I first hear this piece by Beethoven in the movie Immortal Beloved. It was the most beautiful thing I ever heard as child!! And everytime I hear it, I hear Gary Oldman's voice reading the letter he wrote for his long lost love, that destroyed him all those years. It's so amazing and wonderful to hear this. I fall in love with it all over again!!!!
It's also heard, unobtrusively but to powerful effect, in one of the most mysterious, erotic, and captivating movies ever made: "Picnic at Hanging Rock" (1975), directed by Peter Weir. In concert with Zamfir's pan-flute theme, Beethoven's "Adagio un poco mosso" (Piano Concerto No. 5: "The Emperor") contributes to the mesmerizing, dream-like quality and metaphysical meditation for which the film is justly famous. By the way: The missing two schoolgirls and the schoolmistress haven't gotten lost, abducted, or harmed in any way at Hanging Rock, which is a kind of portal. They've all returned home to the primordial heart of creation and the matrix of the universe. The girls are fine and flourishing in their native dimension, and the maths teacher has finally found the answer that her books could never provide.
I'VE HEARD MANY VERSIONS OF THIS MASTERPIECE, BUT THIS IS THE BEST, .... THE VERY BEST !!! THIS IS HOW IT SHOULD ALWAYS BE PLAYED, IT'S THE RIGHT TEMPO , THE RIGHT FLOW AS IF YOU'RE PLAYING IT TO EXPRESS YOUR FEELINGS FOR A WOMAN YOU REALLY LOVE OR PLAYING IT TO GOD THANKING HIM FOR LOVING YOU EVEN IN SPITE OF ALL YOUR FLAWS AND WEAKNESSES. I LOVED THIS MUSIC FROM THE FIRST TIME I HEARD IT, ITS SO MOVING AND IT TOUCHES THE VERY CORE OF YOUR SOUL. THANK YOU LUDWIG, FOR A SMOOTHING, MIND EASING CONCERTO. RIP.......
This music lifts me to a realm outside of this world, with all of its oppression, injustice, and suffering. It gives me hope for a better tomorrow - if not in this life, then, surely, in the life to come. Music must always touch the soul. When it touches the soul, then you know that it is music, and not mere noise.
+patrick starshooter it was funny if you heard of limewire is where I had found it and downloaded it, I found it was a emperors overture on RUclips during that time, at the same time I also listens to ludwig's egmont overture. I think this piece really capture Beethoven humanistic side, and more emotionally touched I would say. That is most of beethoven's work it really captured his feelings, that we in some way can relate. For music is like a painting when you look at a painting you begin to analyze the artist intentions, ideas, feelings, and thought. Anyways, when I was 5 I listen to classical music for a very very long time. Since at the age of 11 I started to focus only on classical and I branch out to jazz.
Really a masterpiece of a gifted man who should be an inspiration to us all: hardworking, modest but most of all persiverent to the last. "When gods speak, mankind silently listen."
This piece is featured so fantastically in Immortal Beloved. (And don't bother dissing that movie to me if you disagree, I love that movie to death and nothing you can say will change that. Gary Oldman as van Beethoven is one of my favorite lead roles of all time.)
Questa musica è sublime, fantastica, fa' volare ad una altezza che non si puo' descrivere... meravigliosa... Ma chi sono i 5 " Non mi piace " Vorrei tanto guardarli negli occhi..
i have no idea why. i love beethoven and all, but i fall asleep every time i try to listen to his piano concertos xD i'm fine with his symphonies and sonata, though
Beethoven, ever the innovator, uses a non-traditional key for the second movement. For a work whose first and third movements are written in E Flat Major, most composers would use such as the dominant (F Major), sub-dominant (Ab Major) or relative minor (C Minor) for the middle/slow movement (as Mozart did in his then-groundbreaking Concerto 9 K. 271). Beethoven wrote the second movement in the key of B Major, which doesn't seem to be related to the concerto's key of E Flat Major, until one realizes that E Flat is the mediant note (the third note up on the scale) of B Major. It's possible that Beethoven decided on this key for the effect of modulating into the next movement by the simple drop of a semitone from the tonic B of the movement to the dominant B Flat of the next. But it's known that Beethoven often decided on the key of a work by playing (or imagining) his ideas in different keys and choosing the key that sounded best to him.
