On the performance of Beethoven's symphonies . do. In view of the lo stesso tempo and the stirring element inthe violin figurations, I decided not to return once for all tothe very slow original time, but to take the whole longvariation at a somewhat more running speed, not losing sighthowever of its adagio-chzvaLtAtr when compared with theprincipal time. It should be specially noted also that themelody lies almost continuously in the wind-instruments andthat consequently the violin figurations,, however finely theymust be executed, really only form the accompaniment, orshall we say the arabes
On the performance of Beethoven's symphonies . do. In view of the lo stesso tempo and the stirring element inthe violin figurations, I decided not to return once for all tothe very slow original time, but to take the whole longvariation at a somewhat more running speed, not losing sighthowever of its adagio-chzvaLtAtr when compared with theprincipal time. It should be specially noted also that themelody lies almost continuously in the wind-instruments andthat consequently the violin figurations,, however finely theymust be executed, really only form the accompaniment, orshall we say the arabesque, with relation to the wind-instru-ments which contain the melody. I would not mention thatthe conducting should be done in four and not in twelvebeats here, had I not been told of occasions on which thisuncalled for piece of dilettantism had really occurred. A few shades of expression which I have introduced fora careful execution will be found in the following quotations. Page 159, last bar to page 160, bar 2. ist Fi. ist Ob. ist Bassoon. I St Viol, rrr^
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