Beethoven Symphony No. 6, "Pastoral"

Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast

Joshua Weilerstein

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🗓️ 17 May 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Beethoven once said: “No one can love the country as much as I do. For surely woods, trees, and rocks produce the echo which man desires to hear.” There's no better example of Beethoven's love of nature than in his 6th symphony, where he takes simplicity to new heights, transforming the motivic cells that relentlessly drove his 5th symphony into motifs of bucolic joy. It still astounds me that the 5th and 6th symphonies were written simultaneously. Join us to learn about this most beautiful symphony..

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Sticky Notes, the classical music podcast.
0:06.0	My name is Joshua Weilstein, I'm a conductor, and I'm the artistic director of the Lozon
0:09.8	Chamber Orchestra in Lozon, Switzerland, and the music director of the Phoenix Orchestra
0:13.6	of Boston.
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0:18.6	ready to dive into this amazing world of incredible music.
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0:50.8	So I literally just landed back in London from a long trip from Indianapolis, had a wonderful
0:56.4	time.
0:57.4	My first concert in front of a live audience in about six months.
1:00.5	With the Indianapolis Symphony, we did a program of Chevalier de Saint Georges, Second Symphony,
1:05.1	Revelle Stombo de Couperre, and Beethoven's 7th Symphony, which is coming up on Thursday.
1:11.1	Then tomorrow, I'm heading off to Denmark to record a new harp concerto by the wonderful
1:16.6	Danish composer Martin Stounning.
1:19.0	So it's kind of the back to work world tour at the moment.
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