Seems like we have a Friday mini-theme going as last week was the second movement, so why stop now? :)
Adagio molto e cantabile – Andante Moderato – Tempo Primo – Andante Moderato – Adagio – Lo Stesso Tempo. Duration approx. 16 mins.
The lyrical slow movement, in B flat major, is in a loose variation form, with each pair of variations progressively elaborating the rhythm and melody. The first variation, like the theme, is in 4/4 time, the second in 12/8. The variations are separated by passages in 3/4, the first in D major, the second in G major. The final variation is twice interrupted by episodes in which loud fanfares for the full orchestra are answered by double-stopped octaves played by the first violins alone. A prominent horn solo is assigned to the fourth player. Trombones are tacet for the movement.
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March 11, 2011 at 9:28 am
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Far, far too dolce for my tastes and the reward for waiting nine minutes for the trumpets is too long and with so little pay-off. Trumpets are misused to serve as punctuation to the long and incessantly boring chattering by the clucking strings… but I guess someone has to play something between the first and fourth movements to carry the audience into a languid stupor of musical boredom in desperate need of a vigorous and stimulating dose of healthy brass for them to regain their senses.
I do wish the various composers had made up their minds if the horn was to be a woodwind or brass. The voice seems to perpetually suffer from an apologetic, backwards facing personality disorder. My prescription? There’s always seven thousand bars of offbeats to cure mispitching horn players into switching to a real brass instrument. But failing that, the composers who use horns as the brass they have always meant to be do us all an aesthetic service as well as provide horn players the much needed therapy to fulfill their potential as real musicians.
And some people think I’m biased!
Imagine that.
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December 16, 2011 at 6:46 am
The Friday Classical Musical Interlude – Beethoven, Symphony No.9, Fourth Movement. « Dead Wild Roses
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