BEETHOVEN - SYMPHONY 9 (full analysis)
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- Опубліковано 6 тра 2024
- This walkthrough video for Beethoven's Symphony 9 "Choral" was posted on May 7th 2024, exactly 200 years after the premiere of Beethoven's 9th Symphony which took place in Vienna on May 7th 1824.
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Performance:
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Charles Mackerras
13:52 2nd movement
27:37 3rd movement
39:32 finale
Also check out Liszt’s arrangement of Beethoven 9 for solo piano. It is so underrated.
Amazing job!
I'm doing a work of Beethoven's symphonies and this was the only video I was missing, just in time!!! Thank you ❤
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What a gem of a video
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The second movement should have the structure of Exposition Development Recapitulation Trio Exposition Development Recapitulation
That’s also a valid interpretation. Not all musicologists agree on it though so I went with a more basic interpretation.
The "accepting" Recitative 41:33 sounds awfully similar to the prior Recitatives that "reject." Still has a very stern quality. Can you say what differentiates it besides the "added winds?"
BTW, I've seen the finale described as a Symphony unto itself:
Intro | 1st Mvt: Variations, Cantata | 2nd Mvt "Scherzo": March, Fugue, Cantata | 3rd Mvt "Adagio": Hymn | Finale: Double Fugue, Hymn | Coda.
I guess it won't match up in terms of Sonata or Ternary or Rondo forms.
But I could see how it might've served as a general organizing principle. Or is that a stretch? ;)
My best guess is that the "accepting" recitative established the major mode.
Really good analysis! I didn't know that The Ninth and I shared a birthday TBH (almost).
What I really like about the Scherzo movement, TBH, is kinda that the scherzo is basically a sonata form in and of itself, combined with a trio. I never really have seen any other scherzi like that--though for all I know Bruckner could have composed something like that.
Other suggestions: Maybe a Schubert symphony, like the 8th "Unfinished" or the 9th "Great"?
It also shares a birthday with Tchaikovsky and Brahms
Yeah, that Scherzo in sonata form is unbelievable! I *think* Bruckner's scherzi come close. Like the one for his 8th has an A section in 3-parts and the Trio also has 3-parts: ABA | CDC | ABA. But, to me, the "B" sounds like a variation, not a new Theme. Anyway, Robert Simpson called Bruckner's mvt: “the constant thud of a colossal celestial engine beyond even Milton’s imagining.” ;)
PS: Bruckner also used that trick of bringing back prior themes in the finale like in his #5, though he didn't "reject" them (that would've been way too copy-cat style. haha)
Call me crazy but I THINK this recording was used in the film ‘Copying Beethoven’ during the 9th’s premiere; I could be wrong though 🤔
You caught me. 😊 The entire recording is the Mackerras/Royal Liverpool CD as mentioned in the video description. HOWEVER the last few minutes (from 59:30) I lifted from the Copying Beethoven soundtrack simply because I liked the energy of that performance better. I’m impressed by your aural skills in identifying that. I love that movie too.
I knew that last bit sounded familiar! A great film that was!