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Post Subject: "Closure"Posted by Paul S on: 4/13/2014
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It seems to me that in terms of notes and sequences, the themes, broadly speaking, +/- "follow", but the spirit, tempi and mood (at least of the Solti performance), and even the extended chord structures seem somehow disconnected from what has transpired in the first 3 movements. I am stretching when I say, the 4th movement also sounds "public" to me, and yes, some "buoyancy", but it sounds oddly like "putting on a front" vs. "affirmation", though perhaps that's the particular performance. Again, the horns are amazing and profound, but they alternate with something else that I have not connected to, based on anything else I've heard to that point. I have had similar feelings about the ending of Beethoven's 9th, after that chorale. Just wondering if I am missing something, or...
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