Saturday 9 October 2010

A SPRING DAY WITH BEETHOVEN



“Spring passes and one remembers one’s innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one’s perseverance.” – Yoko Ono

We had a beautiful, fine, warm and sunny Spring day today. The trees are truly starting to look green and leafy now, the flowers are beginning to come into their own now – we cut our first rose from the garden today. It was a lovely day.

Here is the first movement from Beethoven’s Symphony No 6 in F major, Op. 68, the “Pastorale”. It is played by the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrucken conducted by Myung-Whun Chung. Quite fitting for the season and the day…


2 comments:

  1. I appreciated Yoko Ono's nice quote...but I happen to love winter, so "perseverance” doesn't actually work for me! :)

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  2. This is my favorite Beethoven symphony!
    Just beautiful for you springtime, Nicholas!

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