A bit of an oddity.

[Enrique]

It is your heart, Peter, that remains young. It is your heart.

[Sorrano]

The 3rd and the 5th have always been favorites of mine for reasons that these were my first real exposure to the music of Beethoven. Had I not heard these and had listened to the 4th and the 8ths first would have created an entirely different impression of Beethoven and I doubt that I could ever have heard either the 3rd of the 5th in the way I hear them today. Those first impressions are so important!

[Enrique]

Tell me, Sorrano. I know I like jazz because that music was around me when I was a child. I mean, it's really trivial stuff compared with the master pieces of artistic music, but somehow, some of its products have found a way into my heart.

That second movement of the Fifth that you like so much, I remember exactly the place in my house where I was sitting listening to the oboe when it takes the first theme but this time in minor. I think every thing we truly love in some way take us back home, when we were little children or has a root in that time of our lives.

[Peter]

The 3rd and the 5th have always been favorites of mine for reasons that these were my first real exposure to the music of Beethoven. Had I not heard these and had listened to the 4th and the 8ths first would have created an entirely different impression of Beethoven and I doubt that I could ever have heard either the 3rd of the 5th in the way I hear them today. Those first impressions are so important!

Yes the 5th was the first LP I bought when I was 12 and I was hooked on Beethoven immediately! Then I joined the local music library and each week took out another Beethoven symphony, what a joy and I doubt few kids do that now. Yes we have things like Youtube, but somehow the anticipation of waiting and looking forward has gone.