The great final of this great symphony. Allegro con brio means fast or cheerful with panache.
In his book "Beethoven and his Nine Symphonies", Sir George Grove wrote, "The force that reigns throughout this movement is literally prodigious, and reminds one of Carlyle's hero Ram Dass, who has 'fire enough in his belly to burn up the entire world.'" Donald Tovey, writing in his Essays in Musical Analysis, commented on this movement's "Bacchic fury" and many other writers have commented on its whirling dance-energy. The main theme is a precise duple time variant of the instrumental ritornello in Beethoven's own arrangement of the Irish folk-song "Save me from the grave and wise", No. 8 of his Twelve Irish Folk Songs, WoO 154.
Next time we will listen to the most famous symphony of all time: the fifth.
The parrot repeats... Impressed!
I have an old box set of all 9 symphonies on vinyl. Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra And Bernard Haitink. Fantastic performances and super sound. But for some reason I have not listened to the 7th that much. My favorites are 6th and 9th. You know I love a strong melody and also I like program music, so that puts the 6th close to my taste. So it was nice to get a reintroduction to the 7th
Whoa Nelly! Color me blown away! Although it helps to have genius material to work with, it takes a special gift and a hell of a lot of discipline to pull off a piece like this, I'll wager...
What a ride. Beethoven was to music what Shakespeare was to English literature.
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