The violin composition by Ludwig van Beethoven: Romance #2 for violin and orchestra Opus 50 in F Major, played by violinist Josef Suk, Sir Neville Marriner, conductor [1] evokes a youthful fantasy, a place of peace and freedom where a carefree life could be lived in love with abandon.
Beethoven's Romance #1 Opus 49 in G Major is also beautiful but his Romance #2 Opus 50 in F Major stresses a sense of longing that always seems to arise during periods between romantic interludes which makes each successive romantic rendezvous much more ephemeral and precious than the last, and turns the longing for the next into an intense yearning.
Youthful fantasies fade away while realities of life set in insidiously as the years go by, erasing the innocence of youth, the spontaneity of laughter and the blissfulness of existence.
Despite the prevalence of disturbances and worries in the life of a grown-up, this Romance #2 for violin and orchestra by Beethoven recorded by Josef Suk, with Sir Neville Marriner conducting Academy of St. Martin of the Fields orchestra beginning at 7:25 awakens temporarily the dreams of youth that are closer to what Heaven must be like than the antipodal extremes of hijacked and tyrannical religions and unbridled and greedy capitalism.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwa0c-oKZSM beginning at 7:25.
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