Claudio Abbado – Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E Major, Op. 55: con brio “Eroica“ (excerpt)

Claudio Abbado and the Berliner Philharmoniker received enthusiastic acclaim for their Beethoven cycle, performed at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome in February 2001. There were standing ovations after each performance and the critics spoke of seminal moments in the history of music. Claudio Abbado comments on his own Beethoven cycle in Rome: “If you try to look at Beethoven’s world objectively, then an interpretation à la Haydn is just as wrong as an interpretation à la Wagner. Ideally it