Uploaded July 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago

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Guildhall Chamber Orchestra
Roberto Gonzalez-Monjas - Conductor

Beethoven composed the third of his nine symphonies in Vienna in 1803, and - after several try-outs with the private orchestra of his patron Prince Lobkowitz - conducted its first public performance in April 1805. At the time of its composition Beethoven called it 'Buonaparte', in homage to Napoleon Bonaparte, the French military leader and First Consul. But in 1804, when he was given the news that Napoleon had had himself proclaimed Emperor, Beethove, in a racge at such betraylal of the ideals of the Revolution, tore up the title page of the manuscript score. The work was eventially published with the title Sinfonia eroica, or 'Heroic Symphony', and the sub-title 'to celebrate the memory of a great man'. In fact, Napoleon was still alive and active at that time. But Beethoven seems to have been thinking of him more as an archetype embodying the classical tradition of heroism, celebrated in life, commemorated in death, and finally received into the pantheon of the immortals

Guildhall Chamber Orchestra
Violin I
Roberto González-Monjas
Maria Wloszczowska
Juliette Roos
Lyrit Milgram
Maria Kouznetsova
Gabriel Ng
Rui Liu
Dan-Iulian Drutac
Ida Derbesse
Callie Brennan

Violin II
Ionel Maniu
Patrycja Mynarska
Timothy Chua
Teresa Allgaier
Melissa Hutter
Arisa Nemoto
Sam Staples
Millie Ashton
Sabine Sergejeva
Tilman Fleig

Viola
Anna Growns
Alex McFarlane
Oscar Holch
Jeremy Tonelli-Sippel
Ilaria Faleschini
Kate Correia De Campos
Agnieszka Zyniewicz
Henrietta Hill

Cello
Toby White
Zachary Owen
Leo Popplewell
Pedro Silva
Tamaki Sugimoto
Ben Tarlton

Double Bass
Lewis Reid
Piotr Hetman
Emanuel Oliveira
Miguel Pliego Garcia

Flute
Susanna Bailey
Simon Williams

Oboe
Rees Webster
Hannah Blumsohn

Clarinet
Hiu Lam Lo
Julia Ragu Pascual

Bassoon
Rebecca Allen
Katherin Tweddle

Horn
Alex Willett
Fabien van de Geest

Trumpet
Gideon Brooks
Matthew Stein

Timpani
Lewis Blee