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From the Archives - New Year's Eve with Beethoven's 9th

Chris Sharron

Did you know that in Japan it’s been tradition for decades to perform Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 to celebrate the New Year? We join that tradition to bring in 2023 with the greatest of all symphonies as a hopeful prelude to a new and better year ahead.

Compositions and Recordings

Symphony No. 9 in D minor
by Ludwig van Beethoven
John Eliot Gardiner and the Orchestre Revolutionaire et Romantique

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