Sinfonia Da Camera: Ko Iwasaki Performs Dvořák

This performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6, “Pastoral”, continues Sinfonia's multi-year Beethoven cycle. Although the problem of representing nature’s beauties in music held challenges and difficulties for Beethoven, this symphony has become a touchstone. On a violin part used at the first performance, a handwritten note, presumably quoting the composer, reads, “Recollection of life in the country—more an expression of feeling than a depictio...