Beethoven: 7. Sinfonie ∙ hr-Sinfonieorchester ∙ Manfred Honeck 

Well that's as good a Beethoven 7 as I've ever heard. Honeck has a vision for both the detail and the complete architecture of the work. Great and committed playing all round.

Now THAT is how Beethoven's 7th should be played. I heard nuances I've never heard before, it's like hearing it for the first time. I love it when a conductor knows the score without the manuscript, his connection with the orchestra seems so much more intense and personal. I'm surprised the smoke alarms didn't go off during the IV movement... This orchestra was on fire.

Frankfurt symphony has to be one of top in the world They always deliver outstanding performance

Probably one of the best ever Beethoven 7th rendering. The orchestra loved it too. I've heard Honeck for the first time. He captures Beethoven's spirit and narrative spot on imho. In classical performances I often feel that the rhythmic cohesion is lacking but Honeck is brilliant in that respect too. The Frankfurt Radio Symphony is a hugely talented orchestra. Just brilliant.

Fantastic performance and, as always, superb audio and video production. Thanks so much for making this available to us.

What a wonderful performance from the orchestra and Maestro Honeck! Such clean and sharp orchestral execution yet so rhythmically thrilling when needed be. If you've seen the video of the legendary Carlos Kleiber conducting the Concertgebouw Orchestra in this work you'll find that Maestro Honeck's podium movements are sometimes inspired by Maestro Kleiber but his conception of this work is fresh and thoroughly thought out. Adding 4K video and superb recorded sound, we have a true Beethoven 7th for the ages!

Manfred Honeck einfach eine Legende! Richtig gute Interpretation der 7.!!!

日曜日の就寝前に、こんな美しい演奏を聞けて、今日は良い一日でした。

The last movement is like a celebration of Dionysos! A total contrast to the second movement. Maybe this is why this symphonie is so breathtaking. It embodies all of our human feelings. Thank you all for a wonderful interpretation!

You are making the world a much happier place. Thank you for your beautiful music! ❤💐💐💐❤

absolutely stunning😮the best Beethoven7!

Shake a bottle of champagne and then uncork it. That’s how I picture Beethoven’s mind and soup with music, it just erupts with such passion and energy, I love it!!!!

Wow, I just noticed Paavo Järvi was in the audience 41:49 giving a standing ovation (and a well-deserved one).

Cudowna muzyka. Dziękuję bardzo.

Love this orchestra! Love Honeck! Love Beethovan! So much love to go around! Thank you FRS! ( Why aren't you recording?)

A fine performance by the orchestra. It's always a pleasure to see Maestro Honeck conduct.

Fabulous live performance! 🥰

One of the greatest interpretations of this fantastic symphony of all time and well received by this emotional audience !!!!!

What a beautifully rendered 2nd movement......

Wonderful thanks from Canada. 😊

Oh that Allegretto ❤😊

So ein Schwung und Präzision! BRAVO!!!

J’aime bien la direction du chef d’orchestre ! Très bonne dynamique…

Honeck is the best!

This is BY FAR one of the best interpretations of Beethoven's 7th I've heard! Up there with Keliber's! ❤

Wunderbare Interpretation und eine brillante Ton-und Bildaufnahme 🌹🌹🌹

This is an outstanding performance.

Thank you for this.

Une interprétation très... dansante ! qui finit en véritable apothéose en somme. Sacré challenge relevé avec brio, bravo à tous ! 👍

Completed in 1812, Beethoven's Seventh Symphony is one of his most popular works. This piece was dedicated to Count Moritz von Fries, nobleman and patron of the arts. On the plan symphonic, Beethoven imbues each movement with a single, persistent rhythmic pattern, which he develops alongside melody and harmony through changes in duration, orchestration and texture. The bright second movement « Allegretto » which was encored when it was premiered in 1813, is in the darker key (A minor) which resembles a slow march. Structured in a double variation form, the music begins with the main melody played by the violas and cellos, which turns into an ostinato. This very simple motif of quarter notes and eighth notes is passed to the upper strings until the next theme is introduced by the upper string sections. The change in tonality is led by the clarinets, which play a quiet melody above the slightly restless triplets played by the violins below. The intricate string writing in this passage maintains the reader through the music. The movement is centered on a solemn processional rhythm. This rhythm at dark allure becomes the foundation for layers of new musical lines, the pressure of which eventually culminates in an enormous outpouring of emotion. Like the dance, a procession or cortege has a rhythm of its own and in this movement, the inexorable progression of its « long-short-short-long-long » rhythmic pattern can mirror the unstoppable march of time. All the subtlety of writing is here ! If all movement must end, then one can and must still move and live. Because of its context historical, Beethoven had great difficulty in composing this work, with its unprecedented energy in the history of music. This second movement is the only one to be interpreted independently of the symphony but also of all the work of the Master. *Lucien*

淋漓盡致 無懈可擊

Bravo！！！

Fabulosa versión. Me ha encantado. La dirección orquestal, magnífica, me recuerda mucho a Carlos Kleiber. Bravo y gracias por compartir.

I watched interview with Honeck. I wish we had more conductors like him ;so modest and so kind. Then we would see more people attending concert halls and so on,

Fascinante composición

Classical music is typically performed using traditional instruments such as violins, pianos, and orchestras. The sounds of these instruments make classical music sophisticated and refined.

Conducting at the very moment of a Concert is just a reflex of how the orchestra rehearsed according to the way the dirigent interprets the masterwork and his appreciation of the expertise of the musicians as well. The very long introduction, the counterpoint of the second movement, Who is not delighted even more if the orchestral team is so skilled and sensitive.

Amazing !

