Each note of the ascending scales in the prologue is a puff of Schlag atop rows and rows of Sachertorte. On everyone’s top ten list, this is the version that radiates light and love and sprinkles irresistible charm at each barline. (And couldn’t we all use a little human triumph about now?) Norman tells me that the seventh symphony is up next, and we already know better than to offend our audience by claiming that one version is the “best ever,” and so I will leave it to you to decide which Beethoven 7th YOU need right now, in this bizarre time.ĭoes your body need sunlight and vitamin D to ramp up your immune system? Then go for Carlos Kleiber’s 1976 Vienna recording. We have donated the ticket costs and cancelled our travel, and all that is left is for us to play some of the late bagatelles on our piano that desperately needs a socially distanced tuning, or to scroll through an overtaxed youtube to get our fix of this titan, the man who changed sonata form forever and transformed the symphony into an expression of indefatigable human triumph. One of the most bitter casualties of the Great Virus of 2020, Beethoven lost out on all of his 250th birthday celebrations worldwide. Welcome to the 81st work in the Slipped Disc/Idagio Beethoven Editionīefore we come down to the final selection, pianist Lori Kaufman in Chicago has sent us these thoughts of pressing relevance:
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