Beethoven's 7th symphony

[cziffra]

i heard this live yesterday IN THE FRONT ROW!  it was brilliant!  i absolutely love this piece.

any thoughts or stories about it?

[Rach3]

agreed, brilliant piece, who conducted?

a story? the first time it was performed (Vienna?), the audience made the orchestra repeat the adagio in mid-symphony

[aileigc]

I love it. I cry to it. The second mov is the absolute dream of music. So tragically beautiful.

And, please don't take it lightly, this is not meant to be a joke,  the basis for my theory that Beethoven's music is very orgasmic. The two crescendos in the Adagio (around minute 2:40 and minute 6, if I recall - Rene Leibowitz conducting), are very similar to a sexual extasis.... Male, because I'm not a woman and have no idea if women's experience is similar to men's. Anyway, the way we feel the clymax coming, how it is retarded to the point of exhaustion and not being able to hold it any longer (especially the second time), and then the absolute release of a flow of joy
reminds me every time of an orgasm. The movement merely dies off in the final two minutes after that explosion.
Sorry for the words, I don't wish this to be shocking. It's just a theory. I've heard this kind of construction in other Beethoven's pieces, but strangely never noticed it anywhere else.

Let me state this again: Beethoven is my favourite composer by far, so I don't mean this as derogatory. It's merely an observation.

Alex

[cziffra]

certainly a unique theory...

chritopher franklin was the conductor, and he was BRILLIANT.