He probably used the neopolitan of the dominant (B flat major) which is b major He did the same with the third concerto in the second movement, used the neopolitan of E flat major, which is E major
6 July, morning My angel, my all, my own self - only a few words today, and that too with pencil (with yours) - only till tomorrow is my lodging definitely fixed. What abominable waste of time in such things - why this deep grief, where necessity speaks? Can our love persist otherwise than through sacrifices, than by not demanding everything? Canst thou change it, that thou are not entirely mine, I not entirely thine? Oh, God, look into beautiful Nature and compose your mind to the inevitable. Love demands everything and is quite right, so it is for me with you, for you with me - only you forget so easily, that I must live for you and for me - were we quite united, you would notice this painful feeling as little as I should . . . . . . We shall probably soon meet, even today I cannot communicate my remarks to you, which during these days I made about my life - were our hearts close together, I should probably not make any such remarks. My bosom is full, to tell you much - there are moments when I find that speech is nothing at all. Brighten up - remain my true and only treasure, my all, as I to you. The rest the gods must send, what must be for us and shall. Your faithful Ludwig Monday evening, 6 July You suffer, you, my dearest creature. Just now I perceive that letters must be posted first thing early. Mondays - Thursdays - the only days, when the post goes from here to K. You suffer - oh! Where I am, you are with me, with me and you, I shall arrange that I may live with you. What a life! So! Without you - pursued by the kindness of the people here and there, whom I mean - to desire to earn just as little as they earn - humility of man towards men - it pains me - and when I regard myself in connection with the Universe, what I am, and what he is - whom one calls the greatest - and yet - there lies herein again the godlike of man. I weep when I think you will probably only receive on Saturday the first news from me - as you too love - yet I love you stronger - but never hide yourself from me. Good night - as I am taking the waters, I must go to bed. Oh God - so near! so far! Is it not a real building of heaven, our Love - but as firm, too, as the citadel of heaven. Good morning, on 7 July Even in bed my ideas yearn towards you, my Immortal Beloved, here and there joyfully, then again sadly, awaiting from Fate, whether it will listen to us. I can only live, either altogether with you or not at all. Yes, I have determined to wander about for so long far away, until I can fly into your arms and call myself quite at home with you, can send my soul enveloped by yours into the realm of spirits - yes, I regret, it must be. You will get over it all the more as you know my faithfulness to you; never another one can own my heart, never - never! O God, why must one go away from what one loves so, and yet my life in W. as it is now is a miserable life. Your love made me the happiest and unhappiest at the same time. At my actual age I should need some continuity, sameness of life - can that exist under our circumstances? Angel, I just hear that the post goes out every day - and must close therefore, so that you get the L. at once. Be calm - love me - today - yesterday. What longing in tears for you - You - my Life - my All - farewell. Oh, go on loving me - never doubt the faithfullest heart Of your beloved L Ever thine. Ever mine. Ever ours.
Of all the versions I own and have listened to, this rendition by Sylvia Capova is my favorite. I believe, Ms. Capova has maintained the ideal tempo while others including Rudolf Serkin rush through, thus ruining the beauty of each note. Many thanks for the notes. By any chance, do you know if this concert was captured on tape and if there's a DVD for it?
It's actually not Sylvia Capova but a version of Russell Sherman & Václav Neumann & the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra (Best version of Concerto No. 5, Op. 73 "Emperor" II. Adagio un poco mosso - indeed) and for the last movement "Emperor": 3. Rondo (Allegro) I would recommend the version of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Carlo Maria Giulini & Vienna Philharmonic
15 de Marzo de 2021. ¡Saludos...Deleitantes...de la Gran Música Clásica...y de el -Genial y Gran Compositor Mundial de: "Beethoven"!. INFORMACIÓN Musical: El Segundo Movimiento: "ADAGIO UN POCO MOSSO"; está caracterizado por el tema de las Cuerdas, Lírico y Expresivo, a modo de "Coral", mientras el Piano responde en "Tresillos Descendentes", creando una tensión interna hasta que la melodía está completamente expuesta. Este coral se expondrá variado a lo largo del movimiento, primero en el piano y, posteriormente, en la orquesta, con el piano como acompañamiento. March 15, 2021. Best regards... Delighters... of the Great Classical Music... and the -Great and Great World Composer of: "Beethoven"!. Musical INFORMATION: The Second Movement: "ADAGIO A LITTLE MOSSO"; it is characterized by the theme of the Strings, Lyrical and Expressive, as "Choral", while the Piano responds in "Descending Triple Notes", creating an internal tension until the melody is completely exposed. This choral will be exhibited variously throughout the movement, first on the piano and, later, in the orchestra, with the piano as accompaniment.
