'How to listen to music' by Daniel Barenboim 

when he said shopping list I thought he said Chopin, Liszt...

"Listen to and focus on the first note and don't let it go...and then fly with it to the last note..." Daniel Barenboim

Does anyone actually realize how genius this man is. He plays all of Beethoven's sonatas by memory.

What a great musician!!! "Even when the music is about suffering, we enjoy it" / "Music never loves or smiles, music never cries, it always smiles and cries at the same time" - Daniel Barenboim

"You fly with the music until the last note." - Daniel Barenboim

The act of listening to music in today's society no longer requires concentration, due to its on-demand availability in so many forms. Unfortunately, most people today listen to music only while doing something else. Only at a concert, where there is no possibility of doing anything else, when one's attention is undivided, is there the opportunity to listen with concentration.

'hang onto the first note.. fly with it… until the end' Great truths can often be told in very few words. What a great man.

These are not only words of a professor, but teachings of a master. A man that talks about a very profound spirituel experience that people can have with the sounds. Even with the sounds of silence...great, Maestro!

That’s right! the main reason people don’t find classical music enjoyable is because all the music they have known and liked in their life is popular music made to be enjoyed without an effort. It doesn’t require you to know anything about how music works or anything, you just like the lyrics, you think the sounds are cool or maybe you even start liking it because of the song video or because you like the looks of the singer/band, etc, and most of the times it’s just kind of a nice background sound. People just aren’t used to really pay attention to music and they can’t sit down and listen to a piece without getting distracted in their minds when 15 seconds pass. It’s the same thing that happens to a lot of people when they try to read a book, and in certain moment the eyes keep following the letters but their mind is gone somewhere else, and after a while they realize and they go back and re-read. It’s hard to concentrate. The problem with music is that you can’t go back to where you got lost. You missed it and you are more and more confused as time passes and as you don’t understand anything the sound starts getting irritating, especially if your hearing a full orchestra. It’s really understandable how people speak or looks around or doesn’t know what to do during a concert. It’s as if they were watching a movie in a language they don’t understand very well and also they can’t concentrate and miss parts. They couldn’t hold on to it as maestro said. Other things that contribute to not being able to concentrate because you don’t know what you’re supposed to hear: - Not a full understanding of harmony hence your brain not being able to feel it and flow with it. - Not knowing every single instrument of the orchestra hence not knowing what is producing the sound and just hearing a bunch of different blurry timbres. - Not being familiarized with stuff like differentiating melody from accompaniment, main material from bridge material, the basic most usual forms, counterpoint, and how rythm works. This will probably not even be read by anyone and if it does most likely it’ll be someone that knows the stuff I wrote, but if maybe it gets read by someone curious that is just starting to explore music, I would really like to recommend Aaron Copland’s book ‘What to listen for in music’ (and his music too) and I really encourage you to keep discovering music because what maestro Barenboim said is true! The enjoyment and pleasure music can give you is OUT OF THIS WORLD!! 😜😜

I really do think that what he says is the perfect answer to give to those people who tell me 'I'm not a musician, how could I appreciate classical music?'. That's the point: music breaks with labels, and by the time we listen to music we interact with another world, an unknown one which can be discovered only through the mystery of sound. Thanks Maestro, thanks for saying it so poetically, with glazing eyes full of love for your noble job.

What an absolute inspiration

What a treasure! "The more you give, the more you get back." I truly hope Maestro Barenboim gets back every joy and inspiration he has given us tenfold, for he fills our universe with more beauty than we'd ever dared hoped to find.

I think Mr Barenboim might be kind of beating around the bush. What he calls the 'enjoyment' is in my humble opinion the catharsis, not necessarily the enjoyment (see the funeral march bit). Aristotle talked about it, be it in referral to tragedies... I think this might be very much the same when speaking of music. It is probably the language barrier, but 'enjoyment' just sounds wrong to me. Krystian Zimerman said it very well: 'Music is using sound to organize emotions in time.'

brilliant brilliant brilliant,,, music always "smile and cry at the same time…." genial

2:49 "it always smiles and crys at the same time" very true for some pieces more than others, it is as if happiness and sadness, seeming opposites in the world we experience, reveal their true dual nature in emotional music. And feeling good about sad music is not macabre as you already pointed out. Sadness is not really the bad thing, the bad thing is not knowing why you feel a certain way and misunderstanding yourself and the world. Music now can perfectly describe feelings for us wich we then can understand (re)experience in a cleansing way.

