Beethoven from Memory
Radio 3’s Tom Service and Nicholas Collon introduce Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony, and Richard Ayres’s new work that explores the effects of hearing loss.
Live at the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Proms from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Tom Service
Richard Ayres No. 52 (Three pieces about Ludwig van Beethoven: dreaming, hearing loss and saying goodbye)
Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú co-commission: world premiere
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 7 in A major
Tom Service presenter
Aurora Orchestra
Nicholas Collon conductor
Beethoven’s hearing loss plunged the composer into isolation and despair, so it’s hard to believe him capable of producing a symphony such as his Seventh, which pulses with restless energy – and which the Aurora Orchestra plays from memory. It’s a work with a special place in Proms history, too: it was the last piece Proms founder-conductor Henry Wood directed before his death in 1944.
Richard Ayres opens the concert with a deeply personal new work inspired both by Beethoven’s journey into deafness and his own experience of hearing loss, a vivid soundscape in which clarity gradually gives way to confusion.
Radio 3’s Tom Service and Aurora Orchestra Principal Conductor Nicholas Collon guide us through the programme with their customary lively and expert introductions.
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Music Played
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Richard Ayres
No 52 (Three Pieces about Ludwig van Beethoven)
Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon. -
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No 7 in A major
Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon. -
Arnold Bax
The Garden of Fand
Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: John Barbirolli.- PRT.
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Gustav Mahler
Symphony No 2 in C minor, 'Resurrection' (1st mvt)
Performer: David Nolan. Conductor: Klaus Tennstedt. Singer: Yvonne Kenny. Singer: Jard van Nes. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Choir: London Philharmonic Choir. Conductor: Richard Cooke.- Tennestedt conducts Mahler Symphony No.2 'Resurrection'.
- LPO.
- 1.
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Alexander von Zemlinsky
Psalm 23, Op. 14
Conductor: Nigel Short. Orchestra: Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Symphony Orchestra. Choir: Tenebrae.- Symphonic Psalms & Prayers.
- Signum Classics.
- 401.
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- Thu 10 Sep 2020 19:30Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Radio 3
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