It's actually not Sylvia Capova but a version of Russell Sherman & Václav Neumann & the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, can be checked on iTunes (Best version of Concerto No. 5, Op. 73 "Emperor" II. Adagio un poco mosso - indeed) and for the last movement "Emperor": 3. Rondo (Allegro) I would recommend the version of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Carlo Maria Giulini & Vienna Philharmonic
I think every time version with Walter Gieseking and Berliner philharmonics was the best but this record is in the same level maybe better. I don´t know and I couldn´t opt for ones. At all events thank you very much.
Possibly the most beautiful piece of music of all time
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I agree.
Amazing what a genius can do with a simple, single-note descending scale. One of the most beautiful, and beautifully simple, pieces of music ever.
Deeply resonant to my ear. Dramatic, yet gentle. Truly, a magnificent piece.
Makes me smile and cry at the same time.Beethoven was and still is the greatest composer we may ever know.
What did Homer sound like ?
Mozart for me..Beethoven next
@@rogersweet3608 Haha, you're funny
Hysterically delirious..yes
this music will never die...it will transcend human existence!
I first hear this piece by Beethoven in the movie Immortal Beloved. It was the most beautiful thing I ever heard as child!! And everytime I hear it, I hear Gary Oldman's voice reading the letter he wrote for his long lost love, that destroyed him all those years. It's so amazing and wonderful to hear this. I fall in love with it all over again!!!!
My angel! My all! My other self! Only a few words today...
It's also heard, unobtrusively but to powerful effect, in one of the most mysterious, erotic, and captivating movies ever made: "Picnic at Hanging Rock" (1975), directed by Peter Weir.
In concert with Zamfir's pan-flute theme, Beethoven's "Adagio un poco mosso" (Piano Concerto No. 5: "The Emperor") contributes to the mesmerizing, dream-like quality and metaphysical meditation for which the film is justly famous.
By the way: The missing two schoolgirls and the schoolmistress haven't gotten lost, abducted, or harmed in any way at Hanging Rock, which is a kind of portal. They've all returned home to the primordial heart of creation and the matrix of the universe.
The girls are fine and flourishing in their native dimension, and the maths teacher has finally found the answer that her books could never provide.
The most beautiful piece of music in history: 1:30 - 2:55. Never heard anything more enchanting in my life.
Yes! Yes! Yes!
In Western music (=
the most passionate piano concerto in classic music
so good so poetic so embracing so dreamy this should be number one in classical top 100
one of THE most beautiful pieces of music EVER written....
Yes!
my absolute favorite; good GOD this is beautiful; unmatched.
I'VE HEARD MANY VERSIONS OF THIS MASTERPIECE, BUT THIS IS THE BEST, .... THE VERY BEST !!! THIS IS HOW IT SHOULD ALWAYS BE PLAYED, IT'S THE RIGHT TEMPO , THE RIGHT FLOW AS IF YOU'RE PLAYING IT TO EXPRESS YOUR FEELINGS FOR A WOMAN YOU REALLY LOVE OR PLAYING IT TO GOD THANKING HIM FOR LOVING YOU EVEN IN SPITE OF ALL YOUR FLAWS AND WEAKNESSES. I LOVED THIS MUSIC FROM THE FIRST TIME I HEARD IT, ITS SO MOVING AND IT TOUCHES THE VERY CORE OF YOUR SOUL. THANK YOU LUDWIG, FOR A SMOOTHING, MIND EASING CONCERTO. RIP.......
