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t the opening of the Christchurch Town Hall in 1973, a 12-year-old Anthony Ritchie watched his father, composer John Ritchie, conduct Beethoven’s . Forty-five years later, the younger Ritchie’s own was completed to celebrate, it was recorded there in June 2020 by the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra (CSO) under the baton of Kenneth Young and has just been released.

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