Classics Explained: Beethoven - Symphony No. 6, 'Pastoral'
"Classics Explained: Beethoven - Symphony No. 6, 'Pastoral' album by Jeremy Siepmann on
Archodia Music"
Release Date: 2002-07-05T00:00:00.000000Z
Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68, "Pastoral": I. Awakening of Cheerful Feelings on Arriving in the Country: On Beethoven's Openings
Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68, "Pastoral": I. Awakening of Cheerful Feelings on Arriving in the Country: Opening phrase of the 'Pastoral': ood, Symbolism and Musical Function
Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68, "Pastoral": I. Awakening of Cheerful Feelings on Arriving in the Country: Musical Acorns: the outline of melody; the shape of a question
Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68, "Pastoral": I. Awakening of Cheerful Feelings on Arriving in the Country: The 'question' in the 'Pastoral' repeated...
Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68, "Pastoral": I. Awakening of Cheerful Feelings on Arriving in the Country: ...and answered
Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68, "Pastoral": I. Awakening of Cheerful Feelings on Arriving in the Country: The opening phrase ends on a note full of pregnant expectation
Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68, "Pastoral": I. Awakening of Cheerful Feelings on Arriving in the Country: Starting with a stop
Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68, "Pastoral": I. Awakening of Cheerful Feelings on Arriving in the Country: The rhythmic profile of the opening phrase; a two-part construction
Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68, "Pastoral": I. Awakening of Cheerful Feelings on Arriving in the Country: Phrase One, Part One
Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68, "Pastoral": I. Awakening of Cheerful Feelings on Arriving in the Country: Phrase One, Part Two
Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68, "Pastoral": I. Awakening of Cheerful Feelings on Arriving in the Country: The properties of rhythmic ambiguity; the 'question' of Phrase One answered
Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68, "Pastoral": I. Awakening of Cheerful Feelings on Arriving in the Country: Phrase Two: from meander to march
Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68, "Pastoral": I. Awakening of Cheerful Feelings on Arriving in the Country: The makings of a conversation: contrast and variation
Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68, "Pastoral": I. Awakening of Cheerful Feelings on Arriving in the Country: Repetition as A Major factor, but it's never mere repetition; each time something
Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68, "Pastoral": I. Awakening of Cheerful Feelings on Arriving in the Country: From soft to loud and back again; instrumental enrichment from horns and double-ba
Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68, "Pastoral": I. Awakening of Cheerful Feelings on Arriving in the Country: Mega-repetition: violins play exactly the same little fragment ten times in a row
Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68, "Pastoral": I. Awakening of Cheerful Feelings on Arriving in the Country: But no two repetitions are quite the same; varieties of contrast
Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68, "Pastoral": I. Awakening of Cheerful Feelings on Arriving in the Country: More variation: pitch rises; violins joined frist by the clarinet, then by the obo
Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68, "Pastoral": I. Awakening of Cheerful Feelings on Arriving in the Country: Return to opening idea, but with new instrumentation and articulation
Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68, "Pastoral": I. Awakening of Cheerful Feelings on Arriving in the Country: Clarinets, horns, bassoons and flutes now join expansive variation
Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68, "Pastoral": I. Awakening of Cheerful Feelings on Arriving in the Country: 'New' insistent rhythm derived from the first four notes of the piece
Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68, "Pastoral": I. Awakening of Cheerful Feelings on Arriving in the Country: With the dawn chorus, a whole forest is waking up; feelings of rapture
Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68, "Pastoral": I. Awakening of Cheerful Feelings on Arriving in the Country: First violins play a derivative of the opening figure, joined by wind and strings
Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68, "Pastoral": I. Awakening of Cheerful Feelings on Arriving in the Country: Sudden change of key, from the home key (tonic) to the dominant
Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68, "Pastoral": I. Awakening of Cheerful Feelings on Arriving in the Country: Arrival at the hightly contrasting second main theme
Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68, "Pastoral": I. Awakening of Cheerful Feelings on Arriving in the Country: Unusual properties of second main theme
Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68, "Pastoral": I. Awakening of Cheerful Feelings on Arriving in the Country: Rhythmic clash between simultaneous groups of three beats and groups of two
Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68, "Pastoral": I. Awakening of Cheerful Feelings on Arriving in the Country: winds fall selent as the violins and violas interrupt with a new theme
Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68, "Pastoral": I. Awakening of Cheerful Feelings on Arriving in the Country: Winds answer with the same morse-like rhythm but at half the speed
Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68, "Pastoral": I. Awakening of Cheerful Feelings on Arriving in the Country: Crescendo leads to strings' acceleration of the pace with no increase in tempo
Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68, "Pastoral": I. Awakening of Cheerful Feelings on Arriving in the Country: Beginning of coda, directly based on morse-like rhythm of the main theme
Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68, "Pastoral": I. Awakening of Cheerful Feelings on Arriving in the Country: Strings reiterate small fragment of the new theme 13 times in a row
Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68, "Pastoral": I. Awakening of Cheerful Feelings on Arriving in the Country: A simple, rising violin phrase leads to a repeat of the Exposition
Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68, "Pastoral": I. Awakening of Cheerful Feelings on Arriving in the Country: The nature and function of the Development section in sonata form; 'harmonic' rhyt
Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68, "Pastoral": I. Awakening of Cheerful Feelings on Arriving in the Country: The nature of harmonic rhythm illustrated
Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68, "Pastoral": I. Awakening of Cheerful Feelings on Arriving in the Country: A typically Beethovenian exercise in the frustration of expectation
Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68, "Pastoral": I. Awakening of Cheerful Feelings on Arriving in the Country: Repetitiousness and magic effected largely through instrumental colour
Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68, "Pastoral": I. Awakening of Cheerful Feelings on Arriving in the Country: Then come four, almost identical bars
Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68, "Pastoral": I. Awakening of Cheerful Feelings on Arriving in the Country: Even greater magic, with sudden switch of key and tone colour
Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68, "Pastoral": I. Awakening of Cheerful Feelings on Arriving in the Country: Entire Development section up to this point
Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68, "Pastoral": I. Awakening of Cheerful Feelings on Arriving in the Country: The Development continued
Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68, "Pastoral": I. Awakening of Cheerful Feelings on Arriving in the Country: Increased unease and suspense as harmonic rhythm accelerates
Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68, "Pastoral": I. Awakening of Cheerful Feelings on Arriving in the Country: Arrival at the point of Recapitulation; back to the beginning, as a reminder
Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68, "Pastoral": I. Awakening of Cheerful Feelings on Arriving in the Country: Beginning of Recapitulation
Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68, "Pastoral": I. Awakening of Cheerful Feelings on Arriving in the Country: More Beethovenian frustrations of expectations which he himself has just set up
Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68, "Pastoral": I. Awakening of Cheerful Feelings on Arriving in the Country: Harmonic rhythm speeds up, giving the impression of an accent on every beat
Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68, "Pastoral": I. Awakening of Cheerful Feelings on Arriving in the Country: Prevailing mood restored; new theme from clarinets and bassoons
Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68, "Pastoral": I. Awakening of Cheerful Feelings on Arriving in the Country: Violins and violas take up theme; horns, cellos, double-basses accompany
Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68, "Pastoral": I. Awakening of Cheerful Feelings on Arriving in the Country: A hush falls, followed by a return of the movement's most familiar tag in strings
Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68, "Pastoral": I. Awakening of Cheerful Feelings on Arriving in the Country: Clarinet takes up the running triplet figures of the main closing theme