Symphony No. 9: 'Up above the stars he must dwell' | Gardiner and the ORR on Beethoven's Symphonies

Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony was completed more than a decade after the Eighth, and performed in front of an eager Viennese audience in May 1824. It is a work which at once sums up all his previous symphonic thought and points to a new world, as for the first time Beethoven uses the human voice to intensify his idealistic vision with the words of Friedrich von Schiller’s ‘Ode to Joy’. In the final instalment of our Beethoven Symphonies Series, John Eliot Gardiner’s thoughts on this mighty work are accompanied by exclusive footage from our performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony at the Palau de la Música Catalana, Barcelona.

Credits:
- Directed and edited by Richard Wilson.
- Produced by Bill Lloyd & Richard Wilson.
- Director of Photography, Benjamin Ealovega.
- Concert footage courtesy of the Corporació Catalana de Mitjans Audiovisuals and the Palau de la Música Catalana, Barcelona.
- Interview filmed at St John's Smith Square

About the series:
Though we’re sad not to be performing our Beethoven Symphony Cycle for you live at the moment, we’re delighted to share of our new nine-part film series in which John Eliot Gardiner and the ORR explore these incredible works as we rehearsed for this project. We'll be releasing a new film on each Symphony every Friday - for more information on this series, visit our website:
https://monteverdi.co.uk/john-eliot-g...

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The three Monteverdi ensembles – the Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists and Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique – are a leading force on the international music scene. World-class musicians and singers from many nationalities come together to share in the distinctive vision of our Artistic Director, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, in ground-breaking projects that span eight centuries of musical masterpieces.

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