Celebrate Beethoven 250 in Swansea with BBC National Orchestra of Wales
This special concert forms part of a year-long celebration of the 250th anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven’s birth, and is the only BBC NOW Beethoven 250 concert that’s coming to Swansea, so don’t miss out! To add to the unique experience, the orchestra will be performing in the round in Brangwyn Hall, allowing you to get closer to the players and encounter BBC NOW in a different way within the stunning setting of the hall.
Faced with the ruins of his country in 1945, Strauss memorialised Germany’s past by quoting Beethoven’s ground-breaking ‘Eroica’ in his romantic elegy for 23 string soloists. The power of Beethoven’s third symphony and of its revolution remains undimmed on every listen – a totem of heroism and triumph.
Jonathan Bloxham conductor
Rhian Lois soprano
Programme
Ludwig van Beethoven Aria ‘Ah! perfido’
Richard Strauss Metamorphosen
Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No 3 in E flat major ‘Eroica’
