Word: fortississimo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some work on Beethoven's Eighth Syphony with the Summer School Orchestra. The first movement of this piece is a big shout of excitement, energetic and very loud for the most part, with many fortissimo markings. However, at the beginning of the recapitulation, there is the only fortississimo marked, a distinction that is not easy to make and is usually left unobserved. But Chen made sure to gradate the whole movement so that that triple forte would be the supreme climactic moment. The result was a performance that clarified the structure of the movement while giving it a sense...
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