Leonard Bernstein discusses some elements of Ludwig Van Beethoven's 3rd Symphony, the 'Eroica' Symphony.
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@PeterBrodie7 жыл бұрын
Someone who truly understood Beethoven, a really great musician himself: Leonard Bernstein, a twentieth century legend in his own right.
@lmaka111 жыл бұрын
Bernstein produced a much more insightful and detailed musical exegesis on Eroica entitled "How a Great Symphony was Written (lecture)" which can be found his 1964 Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 performance with the NPO. The CD is amazing and that single track is worth the purchase alone.
@bens.6647 жыл бұрын
RaisingAbel the first time I heard his voice. I've been in awe ever sincde
@alexed1004 жыл бұрын
FYI, these Bernstein lectures are available on Spotify, at least in part: open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DXbuvjwsGcSq1?si=feBphOt3Rb6PBqvJbKfwxA They are eye-opening!
@annedwyer7973 жыл бұрын
@@alexed100 OMG, thanks for that tip/link! I just logged into Spotify; Lenny does 35 mins. on Eroica!! I can't wait to listen.
@105robmajor3 жыл бұрын
@@annedwyer797 I just tried to open that file on Spotify, and was informed that they do not recognize the link shown above.
@armaanalfares79747 жыл бұрын
Bernstein is teaching perfection, personified.
@Oldman808 Жыл бұрын
Excellent point.
@calcmandan11 жыл бұрын
my favorite beethoven symphony and no one could explain it better than lenny. i miss his mug.
@christinemusselman54993 жыл бұрын
Bernstein said about beethoven that he proved his greatness by writing the exact right note after right note. beethoven also demonstrated that he could build a magnificent piece of music using meager material. he demonstrated that with the second movement of his seventh symphony. Bernstein said not even Mozart could do this as well as Beethoven. not a very involved melody that begins that movement but he turned it into an astounding, involved piece of music. so much so that audiences demanded encores of that movement going into the 20th century.
@Tennisisreallyfun Жыл бұрын
Truer words have never been spoken! I mean, look at the 1st Movement of his Violin Concerto. Sure, there is one pretty tune, but the rest of it is just scales, arpeggios, some octaves… This is easy stuff, the kind of material children use when they are studying the instrument! It also happens to be, in my opinion, the most exquisitely beautiful concerto ever written for the instrument. Beethoven wasn’t just a composer. He was a magician🤩
@rman523 жыл бұрын
He talks like he is reading from a great author's book. What a mind.
@tuxguys7 жыл бұрын
How elegant: The subject, the presentation, the necessary virtuosity to play such a piano reduction, and the total mastery of the subject matter. There is so much pedagogical Bernstein out here, and aren't we fortunate? (Addendum, one year later) Allow me to presume to modify Lenny's final statement by inserting the only other name in the cultural history of Western Civilization about whom it could be made: "The answer to the Shakespeare phenomenon is not really expressible, except in terms of the mysterious genius of a man who is capable of uniting all contradictions into one single, perfect entity.”
@jduff597 жыл бұрын
And such humility while describing the complete genius of LvB. From a genius of a conductor. What a jewel of a video we've lucked out to see.
@jorgemittelmann6205 жыл бұрын
Disgustingly emphatic
@tuxguys5 жыл бұрын
Beg pardon?
@annedwyer7973 жыл бұрын
tuxguys: beautifully said!
@mayc.onaise56492 жыл бұрын
lmao
@fcovone12 жыл бұрын
Just one word: fantastic! thanks Lenny for your this great introduction to the Beethoven "Eroica". A page everyone shouldn't miss!
@williamsackelariou186010 ай бұрын
LBs conclusion is brilliant and admirable Thank you for posting, this
@latergator9156 жыл бұрын
There is some recoil off that piano
@ben_ivey3 жыл бұрын
lmao
@lvbandmore13 жыл бұрын
Thanks for putting up all these Bernstein intros - much easier than flipping thru my Bernstein discs :)
@andreaswalther5237 Жыл бұрын
Sir Leonard... I love your statements about Beethoven. They simply speak to me and reach me like pure heaven. You say exactly what I feel when listening to his legacy. His sounds will never grow old nor unimportant, quite the opposite. It will plant a seed in you that grows and grows and matures. ;o)...
@fazergazer3 жыл бұрын
Beethoven and Bernstein...the Energizer Bunnies of the music world!
@paulgreen11175 жыл бұрын
One of my favorite scripture passages is found in Ecclesiastes 7:3 “Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.” Beethoven’s heart is certainly the musical epitome of Plato’s tempered heart “wax” which is smooth, abundant, deep, and worked to the proper consistency. His monuments are a testament to the fire of life’s experiences that produces gifts of inestimable quality and enduring. Would to GOD people might consider how priceless a jewel is the life that sustains such crushing heat and blows to emerge as heroic and prophetic in proclaiming, by faultless example, that The Lord Jesus gives eternal grace and beauty to all who love his appearing and glory in their own hearts and souls. PWG
@McIntyreBible3 жыл бұрын
Beethoven was a composer like no other. His biographer (which I have been reading) tells of his human complexity.
@AAilovemusic11 жыл бұрын
Fantastic!
@AljoniMusiCo11 жыл бұрын
Enjoyed! Especially what he says of the 'cosmic spirit' a/o 2:30
@claudetteclaereboudt51287 ай бұрын
I fell in love with Leonard Bernstein when I was nine years old and he explained Beethoven's sixth symphony on our newly purchased first B&W television set. Or…. Was it Beethoven I fell in love with? Doesn’t matter, the love remains though both are long gone. Long may you run…. Spirits of Beauty and Joy.
