Maria João Pires

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Ludwig van Beethoven, London Symphony Orchestra and Sir John Eliot Gardiner

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Wednesday 4 February 2009 at 7:30pm

Barbican Centre

Silk Street
London EC2Y 8DS
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Tel: 020 7638 8891
Web: www.barbican.org.uk

Beethoven Overture: King Stephen
Beethoven Piano Concerto No 3
Beethoven Symphony No 5

Maria João Pires piano
Sir John Eliot Gardiner conductor
London Symphony Orchestra

Tickets: £7 £13 £19 £25 £32

The King Stephen overture was written to open a theatre in present-day Budapest with a flourish. Stephen is the Hungarian national hero who converted his people to Christianity. Beethoven disdained pianists who ‘only run up and down the keyboard… putsch, putsch, putsch!’ Instead, his own Third Piano Concerto delivers a turbulent dynamic piece. His magisterial Fifth Symphony is sometimes called the ‘Destiny’ Symphony: the composer explained the dramatic opening is ‘how destiny knocks on your door.’

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julians wrote:
September 2008

This is hont. I’ll somehow manage to come back again for this.

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Tracks from the Lineup

	London Symphony… - Symphony No. 8 in G… full track	10:23
	London Symphony… - Symphony No. 8 in G… full track	9:41
	Ludwig van Beethoven - Piano Sonata 21 -… free download	9:32
	London Symphony… - Symphony No. 8 in G… full track	6:03
	Ludwig van Beethoven - Piano Sonata 22 -… free download	4:33

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