Perfect Pitch: Classical Music Deconstructed
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Perfect Pitch: Classical Music Deconstructed
S2.E86. Mendelssohn Ruy Blas Overture, Beethoven Waldstein Sonata, Brahms Symphony 4
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SPEAKER_00Mendelssohn's Overture Reblast was written to accompany a benefit performance of the player the same name by Victor Hugo. Mendelssohn was no great fan of Hugo, and he certainly didn't need the money. And yet he's supposed to have said that a few of my works have caused me more amusing effects. The play itself is not a laugh minute. In fact, it's an out of tragedy. And although the overture does happen, I think the barely solid moment. I don't get a huge sense of overwhelming desire. Because it's a full of Mendelphones effort and orchestration. So maybe we were just having a little private laugh at human job. But Mendelson certainly has a sense of humor. So it might go some way to explain the amusing excitement that you talked about. The overture is performed here by the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Claudio Abado. In eighteen oh four, Baden dedicated his twenty first Planetonata to his friend and patron, Count Ferdinand and Gabriel von Walderstein. Since when it's always been known as the Waldersteinata. Marking a period in Canada Nata. The opening moment. I take nothing away from his agreements as a conductor. And by the way, as a live performance, but not as long as I can detect a note. Everything about it encompasses the genius of Aden. It's a parallel tuning into the very depths of humanity. Take a pause to give this your full attention. It's worth it. It's a little hard to know how to follow that, but I think we need something with a bit of meat on it. Step forward, Johannes Brahms, perhaps one of the greatest admirers of Beethoven in the 19th century. Of his four symphonies, his last is my favourite, and I think the most accomplished. The third movement is marked Allegro Yocorso, Menoplase, meaning lively in a cheerful manner and slowing down a bit. Not for very long. George Hell had a reputation for being a fierce dance master on the podium, but the sounds he managed to encourage from the Cleveland Orchestra are beyond dispute. So here they are in that third movement from Brahms' Fourth Symphony.