Overview:Beethoven
Symphony No. 8 in F major (25 mins)
Pierre Boulez
Anthèmes 2 (25 mins)
INTERVAL
Beethoven
Symphony No. 7 in A major (35 min)
Michael Barenboim violin
IRCAM live electronics
West–Eastern Divan Orchestra
Daniel Barenboim conductor
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Beethoven
Pierre Boulez
Daniel Barenboim
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Beethoven - Symphony No 8 (Excerpt)
BBC Proms 2012: Beethoven: Symphony No 7 in A major (Excerpt)Programme notes
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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.
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