Glorious!
This is my favourite symphony…
As Wagner called it, "The Apotheosis of the Dance."
Who is the orchestra and conductor?
What prompted this was the fact that I heard the second movement on radio this morning, and thought.....aaaaah. Not quite that I wanted to bawl my eyes out - obviously, the piece alone invites that - but that it also reminded me of my mother's early preferences in classical music.
Anyway, I told my brother that my mother used to love it.
Actually, it was the first piece by Beethoven that my mother introduced me to, when I was a child. And I played it - the LP referred to below - to death.
She told me that, initially, when she first came to appreciate classical music, that she had preferred the Seventh, but came to really love the Sixth, and saluted elements of the Fifth.
Her copy of the Seventh - I am holding it as I write, is a LP, mono recording, Music For Pleasure Ltd. Drury House, Russell Street, London WC2, by EMI (The Gramophone Co Ltd): Symphony No 7 in A Major - Pittsburg Symphony Orchestra conducted by William Steinberg.
This LP is at least half a century old.
[doublepost=1548700335][/doublepost]The version I am listening to (on my iTunes library) comes courtesy of the Philadelphia Orchestra and Riccardo Muti.
I must invest in a good quality turntable and listen to my mother's (and father's) music.......
