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08 September 2020

Fizzing with energy: Beethoven's Seventh Symphony performed from memory
outside at Kings Cross by Aurora Orchestra
Labels: concert review, Kings Place

Aurora Orchestra under the West Handyside Canopy at Kings Cross

Beethoven Symphony No. 7; Aurora Orchestra, Nicholas Collon; West Handyside
Canopy, Kings Cross
Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 7 September 2020
The first large-scale symphonic concert to a ticketed audience since lockdown
(probably).

This was always going to be a significant occasion, and for all the limitations of a
performance given under current regulations, the sheer joy of hearing a full symphony
performed by a large group of musicians, all together in the same space was simply
palpable.

Nicholas Collon and the Aurora Orchestra is performing Beethoven's Symphony No.
7 from memory at the BBC Proms on Thursday and in the run up to this performance
the orchestra had a number of extra performances presumably to get the work well
bedded in. This is a common occurrence, and under normal circumstances such an extra
performance would be notable but hardly exceptional. But these are exceptional times.