Berliner Philharmoniker – Claudio Abbado: Beethoven Symphony 4

Each of the symphonies is a masterpiece in itself, but they are all quite different, each representing the composer’s musical idiom at a particular stage in his development. This video recording features Beethoven’s “Symphony No. 4 in B-flat Major, Op. 60” at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome with Beethoven authority Claudio Abbado and the Berliner Philharmoniker.