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The biggest gap is Beethoven. I want to get to grips with the quartets and piano sonatas.
Why not the symphonies?

Beethoven's most profound and personal statements are in his final string quartets and piano sonatas but there's many a great idea to found in his symphony.

My favourite is the third. The climax of the development (/climax of the entire movement) is incredibly powerful, moving and so loud and dissonant that I can envisaged blowing the minds and wigs off the premiere audience. Like a proto-Rite of Spring.

Another great moment is in the second movement, when Beethoven suddenly decides to insert a fugue into the funeral march. It's such an impassioned and inspired moment.

Here's that great megalomaniac Karajan conducting it:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFltqVS8d9I"]YouTube - Karajan - Beethoven Symphony No. 3 'Eroica' - Part 1[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVQtcd0clu4"]YouTube - Karajan - Beethoven Symphony No. 3 'Eroica' - Part 2[/ame]

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Why not the symphonies?
To be honest, I'm slightly scared of them. I've spent so long in the Lilliputian world of 18thC chamber music, the thought of a darn great Beethoven symphony crashing about makes me nervous. So - coward that I am - I thought I'd approach him obliquely via the string quartets and piano sonatas. Daft isn't it?
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To be honest, I'm slightly scared of them. I've spent so long in the Lilliputian world of 18thC chamber music, the thought of a darn great Beethoven symphony crashing about makes me nervous. So - coward that I am - I thought I'd approach him obliquely via the string quartets and piano sonatas. Daft isn't it?
I must admit I am much the same. Symphonies are just so, well, big.
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I must admit I am much the same. Symphonies are just so, well, big.
Beethoven is nothing compared to Mahler, whose third symphony is a hundred minutes long.

A good place to start is a twenty minute long Haydn or Mozart symphony.
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