| Set List | 'Symphony No.3' (with live excerpts), Beethoven (Tom Service and Nicholas Collon),
'Metamorphosen', R STrauss
INTERVAL
'Symphony No.3 in E Flat Major, Eroica, Beethoven |
| Performance Notes | No symphony pulses more vigorously with the rhythms of political protest than Beethovens Eroica, whose defiant opening chords mark the arrival of the Romantic symphony.
In their novel introduction, Radio 3s 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 opens with Richard Strausss 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.
The event contained an update to the concert running order from that in the BBC Proms 2017 Festival Guide.
The Beethoven works were broadcast on BBC Four on 18 August 2017. |
| Related Archival Material | Proms Guide (RAHE/1/2017/47a),
Programme (RAHE/1/2017/58),
Mini Guide (RAHE/6/2017/36),
Digital Photographs,
Posters (RAHE/2/2017/27-28) |