Beethoven Ascending at Bristol Beacon
Beethoven Ascending at Bristol Beacon in Bristol, See official event dates, Check official times, at Bristol Beacon. Join the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra for the...
Join the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra for the next chapter of their Beethoven cycle at Bristol Beacon on Thursday 18 March. BSO Chief Conductor Mark Wigglesworth leads a host of fabulous soloists including Nardus Williams, Kitty Whately, Anthony Gregory, Andrew Foster-Williams alongside the fantastic Bournemouth Symphony Chorus, you won't want to miss this. Violent in character, the Coriolan Overture moves at an unrelenting tempo with abrupt breaks and many dramatic contrasts. Was Beethoven expressing his horror about the reign of terror that had followed the French Revolution just a few years earlier? However it is interpreted, it is a masterpiece of musical invention - highly original and ground-breaking. Although Beethoven was only nineteen years old when he was commissioned to write a cantata to mark the death of Josef II in 1790...
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- Bristol Beacon
- Address
- Colston Street, Bristol, BS1 5AR
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