[5/22/2011] Music for a late-spring Sunday -- Beethoven's "Pastoral" Symphony (continued)

And here Myung-Whun Chung conducts the Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra in the first part of the first movement of Beethoven's Sixth Symphony, the Pastoral, in June 2006. (The conclusion of the movement is below.)


BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 6 in F, Op. 68 (Pastoral):
i. Awakening of Agreeable Impressions on Arrival in the Country: Allegro ma non troppo

Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner, cond. RCA/BMG, recorded 1961
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Klaus Tennstedt, cond. Live performance, July 27, 1975


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

Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Bruno Walter, cond. Columbia/CBS/Sony, recorded January 1958
Marlboro Festival Orchestra, Pablo Casals, cond. CBS/Sony, recorded live, 1969


BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 6 in F, Op. 68 (Pastoral):
iii. Merry Gathering of Peasants: Allegro
iv. Thunderstorm: Allegro
v. Shepherd's Song; Happy and Grateful Feelings After the Storm: Allegretto

Vienna Philharmonic, Pierre Monteux, cond. RCA/Decca, recorded 1958
Vienna Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein, cond. DG, recorded live, November 1978
NDR Symphony Orchestra (Hamburg), Günter Wand, cond. BMG, recorded live, Oct. 11-13, 1992


Here's the conclusion of the first movement of the Pastoral Symphony with Myung-Whun Chung conducting the Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra in June 2006.


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