Beethoven 5
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L'Auditori Lepant 150, 08013 Barcelona
Image courtesy of L'auditori
Some music has an aura of legend, with so much historical significance that we also forget the music itself. This is the rare case of L. V. Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5, which will be performed at Barcelona’s L’Auditori.
A work that was composed over a long period of time, it was premiered in Vienna in 1808 under the baton of the composer himself. It made an astonishing impact, transforming the history and significance of symphonic music. In his well-known review written two years after the premiere, E. T. A. Hoffmann said that it opened the gateway to the “kingdom of the infinite."
Hear this massive work, as well as Haydn’s Symphony No. 60, known as Il Distratto; Abrahamsen’s Horn Concerto; and Martinů's Memorial to Lidice, a heartrending musical testimony to one of the worst massacres committed by the Nazis during their occupation of the former Czechoslovakia, in which he includes the famous “destiny” motif from Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5.
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