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Prom 10: Aurora Orchestra - Beethoven's 'Eroica'

Tom Service and Nicholas Collon introduce Beethoven's Symphony No 3, with the Aurora Orchestra. The concert begins with Strauss's Metamorphosen.

Live at ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Proms: Tom Service and Nicholas Collon introduce Beethoven's Symphony No. 3, with the Aurora Orchestra. The concert begins with Strauss's Metamorphosen.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Tom Service

Richard Strauss: Metamorphosen
Tom Service and Nicholas Collon introduce Beethoven's Symphony No. 3, with live excerpts.

c.8.30pm INTERVAL: Proms Extra
Historian Andrew Roberts explores the influence of the figure of Napoleon on contemporary novelists and poets and Napoleon's long shadow across the 19th Century. Recorded as a Proms Extra with an audience at Imperial College earlier this evening.
Producer Simon Richardson

c.8.50pm
Beethoven: Symphony No 3 in E flat major, 'Eroica'

Aurora Orchestra
Nicholas Collon, conductor

No symphony pulses more vigorously with the rhythms of political protest than Beethoven's 'Eroica', whose defiant opening chords mark the arrival of the Romantic symphony. In their novel introduction, ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 3's Tom Service and conductor Nicholas Collon dismantle and reassemble this groundbreaking work, with the help of live excerpts, before the Aurora Orchestra gets under the skin of the work by performing the complete symphony from memory.
The concert also includes Richard Strauss's 1945 Metamorphosen. Scored for 23 solo strings, this ecstatic, elegiac work closes with an 'Eroica' quotation that mourns the devastation brought about by another, even darker, political regime.

2 hours, 30 minutes

Music and featured items

  • Part 1

    Duration: 30:06

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No. 3 with live excerpts

    Performer: Tom Service. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
  • Part 2

    Duration: 34:13

  • Richard Strauss

    Metamorphosen

    Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Performer: Nicholas Collon.
  • Interval

    Proms Extra: Napoleon' influence on 19th century culture

    Duration: 22:09

  • Part 3

    Duration: 53:12

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 3 in E flat major 'Eroica'

    Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Performer: Nicholas Collon.
  • Post-concert

    Duration: 08:59

  • Erik Satie

    Prélude de la porte héroïque du ciel

    Performer: Reinbert de Leeuw.
  • George Gershwin

    Somebody Loves Me

    Performer: Eugenie Russo.
  • George Gershwin

    Clap Yo' Hands

    Performer: Eugenie Russo.

Broadcast

  • Sat 22 Jul 2017 19:30

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