The Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra
Beethoven Festival 2007
Director: Enrique Sanchez Lansch
Distributor: C Major Entertainment
Length: 92 min. / 64 min.
16:9 shot in 1080i HDTV | stereo & 5.1 surround sound
© 2008, a BFMI production for for Deutsche Welle in co-production with Unitel and ZDF
After one could track the young musicians preparing for the Beethoven Festival in the documentary "The Promise of Music" on Venezuela's visionary music-education system, one now can watch and listen to the orchestra and their brilliant conductor performing at the 2007 Bonn Beethoven Festival, where their concert was hailed as "sensational... a standing ovation after every piece" - Süddeutsche Zeitung
The concert repertoire includes:

Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony no.3 "Eroica" (complete)

José Pablo Moncayo
Huapango

Alberto Ginastera
Danza final (Malambo)
"Dudamel and the orchestra are the most exciting thin in classical music." - Boston Globe