Beethoven: Symphony No. 9, 4th movement | Paavo Järvi and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen

Paavo Järvi and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen at the Beethovenfest Bonn 2009.
The Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125, also known as Beethoven's 9th, is the final complete symphony by Ludwig van Beethoven, composed between 1822 and 1824. One of the best-known works in common practice music Beethoven‘s Symphony No. 9 in D minor is regarded by many critics and musicologists as one of Beethoven's greatest works and one of the supreme achievements in the history of western music.
The first, second and third movements are each given a brief reintroduction, each is rejected. "Freunde, nicht diese Töne!" (Friends, not these tones!) sings a baritone, then vocal soloists, chorus and orchestra all join forces in the musical setting of Friedrich Schiller's "Ode to Joy." A celebration of creation, and more: an invitation to join in a universal brotherhood of man: "Seid umschlungen, Millionen!" (Be embraced, ye millions!). The symphony was the first example of a major composer using voices in a symphony.
Deutsche Welle and Unitel Classica present Estonian conductor Paavo Järvi and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen recorded at the Beethovenhalle Bonn 2009.
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[@dennisfleming5625]

This work has historical and emotional significance to me. As a young, naive boy from a small industrial/farming town in Central Pennsylvania, I was starting my freshman year at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA. Although I was not a music major, I did not know any better.......so I walked into the School of Music building and declared I wanted to join their choir. The choir director was available, and he took me into a practice room and ran me through a series of musical tests. He said the choir could use me (I guess it was based on my knowledge of how to read music and my deep base voice that got me in). Later I learned I was the only non-music major in the choir and the whole semester we would be learning and rehearsing Beethoven's Ninth Symphony to be performed at the end of the semester with Zubin Mehta and the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall. That night we performed to a sell out audience and got nine call backs! The reviews from the New York Times were amazing. I still can sing the entire score in German, and I tear up every time; some because of the memories, but some because of the beauty of this masterpiece.

[@NoahSpurrier]

Epic. I’ve tried to learn to sing it. You’re a better man than me.

[@mauroscotti2577]

Interrupted twice for propaganda is a sacrilege, put it in the begining or in the end please.👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@user-8d8h8t8b]

00:06 05:47 Freunde - Ode to Joy 09:21 Turkish March 12:55 Seid umschlungen 16:11 Double Fugue 18:39 Coda I 20:57 Coda II

[@andreseduardosierraizquier3406]

Héroe sin capa

[@narellezcano510]

Un kpo

[@yassineabderrahmani8665]

What does coda mean ?please

[@sofa_pris7426]

​@@yassineabderrahmani8665 The final part of a piece of music

[@paulanthony5274]

Why do people call the 4th movement Ode to Joy? As you've written it's just a part of it? It isn't even the best part of it..

[@irajasoares]

I don't know if it's because my father liked and listened to classical music a lot, when I was about 10 years old. I recognize that if there are so many people who appreciate them, I needed to start understanding, knowing the names of the instruments, and other details regarding music. When I got married 43 years ago, I started listening again. After I started to understand the composers, the differences of each one, my ears started to hear. A bit paradoxical, I noticed that it was like the transmission of something that the composer would like to transmit. With Beethoven, my dedication to the activity, I realize that I get closer to God or Heaven, I started to forgive more easily, discover talents or virtues in other people, wish the good or progress of other people. Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is the highest point. I started to admire him even more. Whoever promotes these songs, using technology, has become a wonder, but I can see and hear many composers in the comfort of my home. Iraja Bandeira Soares - Recife, Brazil. 30.Mar.2022

[@DWClassicalMusic]

Thank you for sharing your passion 😊

[@Amplamente]

Que incrível cara!

[@irajasoares]

Congratulations to you and your father

[@aztergaming2071]

As someone who is relatively new to classical music, i can say the beethoven9 is my favourite symphony. Thank you for making this available online to those who have no access to listen live

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[@aztergaming2071]

@@DWClassicalMusic wow thank you very much I'll definitely watch the livestream

[@joseventura7943]

Yup. Now that's what I call Disney's Little Einsteins.

[@donbenevento2805]

You've made a wise choice.

[@briannicholas2757]

A truly outstanding performance. So many have recorded this, yet this one stands out. Every phrase in enunciated perfectly. Making it a true ode to joy. A poem in music.

[@DWClassicalMusic]

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[@kaushbro9901]

@@briannicholas2757 wawwa

[@samuelsessions2817]

The conductor, the profoundly gifted and deeply musical Paavo Järvi, is tearful at the end, in gratitude to the musicians, the poet, the composer, the audience, and his … and an der Freude. Sorry if that sound pretentious but this is just too beautiful not to be overwhelmed.

