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Beethovenhalle, Bonn

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Salonen conducts at Beethovenfest

Beethovenhalle, Bonn
Thu 4 Oct 2012 8:00pm

Esa-Pekka Salonen	conductor

Beethoven	Symphony No. 2
Brett Dean	Testament
Beethoven	Symphony No. 3, Eroica

Beethoven’s Eroica is, for some, considered the greatest symphony ever written, creating the foundations of Romanticism on the part of its unprecendented scale, gestures and depth of expression. The context in which the symphony was written reflects the works raw passion. On hearing that Napoleon had crowned himself emperor (the symphony’s original dedicatee), Beethoven famously tore the title page in half, scored out the offending name, and re-dedicated it to Prince Lobkowitz. In the first half, Beethoven’s Second Symphony, a sunny and good-humoured work with a finale plainly looking backwards in style to Bach, and Brett Dean’s Testament, a piece inspired by the impetuousness and pathos of Beethoven’s Heiligenstadt Testament, a document which details the composer’s emotional turmoil at the irreversibility of his increasing deafness.