]

Mozart Great mass ;))

[@esotericist]

I wanted to think something like this. Having just read some commentary about this piece which brought me here. I wanted to experience it fro myself. But (don't you all be mad at me...) - No. While it's beautiful music, I'm not moved in the way Mozart moves me. This, for example (for me..) - does not come close to Mozart's Kyrie Eleison. (I'm also a great fan of Mozart's Piano concertos - some of which passages nver fail to bring a tear of joy.

[@davidstedeford387]

Benedictus qui venit in nomine domini....Blessed are they who come in the name of the Lord...

[@LordMichaelRahl]

The Order of Time brought me here.

[@edoardosalza]

LordMichaelRahl as for me

[@user-zl2oj7xr9k]

The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli brought me here also.

[@GAPLATER]

Me too.

[@menartsr]

Me too:)

[@charlesstarr2716]

Me as well

[@phoebe1025]

We just performed this with the Liverpool Phil (I'm in the chorus) and I had to hid my tears every time the violinist began this section

[@Chamindo7]

Beautiful words to share.

[@Woolie.]

An overwhelming cry for peace since long time ago and so present in our times , where we think the world falls apart we need peace urgently

[@telephilia]

Balm for our troubled times. Thank you, Herr Beethoven.

[@noradosmith]

Mate you think you're in troubled times, try living in 2020

[@Chamindo7]

@@noradosmith 'You will own nothing, you will bow down to Big Brother, and you will love your servitude to the elites.' -Klaus Schwab, The Great Reset Time to wake up. Deus Vult

[@camilapazw.b.8882]

​@@noradosmithCrees que estás en un año difícil? Te saludo desde 2024! Y seguimos... Busquemos la paz en el corazón y de corazón como LVB 🎼🕊️🌿🤍

[@Skyscraper44able]

I like this version because the chorus does not drown out the violin solo

[@joelcol873]

Ici il 'y a rien d'autre à faire que d'écouter...Merci monsieur Beethoven

[@renzo6490]

Did you enjoy this? Then, thank the teachers. The line of teachers. The long succession of teachers who, since this was composed in the early 1800's, have taught their students to ... Read music, Play each instrument expertly. Make these instruments. The vocal coaches who trained the voices The teachers of conductors. The architects who designed these acoustically magnificent halls. We hear this, we know of this music that has come down to us through the centuries because of the many generations of people who have passed their skills on to others. Teachers !

[@joandebruin3847]

Above all thank the Creator of a musical genius named Ludwig van Beethoven🙏

[@renzo6490]

@@joandebruin3847 All praise to Beethoven of course. I was just focusing on the role of teachers.

[@dgn.oliveir4]

Thanks Beethoven!!!

[@adrianbray4025]

How oh how can a human have created this utterly sublime thing! It's not possible! Utterly indescribable.

[@PanayiotisVyras]

benedictus qui venit... εὐλογημένος ὁ ἐρχόμενος... Blessed be, who comes... to bring compassion and peace, to worlds in need!

[@thomasross9389]

Absolutely gorgeous. perfect balance.

[@jackfletcher1000]

There just may be a God after all . who else could inspire such beauty?

[@richmac5533]

This is a superbly realised version of this extraordinary piece of music - I love Harnoncourt's pacing and timbre. In comparison, most versions seem way too fast and clattery, they miss the mellow and plaintive heart which is the core of the piece. The violin is sensational and captures the mood perfectly, thank-you.

[@andrewharris4658]

Simply sublime

[@marcio020370]

Este movimento da grandiosa Missa Solene do mestre Beethoven eleva o ouvinte involutariamente à vibração divina. O violino é delicado, quase que chora. Não adianta resistir, é inútil. Obrigado, Ludwig Van Beethoven.

[@user-sr1wq2yz8d]

Sometimes I still long For the memory of your smile I admit that it will take a while before I get over this It will be hard to bring back The love we left behind I've accepted and I'm learning to face this truth The song of my life goes on Even if the melody of your heart has change

[@sanc9808]

Great performance Liviu! Every lead performer complimented each other. The whole performance is worth getting on recording.

[@Skyscraper44able]

I'm agnostic but this music reaches a place of utter peace deep inside me.

[@giuseppevailati7749]

religion is a narrow way for an infinite road my friend

[@Chamindo7]

@@giuseppevailati7749 Cor Iesu sacratissimum, miserere nobis. Deus Vult

[@riohenry6382]

The call to worship is universal my friend. I love Christ but Bach, Handel, Scarlatti, Mozart….you become aware of something greater than any one of us, the universal call of music, the unity of all men

[@ilseilse3824]

Much much..

[@cris0910able]

beautiful

[@jonguirl3942]

Beautiful playing, Liviu! Love this performance :-)

[@cristianosiqueira1536]

Música mais linda que já ouvi na vida

[@wolfie71231]

Beethoven was taking dictation from the Almighty.

