Beethoven Symphony No. 8
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast
Joshua Weilerstein
4.9 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2021
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
In 1812, Beethoven's life was in ruins. He was embroiled in court battles, pining away for his "Immortal Beloved," and profoundly depressed. His musical response is one of his funniest, most charming, and most "classical" symphonies - the 8th. This is an underappreciated work that confused audiences of the time because it sounded almost experimental. So in the same vein, I'm going to reprise my live commentary experiment from my Marriage of Figaro episode and talk you through the entire symphony! Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Sticky Nuts, the Classical Music Podcast. |
| 0:09.5 | My name is Joshua Weiderstein, I'm a conductor, and I'm the artistic director of the Luzon |
| 0:13.0 | Chamber Orchestra and Luzon Switzerland, and the music director of the Phoenix Orchestra |
| 0:16.8 | of Boston. |
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| 0:53.3 | So I'm back in London, finally, after a sort of back-to-work world tour that took me |
| 0:57.8 | from Luzon to Amsterdam to Indianapolis to Copenhagen, and now back home. |
| 1:02.8 | I'm very lucky to be fully vaccinated so these trips weren't particularly stressful, except |
| 1:07.4 | for the amount of paperwork one needs to travel with these days. |
| 1:10.8 | I'm back home now for two weeks before going back to the US and to my debut with the San |
| 1:14.8 | Francisco Symphony, followed by my final two weeks working as artistic director of the |
| 1:19.4 | Luzon Chamber Orchestra, where we're going to be doing a sort of live podcast with the |
| 1:23.7 | orchestra on Brahms Symphony No. 1, which will be shared with my Patreon subscribers, |
| 1:28.7 | a recording, and my final concert featuring Kodai's dances of Galanta, and Brahms' first |
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