Beethoven: Symphony No... - Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra - Audio CD (Arrives in 50 days)

Coming between the Eroica and the C minor, Ludwig van Beethoven’s Fourth Symphony has often been regarded as a less ‘important’ work than either of those two giants; and it inspired Schumann’s oft-quoted phrase of ‘a slender Grecian maiden between two Norse giants.’ It is a simpler, more delicate and contrasting work, more graceful in contour but not a shade less inventive melodically. Berlioz in particular waxed voluble over the B flat Symphony. He points out that the work ‘abandons wholly the ode and the elegy to return to the less lofty and somber, but perhaps less difficult, style of the Second Symphony’; and he cites its ‘heavenly sweetness.’

Label: Vox | Origin: Holland

📌 .. 4 In B Flat Major, Op. 60