Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 Eroica | Michael Boder & ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra

It is one of the most popular symphonies ever: Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, Op. 55, also called Eroica. Here it is performed by the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Michael Boder at the Beethovenfest Bonn 2021 at the World Conference Center Bonn (WCCB).
(00:00) Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, Op. 55, Eroica
(00:36) I. Allegro con brio
(17:38) II. Marcia funebre (Adagio assai)
(30:18) III. Scherzo (Allegro vivace)
(36:03) IV. Finale: Allegro molto - Poco andante - Presto
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) began planning his Symphony No. 3 in the fall of 1802, composing most of it in 1803, and probably not completing it until early 1804. The private premiere happened in the same year. The first public performance took place on April 7, 1805 and was conducted by Beethoven himself.
Because of the epithet ‘Eroica’ (the Heroic one), Beethoven’s third symphony is commonly linked to Napoleon. However, Beethoven’s relationship to Napoleon was rather ambivalent: on the one hand, he was fascinated by Napoleon’s ideals, but at the same time he was deeply repelled by the fact that he had proclaimed himself emperor. Later, however, Beethoven is said to have revered Napoleon. His ambivalent attitude is also evidenced by the addition of the words “written on Bonaparte” to the copy of the score, which he initially erased, but later added in again.
It is also unknown, however, who the hero could be to whom Beethoven dedicated the Eroica with the words “Sinfonia Eroica composta per celebrare la morte d’un Eroe”. Researchers doubt that he could have meant Napoleon. Whatever the case, Beethoven dedicated his third symphony to a hero whose funeral he commemorates in the second movement with a brilliant funeral march and who he resurrects triumphantly at the end of the fourth movement. Perhaps it is precisely this range of emotions, from serious, deepest mourning to joyfully enthusiastic exaltation that makes Beethoven’s Eroica so appealing.
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[@FlexingClassicalMusic]

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[@levandanilov1641]

Es gibt keine Worte, um meine Dankbarkeit für die Arbeit dieser phänomenalen Person auszudrücken! Ewige Erinnerung an Dich, Maestro!🙏🙏🙏❤❤❤

[@user-ms9cv3lo1q]

jazz and classical music helped me get through the pandemic...i could hum the eroica in my sleep...

[@ZosimoLee]

This symphony perks up the spirits and makes me feel life is wonderful. Such vibrancy and energy. Beethoven weaves brilliant strands of themes into a complex whole.

[@autumnleaves2766]

Brilliant Beethoven, the great genius from Bonn who never disappoints. The 3rd Symphony is mind-blowing and this is a superb performance by ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra and Michael Boder. To my ears the Austrian and German orchestras often seem a cut above some of the others, I think it is the quality of the string playing perhaps. Trying to imagine how this incredible music would have seemed to the audiences when it was new. I would love to travel back in time and hear Beethoven at the piano improvising, perhaps in one of those improvising duels he would sometimes do. I play jazz piano by ear, cannot read music, and like to improvise and I love Beethoven's use of variations eg the Diabelli variations for piano. Life was not easy for Beethoven, he represents a heroic triumph over adversity.

[@staffanolofsson8201]

Thank you for this nice comment. The step between Autumn Leaves in a jazz arrangement and this Beethoven is perhaps shorter than we often think. Music is music, who knows what mr B had thought about nowaday music?

[@autumnleaves2766]

@@staffanolofsson8201 Some of the modern popular music has such banal chord sequences, but Beethoven would no doubt have come up with interesting variations and would have harmonised well. Youngsters need to listen to the final movement of the 7th Symphony, an example of a back beat in classical music which drives along with great energy. Or the final movement of the Opus 111 piano sonata no 32, that syncopated section which is like jazz a hundred years before jazz was invented. What a genius Beethoven was. My Beethoven T-shirts have arrived today too, one for me and one for a family member who also loves this German giant of classical music.