More you give more you get back! 👏🙂✅️✅️✅️

I never had listen to music the way you describe it. With all my heart thank you for your words Mr. Barenboim

I'm at the intermediate level of piano-playing, and Daniel Barenboim and Arthur Rubinstein are my two biggest piano heroes! 🙌🙌

Bravo Maestro! Music smiles and cries at the same time, so true. Thank you.

I just love that man!

Why he is not sitting next to a Barenboim piano? I thought he plays on a Barenboim piano. Now he prefers a Steinway?

This is so wonderful, special and true! The more you give, the more you will get back. Live, breathe and feel the music, yes Ben, like a form of meditation I suppose.

I can't work with music I don't fully understand. Ever since I was 5 years old I would find I loved certain songs more than others, and I would ask my dad to replay them over and over. I would listen to the songs I loved the most what many might call an unhealthy amount of times. It wasn't until I fully understood a song, until I memorized every instrument, every word, every moment of it, that I would move on to obsess with a new song. These songs that I would fully understand, this is the music I could work and study with (or at least pretend to), because of my understanding of these pieces, I could put them in the background, and they would help me set my mind in a certain state, often tied to the feelings and the mood that I personally associated with that specific piece. If I try to do any kind of work or activity with a song in the background, a song that I don't know, that I don't fully understand, to its core, I can't do anything. In a way, I think this goes in hand with what Mr. Barenboim is saying here. I never take music for granted, it's not an accessory or something I use as a tool. Rather, its a state of mind, it's like changing the settings of a TV to fine-tune the watching experience, only with music it's more like fine-tuning the experience of life. It sounds corny, but I think it makes makes sense.

Such a wonderful to be one of your students mister Baremboin! Everyone would love to be in such privileged position!

Wow, deep stuff. This is amazing. Everyone should see this.

Extend his lesson to everything in life:"Give yourself to all the things you are doing in the present moment" and your life will be much better.

Pure music is from heaven through genuine and that is realized by excellent performers. Good audience can make that their spiritual property.

Of course music to forget but what about music to remember? I listen to music to remember myself I just can feel. Thank you for the suggestions and to concentrate in music it seems difficult to me, as I don't have that ability to concentrate, nevertheless I will try, thank you again sir Barenboim.

Hi Daniel,Thank you for your advice 😘

Not many people can give themselves to the music, but those who can, know that it feels amazing. You almost feels as if the composer is speaking to you in a language that is both foreign and familiar at the same time. To talk with Barenboim for even 5 minutes about music would be an absolute dream; though, 5 minutes would be no where near enough!

Amazing video maestro

I absolutely loved this talk. As a classical music lover I have been listening to videos on listening to classical music to improve my listening. Also I took music appreciation in college in both cases I felt so much technical theory can intimidate a person just listening for the first time. As he makes it clear you listen for the beautiful sounds and entertainment. I admire him both as a conductor and musician

How true and how well put! I will never understand the power of music. Music is synonymous with emotion. It is magic!

Bravo, Maestro!

Thank you Maestro Barenboim...what a beautiful message...

I love this guy, he explains so well

Barenboim inspires us with his knowledge and abilities.

lovely words from a brilliant musician... I couldn't agree more with his statements, it doesn't matter whether it's Classical, Jazz, Heavy Metal, Folk or anything else, it all moves you if you let it. I can at one moment be listening to a death metal band such as Carnage and fell the power and ferocity, and then play a Debussy piece... And with both it is the same experience. It's this deep connection to what i hear which takes me away from the world around me and brings me somewhere far away. It really doesn't matter what form of music it is, its something that moves me and something that i understand better than anything else that i know... Maybe that's why i tend to be more of a deep thinker, but whatever the case is he has really taught me a way to involve myself further with music so that something more is gotten from the amazing experience.

Barenboim is my mentor. Genius.

Wonderful, wise words of eternal truth.

