Brahms: Schicksalslied ∙ hr-Sinfonieorchester ∙ Collegium Vocale Gent ∙ Philipp Herreweghe 

The flutist is so angelically expressive.

This piece is the epitome of the painful, deep pining that the idealist must carry with them their entire life - Ihr wandelt droben im Licht (you - the gods - walk up there in the light), doch uns ist gegeben auf keiner Stätte zu ruhen, es swinden, es fallen die leidenden Menschen! Simply beautiful and eternally relatable.

Ich liebe Brahms! I love Brahms! J'aime Brahms! And in my natural language, portuguese: EU AMO BRAHMS!

This is Brahms at his luscious devastatingly beautiful best. I also particularly love the German Requiem which I sung at school 50 plus years ago. There are so many cross references in these two works and the Schicksalslied always seems like a mini Deutches Requiem for when I don't have time to listen to the whole Requiem. Apart from all that we have here a beautiful perfomance from choir and orchestra.

Diese Aufnahme ist ein VERMÄCHTNIS! Wie wunderschön und präzise Chor und Orchester die Phrasierung rüberbringen. Und die Dynamik: Vom pianissimo bis zum fortissimo absolut stimmig!

This is the sound of Heaven. Brahms and the musicians and singers are ministers to my worried soul and pained body. I am so grateful hearing this, so grateful to be a Human Being, alive today.

I've been listening to classical music since I was 14, and I must say that this piece has to be the absolute pinnacle of the genre. It simply doesn't get more heart wrenchingly brilliant than this. Thank you Brahms for letting us hear the the sound of your immortal soul singing relentlessly from beyond your grave.

Brahms can bring tears to the eyes in 60 seconds. Who else can do that?

What a beautiful performance! Brahms embracing art is pure joy! I I will sing this great piece soon! Brahms is always a glimpse of heaven on earth 💖

an absolute heartbreaker of a piece. and what a performance!

Just gorgeous! Singing this with my choir next month along with the German Requiem at Carnegie Hall! What a match made in heaven! Going to be glorious! How did I not know this piece before a few months ago! It is so beautiful I cry. Going to be hard performing it!

Hörte es heut per zufall im radio....hölderlin und brahms.welche Offenbarung!

It doesn't often get better than this. Thanks to all for this performance, Hi, Thadeus!

Diese erstaunliche Leistung dieses Meisterwerks hat mich sehr tief berührt. Sehr vielen Dank!

What an absolutely astounding and enchanting piece! The performance by the Collegium Vocale of Ghent under Phillipp Herreweghe and the large orchestra were magical, and I must add, the videographer and editor did a brilliant job. My appreciation of Brahms' s "other side' [the lesser known] grows by the day thanks to RU-vid. Please, give us more. Thank You.

Brahms n'est pas né pour être heureux et pourtant quel bonheur que de l'entendre dans ses œuvres chorales où il a excellé dès son plus jeune âge avec une telle profondeur musicale et spirituelle, pour notre plus grand plaisir.

Brahms is een genie, zoals vele andere klassieke componisten. Gelukkig maar. Zoveel is intens te voelen door hun muziek. Terug te komen bij je ware gevoel. De tekst is goddelijk.

Brahms 'Destiny Song' is THE SAGA of LIFE! The contrast of the DIVINE - GOD vs the fate of MAN. The sequence of the music with the Andate Prelude symbolises the peaceful cosmos where the GODS dwell. The poem along with the melody develops into the highlights of the challenging times that await the fate of MAN. Listening to Brahms work one can feel such power, force, an appealing poetic beauty full of the power of expression (Hector Berlioz.).The performance by the Collegium Vocale of Ghent under Phillipp Herreweghe and the large orchestra presents a superb performance accompanied by confidence, harmony, grace and beauty.

For anyone wondering, the second "half" of the piece (doch uns ist gegeben, you know, the intense part) starts at about 8:59

Ma version préférée de cette émouvante composition, chantée avec tant de douceur.

BRAHMS es excepcional y esta obra la canté cuando no había cumplido 20 años y aún podría cantarla de memoria, me emociona! (Muy buena versión)

Brahms gave considerable thought to the ending of this work. He finally decided to repeat the orchestral introduction, but in a different key, so the sequence becomes E flat major, C minor, C major. The harmonic sequence beginning about 5:32, "Heiligen Saiten" (holy strings) is meltingly, almost unbearably beautiful. (Brahms has marked this beginning section "sehnsuchtvoll", filled with longing.)

Extremely beautiful... I had the occasion to sing this master piece when I was in a choir as a bass, and it's probably one of the classical pieces I enjoyed more.

