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

Paavo Järvi and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen.

"Scherzo. Allegro vivace" is the movement heading: Rather than a conventional minuet as the third movement to a symphony, Beethoven defied the expectations of listeners in his time and inserted a scherzo here, a joke.
The third movement of Beethoven’s "Eroica" symphony is light and breezy. First the strings come in, then the oboe, the flutes – then the whole orchestra crashes into the scene.
After the dire mood of the funeral march that went before, Beethoven is clearly having fun, using sudden surprises and accent shifts to keep the listener off-balance.
"Who needs another cycle?" conductor Paavo Järvi asks at the beginning of the 2010 DW documentary "The Beethoven Project." Why record all of Beethoven's symphonies again, when that's been done so many times before?
Järvi's answer to the rhetorical question: "We will always need another cycle of Beethoven symphonies. Beethoven's symphonies live now, just as they lived when the composer wrote them, and they will live a hundred years from now."
Enjoy this third movement to Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major opus 55. 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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[LucienMarine]

This symphony breaks traditions of all kinds, but it also bears the traits of the new romantic spirit. The remarkable length of this piece is accomplished through its daring structural turns, expanded by a density and abundance of musical ideas. Furthermore, in a scoring for three horns, abundant use of brass melodies, fugal writing in all but the scherzo, and an overall expansive treatment of forms, the « Eroica » reimagined the capabilities of a symphony. In structural detail and stylistic, one should not lose focus of the Third Symphony’s musical importance, Beethoven expanded the symphonic form to an unprecedented scope, altering the expectations of what a four-movement symphony would be in the next two centuries. The sum of the materials in four tableaux, is convincing of the heroic idea. The first movement achieves deep emotional complexity, and through the creation and resolution of musical dissonances harmonic, melodic, tonal, rhythmic, metric, textural, orchestrational, and formal along with the shear expansiveness of the form, conveys the heroic per ardua ad astra: through struggle to the stars! The second movement funeral march effectively turns the epic into a tragedy and, compared with the relatively mild emotional undercurrents of Beethoven’s first two symphonies, evokes an unprecedented sincerity in its gravitas and sorrow. Anguish and despair permeate unreservedly and are held together only by the emergence of hope and redemption as the music mourns for the fall of its hero. At this depth is juxtaposed the lightness "in Nature" of the third movement scherzo. In the final movement, the dramatic cascade of strings followed by a tutti fanfare signals a grand finale of a long expedition but is, instead, met with an almost mockingly humorous and delicate bass tune, which eventually reveals itself as the bass line for a much more graceful and satisfying theme, which continues to change and grow right to the horn-call and victorious ending. As a character from a Romantic heroic novel (Bildungsroman), our hero starts as only an idea, grows into a human, relaxes in nature and love, struggles through trials and tribulations, all leading to a heroic figure greater than the sum of its parts. Ludwig van Beethoven frees music from the remnants of 18th century convention, singlehandedly bringing music into a new age by giving it a transcendent voice equal to Western man’s most cherished values. *Lucien*

[mannfredharjung]

One of the best Beethoven ever composed

[diegovazquez]

Que grande fue Beethoven sus 9 sinfonías son grandiosas llenas de inspiración ami en lo personal me asen llorar

[eunaekim]

There's something about the symphonies whose numbers are divisible by three (3rd, 6th and 9th) that make them seem like the ones that really showcase the genius of Beethoven! Don't ask me why.

[fredkiana]

My favorite movement movement of the symphony

[diegovazquez]

Sinfonía no 3 tercer movimiento otra de mis favoritas

[eunaekim]

Somehow this got stuck in the shadow of the first movement and seems more firmly stuck than a piece of gum on a shoe, which is a pity because it is underrated!

[toughenupfluffy]

Beethoven had relativity figured out long before Einstein.

[vacciniumaugustifolium]

Would have loved to see the 2d movement 🤔