Beethoven: Symphony No. 3, Eroica, 2nd movement | Paavo Järvi & Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen

Paavo Järvi and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen.

If the "Eroica" Symphony, as this one is called, is about heroism, the second movement is about the burial of a hero. The movement heading "Marcia funebre - Adagio assai" (Funeral March – Slow Enough) makes that clear.
So, a burial for a hero, but who's the hero? Maybe it was Beethoven himself, still a young man but knowing that he was going deaf, perhaps with premonitions of his future.
Or maybe the second movement of the Symphony No. 3 is about the burial of illusions over Napoleon Bonaparte, whose idealistic vision of "Liberté, Fraternité, Égalité" excited an entire generation but who then proceeded to plunge Europe into catastrophic warfare.
But perhaps the movement mourns the passing of all wartime dead, all those unsung heros - although it has also been played at state burials of heads of government, royalty and other prominent persons.
The second movement of Beethoven’s "Eroica“ begins softly, and very sadly, with a slightly brighter section in the middle, before wild dissonances erupt at the end.
Listen to how maestro Paavo Järvi and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen bring this moment of high drama from Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major opus 55 to light.
Deutsche Welle and Unitel Classica present Estonian conductor Paavo Järvi, conductor of the year 2019, and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, recorded at the Beethovenfest in Bonn.

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