OMG! at 6:15 BRAHMS' Alto Rhapsody, Piano Concerto No. 2, Requiem... so many beautiful pieces!

La millor versió que he escoltat mai, tant com a Director, Coral i Orquestra. Moltes felicitats a TOTS!!!!

That choir is amazing and orchestra of course. The phrasing is magnificent for this wonderful, enigmatic prophecy of a masterpiece

Beautiful performance. At 16:28 the lady forgot her mute and made one out of a dollar bill. Nice.

immer wieder erstaunlich, wie aus einem Ensemble, einer Altstimme im Chor.. ein so großartiges Gesamtkunstwerk entsteht, Verkörpend die Hybris des Menschen.-- Gerne auf warmem Sessel hockend die Natur nur aus der Tagesschau kennt

This sounded fabulous. What a sensitive, and spiritual performance given by Phillipp Herreweghe, Collegium Vocale Gent, and the Frankfurt Radio Symphony.

Für meinen Geschmack: Eines der ganz großen Orchester !!!

Beautiful chorus together with beautiful accompaniment by orchestra! This masterpiece should be more often performed and more highly estimated.

Una de las obras más inspiradas de Brahms. Digna traducción de los inmortales versos de Hölderlin.

Con questa opera Brahms raggiunge una delle vette più alte della sua produzione musicale . Il Lied del destino accarezza l'anima come un momento d'amore sereno e felice, per poi trasportarti in un mondo di incertezza e di tragica fatalità . Chi può prevedere : il destino riguarda il futuro , dove la fortuna ( vox media tra bene e male) , come bene ha descritto Boezio nel "De consolatione philosophiae" può significare tutto o niente. Aut-aut.Coro e orchestra si integrano perfettamente, con una melodia dolce e struggente nello stesso tempo.

Just beautiful ....

was für ein wunderbarer Gesang! mir bleibt nur mich zu bedanken

¡¡Maravilloso!! Es un gran desafío prepararse para esta espectacular obra.

Stunning, beautiful performance worthy of this gem.

Das hier und das deutsche Requiem sind die Werke, die Brahms zu einem der bedeutendsten Komponisten der Geschichte machen.

Ohhh Brahms Brahms Brahms! Formidabile, meraviglioso!

Brahms' main employment had been choir directing so it's not surprising that so many of his compositions have human voice in them.

If you put it on 1.25 speed it’s the same tempo for TMEA.... you’re welcome 👌🏽

French Horn part is lovely

Magnífico¡¡¡¡¡¡ BRAVOOOOO¡¡¡¡¡¡

Great performance!

... wunderschön ... !

beautiful

Thank you, HR, for posting this performance of Schicksalslied too, so quickly after the 2022 performance under Sr. Orozco-Estrada. I echo the positive comments posted earlier; not really too much to add to that. Except: genial! JAT

Wonderful

Wunderschöner Chorgesang zusammen mit wunderschöner Orchesterbegleitung! Dieses Meisterwerk soll viel häufiger aufgeführt und viel höher geschätzt werden.

Solamente meraviglioso ! ! !

--Friedrich Hölderlin, Schicksalslied (The Song of Destiny). Johannes Brahms, between 1868-1871, completed the homonym composition, work 54, for a mixed chorus. --Friedrich Hölderlin, Schicksalslied (Το Τραγούδι του Πεπρωμένου). Johannes Brahms μεταξύ 1868-1871, ολοκλήρωσε την ομώνυμη σύνθεση, έργο 54, για μικτή χορωδία.

Wundervolle Aufnahme, berührend und ergreifend!

I've watched this many times and look forward to the very expressive solo from the Principal Flautist, Clara Andrada de la Calle, near the end of the piece. The Chorus -- Collegium Vocale Gent -- is of course superb, singing with perfect intonation in all voice sections (that's sort of rare these days) and excellent diction and the playing of the hr-S is outstanding as usual. There's another version of this with the hr-S and in that Sebastian Wittiber is the Principal Flautist. (He and Clara rotate that position). His interpretation is slightly different than that of Clara's but equally as good. One takes a breath at one place rather than carry the phrase over and the other does not as I remember. I forget which one does what, but they're both excellent.

Ganz großartig! Super! Danke fürs teilen! VG Gregor D.

wat een perfectie!!!!!!!

Una excelentísima versión de la obra más bella de Brahms. Casi se puede tocar el cielo

Its Absolutely Brahms"Vocal simphony" ,like Alto Rhapsody or yet "Requiem" ... ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Wunderschöne Aufführung!

