Prom 13: Beethoven Cycle – Symphonies Nos. 7 & 8 by Beethoven, Boulez, De (2012/2012), Director musical Daniel Barenboim, Royal Albert Hall, London, United Kingdom

About this event Daneil Barenboim continues his survey of Beethoven – whose music, he believes, 'speaks to all people'. Tonight, two Beethoven symphonies of dancing athleticism and universal appeal frame one of Pierre Boulez's mesmerising extensions of earlier works: Anthèmes 2 is scored for violin and live electronics and its serenely beautiful expressivity may come as a surprise. Beethoven's ebullient Seventh, famously dubbed 'the apotheosis of dance', was the last piece conducted by Proms founder-conductor Henry Wood.