Monday, June 3, 2013

Beethoven Movements

Last night we listened to the Fourth.  Holy Mackerel, who knew?  Probably everybody but me.  Well, the lilt of the second movement, combined with the lilt of the second movement of the Seventh left me with a question --  if you could only take one movement number of the Beethoven Symphonies to a desert island, but you would get all nine of them, which would you take?  I reckon the question is useless since we will never get stranded on the desert island, and even if we were our radios would run out of batteries, and even if those two things could be remedied, we would then tire of nine pieces of classical music no matter how awesome.  Nonetheless, the question has been posed.  If you are tracking at home, the Sixth has five movements, so I guess you could take any two and combine them, so long as they are adjacent and encompass your selected number (i.e. if you took Movement Twos, you could get one and two OR two and three from the Sixth).

2 comments:

  1. I will have to mull on this. 2 things struck me.
    a)4th is really amazing and I had spent time listening to it. My first impression rolling from 3 directly into 4 was "wow this is dark"
    b) Love 2nd movt of #7. Passionate yet stately - not sure how you pull that combo off.

    More later....

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  2. I will have to mull on this. 2 things struck me.
    a)4th is really amazing and I had spent time listening to it. My first impression rolling from 3 directly into 4 was "wow this is dark"
    b) Love 2nd movt of #7. Passionate yet stately - not sure how you pull that combo off.

    More later....

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