Symphony

Symphony No. 7

3 upcoming performances in New York

Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7, written in 1811–12, is a four-movement study in motion, where repeated rhythms and long-breathed lines drive the structure as much as melody does. At David Geffen Hall, the New York Philharmonic performs it with conductor Domingo Hindoyan within a program that also points to dance-inflected orchestral writing, alongside music associated with Dvořák and Sibelius and featuring violinist Karen Gomyo. In New York, the Seventh has long functioned as a civic repertory marker, returning whenever an orchestra wants to test its rhythmic discipline. One fair observation: its slow movement can feel inexorable, by design.