Dear Musicians and Maestro, I love all of your Beethoven Symphony performances. Thank you for sharing your insightful stories about how you rehearse , interpret, and perform as a group. I consider Maestro Paavo Jarvi the finest conductor of our generation. I have been moved by both your words and music. Ich danke Ihnen
I've watched all from Paavo Jarvi with this incredible Philharmonic. Every time i watch seems that is the Eternal Beethoven's project. Why? Simple, it's the best we could all ever heard. Thanks Paavo, thanks for all the musicians in Bremen. Hugs from Brazil.
You are so beautiful... the fantastic production team of all videos around Kammerphilharmonie included. You made it possible, to become a member of this orchestra, by deflecting all this atmorsphere, passion and tension, intensity and creaziness outward. Thank you so much.
Very clever from you my special friend Madana.Ludwig always expects to be fully discovered and to give life and transcendental Beauty to the souls from everyone in Earth and in the whole Universe.YAN AYRTON ,a beethovenian spirit and aprendice from him.
Ahh, the triplet! I never thought about that until you mentioned it. It takes me back to when I first looked at the score to the 5th. I expected to see triplets not the rest and three eighth notes (but not a triplet, per se) in 2/4 time, and then repeats the triplet motif in the 3rd movement. I wonder if Mahler had Beethoven in mind when he composed his 5th symphony? And although not the same thing, the common Bruckerian theme of 2 quarter notes followed by a triplet. I'm no music theorist, but it's curious to speculate, as I have often wondered how Beethoven's 5th symphony sounded in the ears of the audience when they first heard it. We're so familiar with it that we forget, but when its first performance took place (Vienna?) it must have been quite stunning. There's been no one like Beethoven before or since. Would we experience music the way we do (especially dissonant or even atonal music) today if not for Beethoven? Would there have been Mahler, Bruckner, Schoenberg, Stravinsky if not for Beethoven?
Maestro Jarvi is correct in saying tht the Marche Funebre of the Eroica is a "military funeral" if one considers that Beethoven composed this glorious symphony in tribute to one of the greatest, if controversial, military campaigners of all time....Napoleon Bonaparte. Was not its original title supposed to have been the 'Bonaparte Symphony" until the repugnant (in the composer's eyes) self-crowning of the Corsican led Beethoven to rip up the score, muttering that 'tyrant?'
If the hero of the Heroic Symphony was Bonapart, why didn’t Beethoven burn the entire score instead of just ripping off the dedication? The reason is that the hero is Beethoven himself.
Modern trumpets sound too smooth. Same with modern timpani. Using the old trumpets and timpani with hard sticks -- brings a vibrant color that the modern equivalents don't.
