Word: eroica
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...perception. He has a piece called "The Critical Process" which is the most illuminating discussion of criticism I have ever read. And he writes about Beethoven's Third Symphony with such excitement that if you can read music, you will be impelled to hunt up a score of the "Eroica" and see for yourself what he is taking about. Nobody else for Bernard Shaw, has written of music with such vitality...
Beethoven had completed the Eroica and the Fifth Symphonies as well as the Waldstein and Appassionnts when he turned to the composition of the three quartets sponsored by Count Rasoumowski. At the very beginning of the first, the change in the composer is apparent: a paradoxical humor later expressed in the Eighth Symphony and an increasing tendency to write for himself which culminated in the late piano sonatas...
...Conductor Toscanini exercises such rigid control over RCA Victor releases, how did it happen that his recording of Beethoven's Eroica, which is marred at the outset by two highly audible coughs, came to be issued...
Beethoven's music was very sloppy [as Composer Britten said], but there are still enough of us around with no musical training and a protracted childhood admiration of Beethoven who prefer to glow naively in the light of the Eroica than to endure the involute bleatings of Britain's Britten...
Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 (the Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell conducting; Columbia, 8 sides). Robert Schumann called the Fourth "a slender Greek maiden between two Norse giants" (the Eroica and the Fifth). In his Columbia debut with the Cleveland Orchestra, Conductor Szell has sculptured her skillfully and gracefully. Performance: excellent...