Thursday Night Music: Beethoven’s Tenth Symphony
He didn’t actually write one, of course — but he did write sketches, and Beethoven scholar used them to flesh out a conception of what the first movement would have sounded like:
I have always enjoyed this, just as I enjoy the attempts to realize the fourth movement of Bruckner’s Ninth Symphony.
This is not Beethoven, exactly — but if you have never heard it, you might be surprised. It’s neat.
[Cross-posted at The Jury Talks Back.]
Ding.
Patterico (115b1f) — 4/13/2017 @ 8:47 pmI’ll give y’all the Bruckner Ninth finale soon. Anyone here a Bruckner fan? He’s one of my very favorites.
Patterico (115b1f) — 4/13/2017 @ 8:49 pmAh yes, this is the stuff that his son Christopher
JVW (5de783) — 4/13/2017 @ 10:02 pmTolkienBeethoven found while rummaging through the papers in the old man’s desk drawer and pieced together to form a whole composition, right? Just kidding. This is pretty good, actually. (As is Christopher Tolkien’s work, for that matter.)You know, there actually is a short quartet movement of Beethoven’s that I just learned about yesterday that was indeed found while rummaging through papers — n a small house in England in 1999. I learned about it yesterday for the first time. I can find only one performance of it and no score online (it’s 23 bars in length) and the performance is in .ram format (Real Audio). I wanted to make that my Thursday night music last night, but I spent about an hour last night trying to figure out a way to play the short piece on my computer and failed. It’s here if anyone wants to give it a try.
So I decided to go with another little-known Beethoven(ish) work instead.
Patterico (115b1f) — 4/14/2017 @ 5:26 amOne of my favorite videos concerning Beethoven: Andras Schiff on why the 22nd Sonata (often derided) is actually beautiful:
https://youtu.be/FihyD1KbXCc
To hear a great, uninterrupted version, find Richter.
harkin (5243a2) — 4/14/2017 @ 10:37 amAnother Bruckner fan! I recall someone saying that with Bruckner “you have to be in it for the long haul.” Bruckner is not for the impatient. Then a musicologist who didn’t like Bruckner sniffed that every phrase is eight bars long (and that Bruckner had a strange obsession with counting tiles on the neighbor’s roof). Okay, but they’re really good bars. Particularly the opening bars of the Seventh, which tell you right upfront: “The next hour is going to be great.”
Radegunda (6e40d5) — 4/14/2017 @ 7:24 pmThe Beethoven quartet BBC links are dead. The movement can be heard (played by computer-generated sounds, I fear) at…
http://unheardbeethoven.org/search.php?Identifier=gard16
CMouse (582eb9) — 4/14/2017 @ 8:09 pmThis is pretty good, actually. Love it…
run 2 online (20f336) — 4/14/2017 @ 9:32 pmThanks, CMouse.
Patterico (115b1f) — 4/15/2017 @ 1:07 pm