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Paavo Järvi and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. “Scherzo. Allegro vivace“ is the movement heading: Rather than a conventional minuet as the third movement to a symphony, Beethoven defied the expectations of listeners in his time and inserted a scherzo here, a joke. The third movement of Beethoven’s “Eroica“ symphony is light and breezy. First the strings come in, then the oboe, the flutes – then the whole orchestra crashes into the scene. After the dire mood of the funeral march that went before, Beethoven is clearly having fun, using sudden surprises and accent shifts to keep the listener off-balance. “Who needs another cycle?“ conductor Paavo Järvi asks at the beginning of the 2010 DW documentary “The Beethoven Project.“ Why record all of Beethoven's symphonies again, when that's been done so many times before? Järvi's answer to the rhetorical question: “We will always need another cycle of Beethoven symphonies. Beethoven's symphonies live now, just as they lived when the composer wrote them, and they will live a hundred years from now.“ Enjoy this third movement to Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major opus 55. 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. Listen and watch – your personal concert hall: Subscribe to DW Classical Music: #Eroica #Beethoven #PaavoJärvi
