Eddie Perfect narrates Goethe's Egmont

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Actor-musician Eddie Perfect narrates Goethe's historical play "Egmont" (1788) which depicts the true story of the Count of Egmont, a sixteenth-century Flemish nobleman who was executed for fighting against the Spanish invader.
Richard Gill conducts the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven's dramatic "Egmont" incidental music.

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