This music lifts me to a realm outside of this world, with all of its oppression, injustice, and suffering. It gives me hope for a better tomorrow - if not in this life, then, surely, in the life to come. Music must always touch the soul. When it touches the soul, then you know that it is music, and not mere noise.
The sound of falling in love
This is the kind of piece that never gets old! Hands down one of the bests
La más hermosa música jamás realizada, muchas gracias Beethoven, la humanidad estará eternamente agradecida.
La mejor interpretación de todas! Exactitud y dulzura sin igual. Precisión y competencia sin abandonar el espíritu de la obra. MAGNÍFICO!!
This is a music of first love, so pure. It sounds like a trembling young heart trying to love ahhhh
My God,how beautiful is that..
Timeless and immence beauty
yes!
Can't believe I've never heard this before...so beautiful
Thank you. So moving and wondrous. Don't ever disappear, it's been my lifeline over a very trying past few years.
I finally found it!!! After 13 years ago :) Shedding tears over my child hood memories
+Armani Nguon May i ask how you first discovered it? was it in a movie?
+patrick starshooter it was funny if you heard of limewire is where I had found it and downloaded it, I found it was a emperors overture on RUclips during that time, at the same time I also listens to ludwig's egmont overture. I think this piece really capture Beethoven humanistic side, and more emotionally touched I would say. That is most of beethoven's work it really captured his feelings, that we in some way can relate. For music is like a painting when you look at a painting you begin to analyze the artist intentions, ideas, feelings, and thought. Anyways, when I was 5 I listen to classical music for a very very long time. Since at the age of 11 I started to focus only on classical and I branch out to jazz.
+patrick starshooter I found out from limewire when I was downloading it. This was early 2000s, yes it was in a movie I forgot what it was called.
it's in the king's speech! :)
Really a masterpiece of a gifted man who should be an inspiration to us all: hardworking, modest but most of all persiverent to the last. "When gods speak, mankind silently listen."
i simply love that movie too..awesome scenes, great actors and finally amazing interpretations of the maestro's music by Solti
2:08 to 2:50 gives me chills of joy!
The most beautiful words ever written to my heart....yours endlessly, Eu te amo.
My favorite rendition of my favorite piece of Classical music. I am so glad this is on youtube and that I found it!
This is a treasure.
This piece is featured so fantastically in Immortal Beloved. (And don't bother dissing that movie to me if you disagree, I love that movie to death and nothing you can say will change that. Gary Oldman as van Beethoven is one of my favorite lead roles of all time.)
I love how she is rubato-ing all over the place and it's striking! I almost thought this was Horowitz because of it.
(pianist: Sylvia Capova)
This is among the most beautiful interpretations.
I really enjoyed the sound of silence in those opening bars
GRANDIOSA SIEMPRE LA MUSICA DE BEETHOVEN . GRACIAS .
Questa musica è sublime, fantastica, fa' volare ad una altezza che non si puo' descrivere... meravigliosa... Ma chi sono i 5 " Non mi piace " Vorrei tanto guardarli negli occhi..
I think this is the ultimate recording.
Unmatched in beauty.
Seine Musik nimmt einem den Atem sie ist mit nichts zu vergleichen göttlich
Это лучшее исполнение, которое я когда-либо слышал.❤
I love she’s interpretation Perfect Breathing Rubato Indulge In Meditation Great performance !
Bravo bravo 😭😭
Hermoso.... Gracias Beethoven.
i have no idea why. i love beethoven and all, but i fall asleep every time i try to listen to his piano concertos xD i'm fine with his symphonies and sonata, though
Best performance i know of.
Beethoven, ever the innovator, uses a non-traditional key for the second movement. For a work whose first and third movements are written in E Flat Major, most composers would use such as the dominant (F Major), sub-dominant (Ab Major) or relative minor (C Minor) for the middle/slow movement (as Mozart did in his then-groundbreaking Concerto 9 K. 271). Beethoven wrote the second movement in the key of B Major, which doesn't seem to be related to the concerto's key of E Flat Major, until one realizes that E Flat is the mediant note (the third note up on the scale) of B Major. It's possible that Beethoven decided on this key for the effect of modulating into the next movement by the simple drop of a semitone from the tonic B of the movement to the dominant B Flat of the next. But it's known that Beethoven often decided on the key of a work by playing (or imagining) his ideas in different keys and choosing the key that sounded best to him.
