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The Hallé - Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony

The Bridgewater Hall

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Composed towards the end of the Napoleonic Wars, Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony possesses a triumphant, bordering on boisterous, sense of ‘a return to life’. Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony is filled with stirring dance rhythms and magnificent dynamic colour; the score calls for the first recorded use of fff (fortississimo: louder than fortissimo, as loud as possible). It has also been featured extensively in popular culture: for example, its second ...

Program

James MacMillan - Veni, veni Emmanuel percussion concerto

Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 7

Malcolm Arnold - Four Scottish Dances

Composer

Participants

Colin Currie

Percussion

Kahchun Wong

Conductor

The Bridgewater Hall

Producer