Beethoven's Ninth Symphony

Who else likes this? It is, after his fifth, probably the most famous symphony of all time. I think it's superb, except for the third movement, which I think ruins it somewhat.

 

is that the one in C minor or was that his 5th?

 

Ahh yes..the ol' Ludwig Van

I very much do like this symphony

 

Fifth was C Minor.
Ninth was D Minor. Also known as the "Choral" symphony.

 

I love it.

 

I think the finale makes up for the third movement. You know, Ode to Joy and all. Anyway, I'm just talking out loud.

 

the 9th is wonderful..all one hour 15 minutes of it, BUT the piece "ode to joy" from it is... musical sex to me..


if i could only listen to one piece of music for the rest of my life thats what it would be...

 

RAWR!!!! okay so now i'm BLASTING .. ode to joy.. i hope my neihgbors like it..

"turn that damn beethoven down!" AHAHAHAH

okay so it makes me a bit hyper and crazy to listen to it.. i'ma go spazz out

 

I like his fifth more, actually.

But I'm quite content to listen for hours to anything by Beethoven. He's my favorite compser.

 

When asked Beethoven said his favorite was the Eroica (3rd Symphony).

 

its good, of course. it is interesting, i was reading about how beethoven put metronome markings in the music, and that they are so fast in parts that most conducters ignore them. well, he was deaf after all.

 

Haha.

the 9th is MILES ahead of his fifth. Much more famous too. I've played in the 1st, 5th, 6th, 7th and 9th. Have to say the 9th is my favourite, but I like the 5th a lot too and quite like the 3rd. There's a superb contrafag part in the last movement of the 9th as well.

 

I think there are wonderful parts in the 3rd/5th/6th/7th/8th/9th. However the 6th is a personal favorite.

 

You should try not to be such an obnoxious twat. It's a matter of opinion, asswipe.

 

Yep, and I just gave mine, donkeyloofer.

 

"Ode to Joy" is the Anthem of the EU... and if the world were to be united one day, it should become the Anthem of the World.

It is just what many would call, "Sublime"

...and so are Schiller's lyrics, the best that came out of German Idealism.

 

If you like the 5th Symphony you absolutely have to listen to the P.D.Q Bach recording - "New Horizons in Music Appreciation: Beethoven's Fifth Symphony" - I Virtuosi Di Hoople, conducted by Peter Schickele.

i could not breathe i was laughing so hard at this for the whole 8 minutes. Seriously the most entertaining thing i have ever heard.

 

#9 is great music indeed... I once used to believe it to be cosmic, to be the greatness of our universe, turned audible by a genius -- and by one who necessarily had to become deaf, who had to stop hearing the noise of €humankind: in order to become able to write down the music of the whole universe. (And that was when I started loving the third movement, the one which took me longest, too...)

Well, I'm not as pathetic as that about it any more. I have refined my views, now believing the universe to be one great thing and music to be another (perhaps the first containing the latter). I had a few very impressive experiences with it, which I remember now, as I am writing these words, and the memories almost make me shiver... And so, I still believe it to be a masterpiece -- among many others, may they be music or whatever! A masterpiece, and not "object" of a mediocre mystic like me!


So long,
Shanky

 

oh my ganesha! the classical radio station here is gonna play the 9th .. the whole thing! tomorrow at 2.. i can't wait

 

+1 on the Pastoral

Then, for me, the 7th, then the 5th/3rd are about tied, and then the 9th. It's great but it's so long, like an opera I really need to be in the mood for it. I have more than 100 readings of these five on LP, yeah I go a bit mental for Beethoven symphonies. Consistently I love Bruno Walter's conducting the most, but there are many other wonderful performances - Kleiber, Bohm, Furtwangler, Reiner, and others.

One interesting thing about the 9th on vinyl, in the stereophonic era they developed the microgroove cutter technique so that this symphony (and maybe some of Mahler's) could be made to "fit" on two LP sides. It was the golden age of recording at Decca, EMI, RCA and Columbia, but microgroove was not a good development as far as sound quality.