You should have seen my 3-year-old's face recently when we got a new CD player for the kitchen and I pulled out my CD and started singing along at the top of my lungs. German is just so much fun to bellow. SEID UMSCHLUNGEN MILLIONEN! DIESEN KUSS DER GANZEN WELT! "Uh, mom...?" *child backing away slowly*
yeah...anyway...so I sang in the choir for that one when I was in college, and it was teh awesome.
Everyone should represent to Ode to Joy. And that's regardless of how many of them have seen A Clockwork Orange. ;-)
The whole symphony is just amazing. The instrumental parts are good. The vocal parts are good. The fast parts are good. The slow parts are good. Each movement by itself, to me, could stand alone as a solid piece of music. All of them together makes about 70 minutes of kickass.
And I do agree, Beethoven's 5th is even more powerful in a way. But it's the chorale of the 9th that gives it that microscopic edge over the 5th, for me. Heck, throw in the 6th and the 1st, and it's a tough call for third place.
I listened to the 5th every night when I was going to sleep, as a kid, for years and years. So I have a special nostalgia for it. But yeah, the chorale gives the 9th an edge, probably.
You should have seen my 3-year-old's face recently when we got a new CD player for the kitchen and I pulled out my CD and started singing along at the top of my lungs. German is just so much fun to bellow. SEID UMSCHLUNGEN MILLIONEN! DIESEN KUSS DER GANZEN WELT! "Uh, mom...?" *child backing away slowly*
yeah...anyway...so I sang in the choir for that one when I was in college, and it was teh awesome.
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The whole symphony is just amazing. The instrumental parts are good. The vocal parts are good. The fast parts are good. The slow parts are good. Each movement by itself, to me, could stand alone as a solid piece of music. All of them together makes about 70 minutes of kickass.
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Laufet, Bruder! :P
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And I do agree, Beethoven's 5th is even more powerful in a way. But it's the chorale of the 9th that gives it that microscopic edge over the 5th, for me. Heck, throw in the 6th and the 1st, and it's a tough call for third place.
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