Quote Originally Posted by n2ize View Post
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).