19:30 Saturday 22 July 2017 ON TV
Royal Albert Hall
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 with live excerpts
Tom Service and Nicholas Collon introduce Beethoven's Symphony No. 3, with live excerpts
Richard Strauss: Metamorphosen
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No 3 in E flat major 'Eroica'
Tom Service presenter
Aurora Orchestra
Nicholas Collon conductor
No symphony pulses more vigorously with the rhythms of political protest than Beethoven's 'Eroica', whose defiant opening chords mark the arrival of the Romantic symphony. In their novel introduction, BBC Radio 3's Tom Service and conductor Nicholas Collon dismantle and reassemble this groundbreaking work, with the help of live excerpts, before the Aurora Orchestra gets under the skin of the work by performing the complete symphony from memory.
The concert also includes Richard Strauss's 1945 Metamorphosen. Scored for 23 solo strings, this ecstatic, elegiac work closes with an 'Eroica' quotation that mourns the devastation brought about by another, even darker, political regime.
Royal Albert Hall
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 with live excerpts
Tom Service and Nicholas Collon introduce Beethoven's Symphony No. 3, with live excerpts
Richard Strauss: Metamorphosen
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No 3 in E flat major 'Eroica'
Tom Service presenter
Aurora Orchestra
Nicholas Collon conductor
No symphony pulses more vigorously with the rhythms of political protest than Beethoven's 'Eroica', whose defiant opening chords mark the arrival of the Romantic symphony. In their novel introduction, BBC Radio 3's Tom Service and conductor Nicholas Collon dismantle and reassemble this groundbreaking work, with the help of live excerpts, before the Aurora Orchestra gets under the skin of the work by performing the complete symphony from memory.
The concert also includes Richard Strauss's 1945 Metamorphosen. Scored for 23 solo strings, this ecstatic, elegiac work closes with an 'Eroica' quotation that mourns the devastation brought about by another, even darker, political regime.
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