Name: Aurora Orchestra: Eroica By Heart
Start: 2024-05-08T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-05-08T00:00:00.000Z
Location: South Bank Centre

Organization

Admin

Aurora Orchestra

Southbank Centre

Conductor

Nicholas Collon

Orchestra

Aurora Orchestra: Eroica By Heart

London

United Kingdom

Queen Elizabeth Hall

Aurora Orchestra: Eroica By Heart: Metamorphosen, TrV 290 Strauss (+1 More)

Public

Concert

Metamorphosen, TrV 290

Symphony No. 3

Approved

South Bank Centre

Hear the sounds of a revolution as Aurora Orchestra performs Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony from memory.


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The defiant opening chords of Eroica, as Beethoven’s Symphony No.3 is known, marked the arrival of the Romantic symphony.

In Aurora Orchestra’s novel introduction, BBC Radio 3’s Tom Service and Principal Conductor Nicholas Collon dismantle and reassemble this groundbreaking work, with the help of live excerpts, before Aurora gets under the skin of the work by performing the complete symphony from memory.

But no music exists in a vacuum. Richard Strauss’ 1945 Metamorphosen is scored for 23 solo strings; an ecstatic, elegiac work closes with an Eroica quotation that mourns the devastation brought about by another, even darker, political regime.

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Ensemble