Celebrate #Beethoven250, the 250th birthday of Ludwig van Beethoven, with daily postings of (mostly) live music performances in (roughly) chronological order.
Muss es sein? Es muss sein!
This is the last tweet. The contents of this feed have been moved to a spanking new website that I hope will be a useful resource for anyone wishing to explore the entire range of Beethoven’s music.
Thank you all!
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@HellTweet Is the libretto available anywhere (other than the vocal score)? I'm very interested in reading the poems etc before seeing the Met production.
@sarahfritzwritr I'll be there, but since "Carnegie Hall" includes Zankel and Weill, in which many song recitals take place, I suspect it's not Alma's debut.
@DrDavidVernon I remember Pierre Boulez conducting the NY Phil in a Webern piece, and then turning to the audience and saying "That was somewhat short, so let's hear it again."
@ThatEricAlper A "song" (to quote Wikipedia) "is a musical composition performed by the human voice."
There are very few songs without lyrics. An example of these rare exceptions is Rachmaninoff's "Vocalise."
@DrDavidVernon In 2020 I performed an extensive search of YouTube for live performances of Beethoven's folksong settings. Scroll to the bottom of this page for the complete list of what I found.
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@DrDavidVernon For sheer variety -- from Haydnesque classicism to proto-Bartokian modernism -- there's really only one choice. The string quartets alone would provide yearlong nourishment.
@sarahfritzwritr To me it was the chamber music that revealed the wonders of Brahms, and that required some maturity in my listening habits. Twenty-four brilliant works and not a clunker in the batch.