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    #121
    My dad used to tell me about good classical music back in the 1970s. He got me to pickup a copy of Beethoven's 5th and 3rd.
    Very unlike my dear old Dad who doesn't like classical music at all!

    I was turned on to the Ninth by my boss at a screen print shop about 1980.
    A boss with excellent taste!

    Was away from classical for many years and got back into it about 2011.
    I won't ask what you were listening to all those years hehe.


    Anyway, I naturally gravitated to Beethoven as he seems to be unique among composers, and more important, his music is fantastic, wonderful and amazing to say the least. Seriously, I think other than Handel's Messiah, I could be quite content with nothing but Beethoven.
    I know what you mean...his music has something very unique...and often transcendent. I also like Chopin very much- he brought me to classical music, and I also like Schubert, the Schumanns, Mozart and Tchaikovsky.

    But Beethoven...he is just my favourite...I've been listening a lot to his violin sonatas lately, and string music..I cannot fathom what it is what he did with violins, but they sound like nothing else! The Kreutzer is sublime.
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Den Sie wenn Sie wollten
    Doch nicht vergessen sollten

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      #122
      Actually started in rock music and added classical to my listening experiences. Didn't listen to much music at all for probably 15+ years. When I got back into it in 2009 was when I discovered mp3 players. Then I proceeded to buy every Johnny Winter CD I could get my hands on and played nothing but Johnny Winter for two years. Still find that nothing compares to Johnny's guitar playing (well nowadays he is not the guitar slinger he used to be), then on the spur of the moment I switched to classical for about 9 months. I got to where all I was listening to was Beethoven piano sonatas, then added violin and other works. Suddenly I switched when I discovered Bob Dylan, collecting about 35 CDs, then Neil Young, collecting about 25 CDs, but have been onto pretty much nothing but classical since last Sept. Still love Johnny, Bob, and Neil.

      I went totally vocal in classical last fall (used to say I hated vocal but for the Ninth and Messiah), listening to any Beethoven vocal work and religious works of Handel, Vivaldi, Bach, Haydn, Cherubini, and Mozart. But recently I decided it is time to focus Beethoven. Am only a small way in, right now working through the symphonies in my Bruno Walter set, but greatly anticipating the Gunter Wand set I just ordered. But am very familiar with the masses, Choral Fantasy, Fidelio, Christ on the Mount of Olives, and Egmont. That is the short story.
      "Life is too short to spend it wandering in the barren Sahara of musical trash."
      --Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff

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        #123
        A journey indeed Harvey! Oh I love the Choral Fantasy- it's brilliant!
        Ludwig van Beethoven
        Den Sie wenn Sie wollten
        Doch nicht vergessen sollten

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          #124
          Currently listening to Beethoven's 1st and 2nd Symphonies by Karajan.
          For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. - John 3:16

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            #125
            Ludwig's string quartet opus 132....omg....no words are adequate...I am floating...
            Ludwig van Beethoven
            Den Sie wenn Sie wollten
            Doch nicht vergessen sollten

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              #126
              Quartet, Opus 131 in C# minor (one of only two works in this key by LvB).

              Schubert requested that this masterpiece be played at his deathbed. He said that he wanted it to be the last music he ever heard on earth. He got his wish. Five days later he died - he was 31 years old.

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                #127
                Originally posted by Rocco View Post
                Currently listening to Beethoven's 1st and 2nd Symphonies by Karajan.
                The 2nd was the last Beethoven symphony I heard. Fell in love with it immediately. So many harmonic tricks, devious diversions, marvellous melodies - no wonder the ladies swooned! I sense a burgeoning power which he was struggling to contain before finally "letting go" of all conventional constraints with his next symphonic opus.

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                  #128
                  The symphonies are fantastic!
                  Today I got a used copy Beethoven's Triple Concerto for Piano, Violin, Cello, and Orchestra (Op 56) paired with the Septet for Violin, Viola, Clarinet, Horn, Bassoon, Cello, and Double Bass (Op 20) conducted by David Zinman.
                  "Life is too short to spend it wandering in the barren Sahara of musical trash."
                  --Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff

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                    #129
                    Originally posted by PDG View Post
                    The 2nd was the last Beethoven symphony I heard. Fell in love with it immediately. So many harmonic tricks, devious diversions, marvellous melodies - no wonder the ladies swooned! I sense a burgeoning power which he was struggling to contain before finally "letting go" of all conventional constraints with his next symphonic opus.
                    Swooning ladies... yes...I can imagine that!
                    Ludwig van Beethoven
                    Den Sie wenn Sie wollten
                    Doch nicht vergessen sollten

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                      #130
                      Originally posted by Harvey View Post
                      The symphonies are fantastic!
                      Today I got a used copy Beethoven's Triple Concerto for Piano, Violin, Cello, and Orchestra (Op 56) paired with the Septet for Violin, Viola, Clarinet, Horn, Bassoon, Cello, and Double Bass (Op 20) conducted by David Zinman.

                      Happy listening Harvey!
                      Ludwig van Beethoven
                      Den Sie wenn Sie wollten
                      Doch nicht vergessen sollten

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                        #131
                        Listened to all 9 of Beethoven's symphonies yesterday. Ended with the 9th. It was glorious!
                        For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. - John 3:16

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                          #132
                          Originally posted by Rocco View Post
                          Listened to all 9 of Beethoven's symphonies yesterday. Ended with the 9th. It was glorious!
                          In the one day? Well done!

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                            #133
                            Originally posted by Michael View Post
                            In the one day? Well done!
                            Yes, all in one day.....once I got started I couldn't stop until I heard them all...
                            For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. - John 3:16

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                              #134
                              Originally posted by Rocco View Post
                              Listened to all 9 of Beethoven's symphonies yesterday. Ended with the 9th. It was glorious!
                              Wow...you must have been on cloud 9!
                              Ludwig van Beethoven
                              Den Sie wenn Sie wollten
                              Doch nicht vergessen sollten

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                                #135
                                This morning:
                                Liszt: Piano Concerto "in the Hungarian Style"
                                Albinoni: Adagio in g

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