[@juliankohler5086]

Either his orchestra was a bit wild or I've seen this be conducted much better.

[@kennethmontoya7111]

Beethoven was Totally Deaf When he composed this Peace it was muscle memory and he felt the Vibration of the Orchestra playing with the Chorus!!! It's really really Amazing!!

[@DWClassicalMusic]

👍

[@wendyw651]

9:25: No, he can't be serious with that tempo 9:50: I'm just chillin' Don't know what y'all are worried for. 10:41: PLAY FOR YOUR LIVES!! I'm so sorry, but I actually laughed, watching the strings sawing away on that one. Still, as always, that instrumental passage between the men's section and the buildup to the main theme is absolutely genius. Perhaps the most brilliant minute and a half ever written for orchestra.

[@Filmedbybia]

OMG I CANT BELIEVE YET THAT IM GONNA BE PERFORMING THIS

[@k.s.nichols4060]

I did a zillion years ago and it was majestic. Enjoy it if you haven't yet.

[@nathanaverboukh4710]

I performed this at Carnegie in early january it was AMAZING

[@zhuangcorp]

This is Putin if he hadn't failed his music school entrance exam

[@paulanthony5274]

Why

[@zhuangcorp]

@@paulanthony5274 Well I'm just kidding, but the director looks like Putin

[@paulanthony5274]

@@zhuangcorp Conductor?

[@paulanthony5274]

@@zhuangcorp Can't see it myself to be honest mate. But you've got 29 likes so there must be some resemblance. His bald head? 😂😂

[@eddingtonmcclane6963]

OH MY! This...this was outstanding in every way. Orchestra, choir, soloists, conductor. So many superb recordings of this on KZbin, & indeed, I believe this exceeds them all. Absolutely divine.

[@fxbigtoelilzoui1696]

I suggest you watch 2000 krakow poland Sir Gilbert Levine and i think that will change your opinion.

[@김서준-x8b]

Oh great heavens! What peculiar claron blaring trumpet!

[@mogbaba]

Talking about it is beyond me, especially in English, my third language. I cannot express my feelings. it's so huge, it's so great. Look at the players; their faces are so serious, so passionate, they know and feel deeply that they play the greatest musical pieces, thank you!

[@MackerelCat]

Friend you said everything that needed to be said ❤

[@Jay26501]

The Baritone's opening lines . . . he's channeling Beethoven. Well acted! 11:13 drop in intensity in this moment I've never heard elsewhere.

[@鈴木義光-o3z]

ベートーヴェンの情念が力強く素早い演表で表現され4人の歌い手が個性がある上で絶妙にハモって心地良く合唱に影響し質の高いベートーヴェンの求めた演奏になっていると思います｡ラストのラストの超絶技巧の素早い演奏の妙技には感嘆しました。

[@paulanthony5274]

Seconds out seconds out...Lound 2 😂😂

[@imhappyinthesun]

I can't find any expression for this masterpiece. This music makes me worship God. Beethoven, Respect.

[@stevencoardvenice]

It's some of the best music ever. And I'm not normally a classical listener. He was definitely inspired by some higher level than humans in this universe @8:33

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[@jimoathout7543]

Ii am a nonbeliever, but every time I listen to the 4th movement of Beethoven 9, I think that no human being could have written it without help.

[@peterexner728]

i thank beethoven and germany for producing such a great composer. I particularly like the 5th, 6th and 9th symphonies

[@markcleveland8338]

I think I had only heard western, primatily English speaking choirs and soloists...the native German speaking soloists and choirs are so.much more natural sounding...fantastic orchestra and choir. Wonderful.

[@robertodiasdecarvalho7505]

It's a shame being interrupted by advertising in the middle of such a master piece.

[@mattiasdanieldamsgaardwood1315]

VIDEODER IS YOUR FRIEND!

[@Rabauke4u]

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[@juanromanella8657]

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[@wigwagstudios2474]

22:18 YYYYYYEEEEEAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@andytaylor4138]

I was cured alright !

