Karl Miller wrote:

>Bernard Chasan wrote:
>
>>This will get me voted off the island:
>>
>>Beethoven's Ninth Symphony  (finale)
>
>No problem with me on the Beethoven Finale...it has always seemed so
>out of place with the rest of the piece...I have some vague recollection
>that it may not have been part of his original plan for the piece...no
>doubt one of you will know more about that than I do. It also seemed so
>out of character for him.

I'm not a fan of this movement either. I'm not sure why. Maybe playing
and sitting there waiting to come in on a high C# had something to do
with it, but probably not. It just seems overblown, compared to the rest
of the symphony.  Or maybe I'm just tired of it. Still, the last time I
played it, I grew sick of it, and that's unusual with music I like.

Roger Hecht