Leonore Overture Nº 3 in C major, Op. 72b The Amnesty International Concert Orchestra: Bavarian Broadcast Symphony Orchestra Venue: Munich, Germany. Date: 17/10/1976 Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) Leonard Bernstein (1918 - 1990)
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Magnificent!!! This shows the absolute genius of Bernstein's conducting talents and gifts. How fortunate for these seasoned musicians to have the experience of performing under his baton and musical awareness of every single nuance and phrase. Thank you Leonard Bernstein!!!
This is a unbelievable profomence, the opening of this masterpiece is amazing the flute player is exquisite, the power and the beauty shining through, Beethoven would be deeply satisfied if he had heard this profomence .
Cosa è un grande direttore ? Colui che è al servizio dell'orchestra, tutt'uno con essa, mai protagonista con gestualità esagerata, mai in evidenza per sé stesso. Puntuale sull'attacco di ogni sezione lascia un piccolo spazio all' emozione personale. Grandioso Bernstein.
J'apprécie la façon de diriger de Bernstein. Il est tout un avec l'orchestre. Il vit la musique dans tout son corps et on dirait qu'il joue de chaque instrument avec passion !
The best performance I ever heard . Maestro Bernstein was in control of every note that was played . Unbelievable performance . The musicians were superb ! Magnificent ! SPASIBO .
This is one of my Beethoven favorites.....such a classic work by Beethoven and well played by the orchestra and lead by Bernstein. Just listen to the power and majesty of his work.
“Music should strike fire from the heart of man and bring tears from the eyes of woman.” I’m a guy (in spite of my profile photo) and this does both to me. I feel most of Beethoven’s work should do both to anyone, or there’s just something they don’t get. I don’t know what I would do without Beethoven’s music. I don’t know why the world has done to music what it has when we have always had this. You can keep your “beats” and your auto tune. I’ll take this any day. Music. Fire. Tears. Beethoven.
No other composer in this universe reaches the level of deepness, logical continuity and wise use of the musical resources than Beethoven. He is not only the greatest composer ever, but the most outstanding artist that mankind has produced ever.
One of the three giants of music. Just imagine if Mozart had lived for another 30 years. He would still only have been 64 years old ... and he and Beethoven would have stood on each other's toes.
@@phillipecook3227 yeah, when I listen the requiem I imagine if he had lived longer, I mean Beethoven composed his fifth symphony when he was 38, Mozart had made many great works until 34 and the only great symphony of Beethoven he had until that age was his Eroica Symphony. Probably Mozart would have overshadowed Beethoven. It's very sad that he didn't live to write Magic Flute 2, Faust from Goethe or some work from Shakespeare as he would have. I just imagine something more intricate, more breathtaking, more beautiful, better than his Requiem than his last symphonies or his last operas, maybe one of the most tragic moments of classical music was the early death of Mozart.
@@DaviSilva-oc7iv Absolutely. You know the first time I heard the overture to Don Giovanni with an innocent ear I actually assumed it was early Beethoven? As you say the unwritten works of Mozart are probably the greatest tragedy in classical music. Sparks would've flown between him and Beethoven also.
He's the only conductor I forgive the histrionics because he is in absolute control of the orchestra and is so precise. A pure genius and such a shame he didn't live longer.
To me , he didn't conduct so much as beome one with the orchestra. Always seemed to go to a faraway place, often you could see him at the end of a piece coming back into himself. Such a huge loss but what a legacy.
@Noel Wilde. Yes his style is overtly flamboyant but his musicianship is beyond reproach. Blows the pathetic so called period band performances into the weeds!
Para los que tenemos edad y podemos hoy gozar no solo escuchando sino viendo las imàgenes este placer es enorme. Gracias Beethoven. Gracias Bernstein. Muchas gracias.
For viewers of the Maestro movie (or anyone), this is the true showpiece of Bernstein's art of conducting. This flamboyant, implicitly gay, American Maestro doesn't really match with the conservative German audience, or the all-male orchestra, but they are all defenseless against his, and Beethoven's, inspiration.
Leonard Barnestein longing and talented conductor, musician and as regent: choreographer, dancer and actor, sincerely, his style is incomparable, hardly we will find another being with the artistic predicates with the charisma of this be wonderful. Miss you!
Grandiose Performance und souveränes Dirigat von Leonard Bernstein, der die Reserven des Bayrischen Rundfunk - Orchesters her - aus - zu - locken versteht ❗ 🎼🎶🎶🎶🎶🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶
The reason Beethoven didn't use this one is because it would have completely overshadowed the first Act. L no. 3 is now traditionally played with curtain down during a set change in the last act, which nothing in this whole wide world can dominate.
Few conductors could squeeze out better dynamics from an orchestra than Bernstein. Just notice how perfectly they play under the flute solo. I always thought he tended to rush finales a bit but in this case it is spot on.
I love the way he conducts 14:25 to 14:38, especially the syncopation. I love the gestures to the violins on the accents on 14:35-36. What a master. I didn't even recognize this as Bernstein until I read the description. With the beard, it doesn't look like him at all. In fact, at first I thought it was a misprint. Then I looked more closely at the conducting style, the energy, the finesse, the absolute perfection and detail... and it's DEFINITELY the master. Leonard Bernstein, rest in peace, we miss you.
