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A "concert" review of the 1976 recording of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony as played by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. The writer offers a brief musical analysis of each movement, as well as comments on this recording. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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made it the choice of the European Union as their national anthem. From the beginning of the symphony, the audience is immediately aware that they are entering into new musical
territory, as there are no abrupt declarations of musical themes such as one finds in the openings of the Beethovens Third or Fifth Symphonies (Lieberman, 1996). Rather the musical sense
of what is happening coalesces slowly, as if out of a mist. In the opening bars, the very key in which the symphony is written remains in doubt. From this
point, the movement goes on to formulate a mood of "compressed intensity," which is quite similar to the "rhetoric of the earlier heroic symphonies" (Lieberman, 1996). The tone of the
first movement is ominous, portraying turmoil and emotional distress. It closes with what "feels" like a funeral march, from the tempo and harmony. There is, however, one brief section
that is sounded by the woodwinds that brings a ray of sunlight into trouble atmosphere of the first movement, foreshadowing the theme of joy that will constitute the famous chorale
finale. The second movement is composed of a fast-moving scherzo. The sinister undertones of the first movement are transformed in this movement into something that is merely sinister, almost comical.
The opening timpani set the stage for this new mood, while simultaneously recalling the main theme of the first movement. This is followed by a pastoral theme that anticipates
the joyous choral finale. The third movement is as serene in tone as the first was troubled. The woodwinds and the horns, in particular, work to expand on the pastoral
mood created by the second movement. As proof of this argument, Lieberman (1996) points out that the third movement, which is serene in its tone, could not have followed
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