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   Laurie Watt on December 17, 2020 at 11:19 am

   This extremely fine and committed performance is the culmination of an extraordinary journey by the Hanover Band traversing the whole canon of Beethoven’s symphonic output. A project in Beethoven’s 250th year, unequalled by any other period instrument band as far as i know, certainly in the UK.

   The symphonies have, with the exception of the 9th, all been performed and filmed by the Hanover Band under the baton of Benjamin Bayl at the Stationer’s Hall, close by St Paul’s in strictly socially distanced fashion. The 9th was performed and filmed at the Mansion House, under the enthusiastic baton of Sir Mark Elder. This was, as the publicity Colin cites, the brain child of the Band’s late founder, Caroline Brown, and carried out after her death by her totally committed and inexhaustible husband, Stephen Neiman, putting his own resources into this final quite superb performance.

   Yes, I am a Trustee of the Hanover Band Foundation, so have an interest, but my interest arises from my enthusiasm at the quality and life the Band have always put into their music. They were not aided in their early days, when period virtuosity, across the board, was often hit and miss, as they had a record company who refused to patch wrong notes, unlike the other bands contemporaneously with them, which were virtuosic always, but only courtesy of the skill of those wielding the scissors!

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