Bruckner was really blessed by God to write heavenly melodies. How to not enjoy the opening of this vídeo with his 3th's adagio???

oh yes thank you, it is a story that unfolds in this magnificent language.... from my own heart I cannot speak with my mouth that which requires so many words, it will take me a lifetime. But, with one measure I can speak the glory of a single moment

I am so happy about, what he says about finding the KINDS of music, that appeals to you more!!! I often wondered, what people mean, when they say they love classical music... I mean, there are so many different "types" - and I had a hard time admitting to myself, that symphonies are not my kind of music, mostly... Now I enjoy all the other stuff so much more!!! Lots of baroque music and Schuberts chamber music - and Steve Reich! - and so on :-)

Music is the most important, moving art for me and I wonder why. Its abstract. I react to it differently: I follow Beethoven. Mozart, Schubert,... But Debussy and Chopin melt me. It absorbs me completely

I can't agree with this more, to see my own sentiment expressed in someone like Daniel Barenboim how I would put it exactly is amazing

Non Daniel, it's not difficult to listen to music when you are performing as a pianist or as a conductor. And not only it's easy but it's also a great pleasure.

This is true genius. Give yourself to music and it will caress you like a baby. I Love it.

This video can be something life-changing

I couldn't agree more!!!!

Very good. And this requires turning off the cellphone.

He speaks from my heart. I'm 17, and I don't know much music theory. But my will to listen to rhythm and harmony lets me enjoy classical music more than popular songs. I admit I don't understand Mozart's genius (yet), but I'm able to follow Beethoven's river of music. Cheers!

Find a score to follow on RU-vid. Even if you can't really read music, seeing helps hearing.

What an eloquent gentleman! I LOVE classical music and notice how frequently it makes me cry and maybe the composition I listened to has elements of sadness that evoke these feelings.

This video must show to every man in the world

this words must be shown before every concert, it must be listened and undertood by all the stupids who sit in a audience looking in the phone, moving, makin' noise touchin' the program in the paper or even worse talkin ... what are you doing here ? why did you buy the ticket?... are you able to stay in peace, relexed, and silent?...

Thanks for sharing my friend this information. Here I come to support your channel.

Thank you Daniel Berenboim, that was expressed very well! I research and lecture on music and dance from the Dominican Republic and what you said is of value to all genres of music. "Give of yourself" thanks again.

Perhaps you can give us a few minutes about Bach and explain what is Bach-Busoni

…the will to attach yourself to it…. Sometimes you don’t need the will. The beauty of the music grabs you, so you stay with it even beyond the last note.

The honourable Daniel Barenboim is not speaking in his first language yet there is no misjudging his conveyance if English is your first language. To listen is the first step. To discern which instruments are present does to some degree take a first-hand familiarity as the second step.Anybody who has grown up with classical music will come to differentiate the viola from the violin or the clarinet from the oboe and so on. Some instruments like the harp and a piano are very easy to differentiate. As it is known today classical music is somewhere in the region of 500 years old and therefore being aware of what is going on in detail in terms of orchestral music can be daunting at times and challenging at others. My personal preference is for solo performances and here it is necessary to have a little experience of playing any instrument to gather instinctively what it is the composer is conveying through the piece. Greensleeves, ode to joy or pachelbels canon are easy introductory pieces yet a greater appreciation of the fundamentals of musical structure is necessary to understand depth and complexity of grander pieces. Variance in timing and its influence on rhythm is not necessarily apparent to the casual listener much less the inattentive one. Major and minor scales and chords if tackled at a rudimentary level and no further lend a greater understanding of music later in life.Dissonance in relation to Harmony is yet another aspect that a casual listener may or may not discern. And so it is that classical music is not something you recommend the deep end to for someone who has heard it only in passing.

3:40 vulnerability/giving yourself to the music

this is wisdom

Non Daniel, ce n'est pas difficile d'ecouter de la musique quand vous etes au piano ou a la tete de l'orchestre. C'est meme tres facile, en plus d'etre un bonheur

Couldn't have said it better

Anyone that doesn't like this video has to be a very very damage person.

Muy bien Daniel!!! estoy totalmente de acuerdo!! yo lo practico desde mis comienzos musicales ...cuando tenia 9 años ...hoy logre hacer experiencia ..ya voy por los 64 y todavia sigo descubriendo la hermosa y profunda belleza que la musica encierra.

I recommend jazz and bebop music to classical fans

When I listen to music, I say that I close my eyes and I open my heart, and that I fly with music to the musician's and composer's world. I do hate when someone disturbs me when I listen to music because it breaks the emotion up.

He has always been vitally important in my life . Even his earliest ecordings showed an unabated , almost superhuman commitment !

and also this: hang on from the first note you hear, and flyes to the end….

