Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 "Pastoral" [Böhm & VPO] (with Score)

Ludwig van Beethoven:
Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 "Pastoral" (with Score)
Composed: 1808
Conductor: Karl Böhm
Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic
00:00 1. Erwachen heiterer Empfindungen bei der Ankunft auf dem Lande (Awakening of happy feelings on arriving in the country). Allegro ma non troppo (F major)
12:22 2. Scene am Bach (Scene by the Brook). Andante molto moto (B-flat major)
26:20 3. Lustiges Zusammensein der Landleute (Peasant's merrymaking). Allegro (F major)
32:09 4. Gewitter. Sturm (The storm). Allegro (F minor)
35:50 5. Hirtengesang. Frohe und dankbare Gefühle nach dem Sturm (Shepherds' song. Joyous thanksgiving after the storm). Allegretto (F major)
For roughly 175 years, the music appreciation racket has told us that Beethoven composed symphonies in contrasting odd-even pairs after 1803, none more startling than the heaven-storming Fifth and bucolic Sixth. Originally, however, he assigned the designation of "No. 5" to the Pastoral for their shared debut on surely the most historic night in Western music, December 22, 1808. Beginning at 6:30 p.m. in the unheated Theater an der Wien, he premiered both symphonies, the Fourth Piano Concerto, "Choral" Fantasy, "Ah! perfido!" (a concert aria from 1796), and introduced a Viennese audience to excerpts from the C major Mass, an Esterházy commission of 1807 that Prince Nicolaus II disliked when he heard it.
Beethoven began making specific notes for a "Sinfonia pastorale" in 1806, but didn't complete the work until 1808, in the village of Heiligenstadt northwest of Vienna. If this had been an unlikely hatchery in 1807 for the fist-brandishing Fifth Symphony, it perfectly suited -- as he noted in his sketchbook -- "recollections of country life...more the expression of feeling than of painting" in his ensuing woodwind-drenched symphony (although violins get first crack at nine of its 12 significant themes).
"Cheerful impressions wakened by arrival in the country" (Allegro ma non troppo, in F major, 2/4) is the first movement. It is in sonata form, pretty much by the book, with violins introducing all themes. The second-movement "Scene by the brook" (Andante molto moto, in B flat major and 12/8 time) is a Sonata structure again, but more relaxed, with a limpid main theme for violins and a bassoon sub-theme. In the coda, the flute impersonates a nightingale, the oboe a quail, and the clarinet a cuckoo. The third movement, "Merry gathering of country folk" (Allegro, 3/4 time, F major), is an expanded song-and-trio, with a 2/4 section in "tempo d'Allegro" that creates the effect of an ABCABCA structure, leading without pause to the fourth movement, "Thunderstorm; tempest" (Allegro; F minor, 4/4). From the first raindrop to last, this is purely depictive music. It is followed by a 10-bar chorale that segues the final "Shepherd's song; glad and grateful tidings after the storm" (Allegretto; F major, 6/8), a sonata-rondo, whose C-section some have called a development section. The fun includes a sly parody of amateur musicians before the long, progressively tranquil coda that ends with a pianistic gesture: two fortissimo chords. (www.allmusic.com/composition/...)

[@TGMGame]

usually i cry when i get to the last page. as soon as i got to the 5th movement, i started bawling. this piece is my favorite. a lot of things are going on in my life right now and this performance became a trigger to let all of those pent-up emotions out. if anyone asks to know whats going on, i wont hesitate to tell yall.

[@vespid8960]

I love how this symphony is very much a literal trip, I love taking long walks while listening to this.

[@myflutemusic]

Flute solos: 1 mvt - 00:48 / 01:35 / 11:51 2 mvt - 17:58 / 25:02 3 mvt - 26:26 / 31:43 4 mvt - 35:45 5 mvt - 39:43

[@Dylonely42]

One of the most joyful musical pieces ever composed. This makes me illustrate in my mind a beautiful campaign with happy farmers.

[@SjbjSamueledYTchannel2021]

This is Symphony 6, and I play this video when I have a school picnic. Nice.😊

[@davemiller7633]

RECHARGING TO THE SOUL

[@vespid8960]

This symphony is so clever, the creativity of Beethoven is apparent here.

[@averyj3247]

Delightful - simply delightful.

[@jauscielingjauquae3539]

This and all of these so far greatly played and conducted. Even the ones I missed commenting on. BRAVO to all of you.

[@Don-bv3px]

the best rendition

[@CraigRodmellMusic]

Thank you.

[@detectivehome3318]

Bravo! For once you've used the absolute BEST RECORDING. This video won't have competition for long.

[@soutteruk1]

Klemperer, my boy ... Klemperer ...

[@natcharmusic]

This recording is way too slow the second movement is a snooze fest this symphony shouldnt be almost 50 minutes! I will say the style is perfect and the intonation is great, but way to slow

[@detectivehome3318]

@@natcharmusic the 2nd movement is just about ideal for me; it's just so gorgeous 😭

[@denhorn5]

9:15~ Corni この録音にしかない倍音の良い響き。

[@nachito2002x]

Dato muy útil: La sinfonía rompió con el molde clásico, ya que es la única que Beethoven compuso en cinco movimientos, a diferencia de los cuatro tradicionales.

[@jameshaydn3341]

(34:18) Beautiful entry of the piccolo. If you only have so few bars, you are absolutly entitled to use them and to stand out. The piccolo is an instrument which is there to stand out. Otherwise it wouldn't sound right (my opinion)...

[@Positions-xh4bx]

yessie bANGER

[@andresacosta4832]

You gotta tell them...SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!

[@bigbeepian224]

26:24 how people think my life is Like 32:09 how it actually is

[@porogragas]

19:13

[@Raffael-Tausend]

quite slow performance