Beethovens Gefangenenchor hat an Aktualität nichts verloren. Eine Musik und ein Text der unter die Haut geht und zum Nachdenken anregt. Ludwig van Beethoven, nicht nur ein Genie, sondern auch ein freiheitsliebender Mensch, der jegliche Willkür und Bevormundung ablehnte. Auch das sollte man nicht vergessen, wenn man seine Musik hört!

Not only one of the greatest moments in opera..... but one of the great moments in Western art.

when ever i hear this melody it always just about makes me cry and i am 70 now

Oh man, definitely one of my most favourite Beethoven pieces! Sóó beautiful, sóó intensely sad...

This is what should have been played in "The Shawshank Redemption".

So beautiful. My choir, the San Antonio Liederkranz, practiced this about an hour ago. Viva Beethoven!

Wundervoll! Könnte ich mir immer wieder anhören... verursacht Gänsehaut!

This piece really gives me goose pimpels all over. My father used to play this very loud and as a kid I already loved it. This was very well sung and I wonder how, as I pressume, these americain singers, have such a good german pronounciation. Love it.

This is the defining moment. Freedom above all. These German words are those which count.

Oh welche Lust das zu hören....;-)

Beethoven....geniaal!!!!

Amazing, this is where we are right now again, especially in Germany, and in the year of Beethovens 250 aniversiry!

Even though it was 7 month ago you posted your comment I'd still like you to know how much I was takend by it. Personally I am experiencing a kind of (emotional) freedom - and this wonderful piece of music composed by Ludwig van Beethoven can actually be applied to various life-situations. Exposed to this opera through my parents, when I was a child it caught my deepest soul - and stayed with me forever more. Amazing how music is able to open and broaden receptive peoples minds.

I to saw the production when it was in Houston. I loved it tremendously!

I also saw the production when it was in Houston. Had goosebumps.

@humbertogatica6420

5 жыл бұрын

I saw with the Welsh National Opera

Ausgeseichnet!! Outstanding!

Did you notice that Eric Cutler is wearing a priest's collar?!! Both First and Second prisoners have great voices! They performed this in Houston, TX this year and I saw it.

magnificent ty GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fidelio: Royal Opera House Live screening - Tuesday 17th March, 2020.

Roco el carcelero y padre de Marzelline enamorada de Fidelio decide por unos momentos dejar salir al patio a los reclusos de su cárcel,los cuales exclamen el gozo del aire y del sol, a pesar de ser unos momentos muy breves,de libertad y felicidad.

Beethoven Rules!! Genius. I see this as maybe a kind of prelude ,I think here he is formulating his idea of Ode to joy from his wonderful ninth symphony, a inspiration for freedom hope, joy and liberty! (just my opinion)

@sepandghanouni2271

7 жыл бұрын

Methinks your opinion be right

@ralphficker167

3 жыл бұрын

@@sepandghanouni2271 Methinks as well.

Wonderful! Thank's for sharing.

Meine lieblingsoper

31 January 2020 23:00 GMT London - God bless us all.

Hearing the NYC Gay Men's Chorus sing this excerpt was quite moving.

OMG, I cried!

Though I like the 1805 version even better (the one that trails off into a final "Ja, leise!"), this is is still a gorgeous piece of choral writing. I, too have often fantasized: what if you went to the most oppressed and tyrannical places in he world and simply played this music? An amazing message of hope.

This is so beautiful. Beethoven the democrate.

❤️🔥🔥🔥🎼🎹

Ist das nicht immer wieder Gänsehaut-Musik?

PERFECT !!!.... (We are going to sing it in Nicosia Cyprus on July 1, 2012...) I'll upload, if I get a DVD... :-)

Kann es etwas schöneres geben, als dieses Stück???

le plus grand, éternellement

is the full opera available anywhere?

@humbertogatica6420

5 жыл бұрын

Yes in any music shop

The prisoners: Oh what joy to be in the open air And draw breath easily! Here alone, here alone is life, The dungeon is a tomb. First Prisoners: With confidence we will Trust in God’s help! Hope whispers to me softly: We shall be free, we shall find rest. All the others: O heavens! Deliverance! What a blessing! O freedom! Will you return? Second Prisoner: Speak quietly! Restrain yourselves! We are observed by eyes and ears. All: Speak quietly! Restrain yourselves! We are observed by eyes and ears. Oh what joy to be in the open air And draw breath easily! Here alone, here alone is life. Speak quietly! Restrain yourselves! We are observed by eyes and ears.

1:45

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!!! O welche LuFt!!! Lust is ganz etwas anderes!

@nigelc.b.durrant8206

7 жыл бұрын

That was not written by me!

Who else here was brought by Ken Clarke ?

Beethoven kam nach Wien, ging in den Wienerwald und da ist ihm das eingefallen

Why do they sing "O welsche Lust" ("O French-style sex!") instead of "O welche Lust" ("O what a joy")??? That's hilarious!

@LimeyLassen

6 жыл бұрын

I can't imagine a better way to celebrate.

Although I am pretty disappointed by the bad sound and dragging of the Met choir, I think the bass soloist has a great voice.

@ralphficker167

3 жыл бұрын

Chris Toff The tenor as well!

"Oh Welsche Lust" , "Hawltet euch zurück" und das Tempo ist an der Grenze zum Spannunglosen. Ich bin enttäuscht, von der MET hätte ich mehr erwartet...

crap sound quality. distorted

Blasphemy - Winds of the Black Godz (reversed 3x slower)

Blasphemy brought me here