Eroica and Egmont: Christian Vásquez conducts Beethoven

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Make Sunday morning heroic, as the young Venezuelan conducts the Gelders Orchestra in the Egmont Overture, and Beethoven's Third Symphony — the idealistic composer's tribute to Napoleon.

Inevitably, Beethoven's hero failed to live up to the composer's lofty ideals of incorruptibility and individual freedom, and 'Egmont' was composed in a spirit of rejection of absolute power that later made it the unofficial 'theme' of more than one revolution. However, 'Eroica' — the publisher's politically‐sensitive title — has lived on as an immensely popular paean to the possibilities of mankind, and a seminal work in the transition from the Classical to the Romantic era.