Beethoven: 'Eroica' Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra & Antal Doráti

• Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827): Symphony No.3 in E flat, Op.55
• 1 1. Allegro con brio 14:07
• 2 2. Marcia funebre (Adagio assai) 15:38
• 3 3. Scherzo (Allegro vivace) 05:24
• 4 4. Finale (Allegro molto) 10:43
• Total Runtime 45:52

Info for Beethoven: 'Eroica'

In the spring of 1802, upon the advice of a Dr. Schmidt, who suggested that he take up lodgings in a quiet place where his failing hearing might be spared, Ludwig van Beethoven, then in his thirty-second year, rented a small peasant house in Heiligenstadt, a peaceful suburb of Vienna. For a person of Beethoven’s sensitivities, the location was ideal: in the mornings he could take long walks in the woods and meadows of the surrounding countryside, returning to his music sketchbooks refreshed and re-born. He was alive with music as never before. To a friend he wrote: “I live only in my notes and when one composition is scarcely ended, another is already begun. As I work at present, I am frequently occupied with three or four compositions at the same time.” ….

Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
Antal Doráti, conductor

Recorded March 9, 1957 at the University of Minnesota’s Northrop Auditorium, Minneapolis

Digitally remastered

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