City of London Choir/RPO/Davan Wetton | Classical review

Barbican, LondonDuring the Congress of Vienna, when the European map was redrawn following a decade of Napoleonic interventions, Beethoven was commissioned to write a work to hymn the occasion and the new beginning it seemed to offer. The result, the substantial cantata Der Glorreiche Augenblick, was successfully unveiled in November 1814, though little has been heard of it since. The original text has been blamed for the piece's neglect and replaced more than once. In this extremely rare perfor...

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