Bernstein in Vienna Beethoven The Ninth Symphony

To play Beethovens music is to give oneself over completely to the childspirit which lived in that grim awkward violent man Without that utter submission it is impossible to play the Adagio of the Ninth Or Heaven knows the first movement And the Finale Most of all It is simply unplayable unless we go all the way with him as he cries out Brüder Leonard Bernstein