Gustavo Dudamel will release complete videos of all nine Beethoven Symphonies for free on his YouTube channel, beginning on December 9 through December 17, 2022, releasing one symphony each day, culminating with the Ninth Symphony on Beethoven’s birthday.
The video captures come from Dudamel’s celebrated performances with the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, at the Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona, Spain in March 2017.
The release will also feature videos of musicians from the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, reflecting upon their favorite moments in Beethoven's Symphonies, and the experience of performing them with Gustavo.
Whirlwind, earthquake of emotions, fireworks, pyrotechnics. The adjectives flow like a torrent to conductor Gustavo Dudamel when he wants to define what the nine symphonies of Beethoven performed by the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela represent. –El Pais
In their hands, Beethoven is full of the joy you don’t always find in other performances… –Bachtrack