In Reply to: A short list posted by TGR on August 31, 2016 at 07:57:56:
It's a strange ending IMHO, similar to the endings in many movements of the Bruckner symphonies which I feel are poorly judged in their musical rhetoric - a compositional eccentricity which one almost never encounters in Beethoven's music (except for the end of the Pastoral!).
Now that it's available as a hi-rez multi-channel download, I guess I've got to get and re-check the Vanska/Minnesota set! ;-)
(I had one or two of the Vanska SACD's, but I don't remember them very well. The whole set is available for a "bundle" price on the eClassical site.)
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Follow Ups
- When you say "the climax", do you mean the end? - Chris from Lafayette 08/31/1609:24:37 08/31/16 (8)
- More detail - TGR 11:11:12 08/31/16 (7)
- But the last two chords in the Pastoral are marked fortissimo - Chris from Lafayette 11:48:07 08/31/16 (6)
- yes, but - TGR 11:54:40 08/31/16 (5)
- Still more - Chris from Lafayette 12:39:50 08/31/16 (2)
- You mean rests are not notes? - TGR 13:11:33 08/31/16 (1)
- So when you listen to the end of the Pastoral Symphony on a recording. . . - Chris from Lafayette 15:22:51 08/31/16 (0)
- More - Chris from Lafayette 12:35:16 08/31/16 (0)
- I never said it was the climax - it's very Brucknerian however [nt] ;-) - Chris from Lafayette 12:27:40 08/31/16 (0)