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BBC Proms: 2017

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Aurora Orchestra

Nicholas Collon

Cat Dixon

Rhodri Huw

Francesca Kemp

Joe McCulloch

BBC Proms: 2017: Beethoven's Eroica Revisited

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Beethoven's Eroica Revisited

18/08/2017

2017

BBC Radio 3 - BBC Proms, 2017, Beethoven's Eroica Revisited

The Aurora Orchestra play Beethoven's Eroica Symphony entirely from memory.

The Aurora Orchestra play Beethoven's Eroica Symphony entirely from memory, following an on-stage dissection of the score by Tom Service and conductor Nicholas Collon.

The fearlessly brilliant members of Aurora Orchestra put Beethoven's revolutionary Eroica Symphony under the Proms microscope. Presenter Tom Service and conductor Nicholas Collon perform a lively and revealing on-stage dissection of the score that changed musical history. The Prom culminates with a full performance of the symphony, which the orchestra will play entirely from memory.

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Another chance to hear broadcasts of selected concerts from the 2017 BBC Proms season.

Another chance to hear broadcasts of selected concerts from the 123rd season of the BBC Proms.

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