Paavo Järvi, conductor of the year 2019, and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen.

How do musicians tackle monumental works like Ludwig van Beethoven's symphonies? Works that entered the repertory in the early 1800's and never left it? Works that have been recorded countless times, many of those recordings available today?
"Somehow we had enough confidence and maybe stupidity or youthful enthusiasm to go ahead with it," revealed Mastro Paavo Järvi when he and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen were working on "The Beethoven Project" – the recording of Beethoven's complete symphonies – a decade ago. "And we’re not competing with anybody," Järvi continued. "We just want to have ours."

The third movement of Beethoven's Fourth is marked "Allegro vivace" (fast and vivacious), but surprisingly, maestro and orchestra take it at a fairly moderate clip, savoring the syncopations and the shifts of rhythm.
There's a middle section too, called the trio and marked "un poco meno Allegro" (a little less fast). When Beethoven inserts a contrasting passage like this, it only serves to make the main episodes before and after stand out even more.

Thanks to the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie and Deutsche Welle, Beethoven's Symphony No. 4 in B-flat Major, opus 60, composed in 1806, is not only theirs, but yours too.

Deutsche Welle and Unitel Classica present Estonian conductor Paavo Järvi, conductor of the year 2019, and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, recorded at the Beethovenfest in Bonn.
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