Beethoven 'Eroica' Symphony - Robert Simpson conducts original scoring (1968)

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Robert Simpson was a distinguished musicologist who worked as a BBC music producer and broadcaster for many years and was himself a composer of 11 symphonies and many other works. He also championed other composers, from Beethoven to Havergal Brian, both of whom feature on a recent 'CRQ Editions' CD. As a brief sample, we hear Simpson introduce a 1968 broadcast from Birmingham of the 'Eroica' Symphony that closely mirrors the instrumental forces heard in Beethoven's own day. The work was played by the Orchestra da Camera and can be heard complete, along with Havergal Brian's 'Sinfonia Tragica', on 'CRQ Editions' CD 268 (see their website).

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