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Salonen leads the Philharmonia in an animated Creatures of Prometheus

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“Stephen Fry read these texts... with great charm and a glimmer of irony”
Reviewed at Battersea Arts Centre, London on 4 December 2020
Beethoven, The Creatures of Prometheus (Complete ballet)
Stephen Fry, Presenter
Esa-Pekka Salonen, Conductor
Gerard McBurney, Script writer
Hillary Leben, Animator
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