Beethoven 9
Vladimir Ashkenazy, Lorina Gore @ Sydney Opera House



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Event Name: Beethoven 9
 
Artists: Vladimir Ashkenazy, Lorina Gore
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 to Mon, 13 Feb 2012
Venue:
2 Macquarie Street
Sydney, NSW, 2000

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Metamorphosen is an "ode to sorrow" - one composer's response to the devastation of World War II. Beethoven's Ninth Symphony ends with the "Ode to Joy" - triumphant and optimistic. But, says Vladimir Ashkenazy, both these great musical works relate to the humanity of mankind - "one is pessimistic, the other is gloriously open." Richard Strauss gives us weighty, tormented music, tinged with personal suffering. At the end there's a Beethoven quotation he says "escaped from his pen" - a funeral march for a hero. Beethoven's Ninth shows a composer who wrestled with fate, who believed in freedom, who was a voice for the world. He still is. And that's why this monumental symphony resonates, nearly two hundred years later.
Event Type: Live
Genres: Classical
Web Address: www.sydneyoperahouse.com/Contact_Us.aspx

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