The beginning of a fantastic journey: Beethoven’s complete symphonies with Kazuki Yamada.

An unmissable opportunity to hear one of music’s most fearless and inventive composers through a complete cycle of his symphonies. Kazuki Yamada and the CBSO begin at the very beginning with the first three. Beethoven kicked off the nineteenth century with his Symphony No.1. He put his cards firmly on the table with innovations in orchestral sound and a buzzing restless energy: audiences had never heard anything like it. No.2 annoyed the critics with its irreverence and high spirits; even a recent reviewer suggested the finale sounded like Beethoven had brought ‘a whoopy cushion to a formal party’. The mighty No.3, the ‘Eroica’, is simply astonishing: fiery, profound, ‘heroic’ to the end.