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Ode to Joy

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Claddagh

Claddagh Report 6 Apr 2014 14:53

Have always loved this, it is really uplifting, but this is the best version I have ever heard. Am very moved by it.
This has nothing to do with the music/singing, but can't help thinking what a good-looking race they are.

Guinevere

Guinevere Report 6 Apr 2014 07:12

The church choir sang this at my Dad's memorial service. Always moves me to tears.

LadyScozz

LadyScozz Report 6 Apr 2014 06:50

If you stuck a hatpin in my backside I'd hit a high note....... but I'd be RR'd :-D

Huia

Huia Report 6 Apr 2014 06:00

Should I have said continual, or perhaps repeated high notes, instead of constant?

Huia

Huia Report 6 Apr 2014 05:59

I have sung it as a choral piece. The sopranos need somebody sticking hatpins in their backsides to get the constant high notes, though. But otherwise it is a joy to sing.

Susan10146857

Susan10146857 Report 6 Apr 2014 01:09

Ooooo Our Kitty, You've gone all political :-D

I love Ode to Joy, one of the first pieces I learned to play on the piano.

lollybasher

lollybasher Report 5 Apr 2014 23:25

One of my favourites Sharron, must get it on DVD.

:-) :-) :-)

kandj

kandj Report 5 Apr 2014 21:52

Ode to Joy is a piece that our granddaughter plays to us on the violin...... a joy to hear bless her. K plays other musical instruments and very definitely takes after her paternal grandparents as hubby and I couldn't master the recorder in our schooldays.

Sharron

Sharron Report 5 Apr 2014 14:50

I always had the Pastoral Symphony in my van to play in traffic jams.

Very soothing.

KittytheLearnerCook

KittytheLearnerCook Report 5 Apr 2014 12:33

I am aware of the connection, but it is still an amazingly uplifting piece of music.

I still like Things Can Only Get Better.........despite the revoltingly smug faces on all the New Labour lot as they danced awkwardly to it when they were elected.

It should have been played when they eventually sent us plummeting into debt as the Labour party have a habit of doing :-D

LadyScozz

LadyScozz Report 5 Apr 2014 09:30

not aware of that, cos I'm on the other side of the planet

:-D

RolloTheRed

RolloTheRed Report 5 Apr 2014 09:28

Poss. you are not aware that O2J is the anthem of the EU and for that reason has taken a sharp nose dive in popularity in the UK regardless of format. Apart from Mr Clegg that is.

So it goes.
:-|

LadyScozz

LadyScozz Report 5 Apr 2014 06:56

This is fantastic!

Beethoven Symphony "Ode to Joy", Hong Kong Festival Orchestra


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuzKk7upkdE

:-D