[DrStormyDaniels]

I think the final movement of the 5th symphony in E-flat major is probably some of the best music that ever will be heard - specifically this recording, Allegro Molto: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAFouzo3ZHQ&t=1397s

(Its best to listen to the whole symphony, the first 2 movements aren't bad but they are definitely prelims, I'd have something to read at the same time.)

[cranky908canuck]

The Fifth was heavily revised, and yes, you have to be in the right mood (west coast fog, for example), to get the first bits. Also, I find that the very end as written really "drops me on the floor" in a lot of performances; I have an old Karajan recording where he ignores the notated rhythm and bangs off those last chords really fast, and that works for me in a way that other endings do not.

[DrStormyDaniels]

Thanks, I'll have to look the recording up.

[toyg]

That piece is one of the few classical recordings in my music library, and also one that helped crystallize how much execution can influence the quality of a classical composition. In some versions, excessive percussions just ruin it.