Beethoven's Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Symphonies

Sean Rice and Alexander Shelley continue their three-episode series about the Beethoven Symphonies on the occasion of the NAC Orchestra’s Festival Focus 2018. Symphonies 4, 5 and 6 were running in Beethoven’s head concurrently. He was a master of making a huge work out of just a scrap of a musical idea. These three symphonies are excellent examples of this methodology. Symphonies 5 and 6, forming in his mind before the fourth, were premiered on December 22, 1808. Discover how that evening unravelled, and hear Sean and Alexander rave about Beethoven’s accomplishments and contributions to the world.

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Beethoven's Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Symphonies is an episode from NACOcast: Classical music podcast with Sean Rice by Canada's National Arts Centre.

This episode is 50:32 long.

This episode was published on Sep 19, 2018.

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