BBC Proms 2017, Prom 10: Aurora Orchestra - Beethoven's 'Eroica' (320kbps .mp3)
01. Richard Strauss - Metamorphosen02. Beethoven - Symphony No 3 in E flat major, 'Eroica'
02. Beethoven - Symphony No 3 in E flat major, 'Eroica'
02i. Tom Service and Nicholas Collon introduce Beethoven's Symphony No. 3, with live excerpts. Plus introduction to Strauss’ Metamorphosen (96 kbps .mp3)
03. Interval - Proms Extra Historian Andrew Roberts explores the influence of the figure of Napoleon on contemporary novelists and poets and Napoleon's long shadow across the 19th Century. Recorded as a Proms Extra with an audience at Imperial College earlier this evening. (96 kbps .mp3)
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.
First broadcast: 22 July 2017
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