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Another reason for the perception of anger is the sound of his music. Even вЂњcomposerвЂќ is problematic as he prefered to call himself a вЂњtone/sound-artist.вЂќThen, what is Beethoven's most famous piece of music?Ludwig Van Beethoven: His Works. Beethoven is best known for his nine symphonies, which have been called the cornerstones of Western civilization. The most famous two are the Fifth Symphony and the Ninth Symphony because of their grandeur.

The Allegretto is made an Adagio, in phrasing if not tempo, but it is mesmerizing. His English accent is a bit like Antonio PappanoвЂ™s.Arthur says: вЂEvery bar alive in the first movement. At the end, there is a spoken commentary by the conductor. This recording is not yet on Idagio, but some discreet hand has uploaded it onto Youtube, where it has received a mere handful of clicks and just one response. WeвЂ™ll come to these disputations in a few paragraphsвЂ™ time, but meanwhile there are more than 100 others to consider and some will open your ears to a different and unexpected approach to BeethovenвЂ™s truth.Arthur Kapitainis in Montreal, for instance, swears by Leopold StokowskiвЂ™s fabulous Philadelphians in 1927. All seem to agree that one performance is indispensable and two others are so anthithetical that they canвЂ™t both be right.

Harnoncourt stood out among period conductors in never letting the theory overwhelm the music. This particular concert, with musicians the age of his grandchildren, is particularly engrossing for its supple speeds and unexpected turns. While many associate Harnoncourt with period practice, his most memorable performances are often with small orchestras on modern instruments. And, in the orchestra, Shmuel Ashkenazi, Pina Carmirelli, Felix Galimir, Ronald Leonard, Julius Levine, Larry Crombs, Milan TurkovicвЂ¦ IвЂ™m sorry, but definitely: Casals.вЂ™ For the Allegretto alone, this is a must-listen.Concertmaster Eoin Andersen in Berlin recalls indelible performances with Manfred Honeck (not recorded) and Nikolaus Harnoncourt, conducting the Chamber Orchestra of Europe in 1991. Some minor imperfections but pure vitality, pure joy with a conductor who was then 92 years old.

My own goosebump concert was with Klaus Tennstedt and the London Philharmonic Orchestra, some time in the late 1980s at the Royal Festival Hall, a level of intensity I had never encountered in my life. In this case, there is none. The energy of its fourth movement still gives me goosebumps.вЂ™Memories like this remind us to check the privilege of personal experience against the possible existence of a recording. It was JurowskiвЂ™s debut with that symphony, and with that orchestra: extraordinarily vital, youthful, well-focused, though profound, and the quality of the sound was really amazing: a rich and thick вЂњidiomatic-GermanвЂќ sound. The performance of BeethovenвЂ™s 7th Symphony I heard there is possibly not the best performance ever, of course, though it is by far the most vividly one recorded in my memory. It was a very hot and humid summer of 1997, the manager of the orchestra, Dieter Rexroth, kindly drove me a couple of hours north of Berlin to a very old castle in the ex-DDR Vorpommern region, amid little lakes and wetlands, named Ulrichshusen, and belonging to a wealthy family: the вЂњFreiheerвЂќ told us that the castle had been given back to its original owners shortly after the reunification of Germany.вЂAfter a snack of boiled little lake shrimps with Sekt, the Sunday afternoon concert took place in what was once the wood-and-bricks barn of the castle, still a bit вЂњdГ©labrГ©вЂќ: it was absolutely choc-a-bloc, packed with enthusiasts.

Relistening after a long absence, I find the performance too well-groomed, too predictable in almost every way. An earlier performance by Tennstedt with the NDR radio orchestra is nowhere near so exhilarating.Before we cut to the chase, do not miss a pair of Idagio exclusives вЂ“ the explosive Josef Krips with the Concertgebouw in 1951 and the obscure Romanian George Georgescu, whom IвЂ™m finding more and more impressive.Several of our experts advocate Fritz Reiner with Chicago in 1955. ItвЂ™s a question of trust between baton and orchestra. This, I thought, is how all music should be. Listening to my own copy, I can hear Tennstedt driving the players into corridors of uncertainty where they have no clue where on earth he will lead them next. The performance is unfortunately unavailable on Idagio.

Amir Mandel in Tel Aviv reminds me of the forgotten merits of the deceptively understated RenГ© Leibowitz with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in 1961, a performance that somehow brings out in the first two movements the pastoral colours of the previous symphony.WeвЂ™re getting close to the quintessence and space is runnign out. Leonard Slatkin, who contributed yesterdayвЂ™s post, offers further recommendations in Carlo-Maria Giulini, who does lyricism like no-one else, and David Zinman who strikes a perfect balance between historical fundamentalism and present-day post-modernism. And if itвЂ™s grooming youвЂ™re after, the nameвЂ™s Karajan and the presentation is immaculate.Not to be overlooked is Charles Munch, a strong favourite of Steve RubinвЂ™s in New York. Neither can be faulted for emotional indulgence (that would be Bernstein, I guess).

Beethoven 7Th Symphony Name Free Jukebox In

Here.Many decades ago, at the student union of the University of Wisconsin in Madison, they had a sort of free jukebox in a large reading room where youвЂ™d punch in the numbers and eventually the chosen record would play. Ultimate resolution coming upвЂ¦. I shall have to conclude this discussion later today.Stay tuned. I have also been sidenlined by the highly praised though irredeemably dull Ernest Ansermet with his well-polished Swiss orchestra and the unfailingly intriguing Jascha Horenstein with a lackadaisical French national ensemble.Close as we are to a resolution, we have run out of space.

Based on the age of other LPs in that machine at UW, I wonder if what I was hearing was the bargain priced Camden reissue of the 1950s (which unlike most Camden reissues from RCA Victor actually did name the conductor and orchestra). For example, when listening to the same recording (also on an LP reissue) over my pretty good sound system or via headphones, I did not notice the old fashioned string portamento as much as I did in that listening. The sound system per se was old enough that curiously old mono recordings often sounded better than newer stereo LPs.It was a fascinating experience to hear this old recording being played in a large and rather reverberant high ceilinged room at just shy of threshold of pain volume. The selection (there might have been 50 LPs in the machine) was trite but the Beethoven 7th with Toscanini and the Philharmonic, in an LP reissue, was oddly enough among them.

Worth trying to track down. He recorded it in stereo of course, but also impressively on 78 rpm discs. Maybe it is the enthusiasm of the players that they have in common.Fflambeau wonders about Ormandy/Philadelphia.