[@staffanolofsson8201]

​@@autumnleaves2766 Mr B will for sure love your T-shirts, and I also love mr B:s piano sonatas no 30-32. But most of all no 30. So this love is mutual.

[@Nogah100]

His latest sonatas are indigestible. But his symphonies and concertos and the appassionata and other great sonatas are gems.

[@howardpitterson4039]

😅😅

[@severinacappelletti8364]

Questa è la sinfonia che preferisco in assoluto. La Marcia funebre del movimento successivo rappresenta bene la morte dell'eroe e il movimento finale esprime la speranza che non dobbiamo mai perdere. Di questi tempi - tra Covid e politica - ne abbiamo proprio bisogno. 🥰🎻🎹💕

[@psalmtone2008]

These guys are definitely giving the Vienna State Opera and Philharmonic a run for their money.

[@JEPI1000]

매일 아침 근무 시작 전에 들으면서 하루를 기분 좋게 준비합니다. 모두 행복한 하루 보내세요. I listen to it every morning before starting work and prepare for the day in a happy mood. Have a happy day everyone.

[@ionbacanu1053]

Very, very BEAUTIFUL Muzic și IMAGINE SCENICA! Concertele Simfonice sunt o MÂNGÂIERE A SUFLETULUI ȘI SPIRITULUI PENTRU MINE!

[@c.a.savage5689]

Stupendous. There is no other word. The technical ability and emotional commitment of the musicians (and conductor) are outstanding.

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[@valentinvargas8219]

This piece mark a before and after in history of music,prototipe of innovation in art of good and perfect musical composition.😊

[@charlotex1]

It's like The Beatles Rubber Soul.

[@dalinadanergy1432]

My favorite one. Powerful, emotional, feminine and masculine at the same time, I want to dance it.

[@uyar70]

Dance!! Really!! I hope Beethoven didn’t hear that 🥳

[@user-nb6hx3lb3k]

Жалоба На качество воспроизврдимого звука при трансляции записи симфонии N3 Бетховена

[@michaelmelen9062]

I would love to see how you interpret Eroica through dance! That is a wonderful idea.

[@dalinadanergy1432]

@@uyar70 jajajja ...Who better than him to move your body???.I do it every day through his music but I did not know it

[@dalinadanergy1432]

@@michaelmelen9062 But It is something very personal, 😔 sorry. The public movement part I do it every single day thorough my scientific and Spiritual work, still the planet has to know it!!... Then, There are very private movements that's are just mine!!.

[@mariainesdeandradealcantar3263]

We all love BEETHOVEN 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖 (THE REBEL MAGNIFICENT) IN HISTORY MUSIC! !!!!!!!!!!💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖

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[@deniscuschieri260]

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[@romanleon76]

The best symphony ever written

[@elaineblackhurst1509]

No such thing exists, just like there’s no single best book, painting, building, invention, or anything else; the ‘Eroica’ however is certainly one of the greatest symphonies ever written.

[@thanhhjenngnyen756]

No one compares to YOU, both, Napoleon & Beethoven !!! Thanks a lot.

[@elaineblackhurst1509]

Ever heard of the Duke of Wellington ? Ever heard of Mozart and Haydn, Bach and Handel, et al ? PS: In 1813 Beethoven neatly switched sides and celebrated the Duke of Wellington in his ‘Wellington’s Victory’ Opus 91.

[@roberthill799]

@elaineblackhurst1509 He didn’t “neatly” switch sides. He was outraged, as were many, when Nappy declared himself an emperor and sold out his earlier republican ideals.

[@elaineblackhurst1509]

@@roberthill799 Beethoven did switch sides; musically, politically, and emotionally he moved away from the ideals of French revolutionism corrupted into Napoleonism into a better appreciation of the democratic ideals of Great Britain as a better way of modernising the absolutism still found across much of Europe - the evidence can be heard in virtually every note of Opus 91.

