[5/20/2011] Preview: Rambling through the countryside with Beethoven and Berlioz (continued)

Leonard Bernstein conducts the Orchestre National de France in the first part of the third-movement "Scene in the Fields" from Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique (1976). The second part is below.


NO MORE CHATTER TONIGHT. JUST MUSIC.


BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 6 in F, Op. 68 (Pastoral):
ii. Scene by the Brook: Andante molto moto

Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy, cond. Columbia/CBS/Sony, recorded Jan. 26, 1966
Berlin Philharmonic, André Cluytens, cond. EMI, recorded March 1960


BERLIOZ: Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14:
iii. Scene in the Fields: Adagio

Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy, cond. Columbia/CBS/Sony, recorded c1960
Philharmonia Orchestra, André Cluytens, cond. EMI, recorded November 1958


Here's the completion of the "Scene in the Fields" from the Symphonie fantastique with Leonard Bernstein conducting the Orchestre National de France in 1976. (The whole performance is on YouTube.)


IN TOMORROW NIGHT'S PREVIEW --

We move on in Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony, and hear Otto Klemperer raise the question of how fast peasants dance. Then Sunday's post is all Pastoral.


RETURN TO THE BEGINNING OF THE POST

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