Recorded on January 31st, 2025.
I did consider straight-up not sharing or posting this, because it's just such an unbelievably brilliant movement of a brilliant symphony. It undergoes so many degrees of profound spiritual depth, grandeur, transcendence, serenity, and moments of resignation. It is of the same scale of many entire piano sonatas in classical music, yet with the right phrasing, pacing, and brute stamina at some points, it can still hold itself together and function as only one movement. However, I decided that I'll just let the YouTube algorithm decide whether or not to reward subscribers of this channel and the rest of the platform: if this only reaches a small number of people (because of the really long video duration and likely low average retention), then they are the lucky ones and that's completely fine; otherwise, I think everyone benefits immensely from acquainting with this work.
Over the past few weeks of January, I learned through all the movements of the 4th and 8th symphonies (and some of the 7th), which adds up to over 2.5 hours of music, all comprising of some of the greatest symphonic movements ever conceived. There is a chance I will record all of it.
[NOTE]
I changed many notes, melodic lines, and chord compositions to more closely imitate the original orchestral rendition. This, in addition, includes dynamics, in which the score I referenced from suppresses the annotation of some of them. Also, I know the piano is out of tune. I do not and cannot afford to have the luxury of always recording on a perfectly in-tune piano, and that is the truth.
All piano works I've recorded: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIDZcmE0XODB-4Z6u--mlR8nmnO5fpcQI
My goal through this channel is to bring vitality, spiritual depth, emotional evocation, and captivating narrative to underappreciated and unconventional music that captures the human experience to its fullest potential.
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