Philharmonia Orchestra: Dohnányi conducts in Basingstoke

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Dohnányi conducts in Basingstoke

The Anvil
Wed 5 Jun 2013 7:45pm

Christoph von Dohnányi

conductor

Pierre-Laurent Aimard

piano

Brahms

Piano Concerto No. 1

Beethoven

Symphony No. 3, Eroica

At no time in musical history has a composer travelled so far as quickly as Beethoven in the ‘Eroica’ Symphony. This is music that appears to breathe the air of a different planet, lacerating 18th-century sensibilities along the way. Not only is it longer than any symphony previously written, but the emotional content is startlingly raw, with brutal sforzandos rammed home, harmonic dissonances revelled in as never before, and fizzing virtuosity demanded of the players at every turn. Beethoven’s hearing was fast fading and by declaring himself ‘emperor’ his hero Napoleon had become ‘just another tyrant’. Music would never be the same again.