VIDEO - Beethoven's Syphony No. 4 Video Podcast

Published: Nov. 19, 2018, 1 p.m.

In the interim between the Fifth's first sketches and its completion, Beethoven wrote some of his most lyrical music-for the opera "Leonore" (which would become "Fidelio") and the Fourth Symphony. The latter's consistent high spirits contrast starkly with the struggle against fate embodied in the Fifth. Video produced by Anthony Princiotti