Prom 33: Sir John Eliot Gardiner and the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique

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Royal Albert HallKensington Gore, London, Greater London, SW7 2AP, United Kingdom

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Programme

Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827)	Symphony no. 5 in C minor, Op.67
Berlioz, Hector (1803-1869)	Symphonie fantastique, Op.14

Performers

Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
Sir John Eliot Gardiner	Conductor

Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s second appearance of the season showcases the work of the conductor’s other period-instrument ensemble – the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, specialists in 19th- and 20th-century repertoire. Gardiner’s brisk and brilliant take on Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony promises to find fresh energy within a familiar work – a Classical curtain-raiser to Berlioz’s extravagant Symphonie fantastique, the height of Romantic excess, with its quasi-cinematic storytelling and vivid, ghoulish soundscapes.

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