Beethoven's Ninth.

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My orchestra started working on Beethoven's 9th but we had to set it aside for a while because we needed to prepare the rest of our repertoire for upcoming concerts. It is a challenging piece to play. Last year we performed the first movement of Beethoven's 5th at a few of our concerts and we have it down solid, sounded awesome. . We are planning on working on the entire 5th symphony and eventually performing it in its entirety at upcoming concerts. Meantime we have a concert coming up on April 6th wherer we'll be playing Holst, Mahler, Brahms, Bach and my all time favorite, Edvard Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite. Plenty of music to keep me busy..

[N2NH]

My orchestra started working on Beethoven's 9th but we had to set it aside for a while because we needed to prepare the rest of our repertoire for upcoming concerts. It is a challenging piece to play. Last year we performed the first movement of Beethoven's 5th at a few of our concerts and we have it down solid, sounded awesome. . We are planning on working on the entire 5th symphony and eventually performing it in its entirety at upcoming concerts. Meantime we have a concert coming up on April 6th wherer we'll be playing Holst, Mahler, Brahms, Bach and my all time favorite, Edvard Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite. Plenty of music to keep me busy..

I've seen how intricate the orchestration is. We always hear how amazing something is, this is really amazing. Beethoven composed this while deaf. The only way to know what he was composing was to hear in his imagination what it would sound like. That is genius. The Chorale ending is extremely impressive. I've posted part of the Pastoral from Beethoven's 6th in the What are you listening to? thread.

If your orchestra ever get the 9th down, let me know. I'd do my best to hear it live.

The Ninth Symphony - 4th Movement (Chorale) and what it looks like (not notes).

[n2ize]

I've seen how intricate the orchestration is. We always hear how amazing something is, this is really amazing. Beethoven composed this while deaf. The only way to know what he was composing was to hear in his imagination what it would sound like. That is genius. The Chorale ending is extremely impressive. I've posted part of the Pastoral from Beethoven's 6th in the What are you listening to? thread.

If your orchestra ever get the 9th down, let me know. I'd do my best to hear it live.

The Ninth Symphony - 4th Movement (Chorale) and what it looks like (not notes).

I think I remember hearing that when his #6 symphony was first performed he conducted the orchestra despite the fact that he was deaf at the time and the performance was so well received that the audience demanded an encore. It is mazing. Music, which is an art of sound yet a man who could barely perceive sound could compose and conduct it to such perfection.

I'll keep you posted as to the progress of our orchestra. Occasionally I post some of our upcoming and past events and recordings on the "art" forum of this Island. If we do the 9th I can't guarantee a full chorus although we do get a pretty good volunteer chorus when we do our traditional Handel Messiah concert. :)

Nice video. And while it doesn't show the notes, as per written on sheet music, it does show the notes in terms of the various instruments, range, note duration, chorus,dynamics, etc. And, at other times it reminds me of a NYC subway map.. :)

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I think I remember hearing that when his #6 symphony was first performed he conducted the orchestra despite the fact that he was deaf at the time and the performance was so well received that the audience demanded an encore. It is mazing. Music, which is an art of sound yet a man who could barely perceive sound could compose and conduct it to such perfection.

I'll keep you posted as to the progress of our orchestra. Occasionally I post some of our upcoming and past events and recordings on the "art" forum of this Island. If we do the 9th I can't guarantee a full chorus although we do get a pretty good volunteer chorus when we do our traditional Handel Messiah concert. :)

Nice video. And while it doesn't show the notes, as per written on sheet music, it does show the notes in terms of the various instruments, range, note duration, chorus,dynamics, etc. And, at other times it reminds me of a NYC subway map.. :)

A full Chorus is rare these days, a good male voice and a good female voice is, I believe, more important in a work like this.

Some purists will not like more modern versions of this work, I happen to like a lot of versions of it. This is the one from the movie "A Clockwork Orange" arranged by Walter/Wendy Carlos and done on a Moog Synthesizer (a feat by itself).

Arranger Carlos with the Moog.