@AureliaPempenic64 Жыл бұрын
I adore him
@planetproofreading22349 ай бұрын
I love listening to Bernstein talk as much as I love hearing him conduct. Titan? Hmm, Bernstein's the Gentle Giant.
@lawrencetaylor4101 Жыл бұрын
Even though I was shamed in never studying a music career, I remember these videos by Leonard Bernstein that opened the world of classical music to my "uneducated" brain.
@Oldman808 Жыл бұрын
Katsaris plays a stunning performance of Liszt’s piano transcription of the Eroica. It is on KZbin. Bernstein is admirable in that he never shows off how much he knows; he was a perfect teacher!
@patrickzhao7591 Жыл бұрын
well said, Sir. Well said.
@mlx8707 жыл бұрын
eloquent and brilliant
@markhughes7927 Жыл бұрын
I liked the late Harnoncourt’s comment in his last interview on BBC radio - ‘if Beethoven was alive today he would be making bridges’ i.e. forging necessary cosmic connections in new ways and not inhabiting mined-out modalities.
@ikcarter6 жыл бұрын
Yes!
@Lukas41823 жыл бұрын
I wish to have hair like this when I'm old
@alexkatsanos84758 ай бұрын
After the first two Symphonies which were Mozart like IMO, Beethoven starts the romantic period with a crash. If you look at Picasso’s early drawings, he could draw everything as a classical artist before he went in his own direction. To me it’s that stark.
@DoubleGauss3 жыл бұрын
The A dim 9th chords in decrescendo ( 1:07 ) is from one of the most dramatic passages in the first movement. But the whole first movement is full of drama and tension with brief respites in between. Hard to pick one passage.
@CraigDAmico10 жыл бұрын
super good.
@andrelima94407 жыл бұрын
Amo muito essa sinfonia!
@willcwhite12 жыл бұрын
"the mysterious genius of a man who is capable of uniting all contradictions into one single, perfect entity" -- Lenny, I thought this was supposed to be a talk about Beethoven, not an autobiography!
@PeterBrodie7 жыл бұрын
willcwhite, beautifully put!
@onecircle16 жыл бұрын
willcwhite he IS talking about Beethoven.
@annedwyer7973 жыл бұрын
@@onecircle1 I think willcwhite meant it as a joke!
@McIntyreBible3 жыл бұрын
2:15, Bernstein discusses the melodious section of the 3rd Symphony.
@ashutoshjangle79262 жыл бұрын
in which movement can one find that melody?
@McIntyreBible2 жыл бұрын
@@ashutoshjangle7926 you can find that in the final movement.
@ashutoshjangle79262 жыл бұрын
@@McIntyreBible thanks
@tamunagejadze97505 ай бұрын
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
@jonathanparnell31752 жыл бұрын
Wow he looks either hammered or like he just woke up lol
@raymondjackson606910 ай бұрын
No body can do Bernstein's music like Bernstein. But Bernstein can do anybody's music, sometimes even better..
@NikoHL3 жыл бұрын
Why would anyone give this a Thumbs down? 🤔 Clearly Sociopaths..
@richardkastlemusic7 ай бұрын
I posted a new video explaining how Beethoven's loss of hearing made created a massive increase in his capacity to process variables between Symphony #2 and Symphony #3, making him the world's greatest composer
@at_the_door8 жыл бұрын
1:40
@dmsalomon5 жыл бұрын
4th wall slipped for a minute there 😅
@mlconlanmeister5 жыл бұрын
@@dmsalomon Those restless (lip flick, nose brush, eye rub, hair flatten) mannerisms are in lieu of a cigarette, I believe.
@sarahjones-jf4pr2 жыл бұрын
@@mlconlanmeister I think that is exactly it!!!.
@spyshousakusen13 жыл бұрын
お願いします、字幕を!
@GemmaCallahan-tj5wl5 жыл бұрын
0:23 Did Mr. Bernstein just make a Reference to a Marvel Superhero?
@clydeblair96223 жыл бұрын
Inexpressible is right.
@LYTT10I0312 жыл бұрын
hes got big balls
@sayantandutta95859 жыл бұрын
Giant meets Auteur..
@metteholm483318 күн бұрын
I would SO MUCH like a job correcting, what these dumb text machines get wrong. I sit here and wheeze like cat everytime, it happens.🐯
@pega17pl8 жыл бұрын
Den Zuhörern müssen damals die Ohren weggeflogen sein.
@rmk28793 жыл бұрын
Origins of music unevidenced. Except it is gift to humanity from God the Creator. Music continues in heaven. Discontinues in hell. Jesus Christ died and resurrected for remissions of everybody's pre-existing sins to save from eternal hell. Penalty of sin already paid by Jesus Christ on The Cross. Accept HIM. Be saved from eternal hell. Enter heaven. Enjoy heavenly music. For free.
@braedenhill9808 Жыл бұрын
I have never seen a worse waste of 3 minutes. Tragic that he didn't touch on ANY of the things that make Beethoven brilliant
@Alix777.4 жыл бұрын
Awful, Beethoven music is just so bad, bad melody, poor orchestration, silly tunes and awkward chord combinations, this is a prodigy of bad taste.
@annedwyer7973 жыл бұрын
You are in a very small minority among those who enjoy classical music.
@scotchwhisky60943 жыл бұрын
Moron.
@rafaelrodrigues51583 жыл бұрын
You absolute 🤡
@spacebanana50003 жыл бұрын
You haven't the spirit or intellect to comprehend true greatness.