BBC NOW - Beethoven 9

HERITAGE · UNITY · LEGACY Jaime Martin – Conductor Gweneth Ann Rand - Soprano Anna Stéphany - Mezzo Ryan Vaughan Davies - Tenor Blaise Malaba – Baritone Macmillan Concerto for Orchestra Interval Beethoven Symphony No.9 A bold contemporary voice meets one of the greatest symphonic landmarks in an evening led by Principal Guest Conductor Jaime Martin, marking 200 years since the death of Beethoven. James MacMillan’s Concerto for Orchestra – Ghosts, opens the programme: a continuous, through‑composed work alive with shifting memories, folk echoes and spectral allusions. Chamber groupings surface from the orchestral fabric before resolving in a serene, hymn‑like close. After the interval comes Beethoven’s monumental Symphony No. 9, a work that redefined the symphony itself. Its revolutionary choral finale unites orchestra, chorus and an outstanding quartet of soloists, Gweneth‑Ann Rand, Anna