He probably used the neopolitan of the dominant (B flat major) which is b major
He did the same with the third concerto in the second movement, used the neopolitan of E flat major, which is E major
I don't know enough to understand what you wrote so I'm just going to thumb this up.
Majestic
0:36 - 1:34 is incredible.
This reminds me of Mitsuko Uchida's version, absolutely sublime
so beautiful
Perfeita, emocionante.
so beautiful! this is my absolute favorite
"Ever mine, ever yours, forever---"
Which reminds me of Immortal Beloved...
I think I'm gonna cry!
Luxury recitation ! 🌹
ritunendo magnifique toutes ses notes chantent !!! belle leçon de musique
The kings speech brought me here. I love this music, and the movie.
superbe Mme CAPOVA trés belle sonorité
Beautiful!
Meraviglioso
A sound mind in a sound body
Music like this is the reason God gave us ears to hear..
Soul
Merci beaucoup! 😢
exquisite!
najładniejszy utwór Beethovena
pluto projector sounds a lot like this, wow
I’ve been looking this comment for months, definitely Rex took inspiration from this.
I can't even speak...just imagine him writing this...
Superb.
i can play the introduction orchestral part in piano! now to learn the solo.....
Did you get to playing it?
I'm not trying to start a fight, i'm serious. what else is better? I'd love to hear a song that could top this.
Great
A Phenonmenons!
Meravigliosa pace interiore ...
So cool
6 July, morning
My angel, my all, my own self - only a few words today, and that too with pencil (with yours) - only till tomorrow is my lodging definitely fixed. What abominable waste of time in such things - why this deep grief, where necessity speaks?
Can our love persist otherwise than through sacrifices, than by not demanding everything? Canst thou change it, that thou are not entirely mine, I not entirely thine? Oh, God, look into beautiful Nature and compose your mind to the inevitable. Love demands everything and is quite right, so it is for me with you, for you with me - only you forget so easily, that I must live for you and for me - were we quite united, you would notice this painful feeling as little as I should . . .
. . . We shall probably soon meet, even today I cannot communicate my remarks to you, which during these days I made about my life - were our hearts close together, I should probably not make any such remarks. My bosom is full, to tell you much - there are moments when I find that speech is nothing at all. Brighten up - remain my true and only treasure, my all, as I to you. The rest the gods must send, what must be for us and shall.
Your faithful
Ludwig
Monday evening, 6 July
You suffer, you, my dearest creature. Just now I perceive that letters must be posted first thing early. Mondays - Thursdays - the only days, when the post goes from here to K. You suffer - oh! Where I am, you are with me, with me and you, I shall arrange that I may live with you. What a life!
So! Without you - pursued by the kindness of the people here and there, whom I mean - to desire to earn just as little as they earn - humility of man towards men - it pains me - and when I regard myself in connection with the Universe, what I am, and what he is - whom one calls the greatest - and yet - there lies herein again the godlike of man. I weep when I think you will probably only receive on Saturday the first news from me - as you too love - yet I love you stronger - but never hide yourself from me. Good night - as I am taking the waters, I must go to bed. Oh God - so near! so far! Is it not a real building of heaven, our Love - but as firm, too, as the citadel of heaven.
Good morning, on 7 July
Even in bed my ideas yearn towards you, my Immortal Beloved, here and there joyfully, then again sadly, awaiting from Fate, whether it will listen to us. I can only live, either altogether with you or not at all. Yes, I have determined to wander about for so long far away, until I can fly into your arms and call myself quite at home with you, can send my soul enveloped by yours into the realm of spirits - yes, I regret, it must be. You will get over it all the more as you know my faithfulness to you; never another one can own my heart, never - never! O God, why must one go away from what one loves so, and yet my life in W. as it is now is a miserable life. Your love made me the happiest and unhappiest at the same time. At my actual age I should need some continuity, sameness of life - can that exist under our circumstances? Angel, I just hear that the post goes out every day - and must close therefore, so that you get the L. at once. Be calm - love me - today - yesterday.
