DAILY DOSE of BEETHOVEN (June 14, 2020)

Beethoven wrote on the score of his Missa Solemnis, " From the Heart, It Must Return to the Heart." The same could be said of this movement.

In both Furtwangler and Casal's versions it starts out with a tempo that imitates a normal heartbeat. Many performances are to our minds, too fast, including those by the original instruments advocates, who missed the most important original instrument of all, the human heart. We provide the following audio that makes several comparisons.

https://soundcloud.com/user-385773006/beethovens-fourth-the-heartfelt-second-movement