my favorite part of the 3rd symphony

[Sophia]

I just discovered in the first movement of the 3rd symphony a part that always impressed me but just now I realised how perfect it is: it's the climax somewhere in the development section, where the whole orchestra ascends an reaches an extremely dissonant chord (f-a-c- e natural-f). The chord, and especially the interval of the minor second (e-f) in the upper register is repeated obsessively, you could even say angrily, and it doesn't let you go, not even for a second. And after that, a third subject, lyrical and closed to itself, in e minor!!! (the symphony is in e flat major)

That part is extraordinarily sublime...

[Peter]

Yes and totally revolutionary, nothing like it had been heard before and it must have ruffled a few powdered wigs!

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'Man know thyself'

[Stargazer78]

Originally posted by Sophia:
I just discovered in the first movement of the 3rd symphony a part that always impressed me but just now I realised how perfect it is: it's the climax somewhere in the development section, where the whole orchestra ascends an reaches an extremely dissonant chord (f-a-c- e natural-f). The chord, and especially the interval of the minor second (e-f) in the upper register is repeated obsessively, you could even say angrily, and it doesn't let you go, not even for a second. And after that, a third subject, lyrical and closed to itself, in e minor!!! (the symphony is in e flat major)

That part is extraordinarily sublime...

That has always been one of my favored parts of the whole symphony, the more angry and violent the execution (as in Toscanini live performance), the greater effect it has on me.

[Joy]

Mine too! Sublime and revolutionary is right. A masterpiece! The first movement has always been one of my favourites as well.

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'Truth and beauty joined'

[Sorrano]

Originally posted by Peter:
Yes and totally revolutionary, nothing like it had been heard before and it must have ruffled a few powdered wigs!

And unseated a few of the more traditionalists.