[@bsamalslmh9722]

المفتاح الذي فتح بها بتهوفن الباب العالم غير معروف من خلال الصوت الممتاليء الذي يحيط المستمع من كل الجوانب انه الكنتربطن وهاذا العالم هو الجمال غير مسبوق روعة الى اجيال اللاحقة من موسقيين و متذوقين الموسيقا .

[@merylane2560]

Una de las mejores versiones que he oído. Excelente Michael Boder en la interpretacion de un Beethoven suave , dulce y amable . Gracias Michael Boder.

[@paulmelidona5552]

The clarity of the instruments is outstanding in this beautiful recording.

[@notaire2]

Lebhafte und wunderschöne Aufführung dieser romantischen und perfekt komponierten Sinfonie mit gut vereinigten und perfekt entsprechenden Tönen aller Instrumente. Der zweite Satz klingt besonders schön und echt traurig. Der intelligente und geniale Dirigent leitet das perfekt trainierte Orchester im relativ schnellen Tempo und mit angenehmer Dynamik. Alle Spieler sind wahre Helden!

[@DWClassicalMusic]

Danke für diesen ausführlichen Kommentar!

[@user-rq8qn3dr6v]

Божественная жизнеутвнрждающая музыка хочется парить любить

[@levandanilov1641]

Danke Maestro!🙏

[@iwaargameplays7679]

Bravo! Beethoven is the best composer.

[@elaineblackhurst1509]

One of the best.

[@ultimateconstruction]

​​@@elaineblackhurst1509 *The* best.

[@elaineblackhurst1509]

@@ultimateconstruction No such thing exists, except in the mind of someone who thinks it does exist; neither does ‘best’ author, painter, architect, scientist, or best anything in any field of human achievement. What you are talking about is personal favourites, an entirely different matter and to which you are entitled to any opinion you choose whatsoever - a choice limited only by your knowledge of what you know.

[@roberthill799]

Mozart is squinting.

[@nancyduncan2948]

A well-disciplined orchestra that is a pleasure to hear, along with an enthusiastic maestro who is a pleasure to watch.

[@jinnymudlark1815]

Indeed. However, not a pleasure to see the gentleman walking onto the stage wearing a mask. We read the movement like a book - a holy book (as must go with a religion) but not for us.

[@shin-i-chikozima]

In this performance, all is far superior splendor, And these spectacular performers are Alchemists of Beethoven’s music

[@samitobribiesca6320]

C'EST MAGNIFIQUE PRODIGIEUX CHEF -D ' ŒUVRE LE CHEF-D'ORCHESTRE EXTRAORDINARIE , BEETHOVEN , C'EST A GENIÈ , MERCI BEACOUPE ! .

[@DWClassicalMusic]

Merci beaucoup aussi!

[@garamiglm2026]

Beautiful...Beethoven Music is always sublime. Thanks

[@DWClassicalMusic]

Thank you!

[@joellepodwysocki9558]

Magnifique, merci DW Classical Music. Ces toujours des plaisirs d'écouter Beethoven quelle que soit la symphonie.😉

[@adrianatangwal2605]

That is a pleasure to hear and is a pleasure to watch WOEW..wunderschòne Beethoven symphony👍

[@user-ou5tf6pb2k]

Получила огромное удовольствие! Спасибо! Бетховен ГЕНИЙ

[@user-eo9ph2nf9m]

Абсолютный гений!

[@user-sv3yy2sx4x]

Это классика на века.!!!!!!!

[@marialuisasubias2364]

Ha sido un placer escucharla y vivirla

[@mohamed__swidan]

MAGNIFICENT second movement!

[@user-vk4wj3zn2p]

Это классика на века.!!!!!!!. Beautiful...Beethoven Music is always sublime. Thanks.

[@alexseyer8878]

Beautiful ✨

[@ionbacanu1053]

Un DIRIJOR CU "O TRĂIRE MUZICALĂ SUPERBĂ".

