Conductor, Sir DAN GODFREY
ELLEN EPSTEIN (Pianoforte)
Relayed from The Pavilion, Bournemouth
This Symphony had its first performance at a concert organised on Beethoven's behalf in March, 1807, in Vienna, and the concert included all the first four symphonies. The Fourth Symphony is for the most part full of bright ness. Slight in structure as compared with the big Eroica which comes immediately before it in the series, it is none the less Beethoven at his best and sanest. The slow introduction has hints of uneasiness and gloom, but with the beginning of the main part of the movement a cheerful mood appears, which is maintained throughout. There are the customary four movements. (The Cadenza to Mozart Rondo Variations is written by G. von Zieritz)
(First Performance in England)
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