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LudWig
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this is my favorite musical passage of all time, from opus 109 sonata, final movement, variation #6

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8ayD3BjplY#t=10m49s

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second all time favorite is the development section of the final movement of the opus 101 sonata -- a fugue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CktL6ggk0VY#t=16m05s

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Most epic?

Gonna have to say the near ending of the Pastoral Symphony.

Link.

I mean, even Disney recognized it when they put Apollo and his chariot of fire pulling the sun into sunset, and waving to all the centaurs, satyrs, pegasus, at this part of the song.

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LudWig
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Late Beethoven is on a higher plane of spirituality and transcendence.
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Though I adore the Pastoral ofc!
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Give me Pathetique and the 7th Symphony any day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpImPsVPteA

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Also just for you JB, here is the great Glen Gould performing the first movement of the Liszt transcription of Beethoven's 6th.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2_entmgsvs

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Beethoven is good and all, but if we are looking at most epic piece including but not limited to LvB, I think I will go with One Winged Angel.

https://youtu.be/Magg_RriiT4?t=69

[Razz]

*I'm done with the distracting*

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Love me some One Winged Angel, but I'm not sure it holds up to Beethoven's best.
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lvb originally intended this piece to be the middle movement of the Waldstein sonata but he ended up discarding it for reasons of structural integrity. A damn shame he couldn't make it work, because he was very proud of it, and it did become instantly popular in its day just like the ubiquitous (in cinema anyway) 2nd movement of the 7th symphony.

adante favori

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NOT Beethoven related but something interesting/funny I discovered last week re classical music.

In 1962 there was a performance of the Brahms d-minor piano concerto by the New York Philharmonic conducted by Leonard Bernstein. The soloist was Glenn Gould.

Bernstein submitted to Gould's artistic will as to how the piece should be performed (in an unorthodox way with a slower than usual tempo). But he felt the need to make a little speech before the performance distancing himself from the result. [Big Grin]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuxPKikM0NI&t

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I've heard that before and loved it. A funny and classy speech from Bernstein.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DB_lKSNwZZM
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