Yannick Nézet-Séguin conductor
Lisa Batiashvili violin
Handel Music for the Royal Fireworks
Prokofiev Violin Concerto 1
Stravinsky Fireworks
Beethoven Symphony 7
Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony has proved many things to many people: a celebratory vision of a rustic wedding for Robert Schumann; ‘the apotheosis of the dance’ for Richard Wagner; ‘a triumph of Bacchic fury’ for the legendary musicologist Donald Francis Tovey; and ‘a continuous, cumulative celebration of joy’ for modern Beethoven scholar David Wyn Jones. It might be preceded by colourful fireworks from the pens of Handel and Stravinsky, but when conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin lights the blue touch paper of Beethoven’s most blazingly triumphant orchestral work, the Royal Festival Hall will explode with colour and elation!
Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin speaks about the concert's musical fireworks on the
April podcast.To hear selected movements from this concert, select a track below to open the music file. (Windows Media Player required.)
Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks - I. OvertureProkofiev: Violin Concerto 1 - I. Andantino: Andante assaiBeethoven: Symphony 7 - I. Poco sostenuto - VivaceBeethoven: Symphony 7 - IV. Allegro con brioYannick Nézet-Séguin, Principal Guest Conductor, has conducted concerts to outstanding acclaim recently. You can read more about him here:
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