Opening The Beethoven Project

Atlanta Symphony Orchestra gets the Beethoven Project started with a thrilling performance of Beethoven's First and Third Symphonies, conducted by Nathalie Stutzmann! His First Symphony is a confident debut which bridges the classical traditions of Haydn and Mozart, hinting about about the bold style that would define his later works. 

Meanwhile Beethoven's famous Third Symphony, 'Eroica', forced early audiences to rethink what a symphony should be. Its considerable length, technically demanding playing and uncompromising aesthetics, from the angular dissonances of the first movement to the expressive range and explosive climax of the fourth, proved his compositions to be not just a decorative form of entertainment, but an earth-shattering and challenging intellectual pursuit.