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Musicians submitted videos of themselves performing repertory staples as well as a new work composed for the occasion: the Internet Symphony No. 1 "Eroica" by Tan Dun, who wrote the sound track for the film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon...
...these readings from 1949 and 1951. Once, Toscanini's Beethoven was Beethoven, as surely handed down from on high as Schnabel's. Today, Toscanini's interpretations sound merely coarse, the vaunted NBC Symphony distinctly second-rate. What, one wonders, was all the fuss about? Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 3 (''Eroica'') and 8. Herbert von Karajan conducting the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (Deutsche Grammophon). Beethoven: Symphony No. 9. Soprano Carol Vaness, Mezzo Janice Taylor, Tenor Siegfried Jerusalem, Bass Robert Lloyd; Christoph von Dohnanyi conducting the Cleveland Orchestra and Chorus (Telarc). Every decade Karajan tackles the Beethoven symphonies, and these new recordings...
MUSIC | Bach Society Orchestra Plays Eroica...
This Friday, the Bach Society presents Wei-Jen Yuan ’06, playing Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A Minor op. 16 and Beethoven’s Symphonie Nr. 3 Es-Dur op. 55, “Eroica.” Yuan’s recent performances include a solo performance and a regular-season performance with the Taiwan National Symphony Orchestra in the Chaing-Kai Shek Music Hall as part of the Young Artist Series. Conducted by Alexander Misono. Tickets $8 regular, $6 students and seniors. 8 p.m. Paine Hall...
...overtake the intricacy of the music, her timbre unfaltering. Though Mutter's rendition of the concerto was very bright in tone, it was by no means what you would call a "risky performance" or a "quirky interpretation." Though the Concerto was written at the time of the darker Eroica and Fifth Symphonies, the intent of the Concerto seems more lyrical than heroic...