[@walterguercio4578]

Ludwig Van Beethoven 🎵🎼🎶 Maravilloso 🙏 Siempre Gracias DW por acercarnos a las Mejores Expresiones Culturales y a la REALIDAD del Mundo 🎥📷🌏 !!!!

[@BestJazzMusic]

I love this instrumental, the vibe is so positive.. makes me always want to work and stay focus !

[@raulbelgrano6096]

En mi larga vida, siempre BEETHOVEN fue el que levantó el ánimo, mi espíritu. Es que su música comienza a recorrer todos los sentidos y hace que su música llegue a lo más profundo de nuestro ser. La interpretación fue excelsa , un director espléndido que dirigió con maestria a una orquesta sublime, con profesores que hicieron gala de su destreza musical para lograr una presentación que lleno nuestros corazones . Gracias

[@DWClassicalMusic]

Gracias por su hermoso comentario.

[@jeffsmith1798]

Well put. Thank you.

[@esmeraldaespiga6029]

marabilloso

[@esmeraldaespiga6029]

imaravillosa. musica de un genio

[@user-vx9bv9es3x]

Life!!

[@DarkUGothic]

Gracias.

[@shin-i-chikozima]

Beethoven's symphonies are an order of magnitude more awesome Beethoven is a fertile and sober spiritual Land From A corner of Tokyo where is full of the joys and the sorrows and the solitudes of the human world

[@villyguimaraes2556]

DW Classical Music is helping me to understand the fundamentals of the classical music. Pretty nice!

[@DWClassicalMusic]

☺️ that is a great compliment. Thanks!

[@TPQ1980]

Another great second movement. Best movement in the piece.

[@germark7679]

Siempre que escucho la sinfonía Heroica me inundan sentimientos de valor, ímpetu y esperanza. Beethoven nos recuerda en plena pandemia que pase lo que pase siempre podemos ser una mejor versión de nosotros Escribo esto en Enero de 2022 justo un año despues de estar a punto de perder la vida

[@DWClassicalMusic]

Gracias por su comentario.

[@user-iu9xo4vo6u]

Бетховен прекрасен просто как сама музыка, как божественный знак ему и нам, которые всегда в восторге от его искусства!!!!

[@giovannifasiello7737]

e magnifica

[@lucinda5608]

Un tremendo compositor . Un ser humano que luchó contra su sordera ,una horrible adversidad. Hoy en Febrero del 2023 a pasos de cumplirse 1 año de la guerra Rusia -Ucrania ,me deseo para la humanidad que nos apliquemos un tanto del espíritu de su grandiosa novena sinfonía y que luchemos por democracia y diplomacia

[@mariajoselabori4927]

MARAVILLOSA Y interpretacion sunfonia n.3 heroica BEETHOVEN..Maria Jose Labori

[@senoldemirel545]

👍👍👍 Beethoven iş alweys the best.Thank you. 👍👍👍👍👍

[@meszarosmate4257]

The most brilliant performance, absolutly my favorite. conducted great and the Orchestra sounds top! liebe grüße aus Wien

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[@mendelssohn1235]

Fantastic! Der Dirigent ist unglublich gut~

[@dabedwards]

A marvellous, precise and lively interpretation. As with all classic work, it is possible to enjoy many different approaches (depending on your mood), and this surprisingly light and nimble performance throws new light on this great symphony.

[@westonsudduth782]

Top notch production of a masterpiece. All three movements awe and inspire this listener. Animated conductor aids greatly in the overall results. Bravo

[@DWClassicalMusic]

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[@TheGift137]

Having this play in the background while reading chapters of Nodame Cantabile is great 👍🏿

[@sophiemakombo4814]

Une fine interprétation de l'Orchestre, qui aurait touché Ludwig von Beethoven lui-même 🌟😍 !!!

[@sergiocase4988]

Un respiro a pieni polmoni. ☺️☺️

[@hildegardottoherzog6985]

The performance will always vary between the different way each director feels a particular piece... The tempi show his personality!

