MEDIUM Vinyl Record
WEIGHT 2 x 180gr (black vinyl) 33rpm
CONDITION sealed
COVER Gatefold
CONDITION COVER M mint
SERIALNUMBER Yes
LIMITED Yes, to 2000
MISCELLANEOUS Stereo
COVER DAMAGES No, we take care about that
MUSICIAN HOMEPAGE --
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Karl Böhm - conducting
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770 – 1827)
symphony no. 6 "pastorale" f-dur op. 68
allegro ma non troppo - 9:52
andante molto moto - 11:56
allegro IV - allegro V - allegretto - 19:02
egmont op. 84
sostenuto, ma non troppo - allegro - 9:25
In 1803 Beethoven jotted down in his notebook: “Babbling brooks, andante molt[o], the larger the brook the deeper the tone” and wrote out initial sketches for the dance rhythm of the third movement
Five years later he labelled the first three movement as scenes: “Scene: Arrival in the countryside [and] effect on the mood”, “Scene by the brook”, and “Scene: Festive gathering”, to which he added “Even without descriptions the whole will be heard more as expression than as tone-painting”
In the end he prefixed the symphony with the words “More expression of feeling than painting”
Though the symphony was inspired by impressions of nature (Beethoven called it “Pastoral Symphony, or Recollection of Country Life”), this F major composition is not intent on describing natural events
Rather, it was the idea of nature itself that he poured into the form of the symphony, giving it five instead of the customary four movements
Thematically, the work is basically constructed of triads
The opening of the first movement already states the formative material of the following Allegro, which owes its characteristic colour not least of all to sustained pitches suggesting bagpipes and hurdy-gurdy
The “Scene by the brook”, with its onomatopoeic allusions to birdsong, is conceived as an expanded rondo
Whether or not the cry of the cuckoo struck a special chord with Gustav Mahler, just such a cry is found in the opening of his First Symphony
RECORDING 24 - 26 May 1971 at Grosser Saal of the Wiener Musikverein
ENGINEERING Günter Hermanns
LABEL Deutsche Grammophone
RE MASTERING Georg Burdicek
RE RELEASED 2018
AVERAGE RATING 4 ½ Stars out of 5
PRESSING by Pallas
MADE IN Germany
STYLE Classic / Symphony
AVAILABLE as long as inventory
