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1812 Overture

Composer: Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Performers: 大象传媒 Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Rumon Gamba
Recording date: 07 December 2000
Date of broadcast: 29 November 2011

Cannons in an orchestra? This great hymn to the defeat of Napoleon is as astonishing now as it must have been at its 1882 premiere. France is humbled, Russia rejoices.

Composer: Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Performers: 大象传媒 Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Rumon Gamba
Recording date: 07 December 2000
Date of broadcast: 29 November 2011

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