About This Song
About "12 Contretänze, WoO 14" by Andris Nelsons
Beethoven's twelve Contretänze unfold as a suite of rustic miniatures, each a tiny stage for peasant flirtation and footwork. Nelsons keeps them light and buoyant, but there's a hint of formal rigidity beneath the folkish lilt—a tension between courtly order and untamed celebration.