Duration
75 Min
Abbado conducts Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 5
Concert
Berliner Philharmoniker
Production Date: 12/02/2001
75 Min
If Beethoven’s Second Symphony is the sound of a young genius flexing his wings, what’s left to say about the Fifth – the heaven-shaking, tragedy-to-triumph epic that has come to epitomise Beethoven’s entire symphonic achievement? It takes a remarkable conductor and orchestra to find a new vision of the Fifth, but when Claudio Abbado and the Berliner Philharmoniker performed it in Rome in 2001, the results were revelatory – few performers combine so profound a sense of tradition with such uninhibited daring. Reviewing Abbado’s Beethoven, BBC Music Magazine remarked that “no lover of Beethoven can fail to revel in and learn from it”.
- Ensemble:
- Berliner Philharmoniker
- Conductor:
- Claudio Abbado
