Dear Music Lovers and Supporters, This week’s musical offering is the 1st Movement, or Allegro con brio, of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. The recording is from a concert by the BSO on October 13, 2019, and is on YouTube: BSO plays Beethoven Symphony No. 5, Allegro con brio. About the music, Maestro Fred Devyatkin writes, “Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 debuted along with the 6th Symphony at the same concert. The 5th is one of the most recognizable pieces in the whole repertoire. Built of a short fragment, layering and intensifying into great majesty and beauty, this masterwork earns its acclaim...

Dear Music Lovers and Supporters, Our fifth offering is a recording of the First Movement of the Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4 from a concert by the BSO in October 2017 at the Sea Island Presbyterian Church. The piano soloist is Reed Tetzloff. The recording is on YouTube BSO playing Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4, 1st Movement. See Maestro Fred Devyatkin’s Commentary on YouTube. Reed was brought to perform with BSO by the Prodigy Project, which was established to provide young classical-musician superstars with the opportunity to perform for their first time professionally with a Symphony Orchestra. To...