Fabulous

Un hermoso legado para disfrutar excelente interpretación

World class conductor

Bravi 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

Von Anfang bis Ende ohne Pausen angehört. So ein fantastisches Konzert! Das Finale hat mich sehr beeindruckt! Eine Ladung Beethovens Energie für den ganzen Tag! BRAVI Maestro und das Orchester!

Bravissimo ❤

Wow. Thank you god for giving us Beethoven, Bach, Brahms, Bruckner and Shostakovich and Janacek and Handel, Mahler, Mozart and Haydn, Fasch and Telemann and Monteverdi.

maravillosa versión, dirección y orquesta 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

Dang, is this good!!!

WUNDERBAR!!! Vielen herzlichen Dank 😊 !

I wish there was some way to dance to this. Has no ballet company ever performed to Beethoven's music? What are they waiting for? I take that back. I've never seen an orchestra swing and sway like this one.

4楽章すぐの中低弦の動きがはっきりしていて曲がよくわかります。さすがホーネックさん。ウィーン・フィルハーモニー管弦楽団のヴィオラ奏者を務めただけのことがあります。指揮者の楽器観が出ていて面白い

Hey, I noticed that the second movement ends up with a pizzicato passage from the violins, which few versions use (ususally they end up in a bow legato) and I would like to konw if this is the official version or a common variation. I personally love this ending to the 2nd, and I would love to know more about the one who made this change (if it is not in the original)

12:50 The satisfaction simply by watching the coordination of the orchestra's movements in its sections ... so much beauty in all this ❤

Awesome!!!!!! Please come Japan "!!!!

超水準的演出🎉!謝謝

Does anyone else see a similar conducting style by Honeck with the great Carlos Kleiber?

Sin dudas cuando Beethoven compuso esta obra maestra estaba en teléfono directo con Dios. Orquesta maravillosa, director magnífico. Video y sonido de lo mejor. Gracias.

Absolutely superb!

the best conductors sculpt the music

I listen this Masterpiece every 3 years...this 12 December it's!! The day...apoteosic version...Bravo Maestro!!...in the 2026 I listen again...(I hope)

absolute magnificense!!!!!!!

Klare und wunderschöne Aufführung dieser perfekt komponierten Sinfonie mit seidigen Tönen aller Streicher, milden Tönen aller Holzbläser und vor allem brillanten Tönen aller Blechbläser. Der zweite Satz klingt besonders schön und echt traurig. Im Kontrast klingt der dritte Satz echt lebhaft und auch rhythmisch. Endlich kommt der letzte Satz voller Bewegung und Begeisterung. Der intelligente und geniale Dirigent leitet das hoch funktionelle Orchester im relativ schnellen Tempo und mit möglichst effektiver Dynamik. Einfach wunderbar!

That final glorious crescendo in the first movement has the thrill of climbing and cresting a giant roller coaster hill. 12:20

Perfetta esecuzione. IL resto è storia.

Que maldita bestialidad es Honeck interpretando a Beethoven.

The best performance after Abbado's era.

He manages to out do Carlos Kleiber! Bravo!

Is it just me or ... does this symphony's happy movement (the 3rd) put you vividly in mind of the moonlight sonata's happy movement (the 2nd)?

Very good. But I still prefer Kleiber the Younger.

Finaler Rausschmiss an alle wirklich tauben Ohren❤

7:47 I love that I can clearly hear the 2nds and violas sawing away in the middle. Beethoven wastes nothing. If he wrote it, he wanted you to hear it, even if overshadowed by the 1st and winds line vs. the basses.

ドイツで奏でられたベートーヴェンに心から酔いしれました。

It　is excellent that Honek take Agogik(309-314,10:35-10:43)than Boehm on 1st.

where are the microphones?

I remember WE were playing la septième a Stalingrad.for notrres brothers from prussia.

Honeck's version is stunning, great, but I also love the slower approach of Sanderling and Klemperer...

12:20 magical build up |

2:13 is this re-orchestrated in the bass?

Dinlerken spor yaptım. J'ai fait du sport en écoutant

4th mov is a bit too spirited imo. At the end of the day, when you have an allegro and presto in the same piece, the former should never surpass the latter in tempi. With that being said, this performance as a whole is one of the best 7th i've heard in months.

27:10

Es sieht aus wie Kleibers Dirigieren, aber Honecks kraftvolles und anmutiges Dirigieren kann nicht nachgeahmt werden.

Der Dirigent hat es aber eilig! Hat der noch einen wichtigen Termin?

Honeck is a Carlos Kleiber disciple. Therefore his imitator, the stick technique is all Carlos Kleiber. Gustavo Dudamel and Daniel Harding worshipped Claudio Abbado. They both hold and move the baton just like Abbado. Watch RU-vid videos of Kleiber and Abbado, observe that Honeck, Dudamel, and Harding are pale imitations of the original. Toscanini, Furtwangler, Walter, Klemperer, Karajan, Bernstein, Abbado, Mehta, Ozawa, Giulini, Kubelik, Solti were all originals not imitators. This is Kleiber’s 7th interpreted by Honeck. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2Sw97NzvvsE.htmlfeature=shared

Ich bin ja schon ein Freund davon Beethoven ernst zu nehmen und sich an seine Metronomangaben zu halten. Oft wird er zu langsam gespielt. Das Finale hier ist mal ein seltener Fall von "zu schnell". Beethoven schreibt halbe 72. Das hier ist halbe 82.

This interpretation sounds like Wagner

a Kleiber wannabe

An okay impression of Kleiber, but without the improvisatory genius.

Horrendous…

Honeck can try and imitate the elegant gestures of Carlos Kleiber, but that's sadly where any resemblance ends.