[@jolandamusic]

Magnifique ❤

[@unicorngirll18]

I like how jovial this performance is! Even during some of the darker moments in this piece there's still some light shining through, like the rays of sun on a stormy spring day.

[@josemejia760]

I like your comment

[@FryChicken]

Austrians are like fun-loving Germans. Germans are serious people.

[@merylane2560]

Exactly. Sometimes it seems the 6th . Boden makes a Beethoven sweet and soft . I like most his performance . Thanks Maestro Boden .

[@merylane2560]

😊

[@SeffiePrincen]

Classical music is in our culture, a very important part in the life of Germans and Austrians. After WW2 the Concerts in music halls were fostered and nurtured for the people to overcome the horrors of the of the dreadful past!

[@worldcooking]

I have enjoyed watching this extraordinary symphony so much I don't know how many times!

[@DWClassicalMusic]

Dear World Cooking, thanks for your comment - we're glad you enjoyed the concert 😊

[@paoladeafcellist]

This is amazing wow

[@musicaadventista1970]

Dios bendiga a cada uno de ustedes y no desmayen en el único caminó de verdad y vida Amén.

[@FoxtaleCubing]

the best beethoven

[@emapierret3111]

Gracias

[@user-hk2oy6eo3r]

Muchìsimas gracias por compartir algo tan bello, delicado y profundo.

[@DWClassicalMusic]

Gracias por su dedicación.

[@ernieuru]

@@DWClassicalMusic me sumo al agradecimiento profundo a la DW por haber compartido esta obra grandiosa dd la humanidad y permitir que todos la disfrutemos.

[@uyar70]

Quite a speedy funeral but I like it

[@staffanolofsson8201]

Just a wonderful interpretation of this Beethoven masterpiece. Thank you so much Michael Boder & ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra!

[@esmeraldaespiga6029]

fenomeno

[@timothytremblay7763]

Best of the Best

[@howardlee469]

오래만에 다시 듣는 데도 새로운 감흥이 나는 군요. ....Meet again , but more new feeling...

[@weiweipeng3633]

Love it very much !!!! 🎶🎶💐💐❤️

[@agripinacrasso5114]

Gracias DW.por compartir

[@adolfoeccher1131]

STUPENDA

[@johnsaylor175]

that was frickin Awesome,,... 😀

[@davidstevens7018]

My only criticism would be the camera angles compared with other YT orchestral presentations as I love to see individual players with their particular oboe,flute or horn techniques 🙂👏

[@samuelliques4815]

someone was so happy with the song that they tripped the microphone at the point 41:41😁😁

[@hernangogol343]

And to think, that at the beginning! the great Beethoven, dedicated this beautiful and energetic Symphony to the Little Corporal. But as Napoleon's Ego grew, in proclaiming himself as Emperor of the French. Immediately, the famous son of Bonn, revoked such famous dedication. Beethoven was the Napoleon in music, specially in IMPROVISATION! Napoleon did improvise in war. And the great PHILOSOPHER! of Bonn, did it. But in MUSIC! of the Higher Spheres! ☝️🔥

[@elaineblackhurst1509]

Yes, but Beethoven never met his Wellington, nor suffered a Waterloo.

[@sandygardiner6433]

❤️Excellent

[@ralfbeckmann597]

❤❤❤

[@user-eo9ph2nf9m]

Слушаешь и воспаряешь к Богу

[@jorge7326]

El aleman este Beethooven no era mal chico, hacia alguna cosa que se puede oír, "tranquilos, no se me alteren, que es una broma, yo también se, que es uno de los mejores músicos que nos ha dado ese gran país que es Alemania y yo me deleito y me admiro cada vez que oigo algo de este extraordinario genio.

[@gstn4703]

ok?

