Move over Jack Bauer ... Brabbins gives Beethoven just 24 hours

Will listeners, never mind the musicians, survive as Martyn Brabbins conducts the Salomon Orchestra through all nine Beethoven symphonies in a single day?One of the greatest achievements of western music, performed complete in concert this weekend, a chance to hear an event of such enormity of vision that any classical music lover should jump at the chance: no, not Bryn or Plácido at the Proms in Wagner or Verdi, but a soupçon of a symphony cycle at the Queen Elizabeth Hall. A Beethovenathon, ...

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