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BBC's Eroica, or the power of the individual artist in the age of freedom
Fellow classical music lovers, I can't tell you how magnificent a gift this film is. Musical innovation presaging political and social change ca. 1804. Pitch perfect ensemble acting led by Ian Hart and a gorgeous production in the English manner. And if all that doesn't work for you, there's always the music, Symphony No. 3, Beethoven's personal favorite, movingly interpreted by John Eliot Gardner and the Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique: