Beethoven: Symphony No. 5, 4th movement | Paavo Järvi and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen

Paavo Järvi and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. The heading to the fourth movement of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 is “Allegro,“ which means “fast.“ This finale emerges without interruption out of the third movement. No longer in a grim C Minor, the music is now in a jubilant and exhiliarating C Major. If fate was knocking at the door in the first movement of Beethoven’s Fifth, he has now seized fate by the throat in this finale – to use Beethoven’s own words – and emerged victorious. Interestingly in France, Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony is not nicknamed the “fate symphony,“ as it is in Germany, but instead the “chant de Victoire“ – a march of triumph. Deutsche Welle and Unitel Classica present Estonian conductor Paavo Järvi and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, recorded in the Beethovenhalle Bonn in 2009. Listen and watch – your personal concert hall Subscribe to DW Classical Music: