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Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast

Schubert Symphony No. 9, "The Great"

Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast

Joshua Weilerstein

Clarinet, Timpani, Performing, Trombone, Cello, Trumpet, Bassoon, Classicalmusic, Performing Arts, Arts, Violin, Flute, Piano, Conductor, Music, Weilerstein

4.92.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

The pianist Andras Schiff on Schubert: “There is a folk song like simplicity in Schubert’s Music; his music is never crowded. He does not want to impress you or overwhelm you. He tells you a very simple story and invites you by very simple means to come and join him and share his thoughts.” It's hard to describe an hour long piece as simple, but Schiff's description applies to this massive, majestic, and yes, simple(in the best way) symphony. This week, we'll talk all about this mesmerizing symphony.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and I'm a

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a musical music podcast.

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Hello and welcome to Sticky Notes to Classical Music Podcast.

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My name is Joshua Wilerstein, I'm a conductor, and I'm the artistic director of the

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Lozan Chamber Orchestra in Lausanne, Switzerland.

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This podcast is for anyone who loves classical music, works in the field, or is just getting

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ready to dive in to this amazing world of incredible music.

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Before we get started I want to think my new Patreon sponsors, Shubam, Ed, Daniela, Christina,

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and all of my other Patreon sponsors for making season six and the show possible.

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If you'd like to support the show, please head over to patreon.com slash sticky notes podcast.

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And one more thing, if you are a fan of the show, please just take a moment to give us a rating or review on Apple podcasts.

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Every rating or review helps more people find the show, and it is greatly appreciated.

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Thanks, and on to Schubert's Ninth Symphony The Great. the A review of Schubers-9 9th Symphony by Robert Schuman.

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Quote, here beside sheer musical mastery of the technique of composition is life in every fiber, color in the finest shadings, meaning everywhere, the acutest

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etching of detail, and all flooded with the romanticism which we have encountered elsewhere

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in Franz Schubert.

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And this heavenly length, like a fat novel in four volumes by Jean-Paul,

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Never-ending, and if only that the reader may go on creating in the same vein afterwards.

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It is still evidence of an extraordinary talent

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that he who heard so little of his own instrumental work during his lifetime

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could achieve such an idiomatic treatment,

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both of individual instruments and of the whole orchestra, securing an effect as of human voices and chorus and discourse.

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