Beethoven Cycle: Symphonies 6 and 7
Friday 17 May 2024
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Pastoral calm and Dionysiac frenzy: two sides of the same coin as Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique perform Beethoven’s Sixth and Seventh symphonies.
Birds sing, horns call and streams flow: there’s no experience in music more refreshing than Beethoven’s lovely Pastoral symphony. And there’s none more exuberantly physical than his unstoppable Seventh – the piece that made even Richard Wagner jump up and dance. It’s a dream programme for such past-masters of orchestra colour as the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, with vivid, earth-tones of period brass and woodwind instruments, bring Beethoven’s pastoral landscape to life. Think Byron in the swashbuckling Seventh. Beethoven said that he wanted his music to “intoxicate” its listeners: this should put you well over the limit.
Programme
Beethoven – Symphony No. 6 in F, ‘Pastoral Symphony’
Beethoven – Symphony No. 7 in A
Performers
Dinis Sousa conductor
Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
Dates, Times & Book
Fri 17 May | 7:30 PM | £80/£70/£48/£35/£10 | Book |
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