[@calvinli4219]

Here is the English translation of Friedrich Schiller's "Ode to Joy": Ode to Joy Joy, beautiful spark of divinity, Daughter of Elysium, We enter, drunk with fire, Heavenly One, your sanctuary! Your magic binds again What custom strictly divided; All men become brothers, Wherever your gentle wing rests. Whoever has achieved the great feat Of being a friend's friend, Whoever has won a lovely woman, Let them join in our rejoicing! Yes, even if only one soul Calls theirs on the earth! And whoever cannot, let them steal away Weeping from this fellowship. All creatures drink of joy At nature's breast; All good, all evil Follow her trail of roses. She gave us kisses and wine, A friend, proven in death; Pleasure was given to the worm, And the cherub stands before God! Gladly, as His suns fly Through the glorious order of Heaven, Brothers, run your course, Joyfully, like a hero to victory. Be embraced, you millions! This kiss is for the whole world! Brothers, above the starry canopy There must dwell a loving Father. Do you fall prostrate, you millions? World, do you sense your Creator? The poem celebrates joy as a force that unites humanity and connects it to the divine. The imagery of nature, friendship, and the divine emphasizes universal brotherhood, peace, and harmony.

[@reiburgos]

ESTUPENDOOOOOOOOOO... es increible como uno se puede conectar con el director, con cada instrumento, con cada voz..... definitivamente la mejor obra

[@TGiannini007]

Brilliant. Perfection. (I think the recording was sped up just a tad, but that is an iPad/KZbin/software issue, not any criticism of the musicians/artists at all.)

[@jacknesser5993]

3:16 is that not the warmest bassoon line you've ever heard?

[@leonhardeuler6811]

Bassoono continuo

[@givichechelashvili4688]

❤️❤️❤️ Слава Украине! გაუმარჯოს საქართველოს!

[@xtremenortherner]

This is IMHO the "ultimate finale" of any symphonic piece...,also have to remind myself that this was music composed by a person afflicted w/deafness. Just maybe he could hear the inward sounds of his soul singing to him...,maybe the Almighty gave him a brief listen to the eternal celestial hymns of the angels!!?

[@juliankohler5086]

This version is too modern... It lacks the romantic spirit of the song. Beethoven innovated with his choral, especially one singing in German, but he was a romantic... He liked things from the past. The soloist singers must be Italian (or at least use "operatic phonetics"), otherwise you lose respect for tradition. That's not what Beethoven really wanted.

[@vickidvorak5819]

The conductor, the choir, the orchestra, the soloists all together made it my favorite 4th movement of Beethoven's 9th Symphony. I cried a little alongside Mr. Jarvi!

[@irajasoares]

For over four years now, I have been blessed to watch this wonderful composition of Beethoven's Fourth Symphony. However, for at least a year now, I've been watching it at least twice a week. Thanks, obviously thanks to technology. Iraja Soares, Recife, Brasil.

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[@imhappyinthesun]

I'm happy to enjoy this performance. Ode to Joy gives me some mixed feelings of great pleasure, joy and happiness, which come from God, I think.

[@starletmusicvideo]

The Symphony of Symphonies, by the Maestro of Maestros. Good job, Paavo Järvi and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. Well played!

[@gustavoncardoso]

Tem um privilégio enorme quem pode assistir um espetáculo desse ao vivo ... Incrível a interpretação dessa orquestra *--*

[@azander1958]

This is the most aggressive version of 9th symphony I ever heard

[@DritonSelmani-zc1fq]

God gave special permission to Angels to inspire Beethoven for this, Thank you God

[@thelongneckprime8172]

12:08 The Proud Moment

[@argotechnica]

My two year old is obsessed with this specific video-recorded performance. Bravo to all the performers and also to everyone involved in producing the video to show off the individual performances and the conductor.

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[@kennethmontoya7111]

No other music is good than Classical music!!

[@bnuzhanglei2008]

although people have different taste, I have to say I do like this version (or more precisely this conductor) - the tempo is too fast and the base is a bit overacting...

[@Glijeb]

Включил первый раз, не смотрел, но на слух это было настолько выдающимся, что даже с первой части послушал. Настоящая дирижёрская работа и дирижёрская мысль, которую слышно. Спасибо оркестру, взаимодействие с дирижёром на высшем уровне. Главное, что получился Бетховен как я хочу его слышать: напористым, страстным, даже агрессивным. Спасибо!

[@mateovillacorta2279]

On May 7th of this year, this symphony will turn 200 years old. Happy 200th anniversary to the greatest musical work of all time!

[@robertrocha5420]

WOW😂

[@palad3030]

I felt it like if it was the first time I heard it. amazing end!.

[@PinacoladaMatthew]

People don't talk about this enough, the ending is actually the best part, a fast Coda, ending with just 5 short notes, end of story, no dragging, it's Beethoven's equivalent of a mic-drop, as if saying :"I've said all there is to say, this is it."

[@joeherald7319]

Kanye West has referred to himself as the greatest creative artist ever. I urge him to listen to this.

