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Re:The story behind Beethoven's “Ode to Joy” by zasdffaa on Saturday May 28, 2022 @09:17AM (#31540110)
"fiendishly tough on both audiences" is this a way of saying it's not very nice without saying it?

(Thanks for the YT link to it, nice touch)

Re:The story behind Beethoven's “Ode to Joy” by jethkl on Saturday May 28, 2022 @09:30AM (#31540193)
At the end of the YT video, the audience applause seems tepid, nobody stands, and yet the performers must be exhausted. (I think it's a great performance.) There's no singable theme, nothing really catchy, just 15 minutes of pretty intense focus required by everybody. For me, it's completely gripping - it can't be background music and I cannot do other work if it is playing. I think it is somehow alien, and so it will never be as widely celebrated as his other works.
Re:The story behind Beethoven's “Ode to Joy” by funstuff007 on Saturday May 28, 2022 @09:31AM (#31540199)
Indeed, listening to 2/3rds of it left me in a fugue-like state.