4/21 Piano-Reduced ScoreVideos (Symphonies, Missa)

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Reading and following along with an orchestral score can be a pretty confusing experience, especially if the work has lots of twists and turns and if the orchestration changes shape all the time. Of course, that's the very thing that Beethoven does in all his symphonies. So when looking at a full orchestral score with up to 1500 notes on a single page - well it's almost too much of a good thing!

So before posting "The Nine" in full score, here are "piano-reduced" ScoreVideos.  These are made from piano transcriptions of B.'s symphonies (the most famous one being Franz Liszt's) and are perfectly fine for following a symphonic work on a kind of "theme and accompaniment" level.  In many of these 2-stave versions there are also additional markings indicating that this melody is from the flute, or that one is from the cellos. 

So far YT-ers fyrexia2 and bartje11 have made a bunch of ScoreVideos using piano reductions...well done gentlemen.  Click on the links below to be taken to playlists for the piano-reduced ScoreVideos. It may help in some cases to click the lower right "full-screen" button to see the score better...

Symphony 1 & 2
Christoph Von Dohnanyi, Cleveland Orchestra
Piano Solo Transcription by Otto Singer

Symphony 1, 2 w score

Symphony 3 (mvmt 3 & 4 only) & 4
Giulini, Los Angeles PO

Symphony 3, 4 w score
  
Symphony 5 Kubelik, Bavarian RSO
Symphony 6 Bohm, VPO

Symphony 5, 6 w score


Symphony 7, 8 w Score

Symphony 9, Movement 4:
SOPRANO: Melanie Diener
MEZZO SOPRANO: Petra Lang
TENOR: Endrik Wottrich
BASSE: Dietrich Henschel
Direction: Philippe Herreweghe
05:42 Bariton Solo - Recitativo
06:50 SATB Choir
07:10 Soloists
09:30 Tenor Solo
10:00 Tenor + TTB Choir
11:50 SATB Choir: "Freude, schoner gotterfunken"
12:40 SATB Choir: "Seid umschlungen Millionen"
16:02 SATB Choir: Allegro energico, sempre ben marcato
18:53 Soloists: "Freude, Tochter aus Elysium"
19:27 Soloists + SATB Choir
21:20 Prestissimo
Link

Missa Solemnis
This score has the vocal parts in the upper staves and the piano reduction in the bottom 2.
The Monteverdi Choir and The English Baroque Soloists conducted by John Eliot Gardiner

Missa Solemnis w score Linklist