CSO - Beethoven's Ninth - free download MP3s

[frau kaleun]

Some of you may remember my obsession with Beethoven and the fact that I was going to see the Cincinnati Symphony's performance of his Ninth Symphony late last year.

Well, I went (twice) and it was awesome.

The performance - which also included Schoenberg's "A Survivor From Warsaw" - was part of their One City, One Symphony program, designed to bring the CSO experience to as many people as possible using as many media as possible.

With that in mind, they've made the recordings of one of the performances available for free download. If you're interested, they can be found here:

http://cincinnatisymphony.org/Content.php?id=29


Edit: aaaaand OMG OMG OMG I just looked at next year's schedule and they're doing #4, #5, and best of all... #8! Plus the 3rd piano concerto. Oh and they're also doing Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue and An American in Paris. I guess I better start saving up now.

[Skybird]

Edit: - Cleared. Temporary web failure only. -

I am not so much a Beethoven fan myself, but I know some people who would appreciate it. Thanks for the link.

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by Skybird

I am not so much a Beethoven fan myself

*head asplode*

[AVGWarhawk]

Rhapsody in Blue.

In grade school our class was taken once a year to the Baltimore Symphony. Many of my classmates would scoff at it. I always found it enjoyable. You would laugh. My 14 year old daughter listens to Beethoven while taking a shower. She love classical but still rocks to groups like Pierce the Veil.

[vienna]

Thanks for thr links, Frau; I've downloaded the 9th, but passed on the Schoenberg...

BTW, in the picture of the auditorium audience, which one is you? Or is the intent a sort of "Where's Waldo?", you know "Where's Frau?"...

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[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by vienna

Thanks for thr links, Frau; I've downloaded the 9th, but passed on the Schoenberg...

As did I.

I went to the first performance, on a Thursday evening, and the final one on the following Sunday afternoon. On Sunday there was a family sitting behind us, a mother and father and a boy of maybe 10-11 all dressed up in a suit jacket and bow tie. He was adorable. As we were filing out into the aisle to leave he was standing next to me and said "I really liked the symphony but that first piece was a little... odd."

"It's an acquired taste," I told him, "and I have yet to acquire it."

BTW, in the picture of the auditorium audience, which one is you? Or is the intent a sort of "Where's Waldo?", you know "Where's Frau?"...

I was about six rows back, dead center behind the conductor the first time, and maybe three rows back one section to the right of center on Sunday, at the far right end of the row.

But in both cases I was in the balcony, which means I was somewhere directly under all the people in the foreground of that picture. Which may have been taken at Saturday's performance, in which case I was probably at home puttering around in my jammies.

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by vienna

but passed on the Schoenberg...

My thoughts exactly. My father played in the German Symphony Orchestra. When a piece of so-called modern music was part of the program, many musicians used to have pills against headaches with them and hiddenly consumed them, when situation allowed. No joke. Nickname for Schoenberg and generally modern music was "Musik des Grauens" ("music of horror"). Directors sometimes love it, because it gives them a stage to make it into the news, the noisier the better. But musicians hate it, almost all of them. Modern music would not be performed, if it were up to the orchestra to decide. Back then there were three other orchestras in (West)Berlin. Musicians there did not see it any different than their colleagues in the DSO.

And the "partitions" the really modern Modern music has, not necessarily Schoenberg on mind. No notes and lines - but random Kritzelkrakel. Like what you see in comics when they use graphics to indicate wild cursing, a rumblefight or something like that. Noise, with the optimistically labelled "partition" just serving as an alibi.

Not everything new necessarily always is the art of the future. Sometimes garbage even after a hundred years still is just garbage. If it still is even remembered then.

[Sailor Steve]

Pretty dang cool!

And here I am collecting composers like Hildegard von Bingen, Perotin, Guillaume Dufay, Barbara Strozzi, and a host of others from the medieval and renaissance periods. I only have two copies of Beethoven's Ninth but I do have his Nine Variations for Piano on a march by Dressler, which he wrote when he was 12.

[Takeda Shingen]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Pretty dang cool!

And here I am collecting composers like Hildegard von Bingen, Perotin, Guillaume Dufay, Barbara Strozzi, and a host of others from the medieval and renaissance periods. I only have two copies of Beethoven's Ninth but I do have his Nine Variations for Piano on a march by Dressler, which he wrote when he was 12.

No Leonin? Also, check out Johannes Ockeghem and Josquin des Prez if you have not already. From the list you have given you'll dig their works, as you seem to be into the Franco-Flemish School.