Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

Few would dispute that Beethoven’s Fifth is the world’s most famous symphony. The opening “theme of fate” is familiar to most, but there is so much more to discover here: a swaying second movement and a grand finale. Christoph Eschenbach conducts the orchestra in this 2020 recording, and he has known his Beethoven well since he was a piano-playing youth in Breslau in the 1940s.