[@tahneetran1471]

Bravo….!!!! ❤❤❤ I can listen and watch this over and over again !! 😘😘👍😃😃😃 thank you, beautiful people

[@glupinacci]

Great performance. But the tempo is like 15% too fast for me than I'm accustomed to.

[@antonylibin5721]

Finally found the music I've been searching for a long time

[@irenaangelovska8626]

Brilliant!! It brought me to tears! I LOVED IT!

[@jeanettemcclintick8248]

fantastic performances and the video work was amazing. Better than a live performance because you can see the musicians and singers up close.

[@Rene-df9wg]

a superb work, a master class

[@partickaljamested5146]

It is the celebration of the consciousness of God realized through the music of man. Beethoven was sent as its messenger and architect.

[@fractode]

Mr. Järvi is the Soul of an amazing "Machine". WEITER SO ! 👍👍👍❤❤❤

[@user-gj8uq8kq1e]

Warum muss man das Stück so schnell spielen und singen? Zum Schluss ist keine Note und kein Wort mehr zu verstehen! Man kann echt übertreiben.

[@mattiasdanieldamsgaardwood1315]

2:38 IS WHAT YOU ALL CAME HERE FOR!!!

[@avecaesar6699]

No, this is what we came for 12:10

[@shin-i-chikozima]

Incomparably greater This is the symphony that astonished, astoundrd and moved Debussy who I deeply respect

[@charlesharrison4077]

Jedes Mal dass ich diese Symphonie höre höre ich irgendetwas neue und traumhaft. Ein Meisterwerk vom Anfang bis die Ende. Wir als Menschen sollen bei diesen Wörtern leben streben.

[@timothytremblay7763]

Best performance yet in my opinion❤

[@HistoryandHeadlines]

Beautiful performance of one of the greatest musical pieces ever!

[@dawnlowenstein7277]

The 4th movement of Beethoven's 9th Symphony is my favorite (Ode to Joy)!

[@RadioTrefoil]

9:20 hidden cheek contrabassoon

[@paulanthony5274]

Oh bliss, bliss and heaven. Gorgeousness and gorgeousity made flesh. It was like a bird of rarest spun, heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now. And as I sluschied, I knew such lovely pictures..

[@paulaharrisbaca4851]

Too fast. Way too fast. 10:30

[@DWClassicalMusic]

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[@CameronCole77]

The universal language 🎶. ❤❤

[@taskbarenhancer3386]

20:00 this part seems eternally difficult to perform for vocal soloists. I have listened to almost 90% of recordings of this music. and none of them do it properly. even in Karajan and Bernstein recordings ...

[@edmundp123]

Can't help but wonder how blown away they were back in the day.

[@kennethmontoya7111]

Paavo Jarvi is really really good

[@DWClassicalMusic]

👍

[@HERMESXXI]

It moves me to tears

[@tomi_disforico]

evangelion

[@ignaciourena5692]

Until today the best youtube version, only Paavo Järvi!

[@heisenberg4978]

a little bit fast no ?

[@ignaciourena5692]

@@heisenberg4978 agree

[@keatontate127]

life uncontained

[@sergio-feferovich]

2:37 Ode to joy celli/bass

[@boom122471]

4:33 💥💥💥 showtime!!! Outstanding performance!!!

[@CaptainM792]

4:32 and 21:00

[@wendyw651]

I feel like he left the 4th movement to the last minute, and then spent so much time writing a truly brilliant opening portion [up to and including the part popularly known as 'ode to joy'], that he then had to pull an nighter, and things just got weirder and weirder, until he was just like, "F**k, this, I'm tired. Just, uh...*throws some notes on a page* Go crazy! But in rhythm. And in harmony! With trumpet flourishes! And fast strings! Now, goodnight!"

[@DWClassicalMusic]

Thank you for your feedback, in which you imaginatively evoke Beethoven composing.

[@achilles7736]

I disagree, it´s brilliant.

[@wendyw651]

@@achilles7736 I've always felt like the first section of the 4th is one of the most brilliant pieces ever written, (the orchestration at the ode to joy climax is just life-giving) but for me, the ending doesn't hang together with the rest of the movement. I don't dislike it, it just feels out of context.

[@munyansebastien7127]

@@wendyw651 This is for me the piece that has the most "false endings" in the history of music, he could have ended with any of these. if he chose to close it that way, he certainly felt it was the best possible conclusion. I personally find it exhilarating.

[@joonhoan8126]

Please rise up for the anthem of the humanity.

