Glasgow Concert Halls
BBC SSO: Beethoven Roots Festival - Symphony No.9 'Choral'
- Cancelled
- THIS EVENT HAS EXPIRED
- Tickets
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£9.00
- Dates and times
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21st May 2020
7:00PM - 9:30PM
- Age
- Under 14s should be accompanied by an adult
- Venue
In light of the measures enforced to restrict the spread of COVID-19, the BBC SSO has taken the inevitable but regrettable decision to cancel its Beethoven Roots Festival. This cancellation includes not only the concerts in the symphony cycle (14 – 21 May 2020) but also the three supporting chamber events in May and June.
Ticketholders will be refunded by the box office when its service resumes.
"I embrace you, oh you millions!" Few melodies are more familiar - or more misused - than the Ode to Joy that crowns Beethoven's final symphony. But in 1824, the idea of a universal right to happiness was still controversial: and Schiller's original title, "Ode to Freedom" was dangerously subversive. As our exploration of Beethoven's roots reaches its climax, we aim to put the danger back into the Ninth by prefacing it with the stirring, sometimes bloody anthems of revolutionary France - the soundtrack of Beethoven's youth. And then giving our all to a symphony that, 250 years after Beethoven's birth, never gets any less radical.
Cherubini
Hymne au Pantheon
Mehul
Le Chant du depart
L'Isle
La Marseillaise
Beethoven
Symphony No.9 ‘Choral’
Camilla Tilling soprano
Maite Beaumont mezzo-soprano
Daniel Johnson tenor
Thomas E. Bauer baritone
Chorus of Scottish Opera
City of Glasgow Chorus
Thomas Dausgaard conductor
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