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&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&complete the work until 1808...