Beethoven, Symphony No. 5 / Mantovani / Kristiina Poska

It took some thirty years after the creation of the Fifth Symphony for the phrase, the famous little phrase, to emerge, immortalized by Beethoven's first biographer. "So fate knocks at the door," the composer is said to have whispered, referring to the famous first movement. The fate of the "symphony of destiny" was sealed. Estonian Kristiina Poska has made it her own, after having the Diotima Quartet sing in a new work by Bruno Mantovani, for wh...