[@ianhall-dixon9021]

Inspirational - truly a great performance.

[@kristianokarloleano1202]

This is a bit fast compared to Daniel Barenboim!

[@hankpan5763]

Thanks to KZbin for allowing us to enjoy such great music while lock in our home during this trying time.

[@vsevolod36pimenov27]

Браво!!! БРАВО!!! Браво!!!

[@laura-ann.0726]

This work is immortal, but amidst the joy of watching these musicians perform this "supreme achievement of Western music", I remind myself of tragedy: the fact that the composer himself was stone deaf by the time he completed it, and although he was co-conductor at it's premiere performance, Beethoven never heard it, except perhaps in his mind.

[@giaihytran8238]

Beethoven symphony no 9 4th

[@netterfield]

So schön!

[@frankmartinez3504]

Nobody should waste Beethoven's energy by referring to the authoritarian dictator of russia. Ludwig was a free thinker who despised anything that fell short of individual freedom. Hence this marvellous iconic testament to the self worth of each human.

[@Dazbog373]

Apparently Ludwig Van was gesticulating like a madman all out of time on the sidelines while the premier was going on. And then had to be turned around to notice the crowd's appreciation. I just wish I was there. The greatest composer of them all.

[@guybourgaud6336]

Malgré un effectif réduit,une interprétation transcendante!

[@niikwho1075]

Best rendition I’ve heard by far. The soloists are Al amazing

[@zxssalom98]

كلما سمعتها شعرت بمعاناته في طفولته دمعت وتاثرت .❤انه بيتهوفن ياسادة ❤

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[@BillSmith-rx9rm]

Whoever that was who denigrated the fourth movement by saying it degenerated into a "bar song" had to be totally out of their mind! The "Ode to Joy" is among only a handful of songs that is most moving, and brings me to tears and a lump in my throat. About the only other thing I can compare it to is Hallelujah chorus from Handel's Messiah.

[@rosshart9514]

Hallelujah overdose, Ode an die Freude never

[@BillSmith-rx9rm]

Really? I never tire of Hallelujah. I like the story, although possibly not true but still a nice thought, that Handel himself said he wrote it with divine inspiration and that he saw all of heaven open up before him.

[@rosshart9514]

@@BillSmith-rx9rm OK, just for me. His oratoriums are phenomenal and I don't get tired hearing (except the recitatives, I always skip...)

[@ninjaaron]

The conductor seems so chill and cool.

[@danfra4]

Great performance Maybe a little bit too fast in my opinion.

[@georgeschmidt8107]

it's supposed to be fast. Musicologists have determined Beethoven's standard tempo at 108 beats per minute on a metronome.

[@VaLsOn123]

"PROTECT THE CASTLE" ahh song

[@JamesDuren]

Feels a little rushed in some spots.

[@ジュリー-t7y]

テンポは会場や聴衆又オーケストラや合唱などを前にして指揮者に天から一番ふさわしいものが降りてくるものだそうです。ですから彼の好みだけでは無いと信じます。

[@user-xy2tk8gs2h]

3:52

[@KennethMontoya-up7zn]

Pavo Jarvi is Really really good!!

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[@이성호-t3q]

참 좋습니다(very good)!

[@Jesse-wv2oh]

Beethoven Symphony No 9, 4th movement is incredibly intense and beautiful. It’s exhausting for the orchestra to play it yet it’s so rewarding to play. I absolutely loved this

[@tina.InTheSkyWithDiamonds]

Love the 9th sooo much but this is faaaar far tar too fast and hectic for my liking. The march part is just... hectic. That poor Tenor is out of breath and literally seemingly "running" aka "Laufet, Brüder", and you can't even begin to enjoy that majestic part in my opinion.

[@DWClassicalMusic]

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[@rickshearer]

BRAVO!

[@odiseonaufrago9529]

Exquisito.

[@martinschoech8156]

He was not a man of belief in god.

[@laisocerer6901]

Great performance ~ really impressive But there is a question whether this video is intentional by the sound engineer or it is a technical problem; the left and right audio tracks are opposite. For a person sitting in the audience facing the performance stage, the timpani in the film is on the right side of the stage, but the sound of the timpani being played is to the left of the listener. The position of the female chorus singers on the back stage is on the left side of the audience, but the sound played is on the right side of the listener.

[@eduardoorozco8444]

Beginign with the sound and master execution of the orchesta and every musician, follos to the change cam and recording (I guess to DW team did it), this video makes me feel the passion of the music, every one to dedicate to de music, grows hearing and watching content like this, thanks for sharing with everybody.

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