(I recently wrote about this piece in what I can only describe as a far more informed, mature way than I did here. Please go have a read of that article.) performed by Nicolaus Harnoncourt and the Chamber Orchestra of … Continue reading Beethoven Symphony No. 3 in Eb, op. 55, Eroica
For the next few weeks, we’ll be taking the chance to visit a few symphonies that didn’t get inclusion into our rather large German(ic) Symphony series at the end of last year. Obviously not everything could be included in that, and there was a rather specific train of thought I was working on for it, so some really good candidates were excluded. We’ll be adding to that a bit with a slightly smaller (by half) and not so narrative-like series starting this week.I’m excited about this one. The first and last in the series are really some of my absolute … Continue reading Mini German: A four-part series