Episodes
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BBC Radio 3 launches its 2020 celebration of the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth. Before tonight's live opera broadcast of David Lang's Prisoner of the State, we hear all four overtures Beethoven wrote for his 'rescue' opera Fidelio plus music by composers experiencing state censorship or using texts by banned poets. Including works by Shostakovich, Gubaidulina, Britta Bystrom and, after tonight's Opera on 3, Britten and Viktor Ullmann.
Beethoven: Leonora Overture No. 2 Op 72a
Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich
David Zinman (conductor)
Britta Bystr怀m: Notes from the City of the Sun
Malin Bystr怀m (soprano)
Malmo Symphony Orchestra
Eun Sun Kim (conductor)
Beethoven: Leonora Overture No. 3 Op 72b
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Nicolas Harnoncourt (conductor)
Gubaidulina: Hommage
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