Favorite Beethoven Symphony?

[JHC]

The odd-numbered ones.
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Even the first?

 

[thirdcreed]

I voted for 7 thinking I would be entirely alone, I remember riding home from school, with a dover study score in front of me, listening to the first movement over and over again.

 

[Alban Berg]

I have to say that 12th is my very favorite.

 

[JHC]

I have to say that 12th is my very favorite.

That figures

 

[Snow White]

A few years past I heard the 5th at a concert by a new young conductor and it sounded so different to what is normal to hear, almost a new symphony.

 

[Alban Berg]

We have a joke in Spanisk...Dad = Papá in Spanish. For = Para in Spanish

Then to whom did Beethoven write his 5th symphony? Well...for his DAD!!!

Yeah....Para Papá! Para Papá!.

Martin

 

[Contratrombone64]

*shakes head in disbelief at the stupidity of some*

 

[JHC]

A few years past I heard the 5th at a concert by a new young conductor and it sounded so different to what is normal to hear, almost a new symphony.

That is a coincidence because I experienced the same sym with the NZSO with Pietari Inkinen coducting and Vesa-matti Leppanen leading they brought out instrument voices that were normally subdued or at least not easy to pick out, poetic licence perhaps

 

[Contratrombone64]

Colin - it is very difficult I think for an orchestra to bring off a new perspective to such a well known work as Beethoven's 5th. The NZSO is a fine ensemble, for sure.

 

[JHC]

David,
Inkinen comes from a rock background whether this influenced the work or not is hard for me to know as rock is a closed book to me, but the variations in tempi coupled with the emphasis on various sections/instruments made it sound so fresh, at the pre concert talk we were told to expect something different and it sure was.

 

[Contratrombone64]

Sounds like a nice interpretation ... I'm all for new light being shed on old chestnuts.

 

[el_supremo]

Para Papá! Para Papá!.

Arf Arf. Now I get it

Pete

 

[Alban Berg]

Arf Arf. Now I get it

Pete

It was just a joke...Some bullies say I'm stupid...

Martin

 

[Contratrombone64]

If the cap fits wear it

 

[parthenon]

6, 7, 3, 2, 9, 4, 5, 8, 1

 

[GoneBaroque]

7 specially when conducted by Carlos Klieber
then 9, 3, 5, 6, 8

Rob

 

[mmsbls]

9, 5, 7, 3, 6, 8, 4, 2, 1

There's not much of a spread between the first 4 - all are simply wonderful.

 

[White Knight]

The 2nd movement of the 7th basically clinched that one for me, closely followed by the 5th and 2nd.

 

[Toxico]

9,3,5 - masterpiece!