What longing in tears for you - You - my Life - my All - farewell. Oh, go on loving me - never doubt the faithfullest heart
Of your beloved
L
Ever thine.
Ever mine.
Ever ours.
Of all the versions I own and have listened to, this rendition by Sylvia Capova is my favorite. I believe, Ms. Capova has maintained the ideal tempo while others including Rudolf Serkin rush through, thus ruining the beauty of each note.
Many thanks for the notes. By any chance, do you know if this concert was captured on tape and if there's a DVD for it?
It's actually not Sylvia Capova but a version of Russell Sherman & Václav Neumann & the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra (Best version of Concerto No. 5, Op. 73 "Emperor" II. Adagio un poco mosso - indeed) and for the last movement "Emperor": 3. Rondo (Allegro) I would recommend the version of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Carlo Maria Giulini & Vienna Philharmonic
Pretty much the most perfect middle movement for a piano concerto...close would br the rach 2's
Shostakovich no. 2
15 de Marzo de 2021. ¡Saludos...Deleitantes...de la Gran Música Clásica...y de el -Genial y Gran Compositor Mundial de: "Beethoven"!.
INFORMACIÓN Musical:
El Segundo Movimiento: "ADAGIO UN POCO MOSSO"; está caracterizado por el tema de las Cuerdas, Lírico y Expresivo, a modo de "Coral", mientras el Piano responde en "Tresillos Descendentes", creando una tensión interna hasta que la melodía está completamente expuesta. Este coral se expondrá variado a lo largo del movimiento, primero en el piano y, posteriormente, en la orquesta, con el piano como acompañamiento.
March 15, 2021. Best regards... Delighters... of the Great Classical Music... and the -Great and Great World Composer of: "Beethoven"!.
Musical INFORMATION:
The Second Movement: "ADAGIO A LITTLE MOSSO"; it is characterized by the theme of the Strings, Lyrical and Expressive, as "Choral", while the Piano responds in "Descending Triple Notes", creating an internal tension until the melody is completely exposed. This choral will be exhibited variously throughout the movement, first on the piano and, later, in the orchestra, with the piano as accompaniment.
I wonder if Berstein listened to this when he composed "Somehow, somewhere" ;)
Perfeita!!
God given and God inspired
It's funny how Leonard Bernstein took a little bit of the melody from this movement and made "There's a Place For Us" from West Side Story.
@AhmedOnMoment NO, it's not too late! If you start learning the piano now and take it seriously, you'll be able to play this in a few years.
I listen this… wonderful… i think about my love Ammy…
do you know where the solo piano sheet music can be found for this? I can't find it anywhere!
Cheers
Scarlett Elise just in case you’ve been on a journey searching this music I’ve the last 7 years, have you check IMSLP?
His 9th is also very good (he was deaf) when wrote this work
Is there anyway we could get this sheet music for free somewhere?
❤
More Romantic than Chopin , my opinion
💙💙💙💙
Waterloo made a slight alternation of this song in the movie. I thought I recognized it..
5:22, 5:46
Donkey Kong Country ripped this off! @ 2 minutes in lol
It's actually not Sylvia Capova but a version of Russell Sherman & Václav Neumann & the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, can be checked on iTunes (Best version of Concerto No. 5, Op. 73 "Emperor" II. Adagio un poco mosso - indeed) and for the last movement "Emperor": 3. Rondo (Allegro) I would recommend the version of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Carlo Maria Giulini & Vienna Philharmonic
the batman
1:15 1:33
@2:10 Mario visits Peach
esta es la versión original para mi. la mayoría la toca con mucha prisa, demasiado rápido
I think every time version with Walter Gieseking and Berliner philharmonics was the best but this record is in the same level maybe better. I don´t know and I couldn´t opt for ones. At all events thank you very much.
who's the pianist?
Sylvia Capova. It's in the description.
Da hat der "Göttliche Funke" einen Menschen auf dieser Erde (L.v.B) berührt, denn diese vollendete Komposition ist nicht von dieser Welt!
Hay 12 reguetoneros que llegaron acá por equivocación!
Sehr innig