Performing with: Celena Shafer, soprano; Meg Bragle, mezzo-soprano; Anthony Dean Griffey, tenor; Alexander Dobson, baritone; Seattle Symphony Chorale; Seattle Symphony

Programme:

Ludwig Van Beethoven

Prelude to Act II from Tarpeja
Religious March from King Stephen
Twelve Contradances
Funeral March from Leonore Prohaska
Triumphal March from Tarpeja
Symphony No. 9, “Choral”

In his Ninth Symphony, Beethoven models the ultimate courage of an artist, transcending his profound deafness and all preconceptions about the limits of a symphony. Every measure of vulnerability and power builds to the most uplifting arrival in the history of music, when the Seattle Symphony Chorale rises to proclaim the rousing “Ode to Joy.”