Recommendations
Posted: 05 Nov 2014, 21:33
Can anyone recommend a good recording of Beethoven's 5th? It should be an excellent test piece, but I've been totally put off a lot of versions recently by the insipid approach to the opening phrase. After all, the piece is supposed to express Beethoven's rage against the inevitable onset of his deafness, and the orchestra should have those eight notes to express all that rage and bitterness and anger, but they just seem to play the "ba-ba-ba-baarp, ba-ba-ba-baarp" as if they're bored on a rainy day - no bite or passion about the notes.