Michael Anderson continues his mission of setting all of Beethoven’s symphonies for chamber ensemble with microphilharmonic’s premiere of his chamber arrangements of Beethoven’s 1802 Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 21 and his 1812 Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92. Beethoven conducted the premiere of No. 2 as he was coming to realize that his increasing deafness was incurable. The piece received mixed reactions from the Viennese audiences, one critic writing that it “was a hideously writhing, wounded dragon that refuses to die, but writhing in its last agonies and, in the fourth movement, bleeding to death.” Ten years later Beethoven conducted the premiere of the 7th at a charity concert for Austrian soldiers wounded at the Battle of Hanau against Napoleon to a much more receptive (and certainly patriotic) audience.