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[Lanny]

I’m not always in the mood for Beethoven & feel rather like Lucy Honeychurch in A Room With A View: “ Mother dosen’t like me playing Beethoven. She says I’m always peevish afterwards.” To which Reverend Beeb says “Naturally one would be, stirred up.”😱🙄

I just trawled through this thread to find the last time I was in the “stirred up” mood for Beethoven & it was back in November!🙄

 

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Beethoven — Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Opus 68 "Pastoral"

 

[Lanny]

Beethoven — Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Opus 68 "Pastoral"

Oh, yes! Stirs up images of lambs in the fields, shepherdesses & their crooks, lush fields of barley & merry old England: rather like Danny Boyle's portrayal in his Isles of Wonder presentation at the 2012 Olympics; how the rest of the world see us in period works of fiction & period dramas on screen!😛 Makes me think of Thomas Hardy's Far From The Madding Crowd!😛😎🙂

Unfortunately, almost completely gone now but, lives on in our nostalgic hearts & souls! The long gone Wessex!🙄🙂

 

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Oh, yes! Stirs up images of lambs in the fields, shepherdesses & their crooks, lush fields of barley & merry old England: rather like Danny Boyle's portrayal in his Isles of Wonder presentation at the 2012 Olympics; how the rest of the world see us in period works of fiction & period dramas on screen!😛 Makes me think of Thomas Hardy's Far From The Madding Crowd!😛😎🙂

Unfortunately, almost completely gone now but, lives on in our nostalgic hearts & souls! The long gone Wessex!🙄🙂

I live in the historical area of Wessex. My last outing revealed lots of blossom in hedgerows, but not many lambs.

Now for something completely different…

Stevie Nicks — Stand Back

 

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....GIVE IT VOLUMEEEEEEEE

 

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The Be Good Tanyas, which came up on YouTube after I played the White Stripes' Jolene...

 

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[Carlos]

Thanks for THAT little nugget of info, @Carlos 🙂 I didn’t know that & it’s COOL!😎 He conducted it himself!😛

Ian Hislop had a program on Beethoven's fifth and how revolutionary it was, possibly in more than just the musical sense, in here

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03wtr9m

They even had some musicians play with instruments contemporary to Beethoven.

Thanks for the link to the ballet piece. I had heard of it, but I am not sure I had actually heard it. I tend to mote go for the central european (Beethoven, Dvorak) and russian composers, so I am not very familiar with the French and Italian musicians.

ETA Unfortunately it looks like only a trailer for the program is available, which is a shame.

 

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[Lanny]

Ian Hislop had a program on Beethoven's fifth and how revolutionary it was, possibly in more than just the musical sense, in here

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03wtr9m

They even had some musicians play with instruments contemporary to Beethoven.

Thanks for the link to the ballet piece. I had heard of it, but I am not sure I had actually heard it. I tend to mote go for the central european (Beethoven, Dvorak) and russian composers, so I am not very familiar with the French and Italian musicians.

ETA Unfortunately it looks like only a trailer for the program is available, which is a shame.

Thanks for that! I would like to see that programme: I CAN see how that makes sense

Oh yes The Dying Swan was Choreographed & created in 1905 to Saint Seans’ music. It was danced most famously by Dame Margot Fontaine! She was famously known to bring audiences into floods of tears by her performance as The Dying Swan! Unfortunately I can’t find ANY performance of Margot Fontaine doing that piece on YouTube! Although there IS of her doing Swan Lake.

Also, there’s a ballet created for & danced by The New York City Ballet using all 14 pieces of music in Saint Seans’ Carnival of the Animals in 2003.
About a young boy who falls asleep in The Natural History Museum. His classmates, teachers & people he knows all appear as animals in his dreams!

 

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