Beethoven's Ninth, 'Ode to Joy' - 歓喜に寄せて

The performance of "Daiku", "The Ninth", Beethoven's 9th symphony, is a Japanese highlight every year in the end of December.  This year it was performed with  10,000 (amateur) chorus singers. Here is the last movement, recorded at the December, 2011 concert in Osaka.   This year the performance was dedicated to the memory of the victims of the disastrous tsunami in March.

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125
Finale.  [with Chorus on Friedrich Schiller's "Ode an die Freude" / "Ode to Joy" / "歓喜に寄せて"]

      Keiko Yokoyama, soprano
      Masako Teshima, mezzo-soprano
      Satoshi Nishimura, tenor
      Eijiro Kai, baritone
      Choir of the 10,000 from Osaka and Sendai
      Yutaka Sado, conductor
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