Ludwig van Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony is an inner journey brilliantly disguised as a landscape depicted in music, aptly nicknamed the ‘Pastoral’. Its five movements are scenes like a peaceful countryside, a lively brook, a thunderstorm, and a shepherd’s song. In the score, Beethoven even specifies the types of bird he makes sing: quail, cuckoo and nightingale. Everyone outside! Daniel Harding is your guide.
