Flying the Flag: The French Beethoven

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Southbank Centre: Royal Festival HallBelvedere Road, London, Greater London, SE1 8XX, United Kingdom

Dates/times in London time zone

Programme

Berlioz, Hector (1803-1869)	Béatrice et Bénédict: Overture
Onslow, George (1783-1853)	Symphony no. 1 in A major, Op.41 no.1
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)	Symphony no. 3 in E flat major "Eroica", Op.55

Performers

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
François-Xavier Roth	Conductor

Beethoven's electrifying Eroica Symphony concludes this concert, the first in the OAE's Flying the Flag series.

This first concert touches on three nationalities, two radicals and one lost genius. The lost genius is George Onslow - today little known - but this composer was nicknamed 'The French Beethoven'. The Radicals are Berlioz and Beethoven - Beethoven's Symphony No.3 was shocking in its day, one critic calling it 'crass monster'. Today it vies for status as one of the greatest symphonies ever written.

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‘The French Beethoven’ unmasked by the OAE

Mark Pullinger, 22nd October

The name George Onslow may conjure up images of whippets, pints and rolling Yorkshire dales, but he was in fact born in Clermont-Ferrand in 1784 and was known as ‘the French Beethoven’.

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