BEETHOVEN BIRTHDAY BASH

WWFM – The Classical Network’s symphony marathon continues!

NOW PLAYING: Symphony No. 4 in B flat major (English Chamber Orchestra/Michael Tilson Thomas)

It was Robert Schumann who memorably described Beethoven’s 4th Symphony as “a Greek maiden between two Norse giants.” While I certainly find that image provocative, I assume he meant it to signify the work’s relative restraint, geniality, and refinement in comparison to the more ambitious, and perhaps even a little uncouth, Symphonies Nos. 3 & 5.

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Portrait (1804-05), Joseph Willibrord Mähler