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Beethovenfest 2009

October 30, 2009

Enter the world Beethoven's in the 1800s and listen to the live recording of his First Symphony, performed by the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and Paavo Jarvi.

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Paavo Jarvi conducts Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen
Image: Barbara Frommann

For the musician, performing all of Beethoven's nine symphonies in four days is an endurance test, and for the listener, a revelation. As conductor Paavo Jarvi revealed to DW in an exclusive interview, "The aspect that the audience takes away from the experience is suddenly seeing a bigger picture of how the symphonies relate to one another. Hearing everything in a very concentrated, short period of time very intensely, even hearing the first three symphonies in one concert, there is a noticeable difference from the first symphony to the 'Eroica.' And for the players, one simply cannot underestimate the degree of understanding and the familiarity with the text thus achieved. You start to inhabit that world in a way that you could never do otherwise." We invite you to co-inhabit the world of Beethoven in this nine-part podcast series, each installment with a single movement from the respective symphony, beginning with the third movement from the First Symphony, dating from 1800.

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