Happy Birthday Luigi

[iroveashe]

It's Beethoven's 239th birthday today

Does anyone else celebrate it by hearing hours of his music?

[m19834]

Does anyone else celebrate it by hearing hours of his music?

Yes, sure !  I will just happen to be playing on the piano at the same time I am listening !

[pianowolfi]

Molto molto grazie Luigi! E tanti auguri di buon compleanno!

[littletune]

well im listening to: Beethoven Piano Sonata no. 32 in C minor, op. 111 posted by furtwaengler in audition room. (huh it wasn't so easy to write all this hope i havent made too many mistakes!) and im listening to it since yesterday whenever i can and im liking it every time more!

[iroveashe]

well im listening to: Beethoven Piano Sonata no. 32 in C minor, op. 111 posted by furtwaengler in audition room. (huh it wasn't so easy to write all this hope i havent made too many mistakes!) and im listening to it since yesterday whenever i can and im liking it every time more!

You got the name correct.

I tend to listen to orchestral music for this ocassions since I play him on the piano pretty much every day. It seems the day after his 38th birthday, he gave a colossal concert, the program being: the 5th and 6th Symphony, the Piano Concerto in G, Sanctus & Gloria of the C major Mass, the Choral Fantasy, an Aria and finally Beethoven improvising at the piano. Apparently the concert was a disaster but it'd be fantastic to be able to see something like that nowadays.

[furtwaengler]

You got the name correct.

I tend to listen to orchestral music for this ocassions since I play him on the piano pretty much every day. It seems the day after his 38th birthday, he gave a colossal concert, the program being: the 5th and 6th Symphony, the Piano Concerto in G, Sanctus & Gloria of the C major Mass, the Choral Fantasy, an Aria and finally Beethoven improvising at the piano. Apparently the concert was a disaster but it'd be fantastic to be able to see something like that nowadays.

It was done! On the 200 hundredth anniversary of the occasion, the full program was played with different performers. It apparently went much better this time around.

It's kind of late for planning, but this birthday, I could hear, maybe the Fine Arts Quartet play the Rasumovsky's and op. 132 from the WFMT set...or this would seem a nice opportunity to compare transfers of Wilhelm Furtwängler's last performance of the 9th Symphony with the great Philharmonia in Lucerne, August 22, 1954. I've had the Tahra for a long time, and it is great sound, full impact, but I found the Music & Arts sealed in a second hand shop and couldn't resist grabbing it. It's been a couple months and it's still sealed...perfect excuse, perfect opportunity. (I like this Furtwängler)

[iroveashe]

It was done! On the 200 hundredth anniversary of the occasion, the full program was played with different performers. It apparently went much better this time around.

It's kind of late for planning, but this birthday, I could hear, maybe the Fine Arts Quartet play the Rasumovsky's and op. 132 from the WFMT set...or this would seem a nice opportunity to compare transfers of Wilhelm Furtwängler's last performance of the 9th Symphony with the great Philharmonia in Lucerne, August 22, 1954. I've had the Tahra for a long time, and it is great sound, full impact, but I found the Music & Arts sealed in a second hand shop and couldn't resist grabbing it. It's been a couple months and it's still sealed...perfect excuse, perfect opportunity. (I like this Furtwängler)

Ah well, I'm afraid I wasn't alive then, what a shame. Still, not the same without B freely improvising for about two hours though 

[furtwaengler]

Ah well, I'm afraid I wasn't alive then, what a shame. Still, not the same without B freely improvising for about two hours though 

You weren't alive December 22, 2008? (The original concert in 1808, was actually few days after his 38th birthday).

[iroveashe]

You weren't alive December 22, 2008? (The original concert in 1808, was actually few days after his 38th birthday).

Haha, I read it as if it was the 200th anniversary of his birthday, not of the concert. In the biography I'm reading it says it was December 17th though.

[furtwaengler]

Beethoven-Akademie 1808

Ludwig van Beethoven

Symphonie Nr. 6, F-Dur, op. 68, "Pastorale" 39:38

Ah perfido! ** 12:28
Szene und Arie für Sopran und Orchester, op. 65

Gloria aus der Messe C-Dur, op. 86 * 9:25

Klavierkonzert Nr. 4, G-Dur, op. 58 30:43

Symphonie Nr. 5, c-Moll, op. 67 34:38

Sanctus aus der Messe C-Dur, op. 86 * 9:30

Fantasie für Klavier,
Chor und Orchester c-Moll, op. 80 * 17:35

Annette Dasch, Sopran **
Boris Berezovsky, Klavier

Anja Nina Bahrmann/Sopran*
Magdalena Anna Hofmann/Mezzosopran*
Gergely N meti/Tenor*
Klemens Sander/Bass*

Arnold Schoenberg Chor
Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien
Dirigent: Bertrand de Billy

Theater an der Wien, 22. Dezember 2008

The info's copied and pasted from a broadcast.
(Add two hours of Beethoven improvisation, and it's still not as long as Parsifal.)