Beethoven & Beat by Beethoven, Schumann, From (2025/2025), Conductor Hansjörg Schellenberger, Berliner Philharmonie, Berlin, Germany

All three works are drumbeats in European music history. It begins with the energetic beats of the play overture that Beethoven composed for the drama "Coriolanus" by Heinrich Joseph von Collin. The musical picture of an ambivalent hero, his deep fall and tragic end. This is followed by the piano concerto by Schumann and finally the "Eroica", which Beethoven, as an ardent admirer of the French Revolution, originally composed in honor of Napoleon Bonaparte. But when he crowned himself emperor in 1804, the admiration turned to contempt. "So he is nothing more than an ordinary person!"