Word: eroicaã
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...compound the problem, but they proved to be far too skillful to fall into such a trap. They chose to take on a role—not that of the priestly stewards of sacred sound, but almost that of a preternaturally talented youth orchestra playing the “Eroica?? for the very first time. It is high praise rather than understatement to call the performance...
...Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) performed Beethoven’s Third (“Eroica??) and Fourth Symphonies under James Levine on February 19 with an ironically self-possessed mood of adolescent naïveté. Cleverly and convincingly, the BSO managed to make the Beethoven symphonies come alive with a sense of artistic honesty and real intensity of spirit...
...office chair, dancing his feet across a wooden support bar like some frenetic organist pedaling a Reger fugue. Occasionally, you could hear him calling “Dyet! Dyet! Dyet!” in the syncopated passages of the first movement of the “Eroica?? or loudly exhaling a sensual, satisfied “Syaaah!” at the climax of the second movement of the Fourth. While a certain sort of listener might find those noises distracting, it is energizing to realize that the even best conductors love the music they do because...
...emotional gamut spanned by the “Eroica?? gave it the flavor of a show piece, but that never cheapened it—in fact, the extra swagger affected by the BSO is really something missing from other interpretations. Sterling solo and ensemble work in the wind section stood out in the third movement, as in the symphony as a whole. Even in the dolorous intensity of the second movement, the emphasis on the starkness of the horns turned Beethoven’s exploration of grief into more of a public ritual of loss than an introverted...
...unprecedented upheaval in Europe, and Napoleon Bonaparte captured the composer’s imagination. In 1804, Beethoven wrote a symphony meant to be dedicated to Bonaparte. But after Napoleon shed all pretenses of democracy and crowned himself emperor, the Third Symphony was renamed the “Sinfonia Eroica??—to heroism...
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