Recreating the sound of Beethoven's orchestra

For a contrast, listen to the Eroica Symphony played on period instruments by the Eighteen Century Orchestra led by Frans Brüggen (1934 - 2014), the world-renowned recorder player and pioneer in historically informed performance practice.

http://www.orchestra18c.com/orchestra.html

Keeping Score by San Francisco Symphony

Explore the interactive features created by maestro Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony. Check out backgrounds, interactive scores and other interesting tidbits of representative orchestral works by Beethoven, Berlioz, Tchaikovsky, Mahler, Shostakovich and more.

http://www.keepingscore.org/sites/default/files/swf/beethoven/beethoven-full

Joshua Bell on the podium performing Beethoven's Symphony No.7 with the National Symphony Orchestra

Joshua Bell, Michael Stern: Beethoven, Lalo on medici.tv.

Our new year begins with a truly upbeat version of the 2nd movement of Beethoven's Symphony No,7

In fact, when Beethoven's Seventh Symphony was published, piano reductions, string quartet arrrangements etc. were made available to the reader, just in order to boost sales of the new work.

Speaking of transcription of symphonies (especially Beethoven's monumental works), one must pay tribute to Liszt, whose pioneering work was followed by Earl Wild, Fazil Say, Vlodos and here by the award-winning composer-arranger-pianist, Joachim Horsley.