Fuck Yeah Classical
For the love of all music that is classical. Remember, all music was once new.
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When Beethoven passed away, he was buried in a churchyard. A couple days later, the town drunk was walking through the cemetery and heard some strange noise coming from the area where Beethoven was buried. Terrified, the drunk ran and got the priest to come and listen to it. The priest bent close to the grave and heard some faint, unrecognizable music coming from the grave. Frightened, the priest ran and got the town magistrate. When the magistrate arrived, he bent his ear to the grave, listened for a moment, and said, “Ah, yes, that’s Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, being played backwards.” He listened a while longer, and said, “There’s the Eighth Symphony, and it’s backwards, too. Most puzzling.” So the magistrate kept listening; “There’s the Seventh… the Sixth… the Fifth…” Suddenly the realization of what was happening dawned on the magistrate; he stood up and announced to the crowd that had gathered in the cemetery, “My fellow citizens, there’s nothing to worry about. It’s just Beethoven decomposing.via caplan
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Audio post reblogged from The Muse and the Fashion
Symphony No. 7 In A, Op. 92; IV. Allegro con brio
Ludwig van Beethoven, composer
Claudio Abbado; Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Allegro con brio with extra brio! This is exciting. I like that you can hear the basses attacking their strings. The horns are borderline splatty and blatty in places but I think that’s ok… woooooooooo!!!~~ As they say, hold on tight!
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Audio post reblogged from god save the kink ♔
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]This track has had 903 playsBeethoven: Symphony #7 In A, Op. 92 - 2. Allegretto by Carlos Kleiber: Vienna Philharmonic OrchestraSymphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92: II. Allegretto - Ludwig van Beethoven
(via thatkellyperson)
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Audio post reblogged from Zoltán Venéczi
Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata no. 15 in D major, Op. 28 ‘Pastorale’ - II. Andante
Schiff András, piano (Tonhalle, Zürich, Switzerland, 2005)
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Audio post reblogged from locus communis
Beethoven
Piano Sonata No 17 (“The Tempest), 3rd mvt, Allegretto
Ligoratti (piano)
hardcore…for all you frenzied geniuses working late, here’s a caffeine-free ninja kick in the seat of the pants when tired :P
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Video reblogged from The Muse and the Fashion
’An die Hoffnung’ Op.94 | Beethoven
John Mark Ainsley, tenor
I feel like Beethoven’s songs are a little neglected. I found this lied in my iTunes, but the performance I have kind of blows. So I found one on youtube that doesn’t suck, because I like it very much.
For those who enjoy speculating about autobiographical influences in Beethoven’s music, “An die Hoffnung” (To Hope, Op.94) makes an interesting study. He had set the same text ten years earlier (Op.32, while perhaps pursuing the affections of the Countess Josephine Deym-Brunsvik), choosing to emphasize its optimistic qualities. However, this second setting was composed during the grave illness of his brother Carl, when Beethoven himself was called upon to assume financial responsibility for both Carl and his wife. Perhaps not coincidentally, this second setting is more somber and dramatic than the first, and includes portions of the text which were omitted from the first, calling into question the nature of God.
The work begins with a lengthy piano prelude, and the first verse proceeds very much like a recitative (Beethoven was revising Fidelio during this period, and the similarities between this opening and that to Florestan’s prison aria are quite striking.) As the song continues to the first verse that Beethoven had set earlier, it becomes considerably more lyrical, but returns to a deeply tragic, more declamatory tone in the verse referring to death. The last verse starts over raging piano chords, with frequent dramatic leaps downward in pitch, but then the song repeats the second verse in a lyrical theme, and ends on an almost wistful, “O Hoffnung.” This is one of Beethoven’s most dramatic compositions, as well as a challenging one for performers. — Anne Feeney, Rovi (via)Also, here is a pretty sweet scan of the score. I don’t know about you, but when I can, I like to follow along with the score when listening.
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Audio post reblogged from So Long, Lonesome.
‘Egmont’ Overture by Ludwig van Beethoven
