Beethoven is the saint of music, a music lover, whether you are a first glimpse of the mystery, or a small experience, or even listen to the door to the very fine, Beethoven is a must listen to. If you are a music layman, if the “To Alice” and “Moonlight Sonata” coming from the next doorway often makes your heart thump, this is a pretty good start. If you want to take the taste further, we suggest that you must start with the symphony. Beethoven himself is the same word of the symphony, he is proud of this head, no one else; secondly, the first listeners like to move more than quiet, appreciate the attention easily distracted away, and Beethoven’s symphony atmosphere, lively, ups and downs, when you can bring a huge impact and shock, to your fear of music in one fell swoop.
Why not listen to “Sixth” first, then “Fourth The “Fourth”. These two songs in the momentum and strength, both a thousand tenderness – of course, the hero’s tenderness, natural and open, sincere and broad, never with a trace of artifice, taste is very high, can be called the most beautiful. As for the third “Hero” and the fifth “Field “and so on, the melody is really not strong, the degree is actually quite difficult (I listened to music for ten years, to this day also just listened to some taste), and the latter is very heavy in the words of the adulteration, not suitable for the first listen.
If the above two pieces still sound good to the ears, the next anyway to see the “Violin Concerto in D major”. This is the world’s greatest violin concerto, even the first few timpani taps are masterful, if the ensuing strings are a gust of warm and strong wind, then the solo violin response is the wind in the exciting and singing, flying higher and higher lark. Another piece, the Romance in F Major, is a “super mini violin concerto”, very short, but delicate and delicate, with a delicate flavor, and is also very suitable for the elegant and vulgar. It is also very elegant.
The next step is to learn the piano concerto of Lao Bei. The piano is his old profession, and of course he is very good at it. It is not difficult to appreciate the strength, the spirit and the mind of an emperor in the Fifth Piano Concerto “Emperor”. Ah, Beethoven the Great! Of course, the “Emperor” is perhaps a little too hot and outgoing, and introverted listeners should also hear his best Piano Concerto No. 4, which is entirely Greek tragic atmosphere and realm.
If one can make some sense of the Fourth Piano Concerto, one should be able to enter the world of Beethoven’s solo and chamber music. First, of course, is the Piano Sonata, known as the New Testament of the piano. My first strong recommendation is the familiar “Pathétique Sonata”. The most annoying thing is that its soft movement has been adapted into all kinds of extremely vulgar and vulgar orchestra pieces and light music (trumpet solos, saxophone solos, etc.). Be sure to listen to the original. If you can hear the subtle changes in atmosphere and mood when the accompaniment pattern is changed to triplets in the recapitulation of the theme of the second movement (Ah, how simple and effective!) If you can hear the subtle changes in atmosphere and mood after the change of the accompaniment pattern to triplets in the recapitulation of the theme of the second movement (how simple and effective!), then you will be qualified to smile with the master.
Pathétique is so remarkable, but it is only the work of Beethoven in his early years, and his masterpiece in his middle age is even more remarkable. Those who have watched the Japanese TV series “Maiden of Doubt” will certainly be impressed by the recurrence of the final movement of the “Passion Sonata”. The rapid flow of that music is indeed such as Mount Lushan waterfall, thrilling, called the air can not breathe. Incidentally, the Nogawa snow lady played really not good.
I prefer the “Waldstein”, also known as “Dawn”. The first movement of this piece really awakened all my memories of the dawn and sunrise. This is supposed to be the world of light: from the initial shimmering morning sunlight, it evolves into the interweaving, jumping, refracting and wandering of light from heaven and earth at dawn, eventually converging into a brilliant and magnificent sunrise. The second movement is said to represent the astronomy enthusiast’s stargazing at night, which is also possible. Listening to this vast starry sky, magnificent and lofty, it seems to be able to temporarily wash away the vulgarity of my mediocre mortal body.
Strangely enough, I don’t like all the legendary heroic stories of Beethoven (most of them are highly unreliable) and the theme of the so-called struggle against fate, but I always prefer his tender, sentimental and meticulous side. The ten violin sonatas are the best representatives of this side of Beethoven that I am attracted to. The first one to listen to is, of course, the Spring Sonata. The opening violin’s continuous, long, soothing, long, rounded playing against the piano’s clear, decomposed chords is clearly a river of spring water flowing to the east. It is very clear, but it is not a word of “sorrow”. The Ninth Violin Sonata, commonly known as “Kleitsch”, is also very famous. It may be a bit more difficult. However, if you read through Tolstoy’s novel of the same name, you may be able to understand it better, and vice versa. This is no longer the trickle of spring, but the fire and summer heat of passion. The harmony and entanglement of the violin and the piano are truly like two lovers in life and death. No wonder the hero and heroine of the novel burst into a surging love affair when they play this dangerous piece together.
We are finally coming to the end of Beethoven’s masterpiece. What can we hear in late Beethoven? Beethoven grew deeper and more complex with age, so much so that he left his contemporaries far behind. His contemporaries knew that his late works were great, but they were hopelessly distant because they couldn’t understand them. In fact, to be frank, we 20th century people do not feel the same way, are we not left far behind by Lao Bei? We worshipped and worshipped before those works numbered 101 and later, but we didn’t know what to do (note: this view has now changed). So we prefer to listen to his mid-career works. There are exceptions, of course, such as the great Ninth Symphony, which is truly a monumental monument and a great symbol of human civilization.
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