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An amazing live show with the Greenwich Chamber Orchestra at the beautiful St Alfege Church!

The GCO gives two concerts each year in St Alfege, a beautiful church in the heart of Greenwich designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor and consecrated in 1718. 

Programme:
Beethoven: Overture to Egmont and Symphony No.8
Brahms: Piano Concerto No.1
The start of the Overture to Egmont will call you to attention. Egmont was a Dutch nobleman who resisted Spanish conquerors in the 14th century. Goethe' play telling this history inspired Beethoven's music for it. The overture's triumphant ending reflects the arc of the play.

Beethoven's eighth symphony is light-hearted and brilliant, but somewhat overlooked as it sits between the giants, the seventh and ninth. Beethoven reportedly thought it better than the seventh.

The concert incliudes, in the first half, two fine works by Beethoven, his Overture Egmont, and his eighth symphony - spritely and short. In the second half, the orchestra will be joined once more by Misha Kaploukhii, a rising young pianist who has been winning prizes in London and abroad and is a leading piano student at the Royal College of Music. This will be his third appearance with the GCO.