Name: Beethoven 250 - Symphony Cycle
Start: 2020-02-09T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2020-05-16T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Palau de la Música Catalana

Organization

Conductor

John Eliot Gardiner

Soprano

Lucy Crowe

Contralto

Jess Dandy

Tenor

Ed Lyon

Bass

Tareq Nazmi

Matthew Rose

Orchestra

Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique

Others

Monteverdi Choir

Beethoven 250 - Symphony Cycle

London

United Kingdom

Barbican Centre

Moscow

Russia

"Tushino" Museum Exibition Centre

Chicago

United States

Harris Theater for Music and Dance, Chicago

New York City

Carnegie Hall

Barcelona

Spain

Palau de la Música Catalana

Beethoven 250 - Symphony Cycle: Concert Various

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Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony was completed more than a decade after the Eighth, and performed in front of an eager Viennese audience in May 1824. It is a work which at once sums up all his previous symphonic thought and points to a new world, as for the first time Beethoven uses the human voice to intensify his idealistic vision with the words of Friedrich von Schiller’s ‘Ode to Joy’. In the final instalment of our Beethoven Symphonies Series, John Eliot Gardiner’s thoughts on this mighty work are accompanied by exclusive footage from our performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony at the Palau de la Música Catalana, Barcelona.

Credits:
- Directed and edited by Richard Wilson. 
- Produced by Bill Lloyd & Richard Wilson. 
- Director of Photography, Benjamin Ealovega. 
- Concert footage courtesy of the Corporació Catalana de Mitjans Audiovisuals and the Palau de la Música Catalana, Barcelona.
- Interview filmed at St John's Smith Square

About the series:
Though we’re sad not to be performing our Beethoven Symphony Cycle for you live at the moment, we’re delighted to share of our new nine-part film series in which John Eliot Gardiner and the ORR explore these incredible works as we rehearsed for this project. We'll be releasing a new film on each Symphony every Friday - for more information on this series, visit our website:
https://monteverdi.co.uk/john-eliot-g...

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The three Monteverdi ensembles – the Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists and Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique – are a leading force on the international music scene. World-class musicians and singers from many nationalities come together to share in the distinctive vision of our Artistic Director, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, in ground-breaking projects that span eight centuries of musical masterpieces.

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Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s approach to Beethoven takes us to the raison d’être of the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique (ORR), transporting us to the time when Ludwig van Beethoven thrust his extraordinarily original music in front of his audience. The orchestra’s recordings of the symphonies have been described (by Gramophone Magazine) as a “tour de force… played at white heat”, “glorious” and “magnificent”.

The 2020 performances gave audiences the chance to experience the full cycle of symphonies alongside lesser known works by Beethoven: the concert aria ‘Ah! perfido’, excerpts from his only full-length ballet, The Creatures of Prometheus, and excerpts from Leonore, the original version of his opera Fidelio. These works express Beethoven’s belief that love, faith and personal courage can overcome political or personal adversity – a message which now seems as urgent as ever.

This celebration of the great composer took the ORR on a momentous worldwide tour, performing all nine symphonies to audiences across Europe and the United States. The Monteverdi Choir will join the ORR and John Eliot Gardiner for performances of the 9th symphony, alongside a stellar troupe of soloists: Lucy Crowe (soprano), Jess Dandy (contralto), Ed Lyon (tenor) and Tareq Nazmi* (bass).

English

Beethoven 250 - Symphony Cycle by Various, From (2020/2020), Conductor John Eliot Gardiner, Palau de la Música Catalana, Barcelona, Spain

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