Gerald Zuk What do you mean the way you have expressed this"he did not seem to enjoy it so much himself?"yet you enjoy watching this so much?sounds like you enjoy watching a man not enjoying himself???....
I have watched this video DOZENS of times and just now realized he is conducting without a score. But there is absolutely no doubt that he knows every note.
In my younger years I was not a fan of Leonard Bernstein (am now 88) and must admit that he was un vero maestro. His conducting here was truly masterful. A great performance of this Beethoven overture. As for Beethoven --- the greatest composer ever!
Hubiera dado un año de mi vida por haber podido verle dirigir en persona. Algunos críticos de su época no estaban de acuerdo con su forma de dirigir pero verle al frente de una orquesta es algo que me da vida, su complicidad con los maestros, ver como vive la obra que dirige y ver como termina de dirigir es algo único. Hay vídeo en You Tube, el 4º movimiento de la Sinfonía 88 de Haydn que lo dice casi todo de este Gran Director. !Gracias Lenny¡
Excelente me encanta todas las oberturas principalmente Leonore...me encanta con la pasión que las ejecuta Berstein...y Bethoven un genio...toda su musica me apasiona.
La corporalidad de los gestos marca la esencia de cada director, y su comunicación con la orquesta es diferente, no existen en el mundo dos directores iguales entre sí, y no se pueden catalogar entre buenos y malos, cada uno entrega lo mejor de sí para transmitirle a los músicos toda la expresividad de sus respectivos pasajes en las partituras. Y Leonard Bernstein era moderado cuando debía serlo, e impetuoso cuando la composición le requería sacar de las orquestas que dirigía toda la impetuosidad y maestría de sus músicos.
‘Ole Ludwig was certain to flesh out every idea to the absolute max! So glad for such a superlative genius. This piece just literally runs the gamut emotionally, intellectually, psychologically, spiritually. The gift of God taken to the height of perfection and musical grace! One of my favorites! PWG
Beethoven would not believe his ears, and be moved to tears by his dream come true... (and easy to tell that the Maestro has made the orchestra work very seriously on that piece and his interpretation)
Beethoven a pesar su incapacidad de oír, Dios lo premió, dándole la capacidad para componer tantas "Obras Musicales" preciosas. ¡¡¡¡¡¡Bien Maestro!!!!,
He did it with love for the music he was conducting and each member of the orchestra you truly loved humanity and that is why this is perhaps the greatest performance of this piece
Nicely said! That's the thing I love most about Lenny: he just couldn't contain his joy in the music, and it really shows when he conducts. This video in particular really puts a smile on my face.
I just watched this vid for the umpteenth time, and I completely agree with you. Watching Lenny conduct puts a smile on my face, because it's obvious how much joy he felt for the music. I love that you can hear his forceful foot tapping at 14:15 and that he gets himself airborne a couple of times after that...he just can't contain himself!
@@annedwyer797 Anne, thanks for that lovely reply. I had been watching Lenny since the young people's concerts, where he shone brightly as an excellent music educator. Through him I found my love of music, all music.
@@jamie1707 I've watched several of Lenny's "Young People's Concerts" on YTube and really enjoyed them, and learned some things too. I think one mark of a great teacher is making the same subject matter interesting to both kids and adults, and Lenny had a gift as an educator.
@@jamie1707 same for me. he shines in this performance. the story of this opera is relevant to the spirit of the concert. about a woman who overthrows a prison n freeing her husband n prisoners after French Revolution
El nombre de mi bebé será Leonora y saber que hay una canción con su nombre me emociona mucho tengo 37semanas de embarazo y no deja de moverse en mi pancita escuchando la canción.
Without a doubt, the deepest, most complete in feeling but also faithfulness to the score, with an overarching understanding of the meaning of the opera (oppression and liberation) as well as the structure of the overture, among the many interpretations I have heard, including some of the greatest conductors, often in concert, during the past 60 years. Thank you very much for making this available.
*Kenneth Clark said of the first notes in this piece:* "And what is that I hear? That sound of urgency, of indignation, of spiritual hunger? Yes, it's Beethoven. It's the sound of European man again reaching for something that is beyond his grasp."
Another brother who has been illumined by Lord Clark!!!!! Though what he says exactly is: It is the sound of European man, once more reaching for something beyond his grasp. We must leave this trim, finite room, and go to confront the infinite. "We have a long, rough voyage ahead of us, and I can't say how it will end, because, it isn't over yet! We are still the offspring of the Romantic movement, and still victims to the Fallacies of Hope." How more awesome can it get? The answer is it can't.
This is one of those rare Beethoven masterpieces in which I wonder, man, why did it take him six minutes to get to the exciting part? But then the last three minutes are so sublime. Oh, Ludwig, I can never stay bored at you.
I don't think the first six minutes are unexciting at all. They serve as a beautiful introduction to what comes next. The orchestration, the modulations, the melodies... An example of a masterful introduction.
Prof. George Werner - Actually the minutes Beethoven takes to get to the "exciting parts" are not wasted. Those extended lines are sublime and full meaningful. Having the contrasts adds so much to the world Beethoven is conveying to us. This piece, along with his 6th symphony are immortal and are two of my favorite compositions. And Maestro Bernstein's conducting is magical.
