A lecture in leadership and trust.

Beautiful music, a beautiful performance by the orchestra and conducted by Maestro Bernstein, who conducted , directly from his soul. I give profound and wondrous gratitude to all. Thank you

He looked so proud at the end. He even bowed to his troops. Magnificent.

La perfection de cet orchestre ! Et Lenny reconnaissant et malicieux : j'adore !

Bernstein and Haydn were soul mates. Love this. One of my favorite interpretations of fhis piece

La facétie de Bernstein rejoint pile ici l'espièglerie permanente et grandiose de Joseph Haydn. Faut vraiment être de sacrés grands maîtres pour arriver à une aussi précise distanciation.

Absolutely magnificently done. Brilliant. FJ Haydn was a joker at times when they were with us. He would be having a ball watching this. Maestro Bernstein was a genius.

When they release the Lenny biopic with Bradley Cooper, I dream that a re-enactment of this would be the final scene. How perfect would that be!!

Fantastique, merveilleux, tellement humain. Les mots manquent.

They follow also very well the concertmaster.

This may be, in my extraordinarily humble opinion, the mastery of what humans want to hear in a piece of classical literature. There’s nothing worth improving upon.

First time I have ever heard this piece, and still the best performance I've heard even after searching out many others here on YT. The tempo, precision of play, and clarity of tone are simply unmatched. Bernstein was clearly an amazing genius, and the hard work he did directing the musicians in rehearsal paid great dividends as the players of the Vienna Philharmonic did an incredible job here with but a few twitches by the maestro.

El mejor de mi tiempo! Magnifico! total ! divino! eterna vida para este de otro mundo!!

Un très grand Compositeur et Chef d Orchestre magnifique 🎶🎵🙏😘

¡Gracias, Leonard, genial!

Pure Love n Sweat … sensational …

In this video, Bernstein is like the dude with the laptop and can of lager in The Sleaford Mods. That being said, for me, NY Phil with Bernstein performing Haydn = some of the greatest performances ever. Especially that extraordinary disc of 100-104.

he didn't forgot to conduct, he just thought it was best seat

Conducting with just your face. Wow!

Bernstein is the only person who can stand still while conducting the piece with most accurate interpretation.

Imagine being this in control of your art, technique, leadership and communal trust in others.

Brett and Eddy must see this!

God looking wit love his criatures

So much trust between him and the musicians

He’s still conducting. The musicians are reading his gestures very well it seems.

Una verdadera maravilla. Grandioso!

Me practising my seductive faces in the shower

the pure proudness on his face.

That's the first time i ever seen a conductor conductiong with his face 😂

I heard a story about Elizabeth Green, author of "The Modern Conductor" a book which has been used as THE primary textbook for conducting classes. She once told a class that she knew the secret to being a great conductor but she'd only tell them at the end of the semester after they'd worked very hard. So at the end of the semester all the students asked with great anticipation what this great secret was. She simply stated "the secret of being a great conductor is that you only conduct great musicians". This performance illustrates Ms. Green's statement perfectly! It's absolutely wonderful!

It’s all about communication with the orchestra! Great example

Sharing the pure joy!

Grandissimo

The Vienna Philharmonic becomes the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.

第１楽章＝平凡な日常、単調な仕事 第２楽章＝休息 第３楽章＝社交 第４楽章＝また平凡な日常、しかしヤケクソ気味な活気。 ハイドンのこの名曲をよろしく理解してバーンスタインは指揮をしない。日々の平凡と戦う団員一人一人の自発的な活力が発揮されねばならないからだ。まったく見事なものである。

Spectacular

Wonderful! A perfect example of really intelligent management.

This is true love

This man was bigger than life. Sheer genius.

Leonard for ever

Ja,er war etwas besonderes!!!😊

Awesome, that's genius :)

Geniale !!

💜💜💜

Imagine if any of the musicians did this - i'm going to play with my face. They still played well.

Magnifique

Meraviglioso

MAESTRO

I LOVE this! I wouldn´t be the least surprised, if someone told me, that Haydn himself had tried out exactly this.

He’s so fucking amused with himself lmaoo

Székely

He was flying!!!

Bro was conducting w his eyebrows and expressions

Т.е. вы уже давно знакомы. Long live.

El Villegas me trajo hasta acá jajajaja

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Loucura...

Lenny conducts with his face!

Inedita dirijare !

I’m gonna try picking up chics with those moves. Smooth

Der große Bernstein hat eines gezeigt: Große Werke brauchen keinen Dirigenten, sie werden alleine gespielt, geleitet von den Genialitätsgesetzen ihres Komponisten!! Danke!

He will of course rehearsed it, and will have conducted the other three movements.

HE WAS USING HIS NOSE TO CONDUCT !!!

This is actually more similar to big band jazz directing as far as getting out of the way of the musicians goes.

Only Bernstein could do this!😍

Was this toward the end of his life, when his dementia set in? lol Only joking. Brilliant. He had such a presence on the podium. Great communicator with his orchestra. They felt what he expected of them instinctively, so that only face expressions sufficed. Such a famous & memorable performance.

El villegas me trajo aquí

Recommend Paul Gilbert’s solo electric guitar rendition. It’s faithful accurate respectful and sublimely joyful.

Bernstein’s version of a “mic” drop. A “baton” drop.

Ese pucherito...

He was just phoning it in by this time.

This is how Haydn sounded like before the HIP mvt ruined it. Style, polish, and you hear every note.

Dirigieren kann so einfach sein , wenn man von dem „Durcheinander der Durchführung“ absieht😉

Joder, así también me gano yo el sueldo.

Conducing could not be harder

Who else is from MCYO?

Hilarious!

Il n'y a pas de français?

Don't think this was his first time

666🕶🧭⚡

ハイドンの交響曲88番は人生交響曲だ。第1楽章は毎日同じ事の繰り返しの平凡な日常。第2楽章は休息。第3楽章は社交。そして終楽章でまた平凡な日常に戻る、しかしそこにはヤケクソ気味の快活さがある。おいらのサラリーマン人生も悪くねえぜ！てな感じ。ここでバーンスタインが指揮をしてないのも楽団員の自発性を求めてるわけだ。自分のエンジンに自分で火を入れよ、自分の人生を自分で歌ってみせよう、と。

Wiener Philharmoniker

"I'm too important to actually CONDUCT this movement."

Non-music folks: This evidence proves that conductor is not necessary

Wtf lol

...I must say...what arrogance!