Gustavo Dudamel conducts Beethoven’s “Eroica”

Inspired by the French Revolution, Beethoven pushed the boundaries of the symphony with his combative Eroica: it was longer, bigger and more innovative than anything that had gone before. Gustavo Dudamel pairs it with another work of rebellion: Gabriela Ortiz’s Revolución diamantina thematises the “glitter revolution”, the feminist protest against the ongoing violence against women in Mexico. According to Dudamel, Ortiz’s music is “full of intuitive, primeval rhythms and mysterious, soulful soundscapes”.

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