NATIONAL TOUR 2020: BEETHOVEN

PROGRAMMES

ILLUMINATOR

Beethoven | Illuminator brings you music that glows with the elegant influences of Mozart and Haydn before soaring light-years away to a sound-world that could only be Beethoven’s own. 

INNOVATOR

Beethoven | Innovator sets the scene with one of the composer’s first quartets, then shows off his unexpected and unprecedented moves in music from his middle period.

IMMORTAL

Beethoven | Immortal presents two exquisite early quartets as a launchpad from which to reach the heroic final work of his much-loved Rasumovsky Quartets.

UNIVERSAL

Beethoven | Universal brings you music that reaches ambitiously from the threshold of a new century to the symphonic spaciousness of the composer’s harmonic language.

ICON

Beethoven | Icon takes you on a wild ride through the composer’s inimitable soundscape, from counterpoint and fugue to the passions and complexities of Romanticism.

VISIONARY

Beethoven | Visionary offers music that pulsates with daring virtuosity from Beethoven’s constant experimenting with new sounds and ideas.

MAESTRO

Beethoven | Maestro unites the playful with the profound in music that glows in the sun and resounds from clifftops.

VIRTUOSO

Beethoven | Virtuoso unites follows Beethoven's evolution from the bold virtuosity of his earlier works through to the incredible storytelling of the late quartets.