Riccardo Chailly: 'It's a long way from the First to the Ninth'

Only the brave or foolhardy would dare to reimagine some of the greatest music ever written, so how did Riccardo Chailly convince five composers to do just that?The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra should know all there is to know about Beethoven's nine symphonies. For a start, they're one of the oldest orchestras in the world, and even more importantly, they were the first to perform a complete cycle of Beethoven's symphonies, in 1825 and 1826 – when Beethoven was still alive. Since then, conduct...

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