Stop re-railing from the Beethoven hijack!
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Originally Posted by quido
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Beethoven also has the two greatest slow movements from large works. The second movements from the 7th Symphony and the 5th Piano Concerto are to die for.
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Excellent choices. The seventh symphony is probably my favourite of his larger scale works, though eighth comes in a close second. I also rather enjoy the overture from
Egmont. It's filled with the thunder and sonority of his fifth symphony in a condensed scale. Being a cellist I am relatively enamoured with the ponderous melody he wrote for it, so maybe a slight bias.
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