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Wed 11 Nov 2002ReviewsOSC/Barry DouglasNCHMichael DervanSymphonies 6 (Pastoral) & 7 ..........................................Beethoven Beethoven's Pastoral is among the composer's most popular and easy-sounding symphonies, yet one of the most difficult to bring off in performance. It's an extremely tuneful work, yet so heavily dependent on repetition that, from a modern perspective, it could almost be regarded as proto-minimalistic.