Victoria Symphony – Beethoven Symphony No. 7

Friedrich Kuhlau: Elverhøj (Elves’ Hill) Overture
Britta Byström: A Walk to Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A major

A festive Danish curtain-raiser by Friedrich Kuhlau (Beethoven’s contemporary and a composer central to Denmark’s musical identity) sets the tone for a season that celebrates place and belonging in a time when national songs resonate more than ever. Britta Byström’s A Walk to Beethoven, commissioned by Christian Kluxen during his Arctic Philharmonic tenure, answers across time with a luminous bridge leading naturally into Beethoven’s radiant Seventh Symphony—a “celebration of humanity being unworried and free.”