I could listen to him talk for hours

Does anyone now the name of the introductory piece?

Very Insightful

Müzik de edebiyat gibidir. Nasıl ki herkes her kitabi okuyup anlayamaz ise her dinlediği müziği de algılamasını bekleyemeyiz. Beyaz dizileri, cinai romanları her okuyan anlar ama felsefi, psikolojik çözümlemeler içeren eserleri çok az kişi okuyup anlayabilir.Bu,bir eğitim gerektirir. İyi bir müzik dinleyicisi olmak da eğitim ve sesleri doğru algılayabilen, armoni ve ritim duyan bir kulak gerektirir. Günümüzde pek çok insan şarkı sözlerini dinleyip müzik dinlediğini sanıyor. Facebook'daki 'Caz Ve Klasik Müzik Dostları' adlı sayfama gerçek müzikseverleri beklerim.

A beautifully explanation by Maestro Daniel Barenboim

Didn't know that Anthony Hopkins play the piano

Who down voted? Wow.

Damn, old man! I know how to listen to music!

Admiro profundamente a este hombre. Un genio.

Where’s that sex pistols album....

"The more you give the more you will get back"

really exact and very good! thanks!

Jesus ........ this made me cry .............

thanks Dani

AWESOME! !

music is everything at the same time....hang on to the first note you listen and fly....give yourself to music like you give yourself to another human being...give yourself as if with complete and total concentration....and the more you give the more you will get back...thank you mr. barenboim...isn´t it like love...maybe is a high form of love... don´t you find music is more perfect than most things in life just because it sends us like nothing else in life right into our subconscious, our spirit, our soul, our inner mysterious sacred self.... which once was or still might be perfect? a reflection of the universe, of creation...of eternity...godlike?...i always suspected muses were angels...dont´t you?

Ich liebe musik ❤️

It's true what he says about how we are distracted when listening to music. We must be focused on every passage. The trouble with me is that when I put the radio on, I'm usually thinking of who is going to be evicted from Big Brother ha

I wonder what Barenboim would make of music that is itself an ode to music. For example, how would he suggest we listen to music that sings its own praises (e.g., Ralph Vaughan Williams' Serenade to Music; Beach Boys' I can hear Music & Add Some Music to your Day)?

Mr. B are you available for online tutor? Rapsodie espanol by Isaac Albeniz...I have been working on it for a long time...at the beginning I had some nice help rhythmically but since have worked on it alone. Maybe you could play it slowly online here? This is such a masterpiece of Spanish music that has everything! In it! From flamenco to classical...this is the piece that is not connected to his spanish countryside set...but stands alone, 20 minutes. It also has 6 or 7 sections of beautiful scale passages...I have got those independently.... Thanks Sir!!!

This man is gods messenger, listen.

His words are true, and I just want to add (maybe for some an unpopular view),... get high before you isolate yourself from the world and immerse in the music. The weed will so enhance your experience, you might experience _mindplosions_ when you listen to the great music of Beethoven or that of others. You will begin to perceive the entire existence in a whole new way after that. And I won't write that I guarantee that, because I'm pretty sure that some moron would come back commenting it didn't work, even tho' he probably just over-smoked himself and I ain't interested in petty arguments like that. Instead, I'll say...I guarantee the effect described above to take place, if you know how to smoke well and have a good strain.

BarenBOOOOOOIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIm

love it

Wise words

Those who create art and seek answers to formal questions don't function to give anyone a hide-space from the world. Schonberg .Boulez,Wuorinen ,Sessions,Jacob Druckman and thousands others are full of fascinating devices , ideas & sounds ....It's good to hear B speak about listening as interaction- giving. I would say all art requires this whether it is a chair, painting or building!

If anyone wondered, the music at the begining is Bruckner's 3rd symphony, 2nd mov.

Thank you, maestro!

Music is the best thing that mankind ever invented. I like that Daniel Barenboim mentioned Bach first, although I'm sure the order was randomly done. There are many important composers, but I have the impression that Bach never gets as much recognition as for example Mozart. Mozart is everywhere. Bach on the other hand not really, yet people know Bach. It's also difficult to find Bach concerts. I wonder why? His violion concerts are so colorful. I hope I can hear it live one day.

'How to listen to music' by Daniel Barenboim... (With your ears, right?)