Beethoven 5 og 6

Beethoven’s orchestral music seems to do more – to say more, to build more, to reveal more and even to whisper and sing more – than music by later composers who had far more colours and textures at their disposal courtesy of far bigger orchestras. There is no better example of Beethoven’s endless resourcefulness than his Symphony No 5, from whose fearsome thunderclap of an opening the composer developed a new kind of symphonic design through relentless focus on one musical motto invested with unstoppable momentum.