[@giugiu7951]

The order of time, beautiful book an beautiful music

[@clush1964]

Si beau, profond, magique... Merci! Dans son livre "L'Ordre du Temps" Carlo Roveli écrit: ...Et le chant, comme l'observait Augustin, est la conscience du temps. Il est le temps. C'est l'hymne des Veda qui est l'éclosion du temps4. Dans le Benedictus de la Missa Solemnis de Beethoven, le chant du violon est pure beauté, pur désespoir, pur bonheur. Nous y restons suspendus, retenant notre souffle, et nous sentons mystérieusement que c'est là que se trouve la source du sens. La source du temps. Puis le chant s'affaiblit, s'arrête. « Avant que le cordon d'argent se détache, que le vase d'or se brise, que le seau se rompe sur la source, et que la roue se casse sur la citerne, avant que la poussière ne retourne à la terre5. » Et c'est bien ainsi. Nous pouvons fermer les yeux, nous reposer »

[@fhebbert]

The depiction of the holy spirit through the song of the violin is sublime. I do wish the violin was a little more assertive, but the overall sweep of this piece remains too heavenly for words

[@jonguirl3942]

"Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord" "Glory to God in the highest"

[@Chamindo7]

Amen amen

[@chrisknowles7889]

That soprano tho....So good

[@bouyhos]

The Praeludium of the Benedictus has been cut... sad Harnoncourt eternal master

[@henkrentenaar6350]

Liviu Prunaru, solo violin.

[@julieforgue9530]

Superbe solo de violon qui s’ajoute aux voix, comme pour exprimer l’ineffable. 🙏

[@john2000young]

I hear the steps, Jesus is coming.

[@Skyscraper44able]

When did music leave our planet?

[@mcfrdmn]

Lovely musical performance !

[@johnbennett572]

I find this difficult to write....both eyes running freely with tears from total BLISS.

[@anvemar9]

Experiencing the same feelings, listing to this music and the voices which can't origin from this earth.

[@carlosalbertotararam9145]

Wonderful......Kpacotika......

[@faustopiscozzo483]

Pura bellezza, pura disperazione, pura felicità

[@Rodrigodbf]

Is this correct? Soprano Marlis Petersen Alto Elisabeth Kulman Tenor Werner Güra Bass Gerald Finley

[@carlosmiranda9072]

24 dislike ?! I don't understand how a fish or a stone doesn't like this. What the hell do they like?

[@2mullet]

정말 황홀하게 좋아요

[@papagen00]

This Harnoncourt "Missa" and the Dresden version with Fabio Luisi are the absolute BEST modern performances. Buy the DVD's! (The Thielemann version is only worth hearing for mezzo-soprano Elina Garanca's superb singing)

[@lucreziaborgia5798]

Don´t forget Leonard Bernstein, no joke!

[@jonguirl3942]

Agree with both, I have Luisi Dresden and Bernstein, and I am buying this one too - BEAUTIFUL!

[@dredriesen2827]

There's also a fantastic version from Carlo Maria Giulini

[@abhinavnanhey]

Carlo Rovelli sent me here

[@johnbennett572]

Spot on Chuck

[@mihaelafilipescu5818]

superb

[@sam0xin]

🙏🏻❤️🌹🙏🏻

[@jackfletcher1000]

Surly the best music yet composed??

[@EvanM_]

Anyone else here via Aldous Huxley?

[@susandietrich5329]

“The Benedictus. Blessed and blessing, this music is in some sort the equivalent of the night, of the deep and living darkness, into which, now in a single jet, now in a fine interweaving of melodies, now in pulsing and almost solid clots of harmonious sound, it pours itself, stanchlessly pours itself, like time, like the rising and falling, falling trajectories of a life. It is the equivalent of the night in another mode of being, as an essence is the equivalent of the flowers, from which it is distilled.” (Aldous Huxley)

[@EvanM_]

That's the one!

[@silverbayonett]

@@EvanM_ 4 months late, but that essay is a blissful work.

[@Tatrasw]

@@susandietrich5329 I read this from Music at Night fro, Aldous Hueley. thank you.

[@liliknoa]

Indeed❤

[@Rodrigo-wi9el]

La cago😮

[@solerajm]

Sublim!

[@shanestep8685]

what are they saying?

[@FaosToEllinikon]

"Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini, Hosanna in excelsis." Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, Hosanna in the highest.

[@user-qx7vk5fv5s]

الي جايين هنا من رواية اليف شافاق.. اهلًا بكم

[@a.seiren0106]

Module brought me here.

[@yasacosar382]

Dinlendirici

[@heribertheidmeier6372]

Das Herz geht auf,keine

[@juditveronikatopal6607]

Almost perfect

[@chrisgray1604]

👴🏼

[@user-sr1wq2yz8d]

Sometimes I still long For the memory of your smile I admit that it will take a while before I get over this It will be hard to bring back The love we left behind I've accepted and I'm learning to face this truth The song of my life goes on Even if the melody of your heart has change