Agradezco reproducción estupenda de versión de canto suave y bello y ocasionalmente enérgico del destino. Tal vez, asimismo, se posibilite en un futuro presentación con mismo coro y orquesta del Réquiem de Durufle sin faltar la inclusión del órgano y/o armonio. Felicidades !!

Fantastic. Thank you!!! 🙏🙏🙏

Magnífico! 😍 ❤

so beautiful

If someone has the opportunity come to Malmö Opera on the 5th of May. Then you will listen to this wonderful piece of music and also the third symphony. I look forward to listening to my favorite composer.

Sublime -thank you all

*Oh the beauty !*

Wonderful!!

Красиво очень умиротворяюще вначале. А потмом все как в жизни... Спасибо

I can't help but hear Wagner's Lohengrin (first performed in 1850) in the first and last few bars of this beautiful music which was first performed 18 October 1871 .

Sehr eindrucksvoll!

I love the entrance, the strong medium part and the slow conclusion of this wonderful choral. Small brother of Brahms' Requiem, it has all the "terribilità" which Nietzsche didn't get to guess into the hamburguer-composer's workbook. Perfect interpretation.

Truly outstanding.

Oh God this is amazing

Brahms forever!!!!!

Wunderschoen!!!🎶📓💟

Comme c'est beau...

Cuanta fuerza y cuanta belleza.

-who else is freaking out bc of region pre area- congrats to those who made state, im proud of yall even if you didn't, as long as you learned something you're considered successful in my book

emozionante...

Una grandezza spirituale che oggi è quasi inconcepibile

Schee! Oba wos nutzt ma die konsonantische Perfektion, wanns die Vokale olle gleich kling'n? Oba a Superchor is des! Bravo und Danke!

prachtige uitvoering!

Merci

Love the phygrian bit at the end!

One of the singers in the back row (he is first seen just to the right of the microphone pole at 4:35) bears a striking resemblance to the American actor Ben McKenzie, who most recently starred in "Gotham"!

very spiritual feeling

ביצוע נפלא !!!!!!!

wow !

шикарно...

Bravi !!!!!!!!!!!!

Diese Aufführung findet bezüglich der höchsten Vollendung einen Vergleich mit der neuen "Labyrinth-CD" von Kathia Buniatishvili.

11:07 best part

Buena gestión del timbal.

19c 음악 - [합창음악] 1) [세속 합창곡] 브람스 - [운명의 노래]

0:27 8:59 14:07

Wow-near perfection. The age that produced this first embarked with Leonardo on a journey through art, as well as sublimity, truth, science and grandeur, with co-navigators like Cervantes, Rembrandt and Shakespeare, Mozart, Euler and Goya, Humboldt, Balzac, Manet and Darwin. But it seems to have dropped anchor with Brahms, having found safe harbor on enlightened shores, not of a strange, new world so much as a better, future version of some ancient one-with a last, perfect pink and gold sunset, no more empires or executions, just an elegaic 4-3 alto suspension over the tympani, the productive dominant tension before hard-earned tonic concord once so cherished by civilized societies, before tolerance and largesse were thrown overboard, before truth and wonder were washed to sea by the following nightmare century of unspeakable genocides, poisoned oceans and the global fires of war. Where’s our Velasquez, our Kant, Linnaeus or Chekhov? Our Austen, Olympe, Maxwell, Dunant, Dubois?

We are preparing it for this coming May concert. At 296 is a ff indication on my score. Too bad, because the basses, which is my part, have the low D and will be drowned by the other fortes just as in this production.(unless we can get a couple Vladimir Millers !!)

This is the highest, better can not actually; Ce sont les plus élevés, les choses ne peuvent pas vraiment. How is it possible? Comment est-il possible? Listen..Écoute

This may be the sound of heaven in the first part where the poet evokes the "blessed seraphim caressed by celestial breezes" and the divinities whose blissful eyes gaze in silent and eternal clarity" but in the 2nd half the poem speaks of our miserable existence on earth "for us there is no resting place, an anguished mankind reels and plummets from one hour to the next....like water...plunged down into the unfathomable deep" (the last word "hinab" =down into). The poet Friedrich Hoelderlin may have been a key figure of German Romanticism but what was he thinking when he wrote this? He had a mental breakdown (schizophrenia ) and spent time in a clinic. "Schicksal" of the title of this piece means "fate" so this Lied (= Song) is the "Song of Fate" - our fate - and it's is not very uplifting. It never suggests we would one day join the "divinities" up above enjoy the celestial breezes. Meanwhile we can at least appreciate Brahms' music!

TMEA BASS 2 MIXED CHOIR HERE I COME!!!

It is difficult to decide which is the more ravishingly beautiful: this piece or Nanie. Any help out there?