Royal Northern Sinfonia - Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony
Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony is almost the ultimate symphony – powerful, joyful, complex, and brilliantly entertaining.
A concert that’s just a bit indulgent. Brahms’s First Piano Concerto is a real showpiece for any performer, while Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony is almost the ultimate symphony – powerful, joyful, complex, and brilliantly entertaining, with composer Richard Wagner calling it the ‘apotheosis (peak) of the dance’.
Johannes Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1 (44 mins)
Ludvig van Beethoven Symphony No. 7 (36 mins)
Dinis Sousa conductor
Stephen Hough piano
Royal Northern Sinfonia
Concert lasts around 2 hours including a 20 minute interval
FREE pre-concert talk about tonight’s concert at 6.30pm in the Old Fire Station
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