Beethoven's Ninth

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The Glasshouse International Centre for Music: Sage OneSt Mary's Square Gateshead Quays, Gateshead, North-East, NE8 2JR, United Kingdom

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Programme

Britten, Benjamin (1913-1976)	Six Metamorphoses after Ovid, Op.49: Pan
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750)	Jesu, meine Freude - motet, BWV227
Messiaen, Olivier (1908-1992)	Quatuor pour la fin du temps (Quartet for the End of Time): Fouillis d'arcs-en-ciel, pour l'Ange qui annonce la fin du Temps
Ešenvalds, Ēriks (b. 1977)	Stars
Schoenberg, Arnold (1874-1951)	Six Little Piano Pieces Op.19
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)	Serenade no. 10 in B flat major for Winds, “Gran Partita”, K361 (K370a)
Stravinsky, Igor (1882-1971)	Concerto in D for Strings (Vivace)
Gabrieli, Giovanni (1554-1612)	Omnes gentes plaudite manibus
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)	Symphony no. 9 in D minor "Choral", Op.125

Performers

Steven Hudson	Oboe
Lars Vogt	Piano, Conductor
Natalya Romaniw	Soprano
Sophie Harmsen	Mezzo-soprano
Edgaras Montvidas	Tenor
James Platt	Bass
Royal Northern Sinfonia
Chorus of Royal Northern Sinfonia

What a way to end the season! Lars Vogt returns to Gateshead for a performance of Beethoven’s mighty Ninth, the ‘symphony to end all symphonies’ with its glorious life-affirming finale on the text of Schiller’s Ode to Joy.

Plus pre-concert talk at 6.30pm.

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Interpreting Joy: a guide to Beethoven’s Ninth

Danny Riley, 20th December

We look at the changing fortunes of Beethoven’s “Choral” Symphony.

A self-confident Beethoven 9 from Vogt and the RNS

Jane Shuttleworth, 10th June

Lars Vogt and Royal Northern Sinfonia deliver Beethoven's Symphony no. 9 with swaggering self-confidence, and heroic chorus singing.

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