Chailly reimagines Beethoven

[Sylph]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/oct/25/beethoven-cycle-riccardo-chailly

[starrynight]

I hadn't particularly thought of the first symphony as a contrast between motion and stasis.  The first movement obviously has some contrasts and the livelier sections have Beethoven typically forcing the energy of the music forward, sometimes almost like it has to work itself up into that.

[Brian]

There is already a thread about this here.