[@justomasaya2698]

Una obra maestra de Beethoven que refleja su fuerza y carácter gracias a este canal por compartir tan bella composicion

[@DWClassicalMusic]

Hello Justo Masaya, thanks for your comment! We're happy you enjoyed the concert 🙂

[@misterfunnybones]

"The first public performance took place on April 7, 1805 and was conducted by Beethoven himself." Ah yes, I remember it well, & here I am listening to this treatment 79,982 days later.

[@adolfomeschede]

Beethoven es lo mas grande en musica,en realidad es dificil describir las sensaciones que se tienen al oir su Musica.

[@kennethwong7644]

Beethoven is one of the many many great composers in today's world.Many great composers are from India, China, Japan, Russia, Iran etc, because of economic situations, they didn't get the right kind of promotions , simple as that, they were as great or even greater.

[@marlenemachado868]

I love Berhiven❤🙏🏼🙋‍♀️👏🇧🇷

[@user-cb8cr5pr1z]

HE DOES NOT HAVE TO GIVE UP HIS FRIENDS! THEY ARE FINE!

[@ionbacanu1053]

... O "MEGA ORHESTRA", FELICITĂRI PENTRU INTERPRETARE...!

[@user-pi2tl8iu6z]

참 좋습니다(very good)!

[@user-sv3yy2sx4x]

Хотелось бы слушать в зале .!!!!!Другая обстановка.Это божественная музыка.!!!!!!!!.

[@recordman555]

Magnificent!

[@petertalbot7261]

True. And a great performance. It is different to Beethoven's number 9. Think I like this one better. the wisdom embedded in its notes is unmistakable

[@joseantoniobenlopez3240]

Enhorabuena por el vídeo.

[@user-cb8cr5pr1z]

OKAY. YOU DID NOT HAD TO "STOP BY" AT THE HOSTEL WHILE I TRYING TO GET BACK WITH HEGLE!

[@Ludwig55555]

Karajan 1962 (remastered, 2014) ❤❤❤❤❤

[@ardentspy]

The orchestra plays very well and of course you can't really go too far wrong with Beethoven. I do hope the conductor managed to catch his train though.

[@rupertsnell1035]

Thank you, ardentspy, for breaking the general pattern and saying something original and worthwhile!

[@arelyibarra9743]

Hermoso

[@themanitoueatery1543]

The idiocy of wearing a mask and then taking it off before the performance is an extraordinary example of how artists have no clue about and sell out to power. Great performance.

[@elaineblackhurst1509]

We’re in Europe; it’s the World Conference *Centre,* Bonn.

[@amparogonzalez5007]

MAGNIFICA👏 GRADIOSA.! GRACIAS.!

[@micheleriolo6227]

Eccelsa interpretazione e registrazione

[@user-cb8cr5pr1z]

YOU KNOW. THIS IS WHY WE BROKE UP!

[@brianwilliams9235]

Herr Haydn set the form, and Mozart wrote perfect music under this paradigm (his genius actually surpassed just FORM), then what others can do? The only answer is to 'break' it! Beethoven did it, and he did it in a way that inherit all the best, and push everything to a higher level, so high that his successors just feel impossible to surpass! What a genius!

[@AnilKumar-rp2vs]

I feel honored to be in the presence of these musicians. But the tempos are too quick. The second movement is done at such a rapid pace like everyone wants to just finish and get out of there. It should be more contemplative. I believe Carlo Maria Giulini's 1979 release is almost nine minutes longer but is spectacular. A performance for the ages. Next comes Klemperer's.

[@jinnymudlark1815]

Maybe they do want to get out of there - completely understandable.

[@AnilKumar-rp2vs]

I totally agree. The opening itself in this performance is so lame. The second movement should be so elegant and majestic and not be played perfunctorily. Carlo Maria Giulini's approach in 1979 stands even today as the most outstanding reading. Eigen Jochum's version was not bad either.

[@ionbacanu1053]

... EROICA LUI BEETHOVEN ESTE "SUPER FULL MUZIC".

[@daulab]

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